The Ministry of Government Efficiency of Elon Musk says he saved $ 160 billion through his boost to eradicate wasteful or deceptive government spending. But these efforts may have come at a price for taxpayers, with a new analysis by a non -partisan studies and advocacy group, assessing that Dog’s actions will cost $ 135 billion this fiscal year.
The analysis seeks to collect the costs associated with the placement of tens of thousands of federal employees on paid leave, re -recruiting misaplated workers and lost productivity, according to the Public Service Partnership (PSP), a non -partial non -profit purpose that focuses on the federal workforce.
The PSP estimation is based on $ 270 billion annual compensation costs for the federal workforce, calculating the impact of Doge’s actions, from paid leave to productivity. The $ 135 billion costs for taxpayers do not include the cost of protecting multiple lawsuits Contemplation of Dodge’s actions, nor the impact of the estimated lost tax collections due to a reduction in IRS staff.
Dog has tried to reduce federal costs by calling for government workers to accept a Resignation planWhich allowed many employees to retain full pay and benefits in September without working. Another 24,000 civil servants who have been fired as part of the reform efforts have since been Retims after a court orderS
Other agencies have also performed some workers after wrongly dismissed them, such as Influenza experts who were fired by the US Department of Agriculture. Federal workers also had to take tasks as documenting their weeklyWho reduces productivity, Max Steer, President of the Public Service Partnership, told CBS Moneywatch.
“We haven’t seen much focus on waste [DOGE] Created, “Steer told CBS Moneywatch about his group’s decision to analyze Doge’s cuts.” This is an effort that was designed to deal with waste, but we saw the opposite. “
“In the end, the public will eventually pay for it,” he added, noting that he expects taxpayer costs to increase after other Doge abbreviations come into force.
The White House took the analysis.
“Continuing attempts to doubt the widespread achievements of this never have seen an effort to make the government more effectively speak more about the illegitimacy of those who give these lies than Dodge’s good work,” said White House spokesman Harrison Fields. “The US public is up to date with the President’s mission and will not swing more lies coming from the inherited media.”
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To be sure, the abbreviations of the Dogi can be paid over time, with a more built, more focused federal workforce. For example, direct savings from these abbreviations will amount to $ 38 billion in 10 years, the public service partnership has estimated.
But Stoer claims that taxpayers costs can increase as they are being released through the economy, such as a reduction in financing health and research. An analysis of researchers from institutions, including the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania, estimates that a reduction in health research will lead to an annual economic loss of $ 16 billion, with 68,000 jobs lost.
“One can always imagine a miracle, but none of this makes sense at so many different levels,” Steer said.
“The wall of the doji receipts”
Doge holds a public place for the federal money, which the work group says has saved on its website in what is called “receipt wall”. But some of these savings are overrated, a February Investigation of CBS News found.
At the same time, Dogg savings of $ 160 billion are far less than Musk’s earlier target to shrink the annual government spending by $ 2 trillion or almost a third of the federal budget. Many experts say it is a little more ambitious goal unlikely to be achieved without shortening major federal programs such as social security and Medicare, which President Trump has promised not to touch.
Musk said on Tuesday that I would limits his work in Dog Starting in May. His decision comes as Tesla, the manufacturer of electric vehicles he drives, saw a 71% immersion of the first quarter and a 20% decline in vehicle sales, as some users drop the brand due to Musk’s government objections.
Musk said he was still planning to spend one to two days a week on a DOG work, focusing on the removal of government waste.
“I will have to continue to do it until the end of the president’s term of office to make sure that waste and fraud do not return,” he said during the first quarter of Tesla’s revenue on Tuesday.
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