March Deficit Unexpectedly Tumbles To 5 Year Low As DOGE Cracks Down On Democrat Money-Laundering Schemes
ZeroHedge, the Russian propaganda outlet. LOL. Nothing to do with DOGE.... which has not saved a single dime yet which would be reflected in March figures. As explained in many mainstream news and financial outlets, this is simply due to the calendar shift in benefit payments. US March deficit falls to $161 billion, customs revenue grows but still small https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...lls-161-bln-customs-revenue-rises-2025-04-10/ Calendar shift for government benefit payments amplifies fall in March deficit Trump's tariffs push $2 bln increase in March customs receipts Six-month $1.3 trillion deficit second-highest ever for Oct-March period WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. government posted a $161 billion budget deficit for March, down 32%, or $76 billion, from a year earlier, a decline due largely to a calendar shift for benefit payments as receipts continued to grow, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The Treasury reported that net customs duties in March totaled $8.2 billion, a $2.1 billion increase from a year earlier and the highest since September 2022.
Surprising no one, DOGE isn't cutting spending, just redirecting it. Additionally noting that Musk has cut his asserted DOGE savings from $2 Trillion down to $1 Trillion, and now down to a mere $150 Billion. Of course, the evaluation of the claimed $150 Billion at the DOGE website shows that most of the contracts were already terminated or ended prior DOGE, claim widely exaggerated amounts or simply don't actually exist. The actual savings at this point is near zero. In reality DOGE will cost taxpayers more than it saved once the realistic costs and failures are added up. Let's see the latest diversion of funds "saved" by DOGE... Trump Will Use Culture Grant Funds to Build “American Heroes” Park Money from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which just terminated hundreds of grants for organizations, will help build the bizarre sculpture garden, slated to honor figures from Julia Child to Justice Scalia. https://hyperallergic.com/1002654/slashed-culture-grants-will-help-build-trump-american-heroes-park/
As outlined on the other thread... this nonsense from Musk has already been debunked as pure bullshiat. This time he is recycling the same debunked information to claim that half the unemployment fraud comes from three blue states. This, of course, is not true because he is using incomplete federal data that does not demonstrate any fraud occurred. Let's mention three things: Unemployment claims are handled by the states, not the federal government. The "initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020" information Musk is referencing states very directly in the text that the data is incomplete in regards to details on birth dates, etc. The nonsense Musk is pushing about this unemployment claims data has already been debunked. Just like his claims that millions of people who are 150 years old are collecting Social Security have been debunked.
DOGE undermines our nation's defense. Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
DOGE has not saved a dime of money and it is making fraud easier. Elon Musk’s DOGE Isn’t Stopping Fraud. It’s Making It Easier. A scathing whistleblower report suggests that DOGE coders may have pilfered troves of personal data that would be extremely valuable to business leaders. https://newrepublic.com/article/194044/elon-musk-doge-fraud-report
As outlined earlier, Musk has not discovered anything new. This was all known during the Biden administration. In fact, some of the cited "fraud" involving birth dates are merely markers used by the states to catch unemployment fraud while hiding the identifications of those the fraudsters are attempting to impersonate. Doge unemployment ‘fraud’ discoveries are old finds from Biden era, experts say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/elon-musk-doge-fraud