Elon Musk’s crusade to root out fraud in government is piling up evidence that, in fact, federal workers are overwhelmingly clean and useful. Musk’s Doge team keeps trumpeting discoveries of “fraud”, then quietly removing them from its Wall of Receipts, as it learns what government actually does. At one point, Doge “deleted from the website all five of the biggest savings it had claimed”, reports Reuters. Donald Trump told Congress that Doge has found “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud”, but the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute estimates Doge’s true saving is “closer to $2bn, or 0.03 per cent of federal budget”.
伊隆•馬斯克發起的剷除政府內部欺詐的運動正在積累大量證據，這些證明表明，事實上，絕大多數聯邦工作人員是清廉和有用的。馬斯克的政府效率部(DOGE)團隊不斷大肆宣揚發現「欺詐行爲」，隨後卻在搞懂政府實際上在做些什麼之後，在DOGE官網「收據牆」上悄悄刪除這些成果。據路透社報導，DOGE一度「從網站上刪除了它聲稱找到的所有五項最大節省」。唐納•川普告訴國會，DOGE發現了「數千億美元的欺詐行爲」，但財政保守派的曼哈頓研究所估計，DOGE找到的真正能節省下來的開支「大概是20億美元，佔聯邦預算的0.03%」。