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Elon Musk’s hyperactive efficiency failed to prevent US federal consumption on a record $ 603 billion last month, a new treasury information revealed, emphasizing the difficulty of Trump’s administration in the reduction in the size of the Government.
Male so -called Government Efficiency Department He claims he has already earned more than $ 100 billion savings, but only a few departments recorded any reduction in the first full month of the new administration.
Consumption has increased by $ 40 billion compared to the same month last year in a similar way, an increase of 7 percent.
New data come after Musk and his envoys in Doge have had infiltrated Several government agencies, including state and health departments and various treasury weapons. Tens of thousands of workers were suspended or rejected, and thousands of state aid and contract were canceled.
Musk has repeatedly claimed that Doge is on its way to savings in the amount of 1 to $ from the annual federal budget, and said the initiative currently identifies a reduction at a rate of $ 4 billion a day.
But the monthly statement of treasury for February has shown that several large categories have achieved a significant reduction. The education department reduced the results by $ 6 billion, the treasury officials noted.
Officials have sent additional questions about reducing consumption on Doge. The Doge representative did not immediately respond to the request for comment on monthly figures.
“Doga’s savings are so small that it cannot be recognized in monthly total consumption,” said Jessica Riedl, an expert in economic policy at the Conservative Manhattan Institute Think-Tank, who analyzed the efforts of the initiative.
New figures also illustrate the challenge in achieving any influence by concentrating on decreasing that can obtain wide support of Republican legislators.
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, monitored the reduction of consumption at the US International Development Agency, whose monthly cost was discovered at $ 226 million, compared to $ 547 million in the same month last year.
However, this savings were dwarfed by the consequences of only 3 percent of the monthly consumption in healthcare, which cost an additional $ 5 billion. The 6th increase in social security costs cost an additional $ 8 billion.
“About 75 percent of all federal consumption goes to social security, Medicaid, Medicare, Defense, Veterans and Interest – and none of this has been touched,” Riedl said. “There is no zero indication that such savings are actually identified.”
On Monday, Tesla’s boss said he would try to enhance Doge’s efforts, double his current staff and direct goals in large sources of expenditure such as social security.
Direct Treasury Consumption increased by $ 29 billion from the same month last year, largely driven by an increase in $ 10 billion in a monthly debt to $ 86 billion, and an increase in tax losses and related payments of $ 14 billion.
Trump has moved in recent days Limit some of Doge’s activitiesSpeaking a male in front of their cabinet that some agencies are ultimately responsible for staff in their wards and invite the billionaire to use a “scalpel” rather than “incisor”.
This move came after several Republican legislators criticized the speed and width of Doge’s cuts, which led to that employees in various agencies had to be diverted to critical projects, including nuclear security.
The federal judges also stopped or turned many of Doge’s moves. Last week, the Supreme Court closely supported the command, forcing Trump’s administration to distribute nearly $ 2 billion to work with foreign assistance that has already been done around the world.
