Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) studied a Limestone mine in Pennsylvania, Where the cost of reducing costs says that the federal employee retirements are handled by hand using a system that could take months.
Musk told reporters about a mine on Tuesday while appearing with the president Donald Trump In the oval office, while the president was about to sign the executive order regarding the work of the billionaire leading Doge.
“And then we were told that this was actually, I mean, a great anecdote, because we were told that a number of people who could withdraw in the month of 10,000,” Musk said.
“We are like, so, what? Why is it? Well, because all the retirement paperwork is handmade on paper,” he continued. “It is manually calculated and recorded on a piece of paper. Then it goes down to mine and likes, how do you mean, the mine?”
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Doge posted on February 11, 2025. The old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, shows that the organization says that about 700 workers operate more than 230 feet underground to process about 10,000 federal pension applications a month. (Doge/x)
Doge wrote on x That the old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, where about 700 workers operate more than 230 feet underground to process about 10,000 federal retirement applications per month.
Applications are handled by hand by paper, and stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes, Doge said.
Doga posted this photo on February 11, 2025. It shows boxes for shelves and cardboard, which Dodge says that workers in the underground facility use the federal workers’ pension papers. (Doge/x)
AND Washington Post In the 2014 article he described the facility as a “bureaucracy hole”. At that time, the report states that the total consumption of the retirement system was $ 55.8 million.
Multiple attempts to digitize the system have been performed since 1987, according to the report. Each attempt to largely failed and eventually abolished, and the reported costs amounted to over $ 130 million.
Musk said the object was launched in 1955 and that it looks “like time.” He noticed a slow processing speed, which Doge says he can take months.
Elon Musk mentioned a limestone mine to reporters during an event with President Donald Trump at an oval office office in the White House on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“And then the speed, the limiting factor is the speed at which the rise lifting can move, determines how many people can withdraw from the Federal Government,” Musk said. “And the elevator breaks down, and sometimes, and then you can’t, no one can pull. Does that sound crazy?”
Musk said that the wrong system was “wearing a manila envelope, you know, the boxes in the mining axle” could have been eliminated with “practically anything else”.
“This is an example, such as at a high level, if you say as, as we increase prosperity, they cite people to switch from roles that are low to negative productivity to high productivity roles,” he said.
In recent weeks, Democrats have mostly criticized Mushroom operation and dogs to remove waste, fraud and abuse in federal consumption and pruning of federal labor more than 2 million people.
Musk pushed back, To reporters on Tuesday, saying that “people voted for a great government reform and people will get it.”
