[jfengel]

The grant was for $349,000.

There's an old joke about a billion here and a billion there, but this is 0.00035 billion.

DOGE asserted it would save $2 trillion. Their own web site claims about 10% of that, and that number is likely exaggerated by as much as an order of magnitude.

Nor is it a work in progress. DOGE has already disbanded.

It was clearly about harassing ideological opponents, and they couldn't even get that right.

Meantime, the US federal budget outlays have gone up by $400 billion from $7 trillion in 2025 to $7.4 trillion in 2026.

[pseudohadamard]

  DOGE asserted it would save $2 trillion.

The ketamine must have been particularly active that day. Look at the US budget, then look at the bits you can't touch (Medicare, Social Security, income security, veterans, etc), and try and figure out where you're going to save $2 trillion on what's left.

Mind you for an administration that just makes shit up as required it's par for the course.

[kvdveer]

Maybe the news has distorted a bit after crossing the Atlantic, but waren't there substantial outrages after the bits that couldn't be touched had in fact been touched?

[burnt-resistor]

About a quarter of a Tomahawk used to kill 160 girls in an Iranian school because the target selection people failed to do any surveillance or research.

[JohnTHaller]

And that 10% of 2 trillion they claimed to have saved on their website has already been debunked as a fabrication