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”.
埃隆•马斯克发起的铲除政府内部欺诈的运动正在积累大量证据，这些证明表明，事实上，绝大多数联邦工作人员是清廉和有用的。马斯克的政府效率部(DOGE)团队不断大肆宣扬发现“欺诈行为”，随后却在搞懂政府实际上在做些什么之后，在DOGE官网“收据墙”上悄悄删除这些成果。据路透社报道，DOGE一度“从网站上删除了它声称找到的所有五项最大节省”。唐纳德•特朗普告诉国会，DOGE发现了“数千亿美元的欺诈行为”，但财政保守派的曼哈顿研究所估计，DOGE找到的真正能节省下来的开支“大概是20亿美元，占联邦预算的0.03%”。