I thing DOGE thread would be great pinned to the top. There is so much being done by DOGE that having it all grouped in one area so we don’t have to look in the V Trump thread.

So... is everything DOGE does going to be in a new thread?

Should there be a dedicated DOGE thread?
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...120065315#5120065315

The Official DOGE website (Not SF)
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...640076315#9640076315

Democrats Try to Enter Treasury Building Over DOGE Access
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...970015315#8970015315

DOGE Seeks to Shed Vast Amounts of Government Office Space.
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...935/m/6450086315/p/4

DOGE reveals mis-pent Covid funds at DOEd
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...0601935/m/8610008315

Throwing my insignificant 2¢.

No real opinion but I think it would be difficult to enforce... the two being so interconnected.

Maybe the rate of posting in the Trump thread will slow once the giddiness of so much winning calms down?

Not gonna second guess the boss either way.
Just grateful to have a sane place to come visit...

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Throwing my insignificant 2¢.

No real opinion but I think it would be difficult to enforce... the two being so interconnected...

There's nothing to enforce:

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again, if this thread is created, it doesn't mean DOGE stuff would have to cease being posted in the Trump thread.

“Barack Obama's plans to cement his legacy hit another hurdle as Elon Musk's DOGE canceled the lease for a building in Chicago holding his presidential records.

It was the latest setback for the former president as he and his wife Michelle are fighting back against rumors of divorce.

The storage site being closed by Musk is at Hoffman Estates in the northwest of Chicago and is run by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

NARA began leasing the building in 2016, paying $1.4 million a year in rent, according to the General Services Administration.

It is separate from the 9.3-acre, $830 million Obama Presidential Center in the city's south side, which is scheduled to open next year.

The Obama President Center has been jinxed from the start as it faces lawsuits, ballooning costs and construction delays. …”

https://mol.im/a/14468919

I’m confused, is the space who’s lease is being cancelled in Chicago or Hoffman Estates which is out past Schaumburg?

Its in the town of Hoffman Estates. On the far edge of Cook County, NOT in Chicago.

How about titling the thread-"Who let the Doge out?"

Old thread revival! I wasn't aware they were still really active.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...3j2XXgayeWtDD49Ns%3D

US Agencies Terminated or Reduced 95 Wasteful Contracts Worth $2 Billion: DOGE

The Department of Government Efficiency said it has so far saved more than $200 billion, amounting to more than $1,300 per taxpayer.

U.S. federal agencies have terminated or descoped 95 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2 billion over the previous four weeks, saving $757 million in taxpayer funds, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a March 14 post on X.

Terminated contracts include a $75,400 State Department media contract for “media monitoring services,” a $45.6 million Office of Personnel Management services contract for “talent acquisition support,” and a $98.5 million research contract from the Department of Education to “follow and study high school students throughout their high school careers.”

Another Education Department research contract worth $76.4 million for “how students and their families finance post-secondary education, and students’ persistence, attainment and workforce outcomes” was also terminated.

The cancellation of $2 billion worth of contracts comes after agencies terminated or descoped 273 contracts with a ceiling value of $5.1 billion for the four weeks prior to Feb. 14, DOGE said in an X post. These cancellations saved taxpayers $1.4 billion.

Terminated contracts included a $10.2 million Department of War administrative management contract for “outward mindset training” and a $11,000 consulting contract from the department for “social indicators research.”

According to the DOGE website, the initiative—which started at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term—has saved $215 billion as of Jan. 1, which amounts to $1,335.40 per taxpayer.

The savings were generated via a combination of measures such as contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, and asset sales.

The Department of Health and Human Services is listed as the agency that has generated the most savings, followed by the General Services Administration, Social Security Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the Small Business Administration.

Among some of the “strangest, most baffling uses” of government funding uncovered by DOGE include a $620,000 grant for adapting an “LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys,” an $814,000 grant for “a daily diary examination of the influence of intersectional stigma on blood pressure,” and an $801,000 grant linked to “structural racism and discrimination in older men’s health inequities.”

Meanwhile, former DOGE head Elon Musk, who left the initiative in May, said in a December interview on the “Katie Miller Podcast,” that he believes the agency has been “somewhat successful” in fulfilling its objectives.
DOGE stopped a lot of funding that “just made no sense,” and which was “just entirely wasteful,” Musk said.

President Donald Trump took another measure to combat fraud by signing an executive order on March 16 to officially create an anti-fraud task force headed by Vice President JD Vance, with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson serving as co-chair.

Officials estimate that over $300 billion is lost by government programs annually to fraudsters. During the signing ceremony, Trump said the work of the task force could return hundreds of billions of dollars to American taxpayers.

I like the second thread idea.
DOGE has the potential to become so much more and the Trump thread has so many other sub-plots that things get a bit lost or disconnected sometimes.