Elon Musk’s DOGE Pays $21.7B for 300K Workers’ Invisible Office Olympics
Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, aiming to slash $2 trillion, instead handed $21.7B to 300,000 federal workers for not working—prompting top “Senate DOGE report,” and “Elon Musk government waste” queries. Highlights include the Deferred Resignation Program and $155M for weekly ‘accomplishment’ emails, with Senator Blumenthal dryly calling it a “searing indictment of DOGE’s false claims.”
Following Musk’s abrupt DOGE exit and Congress’s spending spree, the program’s surreal centerpiece paid 200,000 government staff to literally stay home—now fueling “federal paid leave” and “Musk Trump fallout” searches. Picture $14.8 billion vaporized on morale, $6.1B on fired staff who kept getting checks, and $263M lost in frozen loans, as if the government mistook inactivity for innovation.
Senate Democrats now demand audits across 27 agencies after discovering $155 million spent on resignation-by-email and $38 million on NIH-IRS project misfires, all in pursuit of efficiency-gone-wild.
