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Karoline Leavitt@PressSec · May 30, 2025

. @ElonMusk and the entire DOGE team have already saved taxpayers $170 billion, equivalent to roughly $1,056 per…

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A thread claiming that DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) under Elon Musk has saved taxpayers $170 billion through various initiatives including digitizing federal retirement processes, launching a spending justification program, cleaning up Social Security records, and laying off over 200,000 federal employees.

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    . @ElonMusk and the entire DOGE team have already saved taxpayers $170 billion, equivalent to roughly $1,056 per taxpayer. This a historic effort to cut waste, fraud, and abuse and modernize the federal government that will only continue. 🧵on some of @DOGE's wins so far...

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    DOGE executed the first ever all-digital, no paperwork federal retirement after exposing that the Office of Personnel Management uses a mine in Pennsylvania to manage documentation for federal retirements. nbcnews.com/politics/doge/…

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    DOGE launched its “Defend the Spend” initiative, which now requires recipients and agency leads to justify over $700,000,000 in daily payments.

    Department of Government Efficiency@DOGE · Apr 13, 2025

    Follow-up on Defend the Spend: Since the system was launched, over $700M in daily payments have been subject to payment justifications (ie “What is this?”) from recipients and agency leads. Thanks to the great work by @HHSGov, for the first time ever, the American people will be able to see line-by-line payment descriptions & justifications — coming soon to the DOGE website.

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    Thanks to DOGE, the @SocialSecurity Administration executed a major cleanup of their records, marking 12.3 million number holders -- all listed age 120 or older -- as deceased. breitbart.com/politics/2025/…

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    As part of the DOGE effort, over 200,000 federal bureaucrats have been laid off since President Trump took office while private sector employment has surged. newsweek.com/doge-elon-musk…

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    . @ElonMusk is a true patriot.

    Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47 · May 30, 2025

    .@POTUS: @elonmusk's service to America has been without comparison in modern history. He's already running one of the most innovative car companies in the world... Yet, Elon willingly accepted the outrageous abuse, and slander, and lies... because he does love our country.