From NPR:
A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers. …
"Elon [Musk] was pretty clear about how he wanted DOGE to be maximally transparent," Lavingia said. "That's something he said a lot in private. And publicly. And so I thought, OK, cool, I'll take him at his word. I will be transparent."
Shortly after the interview was published online, Lavingia got an email. Just 55 days into his work at DOGE, his access had been revoked.
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Trusting Musk was a mistake. By the way, where is Musk these days? Is he hiding in a bunker with
Khamenei?
SSA has hired Edward “big balls” (formerly Doge) as a permanent government ‘employee - GS15
Fake News Leland!
Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old high-profile operative for the Department of Government Efficiency, resigned yesterday morning, according to a White House.
Old news. "Big Balls" resigned from government a few days ago.
Source? He just resigned yesterday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5367819-doge-aide-big-balls-resigns/
How? He doesn’t even meet the minimum education requirements for a GS-15 position.
Elon fell into all the traps. SSA needs a version of DOGE but not this version.
Over the last several weeks, the agency has stopped making public 34 real-time performance metrics about things like how long they will have to wait to reach a live person on the phone, and how long applications for new senior benefits or social security benefits take to be approved. The metrics have been used for years to show how time-consuming it can be to reach a live person at certain locations or through the national 1-800 number, and as an accountability measure for the agency.
Instead the webpage now emphasizes how quickly problems can be resolved online, and says the "average speed of answer," which excludes callback wait time, is 19.2 minutes.
USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning.
What is.Frank hiding?
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano told members of Congress June 25 that three out of four people who call that 1-800 number use a call-back feature so they are not waiting on the phone. He said he took the wait time metric off the website because he thought it kept people from calling.
When California Rep. Judy Chu asked him to reinstate the metrics so members of Congress and the public can have an accurate barometer of the agency's performance, Bisignano avoided answering the question until Chu's time to ask questions expired.
"How can you know how the Social Security Administration is doing with regard to answering calls or processing benefit applications unless you have these metrics? You have to compare them over time so it is shocking that they would just remove that data if they are so confident about all of these metrics that he was talking about," Chu told USA TODAY after the hearing.
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