DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes

Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by cuuupid on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:04PM (#43146025)

I said `generally` not `exclusively` and you are selecting one very specific application of funding to generalize against all federal funding.

I literally analyze this stuff for work, there is barely a 3-5% contraction in spending.

This is such an insane rumor too because it takes 10 seconds to disprove it: https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=8980ee6820c47f96a19...

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by FireBeyond on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:18PM (#43152209)

Given that education funding dwarfs foreign aid and is affected, it would seem inaccurate to label it as "generally foreign aid".

The other point is just because a contract or award is on usaspending.gov doesn't mean the funds are flowing - that was my point, my partner's school has many awards that previously they could draw from at will, and receive money overnight. They've attempted to draw from many of them now, and the funds just ... aren't being transferred.

That was part of the furore, "we have agreements and obligations in place and you're just refusing to fund them", it's not about the existence of the awards in the first place.

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