This is great! [politico], just another [zionazi] liberal trash rag pretending to be relevant. I know all about govt contracting, and know full well how they work. Doge is spot on. But ceiling values aren’t all that need to be done. Agencies are given arbitrary budgets, and each and everyone does everything they possibly can to spend every single dime. There is no hesitation to spend it all because if rhey don’t, their budgets are cut the very next year. And it gets worse…the arbitrary spending continues infinitum.

BTW – The actual Doge findings are well over $4.8T now. I showed you the other day. 👀👇👇😎 Thucydides17

~ ~

(Editor: I’m a regular American, no special training, but as a hiker / backpacker I became acquainted with the Forest Service, the department within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that presumably attends for the welfare of American forests in North America. Anyway, I became aware of federal budgets, how these budgets were always cut, especially in the National Forests when it became unpopular for the timber industry to harvest wood from “public” forests. It’s a scam; it’s always been a scam to keep control of natural resources. The Western portion of the United States is underlain by untold natural resources like coal, oil, gold, silver, lithium, etc., beyond the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The budgets also got cut if it was in the interest of whoever was in charge in Washington D.C. and what they wanted to take control of next…”)

~ ~

A classic case of Fake News. This politico article is misleading at best, and politically motivated at worst.

Politico:

DOGE-flation: DOGE’s actual savings are a fraction of what it claims
https://t.co/lEH19mzCxl

Politico claims that DOGE’s cost savings are somehow not real because DOGE is using a “faulty” methodology predicated on ceiling values. Politico argues that the ceiling “can far exceed what the government has actually committed to pay out.” Theoretically true, practically false: the government WILL likely max out to the ceiling!

In federal contracting, ceilings matter because they are almost always maxed out.

For example, an analysis of the last 3 years of FPDS data shows that:

-of the 5.3M awards at contract end in FY22, 97.64% were spent to the ceiling
-of the 5.4M awards at contract end in FY23, 97.84% were spent to the ceiling
-of the 5.4M awards at contract end in FY24, 98.12% were spent to the ceiling

We think there’s a pattern here that perhaps a more intrepid reporter might have uncovered. Ceiling minus obligations is true savings in government contracting, making the $20k credit card analogy lazy and trivializing the very real work of protecting taxpayer dollars by using cheap jabs like ‘time for lunch.’

This is also why lowering ceilings is real savings. It prevents unpoliced “drunken sailor” spending. For extra measure, DOGE reviews entries with agency partners and makes adjustments as reported. We don’t pad results; the math is conservative, and the savings are real.

If Politico is still struggling with ‘why’ ceiling is in fact the right way to measure savings and is not in fact “an accounting trick,” we invite them to personally guarantee a sample of government contracts for the full ceiling amount. That should clarify things.

We can agree on one thing, though: Congress needs to pass more rescission packages so that the unused funds go back to the Treasury instead of being spent by default.

Department of Government Efficiency
🔗 @DOGEOFC

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178

~ ~ ~

Notes to Readers:

IMHO, you’ll have to remove 90% of our current government in order to accomplish the removal of all parties who are interested in only lining their own pockets instead of working for the American people. Which is one of the stated goals of NESARA, BTW. Reduction of all government to 10% of current size. The power is returning to the People.

Eliza