1. $4.6 Billion Saved on Unnecessary Office Furniture
DOGE uncovered that since 2020, the federal government spent $4.6B on new furniture despite many employees working remotely. This led to immediate cessation of such expenditures.
2. $69.1 Million Reduction in IT Consulting Contracts
By scrutinizing IT contracts, DOGE facilitated a $69.1M cut in a General Dynamics IT agreement.
3. $58.9 Million Saved from ARPA-H Support Contracts
DOGE identified and terminated a $58.9M contract with Leidos for administrative support deemed non-essential.
One of the biggest, and one of the oldest, taxes is inflation. Governments have stolen their people’s resources this way, not just for centuries, but for thousands of years.
If you put $1,000 in your piggy bank in 1960 and took it out to spend in 2000, you would discover that your money had, over time, lost 80 percent of its value.
Income taxes only transfer money from your current income to the government, but it does not touch whatever money you may have saved over the years. With inflation, the government takes the same cut out of both.
It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution, if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.
In other words, the Constitution cannot protect you, if you don't protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
Arbitrary power is ugly and vicious, regardless of what pious rhetoric goes with it. Freedom is not free. You have to fight for it or lose it. But is our generation up to fighting for it?