Elon Musk’s cuts fail to stop US federal spending hitting new record

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ELON Musk’s excessive efficiency campaign has failed to prevent US Federal spending to a rise of $ 603 billion last month, and new treasury data revealed, highlighting the difficulty of the Trump administration to reduce the size of the government significantly.

The Ministry of Governmental efficiency, which Musk, calls, calls for already achieved more than $ 100 billion in savings, but only a handful of departments recorded any decrease in spending in the first month of the full month of the new administration.

The spending increased by 40 billion dollars compared to the same month last year on the basis of similarity, an increase of 7 percent.

The new data comes after musk and its loads in Dog were infiltrated into many government agencies, including governmental and health departments, and various cabinet weapons. Tens of thousands of workers were suspended or separated, and thousands of government grants and contracts were canceled.

Musk has repeatedly claimed that Doge was on the right path to achieve sacrifices of 1 trillion annual federal budget, and said that the initiative was currently defining $ 4 billion a day.

However, the monthly treasury statement for the month of February showed that a few large groups have made significant decreases. Treasury officials indicated that the Ministry of Education had reduced $ 6 billion.

Officials have referred more questions about spending discounts to Dog. Doge’s actor did not immediately respond to the request to comment on the monthly numbers.

“The Dog’s savings are as much as they cannot be identified in monthly spending groups,” said Jessica Ridel, an economic policy expert at the Manhattan Conservative Institute, who was analyzing the initiative.

The new figures also show the challenge in causing any effect by focusing on discounts that can get wide support from Republican lawmakers.

Marco Rubio, Minister of Foreign Affairs, supervised a reduction in spending at the United States Agency for International Development, whose monthly expenses were revealed to $ 226 million, compared to $ 547 million last month. His main ministry budget has been reduced from $ 1.7 billion to $ 1.6 billion.

However, these savings were dwarfs of the consequences of only 3 percent in monthly health care spending, which cost an additional $ 5 billion. An additional 6 percent increase in social security expenses costs an additional $ 8 billion.

The direct spending of the Ministry of Treasury has increased by $ 29 billion since the same month last year, which is largely driven by an increase of 10 billion dollars in the monthly debt service to 86 billion dollars, and a rise of 14 billion dollars in tax credits and associated payments.

“About 75 percent of all federal spending go to social security, medicaid, medicare, defense, old warriors and attention – and none has been touched,” Ridel said. “There is no indication that such savings have already been identified.”

Defense spending remained stable throughout the year, at $ 61.4 billion.

On Monday, Musk said that he would seek to intensify Dog’s efforts, double her current employees and aim to significant spending sources such as social security.

However, the House of Representatives in the House of Representatives issued narrow legislation that greatly extends spending by government agencies at the current levels until the end of September. The draft law will be transferred to the Senate, as it needs to support at least eight Democrats to secure traffic.

Trump has also moved in recent days to restrict some activities of Dougi, and told Musk before his government that individual agencies are eventually responsible for employee decisions within their departments, and urged billionaire to use a “condition” instead of “hatred”.

The move came after many Republican lawmakers criticized the speed and breadth of Duji discounts, which led to the reunification of employees in various agencies for critical projects, including nuclear safety.

Federal judges also stopped or reflected many Doug’s moves. Last week, the Supreme Court supported with difficulty in force the Trump administration to distribute nearly $ 2 billion to foreign aid work that was already carried out all over the world.