Impact of Musk project on ____ is much less than he claims – report Associated Press analyzed canceled government contracts and found that 40% will produce no savings Elon Musk’s cost-cutting ____ appears to be having less impact than the world’s richest man is claiming, with a review finding that almost 40% of the federal contracts scrapped so far will save the American taxpayer not a penny. The Associated Press put under the microscope a list of 1,125 federal government contracts that Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) ____ it had ____ in the first month of the new Trump administration. The news agency found that of those, 417 were likely to produce no savings to the federal budget. The ____ contracts had been flaunted by Doge on its “wall of receipts”. Yet in many cases the money had already been spent, or had been legally committed to the extent that it was too late to ____ the funds. “It’s like ____ used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it,” Charles Tiefer, an expert on government ____ law, told the AP. The review is just the latest investigation suggesting that Musk’s ____ through federal departments in an attempt supposedly to uncover ____ and reduce waste is not having the benefits ____ for it. One of the cancelled contracts was listed on the “wall of receipts” as being worth $8bn, when in fact the New York Times discovered it was valued at $8m. Musk’s latest ____, demanding that more than 2 million federal employees all email Doge a list of their five weekly ____ or face ____, has caused ____ across the US government. Several ____ heads of department have openly resisted the move. Kash Patel, Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, instructed all employees at the bureau to “pause any responses” to the Musk ____. But late on Monday the Doge supremo was keeping at it, telling federal employees that if they ____ respond to his request a second time it would “result in ____”. Now ____ questions are beginning to be asked by federal judges about whether Doge, and Musk’s role within it, are even ____. At a hearing in Washington DC on Monday, during a lawsuit over whether Musk’s team of ____ should be given access to sensitive treasury department data, a federal judge raised ____ about the constitutionality of Doge’s “structure and operation”. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ____ that under the appointments clause of the US constitution, federal agencies are generally run by officials appointed by the president but subject to confirmation by the Senate – which Musk has not been. The judge grilled government lawyers about Musk’s role and the authority that ____ it. A government attorney, Bradley Humphreys, replied that he had no information about the billionaire’s ____ other than that he was a “close adviser to the president”, Politico reported.

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