DOGE

[Oliver the Second]

DOGE: VA Cancels $56,000 Contract to Water 8 Potted Plants



The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has uncovered and cancelled a $56,000 contract it was paying to a "plant contractor" to water eight decorative potted plants — with the Department of Government Efficiency promising to water them "free of charge" from now on.

"The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water 8 plants for 5 years. This is $1400/plant/year," DOGE, led by Elon Musk, said in a Thursday night X post:

"The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge," the department added, along with photos of a pair of the VA's potted plants next to a sign reading "Please do not water these plants. These plants are serviced by a plant contractor."

The latest, smaller cut comes after new VA Secretary Doug Collins announced bigger slashes to wasteful spending, including $2 billion in contracts last week, Breitbart News reported.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/07/doge-va-cancels-56000-contract-water-8-potted-plants/

[Herman]

DOGE: VA Cancels $56,000 Contract to Water 8 Potted Plants



The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has uncovered and cancelled a $56,000 contract it was paying to a "plant contractor" to water eight decorative potted plants — with the Department of Government Efficiency promising to water them "free of charge" from now on.

"The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water 8 plants for 5 years. This is $1400/plant/year," DOGE, led by Elon Musk, said in a Thursday night X post:

"The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge," the department added, along with photos of a pair of the VA's potted plants next to a sign reading "Please do not water these plants. These plants are serviced by a plant contractor."

The latest, smaller cut comes after new VA Secretary Doug Collins announced bigger slashes to wasteful spending, including $2 billion in contracts last week, Breitbart News reported.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/07/doge-va-cancels-56000-contract-water-8-potted-plants/

They aint got any respect for the folks that earned that money.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

They aint got any respect for the folks that earned that money.

It was probably some coon crackhead that did the work.

[DKG]

Elon Musk revealed that the federal government has "magic money computers" that allow it to send taxpayer funds "out of thin air" without adequate oversight.

"Every government department — I say, 'every' because we've not yet found a single exception — there are far too many software licenses and media subscriptions," Musk said.

He explained that there were often more licenses and subscriptions than the number of individuals working for the department.

"We found entire situations of software licenses or media subscriptions where there were zero logins," Musk added. "No one had ever logged in even once."

Musk was asked whether the waste stems from incompetence or fraud.

"If you say, 'What's the waste-to-fraud ratio,' in my opinion, it's like 80% waste and 20% fraud," he replied. "But you do have these sort of gray areas."

He highlighted how the federal government can send money to nonprofit organizations with little oversight and accountability. Musk explained that the so-called charities give their leadership "extremely lavish, insane salaries, expense everything to the nonprofit, buy jets and homes and all sorts of things."

[Oliver the Second]

[Thiel]

The Department of Defense is preparing to slash approximately 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs. I love it.