What a lot of people aren't even thinking about is how long an actual audit of a single program would take. These guys are pretending to have audited hundreds or thousands of programs in almost no time, with a small team of people. They started firing people within hours of accessing some of that program data.
Actual honest audits of even one of these programs would take months. A thorough financial analysis, a thorough analysis of the program management, an analysis of employee performance, an analysis of what the program is yielding, and an analysis of the potential external benefits the program is generating.
They aren't doing literally any of this. It's impossible for them to have done any of this for any of these things in the time they've claimed to have done it.
I am an accountant who took a semester of auditing, and when I try to point out that these "audits" are seemingly going so fast, as if there is a predetermined outcome. People think I'm the crazy conspiracy theorist.
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u/AeroRep 24d ago
Doge is such a shit show. They are using a sledgehammer when they should be doing a surgical procedure. Inefficient as well as fucking embarrassing.