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Elon Musk announced Tuesday that the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) was investigating a Limestone mine in Pennsylvania, When the cost reduction organization says that the federal retirement of employees are processed manually using a system that could take months.
Musk told journalists about the mine on Tuesday during an appearance with the president Donald Trump In the Oval Office, while the president prepared to sign an executive order on the multimillionaire work as Due Dune.
“And then they told us that this is actually, I think, a great anecdote, because they tell us that the greatest number of people who could possibly retire in a month is 10,000,” Musk said.
“We are like, well, what? Why is that? Well, because all the retirement paperwork is manual on paper,” he continued. “It is calculated and written manually on a sheet of paper. Then it is reduced to mine and I like it, what do you mean, a mine?”
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This photo published by Dege on February 11, 2025 shows the old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, where the organization says that some 700 workers operate more than 230 feet underground to process around 10,000 federal retirement applications per month. (Dogado/X)
DOGE wrote in x That an old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, is where around 700 workers operate more than 230 feet underground to process around 10,000 federal retirement applications per month.
Applications are processed by paper and stored in Manila envelopes and cardboard boxes, said Dege.
This photo published by Dege on February 11, 2025 shows shelves and cardboard boxes that Dodge says that workers in underground mines facilities use to store federal workers retirement documents. (Dogado/X)
He Washington Post He described the installation as a “bureaucracy sink” in an article in 2014. At that time, the report said that the total spending in the retirement system was $ 55.8 million.
Multiple attempts to digitize the system have been made since 1987, according to the report. Each attempt failed to a large extent and was finally discarded, with costs reported by a total of more than $ 130 million.
Musk said the installation began in 1955 and is seen “as a deformation of time.” He observed the slow processing speed, which Dege says he can take several months.
Elon Musk mentioned the limestone mine to journalists during an event with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“And then the speed, the limiting factor is the speed at which the elevator of the mine axis can move, determines how many people can withdraw from the federal government,” Musk said. “And the elevator breaks down and sometimes, and then you can’t, nobody can retire. Doesn’t it sound crazy?”
Musk said the defective system of “carrying Manila’s envelopes, you know, the boxes on an axis of the mine” could remedy with “virtually anything else.”
“That is an example, like a high level, if he says, how we increase prosperity is that people change their roles that are negative to productivity to high productivity roles,” he said.
In recent weeks, Democrats have greatly criticized Musk and Doge’s work to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal expenditure and cut the federal workforce of more than 2 million people.
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Musk has pushed back, Tell journalists on Tuesday that “people voted for an important government reform, and that is what people are going to get.”
