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DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up

  • Estimated savings claimed by DOGE from over 500 cancelled contracts are closer to $2 billion, primarily affecting the Department of Education, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and U.S. Agency for International Development.
  • Jessica Riedl suggests achieving meaningful cuts would require difficult legislative reforms, rather than relying on DOGE's claims of waste and fraud.
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DOGE Is Bad at Math

Elon Musk and his supposedly savvy DOGE operatives can’t seem to calculate how much money they are or aren’t saving taxpayers.

·New York, United States
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DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

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DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn’t add up

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don’t add up.

·Saint Paul, United States
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To Save Money, DOGE Slashes Evaluations of Federal Education Spending

A virtual wrecking ball took aim last Monday at the relatively small, wonky corner of the Department of Education that I write about every week: evaluation studies and data collection. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) posted on X that it had terminated 89 of these contracts worth $881 million. These particular cuts stunned people […]

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MPR News broke the news in Saint Paul, United States on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
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