Elon Musk’s DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, GAO finds
The audit said $110 billion in claimed contract, grant and lease savings could not be verified and found one user had elevated Treasury system access.
- On Thursday, a Government Accountability Office audit revealed the Department of Government Efficiency consistently overstated savings and granted unauthorized create, modify, and delete access to a Treasury Department payment system in January 2025.
- DOGE's 'Wall of Receipts' claimed $215 billion in savings, yet the GAO could not verify nearly $35 billion in contract cuts and found 108 leases were already being terminated before the group existed.
- Auditors identified a January 2025 incident where an employee gained temporary permissions to create, modify, and delete information within the Treasury payment system, which processes trillions and stores sensitive Social Security numbers.
- During a hearing, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene questioned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the security failure, arguing that absent disciplinary action risked weakening confidence in federal data security.
- The Treasury Department faces pressure to implement six GAO recommendations to strengthen security controls, though Bessent claimed the department had 'tightened protocols' without providing specific details about the changes.
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DOGE Was A Giant Failure, Part Infinity
DOGE was a giant scam perpetrated on the American people. It was presented as a major cost-saving initiative. It was really a data mining scam where unknowing Americans had all of their confidential data copied and saved to Elon Musk's DOGE team, to be used or sold or manipulated in - so far - unknown ways. A government watchdog released an incredible report looking back on the work that DOGE did - and did not - do. To say that the findings were…
(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Kyung-yoon = The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), launched early in the Donald Trump administration's second term to cut federal spending, has achieved a significant portion of its results...
Musk’s DOGE savings claims unverifiable – government watchdog
The US efficiency agency lied about terminating leases and published unverified grant cuts, the Government Accountability Office has found The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested and initially spearheaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, credited itself with billions of dollars in federal budget savings that could not be independently verified, a government watchdog said...
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