Errors force DOGE to delete billions more from list of savings: NYT
- Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency deleted $4 billion from its list of savings for U.S. Taxpayers due to errors.
- The group altered more than 1,000 contracts, which is over 40% of those listed last week.
- The supposed savings from contract cuts decreased from $16 billion to under $9 billion since the initiative began.
- Jessica Riedl noted that the list has been characterized by various errors, including confusion between billions and millions.
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Department of Government Efficiency Deletes a Claim and Resurrects an Error - Overpasses For America
The Department of Government Efficiency has deleted one of its more bizarre claims: that it had saved taxpayers $53.7 million by “canceling” a federal contract that had actually ended in 2005. The New York Times reported on that mistake last week. It was part of a pattern at DOGE, which has repeatedly posted errors on its “wall of receipts” that inflated its success — and seemed to demonstrate a basic unfamiliarity with the machinery of governme…
Musk's DOGE team claims ‘termination' of Radio/TV Marti headquarters building lease
As Elon Musk’s team of budget cutters fans out across the administration, their recurring misstatements of facts has made tracking just how much money they may be saving difficult, if not impossible. Some claims they have posted on the website for the so-called “Department” of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, about purported budget savings have been wildly inflated and inaccurate. But NBC6 Investigates found one section – listing what it says are…
Contrary to what Trump said, even DOGE does not claim to have identified 'hundreds of billions' in fraud
"We found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud," President Donald Trump claimed in his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, referring to the cost-cutting efforts of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That figure is far bigger than the total "estimated savings" reported by DOGE itself, only part of which it describes as a result of "fraud and improper payment deletion." And DOGE's estimate is itself dubious in light of …
Mark Levin SHREDS Bernie Sanders’ anti-Elon Musk argument
What the Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk is accomplishing is nothing short of miraculous. Finally, the people understand the waste, fraud, and corruption surrounding the spending of their tax dollars. Now, our hard-earned money can go toward chipping away at our ghastly nationa...
DOGE website offers error-filled window into Musk’s government overhaul - West Hawaii Today
A spartanly furnished web page with columns of numbers and bar charts on a dark background is the only official window into billionaire Elon Musk’s effort to slash U.S. government spending and the size of the federal workforce. However, the view it offers of the cost-cutting enterprise is often muddied by major errors.
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