Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) asserts it's saving taxpayers billions. However, their claims appear fraudulent, with a reported $8 billion diversity program costing just $8 million. DOGE's website editing history reveals repeated attempts to correct the error, raising questions about their transparency and accountability.
Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency claims to be fighting the scourge of government “waste” and fraud and, this week, DOGE claimed that it had already saved taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. However, in an ironic twist, it would appear that the claims being made by Musk and DOGE about their own activities appear to be, themselves, fraudulent.. Worse, about half of those savings appear to have been attributable to an accounting error.
The DOGE website initially included a screenshot from the federal contracting database showing that the contract’s value was $8 million, even as the DOGE site listed $8 billion in savings. On Tuesday night, around the time this article was published, DOGE removed the screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim $8 billion in savings. It added a link to the original, outdated version of the contract worth $8 billion.
Even the $8 million is an upper bound on the amount saved by canceling the contract. Since $2.5 million had already been spent on the contract, according to data on USAspending.gov, that suggests that canceling it saved $5.5 million at most. In recent weeks, some legal attacks have attempted to slow DOGE’s rampage through the federal government, though many of those efforts have run into roadblocks. Last week, 14 state attorneys generalalleging that Trump had violated the Constitution by appointing Musk. The litigation asked for a restraining order against DOGE to limit the initiative’s destructive scope.
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