Nearly a Billion Dollars in DOGE 'Savings' Disappeared Overnight

[Nevilledog]

https://www.notus.org/policy/doge-claimed-savings-removed

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The DOGE website, the only public accounting of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s attempts to reduce federal government spending, is in constant flux and riddled with errors. That includes revisions that suggest DOGE was previously overstating its savings by hundreds of millions of dollars.

On Tuesday alone, DOGE removed around $962 million in previously claimed cuts and altered hundreds of others to boost individual items’ purported “savings” values.

Despite promising weekly updates and sporadically touting new contract cancellations on social media, DOGE did not update a single line of its savings website from the end of March through Monday, according to a NOTUS analysis. Then, just after midnight on Tuesday, DOGE added scores of new cancellations, quietly removed hundreds of others and altered the claimed savings of hundreds more.

NOTUS has identified nearly 650 grants and a few dozen contracts and leases that were scrubbed from the DOGE website over the past several weeks, almost all of them during a two-hour window between midnight and 2 a.m. on Tuesday. That list is not exhaustive; the recipients of many grants are listed as “redacted” or have no appended description, making it difficult to account for every listing that was added or removed.

DOGE has also made a habit of listing cancellations that long predate its establishment at the beginning of the Trump administration in January, helping to further overstate the scope of its cuts.

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[Lovie777]

1. Someone's pocket..........

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The savings being absconded with efficiently.

That was always the plan.

[Walleye]

3. I'm just gonna say it. They are all liars. Don't believe a word they have to say in this administration.

[milestogo]

4. Russian oligarchs just got richer

[yellow dahlia]

5. This is not efficiency. This is a Crime Spree.

(one of my protest signs)