DOGE Saved $1.4 Billion -- Less Than 5% of What They Claimed, Shocking Analysis Finds

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Aug 13th, 2025, 10:22 am


DOGE “drastically exaggerated” its government spending cuts and saved just a fraction of what they are boasting, a new deep-dive analysis from Politico found.

Politico’s Jessie Blaeser dove into public data and federal spending records for a report that accuses DOGE of using “faulty math” to overstate their massive savings calculations. According to the DOGE website, the agency estimates it saved more than $200 billion overall, which they say equates to more than $1,000 for every taxpayer. That total number comes from slashing workforces, cancelling contracts and grants, and more.

Of the billions in contracts that were canceled under DOGE, Politico could only verify a fraction. As noted, the savings are also difficult to calculate as money designated for agencies by Congress is required to be spent. From Politico:

Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.

Despite the administration’s claims, not a single one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money has been returned to agencies mandated by law to spend it.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/doge-saved-1-4-billion-less-than-5-of-what-they-claimed-shocking-analysis-finds/

[Skittles]

1. because "saving" was just a cover story

their true mission is PURE CORRUPTION

[MrWowWow]

3. Data Harvesting Was the Actual Agenda

Eventually, this'll all come out.

[Skittles]

4. I don't know that "it will all come out"

that is said about a lot of repuke corruption but it doesn't always seem to happen, seems like voters often hold Dems accountable for repuke garbage

[mitch96]

2. I'm curious how much it cost to save that 1.4 billion? or did I miss it.. nt

[Irish_Dem]

7. It was very expensive no doubt.

[Ursus Rex]

5. Well, they CUT that much.

I’m not at all convinced it was “savings.”

[groundloop]

6. Very true..... they also ruined many of the services provided by the govt.

The post office is in shambles, shipping times for letters and packages are WAY up. NOAA and the Natl. Weather Service have been badly hurt, because of cutbacks in data gathering forecasts are far less accurate. Customer service at Social Security is now horrendous. The VA is falling apart. And on and on.

My personal opinion is that repukes want to ransack all of these agencies in order to justify "saving" them through privatization.

[slightlv]

10. Especially when you consider one consequence of their "savings"...

all the people thrown out of the workforce. And I'm not just talking about the direct Federal workers stripped of their jobs, but the dominoes down the line, too. For every contract supposedly cancelled, there are multiples of workers who were either tossed out of their jobs, or were never allowed to start them. These actions happened whether or not the money was supposedly stripped, even if it's just sitting in a coffee can in the department, commission, etc. waiting to be spent. No doubt it will be repurposed for something more important than the people and the expertise that were so important prior to all this crap happening. And that doesn't mention the crisis all these people feel as they struggle to find something with which to support their family in a country that is losing vast numbers of good paying jobs. Is it any wonder so many who can are finding jobs in research facilities elsewhere in the world? It seems that just about any place is better than the United States.

[thought crime]

8. I'm Shocked! Shocked I tell you!

I think the mess they made will cost far more to clean up than any "savings".

[slightlv]

11. Hubby was a contract painter in his younger days.

He always marked up the amount if he had to "undo" what someone else who had undercut him initially had already done. It ALWAYS takes more money and more labor to undo a bad job than to a good job from the very beginning. This is something our government has always been fighting. Something about penny wise and pound foolish, I think the saying goes...

[relayerbob]

9. The only thing "shocking" ...

is that anyone would believe any of it.

[PSPS]

12. LOL. "Shocking?" To whom?

[FakeNoose]

13. They haven't factored in the cost of "new hires" that need to be trained to do the jobs of those who were fired

It's a huge cost when you consider mistakes and time lost from other activities, until the replacement workers get up to speed.

What? The Repukes didn't tell you that? Well of course not ... because it spoils their little fairytale about how much money they "saved."

[Prairie Gates]

14. "Saved"

If I stop going to the dentist, I haven't "saved" the cost of my dental care. In fact, I've probably increased it wastefully by assuring more expensive care will be needed later.

We need to stop accepting their idiotic framing. Yeah yeah, the headline is required. Whatever. Pick a better headline for the same story.

[patphil]

15. They haven't save taxpayers anything. Rather they have cost us an incredible amount of money.

When you look at all the damage they did to all those Federal Agencies, the final tally could easily exceed $1 trillion over the long run.

[BadgerMom]

17. This!!! ⬆️

I came to post this thought! Agreed! And well-expressed.

[RainCaster]

16. DOGE killed every investigation

That is what is was really about. Investigations into StarLink, SpaceX, Tesla...

[DenaliDemocrat]

18. They did not save shit. Lol

I am a fed on the DRP. I have been collecting a paycheck since April and not working. I led a team in charge of huge and complex contracts including emergency response. We. All. Quit. Or. Retired.


The loss of institutional knowledge is staggering. The costs have not yet been realized.

[Picaro]

19. Always nothing but lies

[RazorbackExpat]

20. I seriously doubt they "saved" anything

They just found places where they and Trump could exploit for their own gain

[maxsolomon]

21. The goal was to purge professional Civil Servants from Govt

and cripple multiple Federal agencies that Cons have ideological hostility towards.

The "savings" were irrelevant.