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#ElonMusk & #DOGE say they’ve saved the federal govt $55B through staff reductions, lease cancellations & a long list of terminated contracts published online this wk as a “wall of receipts.”
#Trump has been celebrating the published savings, even musing about a proposal to mail checks to all Americans to reimburse them w/a “DOGE dividend.”
But the math that could back up those checks is marred w/accounting errors, incorrect assumptions, outdated data & other mistakes…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html?smid=url-share
The mistakes touched a wide range of contracts—some worth hundreds of millions & others worth just a few thousand.
David Reid, an environmental scientist in MI, was surprised his contract studying invasive species in St. Lawrence Seaway was included. “That contract wasn’t canceled by #DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec 31 & he decided to retire & not renew it. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.”
The group claimed $25k in savings from his proj.
While the #DOGE team has cut some number of dollars, its slapdash #accounting adds to a pattern of #recklessness, which has recently gained access to sensitive govt payment systems.
Some contracts…were double or triple counted. Another initially contained an error that inflated the totals by billions. In at least 1 instance, the group claimed an entire contract had been canceled when only part of the work was halted. In others, contracts it said it had closed were actually ended under #Biden.