DOGE deletes five biggest savings from error-riddled ‘wall of receipts’

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Reportedly removed its five biggest "savings" from its website's "wall of receipts" after multiple media investigations highlighted a series of significant errors.

They included significant accounting mistakes, flawed assumptions and outdated information; some contracts closed and were reported as savings by DOGE, but actually ceased during the Biden administration, the newspaper noted.

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The organisation has sought comment from the White House regarding the removal of the top five savings from the "wall of receipts" and the resulting increase in the total savings figure.

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The report was "inaccurate", and the agency claimed the figure was initially incorrectly recorded, but it was corrected by DOGE last month.

DOGE stated its initial "receipts" revealed approximately 20 per cent of the claimed $55 billion in savings. The Times observed that even this portion couldn't be reconciled with the figures DOGE presented.

Some critics reckon that Musk's team of young tech experts, straight out of uni, don't get how the contract system works or even basic accounting principles.

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In reality, the cost-cutting agency only cut a tiny portion of it: $560,000.

Discovered that more than a quarter of the contracts mentioned by DOGE as being terminated had already been paid.

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