Is DOGE Just Making Up Numbers And Hoping No One Notices?
www.huffpost.com
In its first public accounting, DOGE made huge, embarrassing errors — and still hasn’t acknowledged them.

Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE is facing scrutiny for significant accounting errors in its reported federal savings.

DOGE initially claimed an $8 billion ICE contract reduction, but the actual figure was $8 million—1,000 times less—an error traced to a faulty government database.

Despite correcting the ICE figure, DOGE did not adjust its overall $55 billion savings estimate, which lacks clear justification.

The ICE error wasn’t the only issue. CBS News found DOGE had triple-counted a $654.99 million savings on a single contract, overstating savings by as much as $1.96 billion.

  • LePoisson@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 days ago

    Bro it annoys me to no end that people genuinely believe that the government never does audits. Like all this DOGE bullshit was already an ongoing part of the federal bureaucracy in place to ensure funds aren’t misappropriated.

    Do people think there was zero accountability for the money??!?!!

    DOGE isn’t saving shit it’s a smokescreen to shift money around and enrich the unscrupulous assholes.