DOGE’s claim of $110B in savings was vastly inflated and riddled with errors: GAO

Key Points:

• The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) vastly overstated its taxpayer savings, with $110 billion in claimed savings being unreliable and unverifiable.
• GAO reported that DOGE could not verify 96% of its reported savings from canceled grants and did not follow its own methodology for calculating about half of the savings.
• The review revealed that DOGE failed to terminate some contracts it claimed to have canceled, with $27.4 billion in claimed savings never executed and $7.2 billion lacking identifying information.
• DOGE also claimed savings from unchanged Defense Department IT contracts and leases already slated for termination, further undermining its reported figures.
• Although DOGE ended operations on July 4, its website still displays a "Wall of Receipts" claiming $215 billion in taxpayer savings, despite Musk's departure and no response from Musk or the White House.