Government efficiency departmentOr Dogi, has added a new batch of entries, which he calls his “wall of receipts”, avoiding alleged savings in hundreds of crores of dollars. Nevertheless, many of these claimed cuts seem to be misleading, and the possibility of real savings remains uncertain.
As Running tally on your websiteDogi claims that it has saved American taxpayers from a total of $ 170 billion. However, only $ 70.9 billion has been item, and many of those entries create serious doubts about their accuracy.
Some have expressed doubts, including Nut Malkus, a senior companion of the Conservative-Surprise American Enterprise Institute. Malkus, who is monitoring Dogi’s work, said their reviews indicate that the savings are more likely to be around $ 80 billion.
,[They are] When estimating the contracts by a factor of two, “Malkus said.
Other costs and expenses related to staffing cuts can spend the government more than them. Alleged savings,
Since it was created by President Trump on its first day in the office through an executive order, Elon Musk-Hold Dogi began Entry Savings savings to cancel contracts, grants and leases. News organizations including CBS News have identified Crowd of mistakes Triple and even including Quadruple count Of contracts. Many of them have been corrected after being highlighted, but there is no figure of Dogi for total savings.
On Monday, Doge updated its “wall of receipts” to include at least 848 additional contracts. A total of $ 639 million was claimed by $ 278.5 million. But 553 was noted as $ 0 savings.
In this new release, CBS News has identified a major error associated with a $ 38.7 million contract for waste water monitoring for Kovid. Dog claimed $ 38 million in savings by canceling it. This is the second largest savings in the most recent release. CBS News approached the company, Verli Life Sciences, who disputed its cancellation and said the contract was still active.
A CDC spokesperson confirmed this and clarified that the contract was only amended, not canceled. The spokesperson said, “It was over a time of work, which was abolished by a new working contract.” The new contract listed in the government database is a price of $ 41 million and extends to 6 August 2026.
Malkus told CBS News, “This is very strange. It is inconsistent to say that he saved all this money.”
A spokesperson of the White House and Dogi has not answered the questions of CBS News.
Doge is now claiming savings in millions to cancel at least one federal contract – bus signed by Trump administration.
The largest posted cancellation of the newly posted $ 72 million has been given to Universal Strategic Advisors LLC for the $ 72 million administrative assistance contract, which is part of the trump administration move to start large scale exile of the Trump administration to assist ICE with extended immigration enforcement. Dogge claimed $ 66 million in savings, yet the contract was honored only a few weeks ago. The representative of a company confirmed that it was “abolished to convenience,” there is no explanation provided by the government. The representative also said that the operating requirements of the ICE for such services are still present, as the agency continues to expand. The Homeland Security Department has not yet responded to the CBS News Query.
Claimed savings include $ 5.6 million from a cut in a program monitoring the use of young tobacco, $ 3.9 million from the cancellation of a National Union Monitoring System, and $ 1.9 million from abolishing a National Fire Fighter Registry.
According to Malkus, “They have this fun mathematics definition of savings that do not accurately capture what the specific person will ever see as a savings.”
Doge also appears that 96 contracts posted before May 4 have been removed, with a total of $ 124.7 million in total savings.
Despite these anomalies, Dogi says that the “wall of receipts” is a model of transparency.
Elon Musk has repeatedly defended the platform – and the cost of Dogi’s cost governance – in which almost one $ 1 billion government survey He claimed that the cost should be only $ 10,000. The requests from the White House have become unanswered for details of that claim.
However, the Trump administration insisted that Kasturi was never formally Dogi Administrator, it was Doga’s public face. Musk recently announced that he would step back from Dogi to focus on Tesla and his other companies.
Many of these contracts also come under “.termination for Convenience“Rules that allow contractors to claim for the expenses for the federal government they have made as staffing expenses, office locations and lost profits.
“We know that these termination settlements are going in, but is anyone paying attention? I wonder who is keeping his eye on that expense,” Malkus is called.
Finally any of these deduction combines an increase in savings for taxpayers, determined by the Congress, when and if the Trump administration presents a rescue request, a process in which the President formally requests that the Congress withdraws the funds allocated for specific programs.
A CBS News Analysis Government expenses showed that the federal government has spent $ 200 billion more in its first 100 days than last year- a trend that is expected to continue.
