DOGE claimed they had saved $8 billion by slashing one contract. The actual number was $8 million
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 19 February 2025 15:44 GMT
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed they had saved $8 billion by cutting a single contract — but the actual value was $8 million. Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, tasked with gutting the federal government, claims it has saved a total of $55 billion, but a recently published list of contracts it has canceled so far only accounts for $16.6 billion, Bloomberg reports.
DOGE, upon further inspection, appears to have overstated the value of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency contract, which has since been corrected, the outlet reported. Musk’s team, which is not an official department, claimed it saved $8 billion by ditching a contract with business D&G Support Services to provide “program and technical support services” for the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights at Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
The contract was initially listed at a value of $8 billion when it was approved in September 2022, the Federal Procurement Data System shows. But at the end of January 2025, that figure was updated to $8 million.
At the same time, the DOGE website uploaded the contract as an $8 billion saving, according to Bloomberg. A link to the terminated contract, listed at $8 billion on the federal procurement website, still appeared on the DOGE website as of Wednesday morning. The Independent has contacted DOGE and the White House for comment.
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