Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (better known as DOGE) has quietly removed $1 billion in savings from its website.
Since its creation when Donald Trump was sworn into office again, DOGE has been turning heads.
Back in February, DOGE, the brainchild of Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Musk, claimed to have saved an impressive $65 billion through a series of cuts.
According to the site, DOGE claims its savings have come from a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletions, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”
However, many have struggled to verify the massive figures DOGE has been promoting on its website, especially since it’s reportedly “riddled with mistakes.”
“The DOGE team has likely saved billions, but its careless accounting contributes to a pattern of recklessness by the group, which has recently gained access to sensitive government payment systems,” The New York Post stated in February.
Others have called it ‘impossible’ to verify how much DOGE has truly saved, according to ABC News.
Amid growing skepticism over the figures shared online, DOGE has quietly removed nearly $1 billion from its advertised total, NOTUS reports.
According to NOTUS, this sum of money appears to have vanished overnight. The report states that on Tuesday, April 15, DOGE “removed approximately $962 million in previously claimed savings and altered hundreds of other figures to inflate the reported ‘savings’ values of individual items.”
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Elon Musk seen sporting a ‘DOGE’ t-shirt in March (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
The publication also pointed out that despite DOGE’s promise of transparency regarding its savings and their sources, the website remained unchanged from the end of March until April 14.
As of writing, April 14 remains the last update, with the website claiming that DOGE has saved $155 billion — equating to over $900 per American taxpayer.
NOTUS also reports that nearly 650 grants, along with dozens of contracts and leases, have been removed from the DOGE website in recent weeks.
Musk was brought in by Donald Trump to help run DOGE (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
In addition to listing its savings, DOGE features an “Agency Efficiency Leaderboard.”
This leaderboard shows the Department of Health and Human Services at the top for the most savings, while the Department of Commerce ranks lowest in terms of savings.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has previously responded to criticism of DOGE, stating that “rogue bureaucrats and activist judges attempting to undermine this effort are only subverting the will of the American people.”
