The Government Accountability Office published on August 6 a review of DOGE’s Wall of Receipts, the public ledger the initiative used to display its savings. DOGE listed $110.3 billion in savings as of early July, including roughly $61 billion from contracts and $49.2 billion from grants. The GAO found that more than a quarter of the 13,476 contracts marked as terminated carried no identifying details, making them impossible to verify, and only 43% of reported contract savings were tied to contracts that were actually terminated. DOGE claimed more than $1.7 billion in savings on a Defense Health Agency technology contract that was never touched. Real lease savings amounted to $31.8 million rather than the $113 million claimed. DOGE did not respond to the GAO’s requests for information, and the initiative formally ended on July 4.
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