DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, initially claimed to have saved taxpayers a substantial sum of $49.2 billion by cutting grants. However, an analysis conducted outside the government and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) have debunked these claims. The GAO's latest report, issued in response to a request from Senators Gary Peters and Richard Blumenthal, revealed that DOGE's savings could not be adequately verified.
Specifically, for 13,553 out of 15,887 grants reported as terminated, the GAO found that there was insufficient information to confirm the method DOGE used to calculate savings or the nature of those savings. This represents approximately 96 percent of the savings claimed by DOGE.
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