https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efzQQBrSQqY
Elon Musk's figures have recently been proved wrong, completely inaccurate, and full of accounting errors, outdated data and miscalculations. He hasn't saved the taxpayer money he claims and is suddenly concealing information, proving no transparency exists.
An environmental scientist in Michigan, David Reid, was surprised to learn his contract studying invasive species in the St. Lawrence Seaway was included on the list. “That contract wasn’t cancelled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec. 31 and he decided to retire and not renew it, he said. “If they took credit for cancelling the contract, they’re lying.”
The group claimed $25,000 in savings from his project.
There are many overcounting mistakes, including a contract for D.E.I. services at the Environmental Protection Agency that was listed three times.
In another case, DOGE claimed $232 million in savings on a contract providing information technology support to the Social Security Administration. But The Intercept reported that only a sliver of the contract was cancelled — a program to let users mark their gender as “X” — bringing the actual savings closer to $560,000.
An $8 million contract for technical support services at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had been mistakenly entered into the database at a value of $8 billion, close to the size of the entire agency’s budget. This error alone made up nearly half of the combined value of all listed contract cuts.
The “wall of receipts” also lists hundreds of cases in which — even by the website’s own accounting — the changes saved taxpayers nothing. In one contract, the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to spend $10 million for a five-year subscription to the legal research site Westlaw. But the savings are listed as $0. The S.E.C.’s contract expired in March 2024.
There's much more, but you get the gist.