The US efficiency agency lied about terminating leases and published unverified grant cuts, the Government Accountability Office has found
The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested and initially spearheaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, credited itself with billions of dollars in federal budget savings that could not be independently verified, a government watchdog said Thursday.
US President Donald Trump launched the now-defunct initiative shortly after he took office last January, tapping Musk as his government efficiency czar. The agency was billed as a sweeping effort to cut waste and bureaucracy across the federal government and its sprawling $7 trillion annual budget.
DOGE claims to have saved around $215 billion – just over 3% of the federal budget – through contract and lease cancellations, grant cuts, workforce reductions, regulatory changes and other actions.
However, billions of the roughly $110 billion in savings published on DOGE’s ‘Wall of Receipts’ were either “incorrect or lacked supporting evidence,” the US Government Accountability Office found.
DOGE provided insufficient information to verify 96% of the $49.2 billion it claimed to have saved from terminating nearly 16,000 grants, the watchdog reported.
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