DOGE claims billions in savings doesn’t add up


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NEW YORK: The federal cost-cutting effort known as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claims to have saved US$55bil in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for US$16.6bil of that.

And that’s before factoring in an error in the data published on DOGE’s website that mislabels a contract as US$8bil, which was later corrected in the federal database to only be US$8mil.

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