Last week, the initiative of Elon Musk, which transports costs, which the government competence is called, published a “receipt wall” on the Internet, celebrating the extent of its saving by canceling federal contracts.
Now, the organization, also known as the DOGE US service, deleted all the five “savings” in that original list, after the New York Times and Other media outlets Indicate They were full With errors.
The end of the first five indigenous from the site disappeared in the early hours of Tuesday, even when the group claimed in its last update that its savings had risen to $ 65 billion. The web site did not provide any explanation for the reason for removing some elements or how it reached the highest total. Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, sent a written statement that did not address deletions, but provided a wider defense of the cost reduction initiative, saying it “has already set billions of dollars in savings.”
The “receipt wall” is the only general professor’s book that the organization produced to document its work. The size of the professor’s notebook – and misunderstanding and bad quality monitoring, which seemed to lie behind – raised questions about the work of the wider effort, which led to collective release and reduced throughout the federal government.
This was the five largest original savings in its list:
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and Reducing 8 billion dollars In enforcement immigration and customs. The actual contract concerned was $ 8 million. The error appears to stem from a previous and sinful entry in the federal contract database. But the contracting experts said that the service should have been best known: the entire ICE budget is about $ 8 billion, which makes it unreasonable to be a very large contract. The DOGE service in the United States modified the shape on the site after I wrote the Times about it, and said at a mail On the platform of Mr. Musk X, which “has always used $ 8 million in its accounts.”
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Three discounts of 655 million dollars At the American Agency for International Development. This was actually one cut was wrong Calculate three timesAs I mentioned for the first time by CBS News. This error also appears to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts operate; They sometimes have “ceiling values” that greatly exceed what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation is unlikely to produce anything of nearly $ 655 million of savings until once. Now, the site lists much smaller savings for this three cancellation: $ 18 million in total.
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A Disclosure of 232 million dollars In social security management. Here, Mr. Musk seemed wrongly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense of the Widos working defense. instead of, As mentioned by the intersectionIt has been canceled only a small piece of it: a $ 560,000 project to allow users to mark their gender as “x.” Doge now shows this small pieces instead.
It seems that some of the new added contracts this week make some of the same types of errors.
The largest savings in the latest version of its list is a reduction of $ 1.9 billion in the Treasury. But the Times stated last week that this contract was canceled last fall, when Joseph R. Biden Junior is president – and when Dog was yet.