Nearly $1 billion of DOGE ‘savings’ vanish overnight
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DOGE quietly erases $1bn in savings from website
- Nearly US$1 billion in reported savings made through cuts to the American public service has vanished from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website.
- The removal occurred overnight on Tuesday, with the largest single cut – $367 million – involving a contract with the Acacia Center for Justice, which provides legal services for unaccompanied migrant children.
- This incident follows a pattern of DOGE altering figures and removing claimed savings later found to be inaccurate.
- Elon Musk, the key Donald Trump adviser who leads DOGE, recently lowered projected savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion.
- Musk’s role in the administration is to help identify “waste, fraud and abuse” within agencies and departments as part of an overall goal to reduce federal spending.