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This is inaccurate. In September 2022, the agency contracting officer mistakenly wrote $8B instead of $8M when logging in the FPDS database. DOGE discovered thi

This is inaccurate. In September 2022, the agency contracting officer mistakenly wrote $8B instead of $8M when logging in the FPDS database. DOGE discovered this error in January 2025, and the agency updated FPDS accordingly.

matwood 2y ago
Except DOGE (at the time of this article) kept their claim of saving $8B and pointed at the old contract to make their stats look better. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus... The DOGE website initially included a screenshot from the federal contracting database showing that the contract’s value was $8 million, even as the DOGE site listed $8 billion in savings. On Tuesday night, around the time this article was published, DOGE removed the screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim $8 billion in savings. It added a link to the original, outdated version of the contract worth $8 billion. Trustworthy and transparent. I guess fixing a typo is worth $8B?
- FergusArgyll 2y ago
  "By examining past versions of the contract listed on the Federal Procurement Data System, The Upshot determined that the federal award, approved in September 2022, had initially listed a total value of $8 billion. But on Jan. 22 this year, that figure was updated to $8 million... It's possible that DOGE or someone else in the Trump administration can claim credit for fixing the error in the contracting database, given that the value was downgraded to $8 million two days after President Trump took office. " -NYT TFA So Bureaucracy incompetence, mistake is around for >2 years, DOGE fixes it. Screenshot and FPDS DB were out of sync, "PDS posting of the final termination notices can have up to a 1-month lag."
  - matwood 2y ago
    It was a typo. No one was paid that amount and wouldn't have been paid that amount. If fixing a typo in a reporting system is a huge win for you I guess...ok.
wat10000 2y ago
Oh, so you mean they weren’t incompetent, they knew the correct figure but deliberately lied about it?
- FergusArgyll 2y ago
  No, the DOGE website scrapes from the FPDS DB. The DB wasn't updated immediately. Like I quoted in an adjacent comment "PDS posting of the final termination notices can have up to a 1-month lag." Your bias is blinding you to what is the obvious explanation that I'm sure you'd recognize if you saw it on a non-political website. I just want to point out one more thing: DOGE didn't advertise this 8M savings anywhere, there wasn't a speech about it etc. This was found on https://doge.gov/savings https://doge.gov/savings
  - wat10000 2y ago
    Just incompetent, then.

matwood 2y ago

Except DOGE (at the time of this article) kept their claim of saving $8B and pointed at the old contract to make their stats look better. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus... The DOGE website initially included a screenshot from the federal contracting database showing that the contract’s value was $8 million, even as the DOGE site listed $8 billion in savings. On Tuesday night, around the time this article was published, DOGE removed the screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim $8 billion in savings. It added a link to the original, outdated version of the contract worth $8 billion. Trustworthy and transparent. I guess fixing a typo is worth $8B?

FergusArgyll 2y ago
"By examining past versions of the contract listed on the Federal Procurement Data System, The Upshot determined that the federal award, approved in September 2022, had initially listed a total value of $8 billion. But on Jan. 22 this year, that figure was updated to $8 million... It's possible that DOGE or someone else in the Trump administration can claim credit for fixing the error in the contracting database, given that the value was downgraded to $8 million two days after President Trump took office. " -NYT TFA So Bureaucracy incompetence, mistake is around for >2 years, DOGE fixes it. Screenshot and FPDS DB were out of sync, "PDS posting of the final termination notices can have up to a 1-month lag."
- matwood 2y ago
  It was a typo. No one was paid that amount and wouldn't have been paid that amount. If fixing a typo in a reporting system is a huge win for you I guess...ok.

wat10000 2y ago

Oh, so you mean they weren’t incompetent, they knew the correct figure but deliberately lied about it?

FergusArgyll 2y ago
No, the DOGE website scrapes from the FPDS DB. The DB wasn't updated immediately. Like I quoted in an adjacent comment "PDS posting of the final termination notices can have up to a 1-month lag." Your bias is blinding you to what is the obvious explanation that I'm sure you'd recognize if you saw it on a non-political website. I just want to point out one more thing: DOGE didn't advertise this 8M savings anywhere, there wasn't a speech about it etc. This was found on https://doge.gov/savings https://doge.gov/savings
- wat10000 2y ago
  Just incompetent, then.