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"Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO
by dcre 1y ago
"Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract...
Great stuff!
- hereme888 1y agoYou think $1.4B makes sense, when the crazy contracts they've cancelled are easily way over that? Also, politico is not an authoritative source of information. They're rated as a left-leaning organization, known to be wrong, often.
- dcre 1y agoYes. Nearly everything they said they canceled either didn’t happen at all or the contract had ended before they canceled it.