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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178
The Trump administration’s claim that it is
saving billions of dollars through DOGE-related
cuts to federal contracts is drastically
exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO
analysis of public data and federal spending
records.
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.
Despite the administration’s claims, not a single
one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the
federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead,
the money has been returned to agencies mandated by
law to spend it.
DOGE’s latest figures on contract cuts ticked up
to $54.2 billion in an update posted on Tuesday.
POLITICO’s findings come on top of months of
scrutiny of DOGE’s accounting, but the magnitude
of DOGE’s inflated savings claims has not been clear
until now.
Even so, President Donald Trump claimed hundreds of
billions of dollars had already been used to reduce
the federal deficit. The former head of DOGE, Elon
Musk, initially promised the organization would
reduce the deficit by $2 trillion.
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