DOGE Sucks at Their Job

The DOGE "savings" website quietly removed nearly one billion dollars in what it claims to have “saved” through canceled contracts, grants, or leases this past week.

This is just the latest example of altering incorrect figures on the agency’s website. Staffers at DOGE seemingly updated its claimed savings overnight on Tuesday, erasing approximately $962 million.

The largest of the disappeared cuts made this week, identified using the Wayback Machine, appears to be a $1.1 billion contract with the Acacia Center for Justice. The group provided legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children who enter the U.S. DOGE initially claimed the termination would save $367 million, but now the contract isn’t listed at all.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore services at the end of last month, but Acacia Center for Justice has said that its services had not been resumed. Trump is refusing to comply to legal orders, a thing he's done successfully his entire life.

DOGE proclaims to save the government at least $150 billion in canceled contracts, grants, leases and more, but on several occasions, the DOGE website has been updated to get rid of claimed savings that were later found to be inaccurate.

Recently, more than 600 grants had been removed from DOGE’s website over the last few weeks in addition to dozens of contracts and leases. Almost all were removed during a two-hour window between midnight and 2 a.m. on Tuesday this week.

The latest string of corrected savings arrives after Elon Musk, lowered expectations of the group’s savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion by the end of the fiscal year. Just like he took 5 years to release the shoddily constructed Cybertruck. Just like how every year he promises Tesla owners that "full self-driving capabilities" will be coming next year.

Musk’s attempt to identify “waste, fraud and abuse” within agencies and departments and make cut suggestions to Trump was part of the overall goal to reduce federal spending. And all he's done is cost tax payers more money and do nothing to address the actual governmental misuse like Trump charging for secret service to stay at his hotels to protect him.

Most DOGE’s work has been subject to scrutiny as they makes sweeping cuts with little to no explanation or misrepresented information. Many of the “receipts” on the list of savings do not include itemized information, making them difficult to track. Other cuts DOGE has claimed on its website predate the current administration, like cancelled contracts from the Biden administration, they attempted to claim earlier this year.