Around 40% of DOGE’s Cancelled Contracts Is Money That’s Already Been Spent

The Department of Government Efficiency’s “Wall of Receipts” is a litany of failure. According to reporting from the Associated Press, a full 40% of the federal contracts won’t save America any money at all. The AP’s report came the same day the Government Accountability Office, a 103-year-old institution, published its own report on the places Washington could trim the budget and save money. GAO is an old office that knows how Washington works, knows its players, and takes the time to make careful and well-researched recommendations about how to save the U.S. taxpayer money. DOGE is only a few months old and more interested in memes and social-media frenzy than actual spending cuts. The proof is in the results. Elon Musk made a big deal of DOGE being accountable to “the people” and that there would be plenty of receipts that show just how good his extra-governmental cost-saving enterprise is. He’s published an enormous list of 1,125 contracts that DOGE has terminated. In many of th ... Read full article.