nmz 3 days ago

That's not the goal at all. And that's not how its going.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...

  • hector126 3 days ago

    > Of the DOGE list's initial claim of $16 billion in savings, half came from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) listing that was entered into the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) in 2022 with a whopping $8 billion maximum possible value.

    > According to a DOGE post on X, that number was a typo that was corrected in the contract database to $8 million on Jan. 22 of this year before being terminated a week later, and DOGE "has always used the correct $8M in its calculations."

    Jeez, that's pretty damning.

fermentation 3 days ago

This linked website has an incentive to portray this "savings" as larger than it actually is.