The initiative promised bold results and boasted that it had already saved taxpayers $65 billion by eliminating waste, axing redundant programs, and selling off federal assets.
According to investigative outlet NOTUS, nearly $962 million in previously reported savings quietly vanished from the DOGE website on April 15.
Along with the missing money, hundreds of data entries were changed or deleted entirely — and the site, which hadn’t been updated in weeks, offered no public explanation.
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In total, DOGE’s savings estimate is now sitting at $155 billion — which sounds impressive but has skeptics raising serious questions.
ABC News went a step further, describing the figures as “unverifiable” and pointing out that much of DOGE’s self-reported data can’t be independently checked.
But experts are puzzled, especially given the sudden and silent removal of nearly a billion dollars in claimed savings. »