Is DOGE Just Making Up Numbers And Hoping No One Notices?
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In its first public accounting, DOGE made huge, embarrassing errors — and still hasn’t acknowledged them.

Summary

DOGE initially claimed an $8 billion ICE contract reduction, but the actual figure was 1,000 times less at $8 million.

Despite correcting the ICE figure, DOGE did not adjust its overall $55 billion savings estimate, which lacks clear justification.

The ICE error wasn’t the only issue. CBS News found DOGE had triple-counted a $654.99 million savings on a single contract, overstating savings by as much as $1.96 billion.

Critics argue the errors remain unaddressed because “the propaganda of the numbers is important to them.”

  • PhilipTheBucketA
    7·
    3 days ago

    They’re not just making up numbers. When someone found that the $8 billion number had come from some old document that got quickly corrected to $8 million, DOGE took down the $8 million document, tracked down the $8 billion document, and put that one up instead.