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'Always wrong': NYT reporter takes wrecking ball to DOGE's 'wall of receipts'

Story by Brad Reed • 4h

New York Times reporter David Fahrenthold .. https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-doge-2671252580/?utm_source=msn . on Tuesday took a wrecking ball to efforts by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency .. https://www.rawstory.com/doge-nuclear-2671340330/?utm_source=msn . to demonstrate how much money they are saving American taxpayers.

Writing on Bluesky, ..

THREAD: DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" is one month old this week. But the largest item on that list has always been wrong. Here's how:

— David Fahrenthold (@fahrenthold.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T16:59:16.110Z

. Fahrenthold walked through the ways in which Musk and his DOGE team make fundamental errors in tallying up the purported savings they're notching up as they conduct a slash-and-burn campaign against the federal workforce.

In fact, Fahrenthold has found that "the largest item" on DOGE's list of receipts "has always been wrong."

But the DOGE follies didn't stop there.

"Then DOGE said its largest savings had come from terminating a USAID contract worth $655 million," he wrote. "But they had triple-counted the same cancellation, and also greatly over-estimated what that cancellation was worth. That savings, too, was eventually reduced to $0."

The reporter then cited a particularly eye-opening example of DOGE inteptitude.

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