In another shining example of gaslighting and lying to the American public, co-president, Elon Musk and his DOGEbags, have taken crend for canceling procurement agreements that were already cancelled or had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.
- Under George W Bush: U.S. Coast Guard signed a contract to get administrative help from a company in Northern Virginia. It paid $144,000, and the contract was completed by June 30, 2005. Elmo’s DOGEbags claimed last weeksaid it had just canceled the long-dead Coast Guard contract — and in doing so, saved U.S. taxpayers $53.7 million.
- The DOGEbags have removed some of their errors but have added new errors to take their place.
“These are not savings,” said Lisa Shea Mundt, whose firm, The Pulse of GovCon, tracks federal spending. “The money’s been spent. Period. Point blank.”
Mr. Musk’s group has said that it has saved taxpayers $65 billion, by cutting contracts, leases, federal employees and other items in the federal budget. But it has itemized only two of those categories: cancellations of contracts and leases. When adding up DOGE’s claimed savings for each item, those categories collectively account for about $10 billion, less than one-sixth of the total.
- DOGE listed a contract worth $8 million as actually being worth $8 billion.
- DOGE counted the same $655 million contract three times.
- Claimed they cancelled a huge contract at the Social Security Administration canceled, saving $232 million. In reality, only a small project within that contract had been canceled. Actual savings: $560,000.
Last week, DOGEbags quietly scrubbed their erroneous claims from their website/Wall of Receipts.
New Bogus Claims:
- Took credit for the cancellation of a $1.9 billion Treasury Department contract, for work on information technology at the Internal Revenue Service…contract cancelled canceled in November 2024, when President Biden was in office.
- DOGE also claimed credit for canceling another Coast Guard contract from the Bush administration. The group claimed it saved another $53 million. The contract actually ended in 2006.
