DOGE Says It's Saved $105 Billion, Though It's Backtracked on Some of Its Earlier Claims

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DOGE says it's saved $105 billion, though it's backtracked on some of its earlier claims
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"Asked about contracts that list $0 in savings last week, a White House official told ABC News that they're using a conservative methodology of calculating savings."
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Similar to last week, DOGE claims in this week’s update that the $105 billion figure is based on a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”

The site, however, only provides receipts for a fraction of that number.

Among the contracts that have been deleted from DOGE’s latest “Wall of Receipts” is the biggest contract it had listed as having canceled last week: a seven-year blanket purchase agreement from the IRS with $1.9 billion cap for “IT strategy and modernization.”

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The website removed this contract from its “Wall of Receipts” after the vendor, financial management and IT company Centennial Technologies, told the New York Times last month that the contract was actually canceled last fall, under the Biden administration.

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