Auditors: 108 of 264 DOGE lease cuts were already underway
DOGE established the Wall of Receipts as a public ledger of the savings its cost-cutting effort produced across federal operations. The Government Accountability Office reviewed the accuracy of those figures at the request of lawmakers and found that some of the savings attributed to the effort led by Elon Musk were incorrect or unsupported by evidence.
The review singled out a Department of Defense contract for information technology services on which DOGE reported $1.7 billion in savings. Auditors said no action was taken to terminate the contract, so the savings never materialized.
The watchdog also scrutinized 264 leases that DOGE had listed for termination on the Wall of Receipts. Of those, 108 were already in the process of being terminated before DOGE was established, according to the report.
Beyond the individual cases, the GAO said DOGE did not respond to requests for information about the methodologies used to compute its savings estimates. The report concluded that the data quality issues it found limit the value of the Wall of Receipts for policymakers.