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An analysis by the New York Times tells us: the large savings reported by Doge are incorrect accounts. While the group has made thousands of cuts, these are considered minor compared to federal spending
He writes it New York Times. The Department for Government Efficiency, the Dogeled by Elon Musk until May, is waving the flag 29,000 cuts to the federal government: contracts worth billions torn to pieces, thousands of grants thrown in the bin, public employees sent home.
It’s a shame, however, that the group did not keep the promise of the richest man in the world: to cut a trillion dollars by October. Under the aegis of Doge, lFederal spending hasn’t dropped a cent. In fact, it has increased.
An analysis by the New York newspaper explains how this is possible: the large savings reported by Doge are incorrect accounts. While the group has made thousands of cuts, they are considered minor: The department has hit foreign aid recipients, small American businesses and local service providers, true. But the sum of these cuts is small compared to the federal budget.
Il New York Times give an example. In Doge’s published list of canceled contracts and grants, the 13 largest were all incorrect.
At the top of the list are two Department of Defense contracts: one for information technology and the other for aircraft maintenance. Musk’s team labeled them “decommissioned”, boasting taxpayer savings of $7.9 billion. False: those contracts are alive and well, and those billions an illusion.
These two pieces of misinformation alone outweigh 25,000 minor cuts combined. And out of the 40 most important items on their list, only 12 withstood the newspaper’s fact-checking.
Always the Times has examined some information published on the site. In at least 28 cases, Doge was wrong. Among the errors: double counting, exaggerations and misclassifications.
If it is true that the department once led by Musk did not succeed in the feat cut a trillion dollars by October, this does not mean that the cuts he made instead had no effects. Yes, they had them: closed offices, canceled programs, and people deprived of food, medicine, essential aid.
At the beginning of the year, Doge made a clean sweep with USAID (the United States Agency for International Development), reducing to ashes thousands of programs that have been active for years also in areas of the world affected by war and hunger. An abrupt cut celebrated as a saving of 11.7 million on the trophy wall.
December 24, 2025 (changed December 24, 2025 | 4:24 pm)
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