In Tuesday's update, DOGE's new grand total is $65 billion saved. It's unclear how that tally was achieved. The site added almost 1,200 new "receipts" that claim to show another $4 billion in savings. But when NPR matched the claims to federal contracting data, the savings were essentially unchanged from the initial analysis, now about $2.3 billion.
In Tuesday's update, DOGE's new grand total is $65 billion saved. It's unclear how that tally was achieved. The site added almost 1,200 new "receipts" that claim to show another $4 billion in savings. But when NPR matched the claims to federal contracting data, the savings were essentially unchanged from the initial analysis, now about $2.3 billion.
