This is inaccurate.
In September 2022, the agency contracting officer mistakenly wrote $8B instead of $8M when logging in the FPDS database. DOGE discovered this error in January 2025, and the agency updated FPDS accordingly. DOGE has always used the correct $8M in its calculations.
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DOGE claimed $8 billion in savings from a cancelled contract on their new "wall of receipts." It was actually $8 million.
Around the time we published the story, DOGE removed a screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim 8 bil. in savings.
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On 2/18/2025 the doge.gov/savings Wall of Receipts displayed this line item as $8b, but linked to the revision of this contract that was corrected down to $8m.
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Multiple line items have been revised after errors were pointed out, but the claimed total savings of $55b has not changed.
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