DOGE deleted another $4 billion from its ‘wall of receipts’

The White House DOGE office has slashed another $4 billion from its own list of savings — not the federal budget.

On Sunday evening, the group deleted or changed upward of 1,000 contracts that it said it had canceled, The New York Times reported. Together, the alterations accounted for more than 40% of the contracts that DOGE had listed on its website the week prior.

B-17 previously reported that it lowered its claimed savings by more than $9 billion in two days last month. It had claimed savings on its “wall of receipts” of $16.5 billion, mainly in canceled contracts. By Tuesday, the claimed amount saved in canceled contracts was down to about $8 billion, according to the site’s receipt section, which lists contract, grant, and lease cancellations.

A few contracts account for a significant chunk of the changes — for example, the site had said that canceling an IRS contract saved $1.9 billion, the Times said. But the outlet found that contract had been canceled in November. The same was true of DOGE’s earlier accounting snafus, when it claimed to save about $2 billion by canceling three US Agency for International Development deals, before deleting two of the entries and, with them, $1.3 billion in savings.

The website now says the group has saved $105 billion in total but lacks details for savings, like the names of terminated grants or buildings with canceled leases, other than those related to contracts, which makes the total difficult to verify.

DOGE has repeatedly tempered expectations. Elon Musk, the group’s de facto leader, initially said he’d help cut $2 trillion from the federal budget but has scaled back the expectation back to $1 trillion. And earlier Tuesday, an agency quietly edited a key memo related to Musk’s efforts to remake the federal workforce after a court ruling.

Representatives for the Trump administration and White House DOGE office did not respond to a request for comment.