Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency originally promised to save the government $2 trillion in waste.

That target quickly dropped to $1 trillion. Then in April, Musk started intimating that the savings would only be in the region of $150 billion, making it clear to all but his most diehard supporters that DOGE was failing on its own terms — even going by its own dubious estimates of its progress.

Now, it's looking like those purported "savings" are somehow even more pitiful than once believed.

A new investigation by Politico found that of the $52.8 billion that DOGE claims it's saved by cancelling federal contracts through July, its actual savings were closer to a paltry $1.4 billion — which is barely two percent of what it's boasting to the public.

The books, it seems, have

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