My favorite anecdote in the GAO report:
DOGE claimed $28 billion in savings from narrowing an Air Force contract, but then the Air Force just waited a few months and awarded a $27.4 billion no-bid contract to the same contractor to perform the same work that had been "descoped."
@smithmachine.bsky.socialThe Government Accountability Office, the actual professionals trying to root our government waste, is out with a 52-page report cataloging methodological errors and data limitations with DOGE's "Wall of Receipts."
(I bet this was fun for them to write.)
gao.gov
U.S. GAO - DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations
The President established the Department of Government Efficiency to transform federal spending. DOGE instructed agencies to review federal contracts...