Auditors Say Musk's DOGE Overstated $110 Billion in Savings

A special team called DOGE was created to help the government stop wasting money.

Elon Musk led the team at first, and it put a list online called the Wall of Receipts.

The list showed money the team said it had saved — about $110 billion.

That is a huge amount of money, like paying for millions of houses.

Careful government checkers, called auditors, decided to look at the list to see if it was right.

The checkers found that some savings were not real or did not have proof.

One saving was counted for a computer contract that was never actually cancelled.

The team also would not explain how it figured out its savings numbers.

The checkers said having wrong numbers can make people stop trusting the government.

The report says the list had too many mistakes to be very useful.