The report was requested last year by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) who are, respectively, ranking members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and of the panel’s investigations subcommittee.

The GAO is recommending that the DOGE website should prominently caution readers that the site has data-quality problems and other limitations and is therefore not a reliable source of information.

In their review, the GAO said it checked DOGE’s Wall of Receipts claims about cut contracts, grants, and leases from Jan. 20, 2025, when Trump took office, through July 7, 2026, three days after DOGE announced on social media it had wound down. The GAO said it compared DOGE reporting to official data from publicly available federal databases.

The GAO said DOGE did not respond to the its requests for information and interviews.

“Everyone supports rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, but DOGE was a slapdash and deceptive effort that misled the American people while doing real damage to the government’s ability to serve them,” Peters said in a statement.

Musk and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC on the GAO report.

Yeah no shit. Anyone who isn’t a serial billionaire fart sniffer could see that.

>>1527944
Well guys, we did it. We saved 50 million, and in return we spent that money within about 2 hours of Trump's Iran war starting. Oh, and we also indirectly killed over 700k people in counting by cutting off their aide and severely fucked up several US industries in the process.

Unironically Musk should face the death penalty for this.

>>1528010
And the psychopathic toddlers, like big balls, that he appointed to feed people's lives into a woodchipper. And the dude who empowered him in exchange for letting him buy the last election for him. All of them should be fed into a wood chipper for the unimaginable cruelty they've so flippantly inflicted on so many people, and it wouldn't be a tenth of what they deserved.

And yeah, the damage goes so far beyond those 700k people, as horrific as those deaths of mostly children are. It helped control infectious disease, which is why we are having one of the worst ebola outbreaks in history right now, and made third world countries suck less, so you had fewer refugees. If you think about this purely from a position of selfishness, we are in a much worse position than we would have been if we continued to provide aide across the world.

>>1527944
It’s a sad state of affairs when someone as vastly incompetent and genuinely repulsive as Elon Musk is given any kind of authority. The only cuts he successfully made were to Americas global reputation

>>1528010
It's like California saving millions of pounds of carbon over years and that being negated in a single California forest fire
Europe was so concerned about releasing greenhouse gases until they blew up Nord Stream 2 and released decades worth of greenhouse gas emissions in a single explosion

>>1528061
Not even remotely comparable.

>>1528061
Do you not understand that if you reduce factory/ commercial greenhouse gas emissions over 10 years, and then there's a massive forest fire, that you still reduced emissions for 10 years?

Like, it's not that the forest fire undid all your work. If you didn't do the work you'd have the emissions you prevented and the forest fire emissions.

I feel like I'm still moving too fast for your retarded ass.

So if you have ONE THING. And you have ONE MORE THING. Then you have TWO things... Forest fires are ONE THING. Commercial emissions are ONE THING.

You following, or do I need to sound it out for you? Do you need some pictures?

>>1528383
If you spend 10 years cleaning up 100 tons of plastic pollution, and then some Indian family dumps 100 tons of plastic into the local river, they negated all the good work you did. There's still 100 tons of plastic in the river. If you did 0 cleaning and prevented the Indian family from coming here and dumping trash you would have accomplished the same outcome, there would be the same amount of trash

>>1528407
Insane strawman. Also please explain a full proof way of stopping fires in a fucking tinderbox like California.

>>1528411
Why are you allowing the conservatives to use their Russian masters tactics, again, on /news/, again to derail threads that show how conservationism is a failure, again?

Clearly this can be offset by just seizing the 110 billion from Musk's own pockets.

>>1527944
>DOGE failed
>Only saved billions
Darn.

Esl shill is gobbling billionaire knobs again

>>1528415
Read the article retard; they didn't even save a billion. The actual "savings" is estimated to only be a few million, and even among those half of the things they cut were already in the process of being terminated before Trump even took office.

>>1528413
Russians didn't invent shitty analogies and it's not some Russian master tactic

>>1528421
Are we going to also casually overlook the amount of extra money that needed to be spent because some of the cuts were so retarded they did more economic harm than good?

>>1528429
Actually it is when their objective is to both sides everything to cover for their own crimes. Which they're doing right now

>>1528453
Oh if we factor that in even if we took their "110 billion" estimate at face value this whole program was still a net loss of money.

>>1527944
aint no way!

>>1528421
It actually says nothing about the actual estimated savings.
The numbers are 110-215 billion currently.
What you're stupid gay ass thinks is the total savings:
>about $15.3 million of the total $53.5 million in savings, were already in process for termination when DOGE was established.
So it only saved 35-ish million on leases and claimed an amount of 15 million that was expiring without action from DOGE (though one could possibly ask if those were expiring with a denied option to renew, but whatevs).
Lern2red fagot..

>>1528506
And to spell it out, since I feel the need to do so for liggeral trashcans, the leases were only a small portion of the savings claimed.
110 billion was the number tallied by DOGE, so if that's correct (and it may not be, which is the point of the article for those of us capable of reading comprehension) 110 billion minus 15 million is still pretty damned close to 110 billion.

>>1528518
you're slobbering, esl shill

>>1528520
Why can't 4chan get rid of this bot?
Fake engagement bot is annoying.

>>1528506
>>1528518
DOGE literally cost more than it "saved" and led to thousands of deaths and multiple small scale pandemics that are happening across the US. It is an objective failure of policy and probably one of the worst programs the US has ever done.

>>1528521
do you dream about your nickname

>>1528522
Don’t forget the various plane crashes after FAA funding was nonsensically cut

>>1528526
>Increased by a margin of error.
>Still down dramatically from the Obama era
>Still down from all recorded records
Interesting, tell me more about your stupid made up horseshit, faggot.

>>1528522
Meh, whatever. Go suck some billionaire cock, faggot.

>>1528529
you're so hostile today esl shill. acne breakout?

>>1528522
>noooo I dont like your politics so I am opposed to your attempts to cut wasteful and senseless spending
Mindbroken. Totally oneshotted.

>>1527944
Just FYI, GAO did not audit all of the savings. They just selected some cut projects and compared their estimates of savings against DOGE's estimates of savings.

>>1528522
>DOGE literally cost more than it "saved"
Doubt it.
>People will die
>Think of the children!!!
Fagwit.

>>1528522
They hated him because he told them the truth.

>>1528534
One-shot. Oneshotted isn't a word. But you'd know that if you didn't learn english in a classroom.
>There literally was no attempt to cut wasteful and senseless spending. By this logic if somebody told me they were going to change my car's oil and instead they repeatedly raped my asshole with a barbed wire condom, I'd be whining like a faggot about how you're not giving them credit for TRYING to change my car's oil.
But yeah, thanks for self-reporting.

>>1528542
>doubt it
yeah, of course you do, you're too much of a retarded faggot to actually look into it.

>>1528552
>Oneshotted isn't a word.
Correct. It is, however, from an extremely good (and famous) shitpost. If you lived in the West, you would be at least tangentially familiar with the term as it carries some cultural weight.

>weird sexually aggressive and rapey greentext
You're brown.

>>1528554
>you're too much of a retarded faggot to actually look into it.
t. guy who didnt even read the article.

GAO didn't even "look into it".

>>1528542
>Doubt it.
Proven actually.
>https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/07/31/2025/the-217-billion-blunder-new-psi-report-reveals-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-squandered-by-doge
>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cuts-cost-135-billion-analysis-elon-musk-department-of-government-efficiency/
Between having to pay back illegally fired workers, the cuts to various social programs and contracts, and the productivity loss from the people they fired legally, estimates are we lost more than we saved.

>>People will die
700,000 have died. These cuts actively killed people across the world who relied on US aide.

>>1528562
Your religion has some strange lore.

>>1527944
Didn't we know this back when they ran their "receipt" site and it was fairly easy to go through their list of ways they saved money and see it didn't add up to the number they had listed?

>>1528562
It's also not just that 700,000 people, mostly children, have died. That's horrible yes, but even if you look at it from the point of view of a right wing psychopath that only cares about things that directly effect us, it's awful. We gave up so much soft power by killing USAID, and destabilizing our neighbors has ripple effects that will directly make things worse for us too.

>>1528570
Think of all the fucking roads and
pelosi rails we can build with the money though.
Don't you like roads?
Anyway, the life of a liggeral involves ingesting activist filth and regurgitating it/ Therefore you've most likely been lied to or have been presented information lacking context as usual.

esl shill is still trying to make fetch happen

>>1528562
>Source is literally Sen. Blumethal
Is this bait?

>700,000 have died.
This is bait.

>>1528570
>soft power
Doesnt exist. Totally made up.
>not wanting to borrow money to give aid to non-Americans makes you a psychopath
Okay.

>>1528585
spoken like a true esl shill

>>1528585
>soft power
>Doesnt exist. Totally made up.
Good lord you people are stupid.

>>1528421
>The actual "savings" is estimated to only be a few million
>according to democrats
>who stole the money in the first place
okay

>>1528588
>Good lord you people are stupid.
No, you're the idiot. "Soft power" is an idea from a guy called Joseph Nye who said that you can get two different people to like each other through mutual interests. Its not "spend trillions of dollars on Africa and get nothing in return".

>>1528421
>Read the article retard;
You didnt read the article yourself. They didnt check all the DOGE cuts, just a "sample" and then extrapolated from that.

>>1528589
Good point.

>>1528590
>>1528591
>>1528592
you sure are dedicated to being a spamming faggot tonight

>>1528593
>/news/fag upset that his dead board is getting some action

>>1528594
good for you though, i hope you're flush with rupees or whatever it is you get from acting retarded all night. don't spend it all in one place

>>1528595
I'm sorry I've upset your hugbox.

>>1528598
i don't think you get paid for replying to nonexistent posts shill anon

>>1528599
I dont get paid at all.

esl shill gets vodka rations in lieu of pay

>>1528600
You don't get your paycheck for including '
"ESL" in your posts?
Shit, bro, it's the easiest paycheck ever.
Loser, why wouldn't you?

>>1528590
>Its not "spend trillions of dollars on Africa and get nothing in return".
What we got in return was global respect, less refugees, and, oh right, thousands of children not being dead.

>>1528607
OK, look, it's a put up or shut up moment here.
If you can show me that 700k people were killed by DOGE i will vote against Trump in the next election.
The terms are simple:
1. no activist media websites shall be used as evidence facing me.
2. no studies without hard data
And I think that's pretty much it. the problem is: your claims are bogus and I'm sick of liggeral scams.

>>1528609
The person you're responding to didn't say 700k. It's weird but unsurprising that you fixate on a number you don't understand. That figure is a modeled estimate. What you're demanding would be impossible to produce: we don't have a counterfactual death tally showing which individual people would have survived if USAID funding hadn't been cut. There isn't some guy watching children who lost access to malaria treatment die and making marks on a fucking clipboard labeled “DOGE.”
The underlying evidence isn't “activist media.” There is a peer-reviewed Lancet analysis using 21 years of USAID funding and mortality data across 133 countries. It finds a significant historical association between USAID funding and mortality, and researchers can use that relationship to estimate excess mortality resulting from the subsequent funding cuts.

If your objection is specifically that 700k isn't a directly observed death count, congratulations, that's a legitimate objection to presenting 700k as a literal body count. It is not evidence that the cuts had no mortality consequences. You're confusing an estimate of excess mortality with a census of corpses, which is an extraordinarily stupid way to misunderstand epidemiological modeling.

Also, you don't get to vote. You aren't American.

>>1528609
>https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc

>>1528622
>That figure is a modeled estimate.
Yes, it is bullshit, I know it, You know it.
>>1528634
No activist bullshit.

>>1528644
>sea lioning intensifies

>>1528644
>No activist bullshit.
Every source on there is backed by raw data.

>>1528506
I found my office on the DOGE list, and while they threatened to take our office space away they eventually backed off, but kept it on the list as “savings” anyway. So who knows what was actually cancelled.

Does anyone else think that the rise of pro-China sentiment online is a direct result of DOGE gutting USAID and the propaganda it supports? There’s no way the US government is giving away money solely for charity. I think the Chinese government saw an opportunity and used it to build soft power.