How much Doyle Elon Musk reduced US state expenses?

Department of Government Effective Efficiency of the Elon Musk (DOGE) – created to reduce US government spending – claims that averaged over $ 10 billion a week as President Trump has entered the office.

“We are talking about almost $ 200 billion and grow rapidly,” Trump BBC said when talking about Mr. Musner’s expenses on April 23.

The Dage website states that it is focused on the abolition of contracts, grants and rentes, which are introduced in the previous administrations, as well as decide fraud and reduction of government labor.

The BBC Verify considered the largest stated savings of the agency, studying the numbers and talking to experts.

Our analysis showed that there is no evidence for some large number to reinforce them.

In October, Mr. Musk promised to reduce “at least $ 2 trillion” from the government’s federal budget. Subsequently, it halved, and on April 10, by the end of the next financial year in the next financial year in 2026 “reduced fraud and waste” and fraud and waste.

The US federal budget for the last financial year amounted to $ 6.75tn.

DOGE poses on its website launched overall savings – standing on The $ 160 billion was the last time the site was updated on April 20.

However, less than 40% of this figure is divided into individual savings.

We downloaded data from the DOGE site on April 23 and added a general stated savings from contracts, grants and rentals.

Our analysis revealed that only half of these detailed savings had a link to a document or another form of evidence.

American media actually had a total cost of $ 8 million.

Dodge says he is working on loading all the receipts in a “digestible and transparent order”, and that, as of April 20, he posted receipts “, which is about 30% of all total savings.” It also lists some receipts as “unavailable for legal reasons”.

The BBC Verify considered the four largest savings listed on the DOGE website, which included receipts.

The Department claims that they make up to $ 8.3 billion, but after studying the evidence and conversation with people familiar with federal contracts, this figure seems to be overstated.

For three savings, DOGE refers to documents in the Federal Purchase Data Federation (FPDS). This is a database that records the contracts issued by the US government.

The documents show the date of the beginning and end of the contract, the maximum amount agreed to spend, and how much it was spent.

David Drabkin, an expert on federal contracts that helped develop FPDS database, said the maximum figure should be treated with caution.

“The FPD does not reflect the actual paid price until a certain period of time after the contract is completed and contractual actions are recorded,” he says.

“For example, when buying research and developing a vaccine, no one knows how much it will cost – so when the price is set, it is not a certain price, but rather the upper limit.”

Thus, if Dodge calculates the maximum figure that can represent the predicted costs for several years rather than direct savings from the country’s annual costs.

The largest in the list of individual savings is $ 2.9 billion.

This comes from the cancellation of the contract – which began in 2023 under President Biden – Up to 3000 migrants are located for the Texas institution.

It seems DOGE has accepted the “total contract value” by 2028 – the date listed – and subtract the amount spent so far to get a $ 2.9 billion.

But the contract was considered annually, which means that it was not guaranteed until 2028.

A source familiar with this contract, which spoken subject to anonymity, told the BBC to make sure that the Doge’s indicator is “based on speculative ones, never used” and that actual costs depend on how many children were located on the facility and the services they require.

“In truth, the government never carried these costs and never could reach this ceiling. A real, documented savings from early abolition amounted to approximately $ 153,” they estimated.

They say that this figure arises from the account of $ 18 million per month with fixed expenses (for things like the staffing and safety at the facility) since February – if the rain has announced – until November – if the contract is subject to annual examination.

They also told us that the site – which closed the same day that the DOGE announcement – never reached the maximum capacity of 3000 children, and about 2000 remained in the Texas facility at the peak before the numbers fell significantly when the border crossings decreased.

We have contacted the administration for children and families and the Department of Health and Human Services, which has sentenced the contract but has not yet heard.

The second largest savings listed DOGE comes from the cancellation of the contract between the domestic income service (IRS) and the IT company called Centennial Technologies, which, he said, cost $ 1.9 billion.

Deed What DOGE links have a $ 1.9 billion contract price, and all other costs, including the amount, is for 0 dollars.

However, Mr. Drubkin told us that it did not necessarily mean that nothing has been spent on the contract.

He said that several government agencies have bad records, that is, the amount spent during some contracts may not always be updated in a timely manner.

The start date of the contract is on the list of August 2024 and, according to the estimated, was launched until 2031.

However CEO Centennial Technologies said The New York Times that the agreement was canceled last fall during the Biden administration.

The company did not respond to our requests for further comments.

Another IT contract, this time with the Ministry of Defense, is the third largest stated preservation.

Dozh says $ 1.76 billion was rescued by lifting the contract with the company -services called A1Fedimpact.

Upon Contract documentThe total value is $ 2.4 billion. Internet baza data of government contracts called the highest government He says the amount was the value of the ceiling.

Again, 0 dollars were recorded by the amount that was spent at the time of the cessation of the contract.

It is unclear where the Dage figure comes from $ 1.76 billion – we asked the Pentagon and the supplier about it.

The fourth largest savings of $ 1.75 billion comes from the cancellation of the USAID GOVI grant, the Gavi World Health Organization, which agitates for improving vaccine access.

DOGE links to Page on USASPENDING.GOV. It shows that the grant was paid by Gavi in ​​three installments, during the Baden administration totaling $ 880 million.

Gavi confirmed that $ 880 million was paid USAID, but said it had not been said that the grant had been stopped.

“Gavi did not receive the abolition of this grant,” the secretary -secretary told us.

We did not find any evidence to save $ 1.75 billion, stated by DOGE and a source familiar with the contract, stated that it was unclear where it comes from.

We asked the USAID Inspector General about the grant, but he didn’t answer us.

Although DOGE may have reduced a significant number of public expenses, the lack of evidence stipulated by its largest stated savings does not allow to confirm how much.

Dogeg has no press service, but the BBC Verify contacted the White House to ask for additional evidence of these stated savings.

Additional reporting by Ned Davis and Alison Benjamin.