Posted on 03/29/2025 4:36:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Elon Musk claimed in a Fox News interview Thursday night that the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, frequently uncovers "billions" in government waste, citing a supposed $1 billion survey about National Parks as an example.
CBS News found no evidence that the Department of the Interior spent or planned to spend that much on a survey or on any single contract.
No $830 million contract is visible on DOGE's online "wall of receipts," the list of contracts the group said it has terminated. According to data published on the site, only five canceled contracts have a total estimated value of over $800 million, and none are from the Department of the Interior.
CBS News and other news organizations have been reporting for weeks on the errors and overstatements of savings that have been posted there.
DOGE recently re-formatted their website making it more difficult for the general public to confirm savings and cancellations. Anyone accessing the "wall of receipts" page needs to manually navigate through 711 webpages to see the entire list of contracts, 923 webpages for grants and another 68 pages for cancelled or expired leases.
Available federal contracting data does not show any individual contract valued at over $800 million awarded by the Department of the Interior over the last 17 years.The DOGE "wall of receipts" currently lists 366 cancelled contracts for the Department of the Interior; 199 of those are listed as $0 in savings. The total savings DOGE claims for the remainder adds up to only $144 million.
The three largest alleged savings for canceled contracts associated with the Department of the Interior on the "wall of receipts" are for $37 million, $23.5 million and $10.75 million. The latter two appear to be mislabelled and are actually USAID contracts.
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Of course CBS wouldn’t find anything, even if it bit them.
The doge guy had a paper copy of it with him at the interview.
Only $144 million. Only $144 million. Only. ONLY. ONLY!
CBS, having made so many false claims itself, is no longer worth conisdering as a source for information about others’ false claims.
The days of legacy media calling something false and that’s the end is dead.
Go pound your sausage somewhere else😂
I’m lying cause I’m dying but I’ll never stop trying
Yada, yada, yada. Regurgitating same ole same ole. BS or rather SeeBS!!
So CBS is fact-checking DOGE now... when they can’t fact-check themselves.
>>CBS found no evidence...<<< I’ll bet they really worked hard and dug deep into the matter. Just like Lesley Stahl scoured the details of Hunter Biden’s laptop before declaring nothing to see here.
It’s not confirmed true until legacy media denies it.
CBS is like a nat flying around your face. Annoying and useless
If I wanted a real audit, the first thing I would do is hire a bunch of journalism majors to do the research. Do you need to be able to prove that 2 + 2 = 4 to get a journalism degree from any college in America?
SeeBS
Because CBS could not find it on list of terminated contracts does not mean such a contract was not found does it? I mean found and terminated are different things.
What a quandary we are in. Do we believe Musk or CBS?
Honestly, Musk seems to have made false or exaggerated claims throughout this process. He should publish his findings instead of just making claims.
Post your evidence.
Why is it I choose to believe Musk and NOT CBS?
Maybe if CBS News investigated government waste instead of defending it we wouldn’t need DOGE to do it.
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