As DOGE acknowledges, only a portion of their records have been disclosed. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, tasked by President Donald Trump with slashing the federal government ...

But the DOGE list vastly overstated the actual value of that contract. A closer scrutiny of a federal database shows that a recent version of the contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion.

President Trump has been celebrating the published savings, even musing about a proposal to mail checks to all Americans to reimburse them with a “DOGE dividend.” But the math that could back ...