Nearly $1,000,000,000 of Elon Musk's DOGE 'savings' mysteriously vanish overnight

Elon Musk has long been bragging at home much DOGE has supposedly saved the US Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (best known as DOGE) has quietly removed $1,000,000,000 worth of savings from its website. Since it's creation when Donald Trump was sworn into office once more, DOGE has been raising eyebrows. Back in February, DOGE, the brainchild of Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Musk, claimed that it had saved a staggering $65 billion amid the numerous cuts its made. As per the site, DOGE says it's made its savings via a 'combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions'. But people have struggled to verify the mammoth figures DOGE has been publicizing on its website, especially as it's supposedly 'riddled with mistakes'. "While the DOGE team has surely cut some number of billions of dollars, its slapdash accounting adds to a pattern of recklessness by the group, which has recently gained access to sensitive government payment systems." The New York Post said of DOGE in February. Others dubbed it 'impossible' to verify how much DOGE has really saved, ABC News reported. Amid the skepticism about the figures share online, DOGE has quietly removed almost $1 billion-worth of savings from its advertized sum, NOTUS reports. According to NOTUS, this sum of money seemingly disappeared overnight. It states that on Tuesday (April 15), DOGE 'removed around $962 million in previously claimed cuts and altered hundreds of others to boost individual items’ purported “savings” values'.

Elon Musk seen sporting a 'DOGE' t-shirt in March (Samuel Corum/Getty Images) The publication also noted that despite DOGE's pledge to be transparent about its savings and where they were coming from, the website wasn't updated from the end of March through to April 14. April 14 remains the last time the site was updated at the time of writing, with the website saying DOGE has now saved $155 billion — working out to be over $900 per American taxpayer. NOTUS also reports that nearly 650 grants and dozens of contracts and leases have been scrubbed from the DOGE website over the past several weeks.

Musk was brought in by Donald Trump to help run DOGE (Win McNamee/Getty Images) As well as listing how much its saved, DOGE has an 'Agency Efficiency Leaderboard'. On this, it shows the Department of Health and Human Services being in the top spot for the most savings, while the least savings have been made from the Department of Commerce. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has previously addressed people's criticism of DOGE and said that 'rogue bureaucrats and activist judges attempting to undermine this effort are only subverting the will of the American people'.