{"id":2409165,"date":"2025-03-03T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-led-doge-walks-back-mistakes-amid-push-to-streamline-government-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:14:37","slug":"musk-led-doge-walks-back-mistakes-amid-push-to-streamline-government-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-led-doge-walks-back-mistakes-amid-push-to-streamline-government-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk-led DOGE walks back mistakes amid push to streamline government &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-led-doge-walks-back-mistakes-amid-push-to-streamline-government-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2409165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-releases-statement-on-hunter-biden-verdict-calls-out-biden-crime-family\/\" title=\"Trump Campaign Issues Statement on Hunter Biden Verdict, Accuses &#039;Biden Crime Family\">article discusses recent developments<\/a> regarding\u200d the Department \u2063of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by\u200d Elon Musk, as it attempts to rectify several \u2062past mistakes while\u2062 streamlining\u200b the federal government.\u2063 Reports indicated that DOGE had to amend or\u200d delete over 1,000 contracts previously \u200cclaimed to have been\u200d canceled by the \u2062Trump administration, which considerably \u200creduced its \u2062reported budgetary impact from $16 billion to approximately $8 billion.\u2063 The \u200dagencyS \u2062website revealed various inaccuracies, including exaggerated savings linked to federal departments and programs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claiming to have saved the federal government around $65\u200c billion, an analysis showed that \u200cnearly 40% of the contracts \u200clisted woudl\u2062 not lead\u200c to actual\u200b savings, raising concerns\u2063 about \u200dthe validity of DOGE&#8217;s\u2062 accounting. \u2062Critics, including former government contracting specialists, \u2064questioned the efficacy of the reductions, arguing\u200d that many \u2063canceled \u200ccontracts served vital functions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, some canceled contracts were reinstated after being deemed \u200dcritical, demonstrating\u2063 the \u2064complexities and challenges faced by DOGE.Musk acknowledged that\u2062 some <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">cancellations inadvertently impacted ongoing\u2062 humanitarian efforts<\/a>, such as those \u200caddressing an Ebola outbreak, but stated\u200b that the \u200dservices were quickly restored. The White House \u2063and DOGE have not\u2062 commented on these developments.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Musk-led DOGE walks back high-profile mistakes amid push to streamline government<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2026920\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>&nbsp;has worked to quietly backtrack some mistakes the agency has made as it works to slim down the federal government, including several errors on its &ldquo;wall of receipts&rdquo; website after reporting found the database to be riddled with inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> reported Monday that DOGE, the brainchild of tech billionaire Elon Musk, erased or altered more than 1,000 contracts allegedly canceled by the Trump administration over the weekend. In total, those changes nearly halved DOGE&rsquo;s claimed budgetary impact, bringing down reported savings from $16 billion when the website first went live on Feb. 19, down to around $8 billion on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3331442\/trump-sign-executive-order-backing-musk-doge-efforts-cabinet-meeting\/\"><strong>TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER BACKING MUSK AND DOGE EFFORTS AFTER FIRST CABINET MEETING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This comes after DOGE last week outright deleted five of seven of the largest line-item savings the department has touted this month.<\/p>\n<p>The entries DOGE has amended include a $1.9 billion cut at the Department of Treasury that was later revealed to have occurred during the previous administration, $8 billion in savings at the Department of Homeland Security that was later revised down to $8 million, $655 billion in cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development that turned out to be a single figure erroneously logged three times, and a $232 million cut to the Social Security Administration that was later revised down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-republican-assemblyman-calls-for-corruption-investigation-into-newsom\/\" title=\"California Republican Assemblyman Calls for Corruption Investigation Into Newsom\">roughly half-a-million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, language was added to the DOGE website stating that any errors in their figures &ldquo;originate directly from agency contracting officials&rdquo; and are the fault of individual federal departments or agencies, not DOGE itself.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, a special government employee and advisor to the president, has faced criticism regarding the accuracy of DOGE&rsquo;s public accounting. Musk claims that DOGE has saved the federal government $65 billion by canceling leases and grants, firing employees, and selling off government assets. <\/p>\n<p>However, an analysis carried out by the <em>Associated Press<\/em> found that 40% of the federal contracts posted to DOGE&rsquo;s wall of receipts won&rsquo;t actually save the federal government any money. Trump administration officials previously said that those contracts amount to past interns, workforce trainings, and past software purchases, and more but still should be removed from the federal government&rsquo;s books.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s like confiscating used ammunition after it&rsquo;s been shot when there&rsquo;s nothing left in it. It doesn&rsquo;t accomplish any policy objective,&rdquo; Charles Tiefer, a former University of Baltimore law professor and expert on government contracting law, countered to the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. &ldquo;[They&rsquo;re] terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn&rsquo;t accomplish anything for saving money.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has also reinstated some contracts previously canceled by DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>That includes MANA Nutrition, a Georgia company that manufactures a peanut butter paste used to treat malnutrition in children. MANA CEO Mark Moore told CNN that its USAID contracts were originally canceled last week before being reinstated over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3330851\/white-house-directs-federal-agencies-large-scale-reductions-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE DIRECTS FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PREPARE FOR &lsquo;LARGE-SCALE REDUCTIONS&rsquo; IN WORKFORCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk admitted during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Wednesday Cabinet meeting that additional cuts at USAID &ldquo;accidentally&rdquo; canceled the government&rsquo;s programs fighting an ongoing Ebola outbreak but claimed to have &ldquo;quickly&rdquo; restored the services.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the White House nor DOGE returned requests for comment on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2026920\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2026920\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk&#8217;s DOGE corrects major errors while streamlining government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2409166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/doge-mistakes.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23466,5045,4250,51464,32076],"class_list":["post-2409165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-doge","tag-government","tag-musk","tag-streamlining","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/doge-mistakes.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409169,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409165\/revisions\/2409169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}