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nmzlast Thursday at 6:16 PM1 replyview on HN

That's not the goal at all. And that's not how its going.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...


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hector126last Thursday at 6:20 PM

> Of the DOGE list's initial claim of $16 billion in savings, half came from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) listing that was entered into the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) in 2022 with a whopping $8 billion maximum possible value.

> According to a DOGE post on X, that number was a typo that was corrected in the contract database to $8 million on Jan. 22 of this year before being terminated a week later, and DOGE "has always used the correct $8M in its calculations."

Jeez, that's pretty damning.