GAO could not link 3,528 Wall of Receipts grant entries representing $25.63 billion, or 52.1 percent of DOGE's grant-savings total, to federal award data.
GAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records
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11 matching recordsGAO could reproduce only 3.8 percent of DOGE's grant-savings dollars2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished grant totals without reproducible calculationsGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceOnly 27.5 percent of DOGE's contract savings followed its stated method2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished savings that mostly failed its stated methodGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO found $27.4 billion in DOGE-listed contracts with no termination action2026-08-06Elon Muskcounted contracts without termination actions as savingsGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO could not link 1,856 DOGE contract entries worth $7.2 billion to federal records2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished contract savings that GAO could not traceGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished grant savings that could not be tracedGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO found 5,812 DOGE-listed contracts produced zero recorded savings2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished cancellations whose records showed no savingsGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceU.S. Article 51 defense of Operation Midnight Hammer draws sustained legal challenge2025-07-03Donald J. Trumpoperation order under independent legal reviewOperation Midnight Hammer legal and impact review2 sourcesUN and Human Rights Watch document grave abuses in Xinjiang during Xi's tenure2022-08-31Xi Jinpinghead of state during documented Xinjiang abusesOHCHR Xinjiang human-rights assessment2 sourcesAmnesty linked five United States Somalia strikes to 14 civilian deaths and eight injuries2019-03-20Donald J. Trumpwas commander in chief during strikes in Amnesty's civilian-harm reviewAmnesty International's 2019 Somalia civilian-harm investigation1 sourceGSA watchdog found the agency ignored hotel-lease constitutional issues2019-01-16Donald J. Trumpretained hotel lease interest examined by GSA watchdogGSA Inspector General Old Post Office lease evaluation1 sourceAmnesty documents extrajudicial killings and disproportionate harm to poor people under Duterte2017-01-31Rodrigo Duterteadministration's anti-drug campaign examined by AmnestyAmnesty review of Philippine drug-war killings1 source