DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations

This primary source from U.S. Government Accountability Office supports 16 claims across 16 ledger entries.

Publisher: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Published: 2026-08-06
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DOGE reported $14.7 million in savings from a public-health registry contract; GAO found it closed at the end of performance with only $141,489 deobligated.
Selected contract case studies
A $14.7 million HHS registry claim yielded $141,489 in recorded deobligation · GAO measured $141,489 deobligated at closeout
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DOGE claimed more than $28 million from a DCSA finance-modernization termination; GAO found a $43.5 million reduction followed by a six-month extension and a $27.4 million noncompetitive award to the same contractor for related work.
Selected contract case studies
A $28 million DCSA savings claim was followed by a $27.4 million replacement award · Replacement contract with the same contractor remained part of GAO's net-savings caveat
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DOGE displayed zero savings for an HHS COVID-19 testing contract, while GAO found roughly $50 million plus $232,382 deobligated through closeout and rescission actions.
Selected contract case studies
A closed COVID testing contract released roughly $50.2 million while DOGE showed zero · GAO documented closeout and rescission deobligations absent from DOGE's displayed savings
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For an Air Force IT-transformation contract, DOGE reported $62.7 million in savings; GAO found $21.6 million deobligated, a $74.8 million scope-and-value reduction, a later $7.3 million extension, and follow-on work that prevented a reliable final savings figure.
Selected contract case studies
DOGE claimed $62.7 million on an Air Force IT contract; GAO found $21.6 million deobligated · GAO could not determine final savings after extension and follow-on work
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For a Defense Health Agency IT contract supporting more than 700 facilities, DOGE reported over $1.7 billion in savings, but GAO found no termination, scope change, value reduction, or funding action and reconstructed zero savings.
Selected contract case studies
DOGE claimed more than $1.7 billion on a Defense Health IT contract with no recorded reduction · GAO recorded zero savings and no terminating contract action
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GAO found that an Air Force building-information-modeling contract was not terminated; DOGE's roughly $4 billion claim reflected a $3.75 billion reduction in a $12.5 billion ceiling, not a demonstrated reduction in expected spending.
Selected contract case studies
DOGE labeled a $3.75 billion Air Force contract-ceiling cut as savings · Contract remained active after its ceiling fell from $12.5 billion
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DOGE displayed $113 million in lease savings even though its 264 rows summed to $53.5 million; GAO estimated $31.8 million in savings and an $81.1 million overstatement against the headline.
Passages and source records documenting: DOGE overstated lease savings by $81.1 million, GAO found
DOGE overstated lease savings by $81.1 million, GAO found · GAO estimated $31.8 million, $81.1 million below DOGE's headline
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GAO found that 108 of 264 lease terminations displayed by DOGE had been initiated before DOGE began, meaning 40.9 percent could not be attributed to its intervention.
Passages and source records documenting: Forty-one percent of DOGE-listed lease terminations predated DOGE
Forty-one percent of DOGE-listed lease terminations predated DOGE · GAO identified 108 of 264 listed leases as pre-DOGE actions
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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.
Passages and source records documenting: GAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records
GAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records · 3,528 grant entries remained unlinked after GAO matching
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GAO reported that 3,751 DOGE contract entries lacked contract identifiers and that, after matching work, 1,856 entries associated with $7.2 billion in claimed savings still could not be linked to federal procurement records.
Contract transparency and data-linkage findings
GAO could not link 1,856 DOGE contract entries worth $7.2 billion to federal records · GAO classified 1,856 contract entries as ultimately unlinked
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GAO could reproduce $1.89 billion, or 3.8 percent, across 2,334 grant entries; calculations for 13,553 entries carrying $47.32 billion were unverifiable under DOGE's stated method.
Passages and source records documenting: GAO could reproduce only 3.8 percent of DOGE's grant-savings dollars
GAO could reproduce only 3.8 percent of DOGE's grant-savings dollars · GAO reproduced $1.89 billion across 2,334 grant entries
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GAO found that 2,503 contracts carrying $27.4 billion of DOGE's reported savings had no termination action in the federal contract records GAO reviewed.
Passages and source records documenting: GAO found $27.4 billion in DOGE-listed contracts with no termination action
GAO found $27.4 billion in DOGE-listed contracts with no termination action · GAO found no termination action for 2,503 listed contracts
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GAO reconstructed the contract actions and found zero savings for 5,812 of 13,476 DOGE-listed contracts, or 43.2 percent of the entries.
Passages and source records documenting: GAO found 5,812 DOGE-listed contracts produced zero recorded savings
GAO found 5,812 DOGE-listed contracts produced zero recorded savings · 5,812 contract entries showed zero savings in GAO's reconstruction
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DOGE claimed $6.5 million after HHS partially terminated and descoped an epidemic-notification contract by more than $2 million, but HHS later exercised a $4.5 million option and the active contract value reached $10.9 million.
Selected contract case studies
HHS restored $4.5 million after DOGE claimed $6.5 million on an epidemic system · Contract remained active at $10.9 million after partial termination and new option work
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GAO found a DOGE-listed lease rescission that the government later renegotiated at more than $1.5 million in additional annual rent for five years.
Lease case example
One DOGE-rescinded lease was replaced at more than $1.5 million extra per year · Replacement lease carried the higher annual cost for a five-year term
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GAO found that 7,710 contract entries, representing $16.8 billion or 27.5 percent of DOGE's $61.02 billion contract total, followed the stated method; $37.0 billion did not or had unknown treatment, and $24.3 billion was indeterminate.
Passages and source records documenting: Only 27.5 percent of DOGE's contract savings followed its stated method
Only 27.5 percent of DOGE's contract savings followed its stated method · GAO replicated $16.8 billion of $61.0 billion using DOGE's stated method