Musk’s Cost-Saving Claims Are Wrong in So Many Ways

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By David A. Fahrenthold, Laura Bult, Claire Hogan, James Surdam and Jordan GantzMarch 2, 2025

We found huge errors in the “wall of receipts” for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York Times and other news organizations pointed out the errors, the team quietly removed all five of the largest savings it originally claimed. But David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, describes how Mr. Musk’s group then added new errors.

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