Government Contracts and Procurement

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead

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Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.

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

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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.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

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Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Contrary to Musk’s Claim, Ebola Containment Efforts Were Slowed Then Stopped, Former Officials Say

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The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease, according to a former U.S.A.I.D. official.