I do not think anyone who comes across this report would be surprised by the top-line comment that DOGE did not save as much money as they claimed. After all, Elon claimed he was going to cut $2 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse when he first joined the Admin, and according to DOGE, they saved taxpayers only $110 billion (still a wild number for what it's worth but nowhere near the $2 trillion first promised).

What I find surprising, on one hand but then again not surprising on the other, is that the leases that had already been marked for termination or were in the process of not being renewed were included in DOGE's "Wall of Receipts." Since people were going to look for ways to attack DOGE and their efforts, it seems pretty stupid to leave yourself open with easy to find information.

Specifically, DOGE did not use its stated methodology to calculate the majority of savings associated with the contracts reported as terminated. For grants, DOGE did not provide sufficient information to verify the method used to calculate 96 percent of DOGE-reported savings. Similarly, the Wall of Receipts does not include an explanation of how the savings from terminated leases were calculated