Less than half of the contracts with DOGE completion can be monitored publicly, only about a quarter of the subsidies: Watchdog

With the departure of Elon Musk from the agency, there is a debate on the effectiveness of the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE), it has been in its mission.

In a report published only two days before Musk’s leave, the financial watchman opened a report published a report that he found that the North -American taxpayer is likely to keep track of the savings associated with contracts and grants that ended with the DOGE team.

According to the analysis of the books, which stated all the data published on the official web site of DOGE, the average American taxpayer would only be able to confirm 42% of contracts and 27% of the subsidies through a independent review of the databases of public federal expenses.

“This does not mean that these goals are not real, it is simply very difficult for taxpayers who want to save additional savings to find tests and savings tests,” open the books in their analysis, shared in a report that the group published on Tuesday.

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“Because taxpayers do not have access to real -time transparency and a real -time look at the Treasury Payment System, it is still too difficult to even a Joe taxpayer very motivated to confirm the savings claims that DOGE does,” continued the analysis, published ahead of Elon Musk, who left the agency, continued. “It’s also too easy for critics sewing [sic] Doubt and confusion. “

DOGE says to its website that group work has provided the North -american taxpayer to $ 175 billion in “estimated” savings of the removal of contracts, aid and leases, as well as for renegotiations, frauds and removal of improper payments and other mechanisms.

However, surveillance groups and budget experts have been disputed by the estimated SOGE savings. These critics have suggested that the inclusion of already canceled contracts, double count or erroneous representation of contractual values, and the burden of non -accounting costs that could be imposed on the Government when it has to re -hire people or renew their productivity, due to the cuts of docks, have entailed estimates of swollen savings.

Nate Malkus, a lead member of the Conservative American Enterprise Institute, has accused DOGE of “overestimating contracts for a factor of two”, according to CBS News.

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But the spokesman for the White House, Harrison Fields, told Fox News Digital that DOGE has produced “historical savings” for the North -American people.

“DOGE works at the record speed for cutting waste, fraud and abuse, producing historical savings for the North -American people,” said Fields. “The DOGE receipt wall provides the latest and most accurate information after a thorough evaluation, which takes time. Updates to the DOGE savings page will continue to be quickly carried out, and the departments and agencies will continue to highlight the mass savings that DOGE is achieved.”

“Doge and Elon Musk have done an incredible service in the country by identifying savings goals,” added John Hart, general director of the books. “After working on the last major deficit commission with the missing Senator Tom Coburn, we would have pleased us to have had a musk in our corner. Now it is up to the congress not only to turn the rainfall recommendations into lasting savings, but also to go beyond the reach of DOGE and really face our debt crisis and long -term deficit.”

Opening the books highlight two standards of “common sense” to help establish an “intellectually honest” approach to understanding the true impact of government cuts, such as those recommended by DOGE.

The first is the “lasting standard”, which asks if a proposed cut can be easily reversed.

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“Describing something as” lasting “does not mean that it is permanent or irreversible; it simply means that it is difficult to reverse,” said the analysis of books. “The most lasting president of our constitutional system would be approved by Congress, signed by law by the President and being clearly constitutional, or inaccessible in a judicial challenge. The budget cuts are less lasting when they have no of these three elements.”

The second is called “standard duty”, which illuminates the power behind certain cuts based on who tries to impose them.

“In our constitutional system, the founders gave the work of budget savings to three branches, but mainly in Congress,” says the books. “DOGE’s job is to identify, not to promulgate savings goals. Congress is responsible for doing the heavy lifting. And people have a responsibility to inform us and responsible for our elected officials.”

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Opening the books ultimately concluded that due to various limitations associated with the data available publicly on the expenditure and income of the Government, in particular the lack of real -time access to the Government Treasury Payment System, it is still too difficult for the average citizen to be more motivated to confirm or deny the savings claimed by DOGE.

Elon Musk officially abandoned his role as DOGE chief on Thursday evening, as his “Special Government Employee” position in the Trump Administration was limited by law for a few months. In the midst of the Transition, Musk criticized the Republican’s expenses bill that was approved before the Day Memorial in the House, which indicates that it was “disappointed” that the federal deficit would increase.

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“I was disappointed to see the massive expenditure bill frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not only decreasing it and damaging the work done by the DOGE team,” Musk told CBS News in an interview that will be completely published on June 1.