On the "wall of receipts" it published yesterday, DOGE claimed $8 billion of savings on one contract. It was actually an $8 million contract.

Because DOGE altered its website, I spent 15 minutes going back and forth, baffled about why the amounts and other info such as the dates had changed, I only figured out what was really happening bc the NYT laid it out nytimes.com/2025/02/18/ups…

THREAD: @doge's "Wall of Receipts" is one month old this week. But the largest item on that list has always been wrong. Here's how:

The government knows an enormous amount about you in the data systems DOGE has sought to access. Just for starters:

Last week was a remarkable one: the S&P closed with two steep drops and one of its biggest gains since 2000.

Trump wants to punish Harvard by cutting off federal grants but the result is cutting research into cancer, mental health, opioid addiction, sleep deprivation and hundreds of other projects that benefit Americans. Emily Badger Aatish Bhatia Ethan Singer nytimes.com/interactive/20…

In 2019, Trump awarded her the Presidential Early Career Award, the nation’s highest honor for early-career scientists. Last month, the government canceled nearly all of her funding. Our analysis of the science at risk in Trump's clash with Harvard: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Really cool NYT tool that visualizes in real time where each candidate has their strengths. Cuomo doing very well in majority-Black precincts and the city's poorest precincts, trailing most everywhere else. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

This logic of correlating WAR scores with moderation is like saying: "I ran the numbers and to improve your team, all your players should change their name to Shohei Ohtani."