埃隆·马斯克政府效率部的网站提供了第三次每周更新联邦政府削减成本周日晚上,声称政府储蓄总额为1050亿美元,高于上周更新中声称的650亿美元-但该数字仍然无法核实,因为该网站仍然表示,它只公布了支持这一总数的收据的一小部分。
在“储蓄”页面的最新更新中,在媒体机构、专家和其他人公开质疑合同细节后,DOGE继续更新----在某些情况下删除----之前列出的已经节省了数十亿美元联邦资金的合同。
DOGE在其最新的“收据墙”上总共列出了2,334份取消的合同,这些合同节省了88亿美元。
这一数额实际上低于其“收据墙”上公布的2,299份合同所声称的96亿美元的节省额上礼拜这反映出很难准确确定DOGE削减了什么以及削减了多少。
与上周类似,DOGE在本周的更新中声称,1050亿美元的数字是基于“资产出售、合同/租赁取消和重新谈判、欺诈和不当付款删除、拨款取消、利息节省、程序性变化、监管节省和劳动力减少的组合。”
然而,该网站只提供了其中一小部分的收据。除了据称因取消合同而节省的88亿美元,该网站的新数据还列出了GSA取消的价值6.6亿美元的房地产租赁,并首次列出了已终止的联邦政府拨款,总额为103亿美元。
在DOGE最新的“收据墙”中删除的合同中,有一份是上周被列为已取消的最大合同:一份来自IRS的为期七年的一揽子采购协议,价值19亿美元,用于“it战略和现代化”
在供应商金融管理和IT公司Centennial Technologies上个月告诉《纽约时报》该合同实际上在拜登政府下于去年秋天被取消后,该网站将该合同从其“收据墙”中移除。
前一周,DOGE不得不将其声称的最大节约合同从80亿美元下调至800万美元,因为该合同的供应商解释说,其采购记录上列出的80亿美元可能是一个笔误。
在最近的更新中,从DOGE的“收入墙”中删除的另一份合同是一份为期五年的1.5亿美元的合同美国国际开发署合同根据亚洲未来活动倡议,旨在为美国国际开发署的亚洲局服务,以解决“面对日益增长的健康、气候和粮食安全威胁,经济增长、民主治理和复原力方面相互关联的挑战。”
收到该合同的卡德摩斯集团代表没有立即回应ABC新闻的置评请求。
DOGE还从其最新的“收据墙”中删除了似乎是授予软件公司Advanced Automation Technologies的1.49亿美元的国家卫生研究所合同。
上周,DOGE网站列出了该合同与NIH租赁和维护冷藏气罐的另一份合同的链接。NIH与高级自动化技术公司签订的合同,共享相同的合同ID,上限仅为140万美元,而不是DOGE列出的1 . 49亿美元。
本周数据中列出的其他终止合同包括美国国际开发署的乌克兰信心建设倡议合同,上限为2.56亿美元,DOGE声称已从中节省了1.7亿美元,尚未向承包商支付。
另一个新列出的取消合同是美国国际开发署的全球卫生培训、咨询和支持合同计划,这是一个始于2021年的多年计划,到2029年的上限为6 . 82亿美元。DOGE声称通过终止这个项目已经节省了2 . 84亿美元。
本周列出的最大单笔合同是美国国际开发署与供应商CRGT公司签订的一份为期7年的IT服务合同,最高限额为5.97亿美元。
与上周的数据类似,DOGE现在列出了超过940份合同义务已经完全履行的合同,这意味着他们声称已经终止的合同中有40%实际上不会节省任何资金。
当被问及上周列出0美元节省的合同时,一名白宫官员告诉ABC新闻,他们使用保守的方法来计算节省,因为他们从最高限额中减去了合同的义务美元。然而,对于许多合同来说,最高限额要比实际预期花费高得多。
对于网站声称已经终止的103亿美元的联邦资助,DOGE列出了3389项资助中的每一项,以及资助机构的名称和每项资助的金额,但没有列出资助的名称或目的。
到目前为止,这些赠款节省的大部分资金来自美国国际开发署,总计87亿美元,其次是国务院的11亿美元,教育部的4.72亿美元和环保署的6100万美元。
DOGE还更新了其已终止的房地产租赁清单,总额为6.6亿美元。但是,现在很多数据都缺少关于租赁是由哪个机构管理的信息,而该网站以前列出了来自40多个机构的租赁。
目前的数据显示,美国总务署终止了价值1.43亿美元的房地产租赁,其余终止的租赁总额为5.16亿美元,没有列出他们的代理机构。
DOGE上周表示,它将开始每周更新两次网站,但目前的更新和前两次一样,都是在一周后进行的。
DOGE website says it's now saved $105 billion, though it's backtracked on some of its earlier claims
The website of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency provided its third weekly update offederal government cost-cuttingSunday night, claiming total government savings of $105 billion, up from the $65 billion it claimed in last week's update -- but the figure remains unverifiable as the site still says it's posted only a fraction of the receipts supporting this total.
In its latest update to its "Savings" page, DOGE continued to update -- and in some cases delete -- contracts that it had previously listed as having saved up to billions of dollars in federal funds, after media outlets, experts and others publicly questioned details of the contracts.
In all, DOGE listed a total of 2,334 canceled contracts on its latest "Wall of Receipts," with the savings from those contracts amounting to $8.8 billion.
The amount is actually lower than the $9.6 billion in claimed savings from 2,299 contracts posted on its "Wall of Receipts"last week, reflecting the difficulty in pinpointing exactly what DOGE is cutting and by how much.
Similar to last week, DOGE claims in this week's update that the $105 billion figure is based on a "combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions."
The site, however, only provides receipts for a fraction of that number. In addition to the $8.8 billion alleged savings in canceled contracts, the new data on the site lists $660 million worth of real estate leases under the GSA that were canceled, and, for the first time, it lists federal government grants that have been terminated, totaling $10.3 billion.
Among the contracts that have been deleted from DOGE's latest "Wall of Receipts" is the biggest contract it had listed as having canceled last week: a seven-year blanket purchase agreement from the IRS with $1.9 billion cap for "IT strategy and modernization."
The website removed this contract from its "Wall of Receipts" after the vendor, financial management and IT company Centennial Technologies, told the New York Times last month that the contract was actually canceled last fall, under the Biden administration.
The previous week, DOGE had to revise down its largest claimed savings contract from $8 billion to $8 million after the contract's vendor explained that the $8 billion listed on it procurement record was likely a clerical error.
Another contract that was removed from DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" in the latest updated was a five-year $150 millionUSAID contractunder the Asia Futures Activity initiative, aimed at serving the USAID's Asia Bureau to solve "interconnected challenges of economic growth, democratic governance, and resilience in the face of increasing health, climate, and food security threats."
Representatives for the Cadmus Group, which had received that contract, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
DOGE also deleted from its latest "Wall of Receipts" what appeared to be a $149 million National Institute of Health contract awarded to software company Advanced Automation Technologies.
Last week, the DOGE website listing that contract linked to a different NIH contract for leasing and maintaining refrigerated gas tanks. An NIH contract with Advanced Automation Technologies that shares the same contract ID is capped at just $1.4 million -- not the $149 million figure that had been listed by DOGE.
Other terminated contracts listed in this week's data include a USAID contract for the Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative with a $256 million ceiling, from which DOGE claims to have saved $170 million that has yet to be obligated to the contractor.
Another newly listed canceled contract is the USAID's Global Health Training, Advisory, and Support Contract program, a multi-year program that started in 2021 and was capped at $682 million through 2029. DOGE claims to have saved $284 million by terminating this program.
The single biggest contract listed this week is a seven-year IT services contract from the USAID to the vendor Salient CRGT Inc., with a $597 million ceiling.
Similar to last week's data, DOGE now lists more than 940 contracts where contract obligations have already been fully delivered -- meaning that 40% of the contracts they claim to have terminated will not actually result in saving any money.
Asked about contracts that list $0 in savings last week, a White House official told ABC News that they're using a conservative methodology of calculating savings because they subtract the contracts' obligated dollars from the ceiling amounts. However, for many contracts the ceiling dollars are much higher than what is actually expected to be spent.
For the $10.3 billion in federal grants the sites says it's terminated, DOGE lists each of the 3,389 grants with the name of the awarding agency and the amount of each grant, but does not lists the grant's name or purpose.
So far, much of the claimed savings from these grants have come from the USAID -- totaling $8.7 billion -- followed by $1.1 billion from the State Department, $472 million from the Education Department and $61 million from the EPA.
DOGE has also updated its list of real estate leases that have been terminated, totaling $660 million. But much of the data is now missing information regarding which agency the leases were under, whereas the site previously listed leases from across more than 40 agencies.
The current data shows $143 million worth of real estate leases under the GSA that were terminated, and the rest of the terminated leases-- totaling $516 million -- do not list their agencies.
DOGE said last week that it would begin updating its website twice a week, but the current update, like the first two, came after a week.