Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser
January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza
January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas
February 12: ‘Some of the things that I say will be incorrect’: Musk backs away from false claim of $50 million for Gaza condoms
February 17: No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
February 18: Why DOGE’s ‘Receipts’ Show Elon Musk’s Math Doesn’t Add
February 18: DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
February 19: New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks
February 19: DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn’t add up
February 19: Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims
February 21: DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes
February 22: Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast.
February 22: DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.
February 25: Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings
February 25: DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
February 26: Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency
February 26: DOGE releases updated “wall of receipts” with more discrepancies
February 26: Musk’s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website
February 26: A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’
February 26: Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.
February 28: DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Only About Half a Million.
March 1: DOGE’s savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones
March 2: DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead
March 3: Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative deletes billions more from its list of savings.
March 3: The Musk-Trump War on Federal Employees Doesn’t Add Up
March 4: DOGE website offers error-filled window into Musk’s government overhaul
March 5: Department of Government Efficiency Deletes a Claim and Resurrects an Error
March 5: Trump Decried Millions Spent ‘Making Mice Transgender.’ It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
March 11: DOGE mischaracterizes a study as transgender, and USDA cancels it
March 13: Elon Musk’s cuts fail to stop US federal spending hitting new record
March 13: DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
March 18: ‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
March 20: On Its Website, DOGE Deletes More Than 100 Government Leases It Said Were Canceled
March 21: How DOGE is making government almost comically inefficient
March 24: Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security
April 11: How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives
April 11: See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings
April 12: Musk’s Latest Fraud Finding Isn’t What It Seems
April 13: DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress
April 15: Trump aids Musk’s Social Security fraud hunt, despite lack of evidence
April 16: Nearly a Billion Dollars in DOGE ‘Savings’ Disappeared Overnight
April 24: 100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency
April 24: Musk Goons Purged Living U.S. Citizens from Social Security
April 24: What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
April 28: What has DOGE done in Trump’s first 100 days?
April 29: Trump’s team has disrupted some $430 billion in federal funds, top Democrats say; tracker
May 5: As Musk steps back, experts say Doge cuts have harmed government services
May 13: DOGE Removes Dozens of Resurrected Contracts From Its List of Savings
May 14: DOGE Vastly Overstated Its Real Estate Cuts — Then Spent Two Months Backtracking
May 15: DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
May 17: How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
June 6: DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts (with code review)
June 16: The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
June 26: How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it’s anybody’s guess.
June 27: USAID Shutdown Costs Top $6 Billion, Internal Estimate Shows
August 1: THE $21.7 BILLION BLUNDER: Analyzing the Waste Generated by DOGE
August 12: Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts.
September 25: Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans’ Data Without Regard for Law and Congress
October 1: Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE’s push to cut
November 22: Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
November 23: Exclusive: DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ with eight months left on its charter
November 24: DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts
December 2 DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
December 11: DOGE had a cutting spree. 550 vet-owned businesses felt it.
December 21: The year Trump broke the federal government
December 23: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
2026
January 9: Dismantling of USAID: How the US lost its agricultural shield of food security
January 9: Doge cuts cost US taxpayers $10bn to cover workers’ paid leave, analysis finds
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