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matwood | on: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
Except DOGE (at the time of this article) kept their claim of saving $8B and pointed at the old contract to make their stats look better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...

The DOGE website initially included a screenshot from the federal contracting database showing that the contract’s value was $8 million, even as the DOGE site listed $8 billion in savings. On Tuesday night, around the time this article was published, DOGE removed the screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim $8 billion in savings. It added a link to the original, outdated version of the contract worth $8 billion.

Trustworthy and transparent. I guess fixing a typo is worth $8B?

FergusArgyll | parent
"By examining past versions of the contract listed on the Federal Procurement Data System, The Upshot determined that the federal award, approved in September 2022, had initially listed a total value of $8 billion. But on Jan. 22 this year, that figure was updated to $8 million...

It's possible that DOGE or someone else in the Trump administration can claim credit for fixing the error in the contracting database, given that the value was downgraded to $8 million two days after President Trump took office. "

-NYT TFA

So Bureaucracy incompetence, mistake is around for >2 years, DOGE fixes it.

Screenshot and FPDS DB were out of sync, "PDS posting of the final termination notices can have up to a 1-month lag."

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