By Wednesday morning, DOGE had updated its list to show $8 million in savings, though it did not acknowledge the error or explain how it might affect its calculation of total money saved, which remained unchanged. A loss of $8 billion in savings would represent nearly 15 percent of the total savings claimed by DOGE.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said US taxpayers don’t need to worry about the security of their private data while Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team seeks to make the federal government more efficient.

The treasury secretary added that DOGE's efforts could eventually lead to “several percent of GDP that we are saving.”

The work of the U.S. DOGE Service bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the world’s richest person, even if he’s not formally the administrator.

Musk doesn't have any "actual or formal authority" and isn't technically DOGE's leader, a White House court filing says.