After a series of news reports called out DOGE’s error-filled claims, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has made its newest claims harder to check — for “security purposes,” according to a White House official. But we found the errors anyway. David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains the newest major errors we found and how we found them. To show the evidence of our reporting the two projects use data from the DOGE website, information graphics, and explain the methods behind our work to reveal that the public claims are false.
