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 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