Elon Musk's much heralded chainsaw couldn't make the cut. The findings were stark: Of the top 13 contract cancellations in DOGE's database all 13 were incorrectly characterized, according to the Times. Perhaps most telling: 80 percent of the cancellations touted on DOGE's public dashboard claimed savings of $1 million or less—a rounding error in the federal budget. Musk waved it around, called it “the chainsaw for bureaucracy,”Other cost-cutting attempts from DOGE faced legal challenges, and were reversed. 'I think instead of doing Doge, I would have basically worked on my companies, essentially,' Musk told Miller.

Source: Daily Mail December 25, 2025 22:36 UTC