A new government watchdog report delivers a blistering rebuke of DOGE, the Elon Musk-led cost-cutting initiative, finding it repeatedly overstated its savings and took credit for cuts it didn't actually make. The Government Accountability Office audit, covering June 2025 through this month, was requested by Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and represents the most thorough " and scathing " government assessment yet of DOGE's public claims, The Washington Post reported. "Elon Musk and the Trump administration claimed billions of dollars in savings it could not substantiate, took credit for work already underway, and refused to show its work, all while putting Americans' sensitive data at risk and hollowing out critical agencies," Peters said.