“The Department of Government Efficiency has “found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.”
What FactCheck.org found
The most recent update on DOGE’s website from March 2 reports that the department has only created an estimated $105 billion in savings thus far. Although Trump ticked off several examples of what he called “appalling waste” found by DOGE, it’s unclear if any of the savings touted by DOGE are related to actual fraud.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 4 March 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 March 2025, 1 day later. Its rating was “Unsupported”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/live/QpH2KQ8mHjg?t=2897s
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