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A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE's 'wall of receipts'

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Billionaire Elon Musk says his campaign to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and cancel government contracts is in the name of rooting out fraud and waste.

A website claims they’ve saved billions by cutting certain federal contracts.

But reports and government documents prove that these so-called savings are either misleading or incorrect.

DOGE has set to cancel a number of contracts at Veterans Affairs .

Two of those canceled contracts are with organizations that help implement the PACT Act .

Cutting those contracts could put the onus back on veterans to have to deal with their benefits.

Laura Barrón-López is the White House Correspondent for the PBS News Hour.

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