Last week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, which he calls the Department of Government Efficiency1937bet, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.

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Now the organization, which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

The last of the original top five disappeared from the site in the early hours of Tuesday,66jogo even as the group claimed in its latest update that its savings to date had increased to $65 billion. The website offered no explanation for why it had removed some items or how it had arrived at the higher total. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, sent a written statement that did not address the deletions, but provided a broader defense of the cost-cutting initiative, saying it “has already identified billions of dollars in savings.”

Mr. Biden has struggled throughout his presidency to balance his desire to brag about his economic record and policies with a need to acknowledge voters’ frustration over the inflation surge that the nation experienced in his first two years in office.

But even as the nation’s tumultuous pandemic economic era begins to approach its end, the period is destined to leave lingering marks.

The “wall of receipts” is the only public ledger the organization has produced to document its work. The scale of that ledger’s errors — and the misunderstandings and poor quality control that seemed to underlie them — has raised questions about the effort’s broader work, which has led to mass firings and cutbacks across the federal government.

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