DOGE fired 9% of federal government workers while INCREASING federal government spending by $248 billion. Where did the money go?

Is DOGE the biggest fraud of all time?

“DOGE did not reduce spending,” according to analysis by the CATO Institute, which focused on federal outlays and employment, and on executive branch spending that was in the organization’s jurisdiction. “The federal government spent $7.6 trillion in the first 11 months of calendar year 2025, approximately $248 billion higher by November of 2025 compared to the same month in 2024,” the analysis said.

In a list of canceled contracts and grants published by DOGE, the 13 largest were all incorrect, which is one of the main reasons why the organization failed to cut federal spending. Two Defense Department contracts listed as “terminations” claimed to save the American taxpayer $7.9 billion, but according to the Times, the contracts are still active

DOGE did, however, reduce federal employment by 9 percent in less than 10 months, according to CATO, which noted “a decline that large has not happened since the military demobilizations at the end of World War II and the Korean War.”

Where did the money go?