Only time will tell if the prediction by Martin O’Malley, the former Social Security commissioner, is accurate.

But the DOGE list vastly overstated the actual value of that contract. A closer scrutiny of a federal database shows that a recent version of the contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion.

As DOGE acknowledges, only a portion of their records have been disclosed. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, tasked by President Donald Trump with slashing the federal government ...