The New York Times reported Monday that DOGE, the brainchild of tech billionaire Elon Musk, erased or altered more than 1,000 contracts allegedly canceled by the Trump administration over the weekend. In total, those changes nearly halved DOGE’s claimed budgetary impact, bringing down reported savings from $16 billion when the website first went live on Feb. 19, down to around $8 billion on Monday. This comes after DOGE last week outright deleted five of seven of the largest line-item savings the department has touted this month. The entries DOGE has amended include a $1.9 billion cut at the Department of Treasury that was later revealed to have occurred during the previous administration, $8 billion in savings at the Department of Homeland Security that was later revised down to $8 million, $655 billion in cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development that turned out to be a single figure erroneously logged three times, and a $232 million cut to the Social Security Administration that was later revised down to roughly half-a-million. Still, language was added to the DOGE website stating that any errors in their figures “originate directly from agency contracting officials” and are the fault of individual federal departments or agencies, not DOGE itself. Musk, a special government employee and advisor to the president, has faced criticism regarding the accuracy of DOGE’s public accounting. Musk claims that DOGE has saved the federal government $65 billion by canceling leases and grants, firing employees, and selling off government assets. However, an analysis carried out by the Associated Press found that 40% of the federal contracts posted to DOGE’s wall of receipts won’t actually save the federal government any money. Trump administration officials previously said that those contracts amount to past interns, workforce trainings, and past software purchases, and more but still should be removed from the federal government’s books. “It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” Charles Tiefer, a former University of Baltimore law professor and expert on government contracting law, countered to the Associated Press. “[They’re] terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.” The Trump administration has also reinstated some contracts previously canceled by DOGE. That includes MANA Nutrition, a Georgia company that manufactures a peanut butter paste used to treat malnutrition in children. MANA CEO Mark Moore told CNN that its USAID contracts were originally canceled last week before being reinstated over the weekend. Musk admitted during President Donald Trump’s Wednesday Cabinet meeting that additional cuts at USAID “accidentally” canceled the government’s programs fighting an ongoing Ebola outbreak but claimed to have “quickly” restored the services. Neither the White House nor DOGE returned requests for comment on Monday.