(CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress . The falsehoods spanned a variety of topics, including the Department of Government Efficiency, inflation and immigration.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s statements:
DOGE savings : Trump claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency, the initiative led by Elon Musk, has “found hundreds of billions of dollars” in waste.
This figure, which is uncorroborated, needs context.
As of the day of Trump’s address to Congress, DOGE claimed on its website that its work has saved an estimated $105 billion for taxpayers.
But it hasn’t provided evidence to corroborate a figure that high.
DOGE listed about 2,300 contracts it claimed to have canceled across the federal government for a total claimed savings of about $8.9 billion. It also listed nearly 3,500 grants it claimed to have canceled for a total claimed savings of about $10.3 billion, but it provided no links or documentation for those cuts. And it listed about $660 million in savings from canceled government leases.
DOGE’s public tally has been marred with errors, and it has been repeatedly changed in recent weeks to remove some contracts identified as flawed by CNN and other media outlets – including a previous claim that it had saved $8 billion by canceling a contract that was actually worth a maximum of $8 million. Its website’s so-called wall of receipts has included contracts that were...
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