{"id":10804,"date":"2025-07-14T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:12:01","slug":"how-the-v-a-and-doge-misreported-big-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=10804","title":{"rendered":"How the V.A. and DOGE Misreported Big Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/>Over the past six months, The New York Times has documented how the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s \u201cWall of Receipts,\u201d the only public accounting of its work, has been plagued by errors. To understand why, David A. Fahrenthold looked closely at claims submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has had one of the highest totals of canceled contracts on the wall, and also some of its bigger mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past six months, The New York Times has documented how the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s \u201cWall of Receipts,\u201d the only public accounting of its work, has been plagued by errors. To understand why, David A. Fahrenthold looked closely at claims submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has had one of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1285,3922,3923,3924,3921],"class_list":{"0":"post-10804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-doge","10":"tag-misreported","11":"tag-savings","12":"tag-v-a"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}