Elon Musk took a chainsaw to federal bureaucracy in the name of slashing down government spending—but he seems to have achieved the complete opposite of his goal instead. With the clock ticking on his DOGE tenure,

Elon Musk’s DOGE has promised big savings for the federal budget but a new analysis finds that spending is actually up this year versus recent years. The non-profit news organization NOTUS looked at daily Treasury statements to find that since President Trump returned to the White House the federal government has spent $171 billion more than in the same period for the two prior years.

Elon Musk could dodge over $2 billion in financial penalties by pulling federal government strings using DOGE, according to a Monday report from Senate Democratic committee staffers. The report claims Elon used his heavy influence to kill investigations,