Since February 16, 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency’s Wall of Receipts has seen significant fluctuations. Analysis reveals that 50% of the data entries have been edited, with records changing, disappearing, and reappearing. This Wall of Receipts aims to showcase transparency in cost-saving measures. However, the constant modifications raise questions about the reliability of the displayed information. Data handling is inherently challenging, and errors are expected. Yet, it is crucial to identify these errors before making significant decisions, rather than discovering issues post-decision.
Emily Badger
@emilymbadger
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Mar 13 Imagine if all of government reported data like DOGE does — deleting numbers, altering them without notice, pointing numbers to the wrong things.
@ethanpsinger
+ I try to illustrate what this has looked like on DOGE’s wall of receipts:
Reeva
@wolele_
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Mar 15 @MTNNG
when will you people stop moving like thieves. I renewed my subscription hoping that expired data would be rolled over. Instead you brought back only the expired data on my balance and the new data is nowhere to be found. Provide my data I paid for please!!!!
/r/Army
@rArmyReddit
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59m Thank you Rep Bacon! The meta data behind it certainly indicates a deliberate change was made, I hope they don’t try to hand wave your concerns.
Mike Rundle
@flyosity
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Mar 14 NYT is still finding outright lies on the DOGE “wall of receipts”
Then DOGE hid the IDs of each row but forgot to remove them from the source
Then
@Fahrenthold
found even more lies
chris mitchel
@cpgsi
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Mar 14 Lol the DOGE “wall of receipts” is full of errors. For example cut a payment that was already made, or not even understanding how to read the contracts.
Ezra Abah
@Callme_Ehzy
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Mar 13 You may have tampered with upstream transformation. Check and be sure your data is fully available and the data types of your input values are compatible with your chosen plot.
Also, this is pretty common if data is gotten from an sql database materialised view.
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