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Miss Williams: Doge's savings amount to about half a percent of federal spending, lawmaker presses on disputed restitution figures
Congressional hearing · March 3, 2026
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Summary
A lawmaker asked Miss Williams to reconcile large-sum claims — a $2 trillion savings claim, a $9 billion figure cited in media, and testimony that $19 billion in CFPB restitutions were suspended; Miss Williams said Doge's savings are roughly half a percent of FY25 federal spending.
A lawmaker asked Miss Williams to reconcile several large-sum figures referenced during testimony and in media reports, including an assertion that "Elon" had saved $2,000,000,000,000, a CNN report that listed $9,000,000,000, and testimony (attributed in the transcript to "Miss Greenwald") that…
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