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The site lists savings the department claims to have made from cuts, along with bar charts and tables that purport to show the department’s work and the size and scope of the federal government.

First, let’s create the basic structure of our habit tracker in Excel. Launch Excel and create a new blank spreadsheet. Increase the lengths of the first two rows (we will insert a chart here later).

The DOGE savings tracker wants you to think it’s transparent—but its visualizations are misleading Though the new website impresses visitors with graphs and data, the numbers can’t be trusted.