The Trump administration's DOGE developed an AI tool to review 200,000 federal regulations, aiming to cut about half of regulations and save trillions in compliance costs.

DOGE claims canceling those contracts saved $6.4 billion. But CBS News' review of transaction records indicates the actual savings is just a small fraction of that — around $165 million.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is estimating that the efficiency project has racked up around $21.7 billion. Congress Oversight DOGE Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., ranking member of the ...