Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed Elon Musk made an agreement with him to cut $1 trillion from federal spending via the Department of Government Efficiency. Nearly a month has passed since Musk began his volunteer position with DOGE under the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may be trying to inflate the numbers of its spending cuts. DOGE published an itemized list of canceled government contracts Monday accounting for an alleged $16 billion in spending.