Trump said in January that the expansion would largely be used to hold undocumented migrants deemed to be dangerous criminals or national security risks.
US media has also highlighted some accounting errors, including Doge mistakenly claiming to have saved $8bn from cancelling an immigration contract whichDoge says it is working to upload all receipts in a "digestible and transparent manner" and that, as of 20 April, it has posted receipts "representing around 30% of all total savings". It also lists some receipts as being "unavailable for legal reasons".
BBC Verify examined the four largest savings listed on the Doge website which had receipts attached.The department claims these add up to $8.3bn, but after examining the evidence provided and speaking to people familiar with federal contracts, this figure appears to be overstated.For three of the savings, Doge links to documents on the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). This is a database which records contracts given out by the US government.
The documents show a contract's start and end date, the maximum amount the government has agreed to spend, and how much of that has been spent.David Drabkin, a federal contracts expert who helped develop the FPDS database, said the maximum figure listed should be treated with caution.
"FPDS does not reflect the actual paid price until some period of time after the contract has been completed and the contract actions have been recorded," he says.
"For example, when buying research and development into a vaccine no one really knows how much that's going to cost - so when a price is set, it's not a definite price but rather an upper limit.""I feel like she's there with me a lot of the time."
During the race, he says he saw almost all of Australia's famous animals - though most were dead on the road - and much of its unique countryside.over the course of the run.
"Goodge stands by his record keeping and asserts that he is taking every single step," his agent told the Canadian Running magazine last week.Goodge also claims to