America’s newest federal agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claims on its website that it has saved taxpayers an estimated $55 billion since it was created by President Donald Trump in January 2025.

But while the agency claims to have saved taxpayer dollars by terminating a lease for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Mobile, the Corps says that isn’t the case.

A line on the DOGE website, under “savings,” lists the termination of a lease of a 23,860 square foot space by “Corps of Engineers, Civil” in Mobile.

The termination of the lease, per the DOGE website, is purported to save $722,044 annually, or more than $3.6 million over five years.

The problem? It’s not clear what this line is referring to. Dustin Gautney, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District says that without an address, the Corps’ real estate division is unable to pinpoint what lease is referenced.

The Corps of Engineers Mobile District manages real estate for the military all over the Gulf Coast region, Gautney said, so it’s difficult to know what the lease is related to. Leases are terminated and changed all of the time, and the referenced space may not even be located in Mobile.

There’s one possible match, Gautney said: around a year ago, the Corps terminated a lease with the U.S. General Services Administration for the second story of a federally owned building on St. Michael Street in downtown Mobile. The approximate square footage the Corps leased was 24,000 square feet.

The building was used by the federal court system until 2020, and since then has been used by several federal agencies, he said.

But the lease was terminated prior to the creation of DOGE, which was created via executive order after Trump was inaugurated last month.

The termination of that lease was not directed by DOGE, Gautney said.

The Mobile District is moving its headquarters in a few months to a new leased office space on the southeastern corner of the Mobile Civic Center site. The new building will house around 800 Corps workers.

But the move is not related to the listing on the DOGE website. The new space is around 180,000 square feet, Gautney said. The previous headquarters, a building in downtown Mobile operated by the General Services Administration, is around 250,000 square feet. Both are much larger than the listing on the website. In addition, the lease for the prior headquarters was worth much more than the one listed.

In addition to the corps of engineers listing, the DOGE website lists a termination of a lease for the National Labor Relations Board in Birmingham. The site states the lease was a “true termination- move to federal space.”

Terminating the NLRB lease is said to save $101,211 annually, according to the DOGE website.