Thats unbelievable. Even if thats an exaggeration and the actual number is closer to what the government claims (60,000) thats a jaw dropping number for an order that went into place a week ago.
I'm afraid that is likely an underestimated number of affected people/lives because it does not include the number of people with valid, legal visas who are refused boarding by airlines across the world. Those people never make it to the US to have their visas revoked.
Not to mention the people who are eligible for visas but will never get them now. That number is many times larger.
Here, we seem to have not a contradiction between what the government claims and another source, but what the government claims via two separate departments. Both are "the government", of course. :)