President Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, introduced new contract terminations on Tuesday, saving American taxpayers $2.6 billion in wasteful spending.
The company highlighted presumably probably the most outrageous bills, which complete over $350,000 for the Environmental Safety Company’s (EPA) “plant upkeep” and Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) social media packages.
Equally, DOGE lately revealed that minor routine web site upkeep for the VA price $380,000 PER MONTH.
“That contract has not been renewed, and the identical work is now being executed by 1 inside VA software program engineer spending ~10 hours/week,” the division stated.
DOGE Finds VA Contract Paying $380K a Month for Minor Website Maintenance
In response to DOGE.gov, the division has saved taxpayers an estimated $155 billion thus far in asset gross sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper cost deletion, grant cancellations, curiosity financial savings, programmatic modifications, regulatory financial savings, and workforce reductions.
This quantities to just about $1,000 per taxpayer.
The official DOGE X account shared the replace this morning:
Contract replace!
Businesses terminated 180 wasteful contracts with a ceiling worth of $3.3B and financial savings of $2.6B, together with a $85.5K @EPA contract for “reside plant upkeep providers” (the inner EPA staff will water them going ahead) and a $265.5K @HHSGov contract for “social media monitoring subscription, coaching, and platform setup”.
Contract replace!
Businesses terminated 180 wasteful contracts with a ceiling worth of $3.3B and financial savings of $2.6B, together with a $85.5K @EPA contract for “reside plant upkeep providers” (the inner EPA staff will water them going ahead) and a $265.5K @HHSGov contract for… pic.twitter.com/Al8VmNckuC
— Division of Authorities Effectivity (@DOGE) April 15, 2025
Democrats are livid that Elon Musk is saving the American taxpayer from their scams and misuse of our cash.
There are at the moment nearly a dozen lawsuits difficult DOGE over its authority, knowledge entry, and privateness legal guidelines.
There may be additionally a secret resistance agreement between 14 states to conduct coordinated lawfare in opposition to DOGE and Elon Musk.
Musk’s function as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is formally designated as that of a Particular Authorities Worker (SGE), a standing that limits his service to 130 days inside any 365-day interval. His tenure is predicted to finish round late Could 2025, when that cap is reached.
Nonetheless, as The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump might have a number of choices if he desires to maintain Musk main DOGE previous the expiration date.
