DOGEDepartment of Government Efficiency

Current year non-defense federal obligations are down 20.5% as compared to 2024. Cash outlays will follow as obligations come due.

Persistent government wide contract reviews for wasteful spend, consistent with the DOGE Cost Efficiency Executive Order, are bearing fruit.

RT @DrOzCMS: Partnering with States for a stronger Medicaid means re-aligning incentives. Today's action closes a loophole and ensures fede…Read more

Introducing the DOGE Deregulation Leaderboard!

Comprehensive list of repeals of burdensome or obsolete regulations, including the cost savings to the American taxpayer. $28.7B so far.

Contract Update!

Since Friday, agencies terminated 242 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $646M and savings of $200M, including a $118k USDA contract for the “Democratic Republic of Congo youth climate corps coordinator”, and a $23.5k USAID contract for the “garden

RT @USOPM: Starting June 2, agencies will be able to submit their employees’ retirement paperwork fully online. We are proud to announce th…Read more

Great work by @SecretaryWright. Working with @DOGE, @Energy has announced 47 deregulatory actions for an estimated $11 billion of savings to Americans. Previously, this quantity of deregulation would take years to initiate.

RT @Louisiana_DOGE: Louisiana DOGE worked with LDH/OMV/LLA to finally run residency checks on LA Medicaid recipients.

The findings: $75M/…Read more

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Collaboration win by @USOPM and @DOGE: after 35+ years of failed modernization attempts, OPM has announced that, as of June 2, they are replacing their 65+ year old paper process with an all digital alternative. This will reduce the average time people wait to receive their

RT @ENERGY:

Contract Update!

Over the last two days, agencies terminated 522 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $285M and savings of $110M, including a $181k @USDA contract for a “technical climate advisor for central Africa”.

Credit Card Update!

The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.

Thanks to @DOGEFla for pointing this out. This wasteful DEI grant has now been canceled by @NSF.

Great work by @USCIS on providing free SAVE database access to the states and adding support for bulk voter verification checks.

In an initial pilot, @TXsecofstate has already found several cases of potential voter fraud which are now being investigated.

Great work today by @USDOL, canceling $13.6M in wasteful DEI grants totaling $8.4M in savings, including:
- $716k for “DEIA materials, training modules, and support networks”
- $398k for “gender equity awareness training”
- $350k to “migrant sending or receiving communities”

Contract update!

In the last two days, agencies terminated 148 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $420M and savings of $198M, including a $143K HHS contract for the “potency monitoring of confiscated marijuana samples.”

RT @USGSAStephenE: In @POTUS’s first 100 days, @USGSA cut $30B in governmentwide contracts, initiated procurement consolidation and deregul…Read more

Great job by @SecDuffy and @USDOT for terminating 7 wasteful grants with award value of $54M and savings of $51M, including:

- $6M for “collaborative planning to address safety concerns of women and gender non-conforming people”
- $12M for “accelerating equitable

Interview with the DOGE team

Contract update!

Over the last two days, agencies terminated 401 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.1B and savings of $613M, including a $276k Treasury contract for a “Kenya program coordinator”, a $228k Treasury contract for “Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and Tanzania

RT @SECNAV: Our work with @DOGE to root out waste and inefficiency continues.

Contract update!

In the last two days, agencies terminated 179 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.87B and savings of $280M, including a $1.8M US Trade & Development contract for “energy and climate advisory services”, a $207k HHS consulting contract for a “grant

In the past 3 weeks, the @USDA terminated 420 wasteful grants totaling $2.5B in award value and $2.3B in savings, including:

- $150k for “gender lensed curricula designed to be transdisciplinary in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences”
- $100k for "climate

RT @Sec_Noem: In partnership with @DOGE, @ICEgov arrested two Ukrainian nationals for illegally VOTING in the 2024 election.

Under Presid…Read more

Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:
-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes

Source:

Great work by @CMSGov

Their newly launched Fraud Detection Operations Center has, in 1 month, suspended payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud, including "billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier".

Great job by @TheJusticeDept for prosecuting voter fraud where a non-citizen voted in a federal election.

Note that this individual was also previously arrested for first-degree assault and was receiving federal benefits.

RT @TheJusticeDept: Only American Citizens can vote in American Elections.

Thanks to our partnership @DOGE, this DOJ has charged an Iraqi…Read more

Contract update!

Over the last two days, agencies terminated 226 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.03B and savings of $555M, including a $5.4M IRS consulting contract for “exploring emerging issues within the IRS”, and a $20k NSF "management development" contract for

Great work by @NSF canceling 701 wasteful DEI grants ($203M in savings), including “Building Racial Equity in Marine Science.” This brings the total to over $325M saved in the past 2 weeks.

See the NSF's update linked below, re-emphasizing that grant awards will be based on

RT @SecretaryLCD: I'm committed to ensuring @USDOL enforces the law and carries out @POTUS' directives. We will hold states accountable for…Read more

RT @SecRollins: At my direction, the @USDA has taken action to ensure illegal aliens DO NOT receive federal benefits paid for by hardworkin…Read more

Great work by @SecNav @USNavy
canceling wasteful grants, such as the "population consequences of the disturbance of humpback whales in the context of climate change".

For the past 7 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 11 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~1.4 million to go with expected completion in 2 weeks.

Contract and grant update!

Over the last several days, agencies have terminated 269 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M, including a $50k @Interior consulting contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem solving services”.

Great work by @AGPamBondi @TheJusticeDept

Great work by @NSF canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.

See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.

RT @SecretaryBurgum: The Endangered Species Act has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave!

 https://t.…Read more

Credit Card Update!

The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.

Contract update!

Today, agencies terminated 57 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.6B and savings of $1.5B, including a $120K USDA contract for an “Indonesia environmental policy and law enforcement specialist”

RT @SecScottBessent: The IRS has removed non-technical people from technical leadership roles in engineering and replaced them with experie…Read more

RT @SecScottBessent: The IRS has successfully saved $2 billion without any operational disruptions by eliminating wasteful contracts, such…Read more

Great job by @SecRubio @StateDept

In addition to the ones below, they also cancelled these wasteful grants:
-$1.4mm for “Preventing Internet Fragmentation” in Brazil
- $750k for “Enabling Civil Society Resilience and Adaptation” in Kyrgyzstan
- $1mm for “Building Trust and

@SecRubio continues to scrutinize @StateDept foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including:

- $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom
- $2.5mm for “advancing

Contract update!

Agencies terminated 180 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.3B and savings of $2.6B, including a $85.5K @EPA contract for “live plant maintenance services” (the internal EPA team will water them going forward) and a $265.5K @HHSGov contract for

Great work by the @DeptVetAffairs cancelling an unreasonably priced multi-year $15.3M services contract for “salary survey data and analysis.”
The service was replaced at market price of ~$5K/year vs. the contracted $3.9M/year, saving $11.1M over the remaining life of the

Great work by @SecretaryWright.

New @Energy policy caps university grant overhead at 15%, consistent with for-profit, non-profit, and state/local government awardees.

This saves taxpayers >$400M/yr.
More money available for research, and less money to administrative bloat.

Follow-up on Defend the Spend:

Since the system was launched, over $700M in daily payments have been subject to payment justifications (ie “What is this?”) from recipients and agency leads.

Thanks to the great work by @HHSGov, for the first time ever, the American people will

Contract update!

Yesterday, agencies terminated 102 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of ~$215M and savings of ~$100M, including a $250K @USGSA contract for a “circadian lighting pilot study” and $195k in @Interior consulting contracts to “provide facilitation and

Contract update!

Yesterday, agencies terminated 102 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of ~$215M and savings of ~$100M, including a $250K @USGSA contract for a “circadian lighting pilot study” and $195k in @Interior consulting contracts to “provide facilitation and

RT @SBA_Kelly: Last month, @DOGE uncovered more than $630M in SBA loans distributed to “borrowers” over the age of 115 or under the age of…Read more

Good work by @USGSA for inking its first consolidated deal following the President’s Executive Order: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement.

With this deal, GSA effectively used government-wide buying leverage to secure a 71% price

Great partnership between @SecDef @DeptofDefense @DOGE

California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these improper claims, totaling $305M in unemployment benefits.

Additionally, California accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terrorist watchlist or with criminal

Under the Biden administration, it was routine for Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with no legal status and minimal screening. So far, CBP identified a subset of 6.3k individuals paroled into the United States since 2023 on the FBI's Terrorist Screening

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
- 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
- 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
- 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed

On the website, the "log in" button was not in the top right on the navbar like it is on most websites. It was weirdly placed in the middle of the page below the fold.

An IRS engineer explained that the *soonest* this change could get deployed is July

Contract update!

In the last two days, agencies terminated 108 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $205M and savings of $70M, including a $14K @HHSGov contract for an “executive transformational leadership training program” and a $5.2M @USOPM contract to “provide

Since January 20th, @USGSA has been working to right size the federal real estate portfolio, which is liable for more than $20+ billion in deferred maintenance. So far, the team has sold 13 buildings and listed an additional 68 (8.3M square feet).

As an example, @USGSA sold a

Great partnership with @DHSgov

RT @RapidResponse47: NBC goes inside the literal underground mine "where a few hundred federal employees process all retirement paperwork f…Read more

The US African Development Foundation has terminated $51M in grants, including:
-$229,296 for marketing 100% organic shea butter in Burkina Faso
-$84,059 for a business incubator for spa & wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria
-$239,738 for marketing pineapple juice in Benin

RT @SecRubio: Important and historic reforms.

Now our incredible Foreign Service Officers will be evaluated on true merit, not on arbitra…Read more

Under the previous administration, @StateDept made DEI 20% of Foreign Service Officer performance, assessing diplomats by whether they:
- Avoided“gendered adjectives” or “faint praise”
- Asked local organizations to “promote DEIA training/programs/lectures” and “annual DEIA

Contract update!

Today, agencies terminated 63 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $124M and savings of $39M, including a $1.25M @HHSGov marketing consultant contract for “Google AdWords management” and a $1.9M @StateDept consulting contract for “global advisory and

The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.

Good work by @US_IMLS @Sonderling47 cancelling $25M in wasteful DEI grants for $15M in savings, including:

-$265K for Queens College in New York to research “why BIPOC teens” read Japanese comic books
-$250K to erect “LGBTQ+ historical markers” across Ohio
-$140K for the

Contract update!

Agencies cancelled 47 wasteful contracts today with $87.5M ceiling value and $30.2M in savings, including a $3.4M @StateDept management consulting contract for “aviation advisors in Kenya”.

Good work by @DeptVetAffairs

VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.

Contract update!

Agencies terminated 80 wasteful contracts today with a ceiling value of $203.6M and savings of $139.1M, including a $2.1M @StateDept management consulting contract for a “senior advisor in the Democratic Republic of Congo”.

Update: the $13M in taxpayer dollars (referenced below) has been returned to the Treasury.

RT @AntonioGracias: Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL…Read more

Contract update!

Today, agencies cancelled 109 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.1B and savings of $420M, including a $3.1M @ENERGY contract for “website development services” and a $2.7M @CommerceGov contract for “marketing consulting services outreach and

For the past 4 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 9.9 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~2 million to go.

Each year, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) receives $55M in congressional (taxpayer) funds.

- Prior management would sweep excess funds into its private Endowment (zero congressional oversight).
-In the past 10 years, USIP has transferred ~$13M to its private

RT @epaleezeldin: The Biden Admin spent $4M in tax dollars on a museum to tell a selective story of @EPA history. It costs $600K per year t…Read more

As of Friday, $4.3B of COVID era funds remained unused and mostly dormant. Thanks to the work of @SecretaryLCD and @Sonderling47 @USDOL, $1.4B was recovered and returned directly to the Treasury general account, and team is moving urgently to return the remaining $2.9B.

This

Contract update!

Over the last 3 days, agencies terminated 121 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $351M and savings of $156M, including a $1.6M DEI contract for “strategies for implementing ‘social emotional’ learning”, and a $143K Dept. of Transportation contract for

RT @SecretaryBurgum: Tyler and the @Interior @DOGE team work tirelessly every day (including weekends!) to save taxpayer dollars and help b…Read more

RT @BretBaier: My interview with the @elonmusk and the @DOGE team tonight on #SpecialReport

Great work today by @USDOL @SecretaryLCD @Sonderling47 cancelling $577M in “America Last” grants for $237M in savings, including:
- $10M for "gender equity in the Mexican workplace"
- $12.2M for "worker empowerment in South America"
- $6.25M for "improving respect for Worker's

Contract update!

Yesterday, agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for “Peru climate change activities”.

Plus, the DOGE leaderboard has been updated:

Up to ~315,000 de-activated cards! Great work by @USDA

Fitness update! As a follow-on, there was a larger $32.1M purchase agreement for government-wide consulting on “fitness center services,” which has been canceled.

For the past 3 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 7 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased.
Another ~5 million to go.

Weekly Credit Card Update!

Pilot program with 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards. After 5 weeks, ~298,000 cards have been de-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.

As of Friday, @SBAgov now:
- Requires date of birth collection for all direct loan applications
- Pauses the direct loan process for those under 18 and above 120 years old

Basic sanity checks like these are initial steps towards minimizing fraud in government payment programs.

Core HR systems (onboarding, job histories, org chart, benefits, etc.) are not consolidated in the federal workforce.

From a March 2025 @USGSA survey of 29 agencies, there are 111 instances of 59 unique HR software products offered by 19 commercial vendors and 11 federal

RT @USDOL:

Great work by @SecDef

Over $580M in wasteful contracts and grants terminated this week, including an HR IT development program called DCHRMS that is $280 million (780%) over budget and 5 years behind schedule, with at least 2 more years to go.

Good work by @NASA this week:
-Eliminated their unused Purchasing Cards (~80%)
-Terminated ~$420M in unneeded contracts, including $45M ($15M each) to three separate consultants, all for "Change Management Support Services”

RT @GovRonDeSantis: For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings att…Read more

The IRS has the transaction volume of a mid-sized bank, running similar infrastructure. Those banks typically have an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budget of ~$20M/yr.

The IRS has a ~$3.5B O&M budget (which doesn’t include an additional $3.7B modernization budget). ~80% of

There is a pattern across all agencies where IT “modernization” contracts do not pay for outcomes/performance; instead, they pay for time. Therefore, the incentive is for contractors to “never finish,” resulting in incredible waste.

As an example, IRS modernization started in

Contract update!

Today, agencies terminated 105 contracts with a ceiling value of $935M and $580M in savings, including a $1.03M National Science Foundation consulting contract for “fitness center services”.

This post is inaccurate. @SocialSecurity is not closing any field sites in Georgia or elsewhere.

The confusion likely arises from the closure of 5 permanent remote hearing sites (PRSs)—single rooms within field sites used for hearings. Since most hearings are now virtual, these

Great partnership with @epaleezeldin @EPA

This week, @Interior is dissolving the Federal Consulting Group (FCG), where one government department charges another to broker consulting contracts.

As an example, FCG brokered a $75M contract to design website customer satisfaction surveys, and then attempted to award $830M… Read more

Contract update!

Today, agencies cancelled 47 contracts with a ceiling value of $185M and savings of $90M, including:
-$3.1M for “healthy relationships social media presence”
-$3.5M for consultants “to provide professional IT cloud, software, hardware expertise, and expertise in… Read more

For the past two weeks, @SocialSecurity has begun a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 3.2 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done.

@SocialSecurity has been working on a major cleanup of their records. In the last two weeks, ~3.2 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have been marked as deceased. More work still to be done.

Mr. Moose denied lawful access to Kenneth Jackson, the Acting USIP President (as approved by the USIP Board). @DCPoliceDept arrived onsite and escorted Mr. Jackson into the building. The only unlawful individual was Mr. Moose, who refused to comply, and even tried to fire USIP’s… Read more

Contract update!

Today, agencies terminated 44 contracts today with a ceiling value of ~$5.2B and savings of ~$640M, including:
-$465K DoD contract for “non-personal services, to serve as the Maxwell Air Force Base installations horticulturalist, landscape designer, and… Read more

Excellent job by @CBP @Sec_Noem. These 21 contracts had a total ceiling value of ~$4.3B with total resulting savings of ~$600M.

Here is the Inspector General reporting this problem in 2008. The good news is that it is now actively being fixed.

This article is maliciously misleading. While the database error is unfortunate, this has zero connection to @DOGE.

This type of error unfortunately has occurred regularly (~500 times each month) for years. In the same way that dead people are marked as living, the reverse also… Read more

The “bridges to nowhere” at 1:20… Read more

Great job by @SecretaryLCD @USDOL

These program cancellations included $3M for “transparency and accountability in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry”.

Other grant examples from @NIH:
- $100K for Vanderbilt University to study “social networks” among “sexual and gender minorities”
- $37K for the University of Houston to study “fear of deportation” in “Latinx young adults”
- $681K for the University of Pennsylvania to study… Read more

Contract update!

Over the last two days, agencies terminated 239 wasteful contracts with a total ceiling value of ~$1.7B and total savings of ~$400M, including an $8.5M consulting contract for “fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive… Read more

RT @SecRollins: 🚨@USDA was funding a $397K grant in the San Francisco Bay to educate queer, trans, and BIPOC urban farmers and consumers ab…Read more

RT @SocialSecurity: To protect you from fraud, we will no longer accept changes to bank account information over the phone. Check out today…Read more

This is inaccurate and misleading.
@SocialSecurity is protecting our seniors by ensuring bank accounts aren’t changed with little to no authentication.

Approx. 40% of Social Security direct deposit fraud is associated with fraudsters calling SSA on the phone and changing the… Read more

Today, @NIH cancelled the following grants:

- $620K for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys”
- $699K for studying “cannabis use” among “sexual minority gender diverse individuals”
- $740K for examining “social networks” among “black and… Read more

Weekly Credit Card Update!

Pilot program with 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards. After 3 weeks, >200,000 cards have been de-activated. Great progress this past week by @HHSGov @Interior

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active… Read more

Great work by @epaleezeldin @EPA

These cancellation of non-essential grants/contracts included $3.2M to a consulting firm to “develop a reporting system to collect data on Justice40, the EJ scorecard, and other EJECR reporting asks.”

RT @marcorubio: After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.

The 5200 contracts that are now cancell…Read more

Striving for maximum government transparency.

All payments (and soon the justifications) will be posted publicly at The first 37,207 grant payments (3 days worth) have now been posted!

The Program Support Center (PSC) in @HHSGov processes ~$215B/year ($860M/business day) in grant payments. When those payments are made:
- If the grantee is directly drawing, no documentation, receipt, or explanation is required
- If the agency is approving, there is no… Read more

More info on IAF:
In 2024, ~45% of spend went to administrative overhead. Only ~55% went to the grants, which then have multiple additional layers of overhead.

Other grants which were cancelled during the process of reducing IAF to its statutory minimum:
- $523,000 for avocado… Read more

Contract update!

On Friday, there were 162 cancellations of non-essential contracts with a ceiling value of ~$205M and savings of $90M.

This included @USDA cancelling a $10.3M unnecessary contract which, ironically, was for identifying unnecessary contracts.

In 2020-2021, SBA granted 5,593 loans for $312M to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used… Read more

RT @SBA_Kelly: This week I signed a new policy that will require SBA lenders to conduct citizenship verification for loan applications - to…Read more

RT @SecRollins: 🚨CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”

Keep sending us tips. THANK YOU, @approject! The…Read more

The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.

247 cancellations of wasteful contracts today, with a ceiling value of ~$999M and savings of ~$390M, including a $3.5M Dept. of VA consulting contract for outsourced “enterprise mail management program support services” which the agency determined could be handled internally with… Read more

Two contractors spent 9 years and $200M working on a modern provider enrollment system at @CMSGov. After 14 missed deadlines, zero usable output was produced. The contract has now been cancelled.

Smart decision by @CMSGov and we look forward to working with you.

HUD completed the same audit. Initial findings on paid software licenses:

- 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84
- 11,020 Acrobat licenses with zero users
- 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325
- 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216
- 10,000 Java… Read more

RT @SecVetAffairs: The days of kicking the can down the road are over. We owe America’s Veterans solutions!

Weekly Credit Card Update!

Pilot program has been expanded to 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards. After 2 weeks, ~146,000 cards have been de-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.

Yesterday, @NIH cancelled seven grants for transgender experiments on animals including:
- $532K to “use a mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment”
- $33K to test “feminizing hormone therapy in the male rat”

RT @SecretaryBurgum: Our team at @Interior is working with DOGE to streamline government, eliminate waste, and upgrade our critical infrast…Read more

Nice job @epaleezeldin @EPA

This included a $4M grant to provide materials “to increase workforce diversity in the construction materials sector”

In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.

In one case, a 157 years old individual… Read more

Per the Executive Order:

The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee). Examples of grants that were cancelled in the process:

- $903,811 for alpaca farming in Peru
- $364,500 to… Read more

Great work saving taxpayer dollars by @SecRollins @USDA @Interior

GAO report estimates $233B - $521B annually in fraud

Examples of observed improper payments below. This is likely being done at scale.
- After an order for expedited deportation was issued in 2017, a migrant from Honduras used three different SSNs to submit 73 medicare claims totaling $48k.
- Medicare paid $49k for a Rehab Center… Read more

Update: the daily average rate of Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California increased by over 27% in February compared to January. Keep up the great work @usbr @Interior

Updated data on DEI related contract cancellations (separate from grants) by agency:

Great job by @DeptofDefense

The Office of Personnel Management (~2500 employees) budgeted $370M for IT spending in FY2025. They believe this value can be reduced by ~80% while maintaining equivalent levels of service. Initial reductions include:

-$1.9M for studies on quantum cryptography and quantum… Read more

The Small Business Admin. completed the same software audit. Initial findings:

-10 software products with 10,000+ licenses. SBA has ~8,000 employees/contractors
- 17,580 unused ServiceNow licenses costing over $2 million annually
- Second year in a row spending $1.2 million on… Read more

Yesterday, agencies cancelled 128 contracts for ~$60M of savings. Total terminations of wasteful contracts has now surpassed 3,000 since DOGE’s inception!

This included a $3.5M consulting contract for “larval fish monitoring” that “the Bureau of Reclamation identified as… Read more

Today NIH canceled grants for ~$10.9 million including:
-$1.7M for the “China Health and Retirement Longitudinal study” at Peking University in Beijing, China
-$135K for a research grant to China Medical University in Shenyang, China
-$142K for “using telehealth to improve access… Read more

Since this post, @USGSA took immediate action to reduce IT spend by deleting 114,163 unused software licenses & 15 underutilized / redundant software products — for a total annual savings of $9.6M.

In 2023, @USOPM took out a $6M loan (Technology Modernization Fund) to convert the website to a new platform. After spending $5M, it is nowhere near complete and, if it was finished, would cost $400k/year to host (current OPM website hosting cost is… Read more

Update on the mine!

OPM has successfully executed the first ever fully digital retirement. The process took 2 days and more work is needed, but this is a great improvement from the current paper solution taking multiple months. Great job by the @USOPM team.

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:

- $60M for "Indigenous Peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment"
- $74M for "inclusive justice" in Colombia
- $79M for "primary literacy" in Kenya
- $37M for "female empowerment" in… Read more

Credit Card Update!

Pilot program across 14 civilian agencies to audit unused/unneeded “P-cards” (~700K accounts with ~$30B of spend in FY24).
After 8 days, ~24,000 cards have been de-activated, which will likely double by end of week.
Credit cards were also addressed in the… Read more

Agreed! Today, lease cancellations on vacant/underutilized buildings are up from ~257 to ~440, with annual rent savings increasing from ~$100M to ~$171M.
Still plenty of available office space for the current workforce.

RT @USAEdMartin: Duly noted. We are on it.

RT @DHSgov: . @EagleEdMartin, please investigate.

@Sec_Noem @DHSgov @EagleEdMartin

A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.

As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… Read more

RT @USGSAStephenE: Hope we didn't make you wait too long...  within 3 hours of @DOGE post, @USGSA is taking immediate action to reduce $5.5…Read more

Great job by @SecVetAffairs
@DeptVetAffairs

This included cancelling a $3M contract for “organizational culture training” to instruct VA leadership on what culture and values they should have.

Today, the Federal Government exceeded $100M in annual rent savings through cancellations of 250+ vacant/underutilized leases totaling 3M+ square feet. With ~7,250 current leases, there is plenty of available office space for the current workforce.

This audit was repeated at the Department of Labor. Initial results:

- 380 Microsoft 365 licenses with zero users
- 128 Microsoft Teams conference room licenses; only installed in 30 rooms
- 250 VSCode licenses; only using 33
- 129 Photoshop licenses; only using 22.
- 5… Read more

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:

-$69mm for the Eurasia Foundation to do "digital transformation activity" in Europe
-$32mm to Internews for programs including "media enabling democracy, inclusion, and… Read more

Introducing the Agency Efficiency Leaderboard. The competition is on!

Also did another contract upload, with more than 2,200 contract terminations now listed on the site. Working on the best way to provide grant termination receipts.

The Social Security Admin. completed the same software audit. Initial findings:

-4 redundant survey tools, ranging from $118K-$1.8M/year
-Paying for 10,000 UI Path licenses; only using 5,011
-Paying for 20,600 Tableau licenses; only using 11,560

Fixes in work.

Agencies often have more software licenses than employees, and the licenses are often idle (i.e. paid for, but not installed on any computer). For example, at GSA, with 13,000 employees, there are:
- 37,000 WinZip licenses
- 19,000 training software subscriptions (and multiple… Read more

Thanks to the everyone for DM’ing ideas to the DOGE Affiliate accounts. Already having a large impact as seen by the @DOGE_GSA post below.

Please keep sending!

Good work by @epaleezeldin @EPA

Today’s contract update:

95 cancellations with savings of ~$115M (ceiling value of ~$235M), including two USDA contracts:
- $265k for a “food and nutrition service 3 day leadership retreat in Atlanta”
- $30K for “Malaysia study tour facilitation services”

The @USGSA sold the old Webster School building in DC for $4,138,000. The building was acquired via condemnation in 2003, remained empty and boarded up ever since, and accrued $24M of deferred maintenance and liabilities.

Great transparency from @SecDef

Appreciate the DOGE discussion at 2:15

Great work @SecRollins @USDA

Schools have spent nearly $200B of COVID-Relief funds with little oversight or impact on students. $393K to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium, $86K in Caesars Palace hotel rooms, $60k in swimming pool passes, and even an ice cream truck. All of this money was drawn with… Read more

@USTreasury Great partnership with @USTreasury @SecScottBessent

Incredible job by @USTreasury in saving the American taxpayers $1.9 billion.

The Department of Education has terminated 18 grants for $226mm to Comprehensive Centers, which provided consulting services with a large focus on DEI. One Center application stated: “Embedding DEI reviews across all deliverables and materials ensures it is not a one-off task… Read more

Note that the DOGE website pulls from FPDS. If there is an error in FPDS, there can temporarily be a display error on the DOGE website until FPDS and the website link are updated. This appears to be rare, but we will strive to point it out when it occurs.

This is inaccurate.
In September 2022, the agency contracting officer mistakenly wrote $8B instead of $8M when logging in the FPDS database. DOGE discovered this error in January 2025, and the agency updated FPDS accordingly. DOGE has always used the correct $8M in its… Read more

Great job by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in saving taxpayers $360M by streamlining its Affordable Care Act Navigator program.

Last year, CMS spent $98M to enroll 92,000 individuals in federally-facilitated health exchanges at a cost of $1,061 per… Read more

The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24.

DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs - we will report back in 1 week.

RT @RapidResponse47: President Trump reads aloud a list of some of the ridiculous projects taxpayers have been funding — like $10 million f…Read more

@PressSec is correct on both points.

The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).

In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost… Read more

This is inaccurate. The referenced “classified information” is actually public FedScope data, posted publicly by OPM (Office of Personnel Management) in March 2024.

Looking into this

A post on…paper checks!

-Treasury processed 116 million paper checks in FY2024.
-In FY2023, $25 billion in tax refunds were delayed or lost due to returned or expired checks.
-Treasury maintains a physical lockbox network to collect checks for tax (IRS), passport (State… Read more

DOGE is looking for help from the general public!

Please DM insight for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, along with any helpful insights or awesome ideas, to the relevant DOGE affiliates (found on the Affiliates tab). For example, @DOGE_USDA, @DOGE_SSA, etc.
We will add… Read more

A first step in reforming the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation)

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:
- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"
- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
- $2.3M for "strengthening… Read more

Great kickoff with @DeptofDefense.

Looking forward to working together to safely save taxpayer dollars and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.

Thanks to @usedgov for the support

Roses are red, violets are blue,
Today, DOGE and 10 agencies made 586 wasteful contracts bid adieu!

With a ceiling value of $2.1B and $445M in savings secured,
A perfect Valentine’s gift for all taxpayers—well-earned and deserved!

Today’s batch includes a $8.2M USDA… Read more

Fixed.

This letter was sent to the departments of education in all 50 states, notifying them they have 14 days to remove all DEI programming in all public schools. Institutions which fail to comply may face a loss of federal funding.

In the last 48 hours, the Department of Education terminated 70 DEI training grants totaling $373M.

One trained teachers to “engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets.”

Great work!

$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. @SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the… Read more

$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. @SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the… Read more

Today’s contract update:

167 cancellations with savings of ~$115M, including a $2.23M contract for HHS for “equity assessments of existing program policies”.

The Department of Education terminated grants to the four “Equity Assistance Centers” totaling $33M.

One provided “professional learning around critical race theory and racial literacy”. Video below:

Great momentum by @epa @epaleezeldin

Good start by @usedgov
Verified that these have all been cancelled.

DOGE website is live!


Initial site:
1. X feed posts
2. Consolidated government org chart - enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices
3. Summary of the massive regulatory state, including the Unconstitutionality Index (ratio of rules written… Read more

Awesome job by @epaleezeldin @EPA

EPA also cancelled 3 DEI contracts, saving American taxpayers $45M.

Today’s contract update:

58 cancellations with savings of >$150M in categories including Media, DEI, and Consulting. This includes $405K at DHS for “resilience, energy, and sustainability management program support services” and ~4M at DoT for “DEIA program and project… Read more

While looking into this, the team identified a $25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece” with the description “To provide material, legal and psychological support to LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees; inform and raise awareness of civil society on issues… Read more

Amazing job by @Sec_Noem @DHSgov

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process… Read more

Fixed. The Gender Identity section has been deleted.

Also today, the Department Of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm.

One contractor was paid $1.5mm to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center.”

Today, the Department of Education terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101mm.

One sought to train teachers to “help students understand / interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual… Read more

Today, the Department of Agriculture terminated 18 contracts for a total of ~$9mm, including contracts for “Central American gender assessment consultant services”, “Brazil forest and gender consultant services”, and the “women in forest carbon initiative mentorship program.”

Adjustment to DHS website

Gulf of America

Great coordination across 35 agencies over the last two days to terminate 199 wasteful contracts saving ~$250mm, including:

-Contract for “Asia Pacific - Sri Lanka climate change mitigation adaption and resilience coordinator services for forest service”
-Workshop for… Read more