Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Wins
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Wins
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DOGE has saved American taxpayers $170 billion, equivalent to roughly $1,056 per taxpayer, .
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In just seven weeks, DOGE ~523,000 of the ~4,600,000 million active U.S. government credit cards/accounts it uncovered in an audit.
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At DOGE’s direction, the Social Security Administration a major cleanup of their records, marking 12.3 million number holders -- all listed age 120 or older -- as deceased.
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DOGE the first ever all-digital, no paperwork federal retirement after exposing that the Office of Personnel Management uses a in Pennsylvania to manage documentation for federal retirements.
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DOGE its “Defend the Spend” initiative, which now requires recipients and agency leads to justify over $700,000,000 in daily payments.
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A DOGE survey of unemployment insurance claims since 2020 24,500 people over 115 years old claimed $59,000,000 in benefits, 28,000 people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254,000,000 in benefit and 9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69,000,000 in benefits.
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DOGE notes it has approximately 523,000 government credit cards over the past 13 weeks and continues its work to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in this area.
Agency-Specific
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
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over $45 billion in USAID spending.
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The remaining programs were by the State Department.
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a $23.5k USAID contract for the “garden landscaping and pool services at official mission director’s residence” of South Africa.”
Department of Justice (DOJ)
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the termination of millions of dollars in wasteful grants, including $2 million for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience,” $695,000 for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services,” and $250,000 for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities.”
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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a Biden administration EPA museum that, despite costing $4 million to build and an additional $600,000 in annual operational costs, saw less than 2,000 external visitors in almost an entire year.
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a $2 billion Biden administration grant for a Stacey Abrams-linked green group that was founded only months earlier and had reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation.
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Plans to nearly 800 environmental justice grants doled out by the Biden administration.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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$233 million in DEI grants, including $1 million for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation.”
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a $20,000 “management development” contract for training course materials for “understanding bias to unleash potential.”
Department of Defense (DOD)
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nearly $6 billion in spending over the first six weeks of the agency’s DOGE effort, with cuts including scrapping $500 million in funding to a pair of universities that "tolerate antisemitism and support divisive DEI programs” and $500 million for “completely duplicative” IT services.
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The Navy a slew of IT contracts and non-essential funding for activities like studying the “population consequences of the disturbance of humpback whales in the context of climate change,” unleashing savings of almost $300 million.
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approximately $5 billion in consultant contracts at the DoD.
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120 wasteful contracts, including a $288k DoD consulting contract for “culture services”, and $4.05M for “technical services” in Mozambique, saving $908 million.
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Air Force consulting contracts, saving “over $1 billion.”
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
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$2 billion without any operational disruptions by eliminating wasteful contracts, such as auto-renewed licenses unused for years.
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a $5.4 million consulting contract for “exploring emerging issues within the IRS.”
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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Cut nearly $1 billion in spending.
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78 contracts totaling more than $132 million in February, with cuts including $374,000 for a DEI onboarding specialist, $229,000 for a Brazilian forest and gender consultant, and $254,000 for diversity dialogue workshops.
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to ensure states confirm the identity and verify the immigration status of SNAP applicants.
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a $120,000 contract for an “Indonesia environmental policy and law enforcement specialist.”
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“a $118k USDA contract for the “Democratic Republic of Congo youth climate corps coordinator.”
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a $181k contract for a “technical climate advisor for central Africa.”
Department of State (State)
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over $2.5 billion in spending.
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139 grants worth $215 million on April 15th, including $740,000 for a feminist “free expression initiative” in Tunisia and $1.5 million for a “women-led gendered approach to justice and accountability.”
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Also $1.4 million in funding for “preventing internet fragmentation” in Brazil, $750,000 for “enabling civil society resilience and adaptation” in Kyrgyzstan and $1 million for “building trust and keeping hope alive” in Sri Lanka.
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plans to close 132 offices, reduce personnel by 15% and move 137 offices.
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81 wasteful contracts, including a $423k Dept. of State “technical consulting” contract for a “Bahrain workshop,” saving $244 million.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
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DOGE more than $630 million in SBA loans distributed to “borrowers” over the age of 115 or under the age of 11, driving the SBA to implement new, common-sense measures to stop fraud.
U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF)
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$51 million in grants, including $229,296 for marketing shea butter in Burkina Faso and $84,059 for a business incubator for spa & wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
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$25 million in wasteful DEI grants, including $265,000 for research into “why BIPOC teens read Japanese comic books,” $250,000 for “LGBTQ+ historical markers” in Ohio, and $140,000 for the University of South Carolina to create “safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals”
Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)
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In a textbook example of how DOGE efforts cut costs without sacrificing services, the Department of Veteran Affairs a $3.9 million/year contract for “salary survey data and analysis” with a ~$5,000/year one, saving $11.1 million over the contract’s remaining life.
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it would phase out funding for sex-change treatments.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
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roughly $20 million in annual savings from cutting DEI initiatives.
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100+ intelligence officers who engaged in sexually explicit conversations on an internal agency messaging board.
Department of Education (ED)
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$1.15 billion in spending, including to four “equity assistance centers” and million for consulting services with a large focus on DEI.
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a reduction in force in March impacting nearly 50% of the Department’s workforce.
Department of Energy (DOE)
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financial support of overheard regarding DOE research funding to 15%, saving $405 million annually.
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47 deregulatory actions within the Department of Energy, saving an estimated $11 billion.
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the realignment of Department of Energy grant criteria, saving $935 million annually.
Health and Human Services (HHS)
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nearly $50 billion in spending, including a for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH museum and an to provide training for military families to “affirm the gender identity” of their children.
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payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud, including “billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier,” in just one month.
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a $143K HHS contract for the “potency monitoring of confiscated marijuana samples.”
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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its “LBGTQI+ community resources” webpage.
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a $24k DHS contract for “two day training on equal opportunity in employment” and a $15k DHS contract for “Out and Equal workplace advocates.”
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
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$1.9 billion that had been misplaced by the Biden administration.
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the Obama-Biden zoning tax.
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$4 million in DEI contracts as of March 4th.
Department of Interior (DOI)
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an $830 million award to conduct website customer satisfaction surveys.
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a $195,000 contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services.”
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Worked with DOGE and USDA to a contract that had spent $17 million in 17 months on 2 consultants, without executing any actual field research.
General Services Administration (GSA)
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679 office space leases across the country totaling 8 million square feet and saving $400 million.
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$9.6 million annually by deleting 114.163 software licenses and 15 underutilized/redundant software products.
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