DOGE boasts dozens of contract cancellations on Wednesday, totaling over $150M in savings

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced the cancellation of astatine slightest 58 contracts connected Wednesday, resulting successful much than $150 cardinal successful savings for the American taxpayer.

In a Wednesday evening station connected X, the bureau headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk said the contracts canceled fell nether the media, DEI and consulting categories astatine assorted agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation.

"58 cancellations with savings of >$150M successful categories including Media, DEI, and Consulting. This includes $405K astatine DHS for ‘resilience, energy, and sustainability absorption programme enactment services’ and ~4M astatine DoT for ‘DEIA programme and task absorption enactment services,'" the station said.

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Later Wednesday evening, DOGE besides confirmed the Department of Education slashed its fund by canceling astir $9 cardinal successful contracts that near students "no amended off."

Those contracts included $4.6 cardinal to coordinate zoom and in-person meetings, $3 cardinal to constitute a study that showed anterior reports were not utilized by schools, and $1.4 cardinal to physically observe mailing and clerical operations, according to the DoE.

DOGE described the aforementioned cancellations arsenic a "good start."

"We privation to guarantee that each dollar being spent is directed toward improving acquisition for kids – not conferences and reports connected reports," the DoE posted connected X.

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DOGE besides announced its website creating transparency successful government spending officially launched nether the URL doge.gov.

Though definite aspects connected the website are not yet available, the homepage includes each of DOGE's posts connected X, portion different tabs diagnostic a "consolidated authorities org chart" and a "summary of the monolithic regulatory state, including the unconstitutionality scale ratio."

Two different highly anticipated categories, a moving statement of each outgo simplification with receipts and an wide savings scoreboard, volition hopefully beryllium unrecorded by Valentine's Day, DOGE said.

"We volition perpetually beryllium moving to maximize the site’s inferior and transparency. Please fto america cognize what other you privation to see!" DOGE said connected X.

President Donald Trump, who established DOGE via an enforcement bid to "maximize governmental ratio and productivity," has praised the agency's efforts frankincense acold by acknowledging "massive amounts" of fraud, waste, incompetence and maltreatment person been located and addressed.