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Department of Defense @DeptofDefense - NEWS: @POTUS, Zelenskyy, World Leaders Meet at @WhiteHouse to Negotiate Peace Deal
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4278050/trump-zelenskyy-world-leaders-meet-at-white-house-to-negotiate-peace-deal/
https://x.com/DeptofDefense/status/1957558334967390340
Department of Government Efficiency - @DOGE Contracts Update!
In the last 5 days, agencies terminated 123 wasteful contacts with a ceiling value of $5.3B and savings of $4.2B, including an $857k DOI contract for a “technical advisor, Lagos Nigeria”, a $1.5M Dept. of Treasury contract for “Word Processing and Document Formatting Services Examination Training” for the IRS, SBSE and HCO, and a $785k State Dept. consulting contract for “staffing”.
Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE - A classic case of Fake News. This @politico article is misleading at best, and politically motivated at worst.
Politico claims that DOGE’s cost savings are somehow not real because DOGE is using a “faulty” methodology predicated on ceiling values. Politico argues that the ceiling “can far exceed what the government has actually committed to pay out.” Theoretically true, practically false: the government WILL likely max out to the ceiling!
In federal contracting, ceilings matter because they are almost always maxed out.
For example, an analysis of the last 3 years of FPDS data shows that:
-of the 5.3M awards at contract end in FY22, 97.64% were spent to the ceiling
-of the 5.4M awards at contract end in FY23, 97.84% were spent to the ceiling
-of the 5.4M awards at contract end in FY24, 98.12% were spent to the ceiling
We think there’s a pattern here that perhaps a more intrepid reporter might have uncovered. Ceiling minus obligations is true savings in government contracting, making the $20k credit card analogy lazy and trivializing the very real work of protecting taxpayer dollars by using cheap jabs like ‘time for lunch.’
This is also why lowering ceilings is real savings. It prevents unpoliced “drunken sailor” spending. For extra measure, DOGE reviews entries with agency partners and makes adjustments as reported. We don’t pad results; the math is conservative, and the savings are real.
If Politico is still struggling with 'why' ceiling is in fact the right way to measure savings and is not in fact “an accounting trick,” we invite them to personally guarantee a sample of government contracts for the full ceiling amount. That should clarify things.
We can agree on one thing, though: Congress needs to pass more rescission packages so that the unused funds go back to the Treasury instead of being spent by default.
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POLITICO @politico
DOGE-flation: DOGE’s actual savings are a fraction of what it claims https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1957113541334302951
Deputy Secretary Sonderling @Sonderling47 - For 150 years, Reynolds America has been a strong advocate for the American Worker and a staple of the North Carolina economy.
Great to visit their Winston-Salem facility this past week!
https://x.com/Sonderling47/status/1957616948768043508
Disclose.tv @disclosetv - JUST IN - Norway's crown princess' son charged with 32 counts, including four rapes — VG
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1957436998341239062
DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard - Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans' private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected.
As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a "back door" that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1957623737232007638
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