DOGE Says $5.8 Billion Saved From 100 Terminated Federal Contracts
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by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 - 07:45 AM
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced this past week that more than 100 federal contracts have been terminated with a value of nearly $6 billion.

Multiple agencies “terminated and descoped 108 wasteful contracts” that have a ceiling value of $5.8 billion and resulted in savings of $397 million,” DOGE wrote in an Oct. 10 post on X.

That includes a $3.1 million State Department contract titled, “Tanzania National Coordination Office Development,” it said, and a $46,500 U.S. Agency for Global Media lease for “office space for the Voice of America East Asia and Pacific Service.”

Other terminated items include a $5.8 million Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contract for “organizational development, executive coaching, and leadership training” and a $44 million State Department contract for “professional services in Doha, Qatar.”

After being established by President Donald Trump on his first day in office, DOGE has slashed around $214 billion in estimated savings, or around $1,329.19 per taxpayer, according to an Oct. 4 update.

So far, 13,440 contract terminations totaling approximately $61 billion, 15,887 grant terminations worth around $49 billion, and 264 lease terminations totaling around $113 million have been posted on DOGE’s website.

In a Jan. 20 order, Trump reorganized the former U.S. Digital Service and renamed it the Department of Government Efficiency. He directed the heads of federal agencies to allow DOGE staffers to have “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems.”

Trump signed another order in February directing the heads of agencies to “review all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, terminate or modify ” contracts to reduce federal spending and slash fraud, waste, and abuse.

Before his departure in late May, former special government employee and Trump adviser Elon Musk had served as a leader of DOGE and the administration’s efforts to reduce federal spending.

While the number of layoffs is unclear, a group called the Partnership for Public Service says that more than 201,000 federal employees have left the government as of Sept. 23.

Earlier in the year, the Trump administration also had offered to pay federal workers who do not want to return to offices the option of a “deferred resignation,” meaning they would agree to resign but get paid through Sept. 30.

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