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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said on Friday that government agencies terminated or reduced 55 contracts in the past three days at a combined cost of $1.6 billion, seeking savings of $542 million.
DOGE, whose name acknowledges Elon Musk’s high-profile involvement, was launched in the opening days of President Donald Trump’s administration as part of a broader effort to reshape government spending and bureaucracy.
Although Musk has backed away from the project, elements of the DOGE framework are still in effect across government agencies.
In a post on X, the department wrote: “Contract Review! In the past 3 days, agencies have terminated and eliminated 55 wasteful contracts with a cap value of $1.6B and savings of $542M.”
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The post listed several examples, including what it described as “a $47M State Department program support contract for ‘Africa/Djibouti, Somali weapons carriers and a Somali National Army team’,” and “HHS’s $19.5M IT Services contract for support of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in designing, creating, updating, and archiving Internet communications.”
DOGE also referred to “DoW’s $151k educational services contract for the ‘Director Development Program in Leadership – Partnership Course to be held at Northwestern University’,” according to the post.
Screenshots shared with the DOGE post show federal contract records with descriptions and quoted dollar amounts.
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DOGE announced a blitz to reduce money on Friday night with the X post. (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket)
One screenshot shows a contract record linked to Somalia, which lists professional program management support under the organization’s service code and identifies the service’s country of origin as Somalia. The contract description refers to the support related to the carriers of weapons and personnel of the Somali National Army in Djibouti and Somalia.
The second screenshot shows an IT management support services contract based in the United States, organized under computer systems design services. The description describes the work of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences that focuses on maintaining and managing Internet communications, including websites, web pages, mobile devices and social media.
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The DOGE post did not provide additional details about when the contracts were originally awarded, how much funding has already been committed or disbursed, or any agency actions that produced the amount of savings mentioned in the post.
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The announcement comes amid increased investigations this week into state-funded day care centers for Somali children in Minnesota accused of raking in millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House, DOGE, State Department and HHS for more information.
