May 01st, 2025
May 1
Over the last two days, agencies terminated 401 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.1B and savings of $613M, including a $276k Treasury contract for a “Kenya program coordinator”, a $228k Treasury contract for “Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and Tanzania cruiser vehicles”, a $24k DHS contract for “two day training on equal opportunity in employment”, a $15k DHS contract for “Out and Equal workplace advocates”, and a $5.9M DoC contract for “environmental consulting support services”.
April 29
In the last two days, agencies terminated 179 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.87B and savings of $280M, including a $1.8M US Trade & Development contract for “energy and climate advisory services”, a $207k HHS consulting contract for a “grant writing workshop” and an $89k Treasury contract for a “country program manager in Namibia”
In the past 3 weeks, the @USDA terminated 420 wasteful grants totaling $2.5B in award value and $2.3B in savings, including:
- $150k for “gender lensed curricula designed to be transdisciplinary in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences”
- $100k for "climate resilience and sustainable agriculture in Ghana"
- $361k for "gender non- conforming, non-binary, two-spirit" BIPOC farmers in New York
Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:
-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
April 28
Their newly launched Fraud Detection Operations Center has, in 1 month, suspended payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud, including "billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier".
These providers are suspected of stealing taxpayer money through unscrupulous actions such as:
- Billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier
- Billing $2.2 MILLION in genetic testing to patients who confirmed they never received the tests
- Billing $1.1 MILLION for wound care services rendered by a… psychiatrist
Great job by @TheJusticeDept for prosecuting voter fraud where a non-citizen voted in a federal election.
Note that this individual was also previously arrested for first-degree assault and was receiving federal benefits.
April 25
Over the last two days, agencies terminated 226 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.03B and savings of $555M, including a $5.4M IRS consulting contract for “exploring emerging issues within the IRS”, and a $20k NSF "management development" contract for training course materials for “understanding bias to unleash potential”.
Great work by @NSF canceling 701 wasteful DEI grants ($203M in savings), including “Building Racial Equity in Marine Science.” This brings the total to over $325M saved in the past 2 weeks.
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is committed to ensuring @USDOL enforces the law and carries out @POTUS ' directives. We will hold states accountable for rewarding illegal immigration.
Unemployment benefits must go to the workers who need them, NOT illegal immigrants.
April 24
For the past 7 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 11 million number holders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~1.4 million to go with expected completion in 2 weeks.
Over the last several days, agencies have terminated 269 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M, including a $50k @Interior consulting contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem solving services”.
Agencies also terminated $90M in wasteful grants, including $995k for a "BIPOC culinary program" and $625k for a "Russian-Far East biodiversity partnership".
April 23
The Department of Justice has started cutting millions of dollars in wasteful grants. Some of the greatest hits include:
$2M for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience”
$695k for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services”
$250k for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities”
April 18
Great work by @NSF canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.
April 15
Credit Card Update!
The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1912353729904513242/photo/1
April 15
@SecRubio continues to scrutinize @StateDept foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including:
- $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom
- $2.5mm for “advancing critical civic engagement” in Uzbekistan
- $2mm for “Expanded Newsroom Sustainability and Engagement” in Moldova
- $1mm for “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil
- $2.4mm for “Responding to Disinformation Through Creative Content in Belarus”
- $1.7mm for “Independent Media for Peace and Democracy” in Europe
- $1.5mm for a “Women-led Gendered Approach to Justice and Accountability”
- $1.7mm for “BeMediaWise” in Bulgaria
- $900k for a “Place for Women to Join to Organize” in Mauritania
- $750k for “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon
- $740k for a feminist “Free Expression Initiative”in Tunisia
April 14
Agencies terminated 180 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.3B and savings of $2.6B, including a $85.5K @EPA contract for “live plant maintenance services” (the internal EPA team will water them going forward) and a $265.5K @HHSGov contract for “social media monitoring subscription, training, and platform setup”.
Great work by the @DeptVetAffairs cancelling an unreasonably priced multi-year $15.3M services contract for “salary survey data and analysis.”
The service was replaced at market price of ~$5K/year vs. the contracted $3.9M/year, saving $11.1M over the remaining life of the contract. back...
Over the last two days, agencies terminated 401 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.1B and savings of $613M, including a $276k Treasury contract for a “Kenya program coordinator”, a $228k Treasury contract for “Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and Tanzania cruiser vehicles”, a $24k DHS contract for “two day training on equal opportunity in employment”, a $15k DHS contract for “Out and Equal workplace advocates”, and a $5.9M DoC contract for “environmental consulting support services”.
April 29
In the last two days, agencies terminated 179 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.87B and savings of $280M, including a $1.8M US Trade & Development contract for “energy and climate advisory services”, a $207k HHS consulting contract for a “grant writing workshop” and an $89k Treasury contract for a “country program manager in Namibia”
In the past 3 weeks, the @USDA terminated 420 wasteful grants totaling $2.5B in award value and $2.3B in savings, including:
- $150k for “gender lensed curricula designed to be transdisciplinary in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences”
- $100k for "climate resilience and sustainable agriculture in Ghana"
- $361k for "gender non- conforming, non-binary, two-spirit" BIPOC farmers in New York
Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:
-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
April 28
Their newly launched Fraud Detection Operations Center has, in 1 month, suspended payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud, including "billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier".
These providers are suspected of stealing taxpayer money through unscrupulous actions such as:
- Billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier
- Billing $2.2 MILLION in genetic testing to patients who confirmed they never received the tests
- Billing $1.1 MILLION for wound care services rendered by a… psychiatrist
Great job by @TheJusticeDept for prosecuting voter fraud where a non-citizen voted in a federal election.
Note that this individual was also previously arrested for first-degree assault and was receiving federal benefits.
April 25
Over the last two days, agencies terminated 226 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.03B and savings of $555M, including a $5.4M IRS consulting contract for “exploring emerging issues within the IRS”, and a $20k NSF "management development" contract for training course materials for “understanding bias to unleash potential”.
Great work by @NSF canceling 701 wasteful DEI grants ($203M in savings), including “Building Racial Equity in Marine Science.” This brings the total to over $325M saved in the past 2 weeks.
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is committed to ensuring @USDOL enforces the law and carries out @POTUS ' directives. We will hold states accountable for rewarding illegal immigration.
Unemployment benefits must go to the workers who need them, NOT illegal immigrants.
April 24
For the past 7 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 11 million number holders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~1.4 million to go with expected completion in 2 weeks.
Over the last several days, agencies have terminated 269 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M, including a $50k @Interior consulting contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem solving services”.
Agencies also terminated $90M in wasteful grants, including $995k for a "BIPOC culinary program" and $625k for a "Russian-Far East biodiversity partnership".
April 23
The Department of Justice has started cutting millions of dollars in wasteful grants. Some of the greatest hits include:
$2M for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience”
$695k for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services”
$250k for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities”
April 18
Great work by @NSF canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.
April 15
Credit Card Update!
The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1912353729904513242/photo/1
April 15
@SecRubio continues to scrutinize @StateDept foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including:
- $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom
- $2.5mm for “advancing critical civic engagement” in Uzbekistan
- $2mm for “Expanded Newsroom Sustainability and Engagement” in Moldova
- $1mm for “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil
- $2.4mm for “Responding to Disinformation Through Creative Content in Belarus”
- $1.7mm for “Independent Media for Peace and Democracy” in Europe
- $1.5mm for a “Women-led Gendered Approach to Justice and Accountability”
- $1.7mm for “BeMediaWise” in Bulgaria
- $900k for a “Place for Women to Join to Organize” in Mauritania
- $750k for “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon
- $740k for a feminist “Free Expression Initiative”in Tunisia
April 14
Agencies terminated 180 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.3B and savings of $2.6B, including a $85.5K @EPA contract for “live plant maintenance services” (the internal EPA team will water them going forward) and a $265.5K @HHSGov contract for “social media monitoring subscription, training, and platform setup”.
Great work by the @DeptVetAffairs cancelling an unreasonably priced multi-year $15.3M services contract for “salary survey data and analysis.”
The service was replaced at market price of ~$5K/year vs. the contracted $3.9M/year, saving $11.1M over the remaining life of the contract. back...
