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. @ElonMusk and the entire DOGE team have already saved taxpayers $170 billion, equivalent to roughly $1,056 per taxpayer. This a historic effort to cut waste, fraud, and abuse and modernize the federal government that will only continue. 🧵on some of Department of Government Efficiency's wins so far...

Website project! The federal government has over 6,500 public-facing websites, many of which are obsolete or unused. For ~10%, there were fewer than 10 views in the past month. Each website costs the taxpayer between $100k and $6M per year. An initial audit suggests ~20% can

Contract update! On Friday, agencies terminated 44 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.4B and savings of $292M including a a $20k DHS consultant-run “Speed of Trust leadership development training program for staff development and organizational effectiveness”.

Contracts Update! Over the last two days, agencies terminated 61 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $428M and savings of $255M, including a $71.3k HHS professional services contract for “media training for up to 12 people to enable them to more effectively and clearly

On June 2, online digital retirement became the government standard at Retire.opm.gov! Great teamwork by OPM and DOGE. Next up (end of July): getting the first retirement benefit payments to retirees faster (currently takes multiple months). Will report back in July!

GSA and DOGE looked into this. In this specific case, the claim appears to be untrue and the company has issued the statement linked below. DOGE is now cross-checking workforce data to see if this is happening generally and will report back on results.

Great work by U.S. Department of Education and Department of Government Efficiency taking action on long-running fraud in federal student aid estimated to cost taxpayers > $1B/year and contributed to shortfalls in education funding available to low income students. The Dept. Of Education disburses $120 billion in student aid

Credit Card Update! After 14 weeks, the program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has expanded to 55 agencies resulting in ~610k de-activated cards. As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts; more work to do!

More unused phone lines! GSA saved ~$800k/year by eliminating ~1,700 unused plans, switching plans for many of the remaining ones, and eliminating 2,218 unused cellular equipment payments. SBA reduced its VOIP licenses from 9,195 to 2,690, eliminating 6,505

Contracts Update! Great work by agencies over the last three days terminating 111 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $790M and savings of $263M, including $21k for a Department of Energy “executive coaching program for an estimated 30 senior executives” and $480k for

Year over Year Contract Obligation Update! As of June 8th, annual non-defense federal obligations are down 22.4%, (~$25B), as compared to 2024. This is an additional ~1.9% reduction from last month. Cash outlays will follow as obligations come due. Our initiative to reduce

The National Weather Service National Weather Service is collaborating with DOGE to modernize its nationwide Weather Radio system. Of their 1033 transmitter sites, ~380 still rely on copper lines from the 1960s. These lines are expensive ($17M/yr) and faulty. For example, Los Angeles’ T1 line goes

Software License Update! IRSnews, @SECgov, and U.S. Department of Labor continue to make great progress. IRS saved $12.3M/yr cancelling 11,000 unused Power Apps (44k to 33k) and 1,565 Project Planner licenses (3,465 to 1,900). SEC saved $3.4M/yr by removing 1,300 general Office 365 licenses

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Unused Software License Update! Dept. of Agriculture saved $14M/yr by removing 6,323 unused PowerApps (20,708 to 14,385), 2,549 Team Domestic Calling licenses (8,412 to 5,863), 822 Project Planners (2,116 to 1,294) and 2,335 Visio licenses (4,987 to 2,652). NASA saved ~$500k/yr by removing

Contracts Update! Over the last 3 days, agencies have terminated 90 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.5B and savings of $200M including a $911k NASA DEI climate contract for “integrating earth observations toward advancing equitable resilience to geo-hazards in a

As promised, U.S. Department of Labor has returned billions more in unspent and unusable COVID-era funding to the Treasury — and we will continue to ensure Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars are utilized effectively! Read more ➡️ dol.gov/newsroom/relea…

Nearly $30 BILLION in savings (so far) thanks to Department of Government Efficiency

Great working with Secretary Brooke Rollins and Dept. of Agriculture in saving $148M terminating wasteful grants including: - $500k for “urban forestry to lead to environmental justice through more equitably distributed green spaces and a more diverse green movement” - $174k to “empower youth of color to