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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is still terminating billions of dollars’ worth of contracts.
In its first public update for month than a month, DOGE posted on X that over the previous four weeks federal agencies had “terminated or descoped” 273 contracts with a value of $5.1 billion and savings of $1.4 billion.
Those contracts included a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract to “review the current organization, analyze findings, and provide industry best practices and customer-centric strategic recommendations support to transform and optimize the organizational structure and function” worth $6.7 million; a War Department professional services contract for leadership training, worth nearly $1 million; a $10.2 million War Department contract for “outward mindset training;” and an $11,000 contract for “social indicators research.”
The DOGE website has not been updated since the beginning of the year, but the Department’s efforts are claimed to have led to savings of $215 billion, or $1,335 per taxpayer.
On Friday, a DOGE group at work in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it had “open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history.”
“This dataset contains aggregated, provider-level claims data for a specific billing code over time. For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota,” the group posted on X.
DOGE was created by President Trump to identify and eliminate government waste, under the leadership of billionaire Elon Musk, who left the project in May, after his status as a special government employee expired.
Musk celebrated the release of the open-source data over the weekend.
“Medicaid data has been open sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify,” Musk wrote on X.
“DOGE is not a department, it’s a state of mind.”
