Over the past seven days, various government agencies have terminated 312 “wasteful contracts” with a ceiling value of $2.8 billion, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a June 26 post on social media platform X.
The cancellation saves $470 million for the taxpayers, it said. Canceled contracts include a $286,000 Department of Defense “professional and management development contract for an ‘entrepreneurship course at Harvard University’” and a $485,000 “USAID contract for a ‘senior general development advisor at USAID Madagascar.’”
According to the DOGE website, it had saved an estimated $180 billion in government spending as of June 3, which comes to $1,118 per taxpayer.
The savings are the result of contract and lease cancellations and renegotiations, grant cancellations, deletion of fraud and improper payments, asset sales, and workforce reductions….
Termination of ‘Wasteful Contracts’ Saves US Government $470 Million Last Week: DOGE
