The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was officially established by an executive order on President Trump’s first day in office of his second term. What has been accomplished in the first ten months?
At the end of the federal budget year, the DOGE Savings Tracker reports that DOGE saved $214 billion dollars. That is $1329.19 per taxpayer. You can follow the savings @DOGELiveTracker on X/Twitter.
DOGE achieved these savings through a combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.
Despite incredible push back from the administrative deep state and Democrats in DC, DOGE managed to save $21.4 billion a month to date. Some of the savings were low hanging fruit while other savings required digging and whistle blowers. Much of what DOGE is trying to do is to change the administrative mindset. To have every government employee and every elected official to remember that the money they are spending, and sometimes wasting, belongs to the American taxpayer.
Over the last 5 days alone, agencies terminated 108 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $5.8B and savings of $397M, including a $3.1M State Dept. education contract for “Tanzania National Coordination Office Development”, a $46.5k US Agency for Global Media lease for “office space for the Voice of America East Asia and Pacific Service”, a $5.8M HHS training contract for “organizational development, executive coaching, and leadership training”, and a $44M State Dept. contract for “professional services in Doha, Qatar”.
Opponents of DOGE point out that because federal spending increased 6%, DOGE didn't succeed in breaking the cycle of growing government spending. That is true, but DOGE doesn’t control the budget process. Congress does and Congress is at an impasse right now precisely because Democrats do not want to reduce spending.
DOGE will continue ferreting out waste, fraud, and abuse and modernizing processes while Congress fights it out over the budget.