In less than a month, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has claimed to have saved $55 billion for American taxpayers.
DOGE announced in a post on their official website that they had saved money by renegotiating or canceling leases and contracts, selling assets, canceling grants, identifying regulatory savings, changing government programs, and laying off employees.
“Let’s get the budget balanced! “A combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings, DOGE’s total estimated savings amount to $55 billion,” the post partially stated.
“This will be updated twice a week at first; as the website gets better, the updates will eventually converge to real-time.”
This comes after arguments over whether to temporarily bar Musk and DOGE from accessing federal data networks at various executive branch agencies were heard by federal judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC.
Remember how US President Donald Trump encouraged Musk and DOGE to take immediate action to reduce expenses across the nation’s agencies?
The Republican supported Musk and his group in their efforts to uncover hundreds of billions of dollars in agency fraud and abuse.