DOGE reaches milestone in savings from nixed frivolous contracts

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on Monday the reaching of a major milestone in its cost-cutting endeavors.

In a post published to X, the department revealed that it’d just terminated 111 “wasteful contracts” within “three days,” saving the American people $263 million, which is over a quarter of a billion dollars.

The savings came from the cutting of various programs, including a $21,000 cut from a Department of Energy “executive coaching program for an estimated 30 senior executives,” and a whopping $480,000 cut from a program for the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s “FM operations and maintenance in Lusaka, Zambia.”

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… pic.twitter.com/M1l7K3towt

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) June 10, 2025

However, until Congress codifies the cuts, there’s always a chance the money could be reallocated back to the aforementioned programs.

The latest cuts come amid a debate over the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) and whether or not it should codify the cuts.

Some want the OBBB to include the cuts, but others are instead pushing for the cuts to be passed separately sometime later. DOGE founder Elon Musk is among those rooting for the former.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” he bluntly told CBS News in an interview that aired late last month.

“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion,” he added.

“I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful. But I don’t know if it could be both.”

Tech billionaire Elon Musk tells CBS Sunday Morning’s @Pogue he was “disappointed” to see the Trump-backed “big beautiful” spending bill, which passed in the House last week.

Musk said… pic.twitter.com/LUcuTaNYrs

— CBS Sunday Morning (@CBSSunday) May 28, 2025

It doesn’t help that several Senate Republicans have expressed skepticism about DOGE’s work.

“It could be possible that, after careful consideration, we would decide to codify some of [the recommendations],” Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins told The Hill in March.

But she added that this plan of action shouldn’t be applied “across the board” to every single DOGE recommendation.

Sen. Mike Rounds, meanwhile, raised concerns about the pace at which DOGE was cutting into the federal government.

“It’s moving a lot faster than most of us thought that it would — we want to make sure that we have an input into it,” he told Dakota News Now. “We want to make sure that as members of the Senate, when we find something that’s not right, we can get it fixed as soon as possible.”

“The American people have said, one way or another, we’ve got to get this spending under control. So we’re going to try to help the president wherever we can to get it under control, but we’re also going to be a double check where there is damage being done that should not be done,” he added.

As of around mid-June, Musk had returned to the private sector and was no longer actively working with DOGE.

In remarks made to Ars Technica in late May, he pondered whether he’d spent too much time on politics this past year.

“I think I probably did spend a bit too much time on politics,” he lamented. “It’s less than people would think, because the media is going to over-represent any political stuff, because political bones of contention get a lot of traction in the media.”

“It’s not like I left the companies. It was just relative time allocation that probably was a little too high on the government side, and I’ve reduced that significantly in recent weeks,” he added.

Below are more examples of recent DOGE savings:

More unused phone lines!@USGSA 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… https://t.co/ETatte7GLH

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) June 8, 2025

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… pic.twitter.com/vRGx7OqKR1

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) June 4, 2025

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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