
$160 Billion Saved, Thousands of Contracts Killed, DEI Grants Lost: DOGE Roundup
One of the first things that President Donald Trump did upon assuming office was to take an agency first established by President Barack Obama and change it into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).He then placed Elon Musk in charge of that department, with the stated goal to root out government waste and fraud. And what’s been happening for the past three months is that DOGE has found a lot of what it calls wasteful spending. It’s not just “finding it,” however. Different departments of the government are taking steps to cut spending and cancel contracts, based on DOGE’s…
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