A post on DOGE’s X account on Friday announced that 312 “wasteful contracts” with a ceiling value of $2.8 billion were cancelled during the previous seven days
Image Credit: Samuel Corum / StringerThe Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is still saving US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a week, under the tenure of its new leader Amy Gleason.
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Total savings for taxpayers as a result of the cancellations are $470 million.
The canceled contracts include large Department of Defense and USAID contracts.
According to the DOGE website, the department has saved $180 billion and counting, which works out at over $1100 per taxpayer.
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This week, the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held a hearing on DOGE and recommended codifying its spending cuts.
“DOGE has attracted enemies because it’s taken on Washington’s culture of spending. We should make that a permanent battle. We should institutionalize the battle against waste, fraud, and abuse in government,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
Billionaire Elon Musk completed his scheduled tenure as head of DOGE at the end of last month.
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A bitter back-and-forth ensued between the Musk and the President, with Trump suggesting Musk had “lost his mind” and Musk claiming the Jeffrey Epstein files were not being released to protect the President. It was rumoured President Trump would sell the red Tesla Musk gave him, and Musk said he would decommission his Dragon spacecraft, which is essential to NASA missions, and also back the creation of a third political party to represent the majority of Americans. Musk also suggested he would back impeaching Trump and that he would support Democrats against the President.
In an interview with NBC, President Trump said that if Musk supported his political opponents, he would “have to pay very serious consequences.”
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On Saturday, however, Musk re-entered the political fray again, calling the Big Beautiful Bill “utterly insane” and “political suicide” in a Tweet as the Senate debated whether to give the bill a first reading.
Despite Musk’s Tweet, Senators voted 51-49 to begin debate on the 940-page bill that would fund the President’s flagship policies, including his mass-deportation and immigration agenda, tax cuts and increased military spending.