The U.S. General Services Agency (GSA) has cut over 100,000 unused software licenses to save $9.6 million a year after discovering that Government Efficiency (DOGE) has thousands of licenses over its employees.
Doge, led by Tech Mogul Elon Musk, revealed Monday that GSA has 37,000 licenses to use the file archiving service Winzip and 19,000 training software subscriptions.
Administrators who support the basic functions of other federal agencies also have 7,500 project management software sheets for departments with just 5,500 employees, with three different ticketing systems running “in parallel,” Doge added.
“The corrections are actively working,” the waste-destroying department said earlier this week.
By late Thursday night, Doge said the GSA had “taken immediate action to reduce IT spending” by removing 114,163 unused software licenses and 15 “fully utilized/redundant.” Software Products:
According to Doge, the annual savings from that cut amount to $9.6 million.
News of the latest cuts came hours before Rep. Claudia Tenney (r-ny) It was introduced A law that establishes and withholds federal funds from states that reject states.
“Doge is committed to eliminating waste, fraud and abuse at the federal level. It's time for state governments to follow suit. States like New York receive billions of dollars in federal aid each year, but they've wasted it on DEI's initiative and have created programs that are not in contact with the majority of Americans,” Tenney said in a statement to Breitbart News.
