According to the latest update, the government's Department of Efficiency (DOGE) has saved US taxpayers about $150 billion.
Doge update This week's website again with the latest figures on massive savings for Americans. According to the update, US taxpayer savings now reach $150 billion, up from the $140 billion in the last update. The result is a $931.68 savings per taxpayer.
The Doge website reveals that the $150 billion savings are a combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellation and renegotiation, fraud and improper payment removal, grant cancellation, interest savings, program changes, regulations savings, and labor reductions. We are working to upload all receipts, but we continue to display a subset of terminated grants, contracts, and more, representing “~30% of total savings.”
The latest wall in receipts shows 7,279 contract terminations with a total of $25 billion in savings. For example, it shows the departments of the internal contracts department that list Family Endeavors and Inc as vendors. The explanation is as follows:
Office of a facility for resettlement and influx for refugees. An influx care facility (ICF) for up to 3,000 unaccompanied aliens (UACs). The agreement provided facilities and full wraparound child care and case management services.
According to Doge, the cancellation of that contract brought savings to $2,902,177,562.
Doge also presents the termination of 9,283 grants of total savings of $33 billion and leases of 676 total savings of $400 million.
At the time of this writing, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was the most savings-generating federal agency, followed by the Department of Education and the General Services. Those that generate the smallest savings include the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Doge update announces another surprising discovery.
“The first survey of unemployment claims since 2020 revealed the following,” Doge revealed 245,000 people over the age of 115 have claimed $59 million in benefits, 157,000 people claiming $254 million in benefits, and 97,000 people claiming $15 years or more in the future.
“Another incredible discovery by the @Doge team found nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments,” Labour Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer assured that the Department of Labor is “committed to collecting stolen taxes.”
“We will continue to work to catch these burglars and eradicate terrible fraud. Here's the accountability,” she added.
