The Department of Government Efficiency, oregon DOGE, launched an "Agency Efficiency Leaderboard" aboriginal Tuesday morning, which shows which authorities agencies person saved the astir successful canceled contracts and different cost-cutting measures.
DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk, besides a elder advisor to President Donald Trump, purports that its full estimated savings arsenic of Monday are $65 billion.
The savings travel from a "combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, plus sales, assistance cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings," according to DOGE.
"We are moving to upload each of this information successful a digestible and afloat transparent mode with wide assumptions, accordant with applicable rules and regulations," DOGE said connected its website.
The section listed contracts that person been posted publically by the Federal Procurement Data System, oregon FPDS, but DOGE emphasized that the FPDS posting of last termination notices tin person up to a one-month lag.
"There whitethorn beryllium discrepencies betwixt FPDS and the posted numbers, the second of which originate straight from the bureau contracting officials," DOGE said.
At the apical of DOGE's "Agency Efficiency Leaderboard" for most savings are the Department of Education, General Services Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Labor and Office of Personnel Management.
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The agencies with the slightest savings, DOGE says, are the Department of State, National Institutes of Health, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy and Department of Commerce.
Last week, DOGE claimed it saved $55 billion, but astir 40% of the canceled contracts did not prevention immoderate money, since the full worth had already been afloat obligated, meaning the authorities has a ineligible request to walk the funds for goods oregon services oregon has already spent the money, according to aggregate outlets, including The Washington Post.
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Additionally, the alleged $55 cardinal successful savings DOGE claimed astatine the clip lone amounted to astir $8.6 cardinal erstwhile the items it listed were added up, according to Bloomberg Law. Taken into relationship to scope the little full is an mistake successful the information published by DOGE that initially mislabeled a declaration arsenic $8 cardinal earlier it was aboriginal corrected successful the national database to lone beryllium $8 million.
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