The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said that over two days this week, federal agencies canceled 239 “wasteful spending” contracts that saved more than $400 million.
It added that one of the contracts was for consulting. The contract, it said, was regarding “fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business services; rethink, realign and reskill the workforce; and enhance program delivery through a number of transformational initiatives.”
After President Donald Trump created DOGE via an executive order in January, it has gone from agency to agency to identify what the administration deems wasteful spending, fraud, or abuse. The organization has been met with numerous lawsuits filed by various groups, some questioning if Musk is in charge of DOGE and whether his group has the authority to enact changes across the federal government.
The U.S. Postal Service chief, Louis DeJoy, told Congress this week that he signed an agreement with DOGE to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address major problems.
The Postal Service, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, was exempted from DOGE’s cost-cutting audits ordered by Trump.
DeJoy said the agreement with DOGE and the General Services Administration will allow the government reform team to “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies .... the DOGE team was gracious enough to ask for big problems they can help us with.”
In one example, his letter said the Postal Regulatory Commission “is an unnecessary agency that has inflicted over $50 billion in damage to the Postal Service by administering defective pricing models and decades-old bureaucratic processes.”