The amount that DOGE says it has helped save is around $1,055 per taxpayer, or around $175 billion.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force says it has helped save around $175 billion and assisted in the termination of more than 25,000 federal contracts and grants, according to an update on Saturday.
The amount of savings, according to DOGE, is about $1,056 per U.S. taxpayer, which was accomplished via the termination of federal contracts, grants, and leases. An update to DOGE’s website in mid-May said it had helped save $170 billion, according to an Epoch Times review of the page.
According to the current update of its website, approximately 10,871 government contracts, 15,149 grants, and 494 leases have been terminated.
The “most savings” have been achieved at the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Services Administration, the Education Department, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Labor, DOGE said.
Last week, DOGE wrote that agencies canceled another 81 “wasteful contracts” with a potential value of around $368 million, to save roughly $244 million. Days before that, it wrote that it completed a “major cleanup” of Social Security records of 12.3 million people aged 120 or older, to mark them as deceased.
DOGE was officially established in January by President Donald Trump and tasked with rooting out what the White House calls fraud, waste, and abuse within the federal government amid record national debt.
While tech billionaire Elon Musk was effectively in charge of the group, the Tesla CEO has since returned to work full-time on his business empire amid slumping sales at his electric car company Tesla.
Tesla sales across Europe plunged by nearly half last month amid growth in the electric car market on the continent, according to a report issued Tuesday.
The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) said in its report that sales of Tesla vehicles in 32 European countries dropped by 49 percent in April to 7,261. In comparison, 14,228 Tesla cars were sold in April of 2024, the report said.
