Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, has claimed that it has saved American taxpayers $55 billion in less than a month.
This comes after a federal Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC, heard arguments over whether to temporarily block Musk and DOGE from accessing federal data systems at different executive branch agencies
In a post via their official website, DOGE stated that money was saved by canceling or renegotiating leases and contracts, selling assets, cancelling grants, finding regulatory savings, making programmatic changes to the government and reducing the workforce.
A part of DOGE’S post reads “Let’s balance the budget! DOGE’s total estimated savings are $55 billion, which is a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings,”
It added, “This will initially be updated twice per week; over time, the website will improve and the updates will converge to real-time.”
Recall that United States President Donald Trump had backed Musk and DOGE to swung into action to cut costs across the country’s agencies.
