BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, AUG 18, 2025 – 11:20 AM
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated 123 “wasteful contracts” over the past five days with a ceiling value of $5.3 billion and savings of $4.2 billion, DOGE said in an Aug. 16 X post.
The canceled contracts included an $857,000 contract from the Department of the Interior for a technical adviser in Lagos, Nigeria, it said.
Another canceled agreement was a $1.5 million Treasury Department contract for “Word Processing and Document Formatting Services Examination Training” for the Human Capital Office and the IRS, as well as its small business and self-employed division, according to DOGE.
Source
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-savings-top-200-billion-almost-1300-taxpayer