The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on Tuesday that it had terminated 113 contracts worth $4.7 billion, including a USDA consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities.
“[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'” the department said in a post to X.
DOGE also announced that the Department of Labor has canceled $577 million in “America Last” grants, saving $237 million.
The canceled funding included $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace,” $12.2 million for “worker empowerment in South America,” and $6.25 million for “improving respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains” in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Also eliminated were $5 million to increase women’s workplace participation in West Africa, $4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia, $3 million to improve Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh, and $3 million to create safe and inclusive work environments in Lesotho, a southern African country.
DOGE, led by Elon Musk, is a temporary organization within the White House established by executive order earlier this year.
President Donald Trump tasked the organization with optimizing the federal government, streamlining operations, and reducing spending, giving it 18 months to do so.
The department has canceled numerous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at federal agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underutilized federal buildings, and duplicate agencies and programs.
As of March 26, DOGE claimed on its website that it had saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer.
DOGE critics argue that the organization has too much access to federal systems and should not be allowed to cancel federal contracts or reduce funding to various agencies.
