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Dem states to blame for most of the nearly $400 million in unemployment fraud over last 4 years, DOGE says
California, New York and Massachusetts doled out more than $300M in improper unemployment payments over the last four years, according to DOGE

After finding $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified California, New York and Massachusetts as the primary culprits.

The three Democrat-led states accounted for $305 million in improper claim payments, DOGE said Thursday.

The group added that California also accounted for 68% of the benefits that were dispensed under former President Joe Biden to parolees identified by federal authorities as being on the government's terrorist watchlist, or who had criminal records.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-sta...ment-fraud

Action taken quickly.

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Kelly Loeffler
@SBA_Kelly
Last month, @DOGE
uncovered more than $630M in SBA loans distributed to “borrowers” over the age of 115 or under the age of 11.

This week, SBA implemented a suite of new applicant verification measures – to make sure it never happens again.
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SBA Highlights Range of New Measures to Stop Fraud
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Contract update. they are reviewing them one at a time like the credit cards.

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Contract update!

Yesterday, agencies terminated 102 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of ~$215M and savings of ~$100M, including a $250K @USGSA
contract for a “circadian lighting pilot study” and $195k in @Interior
consulting contracts to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services”.
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Accountability comes to Washington. If you approve something you own it and reflects on your decision making.

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Follow-up on Defend the Spend:

Since the system was launched, over $700M in daily payments have been subject to payment justifications (ie “What is this?”) from recipients and agency leads.

Thanks to the great work by @HHSGov
, for the first time ever, the American people will be able to see line-by-line payment descriptions & justifications — coming soon to the DOGE website.
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
The Program Support Center (PSC) in @HHSGov
processes ~$215B/year ($860M/business day) in grant payments. When those payments are made:
- If the grantee is directly drawing, no documentation, receipt, or explanation is required
- If the agency is approving, there is no justification or documentation required

Starting this week:
- Grantees who are drawing money must include a brief justification of what the money will be used for
- Agencies who are approving must include a brief justification of what the money will be used for and why they are approving
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great work by @SecretaryWright.

New @Energy policy caps university grant overhead at 15%, consistent with for-profit, non-profit, and state/local government awardees.

This saves taxpayers >$400M/yr.
More money available for research, and less money to administrative bloat.
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Secretary Chris Wright
@SecretaryWright
The purpose of @ENERGY funding to colleges & universities is to support scientific research – not foot the bill for facility upgrades.

Under @POTUS, we are ensuring every dollar of taxpayer money is being used to support research & innovation, saving millions for all Americans!

Who Ya Gonna Call........

Looks like it's catching on at the State Level......

'Mississippi Musk': State auditor's MOGE report finds $400M in government waste
'I promise you, your state governments around the country are likely even less efficient' than federal government, state auditor tells Fox News Digital

On Monday, Mississippi state auditor Shad White will release a compilation of audits conducted by his office that tabulated a collective $400 million in waste over the course of his tenure.

"In the last few weeks, we’ve jokingly started calling ourselves MOGE, the Mississippi Office of Government Efficiency, like Elon Musk’s DOGE," White told Fox News Digital, referring to Musk's Department of Government Efficiency under the Trump administration.

"We approach our work with the same attention to every penny as DOGE, and I’m happy to be Mississippi’s Musk," White said.

While the auditor’s office cannot cut any of the wasteful spending, it alerts state lawmakers to what it discovers.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mississ...ment-waste

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
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Great work by the @DeptVetAffairs
cancelling an unreasonably priced multi-year $15.3M services contract for “salary survey data and analysis.”
The service was replaced at market price of ~$5K/year vs. the contracted $3.9M/year, saving $11.1M over the remaining life of the contract.

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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Contract update!

Agencies terminated 180 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.3B and savings of $2.6B, including a $85.5K @EPA
contract for “live plant maintenance services” (the internal EPA team will water them going forward) and a $265.5K @HHSGov
contract for “social media monitoring subscription, training, and platform setup”.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
@SecRubio
continues to scrutinize @StateDept
foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including:

- $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom
- $2.5mm for “advancing critical civic engagement” in Uzbekistan
- $2mm for “Expanded Newsroom Sustainability and Engagement” in Moldova
- $1mm for “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil
- $2.4mm for “Responding to Disinformation Through Creative Content in Belarus”
- $1.7mm for “Independent Media for Peace and Democracy” in Europe
- $1.5mm for a “Women-led Gendered Approach to Justice and Accountability”
- $1.7mm for “BeMediaWise” in Bulgaria
- $900k for a “Place for Women to Join to Organize” in Mauritania
- $750k for “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon
- $740k for a feminist “Free Expression Initiative”in Tunisia
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great job by @SecRubio @StateDept

In addition to the ones below, they also cancelled these wasteful grants:
-$1.4mm for “Preventing Internet Fragmentation” in Brazil
- $750k for “Enabling Civil Society Resilience and Adaptation” in Kyrgyzstan
- $1mm for “Building Trust and
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Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent
@SecScottBessent
The IRS has successfully saved $2 billion without any operational disruptions by eliminating wasteful contracts, such as auto-renewed licenses unused for years.
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Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent
@SecScottBessent
The IRS has removed non-technical people from technical leadership roles in engineering and replaced them with experienced engineers.

Going forward, skilled engineers will drive technical decisions. The IRS has its fair share of software talent. These men and women, who have long served the IRS, need to be empowered to make decisions.

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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
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Great work by @NSF
canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.

See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.
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@NSF
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Today, NSF announced it is terminating awards not aligned with agency priorities, ensuring current & new awards are consistent with our mission. We are committed to creating opportunities for all Americans everywhere, without exclusion of any groups. More: https://bit.ly/42NBXeh
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Secretary Doug Burgum
@SecretaryBurgum
The Endangered Species Act has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave!
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Credit Card Update!

The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Contract update!

Today, agencies terminated 57 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.6B and savings of $1.5B, including a $120K USDA contract for an “Indonesia environmental policy and law enforcement specialist”

They are now catching and prosecuting illegal aliens who voted in the 2020 and 2024 elections. Info below.

Secretary Kristi Noem
@Sec_Noem
In partnership with @DOGE
, @ICEgov
arrested two Ukrainian nationals for illegally VOTING in the 2024 election.

Under President Donald Trump, if you come to our country and break our laws, you will face the consequences.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:
-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great work by @CMSGov

Their newly launched Fraud Detection Operations Center has, in 1 month, suspended payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud, including "billing medical equipment for a patient that died 20 years earlier".
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U.S. Department of Justice
@TheJusticeDept
Only American Citizens can vote in American Elections.

Thanks to our partnership @DOGE, this DOJ has charged an Iraqi man for illegal voting in the 2020 election.

If you are a foreign national and vote in our elections—you will be prosecuted.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Contract update!

Over the last two days, agencies terminated 226 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.03B and savings of $555M, including a $5.4M IRS consulting contract for “exploring emerging issues within the IRS”, and a $20k NSF "management development" contract for
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
For the past 7 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 11 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~1.4 million to go with expected completion in 2 weeks.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great work by @NSF
canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.

See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.
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Attorney General Pamela Bondi
@AGPamBondi
The Department of Justice has started cutting millions of dollars in wasteful grants. Some of the greatest hits include:

$2M for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience”

$695k for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services”

$250k for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities”

More to come.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Contract and grant update!

Over the last several days, agencies have terminated 269 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M, including a $50k @Interior
consulting contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem solving services”.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great work by @SecNav
@USNavy

canceling wasteful grants, such as the "population consequences of the disturbance of humpback whales in the context of climate change".
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great work by @NSF
canceling 701 wasteful DEI grants ($203M in savings), including “Building Racial Equity in Marine Science.” This brings the total to over $325M saved in the past 2 weeks.

See the NSF's update linked below, re-emphasizing that grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great job by @SecDuffy
and @USDOT
for terminating 7 wasteful grants with award value of $54M and savings of $51M, including:

- $6M for “collaborative planning to address safety concerns of women and gender non-conforming people”
- $12M for “accelerating equitable decarbonization”
- $6M for “hyperlocal pollution exposure inequalities” in New York City

The @USDOT
is working hard to cut waste and will have more to report over the coming weeks!

Agencies also terminated $90M in wasteful grants, including $995k for a "BIPOC culinary program" and $625k for a "Russian-Far East biodiversity partnership".