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

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@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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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!

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

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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

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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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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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@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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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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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”

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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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@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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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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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".

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This is not DOGE, but it's in the same vein. I sure would like to know who the people are that oppose this. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/ep_iTquCgUM?s...wIB6WuDUyU

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This is not DOGE, but it's in the same vein. I sure would like to know who the people are that oppose this. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/ep_iTquCgUM?s...wIB6WuDUyU

Couple comments

People opposed to this are the ones profiting off it.
I liked the "Put down the bong " comment....

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slow day ... but it is only Monday. You cam note below the contract value is 54 mill...savings THIS YEAR only 51Mill. The cost to cancel 3 mill.

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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
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@USGSAStephenE
In @POTUS
’s first 100 days, @USGSA
cut $30B in governmentwide contracts, initiated procurement consolidation and deregulation, accelerated technology modernization, contributed to 5 Presidential Executive Orders, worked to eliminate ideological capture, and much more. The result is a smarter, leaner government focused on accountability and results. The momentum is real and we’re just getting started.
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Foreign Aid Official Who Resisted DOGE Took Secret Payments After Steering Africa Money To Friend

A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.

Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-a...-to-friend

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Foreign Aid Official Who Resisted DOGE Took Secret Payments After Steering Africa Money To Friend

A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.

Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-a...-to-friend

The only people objecting to DOGE are those with something to hide.  The people supporting those opposed to DOGE are just useless fools.

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And the Repugs have defaulted on the DOGE recommendations. Why I refuse to be a part of that convention of jellyfish.

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And the Repugs have defaulted on the DOGE recommendations. Why I refuse to be a part of that convention of jellyfish.

What are you talking about?

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And the Repugs have defaulted on the DOGE recommendations. Why I refuse to be a part of that convention of jellyfish.

What are you talking about?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...ss-budget/

FTA:

"White House officials have in recent weeks brainstormed strategies for enshrining into law the government cuts implemented by billionaire Elon Musk’s team, aiming to turn the U.S. DOGE Service’s moves into lasting policy shifts.

So far, however, administration officials are running into resistance not just from Democrats, but also from congressional Republicans, who have in private conversations made clear that it would be difficult to codify even a small fraction of the measures that Musk’s team unilaterally implemented, according to lawmakers and several other people familiar with the discussions. GOP members of Congress have also raised concerns about tackling cuts as Republicans are trying to corral their rowdy and tiny majorities into extending tax cuts in one “big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump has demanded."

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What are you talking about?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...ss-budget/

FTA:

"White House officials have in recent weeks brainstormed strategies for enshrining into law the government cuts implemented by billionaire Elon Musk’s team, aiming to turn the U.S. DOGE Service’s moves into lasting policy shifts.

So far, however, administration officials are running into resistance not just from Democrats, but also from congressional Republicans, who have in private conversations made clear that it would be difficult to codify even a small fraction of the measures that Musk’s team unilaterally implemented, according to lawmakers and several other people familiar with the discussions. GOP members of Congress have also raised concerns about tackling cuts as Republicans are trying to corral their rowdy and tiny majorities into extending tax cuts in one “big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump has demanded."

I can see a bit of their point. How do you codify not spending money on stupid stuff? It will be interesting to see how that is done. 

Do you pass a law that dead people do not get SSI, SBA loans or financial assistance?
No Sesame street movies financed in other countries?

There are many laws on the books that would cover these if they had been enforced. Good companies call what is going on a reorganization. Every 3-5 years they do this to cut out the deadwood. People quit working for the company and begin "working the system" for personal gain. Get enough people doing this and the company fails. This has been needed in government for a log, long time. Actually, Clinton did this during his first term. Regan in his etc....  What is causing all the excitement is there are quite a few individuals that would like to see the United States fail.

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Rumour ONLY

Now that the House has passed the tax cut bill they will have a rescission bill on their floor to claw back money from NPR, PBS and USAID on Monday. They may slow the progress but not stop it. Keep going never stop.

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He may be stepping back, but the work and organization continues. The members remaining will report directly to Cabinet members. Below just a few. You may note there now has been a shift from DOGE announcing to the Cabinet member. Every Cabinet meeting Trump asks each for updates on progress. (it didn't even take a consultant to do that AMAZING!)

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Agencies often have more software licenses than employees, and the licenses are often idle (i.e. paid for, but not installed on any computer). These audits have been continuously run since first posted in February. Most recently:

-IRS had 3000 Visio licenses, using only 25. The remaining 99% were cut.
-DOL cut 68% of unused “project planning” software licenses.
-SEC was only using 22% of their remote desktop software; the 78% was cut.

These 3 changes alone, a small portion of the total, saved > $5M/year.
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WASHINGTON— U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the termination of 24 awards issued by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) totaling over $3.7 billion in taxpayer-funded financial assistance. After a thorough and individualized financial review of each award, DOE found that these projects failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars.
Of the 24 awards cancelled, nearly 70% (16 of the 24 projects) were signed between Election Day and January 20th. The projects primarily include funding for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and decarbonization initiatives. By terminating these awards, DOE is generating an immediate $3.6 billion in savings for the American people.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Credit Card Update!

After 13 weeks, the program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards across 32 agencies has resulted in ~523k de-activated cards.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts - we are now expanding the program to more agencies, as there is much more work to do.
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@DOGE
May 29
Contracts Update!
Over the last 3 days, agencies terminated 160 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $283M and savings of $145M, including a $67k Dept. of Treasury "Executive Coaching" consulting contract for “executive high potential managers”.
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Great work by @SecDef
@DeptofDefense
. DOD had become "overreliant on management consultants and contractors," and they have strategically canceled ~$5B in contracts, "converting consultants into combat power."
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There are currently 47 distinct financial management systems across the 24 CFO Act agencies, with instances of disparate systems occurring even intra-agency (e.g. Homeland Security has 6 separate systems, Treasury has 5, etc.)!
Sometimes, to transfer data between systems, paper is printed from one and manually entered into another.

A large consolidation effort has begun, which will lead to cost savings and operational simplicity. So far, 3 agencies have consolidated their procurement functionality, and so much more work to do.

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