Department of Government Efficiency reposted
Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis
For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration—but they couldn't even figure out how to accept it. Today, I met with @elonmusk
and the DOGE team, and we got this done in the same day. Other states should follow Florida in supporting DOGE's efforts!
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Florida returned $878,112,000.
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DOGE
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Good work by @NASA this week:
-Eliminated their unused Purchasing Cards (~80%)
-Terminated ~$420M in unneeded contracts, including $45M ($15M each) to three separate consultants, all for "Change Management Support Services”
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DOGE
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
The IRS has the transaction volume of a mid-sized bank, running similar infrastructure. Those banks typically have an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budget of ~$20M/yr.

The IRS has a ~$3.5B O&M budget (which doesn’t include an additional $3.7B modernization budget). ~80% of
DOGE
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
There is a pattern across all agencies where IT “modernization” contracts do not pay for outcomes/performance; instead, they pay for time. Therefore, the incentive is for contractors to “never finish,” resulting in incredible waste.

As an example, IRS modernization started in
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Contract update!

Today, agencies terminated 105 contracts with a ceiling value of $935M and $580M in savings, including a $1.03M National Science Foundation consulting contract for “fitness center services”.

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