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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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DOGE
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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