The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has now saved taxpayers $150 billion, according to the latest figures posted on its website.
DOGE updated its website this week to reflect the most accurate figures available, posting an extra $10 billion in savings from the previous update.
The Department’s savings of $150 billion equate to $931.68 per taxpayer in the US.
According to the website, the savings are a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”
The latest batch of receipts posted on the website shows over 7,000 terminated contracts, including individual contracts amounting to billions of dollars. One cancelled contract, for refugee resettlement, amounted to $2,902,177,562.
Of all the departments of the US government, Health and Human Services has so far generated the greatest cost-savings, followed by the Department of Education and the General Services Administration.
The Department of Commerce, Department of Justice and Department of Veterans Affairs are among the departments generating the least savings.
DOGE also recently discovered that children and people who are clearly dead have been claiming hundreds of millions in unemployment benefit.
A survey of unemployment claims revealed that nearly 25,000 people aged over 115 claimed a total of $59 million in benefits, and 28,000 people aged between 1 and 5 claimed $254 million in benefits.
