Agencies Terminated, Descoped 94 Wasteful Contracts With $8.5 Billion Ceiling Value, Says DOGE

Various federal government agencies have terminated and descoped 94 wasteful contracts over the past five days, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in an Oct. 4 post on X.
The terminated contracts had a ceiling value of $8.5 billion and saved $546 million, DOGE said.
This included a “533k Dept. of Commerce consulting contract for ‘editing support services to the Fisheries Resource Division’ and a $61M HHS research contract for ‘solutions to support innovation in pursuit of affordable and better healthcare,’” according to the post.
This follows an earlier X post on Sept. 27 in which DOGE reported terminating and descoping 55 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.8 billion, saving $622 million….