The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said federal agencies terminated or scaled back 14 additional contracts over the past two days, cutting nearly $98 million in spending in a Christmas Eve update that described the cancellations as a purge of “naughty” government deals.
The contracts carried a combined ceiling value of about $190 million and were eliminated or reduced as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to rein in federal spending, DOGE said in a social media post late Dec. 24.
“Over the last 2 days, agencies terminated and descoped 14 NAUGHTY contracts with a ceiling value of $190M and savings of $98M,” DOGE wrote. “Including a $27k [Veterans Affairs] utilities contract for ‘two 8-passenger golf carts.’ Merry Xmas!”…