The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated 123 “wasteful contracts” over the past five days with a ceiling value of $5.3 billion and savings of $4.2 billion, DOGE said in an Aug. 16 X post.
The canceled contracts included an $857,000 contract from the Department of the Interior for a technical adviser in Lagos, Nigeria, it said.
Another canceled agreement was a $1.5 million Treasury Department contract for “Word Processing and Document Formatting Services Examination Training” for the Human Capital Office and the IRS, as well as its small business and self-employed division, according to DOGE.
A $785,000 State Department consulting contract for staffing was canceled as well, it added….