DOGE Announces How It Found Another $2B In Savings

If you thought the Trump administration was just going to settle in, let the swamp spend itself silly, and call it a day — think again.

Because while Washington has always been the place where your tax dollars go to die, the newly turbocharged Department of Government Efficiency — fittingly nicknamed DOGE — is proving that yes, even the biggest, sloppiest bureaucracy on earth can actually be forced onto a diet. And what they’ve already uncovered is nothing short of jaw-dropping.

In just the past week, DOGE axed 163 wasteful federal contracts — totaling nearly $2 billion in ceiling value, with $647 million in actual taxpayer savings. That’s right, nearly $650 million back in the pockets of Americans instead of being flushed down the bureaucratic drain.

And the stuff they’re cutting? You couldn’t make this up if you tried.

Take the $35 million USAID contract to “acquire contractor support to establish and manage a flexible, quick response mechanism supporting activities that will support democracy and stability in El Salvador.” Translation: shovel millions to some Beltway consulting firm to pretend they’re building “democracy” abroad while Americans here at home are drowning in debt, crime, and inflation. DOGE didn’t blink. Gone.

Or how about the $280,000 for “horse-mounted patrol grooming services”? I’ll give you a moment to stop laughing. This is literally what your paycheck was funding — federal horse haircuts.

Then there was $179,000 for “customized English language training” at the U.S. Embassy in Armenia. Because apparently the State Department can’t find staff who speak English without a six-figure taxpayer-funded class.

This isn’t efficiency. This is comedy. Except the punchline is always the American people.

But this isn’t just about cutting a few quirky contracts for headlines. This is about a shift — finally — away from Washington’s decades-long addiction to taxpayer-funded nonsense. And it’s not happening in isolation. Remember, Congress already used rescissions authority to defund NPR and PBS — finally yanking the plug on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after conservatives fought for it for decades.