Federal Spending and Contracting

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Friday that federal agencies have terminated or reduced 55 contracts over the last three days with a combined ceiling value of $1.6 billion, claiming $542 million in savings as part of President Donald Trump’s second-term push to shrink federal spending and bureaucracy. In an X post backed by federal procurement screenshots, DOGE highlighted examples including a $47 million State Department program-support contract tied to armored personnel carriers and Somalia National Army crews, a $19.5 million HHS IT and web communications contract for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and a $151,000 leadership-training contract, while providing no details on how much of each contract had already been obligated or how the savings were calculated.