Department of Government Efficiency

Great to see government-wide coordination on investigating this potential fraud!

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@USGSA supports @SBA_Kelly in ending abuse of the 8(a) Program and protecting taxpayer dollars.

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Contracts Update! Over the past 4 days, agencies terminated 150 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.2B and savings of $240M, including a $67k USAGM “makeup artist” contract, a $107k Dept. of War services contract for a “group fitness instructor”, a $5.2M HHS contract for “professional support services in South Africa”, and a $276k USAGM broadcasting contract for the “Armenian radio program”.

Great work by @npub159xq...q28l!

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Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Bac...

Contracts Update! Over the last 4 days, agencies terminated 74 wasteful contracts, with a ceiling value of $920M and savings of $398M, including a $915k Millennium Challenge Corp. personal services contract for “Associate Director for Gender and Social Inclusion”, a $1.1M Millennium Challenge Corp. contract for another Associate Director in its Dept. of Compact Operations for “Gender and Social Inclusion”, a $3.2M EPA environmental consulting contract for “business process improvement” and a $6.7M DoT contract for “the management and administration of the FHWA Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups”.

Great work by Texas using the new (and free) federal SAVE database to ensure voter integrity!

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BREAKING: I'm opening investigations into 33 noncitizens for illegally voting in the 2024 election.

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This morning, 20 consulting contracts, mostly focused on “strategic communication” and “executive coaching,” were terminated for immediate savings of $26mm.

This is the split of administrators vs. teaching staff at the top 25 endowed universities. We are investing in bureaucracy over actual education. Source: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/mastervariablelist.aspx?stepId=2&sid=783e04e6-59bc-44fc-ab6e-e5d3b6dcd6d5&rtid=1

In 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent: -$759 Million on Workforce Diversity and Outreach -$611,203 “Evaluating Microaggressions among Latinx Individuals with Obesity” -$87,944 on the “Role of the estrous cycle and nucleus accumbens signaling on incubation of oxycodone craving in female rats” Sources:

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In 2024, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1.8 billion studying racism including: -$125K on “Examining Anti-Racist Healing in Nature” -$151K on “Perceived racism, cardiovascular disease risk, and neurocognitive aging” -$516K on “Effects of Racism on Brain and Pathways to Health Disparities” Cost breakdown thread:

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1/ In 2024 the National Institutes of Health spent *$1,873,899,133* studying racism. OF that money, **$915,783,714** was spent studying various as...

Summary of California High Speed Rail Project: -Originally projected (in 2008) to cost $33 billion; now projected to cost between $88.5 and $127.9 billion -Estimated completion date was 2020; as of 2024, zero passengers have been transported and the majority has not even been fully designed -Received $6.8 billion in federal funds -Requesting $8 billion in additional federal funds Sources: https://t.co/XgFH9JZT1v https://t.co/dDQpN6vn8a