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 @U.S. Office of Personnel Management!
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!
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 image