Donald Trump For PresidenttonpseSdor07ff7flt413uullcuhl53ua143i0777t091ha2123hcgm77cf8 · DOGE update from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “We're back with another update on cutting wasteful spending here at DOGE, and this one is, as they say, a big one. This is a big day. We're signing a memo right now directing the termination of $5.1 billion in DOGE contracts—not million, that's with a B—$5.1 billion in DOGE contracts for ancillary things like consulting and other non-essential services.So here's a few examples: DHA contracts for consulting services from Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen, and other firms are going to save the department $1.8 billion. How about a software reseller contract for enterprise cloud IT services, saving the department $1.4 billion? A $500 million Navy contract for business process consulting—again, process, lots of process, lots of consultant—for administrative offices in the Bureau of Medicine. By the way, we need this money to spend on better healthcare for our warfighters and their families instead of $500 an hour business process consultants. That's a lot of consulting.How about this: a DARPA contract for IT help desk services that are completely duplicative with services already provided by our DISA workforce, saving the department another $500 million. We're also terminating, on the DEI front, 11 more contracts for DEI, climate, COVID-19 response, and related non-essential activities across the department. We are committed to rooting out DEI—root and branch—throughout this department, and we've found 11 more contracts and we're going to keep looking.So that's $5.1 billion in DOGE contracts we're getting rid of. On top of that, in support of the President's priorities to stop federal funding for academic institutions that tolerate anti-Semitism and support divisive DEI programs, this week, DOGE is also pausing over $500 million in funding to Northwestern University and Cornell University, and that's on top of the $70 million in funding we've already paused at Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Princeton over the last few weeks— as if any of these institutions need more government money at all.So, for you keeping score at home, today's cuts bring our running total to nearly $6 billion in wasteful spending over the first six weeks of the DOGE effort here at the Defense Department. Their job is to go out and find the stuff that we can get rid of and then flow back into—drive back into—warfighting capabilities here at the Defense Department. So we want to thank our friends at DOGE, we want to thank all the folks here that have helped us unpack this, reveal it, and we're excited to make these cuts on behalf of you, the taxpayer, and the warfighters here at the department. Thanks.”
