The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a post on its website says it has found $55 billion in savings through a combination of efforts, including a reduction in the federal workforce.
It said it estimated it had realized $55 billion in savings by canceling or renegotiating leases and contracts, selling assets, cancelling grants, finding regulatory savings, making programmatic changes to the government and reducing the workforce.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is listed as the top saving where DOGE found total contract savings and contract savings as a percentage of the federal government, accounting for about $6.5 billion in savings. Musk and his DOGE team quickly moved to dismantle that agency, which provides food to those in need around the world, in his first month in office.
The next two departments listed were the Department of Education, which accounted for nearly $502 million in savings, and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Other top agencies that DOGE said it had cut contracts from include the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
When ordered by cuts as a percent of the overall budget, DOGE said USAID was followed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Executive Office of the President.
Other agencies in that category included the GSA, Department of Education, OPM, DHS, Department of Commerce, EPA and USDA.
DOGE included a “wall of receipts” to highlight what contracts were cut and how much it saved an agency. Its receipts included ending media subscriptions to Bloomberg Government, Politico, and the Washington Post from the CFPB budget. Savings from subscriptions were nearly $30 million, according to the receipts.
It also outlined ended real estate leases, including a State Department office in Miami, Department of Justice office in Cincinnati and a GSA office in Illinois. Savings from leases were over $144 million.
Additionally, the receipts showed that savings from cuts to programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives were over $199 million.
The website listed 1,126 contacts, with $16.4 billion in savings, and 97 real estate contracts, with $144.5 million in savings, not providing evidence for about $38 billion in cuts out of the $55 billion.
DOGE said it will update its website twice a week with the latest data and that it is “working to upload all of this data in a digestible and fully transparent manner with clear assumptions, consistent with applicable rules and regulations.”
Musk and his aides have targeted multiple federal agencies in the past few weeks in an effort to find areas of waste or fraud to cut from the overall federal government. The Trump administration also offered a buyout to federal workers, leading to 75,000 people opting to take it so far.
DOGE has been under pressure to provide more transparency for its actions.
It also is facing various lawsuits related to his efforts.
Updated at 11:34 a.m. EST
