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DOGE uncovers $214 billion in waste: Musk’s legacy exposes government fraud and bureaucratic bloat

11/05/2025 // Belle Carter // 730 Views

Tags: accountability, big government, bureaucratic bloat, corruption, DOGE, Elon Musk, federal waste, fraud, government spending, overreach, politics, transparency, Trump

• DOGE recently terminated 103 wasteful federal contracts worth $4.4 billion, saving taxpayers $103 million, as part of a larger initiative that has recovered $214 billion to date.
• DOGE's investigations have uncovered significant inefficiencies, including improper payments, phantom Social Security beneficiaries and what it describes as politically motivated grants and questionable contracts.
• The initiative faces fierce resistance from Democratic lawmakers and state governments, with accusations of operating outside federal law and refusing to share data for fraud verification.
• Former head Elon Musk characterized his tenure as a "fraudster's nightmare," citing increased death threats and suggesting political attacks led to a deliberate reduction in the initiative's public profile after his departure.
• The DOGE initiative has become a litmus test for government transparency, with supporters viewing it as a necessary audit and critics seeing it as a partisan witch hunt, highlighting a deep conflict over oversight of federal spending.

In just five days, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 103 wasteful federal contracts worth $4.4 billion, saving taxpayers $103 million—the latest in a sweeping crackdown that has recovered $214 billion since its inception.
The initiative, spearheaded by former head Elon Musk before his exit in May, has exposed staggering inefficiencies, from phantom Social Security beneficiaries to questionable grants funding ideological programs, according to BrightU.AI's Enoch. But as DOGE's oversight intensifies, resistance from Democratic lawmakers and state governments raises questions: Who benefits from the status quo—and who stands to lose?
DOGE's Nov. 1 report highlighted absurdities in federal spending, including a $13.4 million VA contract for "coaching support and dashboard services" and State Department training courses on "the power of habit"($44,000) and "crucial influence" ($43,000). More controversially, the department flagged a $620,000 grant for an LGBT-inclusive teen pregnancy program targeting transgender boys and an $841,000 study on "intersectional stigma" and blood pressure.
"These aren't just inefficiencies—they're indictments of a system that prioritizes political pet projects over taxpayers," said a DOGE spokesperson. The agency's $214 billion in savings—$1,329 per taxpayer—comes from clawing back improper payments, renegotiating contracts and exposing fraud, with the Social Security Administration (SSA) accounting for $170 billion alone. DOGE's findings revealed $12.3 million phantom beneficiaries and $2.1 million non-citizen recipients, painting a damning picture of systemic neglect.
Musk's battle and the backlash

Musk, who led DOGE for 130 days under a special government mandate, described his tenure as a "fraudster's nightmare" in an Oct. 31 interview with Joe Rogan.
"You turn off the money spigot, they get very upset," Musk said. "My death threat level went ballistic… like a rocket going to orbit."
Since his departure, DOGE's work has continued but with less public scrutiny—a deliberate shift, Musk suggested, to shield the initiative from political attacks.
Those attacks have been fierce. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) accused DOGE in September of operating "outside federal law," citing whistleblower claims that staff copied sensitive Social Security data into unsecured cloud systems.
"DOGE is putting Americans' personal data at risk with unqualified personnel evading oversight," Peters declared, demanding an immediate shutdown.
Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins revealed that 21 states—all Democratic-led—refused to share Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) data for fraud verification.
"In just the cooperating states, we've uncovered massive fraud," Rollins posted on X. "There's a new sheriff in town."
The bigger picture: Accountability vs. resistance

The DOGE initiative has become a litmus test for government transparency. Supporters argue it's the first real audit of federal spending in decades, while critics decry it as a partisan witch hunt. Historical context underscores the stakes: Since the 1960s, federal programs like Medicare and Social Security have ballooned with minimal oversight, creating fertile ground for waste. The $214 billion recovered by DOGE eclipses the GDP of entire nations—yet the fight is far from over.
DOGE's $214 billion reckoning has exposed a simple truth: When accountability is enforced, the bureaucratic machine fights back. From Musk's death threats to state-level stonewalling, the resistance to reform reveals who profits from the status quo. As DOGE presses forward, the question remains: Will taxpayers finally win—or will the defenders of waste prevail? One thing is clear: The era of unchecked spending is under siege.
Watch the video below that talks about Trump's DOGE's move to cut the federal workforce.

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DOGE uncovers $214 billion in waste: Musk’s legacy exposes government fraud and bureaucratic bloat – NaturalNews.com

Reuters Wrecked Over DOGE Shutdown Story, Top Official Says Outlet "Spliced My Comments"

Monday, Nov 24, 2025 - 02:05 PM

President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has "disbanded" - or at least that's the narrative Reuters is pushing to start the week, as the globalist left-leaning media outlet tries to rile up the progressive base and claim a victory.
Reuters ran with the headline, "Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter," and recently quoted Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor saying, "That doesn't exist," when asked about DOGE's status.
It's no longer a "centralized entity," Kupor added, in the first public comments from the Trump administration.
Perhaps there was some misinterpretation, because the report goes on to state that "OPM, the federal government's human resources office, has since taken over many of DOGE's functions."

In fact, Reuters was hit with a Community Note on X, where the top note pointed out:

There is no evidence that DOGE has shutdown. There is no mention of it on the press secretary, Elon, Trump, the WH , DOGE or any other gov official account. Including DOGE official website. As of 9 hours ago DOGE was still posting about the work they are doing.

• https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1992433682074743257?t=YwneTda8TLPrnMyOY6VO1A&s=19
• https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1977928905169269143?t=7xhRsok88w0c2pVZsElwTA&s=19
• https://x.com/DOGE/status/1992615954065330507?t=HqjAT2L5MTKGdEd1wy7o0w&s=19
• https://www.doge.gov/join
• https://x.com/PressSec/status/1991932554908225586?t=LpC36ggtJNJ4S5Zf9Za4nw&s=19
• https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1992605677144207798?t=B3UBu7_4bcxNn_4vFKNoyA&s=19

Shortly after Reuters ran its DOGE narrative, Kupor combatted the misinformation:

Good editing by @reuters - spliced my full comments across paragraphs 2/3 to create a grabbing headline 🙂 The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS . But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM and @WHOMB will institutionalize them!

The latest from DOGE, not even one day ago, states:

Contracts Update! Over the last 9 days, agencies terminated and descoped 78 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.9B and savings of $335M, including an $616k HHS IT services contract for "social media monitoring platform subscription", an $191k USAGM broadcasting contract for "broadcast operations and maintenance in Ethiopia, Africa", and a $4.3M IRS IT services contract for "Inflation Reduction Act transformation project management support".

The official government website for DOGE shows no indication that the operation to root out significant government waste and fraud has been wound down. In fact, cost savings so far this year total $214 billion - however, far short of Elon Musk's $1 trillion goal.

This is not the first time for Reuters...

Hmm, a media outlet based in a foreign country publishing propaganda pieces on US politics?

Can Reuters be trusted? Latest polls show American trust in the mainstream media has collapsed. So the short answer is…

Reuters Wrecked Over DOGE Shutdown Story, Top Official Says Outlet "Spliced My Comments" | ZeroHedge

DOGE slashed $2 billion in fraudulent contracts in the past four weeks

03/18/2026 // Lance D Johnson // 480 Views

Tags: accountability, anti-fraud task force, big government, bureaucratic bloat, contract cancellation, deep state, Department of Education, DOGE, Elon Musk, Federal Budget, federal grants, fiscal discipline, fraud, government efficiency, government waste, JD Vance, Liberty, taxpayer savings, Trump administration, wasteful spending



In the shadow-drenched corridors of Washington D.C., a quiet revolution is taking place, one that threatens the very foundation of the permanent bureaucratic state. While the corporate media sleeps, a surgical strike against decades of entrenched waste and ideological corruption is being executed with precision. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a brainchild of President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, is wielding a scalpel against the metastatic growth of federal spending, cutting out tumors of waste and exposing the raw nerve of how taxpayer money has been hijacked. This isn't mere budget trimming; it is a systemic cleansing, a necessary amputation of limbs grown gangrenous with fraud and woke vanity projects, signaling a profound return to fiscal sanity and a reclamation of liberty from the clutches of an unaccountable administrative regime.Key points:

• The DOGE has eliminated or scaled back 95 government contracts worth up to $2 billion in just four weeks, saving an estimated $757 million in immediate costs.
• This latest cut follows an earlier wave where 273 contracts worth $5.1 billion were axed, showcasing the staggering scale of embedded waste.
• Since its inception, the DOGE initiative has saved approximately $215 billion—roughly $1,335 per hardworking American taxpayer.
• A new federal anti-fraud task force, led by Vice President JD Vance, has been launched to combat an estimated $300 billion in annual losses to fraud.
• The cuts target what officials describe as "questionable" grants funding radical gender ideology and critical race theory-based research, alongside blatantly redundant contracts.

Unmasking the billion-dollar graveyard of waste

The numbers released by DOGE are not dry statistics; they are a testament to a criminal conspiracy of spending conducted against the American people. Consider the carcasses of recently terminated contracts: a $98.5 million Department of Education research contract to track high school students, and a parallel $76.4 million study on college financing. This represents nearly $175 million poured into a single agency for what amounts to bureaucratic navel-gazing, creating data for the sake of data while the core mission of education collapses. This action connects directly to the broader administration goal, reported earlier, of dismantling the Department of Education itself, moving control back to the states and out of the hands of distant, inefficient federal planners.
These cuts follow a ruthless pattern established from DOGE's first day. Established by executive order, the agency was forged in the fire of a promise to restore fiscal discipline, auditing the morass of federal commitments. With the initial help of former adviser Elon Musk, who advocated for cutting at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, DOGE developed an automated auditing framework. The result has been a purge of historic proportions: 13,440 contracts canceled, 15,887 grants ended, and 264 leases terminated. Each one represents a thread cut from the Gordian knot of bureaucratic self-preservation. The recent cancellation of a $10.2 million Department of War contract for "outward mindset training" and an $11,000 deal for "social indicators research" reveals a culture that prioritized psychological fads and vague sociology over tangible results for citizens.
The human cost of ideological fraud

Beyond the cold calculus of contract values lies the true scandal: the active funding of a radical social agenda with the money of unsuspecting, traditional Americans. DOGE has courageously pulled back the curtain on grants that represent nothing less than ideological money laundering. Taxpayer dollars were being funneled into projects like a $620,000 grant to adapt an "LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys." This is not public health; it is a grotesque experiment in social engineering, funded by those who would find its premises morally repugnant.
Similarly, an $814,000 study on "intersectional stigma" and blood pressure, and $801,000 for research on "structural racism" and health outcomes in older men, demonstrate how the language of academia has been weaponized to siphon funds into divisive, politically-charged activism. This spending epitomizes the unchecked bloat that has festered for decades, where agencies like the State Department once thought nothing of spending $3.1 million on a Tanzanian education office or $44 million on unspecified "professional services" in Qatar. Every dollar spent on these ventures was a dollar stolen from securing the border, funding veterans' care, or returning to the pocket of the single mother working two jobs. As Musk himself stated, DOGE stopped funding that "just made no sense" and was "just entirely wasteful." This is the plain truth that the establishment media refuses to utter.
A new front in the war for accountability

Understanding that cutting future waste is only half the battle, the administration has now opened a second front: reclaiming what has already been stolen. The creation of a federal anti-fraud task force, led by Vice President JD Vance and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, is a declaration of war on the syndicate of waste, fraud, and abuse. With over $300 billion estimated to be lost annually to fraud—a figure so large it defies comprehension—this task force is not a symbolic gesture. It is a necessary recovery mission. President Trump's belief that it could recover "hundreds of billions of dollars" for taxpayers should send a chill down the spine of every contractor and grantee who has treated the U.S. Treasury as a personal piggy bank.
This broader push is a fundamental re-orientation of government philosophy. It moves from a mindset of endless expansion—where every problem demands a new program, a new contract, a new grant—to one of rigorous stewardship. The agencies generating the most savings, including Health and Human Services and the Social Security Administration, are those that touch the lives of every American. Saving billions there through workforce reductions, asset sales, and lease cancellations means preserving the solvency and integrity of these vital safety nets for future generations, freeing them from the weight of bureaucratic fat.
The path DOGE is charting is fraught with resistance from those who benefited from the old, corrupt order. But each canceled contract, each exposed grant, and each dollar saved is a victory for the individual liberty and financial sovereignty of the American people. It is a painful but necessary detoxification of a body politic poisoned by easy money and unchecked power. The purge has begun, and its goal is nothing less than the restoration of a government that is efficient, accountable, and finally, truly of the people.
Sources include:
TheEpochTimes.com
SlayNews.com
Enoch, Brighteon.ai

DOGE slashed $2 billion in fraudulent contracts in the past four weeks – NaturalNews.com