It has reported that they saved American taxpayers $105 billion, of which millions started being wasted by the Defense Department on ineffective DEI programs.

The 'First Buddy' of DOGE, Elon Musk, has led the coin to release its third weekly update on Sunday night regarding its federal budget reduction initiatives. According to ABC News, it saved $105 billion total, up from $65 billion last week.

It has provided Business Insider with a potpourri of sources of this figure: asset sales, cancellations and renegotiations of contracts and leases, fraud and improper payment removals, grant cancellations, interest savings, changes in programs, regulatory savings, workforce cuts — I mean, take your pick.
The Department of Defense found certain contracts that added up to about $80 million unnecessary as expense items and hence canceled the orders.

In a video shared on social media, Press Secretary Sean Parnell highlighted several contracts. Including a $1.9 million agreement for DEI training within the Air Force and a $3.5 million contract for the Defense Human Resources Activity to support DEI initiatives.

"One part of the funding for public universities is $6 million allocated to the University of Montana for activities regarding 'enhancing American democracy by overcoming divisions,' and $1.6 million to the University of Florida for research on 'social and institutional factors of vulnerability and resilience to climate risks in the African Sahel region.'

"This is not our core military business... This is a sideshow," added Parnell.

He said that preliminary results will yield about $80 million of savings in avoidable costs, stressing that the measures taken on the said Monday were just the start, with more savings to come out later in the week.
Reporting on its results, the Department that leads Government Efficiency under Elon Musk informed that it had saved $105 billion for the U.S. taxpayer.

A big chunk of the savings claimed by DOGE came out of its controversial cuts in the funding of the U.S. Agency for International Development to the tune of $8.7 billion.
In one other notice on Walls of receipts, the department announces that it canceled a USAID contract for the Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative valued at $256 million, from which DOGE says it saved $170 million, which is yet to be realized.

Another latest contract that DOGE’s website talks about was in connection with the USAID Global Health Training, Advisory, and Support Contract program which is a several years’ initiative that began in 2021 and was programmed to reach a maximum of $682 million by 2029.

DOGE continues to record that by closing out that program, savings amounted to $284 million.

The biggest contract the department reported calling off this week is a seven-year IT services deal with the USAID supplier Salient CRGT Inc, with a contract value of up to $597 million.

However, the numbers the agency has been touting have come under attack, as the 2,299 contracts listed in the Receipts Wall amount to just $8.8 billion in alleged savings.

It saved only $19.7 billion, but that is far less than the $105 billion the department said it has saved.

Sean Parnell, the Department of Defense Press Secretary, said the department is canceling contracts that have been considered unnecessary spending at a cost of $80 million.

In spite of these irregularities, DOGE has quietly removed some contracts that it had previously labeled as terminated after 'The New York Times' revealed that it had counted the same termination three times, or claimed credit for contracts that had ended years or even decades before Musk's challenges to the federal government.

The $1.9 billion limit seven-year IRS blanket purchase agreement for 'IT strategy and modernization' has vanished from the department's site. This is after Centennial Technologies, the financial management and IT firm in question, shared with Times that indeed the contract was terminated last fall during the Biden administration, as ABC News reported.

DOGE had to revise its earlier savings pact all the way down from $8 billion to $8 million when the provider said the $8 billion figure in its purchase records was probably an error.

Another agreement that has been taken down from the Doge’s Wall of Receipts consisted of a five-year contract with USAID under the Asia Futures Activity Initiative meant to support the Asia Bureau in dealing with the shared aspects of economic development, democratic governance, and resilience versus emergent threats associated with health, climate, and food security.

Of particular note, DOGE has also taken down from its savings page a $149 million contract for the National Institutes of Health granted to software firm Advanced Automation Technologies.
The contract listing from last week was for another NIH contract about the leasing and maintenance of refrigerated gas tanks.

One of the NIH grants with the same ID as the one on the DOGE site is currently up to $1.4 million only.
Most of the savings that DOGE claimed where $8.7 billion came were from the deep and highly contentious cuts it proposed to the United States Agency for International Development.

It now stands at under $9 billion net savings from contract cancellations due to the agency having to remove its errors.
Of the total savings reported by the initiative, which reached $16 billion, over 940 completed contracts showed that 40 percent of the contracts that the department claims to have terminated will not lead to any savings.

The Wall of Receipts for DOGE further described that the company saved $106 million by ending two agreements that the US Coast Guard had formed for administrative support.
In fact, those agreements had been put into place in 2005 and 2006 during the George W. Bush administration, according to the Times.

It is worse trying to verify another set of persons that DOGE claims to have rescued because much of the data lacks specificity regarding the agency that canceled the leases.
The website mentions the cancellation of 3,389 grants and gives details about the awarding agency and the grant amounts, but does not give names of the grants or their intended purposes.