The swamp creatures thought they could keep wasting taxpayer money.
They were banking on DOGE falling apart after the Musk drama.
But DOGE just delivered crushing news that will have wasteful bureaucrats scrambling.
DOGE terminates 312 contracts worth billions
The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t slowing down despite all the Washington, D.C. drama surrounding Elon Musk’s departure from the cost-cutting initiative.
Recent reports show federal agencies have axed 312 wasteful contracts worth up to $2.8 billion, delivering $470 million in taxpayer savings.¹
These weren’t small-time cuts either.
The canceled contracts included some real head-scratchers that perfectly showcase how the federal government has been lighting taxpayer money on fire.
The Defense Department canceled a $286,000 contract for entrepreneurship training at Harvard University.
Because apparently teaching business skills at an elite university is somehow critical to America’s defense.
USAID also canceled a $485,000 contract for a senior advisor position in Madagascar.¹
Half a million dollars for one advisor in Madagascar while American families are struggling to pay their bills.
Trump’s cost-cutting machine keeps rolling
The Trump administration’s DOGE effort continues to root out waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal bureaucracy.
This proves that the mission to clean up government spending doesn’t depend on any one person – it’s bigger than the personalities involved.
The latest round of cuts follows previous DOGE victories that have saved taxpayers billions more through contract terminations and other efficiency measures.
These bureaucrats were getting comfortable thinking nobody was watching their spending habits.
They figured wrong.
Musk drama doesn’t derail mission
The cost-cutting success comes even after the very public tensions between Musk and President Trump in early June.
Musk had stepped down from his formal DOGE role in late May when his 130-day term as a special government employee expired, but tensions erupted when he criticized Trump’s spending bill.
The feud escalated into an all-out public war of words, with Trump threatening to cut government contracts with Musk’s companies while Musk suggested Trump should be impeached.³
But the two appeared to de-escalate after the initial blowup, with Musk eventually apologizing for some of his posts about Trump.
The fact that DOGE keeps delivering results shows this isn’t about any one personality – it’s about results for the American people.
Bureaucrats can’t hide anymore
What makes these cuts so satisfying is how they expose the absolutely ridiculous ways the federal government has been spending money.
An entrepreneurship course at Harvard for the Defense Department?
A half-million-dollar advisor position in Madagascar?
These are exactly the kind of wasteful expenditures that drove voters to demand change in November.
The bureaucrats who approved these contracts probably never thought anyone would bother to look at what they were spending money on.
They were treating taxpayer dollars like their personal slush fund.
Not anymore.
The mission continues
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently testified before the House Ways & Means Committee about the nation’s mounting debt crisis.⁴
America’s national debt has grown to more than $36.2 trillion and keeps rising.⁴
Musk has been sounding the alarm about America’s fiscal problems, warning that "America is in the fast lane to debt slavery."⁵
These DOGE cuts represent exactly the kind of aggressive action needed to tackle the government’s spending addiction.
Every wasteful contract that gets terminated means more money stays in the pockets of hardworking Americans instead of getting flushed down the Washington, D.C. drain.
The swamp thought they could outlast Trump’s cost-cutting efforts.
They’re learning the hard way that this administration means business when it comes to government efficiency.
¹ Fox Business, "Sans Musk, DOGE saves millions by nixing 312 more contracts," June 26, 2025
² Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Congressional testimony, June 2025
³ Reuters, "Trump, Musk feud explodes with threats of cutting contracts," June 5, 2025
⁴ U.S. Treasury Department, "Debt to the Penny," June 2025
⁵ Elon Musk, X (formerly Twitter), June 2025