123 Wasteful Government Contracts Valued at Over $5 Billion Canceled, DOGE Says

123 Wasteful Government Contracts Valued at Over $5 Billion Canceled, DOGE Says

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated 123 “wasteful contracts” over the past five days with a ceiling value of $5.3 billion and savings of $4.2 billion, DOGE said in an Aug. 16 X post. The canceled contracts included an $857,000 contract from the Department of the Interior for a technical adviser in Lagos, Nigeria, it said. Another canceled agreement was a $1.5 million Treasury Department contract for “Word Processing and…