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2025-04-25 02:20:39

Great work by @nprofile…6px4 @nprofile…c9ap
canceling wasteful grants, such as the "population consequences of the disturbance of humpback whales in the context of climate change".
https://bird.makeup/@secnav/1915566238786343423

2025-04-24 21:49:58

For the past 7 weeks, @nprofile…pu0k has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 11 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~1.4 million to go with expected completion in 2 weeks.
https://bird.makeup/@doge/1901882509463630073
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2025-04-19 01:26:04

Great work by @nprofile…tdg5 canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.
See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.
https://bird.makeup/@nsf/1913308859952714032

2025-04-16 03:53:53

Credit Card Update!
The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.
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2025-04-15 15:27:13

Great job by @nprofile…elkr @nprofile…n5wy
In addition to the ones below, they also cancelled these wasteful grants:
-$1.4mm for “Preventing Internet Fragmentation” in Brazil
- $750k for “Enabling Civil Society Resilience and Adaptation” in Kyrgyzstan
- $1mm for “Building Trust and Keeping Hope Alive” in Sri Lanka
-$2mm for “Advancing Democratic Culture” in Armenia
https://bird.makeup/@doge/1912151442875363418

2025-04-15 14:30:04

@nprofile…elkr continues to scrutinize @nprofile…n5wy foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including:
- $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom
- $2.5mm for “advancing critical civic engagement” in Uzbekistan
- $2mm for “Expanded Newsroom Sustainability and Engagement” in Moldova
- $1mm for “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil
- $2.4mm for “Responding to Disinformation Through Creative Content in Belarus”
- $1.7mm for “Independent Media for Peace and Democracy” in Europe
- $1.5mm for a “Women-led Gendered Approach to Justice and Accountability”
- $1.7mm for “BeMediaWise” in Bulgaria
- $900k for a “Place for Women to Join to Organize” in Mauritania
- $750k for “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon
- $740k for a feminist “Free Expression Initiative”in Tunisia

2025-04-07 22:13:55

The US African Development Foundation has terminated $51M in grants, including:
-$229,296 for marketing 100% organic shea butter in Burkina Faso
-$84,059 for a business incubator for spa & wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria
-$239,738 for marketing pineapple juice in Benin
-$246,217 for mango drying facilities in the Ivory Coast
-$99,566 to increase yogurt production in Uganda
-$48,406 for a WhatsApp marketing chatbot in Kenya
-$50,000 to train farmers to grow dragonfruit in Senegal

2025-03-18 01:38:25

Mr. Moose denied lawful access to Kenneth Jackson, the Acting USIP President (as approved by the USIP Board). @nprofile…872x arrived onsite and escorted Mr. Jackson into the building. The only unlawful individual was Mr. Moose, who refused to comply, and even tried to fire USIP’s private security team when said security team went to give access to Mr. Jackson.
https://bird.makeup/@nickschifrin/1901753715570442586
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2025-03-16 14:57:27

This article is maliciously misleading. While the database error is unfortunate, this has zero connection to @nprofile…euxn.
This type of error unfortunately has occurred regularly (~500 times each month) for years. In the same way that dead people are marked as living, the reverse also happens, with Mr. Johnson’s case being one example. As of last week, @nprofile…euxn and @nprofile…pu0k are now working together to increase the accuracy of the “Death Master File” and eliminate these errors, the first ever real attempt to do so.
With regards to service centers being understaffed, this is true. @nprofile…pu0k has been on a hybrid work-from-home model, which is currently being transitioned to a full work-from-office model.
https://bird.makeup/@emptywheel/1901039006948757728

2025-03-07 04:20:02

The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.
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2025-02-25 20:23:58

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:
-$69mm for the Eurasia Foundation to do "digital transformation activity" in Europe
-$32mm to Internews for programs including "media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova" and the promotion of “sustainable media outlets"
-$7mm for the American Bar Association to promote the "resilience" of the "Eurasian legal sector and civic society"
-$520mm for a consultant to do ESG investments in Africa and "mobilize private sector resources and expertise”
-$25mm to “promote biodiversity conservation and promote licit livelihoods” by developing “socially responsible” behaviors in Colombia
-$40mm to "improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants"
-$42mm for Johns Hopkins to research and drive "social and behavior change" in Uganda
-$45mm to "address[] the needs, opportunities, and challenges identified by activists and other civic actors engaged in nonviolent collective action"
-$52mm for the World Economic Forum

2025-02-24 17:25:30

Agencies often have more software licenses than employees, and the licenses are often idle (i.e. paid for, but not installed on any computer). For example, at GSA, with 13,000 employees, there are:
- 37,000 WinZip licenses
- 19,000 training software subscriptions (and multiple parallel training software platforms)
-7,500 project management software seats for a division with 5,500 employees
- 3 different ticketing systems running in parallel
Fixes are actively in work.

2025-02-15 01:52:01

In the last 48 hours, the Department of Education terminated 70 DEI training grants totaling $373M.
One trained teachers to “engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets.”

2025-02-13 04:40:23

DOGE website is live!
https://www.doge.gov/
Initial site:
1. X feed posts
2. Consolidated government org chart - enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices
3. Summary of the massive regulatory state, including the Unconstitutionality Index (ratio of rules written by unelected bureaucrats to laws passed by Congress)
Coming soon (targeting Valentines Day):
1. Description/amount of each cost reduction (w/ receipts where applicable)
2. Overall savings scorecard
We will constantly be working to maximize the site’s utility and transparency. Please let us know what else you want to see!

2025-02-13 00:47:03

Today’s contract update:
58 cancellations with savings of >$150M in categories including Media, DEI, and Consulting. This includes $405K at DHS for “resilience, energy, and sustainability management program support services” and ~4M at DoT for “DEIA program and project management support services”.
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2025-02-13 00:47:03

2025-02-11 00:13:04

Today, the Department of Education terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101mm.
One sought to train teachers to “help students understand / interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis.“

2025-02-10 22:58:33

Today, the Department of Agriculture terminated 18 contracts for a total of ~$9mm, including contracts for “Central American gender assessment consultant services”, “Brazil forest and gender consultant services”, and the “women in forest carbon initiative mentorship program.”

2024-12-19 18:27:22

This is the split of administrators vs. teaching staff at the top 25 endowed universities.
We are investing in bureaucracy over actual education.
Source:
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/mastervariablelist.aspx?stepId=2&sid=783e04e6-59bc-44fc-ab6e-e5d3b6dcd6d5&rtid=1
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2024-12-05 19:21:33

In 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent:
-$759 Million on Workforce Diversity and Outreach
-$611,203 “Evaluating Microaggressions among Latinx Individuals with Obesity”
-$87,944 on the “Role of the estrous cycle and nucleus accumbens signaling on incubation of oxycodone craving in female rats”
Sources:
https://t.co/nkNXDkr72A
https://t.co/oNvr3GP1Be
https://t.co/fGarkVxOPH

2024-11-30 15:42:32

In 2024, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1.8 billion studying racism including:
-$125K on “Examining Anti-Racist Healing in Nature”
-$151K on “Perceived racism, cardiovascular disease risk, and neurocognitive aging”
-$516K on “Effects of Racism on Brain and Pathways to Health Disparities”
Cost breakdown thread:
https://t.co/o20FdqOiDg

2024-11-30 15:38:08

Summary of California High Speed Rail Project:
-Originally projected (in 2008) to cost $33 billion; now projected to cost between $88.5 and $127.9 billion
-Estimated completion date was 2020; as of 2024, zero passengers have been transported and the majority has not even been fully designed
-Received $6.8 billion in federal funds
-Requesting $8 billion in additional federal funds
Sources:
https://t.co/XgFH9JZT1v
https://t.co/dDQpN6vn8a

2024-11-23 06:40:34

In FY2023, the U.S. Government spent $6.16. trillion while only bringing in $4.47 trillion.
The last budget surplus was in 2001.
This trend must be reversed, and we must balance the budget.
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2024-11-23 06:32:49

The U.S. Government recently approved the following grants:
-$45 million for a diversity and inclusion scholarship in Burma
-$3 million for “girl-centered climate action” in Brazil
-$288,563 for diverse bird watcher groups
Source: https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/wasteful-government-spending-adds-and-all-us-pay-the-price