Great work by the @usairforce in partnership with @DOGE in substantially reducing a wasteful program serviced by external consultants. The Air Force Strategic Transformation Support I ("AFSTS I") was a $2.75B contract awarded to eight management consulting firms in 2020 to source “transformation Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), and organizational efficiency experts." This ceiling has been reduced to $1.918B, with the $832M of unobligated savings realized for taxpayers. In addition to deobligations, the team is descoping $175M, bringing the total savings of this initiative to greater than $1B. As a part of the review, and under the leadership of @SecDef, the @usairforce also rescinded the solicitation of AFSTS II (an extension of AFSTS I), which had a ceiling value of $3.8B.

Great work today by @USDOL, canceling $13.6M in wasteful DEI grants totaling $8.4M in savings, including: - $716k for “DEIA materials, training modules, and support networks” - $398k for “gender equity awareness training” - $350k to “migrant sending or receiving communities”

Great job by @SecDuffy and @USDOT for terminating 7 wasteful grants with award value of $54M and savings of $51M, including: - $6M for “collaborative planning to address safety concerns of women and gender non-conforming people” - $12M for “accelerating equitable decarbonization” - $6M for “hyperlocal pollution exposure inequalities” in New York City The @USDOT is working hard to cut waste and will have more to report over the coming weeks!

Contract update! Over the last two days, agencies terminated 401 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.1B and savings of $613M, including a $276k Treasury contract for a “Kenya program coordinator”, a $228k Treasury contract for “Kenya, Uganda, Namibia and Tanzania cruiser vehicles”, a $24k DHS contract for “two day training on equal opportunity in employment”, a $15k DHS contract for “Out and Equal workplace advocates”, and a $5.9M DoC contract for “environmental consulting support services”.

Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to: -Missing budget codes -Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget) -Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)

For the past 7 weeks, @SocialSecurity 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://t.co/LBWRge9pzu

Contract and grant update! Over the last several days, agencies have terminated 269 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M, including a $50k @Interior consulting contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem solving services”. Agencies also terminated $90M in wasteful grants, including $995k for a "BIPOC culinary program" and $625k for a "Russian-Far East biodiversity partnership".

Great work by @NSF 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.

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. https://t.co/G50NfsKeTm

Follow-up on Defend the Spend: Since the system was launched, over $700M in daily payments have been subject to payment justifications (ie “What is this?”) from recipients and agency leads. Thanks to the great work by @HHSGov, for the first time ever, the American people will be able to see line-by-line payment descriptions & justifications — coming soon to the DOGE website.

Contract update! Yesterday, agencies terminated 102 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of ~$215M and savings of ~$100M, including a $250K @USGSA contract for a “circadian lighting pilot study” and $195k in @Interior consulting contracts to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services”.

Good work by @USGSA for inking its first consolidated deal following the President’s Executive Order: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement. With this deal, GSA effectively used government-wide buying leverage to secure a 71% price reduction for Workspace, which will be available to all federal agencies. This will be the first of many bulk discounts as a result of centralized procurement.

Contract update! Agencies terminated 80 wasteful contracts today with a ceiling value of $203.6M and savings of $139.1M, including a $2.1M @StateDept management consulting contract for a “senior advisor in the Democratic Republic of Congo”. https://t.co/RjGXx0TCNH

Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms.  The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry ("EBE") immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field Offices. These have remained stable at about 1 mln/year excluding COVID. We focused just on EBE because it ramped as a direct result of growth in the various asylum programs.  Your chart mixes the two categories: showing all immigrant Enumerations from 2016 thru 2020 and EBE only from 2021 to 2024.  Here is the chart back to 2019 for Enumeration Beyond Entry which is when the EBE basically started.  I want to thank the good people at the Social Security Administration for their expert help. We would not have been able to understand this complex system without them. There are many terrific people at SSA serving their fellow citizens. We are very grateful. I believe these facts speak for themselves. As the son of legal immigrants to America, I am an ardent supporter of legal immigration.

Contract update! Today, agencies cancelled 109 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.1B and savings of $420M, including a $3.1M @ENERGY contract for “website development services” and a $2.7M @CommerceGov contract for “marketing consulting services outreach and engagement support services”.

For the past 4 weeks, @SocialSecurity has been executing a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 9.9 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked deceased. Another ~2 million to go. https://t.co/EiPCC5rcCl

Each year, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) receives $55M in congressional (taxpayer) funds. - Prior management would sweep excess funds into its private Endowment (zero congressional oversight). -In the past 10 years, USIP has transferred ~$13M to its private Endowment, mainly used for private events and travel. USIP contracts (now cancelled) include: - $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi, an ex-Taliban member who was Afghanistan's former Chief of Protocol. - $2,232,500 to its outside Accountant, who attempted to delete over 1 terabyte of accounting data (now recovered) after new leadership entered the building - $1,307,061 to the Al Tadhamun Iraqi League for Youth - $675,000 for private aviation services