The 2024 Presidential Election was won by Donald Trump in part by his promise to right-size government, and to bring along Elon Musk to help do it. After Trump’s win, Musk was tasked with bringing the best and brightest to the government to find waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars in government bureaucracies, and to find ways to eliminate it.
Musk, a temporary government employee left the Trump administration after 180 days (the legal limit for such contracts), but DOGE lives on, and is still doing good work for the American people. Up to now, DOGE has generated $215 billion in savings for American taxpayers by cutting and cancelling contracts and regulations that aren’t fair to the people.
DOGE posts its cuts on its “Wall of Receipts,” where it lists (as of this writing) 13,440 contract terminations, 15,887 grant terminations, and 264 lease terminations totaling billions saved for Americans. DOGE also takes credit for 1.9 million words of regulations deleted, saving taxpayers an estimated $30.1 billion.
The Trump administration, via DOGE, and the anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance, is working hard to fight fraudulent use of taxpayer dollars.
.@VP convenes a meeting on the task force to eliminate fraud:
“A lot of the anti-fraud protections that existed in our government for a very long time were actually turned off by the Biden administration… we’re going to turn back on those anti-fraud protections so that all of… pic.twitter.com/404O9wO9Oy
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 27, 2026
