DOGE Terminated Even More Contracts in April and May
We found over 8,700 more US Government contracts terminated by DOGE
Here at Career Pivot, we've been tracking DOGE's contract termination spree since day one. Our data analyst Sean Kelly has been methodically documenting which agencies got hit hardest.
We found that DOGE Maths Don't Compute at many agencies and Dodgy DOGE Maths happening across departments.
Surprise! DOGE inflated their savings claims and there is little evidence DOGE made things more efficient. Instead, Elon Musk left the Trump administration in late May, after his 130-day mandate as a special government employee ended.
Sadly, the DOGE machine rolls on without him.
DOGE Data Shows Slowdown?
Sean Kelly just revealed updated termination numbers, and they're staggering. From January 20 to June 5, DOGE terminated 26,522 contracts and grants - that's 8,715 more terminations since our last count in April.
Notice something? The termination totals seem like they are slowing down from their peak in February and March. Can we hope that they are realizing you cannot cut your way to positive impact?
The Agencies Getting Hammered
Among the new 8,715 terminations, here's exactly which agencies took the biggest hits. News flash: ACLU stopped NIH grant cancelations!
These aren't just numbers. They're real programs, real contracts, real jobs, and real impact. You know this personally. Your organization had a grant or contract terminated - that’s why you’re reading this.
How have these termiantions impacted your life? Share your experience with us!
DOGE Continues Under New Management
White House budget director Russell Vought is expected to pick up where Musk left off in cutting federal spending.
Vought, an architect of Project 2025, told Congress that the Trump administration is eager to send more requests to eliminate previously appropriated funds as DOGE shifts from a consulting role to a position "far more institutionalized" at OMB.
Translation: DOGE isn't disappearing. It's becoming permanent government infrastructure. At least 100 DOGE members remain embedded across federal agencies, even after Musk's departure. They're not going anywhere.
The $9.4 Billion Rescission Request
Sadly, there's more. This Administreation proposed rescinding $9.4 billion in already-appropriated FY2025 foreign assistance funding. This isn't future budget cuts. This is stopping money Congress already approved from being spent.
Congress has 45 days to approve or reject these rescissions. If they do nothing, the cuts automatically get rejected and the money must be spent.
But with a Republican majority that largely supports Trump's agenda, don't count on congressional resistance. News flash: The recension bill passed the House.
Real DOGE Damage
Musk originally promised DOGE would cut $2 trillion but the group currently estimates it has saved only $175 billion - a number that Reuters was not able to independently verify.
Sean Kelly's analyses consistently show DOGE overstates its savings by claiming the full contract value rather than actual obligated funds. But the damage is real even if the savings are fictional.
Real programs are disappearing. Real communities are losing services. Real people are losing real jobs. Real people like us!
DOGE is definitely reshaping the federal workforce. Whether that makes government more efficient or just smaller remains to be seen. DOGE keeps DOGE'ing, with or without Elon Musk.
I was locked out of my emails on Feb 3, left imagining I had been fired and had 2 weeks of pay left. No one could tell me if I was still employed or not. HR was unable to assist even weeks later. I spent months not knowing what was going on, living with only three functional emotions: fear, anxiety and trepidation. And I live in South Africa. I see the impact of this horror chaos dismantling in the people whose lives depended on USAID-funded clinics. It’s so very sad. I may have been traumatized by my own government but I’ll make it. Those people aren’t so lucky. I’m so embarrassed by and ashamed of my government.
The world got destroyed based on decit and lies, like said, programs are not just numbers and papers, they are humans, we are waiting for world war three, yet we are in it, this has killed and will kill alot out there, it will go in the history of humanity as the worst goverance ever...