Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has successfully recovered almost $2 billion in taxpayer funds that had gone missing under former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Despite relentless challenges in the courts and the corporate media, DOGE is continuing its cost-cutting mission, notching significant achievements along the way.
As the Daily Mail reports, the official DOGE X account revealed that almost $2 billion in funds previously “misplaced” by Biden-era officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have been recovered.
Musk blamed the misplacement of the funds on gross mismanagement during the prior administration.
In a post to X outlining the impressive development, DOGE officials explained:
“These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed.”
The fact that the funds were misplaced at all during the Biden years was, according to DOGE, a symptom of a “broken process.”
Pointing to greater efficiency that will now be possible, the post added:
“@SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury.”
Referenced in the post was the new HUD Secretary Scott Turner, who was confirmed for the role earlier this month.
Turner has already indicated his willingness to collaborate with DOGE to facilitate the transformation of the department he now leads.
In a recent video message posted on X, Turner announced the creation of the task force together with DOGE.
The work, Turner said, will be “very detailed and deliberate about every dollar spend in serving trial, rural and urban communities across America.”
In keeping with Trump’s commitment to streamlining every corner of the federal government, Turner noted in a press release that the group would be made up of HUD employees aiming to “examine how to best maximize the agency’s budget and ensure all programs, processes, and personnel are working together to advance the purpose of the department.”
An early win for the task force, as noted by Turner, was the task force’s recovery of another $260 million in savings.
However, it was not immediately apparent where the money was found or what any related cuts might mean for HUD programming.
Adding to the potential efficiencies to be found within his agencies, reports suggest that significant layoffs of HUD staff may be on the cards, but no specifics on numbers have been released.
In addition to the recovered funds at HUD, DOGE has touted significant wins elsewhere across the federal government, announcing the cancellation of dozens of contracts related to media, DEI, and consulting services at a range of agencies including the Transportation Department and the Department of Homeland Security, as Fox News noted.
Another prime target of DOGE’s cost-cutting mission has been the Department of Education (DOE).
The DOE has seen more than $100 million in DEI training-related grants already canceled.
Given the impressive pace at which DOGE is finding and rooting out wasteful spending and misappropriated funds, it seems certain that Trump, Musk, and the team leading the charge to downsize the federal government are only just getting started.
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