{"id":39748,"date":"2025-04-24T23:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/doge-slashes-wasteful-problem-solving-contract-worth-50k-in-latest-round-of-eliminations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:37:55","slug":"doge-slashes-wasteful-problem-solving-contract-worth-50k-in-latest-round-of-eliminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/doge-slashes-wasteful-problem-solving-contract-worth-50k-in-latest-round-of-eliminations\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE slashes &#8216;wasteful&#8217; &#8216;problem-solving&#8217; contract worth $50K in latest round of eliminations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slash and burn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contracts and grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars were terminated over several days, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/doge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> (DOGE) said Thursday, including one aimed at providing &#8220;problem-solving&#8221; services.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies have eliminated 269 &#8220;wasteful&#8221; contracts with a &#8220;ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M,&#8221; according to a DOGE post on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/david-marcus-what-america-owes-elon-musk-after-doge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DAVID MARCUS: WHAT AMERICA OWES ELON MUSK AFTER DOGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DOGE eliminated $90 million in grants, including $995,000 for &#8220;a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) culinary program&#8221; and $625,000 for a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian-Far East<\/a> biodiversity partnership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the terminated contracts was a $50,000 Department of the Interior consulting contract to &#8220;provide facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/official-polls\/fox-news-poll-first-100-days-president-trumps-second-term\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FOX NEWS POLL: THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP\u2019S SECOND TERM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ag-pam-bondi-announces-greatest-hits-amid-doge-cuts-including-250k-work-jailed-trans-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pam Bondi<\/a> said some of the grants the Justice Department eliminated included $2 million for &#8220;national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another was a $625,000 grant for &#8220;a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments\u2019 LGBTQ liaison services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DOGE, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led by Elon Musk<\/a>, has been aggressive in its mission to root out wasteful spending and to downsize the scope of the federal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slash and burn.\u00a0 Contracts and grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars were terminated over several days, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Thursday, including one aimed at providing &#8220;problem-solving&#8221; services. 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