DOGE, responsible for reducing federal spending, doubles the computer budget

• The Elon Musk working group, Doge, has doubled its budget at more than $ 14.4 million.
• Trump has established Doge to improve efficiency and reduce federal spending and waste.
• DOGE said he said the government about $ 1 billion a day.

The Elon Musk government’s Ministry of Effectiveness, aimed at reducing federal spending, has more than doubled its own expenses during its first three weeks.

The distribution of DOGE increased from $ 6.75 million to $ 14.4 million between January 30 and February 8, according to the last financial deposit of the working group.

Musk and Trump said that the main objective of the working group was to eliminate fraud, waste and abuses from the taxpayers’ dollars.

The distribution of $ 14.4 million in the office is lower than its previous incarnation as digital services in the United States, which Trump’s executive decree has renamed in the United States DOGE Services. In its earlier form, the office had received around 60 million dollars for the 2024 financial year, according to an announcement from the Biden White House.

From the start less than a month ago, DOGE has quickly tried to dismantle government agencies like USAID, to reduce the global federal workforce and to access the digital payment system of the Treasury Department which Control of billions of dollars in payments for everything, from social security to reimbursement tax.

On its page X, DOGE said that it saved the government about $ 1 billion a day, “mainly from preventing it from hiring people in unnecessary positions, the abolition of Dei and stopping inappropriate payments to foreign organizations. “

DOGE has chronically told many of its spending discounts on its page X, in particular the implementation of underutilized buildings, the staging of consultation contracts linked to “strategic communication” and “executive coaching” and the cancellation of government subscriptions to media as politico.

The working group also announced on January 31 that it had ended 104 government contracts linked to Deia’s programs and initiatives (diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility).

DOGE said that the cuts – covering 30 agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the Ministry of Veterans, the Office of Personal Management, the Environmental Protection Agency, and many others – have been more than one billion dollars in savings.

The staff of the White House Doge’s office are around thirty workers, most of whom are professionals from start to mid-carrier with history of technology, finance, law and politics.

Musk also does not receive a pay check as a “special government employee” in charge of Doge.