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  • How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US government spending? {AS of end of April 2025}

    04/26/2025 9:34:10 PM PDT · by Cronos · 39 replies
    BBC ^ | 26th April 2025 | Lucy Gilder, Jake Horton and the Data Science team
    In October, Mr Musk pledged to cut "at least $2 trillion" from the federal government budget. He subsequently halved this target and on 10 April talked about making savings of $150bn from "cutting fraud and waste" by the end of the next financial year in 2026. ...Doge's largest listed individual saving is $2.9bn. It comes from cancelling a contract - which started in 2023 under President Biden - for a facility in Texas to house up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children. Doge appears to have taken the "total contract value" until 2028 - the end date listed - and subtracted...