Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk appeared in a White House news conference on Feb. 11, 2025, defending plans to cut “waste” in the federal government with the Department of Government Efficiency.
For months last year, his assembled squad and their exploits inside federal agencies dominated headlines. Musk even posed for cameras with a chainsaw, flaunting the department’s cost-cutting at President Donald Trump‘s request.
The fanfare over DOGE has faded, but hundreds of legal actions are in process over many of the nearly 30,000 grants and contracts that were terminated. USA TODAY analyzed the cuts reported during the new administration’s first 9.5 months to examine the extent of the reported cost-cutting.
Here’s what we found, based on the most recent…
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