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Published on March 5, 2025 • Law

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead

New York Times - While George W. Bush was president, the U.S. Coast Guard signed a contract to get administrative help from a company in Northern Virginia. It paid $144,000, and the contract was completed by June 30, 2005. Twenty years passed. Presidents came and went. Last week, Elon Musk’s restructuring team, called the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, said it had just canceled the long-dead Coast Guard contract — and in doing so, saved U.S. taxpayers $53.7 million.

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