Donald J. Trump
Russell Vought
Director of the Office of Management and Budget in both Trump administrations, including in an acting capacity during the first.
Exact relationships
Money, power & fallout
- Trump nominates Vought after his acting OMB tenureServed as acting OMB director before Trump nominated him as directorfirst-administration OMB director · documented · 1 source
- Trump's 90-day foreign-aid freeze stopped active health and relief programsStop-work orders took effect while waiver rules remained slow and inconsistentTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Treasury's top career official resigned after resisting DOGE payment-system accessDavid Lebryk retired after more than 30 years of federal serviceTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Treasury granted DOGE access to the federal payment systemTreasury described the initial access as read-onlyTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Senate confirms Vought to lead Trump's OMB againOMB director as of September 3, 2026OMB director in Trump's second administration · documented · 3 sources
- A Treasury threat assessment designated DOGE staff an insider-risk concernTreasury security teams circulated the insider-threat assessmentTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Vought ordered CFPB staff to stop nearly all supervisory and enforcement workCourts later restricted implementation of the shutdown and mass-layoff planTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- A federal judge kept DOGE barred from Treasury payment recordsTemporary access restrictions remained in force pending a hearingTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- CFPB agreed to reimburse DOGE for as many as five full-time staffThe signed agreement authorized reimbursement for up to five full-time equivalents through July 4, 2026Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
up to 5 full-time equivalentsMaximum reimbursable DOGE staffing
- DOGE sought access to individual taxpayer records at the IRSDOGE agreed initially to use anonymized data amid internal resistanceTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Nuclear-security dismissals were hurriedly reversed after safety warningsNNSA attempted to recall dismissed staff after the initial terminationsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE funding rose to nearly $40 million while its spending remained shieldedOMB records showed nearly $40 million available to DOGETrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public costFunding available to DOGEnearly $40 million - Reported public spending source
- Federal appropriations and transferring agencies
- Reported funds recipient
- U.S. DOGE Service
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal taxpayers
- USDA layoffs disrupted bird-flu vaccine testing during an active outbreakAmes laboratories reported research delays and animal-care gapsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE gained access to confidential housing-discrimination and domestic-violence filesHUD publicly disputed the report after officials said access had been grantedTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- CFPB dropped its Capital One savings-account investigation under VoughtThe bureau dismissed the enforcement matterTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
lossInterest allegedly withheld from Capital One customersmore than $2 billion - Reported loss source
- Capital One savings customers
- Reported gain recipient
- Capital One
- Loss or cost borne by
- Affected savings-account customers
- DOGE marked VA cancer-registry support for immediate terminationVA pursued a national replacement after local officials warned of oncology tracking failuresTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Labor Department agreement carried a $1.3 million DOGE feeThe published agreement authorized a $1.3 million interagency payment and system-by-system noticeTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
feeDepartment of Labor DOGE agreement fee$1.3 million - Reported fee payer / source
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Reported fee recipient
- U.S. DOGE Service
- Financially affected
- Labor Department programs and federal taxpayers
- CFPB abandoned its Rocket Homes kickback caseCFPB voluntarily dismissed the caseTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE lowered purchase-card limits to $1 across 14 agenciesAgencies used waivers and manual workarounds to restore routine purchasesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
14 agenciesAgencies subjected to $1 purchase-card limits
- A judge ruled the administration could not indefinitely withhold congressionally funded aidCourt ordered the government to process overdue foreign-aid paymentsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- USPS agreed to work with DOGE while planning 10,000 job cutsPostal leadership announced 10,000 reductions through attritionTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
10,000 positionsUSPS positions slated for reduction
- DOGE pushed millions of Social Security applicants toward in-person identity checksSSA announced expanded in-person verification before partially narrowing the ruleTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- A district court restricted DOGE access to Social Security recordsAccess restrictions operated until the Supreme Court paused them on June 6Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- SBA announced 2,700 cuts, about 43 percent of its workforceSBA announced a return to roughly 2020 staffing levels through 2,700 reductionsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
2,700 positionsSBA announced workforce reduction
- A shrunken SBA was assigned a $1.6 trillion student-loan portfolioThe administration announced the portfolio transfer while implementation remained unresolvedTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
asset transferStudent-loan portfolio assigned to SBA$1.6 trillion - Reported transfer from
- U.S. Department of Education
- Reported transfer to
- Small Business Administration
- Financially affected
- Student borrowers and servicing operations
- A court blocked Education and OPM from disclosing personal records to DOGEPreliminary injunction restricted disclosures while the Privacy Act case proceededTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- SSA narrowed its in-person mandate after access warningsTelephone applications remained available for disability and Medicare claims after the revisionTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- A federal court blocked Vought's plan to dismantle CFPBPreliminary injunction restricted layoffs, data destruction, and work stoppageTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- An appeals court temporarily restored DOGE access at Education and OPMAppellate stay allowed access during the government's appealTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Social Security's website repeatedly crashed during DOGE IT cutsSSA recorded repeated outages and warned of continued instabilityTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Six million seniors live roughly 50 miles round-trip from a Social Security officeGeographic analysis identified 13.5 million seniors more than an hour from an officeTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
13.5 million peopleSeniors more than one hour from a Social Security office
- The administration ended IRS Direct File after two filing seasonsDirect File was discontinued for the next filing seasonTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE took operational control of Grants.gov approvalsDOGE personnel imposed additional review over federal grant notices and awardsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- An NLRB whistleblower alleged a large outbound transfer after DOGE arrivedThe alleged transfer remained under oversight and was not publicly attributed to a recipientTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
roughly 10 GB gigabytesAlleged anomalous outbound transfer
- Foreign-IP login attempts followed the NLRB access changes, a whistleblower allegedSuspicious-login alerts were reported without a public attribution findingTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- The NLRB whistleblower alleged DOGE accounts bypassed normal loggingLogging allegations remained subject to investigationTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE received accounts capable of reaching sensitive NLRB case systemsA whistleblower disclosure prompted congressional and inspector-general reviewTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- SEC leaders resisted DOGE demands for broad internal data accessSEC officials negotiated limits on the requested accessTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Direct File advocates projected up to $11 billion in annual taxpayer savings at maturityProjected mature-state benefit was foregone when the service was discontinuedTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
lossPotential annual filer savings from mature Direct Fileup to $11 billion annually - Projected loss source
- Eligible tax filers
- Projected gain recipient
- Foregone filing-fee and time savings
- Loss or cost borne by
- Taxpayers denied the public filing option
- CFPB leadership prepared to eliminate roughly 90 percent of the bureauThe court blocked the mass termination while litigation continuedTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
roughly 90%Planned CFPB workforce reduction
- Treasury's inspector general opened a review of Trump and DOGE taxpayer-data requestsTIGTA began preplanning and requested access agreements and legal rationalesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- SSA data work expanded toward a national voter-eligibility systemSSA and DHS pursued data matching for state election officialsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- NOAA's Great Lakes lab lost about 35 percent of its workforceHiring freeze and departures left key forecasting roles vacantTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
about 35%Great Lakes lab workforce loss
- VA clinicians warned more than 1,000 veterans could lose access to research treatmentSome decisions were reversed, but several trials remained stalledTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
more than 1,000 peopleVeterans warned at risk of losing research treatment
- A Musk-paid adviser helped dismantle the regulator overseeing Tesla and X paymentsDisclosure showed concurrent private employment and government serviceTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
paymentUpper end of Chris Young's disclosed Musk-company compensation rangeup to $1 million annually - Reported source
- Europa 100 LLC
- Reported recipient
- Chris Young
- Financially affected
- CFPB impartiality and regulated consumers
- SSA abandoned a DOGE anti-fraud check after it disrupted legitimate claimsSSA withdrew the bank-account verification change after implementation problemsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Justice's Public Integrity Section lost most of its trial attorneysThe section operated with a sharply reduced trial-attorney rosterTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE used Meta's Llama 2 model to analyze federal workers' email responsesOPM acknowledged automated processing while withholding detailed decision rulesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Federal outlays accelerated during Musk's DOGE tenureAggregate spending was rising faster than in the prior two yearsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- IRS sought to rehire staff after cuts damaged filing and enforcement capacityIRS joined agencies seeking to reverse selected dismissalsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Weather Service rehired forecasters after cuts left dangerous gapsNWS received authority to restore selected critical positionsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- The Supreme Court paused restrictions and allowed DOGE to access Social Security systemsDOGE access resumed under the Supreme Court's procedural orderTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- The DOGE 100 review found deep private-sector and regulatory overlapsMore than 100 DOGE-linked personnel had been identified; most disclosure files remained unavailableTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
more than 100 peopleDOGE-linked personnel identified
at least 38 peoplePersonnel with Musk-company work history
22 peoplePublic financial disclosures located
- HHS accumulated a billion-dollar grant backlog after DOGE controlsHHS acknowledged delayed grant processing worth about $1 billionTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
commitmentDelayed HHS grant backlogabout $1 billion - Reported commitment source
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Reported intended recipient
- Pending state, university, and nonprofit grantees
- Financially affected
- Program participants and grant-recipient workforces
- Lancet researchers projected 14.05 million additional deaths by 2030 under full USAID defundingCentral projection remains conditional on continued severe defunding through 2030Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
14,051,750 deathsAdditional all-age deaths under full USAID defunding · 2025-07-19
4,537,157 deathsAdditional under-five deaths nested within all-age projection · 2025-07-19
- More than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs remained vacantInternal data showed vacancies at the July 17 wildfire-season checkpointTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
more than 4,500 positionsVacant Forest Service firefighting positions
- National Park Service lost roughly one-quarter of its permanent staffParks were operating with reduced permanent staffing during summer 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
roughly 25%National Park Service permanent-staff reduction
- Parks curtailed programs and maintenance after staffing cutsMultiple parks reported reduced programs, hours, or maintenanceTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- Senate minority staff estimated $9.4 million for embedded DOGE agency teams$9.40 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$9.4 million for embedded DOGE agency teams$9.40 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Host agencies and federal taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $152.3 million for CFPB administrative leave$152.34 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
payment$152.3 million for CFPB administrative leave$152.34 million - Estimated source
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Estimated recipient
- Employees barred from regular work
- Financially affected
- Consumers, bureau operations, and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $14.76 billion for deferred resignations$14.76 billion minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
payment$14.76 billion for deferred resignations$14.76 billion - Estimated source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated recipient
- Deferred-resignation participants
- Financially affected
- Agency budgets, public-service users, and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff identified $33.5 million sunk in IRS Direct File$33.5 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
lossSenate minority staff identified $33.5 million sunk in IRS Direct File$33.5 million - Estimated loss source
- Internal Revenue Service
- Estimated gain recipient
- Terminated software investment
- Loss or cost borne by
- Taxpayers who used free filing and federal taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $50.5 million for DOGE's direct operations$50.52 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$50.5 million for DOGE's direct operations$50.52 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal taxpayers and reimbursing agencies
- Senate minority staff estimated $263.3 million in lost Energy loan interest and fees$263.32 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
revenue$263.3 million in lost Energy loan interest and fees$263.32 million - Estimated revenue source
- Energy loan borrowers
- Estimated revenue recipient
- Foregone U.S. Treasury receipts
- Financially affected
- Federal taxpayers and clean-energy borrowers
- Senate minority staff estimated $155.1 million in time spent on DOGE's weekly email$155.15 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$155.1 million in time spent on DOGE's weekly email$155.15 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal agency missions and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $41.8 million for OPM office relocations$41.80 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$41.8 million for OPM office relocations$41.80 million - Estimated public spending source
- Office of Personnel Management
- Estimated funds recipient
- Relocation and transition expenses
- Loss or cost borne by
- OPM operations and federal taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $443.9 million for probationary workers placed on leave$443.87 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$443.9 million for probationary workers placed on leave$443.87 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal agencies, workers, and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $1.68 million from three purchase-card freezes$1.68 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$1.68 million from three purchase-card freezes$1.68 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Agency missions, staff, vendors, and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $16.8 million to reinstate wrongly dismissed staff$16.82 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
payment$16.8 million to reinstate wrongly dismissed staff$16.82 million - Estimated source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated recipient
- Reinstated employees and remediation work
- Financially affected
- Agency operations and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $38.0 million for reduction-in-force planning$37.97 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$38.0 million for reduction-in-force planning$37.97 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal agency operations and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $5.01 billion in severance exposure$5.01 billion minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
payment$5.01 billion in severance exposure$5.01 billion - Estimated source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated recipient
- Eligible separated employees
- Financially affected
- Agency payrolls and federal taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $66.5 million from unused SSA and park staff$66.46 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$66.5 million from unused SSA and park staff$66.46 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Benefit claimants, park visitors, agency operations, and taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $21.67 billion in DOGE-created costs$21.67 billion minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public cost$21.67 billion in DOGE-created costs$21.67 billion - Estimated public spending source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- Administrative and personnel costs
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal taxpayers, program users, and affected workers
- Senate minority staff traced $41.1 million in USDS reimbursements$41.12 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
feeSenate minority staff traced $41.1 million in USDS reimbursements$41.12 million - Estimated fee payer / source
- Federal agencies receiving DOGE teams
- Estimated fee recipient
- U.S. DOGE Service
- Financially affected
- Agency budgets and federal taxpayers
- Senate minority staff estimated $61.9 million for separation incentive payments$61.87 million minority-staff estimate through July 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
payment$61.9 million for separation incentive payments$61.87 million - Estimated source
- Federal agencies
- Estimated recipient
- Employees accepting separation incentives
- Financially affected
- Agency budgets, remaining workforce, and taxpayers
- An August audit found only $1.4 billion in lower federal spendingPolitico's contract-level review identified $1.4 billion in actual spending cutsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherContract spending reduction identified by Politico$1.4 billion - Observed source
- Terminated federal contract obligations
- Observed recipient
- Available agency balances
- Measured subject
- Federal agencies, contractors, and taxpayers
- More than 20,500 HHS workers left or were pushed outProPublica measured more than 20,500 departures across HHS agenciesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
more than 20,500 peopleHHS workforce departures
- A whistleblower alleged DOGE copied Social Security data into an unapproved cloud environmentThe disclosure was referred for investigationTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- DOGE personnel worked in live Social Security production systemsWhistleblower materials documented concerns over production privilegesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- GSA rehired hundreds of workers dismissed during the DOGE purgeGSA offered reinstatement to hundreds of former employeesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- OPM could not show controls protecting classified or restricted responsesOIG recommended security and data-handling remediationTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- OPM's audit could not rule out unauthorized or foreign access to the email systemOIG found access-control and audit-trail weaknesses requiring correctionTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- OPM's inspector general found no documented due diligence before DOGE's mass email systemOPM OIG issued a flash audit identifying missing predeployment controlsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- USDA canceled 94 million pounds of planned food-bank deliveriesProPublica reconstructed the undelivered 2025 orders from USDA recordsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
lossCanceled domestic food purchasesapproximately $500 million - Reported loss source
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Reported gain recipient
- Canceled farm and distributor orders
- Loss or cost borne by
- Food-bank clients and U.S. agricultural producers
94 million poundsCanceled food-bank deliveries
- Social Security callback waits reached about two and a half hoursWashington Post call tests documented callback waits around 150 minutesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
about 150 minutesObserved Social Security callback wait
- OPM said centralized DOGE no longer existed months before its charter endedOPM described DOGE as no longer centralized; embedded personnel continued agency workTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- SSA later identified material errors in sworn descriptions of DOGE data handlingJustice Department filed formal corrections to the recordTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- House staff traced about $81 million approved for DOGE through January 2026Democratic committee staff estimated $81 million in fiscal 2025–2026 apportionments and reimbursementsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
public costDOGE appropriations and reimbursements approvedapproximately $81 million - Estimated public spending source
- Federal appropriations and executive agencies
- Estimated funds recipient
- U.S. DOGE Service
- Loss or cost borne by
- Federal taxpayers and transferring agencies
- GAO counted nearly 378,000 separations across 22 major agencies in 2025GAO reported nearly 378,000 separations and about 127,000 hires for 2025Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
nearly 378,000 peopleFederal workforce separations
- DHS staffing changed about 1 percent while most major agencies shrankDHS had roughly a 1-percent workforce change over the GAO periodTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
- The workforce at 22 major agencies fell by nearly 256,000January 2026 payrolls were more than 11 percent below December 2024Trump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
nearly 256,000 peopleNet workforce decline
- GAO could reproduce only 3.8 percent of DOGE's grant-savings dollarsGAO reproduced $1.89 billion across 2,334 grant entriesTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherGrant savings reproducible under DOGE method$1.89 billion - Reported source
- Federal grant baselines
- Reported recipient
- DOGE savings ledger
- Measured subject
- Taxpayers evaluating grant savings
- DOGE overstated lease savings by $81.1 million, GAO foundGAO estimated $31.8 million, $81.1 million below DOGE's headlineTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherGAO-estimated lease savings$31.8 million - Estimated source
- Federal lease commitments
- Estimated recipient
- Federal agencies
- Measured subject
- Federal taxpayers
- Forty-one percent of DOGE-listed lease terminations predated DOGEGAO identified 108 of 264 listed leases as pre-DOGE actionsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
108 leasesLease terminations initiated before DOGE
- Only 27.5 percent of DOGE's contract savings followed its stated methodGAO replicated $16.8 billion of $61.0 billion using DOGE's stated methodTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherContract savings reproducible with DOGE's stated method$16.8 billion - Reported source
- Federal contract baselines
- Reported recipient
- DOGE savings ledger
- Measured subject
- Taxpayers evaluating claimed savings
- GAO found $27.4 billion in DOGE-listed contracts with no termination actionGAO found no termination action for 2,503 listed contractsTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherReported savings without a contract termination action$27.4 billion - Reported source
- Federal contract baselines
- Reported recipient
- DOGE savings ledger
- Measured subject
- Agencies and taxpayers relying on the savings claim
- One DOGE-rescinded lease was replaced at more than $1.5 million extra per yearReplacement lease carried the higher annual cost for a five-year termTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
contractAnnual rent increase after lease rescissionmore than $1.5 million per year - Committed authorizing / contracting entity
- Federal tenant agency
- Committed contractor / counterparty
- Property lessor
- Contract / case parties
- Agency programs and federal taxpayers
- GAO could not link 1,856 DOGE contract entries worth $7.2 billion to federal recordsGAO classified 1,856 contract entries as ultimately unlinkedTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherClaimed savings on unlinked contract entries$7.2 billion - Reported source
- Federal contract baselines
- Reported recipient
- DOGE savings ledger
- Measured subject
- Public unable to verify affected contracts or savings
- GAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records3,528 grant entries remained unlinked after GAO matchingTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
otherUnlinked grant savings claims$25.63 billion - Reported source
- Federal grant baselines
- Reported recipient
- DOGE savings ledger
- Measured subject
- Grant recipients, agencies, and taxpayers
- GAO found 5,812 DOGE-listed contracts produced zero recorded savings5,812 contract entries showed zero savings in GAO's reconstructionTrump-appointed OMB director and acting CFPB director · documented · 1 source
5,812 contractsContracts with zero reconstructed savings
