Doge discovers the VA agreement to pay $ 380,000 per month for the changes of the minor website
THE Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for changes to the website before canceling the contract and ensuring that an internal staff takes control, according to the Department of Government’s efficiency (Doge).
During the hairstyle through loads and loads of data, Doge discovered a previous contract by the VA for the maintenance of its website.
“Good work of @deptvetvetafaffaers,” Doge said in a post of X Wednesday. “Previously it was paid ~ $ 380,000/month for the changes of the minor website. This contract has not been renewed and the same work is now carried out by 1 software engineer must be spent spending ~ 10 hours/week.”
Fox News Digital contacted the VA for a comment on the previous contract.
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Signal out of the headquarters of veterans’ headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, Friday 7 February 2025 (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The secretary of the VA Doug Collins defended the doge cuts at the VA as part of the efforts of the new administration to reform the department and serve more veterans.
In February, the VA announced that the dismissal of over 1,000 employees would allow the Department to redirect over 98 million dollars a year in resources for health care, the benefits and services for beneficiaries VA.
Billionaire Elon Moss It has been the face of Doge since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that establishes the Department on January 20.
Elon Musk had the task of leading doge and finding waste and fraud throughout the government. (Brendan Smalowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump has commissioned the organization to optimize the federal government, rationalize the operations and cut the expenses and gave the agency 18 months to do it.
Together with discoveries how the former contract must be signed for the maintenance of the website, Doge continues to find waste and fraud among the federal agencies.
Last week, Doge announced the termination of 113 contracts worth $ 4.7 billion, including a consultancy contract of the United States’s (USDA) agriculture department for the Climatic change activities in Peru.
President Donald Trump brought Elon Musk to lead doge in the search for waste and fraud across the government. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
Doge also announced that the labor department had canceled $ 577 million in “America Last” subsidies, for a total $ 237 million savings.
The financing that was canceled included $ 10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace”, $ 12.2 million for “Empowerment of workers in South America” and $ 6.25 million to “improve respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains” in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Starting from April 2, Doge Creams on its website spared Americans $ 140 billion, or $ 869.57 for taxpayer.
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Doge Critics claim that the organization has too much access to federal systems and should not be authorized to cancel federal contracts or make cuts to various agencies.
