US DOGE cancels $4.7bn worth contracts in Peru, West Africa, Malaysia, others

Billionaire, Elon Musk-led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced it terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion, including a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities.

“[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7 billion and savings of $3.3 billion, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'” the department posted on X.

Also eliminated was $5 million to elevate women’s participation in the workplace in West Africa, $4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia, $3 million to enhance Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh, and $3 million for safe and inclusive work environments in the southern African country of Lesotho.

DOGE is a temporary organisation within the White House created via executive order earlier this year.

President Donald Trump tasked the organisation with the tax to cut the cost of governance in the US.

The department has cancelled numerous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at federal agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underused federal buildings, and duplicate agencies and programmes.

As of March 26, DOGE, on its site, said it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer fund.

Meanwhile, DOGE has faced several criticisms, especially from Democrats, with numerous US court restrictions.