The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to find outrageous abuse and waste of taxpayer money.
While digging through contracts for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a previous contract was uncovered, exposing hundreds of thousands of dollars paid out PER MONTH to do minor routine website maintenance.
The contract was not renewed, and the work is now being done internally by a VA software engineer who is spending only 10 hours a week on maintenance.
Bringing the maintenance in-house will save the VA $4.5M+ annually.
On Wednesday, DOGE shared on X, “Good work by @DeptVetAffairs. VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications.”
“That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.”
Good work by @DeptVetAffairs
VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 2, 2025
Lmao… so previously we were paying $380K/month for 10 hours / week worth of work.
Or $380K per 40 hours of work.
Or $9,500 / hour.
Which is a $19 MILLION / year salary pro-rated on a 40-hour week.
For a single web designer.
— The Big Picture (@Big_Picture_89) April 2, 2025
The Gateway Pundit reported in March that VA Secretary Doug Collins announced cuts of $900 Million after reviewing only 2 % of unnecessary contracts.
On Wednesday, Collins told Fox News that, while there are some great folks at the VA, “What has been surprising to me is the lack of really any sense of control over an organization that is bigger than the active-duty Army.”
“When I first got there, I had no control…I had no way to know where all of our employees were. I heard 450, 470, 480,000 people, yet I had no Human Resource system that could show me all of my employees.”
“How can you manage a business or a company or a bureaucracy if you don’t even know where the people are?”
.@SecVetAffairs: We’ve got some great folks who want to do good work… What has been surprising to me is the lack of control over an organization that is bigger than the active-duty Army… How can you manage a bureaucracy if you don’t even know where the people are? pic.twitter.com/QqZYqkxT4n
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 2, 2025
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