The Department of Government Efficiency announced on Wednesday that it recently discovered the Department of Veterans Affairs was paying roughly $380,000 per month for “minor website modifications.”
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Department of Government Efficiency celebrated the “good work” by the Department of Veterans Affairs after it made a significant change to how modifications are made on the department’s website.
“VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications,” the Department of Government Efficiency tweeted. “That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.”
According to Detroit Free Press, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins confirmed during an event at American Legion Post 141 near Howell, Michigan, on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to reduce the size of the Department of Veterans Affairs by approximately 80,000 employees.
Collins said, “We’ve got a lot of change coming up; it’s putting the veteran first.”
While the Veterans Affairs secretary indicated that the department’s goal is to decrease its workforce by roughly 80,000 jobs, he acknowledged that the department may not cut all 80,000 jobs.
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“If we get there, great,” Collins said. “But we may not get there.”
In February, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that over 1,000 employees had been fired amid the Trump administration’s effort to decrease government spending and increase government efficiency. At the time, the department said it would be “refocusing on its core mission” of providing “the best possible care and benefits” to U.S. veterans and to the families, caregivers, and survivors of U.S. veterans.
The Department of Veterans Affairs stated, “The personnel moves will save the department more than $98 million per year, and VA will redirect all of those resources back toward health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries.”
In addition to the discontinuation of the $380,000 per month contract for “minor website modifications” at the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday, the Department of Government Efficiency also shared a government “contract update” on social media.
In a post on X, the Department of Government Efficiency wrote, “Contract update! Agencies cancelled 47 wasteful contracts today with $87.5M ceiling value and $30.2M in savings, including a $3.4M @StateDept management consulting contract for ‘aviation advisors in Kenya.’”
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