I was on a $9M research contract that was cancelled by DOGE. Their website listed that contract as $9M saved. The problem? We were nearly done with the work. We had spent $8M.
The remaining $1M of work was data review, publishing findings, and preparing public datasets and documentation.
So they only “saved” $1M. But really, they lost $8M because at contract end we were instructed to destroy all the collected data and the government ended up with basically nothing. So that work and those findings will never see the light of day.
Cancelling that contract at that point was the work of fucking idiots.
That’s just one story. The DOGE website has thousands of cancelled contracts listed.
Yes, for sure. Immediately.
I was on a $9M research contract that was cancelled by DOGE. Their website listed that contract as $9M saved. The problem? We were nearly done with the work. We had spent $8M.
The remaining $1M of work was data review, publishing findings, and preparing public datasets and documentation.
So they only “saved” $1M. But really, they lost $8M because at contract end we were instructed to destroy all the collected data and the government ended up with basically nothing. So that work and those findings will never see the light of day.
Cancelling that contract at that point was the work of fucking idiots.
That’s just one story. The DOGE website has thousands of cancelled contracts listed.