US Defense Minister Beit Higseth The waste spending ended as it signs a memorandum to cancel more than $ 580 million in the contracts of the Ministry of Defense (DOD).
“We have returned with another rapid update of our efforts to reduce waste spending and cut it quickly in the Ministry of Defense,” Higseth announced in a post on X.
“Today, I am registering a memorandum to end more than $ 580 million from the Ministry of Defense contracts, in grants that do not coincide with the priorities of this president or this section. In other words, it is not a good use of taxpayers dollars.”
Higseth said they owe the Americans to transparently, and exchange details about some of the contracts and grants that were canceled.
“There is a software voltage for human resources that was supposed to take a year and cost 36 million dollars, but instead it takes eight years and is currently 280 million dollars on the budget, and not to provide what was supposed to be 780 % on the budget.
Higseth added that they discovered Another set of DOD grants, The total of $ 360 million, those emissions that start from the marine ships-part of the Obama-Biden Green agenda.
“This is 6 million dollars, $ 5.2 million on something that would diversify and involve the navy by involving Bipoc students and scientists who have been incomplete.
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Betty Higseth, President -elect Donald Trump's selection to be the Minister of Defense, upon completion of the confirmation session before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
On this third point, Higseth said that the other discounts that occurred on Thursday included wasteful spending on external consulting services.
“30 million dollars in contracts with Gartner and MCKINSEY. This is the purchase of unused licenses. So when you add everything, 580 million dollars from the Ministry of Defense and Doug's grants help us reduce today,” Higseth said.
When adding it together, Higseth said that more than $ 800 million of waste spending has been canceled over the first few weeks, as DOD partners with DOGE “to make sure that our men in war have what they need by cutting waste, fraud and abuse.”
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US Defense Minister Beit Higseth provides statements during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Pentagon on February 5 in Arlington, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“They are working hard,” he said
“So, you may not waste any other time at the present time, just sign this thing. What about that? So this makes it officially. We will continue to work, comrades,” said Higseth during his signing.
“Did we see this level of transparency before? Amazing, thank you SECDEF”, MP Nancy Mass, RS.C commented on the Higseth post.
Once again in February, Higseth committed to cooperating with Dog to cut Smoothing spending in the Ministry of Defense.
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“We will participate with them,” Higseth said, formerly.
From Thursday afternoon, 239 “MATR” decades were completed with the “roof value” of $ 1.7 billion over two days.
Deirdre Heaven from Fox News Digital and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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