In absolutely massive news on X for those wanting to see Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) get into the weeds and slash discretionary spending to the maximum extent possible, it announced on X (formerly Twitter) that it is already making cuts of around $1 billion a day.

That news comes as Elon Musk announced it needs to get to $4 billion a day to find a trillion dollars in savings.

DOGE also announced, in what is good and big news for those wanting to see it demolish the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) regime that it has taken a wrecking ball to DEI contracts with the federal government, finding 85 such DEI-focused contracts to obliterate since the January 20th inauguration.

Commenting on the savings it has found so far, the DOGE account posted, “DOGE is saving the Federal Government approx. $1 billion/day, mostly from stopping the hiring of people into unnecessary positions, deletion of DEI and stopping improper payments to foreign organizations, all consistent with the President’s Executive Orders. A good start, though this number needs to increase to > $3 billion/day.”

Announcing the demolition of the DEI programs, DOGE said, “Through 1/29/2025, 85 DEIA related contracts totaling ~$1B have been terminated within the Dept. of Ed, GSA, OPM, EPA, DoL, Treasury, DoD, USDA, Commerce, DHS, VA, HHS, State, NSF, NRC, NLRB, PBGC, USAID, RRB, SSA, SBA, BLM, CFPB, NPS, and NOAA.”

Elon Musk, posting about the scale of that war on DEI programs and how much DOGE cut by going after race-focused government contracts with a vengeance, said, “DOGE has now saved taxpayers over $1 billion in crazy DEI contracts.” DOGE, in a subsequent quote tweet, provided the details on how a billion in savings came from canceling the contracts. Check that out here:

In yet another series of posts, DOGE announced that it had saved tens of millions of dollars by terminating empty, pointless leases. It said, introducing the matter, “The GSA terminated three leases of mostly empty office space, with tenants relocating to nearby buildings in the GSA portfolio. With savings of $1.6M, these are the first steps to right size the Federal real estate portfolio of more than 7,500 leases.”

Celebrating the move, commenters on the DOGE post about the savings said things like, “Awesome, cash cow for DEI leftists/Marxists are gone. $1 billion is lots of taxpayer money” and “This is a huge step in the right direction! Nearly $1 billion in DEI-related contracts have been terminated across multiple federal agencies, showing a serious commitment to cutting the fat and focusing on actual results, not just appeasing political agendas.”

Then, following up by announcing that tens of millions of dollars had been saved by canceling those unnecessary leases, DOGE said, “In the past 6 days, the number of lease terminations of underutilized buildings has increased from 3 to 22, with savings increased from $1.6M to $44.6M.”

A commenter on that post suggested that corruption is involved in the pointless leases and similar wastes of federal funds, writing, “I guarantee you if you find out which companies own the properties being leased to the government you’ll find a bunch of Congress reps in on the scam. Guaranteed Congress Reps “consulting agencies” are all involved and their donors own the buildings.”