Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Department have terminated billions of dollars in contracts.
“Right now, we’re directing the termination of $5.1 billion in DoD contracts. Not million—that’s with a ‘B,'” Hegseth announced. “$5.1 billion in DoD contracts for ancillary things like consulting and other nonessential services.”
He explained that contracts for consulting services, software resellers, and business process consulting have been pulled. Detailing another contract, Hegseth said, “How about this? A DARPA contract for IT help desk services that are completely duplicative of services already provided by our DISA workforce, saving the department another $500 million.”
“We’re also terminating, on the DEI front, 11 more contracts for DEI, climate, COVID-19 response, and related nonessential activities across the department,” he said, explaining that the DOW is “committed to rooting out DEI, root and branch, throughout this department, and we found 11 more contracts. We’re going to keep looking.”
On top of the $5.1 billion terminations, Hegseth said that the Department has also paused “over $500 million in funding to Northwestern University and Cornell University” due to its tolerance for antisemitism and support of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. “And that’s on top of the $70 million in funding we’ve already paused at Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Princeton over the last few weeks,” Hegseth said.
“So, if you’re keeping score at home, today’s cuts bring our running total to nearly $6 billion in wasteful spending over the first six weeks of the DoD-DOGE effort here at the Defense Department,” he stated.
