Trump Order Adds Bite to DOGE’s Cost-Cutting Efforts

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday outlining a “cost efficiency initiative” for federal agencies working with the Department of Government Efficiency.

The order asks agencies to coordinate with the chief of their DOGE team to review contracts and grants and to terminate or modify them “where appropriate.”

The order also directs the General Services Administration to submit a plan within 60 days to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought regarding any government-owned real estate that is “no longer needed.” Since beginning his second term last month, Trump reportedly has been weighing the sale of two-thirds of the federal government’s office supply to the private sector.

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