President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency said it has recently uncovered nearly $1 billion in savings by slashing federal contracts and grants as it continues its task of streamlining the government by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.

DOGE posted Thursday on X that over the past several days, federal agencies ended 269 “wasteful contracts” with a total value of $845 million and savings of $255 million, including a $50,000 Interior Department consulting contract to “provide facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services.”

Agencies also terminated $90 million in “wasteful grants,” DOGE wrote, including $995,000 for a “BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] culinary program” and $625,000 for a “Russian-Far East biodiversity partnership.”

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