Four months into his tenure, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says a DOGE review has already cut more than $567 million in future contract spending, including $6.7 million for the remainder of 2025 and $21.1 million for 2026.
An internal team working on the project consists of FCC staff coordinating work with the Trump administration’s DOGE representatives. The review is ongoing.
“The FCC’s initial work has reviewed contracts with a focus on identifying areas of redundancy and overspending,” Carr’s office said in a statement.
Carr was quoted: “From day one, we have been combing through every FCC contract to eliminate redundancies and wasteful spending. No stone is being left unturned.”
The savings are from a combination of scaling down and terminating contracts. The total represents cumulative savings from numerous contracts over multiple years.
According to the statement, “The review resulted in savings and efficiencies from the elimination or reduction of contracts for redundant or duplicative IT services, lightly used periodicals and press, unnecessary hog trapping services, tasks more efficiently done in-house, IT licenses exceeding the number of active users, and projects completed ahead of schedule or without exhausting the planned budget, among other circumstances.”
