The Deep State’s endless gravy train just collided with a massive brick wall.
In a direct and no-nonsense video announcement, Hegseth revealed the Department of War is immediately terminating $5.1 BILLION — yes, BILLION with a capital B — in wasteful contracts for consulting, nonessential services, DEI, climate nonsense, and duplicative IT work.
According to Hegseth, one of the largest savings comes from contracts awarded through the Defense Health Agency to consulting giants, including Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen, and other firms.
Those cuts alone are expected to save taxpayers approximately $1.8 billion.
Another $1.4 billion will be saved by eliminating a software reseller contract tied to enterprise cloud IT services.
Hegseth also highlighted a staggering $500 million Navy contract dedicated to what he characterized as bureaucratic “business process consulting.”
The Defense Secretary noted that funds previously directed toward highly paid consultants could instead be used to improve healthcare services for active-duty military personnel and their families.
Another $500 million in savings comes from the elimination of a DARPA IT help desk contract that Hegseth said duplicated services already being provided by the Defense Information Systems Agency workforce.
Hegseth also announced the termination of 11 additional contracts tied to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), climate programs, COVID-19 response initiatives, and other activities deemed nonessential by the administration.
Pete Hegseth: “Right now, we’re directing the termination of $5.1 billion in DoD contracts. Not million—that’s with a “B.” $5.1 billion in DoD contracts for ancillary things like consulting and other nonessential services.
So, here are a few examples: DHA contracts for consulting services from Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen, and other firms. They’re going to save the department $1.8 billion.
How about a software reseller contract for enterprise cloud IT services, saving the department $1.4 billion? A $500 million Navy contract for business process consulting. Again, process. Lots of process. Lots of consultants.
For administrative offices in the Bureau of Medicine. By the way, we need this money to spend on better healthcare for our warfighters and their families instead of paying $500-an-hour business process consultants. That’s a lot of consulting.
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.
We are committed to rooting out DEI, root and branch, throughout this department, and we found 11 more contracts. We’re going to keep looking.
So that’s $5.1 billion in DoD contracts we’re getting rid of.
On top of that, in support of the president’s priorities to stop federal funding for academic institutions that tolerate antisemitism and support divisive DEI programs, this week DoD is also pausing over $500 million in funding to Northwestern University and Cornell University.
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.
As if any of these institutions need more government money at all.
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.
Their job is to go out and find the stuff that we can get rid of and then flow back into—drive back into—warfighting capabilities here at the Defense Department.
So, we want to thank our friends at DOGE. We want to thank all the folks here that have contributed to this effort.”
WATCH:
BREAKING 🚨 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just stunned America by announcing $5.1 Billion in WASTE discovered by D.O.G.E:
“We’re directing the termination of $5.1 Billion not million, in DoD Contracts. That’s with a B”
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— RON .D. WATKINS (@Ron_WatkinsQ) May 31, 2026
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