{"id":3688,"date":"2026-09-08T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:07:27","slug":"doge-has-cut-tens-of-thousands-of-awards-musks-companies-havent-lost-a-dime-in-federal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"DOGE Has Cut Tens of Thousands of Awards. Musk&#8217;s Companies Haven\u2019t Lost a Dime in Federal Funds."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Donald Trump warned Elon Musk that DOGE could come for him too. So far, there has only been a single instance of Musk being on the receiving end of a funding \u201ccut.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3686\">The White House Says It Sent a New \u2018Serious Counter Offer\u2019 on DHS Funding<\/a><\/p><p>And the government didn\u2019t actually recoup any money from the terminated contract.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, the DOGE website updated to include 171 newly axed government contracts. One of those terminations represented a first: it was for a federal contract awarded to Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p><p>NASA had awarded <span><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/span> the relatively small amount of $19,038.40 for a contract called \u201cAspire Public-Private Talent Program, SpaceX Immersion.\u201d It was based out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California, where the company\u2019s West Coast launch site is located, and categorized as an \u201cEducation\/Training personnel\u201d contract on a federal spending website. The contract is now listed among the \u201cwaste\u201d on DOGE\u2019s site.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pregnancy\" class=\"wp-image-3594\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f6f47c9b4613c714f53a757e20e32809-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f6f47c9b4613c714f53a757e20e32809-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f6f47c9b4613c714f53a757e20e32809-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f6f47c9b4613c714f53a757e20e32809.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump\" class=\"wp-image-3674\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/75c74e22fa65aef640a2ce187265b542.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/75c74e22fa65aef640a2ce187265b542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/75c74e22fa65aef640a2ce187265b542-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      \u2018Oh Hell No!\u2019 Democrats Object to Trump\u2019s Suggestion to Rename New Mexico\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lev.Parnas\" class=\"wp-image-3510\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/69ceaaa846dc6851fb7153f88399566b-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/69ceaaa846dc6851fb7153f88399566b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/69ceaaa846dc6851fb7153f88399566b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/69ceaaa846dc6851fb7153f88399566b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Lev Parnas Used Congressional Campaign Funds to Pay Cleaning Company, Makeup Artist\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Department of the Treasury\" class=\"wp-image-2969\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48ba3e51a27a513915112940936f59ad.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Billionaire\u2019s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>But the previously unreported termination wasn\u2019t exactly a \u201ccut\u201d per se. After the contract began on Oct. 2, 2024, all the funds were immediately disbursed to the company, federal records <span><u>show<\/u><\/span>. The contract was marked as terminated on April 8 and listed on DOGE\u2019s website on June 3. But, as DOGE\u2019s site says, the actual \u201csavings\u201d are $0. SpaceX never lost out on any money.<\/p><p>That\u2019s not uncommon for DOGE; Over 3,600 contracts and over 2,600 grants listed on its \u201csavings\u201d page have an estimated savings value of $0. But it\u2019s notable that Musk\u2019s companies have gone completely unscathed as the cost-cutting effort he once led tears through government awards.<\/p><p>Musk has his hands in a half-dozen companies, two of which are worth over $100 billion. There\u2019s SpaceX; Tesla, the electric car giant; X, formerly Twitter; xAI, the artificial intelligence venture; Neuralink, the neurotechnology developer; and The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company.<\/p><p>In several instances, companies that directly or indirectly compete with Musk\u2019s have lost out on millions of dollars because of his cost-cutting effort.<\/p>\n<p>NOTUS reviewed the 27,245 grants and contracts currently listed on DOGE\u2019s site and found there was not one instance of any of Musk\u2019s six companies losing out on a single dollar awarded by the federal government. That\u2019s not for a lack of federal funds flowing to Musk\u2019s enterprises.<\/p><p>Taken together, the companies have benefited from a combined minimum of $38 billion in federal funding, a Washington Post investigation <span><u>found<\/u><\/span>. That doesn\u2019t count <span><u>classified federal awards<\/u><\/span> that companies like SpaceX have received. Musk\u2019s companies are set to benefit from billions of dollars in already approved awards in the coming years.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3684\">Wife of USS Lincoln Sailor Says He\u2019s Facing Discipline for Apparent Suicide Attempt<\/a><\/p><p>Starlink, the growing internet service provider under SpaceX that has partnered with T-Mobile, <span><u>directly competes<\/u><\/span> with companies like AT&amp;T, which lost out on a $4.8 million contract. (DOGE lists the savings as $14.3 million despite federal records showing it was worth less.) Comcast, another internet service provider, also saw a contract cut, as did Verizon.<\/p><p>Aurora Innovations, a self-driving automobile company, saw two cut contracts listed on DOGE\u2019s site. Beam Global, a company focused on electric vehicle chargers, also lost a contract. Tesla, which specializes in electric cars with self-driving technology, also has a solar panel division. Other solar competitors, like REC Solar, lost out on multiple government contracts. Solar provider Ameresco lost tens of millions in federal funds. And while there is no private space company that comes close to matching SpaceX\u2019s dominance of the sector, several smaller aerospace firms lost their federal awards to DOGE.<\/p><p>After a tentative four-week truce, Musk on Tuesday renewed his attacks on President Donald Trump\u2019s signature piece of legislation as it made its way through the Senate. Lawmakers who voted for the bill, Musk wrote on X, ought to all be primaried.<\/p><p>Trump didn\u2019t take the criticism in stride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what is going to happen is DOGE is going to look at Musk, and if DOGE looks at Musk, we are going to save a fortune,\u201d Trump told reporters on Tuesday. \u201cI don\u2019t think he should be playing that game with me.\u201d<\/p><p>On the one hand, the threat represents Trump\u2019s latest attempt to wield the might of the federal government to punish those who speak against him. On the other, Trump suggested something similar four weeks ago, but when the DOGE website updated in June for the first time since the Trump-Musk split and over 1,000 new awards were added, none of Musk\u2019s companies were among those affected.<\/p><p>Despite the site\u2019s claim that its \u201cWall of Receipts\u201d page \u2014 where DOGE lists what it cuts \u2014 \u201cwill initially be updated weekly,\u201d four weeks passed between the most recent update and the last. DOGE has also claimed for months that eventually \u201cthe website will improve and the updates will converge to real-time,\u201d although there is no sign of progress on that front.<\/p><p>(DOGE\u2019s June update also continued the trend of every single other update since the website\u2019s launch of <span><u>steadily walking back<\/u><\/span> its vastly overstated real estate cuts. The number of leases DOGE claimed credit for cutting had already fallen from 748 to 563. In the most recent update, that total fell again to 418. In that single update, DOGE shed 27% percent of its previously claimed savings from cutting federal leases, revising down its estimate by $57 million, NOTUS found.)<\/p><p>If Trump is serious about cutting Musk\u2019s contracts, as he first floated a month ago, DOGE\u2019s site suggests there\u2019s been no momentum in that direction.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3681\">Missouri Group Asks the Supreme Court to Let Former District Maps Stand<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump threatened to turn DOGE on to Musk\u2019s companies. 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