Since it was established by President Donald Trump earlier this year, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has moved to stop over $160 billion in wasteful spending.

However, one Trump administration figure recently noted that Congress will need to make that shutdown permanent. 

Congress asked to "embrace" DOGE's efforts

According to Breitbart, that case was made over the weekend by David Sacks, who serves as chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

His remarks came during Saturday's episode of the "All In" podcast, which he cohosts alongside Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Calacanis, and David Friedberg.

.@DavidSacks: "What we really need is for Congress to now embrace all of the corruption that @elonmusk has found and eliminate it from the budget, because at the end of the day, in order to capture the savings here, we do need those appropriations eliminated from the budget." pic.twitter.com/BJbk4GSm0A

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) April 26, 2025

"What we really need is for Congress to now embrace all of the corruption that Elon Musk has found and eliminate it from the budget, because at the end of the day, in order to capture the savings here, we do need those appropriations eliminated from the budget," Sacks stated.

DOGE saves $255 million by ending government contracts

The Trump administration official went on to say that his "biggest concern is not something that DOGE is going to do or not it is up to."

Instead, Sacks expressed concern that "these old bulls in Congress, the people who control the appropriations process” may “backslide and just and just put the spending back in."

Fox News reported late last week that DOGE's latest achievements have included saving of $255 million by eliminating government contracts which it found to be unnecessary.

One example of this was the decision to do away with a $50,000 contract issued by the Department of the Interior for "facilitation and collaborative problem-solving services."

Grant for BIPOC culinary program axed

The department has also scrapped $90 million worth of government grants, such as one which allocated $995,000 towards "a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) culinary program"

Also on the chopping block was a grant which provided $625,000 in funding for a "Russian-Far East biodiversity partnership."

A third grant earmarked $625,000 for "a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services."

Gone too was the $2 million which the Department of Justice (DOJ) had set aside for "national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience."