In a breaking social media announcement, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed that the U.S. Department of the Interior dissolved the Federal Consulting Group (FCG), which organized inter-departmental consulting contracts. FCG brokered a $75M contract for designing customer satisfaction surveys and almost awarded an $830M contract for similar surveys, which DOGE and Interior canceled.
As background, President Trump established DOGE in a historic executive order and charged the new department with tackling bureaucratic inefficiencies, eliminating unnecessary programs, and combating fraud. Under Elon Musk’s leadership, DOGE has achieved notable success, uncovering significant wasteful spending and exposing major fraud rings.
Starting off their announcement, DOGE took to X on March 19, 2025. The department said, “This week,
@Interior is dissolving the Federal Consulting Group (FCG), where one government department charges another to broker consulting contracts.”
Adding additional context, DOGE said, “As an example, FCG brokered a $75M contract to design website customer satisfaction surveys, and then attempted to award $830M to conduct similar surveys. The latter contract was discovered by @Interior and DOGE, and cancelled before signature.”
In the comments under the post, one user posted a video of Elon Musk, the head of DOGE, speaking to Senator Ted Cruz about another incident of fraud. Starting off, Cruz said, “Well, I will say if, if ActBlue …was a huge scam next level, do you think it’s foreign money, Chinese money? …How do you figure that out?”
Responding, the tech genius said, “Well, it’s not coming from a whole bunch of from a groundswell of public support. Because when individual donors looked at ActBlue, they eventually turned out to be like Die Hard Republicans, right? People have never given money in their life.”
Continuing to expose the scam, Musk added, “So you’re going to track down a bunch of these people where it says, Oh, I gave $16,000 and they like, I’ve $16,000 we’re talking about as there’s this, well, if friends of mine found themselves on the ActBlue list, they’re like, Wow.”
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Speculating, Cruz replied, “So that’s if it can actually be shown that they are funding firebombing of Tesla charging stations, that’s objectively a criminal act that is funding terrorist activity, and the statutes make clear that an incendiary device qualifies. So that comes down is a terrorist activity.”
In the comments under the post, users were enraged by the blatant waste and fraud DOGE uncovered. One such comment said, “$75M for website surveys, are you kidding me? And they were about to waste $830M more on the same garbage? This is outright theft, disguised as ‘consulting.’ No wonder the swamp despises DOGE, because it’s cutting off their endless grift!”
Watch the clip here:
Attempting to solve this issue, one user suggested, “There should be an executive order that all contracts above a certain amount have a cooling off period BEFORE finalizing where it must be reviewed and approved by the department head in consultation with their DOGE team and published publicly in layman terms before being signed.”
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