Democrats are disproportionately feeling the brunt of DOGE’s slashing of federally awarded contracts. Only around 12% of the U.S.-based contracts cut by DOGE are for work in Republican districts, NOTUS found.
And unlike their Republican counterparts, Democratic lawmakers don’t have a line to Elon Musk to get their districts’ work off the chopping block.
NOTUS analyzed the roughly 7,200 “terminated” contracts DOGE lists on its site. About half account for the effective shuttering of U.S. Agency for International Development and are primarily in or around D.C., but the cancellations spread all across the country, carrying a collective price tag of billions of dollars.