Top Trump agency slashes billions in government waste with move to expose 'abuse' of US tax dollars

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security announced that $12 billion in savings have been made as a result of a contract review process and other cuts over the past two hundred days.

"It is stunning that for years, career bureaucrats were unilaterally signing off on hundred-million-dollar contracts leading to massive waste, fraud, and abuse of U.S. taxpayer dollars," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.

"While lobbyists and special interests are fighting for government contracts, Secretary Noem is fighting for the American taxpayer. In less than seven months, she's saved the U.S. taxpayer $12 billion--that's more than $50 million a DAY since she took office," Noem continued.

In addition, the move of "eliminating career bureaucrats" resulted in $1.3 billion in cuts, without taking out roles that had a public safety element, according to DHS.  

When it comes to money coming into the department, the recent passage of the Trump-backed reconciliation bill, dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," included $165 billion toward DHS, including $46.5 billion for the southern border wall, $14.4 billion to for removing people from the U.S., $12 billion to pay back states that had to foot the bill for the border crisis, and funding for new ICE and Border Patrol agents.

"President Trump's signing the One Big Beautiful Bill is a win for law and order and the safety and security of the American people," Noem said in a July 4 press release. 

"This $165 billion in funding will help the Department of Homeland Security and our brave law enforcement further deliver on President Trump's mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!" she continued.

"Since hijacking the U.S. Digital Service to establish DOGE, Elon Musk's unqualified staff have fanned out across the Federal government. They have embedded themselves within departments and agencies, including DHS, to seize sensitive data, purge civil servants, and gut programs with no regard to the critical services they provide everyday Americans," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a March 20 statement.