DOGE slashes reported value of cancelled Leidos contract

The Department of Government Efficiency has quietly corrected the value of a Leidos contract that was cancelled.

The savings DOGE now claims for the cancellation of a Social Security Administration contract is unclear, but the overall value of the contract has plummeted from $1 billion to $560,000.

DOGE originally claimed savings of $231 million, the remaining runway on a $1 billion task order Leidos won under the Social Security Administration's IT Support Service Contract.

With the correction, which was first reported by the New York Times, DOGE has dropped the $1 billion overall contract value from its Wall of Receipts and replaced it with the $560,000 amount.

But DOGE is not disclosing the amount of savings, which are usually included in the DOGE reports even when the savings are zero.

Instead of cancelling the entire contract, SSA only cancelled the Gender X Marker project that would have added X as a third option with Male and Female on Social Security forms.

The cancellation is part of the Trump administration's efforts to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across government. Those DEI efforts would have included the recognition of transgender individuals.

Mistakes and mischaracterizations on the DOGE Wall of Receipts are not uncommon. There has been a double counting of a cancelled contract, and an $8 million contract was reported as an $8 billion contract.

DOGE has corrected these mistakes on its dashboard, though it does not acknowledge the original mistakes.