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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.
DHS says Secretary Kristi Noem is personally reviewing and signing off on or declining any contract over $100,000, resulting in a $10.7 billion reduction, the department says. She’s reviewed over 5,000 contracts and DHS says decisions are made within a day.
"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.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks in Quito, Ecuador in July 2025. (Getty Images/Alex Brandon)
"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.
Another notable cut was scrapping Air Force reheatable coffee cups with a price tag of nearly $1,300 each, according to the Air Force Times.
Secret service surveils the desert from land and air along the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
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.
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"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.
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ICE and several other federal, state and local agencies launched a week-long immigration enforcement operation in the Houston, Texas area, which resulted in the arrests of 646 illegal immigrants. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
As spending cuts were happening across the federal government earlier in the Trump administration under the Department of Government Efficiency, many Democrats were critical of the efforts.
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"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.
Cameron Arcand is a politics writer at Fox News Digital in Washington D.C. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @cameron_arcand
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