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DOGE-Cancelled Contracts Include $56,000 to Water to 8 Houseplants for 5 Years at VA, by Craig Bannister – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Craig Bannister, MRC TV, March 11, 2025

In recent days, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reported a wide-ranging list of dubious federal government expenditures of taxpayers’ hard-earned money that have now been cancelled. Here are just a few of the most egregious contracts cancelled.

Americans no longer have to pay for lucrative contracts outsourcing plant-watering and something called an “enterprise mail management program”:

“The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.”
“$3.5M Dept. of VA consulting contract for outsourced ‘enterprise mail management program support services’ which the agency determined could be handled internally.”

Then, there’s the $3.5M consulting contract for “larval fish monitoring” that “the Bureau of Reclamation identified as non-essential.” …

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