Musk’s departure marks new chapter for government efficiency in border security

As the Department of Government Efficiency enters a caller epoch with the departure of Elon Musk connected Friday, it has caused galore changes successful caller months connected matters of migration and borderline security.

"DOGE has helped to alteration the Federal authorities by eliminating discarded and bloat that has been ignored for years. DOGE is playing a cardinal relation successful eliminating millions of payer wealth being misspent, including contracts for amerciable alien facilities that sat bare during the Biden Border penetration and backing for edifice rooms to location amerciable pack members. DOGE’s ngo to destruct waste, fraud, and maltreatment continues!" Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, told Fox News Digital successful a connection connected Friday.

In February, the Department of Homeland Security announced that they had gutted an $83 cardinal declaration for "an bare amerciable alien installation during an penetration astatine the confederate border" and the $80 cardinal successful FEMA backing to supply lodging for illegal immigrants successful New York City, similar the Roosevelt Hotel.  

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DOGE person Elon Musk has been deed with 96% antagonistic sum connected ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts, according to the Media Research Center.  (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

In March, a declaration to resume partition operation on 7 miles of the borderline was cleared by DOGE.

"Secretary Noem announced that we officially awarded the archetypal [DOGE] approved declaration to restart operation connected President Trump’s borderline wall," DHS posted connected March 17.

DOGE besides posted to X successful April that it had recovered that galore amerciable immigrants who were connected the FBI’s panic watchlist and those who person a transgression past were taking retired nationalist benefits. Four connected the panic watchlist and 901 different "paroled aliens" were "collecting Medicaid," 41 received unemployment benefits, 22 got pupil loans from the national authorities and 409 got a "net" taxation refund successful 2024, according to the department. The outgo of the taxation refunds was $751,000, Medicaid outgo $276,000, and the pupil loans totaled retired to $280,000, the section said. 

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is sworn successful during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee proceeding connected her information to beryllium Secretary of Homeland Security, connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, DC, connected January 17, 2025. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP)  (Getty Images)

"Under the Biden administration, it was regular for Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with nary ineligible presumption and minimal screening," the station stated. "So far, CBP identified a subset of 6.3k individuals paroled into the United States since 2023 connected the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center watchlist oregon with transgression records. These paroles person since been terminated with contiguous effect. Despite having nary different ineligible status, paroled aliens are capable to record for enactment authorization and person societal information numbers."

Outside of migration and borderline security, DHS said the Coast Guard is expected to prevention $32.7 cardinal by scrapping an accusation exertion strategy that was deemed "ineffective." In a video posted successful May astir the concern betwixt DOGE and DHS, it said the funds are going to "frontline operations."

"Another triumph for authorities ratio astatine DHS!" DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a connection to Fox News Digital successful April.

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This representation shows the borderline partition separating Mexico from the U.S. successful San Diego Sector. (Fox News)

"Continuing the important enactment of DOGE, the Coast Guard eliminated an ineffective IT program, redeeming implicit $32 cardinal and focusing its resources wherever they’re astir needed to support the homeland. The USCG continues to present connected the President’s priorities, maximizing its ratio portion securing our borders and maritime approaches," Noem added.

DHS and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) besides precocious announced a planned crackdown connected amerciable immigrants' usage of public lodging benefits. 

And past month, DHS announced that, successful the tone of cracking down connected "waste, fraud and abuse," it was ending FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

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White House borderline czar Tom Homan speaks with reporters astatine the White House, Friday, March 7, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP )

"The BRIC programme was yet different illustration of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was much acrophobic with governmental agendas than helping Americans affected by earthy disasters," a FEMA spokesperson said successful a connection astatine the time. "Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans successful situation tin get the assistance and resources they need." 

Fox News reached retired to DHS for further comment. The changes travel arsenic President Donald Trump made large argumentation changes during the aboriginal days of his 2nd term, which has led to a crisp alteration successful encounters astatine the borderline and a continued crackdown connected amerciable immigrants with a transgression inheritance successful the U.S. interior. 

In total, DOGE has estimated it has saved $175 cardinal for taxpayers truthful far.

Fox News’ Greg Wehner and Preston Mizell contributed to this report.