Trump's DOGE efficiency agency says it slashes $25B in federal spending as rehiring begins

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced connected Wednesday it has decreased its yearly non-defense national obligations by an further ~1.9% since past month.

As of June 8th, yearly non-defense national obligations are down 22.4%, oregon ~$25B, arsenic compared to 2024, DOGE announced connected X.

The chopped marks an further ~1.9% simplification from past month's figures, which were announced connected May 8. 

The Department of Government Efficiency announced further national work cuts connected Wednesday. (DOGE)

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"Cash outlays volition travel arsenic obligations travel due," DOGE wrote successful the post. "Our inaugural to trim wasteful spend, accordant with the DOGE Cost Efficiency Executive Order, continues to carnivore fruit."

On May 14, DOGE announced the existent year's non-defense national obligations were down 20.5% arsenic compared to 2024. 

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accompanied by Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary (R), speaks during a quality league astatine the Health and Human Services Department connected April 22, 2025 successful Washington, DC. ((Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

The announcement came minutes earlier Fox News Digital was archetypal to study the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is rehiring much than 450 antecedently fired employees belonging to aggregate divisions wrong the agency's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The rehired CDC employees came from the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention; the National Center for Environmental Health; the Immediate Office of the Director, and the Global Health Center, according to an HHS authoritative acquainted with the matter.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CBS News successful April immoderate unit who were chopped shouldn't person been. 

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"We're reinstating them, and that was ever the plan," Kennedy said. "Part of the—at DOGE, we talked astir this from the beginning, is we're going to bash 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to person to beryllium reinstated, due to the fact that we'll marque mistakes."

In summation to the HHS rehires, the Internal Revenue Service, Food and Drug Administration, State Department, and Department of Housing and Urban Development started rehiring employees fto spell during DOGE cuts, the Washington Post reported.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reportedly was successful the process of rehiring. (GETTY IMAGES/FOX NEWS)

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Another roadblock this week was a ruling from U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York, who ruled to restrict the agency's entree to national databases.

The Trump administration antecedently said DOGE could not enactment efficaciously with the limitations, noting DOGE needed to entree Social Security accusation to basal retired fraud.

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Fox News Digital's Alec Schemmel and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.