By Nick Wakeman
Service-disabled veteran entrepreneurs bear 89% of the claimed savings. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins claims this is just step one.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins has posted on X to claim that the Veterans Affairs Department is on its way to cutting $2 billion in contracts.
According to the Department of Government Efficiency dashboard, 28 VA contracts have been cancelled with claimed savings of $81 million. DOGE also says the awarded contract values total $148.6 million.
That gap is explained by the fact that many of the contracts have been underway for some time. VA has already paid for some of the products and services performed under the contract.
Four contracts on the dashboard (DOGE calls it the Wall of Receipts) have zero savings.
In his X posting on Tuesday, Collins said that cancellations so far as just the first step toward the $2 billion.
But it appears that service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses are taking a disproportionate hit so far.
Of the 28 cancelled contracts, 20 were held by service-disabled/veteran-owned small businesses. One was held by a veteran-owned small business.
The value of the 21 contracts held by veteran-owned businesses totals $121.4 million in awarded value. From those cancelled contracts, DOGE claims that will result in savings of $72.6 million.
