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The Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD) has been squandering cash on hundreds of unused software program licenses, an audit discovered, in accordance with DOGE.
For instance, there have been “11,020 Acrobat licenses with zero customers,” DOGE famous within the publish on X.
The checklist additionally included different examples.
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White Home Senior Advisor to the President and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk departs the U.S. Capitol Constructing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
DOGE’s “preliminary findings on paid software program licenses” additionally included, “35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three merchandise; solely utilizing 84,” “1,776 Cognos licenses; solely utilizing 325,” “800 WestLaw Basic licenses; solely utilizing 216” and “10,000 Java licenses; solely utilizing 400.”
“All are being fastened,” the tweet concluded.
Fox Information Digital reached out to HUD and the White Home on Friday, however didn’t obtain feedback by the point of publication — however HUD offered touch upon Saturday.
“The HUD-DOGE taskforce is actively working to treatment this waste of taxpayer {dollars},” HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett stated in a press release. “It is a prime instance of why HUD is taking stock of each greenback spent. The Division will proceed to execute on the Trump administration’s purpose to restructure and streamline the federal authorities to finest serve the American individuals.”
“There are huge numbers of unused software program licenses in each a part of the federal government. Your tax {dollars} are being wasted,” Elon Musk wrote when commenting on the DOGE publish.
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DOGE has beforehand made related bulletins relating to the Normal Companies Administration (GSA), Division of Labor, Small Enterprise Administration (SBA) and Social Safety Administration (SSA).
“Businesses typically have extra software program licenses than staff, and the licenses are sometimes idle (i.e. paid for, however not put in on any pc),” the DOGE X account famous in a tweet.
“For instance, at GSA, with 13,000 staff, there are,” the publish listed, “37,000 WinZip licenses,” “19,000 coaching software program subscriptions (and a number of parallel coaching software program platforms),” “7,500 mission administration software program seats for a division with 5,500 staff,” “3 completely different ticketing programs operating in parallel.”
The tweet concluded by noting, “Fixes are actively in work.”
The DOGE GSA X account swiftly replied, indicating that cuts have been on the way in which:
“Not for lengthy…” a tweet learn, with a scissor emoji added in an obvious sign that cuts have been coming. “We’ll report again with progress shortly!”
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GSA Performing Administrator and Deputy Administrator Stephen Ehikian replied, “Hope we did not make you wait too lengthy… inside 3 hours of @DOGE publish, @USGSA is taking quick motion to scale back $5.5M of IT spend & working to establish extra reductions throughout all classes—guaranteeing robust stewardship of your tax {dollars}.”
A number of days later, one other DOGE publish reported that GSA had made vital progress.
“Since this publish, @USGSA took quick motion to scale back IT spend by deleting 114,163 unused software program licenses & 15 underutilized / redundant software program merchandise — for a complete annual financial savings of $9.6M,” DOGE famous.
A GSA spokesperson stated in a press release to Fox Information Digital, “In assist of the administration’s priorities, effectivity and good stewardship, GSA is at the moment enterprise a evaluation of its contracts and sources, together with IT sources, to make sure our employees can carry out their mission in assist of American taxpayers. GSA has taken quick motion to completely implement all present government orders and is dedicated to taking swift motion to implement any new government orders.”
