Cabinet members reported canceled contracts to save taxpayers money in a meeting at the White House on Monday with President Donald Trump, citing the elimination of an $830 million survey contract and blocked research dollars into natural menstrual products in Louisiana.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Trump at the roundtable that his agency identified and cut a contract for a website satisfaction survey that looked like it could have been produced by “anyone’s child” or artificial intelligence.
“That’s one that we’ve have stopped,” he said. Burgum said the survey was brokered through the Interior’s Federal Consulting Group, an office that used to be housed at the department and offered consulting and customer satisfaction measurement across federal agencies.
Last week, the Elon Musk-led so-called Department of Government Efficiency posted on the social media platform X that it had disbanded the Federal Consulting Group at Interior and referenced the contract, saying it was “canceled before signature.”
