Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) canceled a Department of Defense contract for landscape design at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery on Monday.
According to DOGE, the $465,360 contract was for “non-personal services, to serve as the Maxwell Air Force Base installations horticulturalist, landscape designer, and greenhouse plant nursery manager to improve and maintain beautification of the installations.”
DOGE said on X that the contract was one of 44 cancellations across the federal government on Monday amounting to about $640 million in total savings.
Contract update!
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 18, 2025
Today, agencies terminated 44 contracts today with a ceiling value of ~$5.2B and savings of ~$640M, including:
-$465K DoD contract for “non-personal services, to serve as the Maxwell Air Force Base installations horticulturalist, landscape designer, and… pic.twitter.com/g3HWPRuqVD
DOGE has previously announced multiple rounds of federal government lease cancellations across Alabama amounting to about $19 million in taxpayer savings.
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