This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was slashing more than 80% of the programs funded by USAID.

The move comes as the Elon Musk-led Doge continues to add to its running list of cost-saving measures, which it says have now topped $100 billion.

In this episode, we sit down with the Government Accountability Institute's Eric

Ager's to discuss the accomplishments of Doge, as well as the headwinds it faces in the

coming months.

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Saturday, March 15th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now is Eric Eggers, Vice President of the Government Accountability Institute and co-host

of The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer, Eric. Thank you so much for joining us. Always great to talk to you.

Hey, John, it's my pleasure. So look, you guys have been tracking the Doge accomplishments so far. There's a lot of pressure on Doge, a lot of backlash from the left,

some maybe not so organic backlash. But what's the truth? How much has Doge and Musk actually

accomplished so far? So I guess it depends on how you want to measure accomplishments.

If we're talking just dollars and cents, I think that

their accomplishments are quite quantifiable. They've identified something like $105 billion worth of

things that can be cut between a combination of lease terminations, contract cancellations,

and then federal employees who will be, let's call it, excused from the federal workforce.

And obviously,

some of those federal government leases can amount to almost a half a billion dollars. They've

identified things like software licenses with at least a couple of agencies where you have

twice as many software licenses, I think 37,000 WNZIP licenses in the General Services Administration

for 13,000 employees.

So the examples like that are quite obvious.

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