The map, table, and CSV files reflect information gathered up to April 18, 2025. These will be updated regularly as more information becomes available.
When asked about the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) process for identifying waste in the federal government, Elon Musk recently quipped, “It’s like being in a room and the wall, the roof, and the floor are all targets. So it’s like, you’re going to close your eyes and go shoot in any direction. You see, because you can’t miss, you know?” While DOGE’s original purported mission to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse was, on its face, commendable, its implementation has led to severe consequences. Instead of targeted improvements, the initiative has resulted in rolling blackouts of essential government services and the elimination of critical investments in research, education, food programs, public health initiatives, rural health care access, mine safety capacity, and even the Social Security system. What began as a well-intended effort has devolved into cruel and indiscriminate cuts that undermine vital public programs.
To justify this chaos, DOGE created a website to document and quantify its actions, but it too has been marked by chaos, including unannounced edits, removals, mistaken additions, and math mistakes—all while making it incredibly difficult for even the most adept researchers and data analysts to understand exactly what is being cut and how. In-depth analysis by David Farenthold at The New York Times, Stephen Fowler at NPR, and Judd Legum at Popular Information have kept close tabs on the site, especially with regard to the contracts that are being terminated or revised since those were the first to be posted. However far less attention has been paid to the grants DOGE is halting and the leases that are being terminated across the country that have more recently been posted to its site.
It is impossible to understand the full picture of cuts to grants and leases terminated based on the information DOGE provides and how it has been presented. That said, there are a lot of breadcrumbs on the DOGE site itself that, when paired with other publicly available data, paint a more complete picture of its efforts, which the wider public should be able to access and understand. The Center for American Progress is posting that information here—organized by congressional district, city, and state—to make it easier to assess the impact on communities. While not every line item in DOGE can be traced back to a congressional district, city, town, or state, many can. The awards that can be traced back are reflected in the map and table above, along with the leases that DOGE is terminating across the country, including Social Security Administration offices, Mine Safety and Health Administration facilities, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration buildings, and U.S. Geological Survey sites, to name a few.
In addition to the map and table, CAP is also providing a collection of news clips organized by state and congressional district, where possible, outlining some of the impacts DOGE has had across the country and a set of downloadable CSV files for what is listed on the DOGE site, since the site is incredibly hard to navigate on its own, as well as a version that includes richer record data for grants that have identifying grant award information from USA Spending as part of their record. The author’s hope is that this will make it easier to find the cuts that the Trump administration is making in specific geographies. This is the first of many iterations of this project that CAP hopes to expand and update regularly moving forward.
Methodology
DOGE.gov’s “Wall of Receipts” is split into three sections: “terminated” 1) contracts, 2) grants, and 3) leases. Its website makes it hard to explore and examine the complete list of each, so the author gathered the raw data of each list via the site’s new API and made them available here. The author then parsed the award IDs for all grants with a USAspending.gov link and ran all of them through USA Spending’s API, which produced a much richer dataset for each grant award with the corresponding USAspending.gov link. Since nearly all of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grants do not have a corresponding link, the author relied on a tracker maintained by Noam Ross and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which that has confirmed hundreds of National Institutes for Health grants, to complete the list. The author also has incorporated a list of terminated National Endowment of the Humanities grants compiled by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. In total, 65 percent of the total grants terminated have a corresponding USA Spending hyperlink, and out of that, 31 percent of the terminated grant awards have a recipient that is listed in the United States, with many cuts attributed to foreign assistance. Since there are many grants which lack enough unique identifying information to determine what congressional district, city, state, or program it is related to, we urge caution about totaling the value for any congressional district.
For the leases, a similar process was followed using the Inventory of GSA Owned and Leased Properties database.
The raw CSV files are available here:
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank Bill Rapp for his design efforts on the data interactives; Ryan Koronowski for his research work to identify news clips that impact specific congressional districts; Ben Olinsky, Emily Gee, Natalie Baker, Tom Moore, and Kennedy Andara for their feedback; and Christian Rodriguez, Mona Alsaidi, and Will Beaudouin for their careful edits.