How much did DOGE cut from Illinois?

Illinois is estimated to have 2,212 federal contract and grant terminations totaling an estimated $9.3B in claimed savings, or $724 per resident. This is an estimate based on the state's proportional share of FY2025 federal spending.

How is the Illinois DOGE estimate calculated?

DOGE.gov's savings data does not report which state each termination is based in. We estimate Illinois's share by distributing DOGE's national claimed savings in proportion to the state's FY2025 total federal spending reported on USASpending.gov.

What is Illinois's rank for DOGE cuts?

Illinois ranks #2 nationally by total estimated DOGE savings and #8 by per-capita impact.

DOGE Impact All States

Illinois

Compiled by PlainSpending

DOGE Federal Cuts Impact

Estimated 2,212 federal contract and grant terminations, totaling $9.3B in claimed savings - 8.4% of national total.

That's $724 per resident, ranked #8 nationally.

Est. Total Savings

$9.3B

Rank #2 nationally

Terminations

2,212

8.4% of national total

Per Capita

$724

Rank #8 nationally

FY2025 Federal Spending

$134.6B

Basis for distribution

Award Deobligation Gazette

FPDS · USASpending · DOGE claimed

TOT

$9.3B

PCAP

$724

8.4%

TERMS

2,212

C-MIX

82.1%

G-MIX

17.9%

RANK$

RANK/C

Nearest savings peers

Pennsylvania California New Jersey Virginia

Illinois vs nearest peers, claimed DOGE savings per resident

Heavy claimed-savings book

Illinois sits #2 of 56 by claimed DOGE savings ($9.3B across 2,212 terminated awards).

Dense absolute books usually concentrate agency pressure on the largest FY2025 spenders (Social Security Administration leads the baseline here). Read the termination-mix chart against nearest savings peers before treating one award type as structural.

Attribution method: methodology (national DOGE totals × FY2025 USASpending.gov state share).

Contract-led terminations in Illinois

Estimated DOGE savings split: $7.6B from 1,677 contracts (82.1%) vs $1.7B from 535 grants (17.9%).

Illinois DOGE claimed savings by termination type

Contract Terminations

1,677 contracts

82.1%

$7.6B

Procurement is the heavier claimed channel in Illinois (82.1% of savings).

Grant Terminations

535 grants

17.9%

$1.7B

Grants are the thinner claimed channel here (17.9% of savings).

Top Federal Agencies in Illinois

Agencies with the largest federal spending in Illinois in FY2025, likely most affected by DOGE terminations.

1 Social Security Administration

2 Department of Health and Human Services

3 Department of Defense

4 Department of Agriculture

5 Department of Veterans Affairs

States With Similar DOGE Impact

States with estimated DOGE savings closest to Illinois.

State	Est. Savings	Per Capita	Terminations
Pennsylvania	$9.3B	$714	2,236
California	$7.3B	$185	2,022
New Jersey	$6.6B	$707	1,534
Virginia	$6.5B	$757	1,550
New York	$5.8B	$290	1,549

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Estimate Notice: DOGE.gov's API does not include state-level data. Figures for Illinois are estimated by distributing national DOGE savings proportionally to the state's FY2025 federal spending from USASpending.gov (U.S. Treasury). Actual impacts may vary.

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Data Sources: DOGE.gov Savings API (api.doge.gov) + USASpending.gov FY2025 Awards Data (U.S. Treasury).