How much did DOGE cut from Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania is estimated to have 2,236 federal contract and grant terminations totaling an estimated $9.3B in claimed savings, or $714 per resident. This is an estimate based on the state's proportional share of FY2025 federal spending.

How is the Pennsylvania DOGE estimate calculated?

DOGE.gov's savings data does not report which state each termination is based in. We estimate Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania's rank for DOGE cuts?

Pennsylvania ranks #1 nationally by total estimated DOGE savings and #9 by per-capita impact.

DOGE Impact All States

Pennsylvania

Compiled by PlainSpending

DOGE Federal Cuts Impact

Estimated 2,236 federal contract and grant terminations, totaling $9.3B in claimed savings - 8.4% of national total.

That's $714 per resident, ranked #9 nationally.

Est. Total Savings

$9.3B

Rank #1 nationally

Terminations

2,236

8.4% of national total

Per Capita

$714

Rank #9 nationally

FY2025 Federal Spending

$281.6B

Basis for distribution

Award Deobligation Gazette

FPDS · USASpending · DOGE claimed

TOT

$9.3B

PCAP

$714

8.4%

TERMS

2,236

C-MIX

79.9%

G-MIX

20.1%

RANK$

RANK/C

Nearest savings peers

Illinois California New Jersey Virginia

Pennsylvania vs nearest peers, claimed DOGE savings per resident

Heavy claimed-savings book

Pennsylvania sits #1 of 56 by claimed DOGE savings ($9.3B across 2,236 terminated awards).

Dense absolute books usually concentrate agency pressure on the largest FY2025 spenders (Department of Health and Human Services 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 Pennsylvania

Estimated DOGE savings split: $7.4B from 1,635 contracts (79.9%) vs $1.9B from 601 grants (20.1%).

Pennsylvania DOGE claimed savings by termination type

Contract Terminations

1,635 contracts

79.9%

$7.4B

Procurement is the heavier claimed channel in Pennsylvania (79.9% of savings).

Grant Terminations

601 grants

20.1%

$1.9B

Grants are the thinner claimed channel here (20.1% of savings).

Top Federal Agencies in Pennsylvania

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

1 Department of Health and Human Services

2 Social Security Administration

3 Department of Defense

4 Department of Veterans Affairs

5 Department of Agriculture

States With Similar DOGE Impact

States with estimated DOGE savings closest to Pennsylvania.

State	Est. Savings	Per Capita	Terminations
Illinois	$9.3B	$724	2,212
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 Pennsylvania 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).