On Friday, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it was cancelling over $180 million in funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which included $170,000 for a museum exhibit about disgraced former health official Anthony Fauci.

As reported by Fox News, the multiple cancellations were made over the course of 48 hours, and primarily focused on various contracts by HHS.

“In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract [sic] worth $182 million,” the official  account for DOGE announced on social media. “These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses – none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum.”

The planned Fauci exhibit was going to be finished by July of this year. Fauci, who was formerly the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has garnered global criticism and backlash for his poor handling of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic. Fauci supported strict mandates to force Americans to take the vaccines despite concerns about their efficiency and safety, and also repeatedly flip-flopped on whether or not wearing a mask in public was a truly effective way of slowing the spread.

Fauci has received further scrutiny after he was given a last-minute pardon by Joe Biden shortly before he left office, raising questions as to what crimes Fauci may have committed that would even warrant a pardon in the first place.

DOGE, led by Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk, has been tasked by President Donald Trump with severely reducing the size of the federal government, including cutting wasteful spending and elimination of federal jobs and entire departments that have been deemed unnecessary or redundant. The advisory commission has all but shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and has also targeted the Department of Education for elimination.