Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced that the department has already canceled 104 contracts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across a bevy of federal agencies, saving taxpayers over $1 billion.
Headed by Elon Musk, the nongovernmental advisory commission provided the DOGE operational update in a Jan. 31 post on X, which features a list of 25 federal agencies along with a corresponding number of DEI-related contracts that have been canceled.
The Department of the Treasury led with 21 canceled contracts, saving $25,247,783, followed by the Department of Health & Human Services, which canceled 15 contracts worth $28,187,448. Notably, the Office of Personnel Management canceled three contracts totaling $494,956,233, averaging about $165 million per contract. In total, the canceled contracts have saved taxpayers $1,000,060,792, according to DOGE.
Trump officially established DOGE with a Jan. 20 executive order, renaming the United States Digital Service, an agency formed under President Barack Obama, to the United States DOGE Service. Initially, Trump tapped biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE alongside Musk, but that changed when Trump’s team announced that Ramaswamy would no longer be part of the initiative.
In a recent interview, Musk said that he hopes that DOGE can cut up to $2 trillion in federal spending, with his latest Jan. 31 operational update for DOGE indicating that this effort is beginning to bear fruit.
DOGE’s update targeting DEI aligns with President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order that aimed at dismantling DEI programs within federal agencies. The order mandates the immediate closure of DEI and DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) programs, saying they are “illegal and immoral” and that they’ve led to “immense public waste” and “shameful discrimination.”
“That ends today,” Trump wrote in the order. “Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.”
Later, in line with Trump’s order, the Office of Personnel Management began directing all agencies to take immediate action to roll back DEI, including canceling any related training and firing DEI staff.
Detractors of DEI say that such programs are discriminatory and undermine meritocracy, while supporters say such policies enhance diversity and strengthen organizational culture.
Meanwhile, prior to Ramaswamy’s exit from DOGE, he and Musk co-authored an article in November 2024 in the Wall Street Journal laying out early plans for DOGE.
“The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote. “Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.”
Trump’s executive order also mandates that each federal agency establish a DOGE team, consisting of at least four employees. These teams will collaborate with DOGE to implement the administration’s agenda, focusing on modernizing federal technology to maximize efficiency.
Aside from the Trump administration’s actions on DEI, a number of major U.S. corporations have rolled back DEI initiatives, including Caterpillar, McDonald’s, Southwest Airlines, Toyota, and Walmart.
Public sentiments against DEI policies have grown in recent years, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in July 2023 to strike down affirmative action admissions programs at colleges giving further support to efforts opposing DEI.
There has also been some pushback against the anti-DEI movement from Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups.
The Human Rights Campaign has criticized the corporate DEI retreat, warning of negative consequences, both in terms of business success and the ability to attract “diverse workforces.”
DOGE ducks and dodges another Democrat party bullet aimed right at the heart of American government and economic efficiency. Save/cut a billion in DEI funded government Biden party payments to party run NGOs of which 10% goes back to the Big Guy and his crime family,,,,save trillions over the years in government inefficiencies removed by replacing the WOKE DEI trained employees like Kamala that become the lowest common denominator of the Democrat party government forced equity,,,,soon to be replaced with the best and the brightest leaders Like Trump and his cabinet, who alone can replace American government failures with more USA success. Pay a little now to get rid of them, save a lot later over time where American wealth now becomes something to be CREATED with no apologies, not just CONSUMED which leads to failure where all you get from Democrat leaders ARE apologies when aircraft fall from our formerly safe skies, and Massive sections of our cities like Los Angeles no longer end up looking like Hiroshima or Nagasaki because of their WOKE mis-governance by their people of the lowest common denominator being Biden/Newscum elevated over the best and brightest who never would have let the destruction happen in the first place.
1 bil. AND its not even a month.
WAY to go.
The Democrat Party wanted to change,
“Judge not by the color of one’s skin, but by the content of their character”
TO:
Judge and hire not by the content of one’s character, education or qualifications,
but by the color of their skin or sexual perversions.
As i’ve often said, MLK WOULD have been “Cancelled” by the liberals these days, Had his speech came out in the past 4 years, rather than 60 years ago.
(DOGE) has announced that the department has already canceled 104 contracts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across a bevy of federal agencies, saving taxpayers over $1 billion.
It costs over $1 billion to hire incompetent unqualified DEI clowns ?!?
Didn’t Earn It !!
I forgot which news site (bbc or sky australia), i saw the article on, but one article i read just before trump WON last november, they did a study of those “DEI Positions” in 150 companies, and the AVERAGE SALARY each person got was equivalent to 300 THOUSAND A YEAR…
This is great and I don’t want to dismiss it because it’s important, but we need to keep in mind reversing some of Biden’s new spending just means our new spending adds $600 billion to the debt instead of $1 trillion if we hadn’t done anything. We need to cut the waste for sure, but we also need to cut the bureaucracy and reform entitlement programs for retirement, health care and welfare. Those are the real drivers of the debt.
Uncle Sam is bleeding everywhere.
“In a recent interview, Musk said that he hopes that DOGE can cut up to $2 trillion in federal spending, with his latest Jan. 31 operational update for DOGE indicating that this effort is beginning to bear fruit.”
Cutting “sustainable” spending could mean sustained savings. When a Democrat says “It won’t cost a dime more…” they are telling the truth. it will cost billions of dollars more.
I laughed at that.. Thanks.. Needed it!
When i was seeing some of the recent crud DOGE is going over, i was wondering “WHY ARE we spending US Tax payer money to promote DEI, LGBTQ and the like IN OTHER NATIONS!??!?!