Posted on 01/31/2025 6:50:15 PM PST by Libloather
The new federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Friday that taxpayers will see just over a $1 billion savings through the elimination of 104 diversity, equity and inclusion-related (DEI) contracts.
As of Wednesday, DOGE had recorded the cancellation of 85 "DEIA" contracts from 25 federal agencies. By Friday afternoon, that number had grown to 104 contracts totaling $1,000,060,792, according to a DOGE news release.
Of note, 21 Department of the Treasury contracts were canceled, saving a total of $25,247,783. In second place was the Department of Health & Human Services, which canceled 15 contracts worth $28,187,448.
While the Office of Personnel Management only had three contracts canceled, the dollar figure was pinned at a whopping $494,956,233, an average of about $165 million per DEI contract.
The other agencies with the most contracts canceled by the Trump administration include Agriculture with 11 and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Homeland Security with seven each.
According to a release Monday from the Department of Veterans Affairs, 60 employees whose roles were solely focused on DEI were placed on administrative leave, and spokesperson Morgan Ackley said the administration is "laser focused on providing the best possible care and benefits to Veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors."
"We are proud to have abandoned the divisive DEI policies of the past and pivot back to VA’s core mission," Ackley said.
The rapid-fire DEI contract eliminations come one week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the endeavors, officially described as "ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity."
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A solid start.
WINNING, WINNING, WINNING....
Keep it coming love, keep it coming love, don’t stop it now don’t stop it now.
National Debt clock shows DOGE has saved $43 B so far.
To quote Reagan, trust but verify. Is there an actual document that shows what, and when these cancellations will take place, some transparency and detail would be nice.
Funny that this report does not identify individuals, corporations, NGO’s or law firms that may have been on the receiving end of the billions squandered on DEI contracts
Any ideas who got it?
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One billion down, one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine billion to go…
Eating the elephant one bite at a time!
btt
These are fun things to do but they’re a drop in the bucket compared to the 2 trillion that needs to come out of the budget.
You do realize they just started this, right?
That’s about as helpful as the smart watch I tried which even when I wasn’t wearing it, the numbers would still adjust down and up for the health things it supposedly was monitoring.
Yeh....Why are they dragging their heels..It’s been 10 days already.../s
That’s just the savings from the people running the programs.
Imagine an operation with 5,000 employees who had to sit through a four hour DEI training. That’s 20,000 labor hours that have been saved. Add on another 5,000 hours of those people going to and from those trainings (and bitching about them.)
25,000 labor hours represents 12 Full time equivalent employees.
The multiplier effect is staggering for these programs.
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