Posted on 02/13/2025 3:49:37 AM PST by 11th_VA
A senior administration official told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that DOGE has worked with various agencies to cancel several contracts in the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor, and several other areas.
"Taxpayer dollars will no longer be wasted on nonsense," the official told Fox News Digital.
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The canceled spending includes a $36,000 contract for DEI related workshops at Homeland Security and the cancellation of a $1 million contract that supports the "Gender X Initiative" and involves public-facing SSA applications that allow for the "non-binary" field.
Doge Slashes Over $100M In Dei Funding At Education Department: 'Win For Every Student'
Contracts are also being canceled at the Forest Service, a branch of USDA, including one for $375,000 on DEI and onboarding services and another for $30,000 on a "Central America Gender Assessment Consultant."
The Department of Agriculture will also cancel a $230,000 contract for Brazil forest and gender consultant services.
The Department of Labor, according to the official, will cancel a $4 million contract for DEI consultation services and training in its Jobs Corps program.
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is canceling a $100,000 contract to purchase a two-year subscription with Gartner HR Leaders to "obtain research and advisory services covering employee experience, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and work-life integration."
DOGE posted on Jan. 28 that the group is "saving the Federal Government approx. $1 billion/day, mostly from stopping the hiring of people into unnecessary positions, deletion of DEI and stopping improper payments to foreign organizations, all consistent with the President's Executive Orders."
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Musk vowed to destroy the Woke Mind Virus. I guess he takes his promises seriously.
$1B a day? Not nearly enough! Time to take out the real rot at the DoD and HHS.
Go Elon!!!
I remember in NC when there was a request to ‘clean slate’ our budget - go over every expense that has been paid to unearth thinks exactly like Elon is uncovering and the Dem gov refused or didn’t even address the request.
Ah rats - I had an application in for the central American gender consultant.
Kinda like - line item veto
I’ve already had some mornings where I woke up and suddenly remembered that all of this is really happening. It’s all so wonderfully hard to believe.
Doesn't everybody?
Obviously, not. I expect more politicos to lie, rather than keep their word.
Post 6 - Guess you will have to seek gender consolation with señor Moraes in Brasília.
I do not know how or why a zip code can or does affect or effect ones medicare benefits but having to endure the year round advertisement peddling of such infuriates me.
December 7 deadline is meaningless?
Our tax dollar is buying this network wide propaganda.
It is nothing but more vote garnering socialism.
Please Mr Musk clip this and get our tax dollars out of being prostituted.
“Musk vowed to destroy the Woke Mind Virus.”
When “woke” destroyed his child who, with the help of his/her mother, I think that pulled a trigger for him. I don’t know if his kid is biological male or female, but it’s been reported he went all anti-woke when that happened.
Think about this in this way: A billion dollars a day is just about exactly the amount that is projected to be needed over the next 75 years to fill the Social Security funding gap. And they’ve found this amount just from eliminating utterly stupid and useless stuff like DEI programs. Imagine what will be possible once they dig into the areas where the real money lies.
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To: Sopater
Not only must he go, but it is time to abolish the Department of Education in DC.
It Is Time to DownSize DC.
6 posted on 11/12/2009, 10:47:13 by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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Actually I started using the phrase in 1995 about the time when I moved home to Texas. My activity on the web in 1995 was light. I was told later that Harry Brown, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate used it. I never saw it.
It would be a wonderful thing to see DOGE become part of election platforms in the states. Anyone running for state governor should have to commit to allowing DOGE in to do their thing with the books in every state. California and New York would be particularly informative.
Tax dollars wasted on nonsense are kaput. DOGE to cancel:
<><>contracts in Social Security,
<><>the Dept of Homeland Security
<><>the Dept of Labor,
<><>and several other areas.
The canceled spending includes
<><>$36,000 for DEI workshops at Homeland Security
<><>cancellation of $1 million contract for “Gender X Initiatives”
<><>tax-financing SSA apps that allow for “non-binary” checkoff
<><>Over $100M In Dei Funding At DoE: ‘Win For Every Student’
<><>Forest Service, a branch of USDA, $375,000 on DEI and onboarding services
<><>$30,000 on a USDA “Central America Gender Assessment Consultant.”
<><>Agriculture Dept $230,000 for Brazil forest and gender consultant services.
<><>Dept of Labor $4 million for DEI consultation services, and training in Jobs Corps.
<><>EPA $100,000 to “obtain DEI research and advisory services
<><>EPA wants employee experience, accessibility, and “work-life integration.”
1B is more confirmed and final contract slashing. Super Big stuff like the 50-100B in social security fraud is still probably being investigated. Pentagon stuff might be more difficult. They are buying products, not services for the most part.
1 billion dollars a day? That’s 365 billion dollars a year...imagine how the Soc Security fund could have been kept solvent with that money. Yeah yeah...there does need to be some trimming of of Soc security too...but the fact is many liberals and Conservatives support the program...it’s not gonna go away. They could restore the program to its original core purposes.
If they cut more waste, I see that figure rising to 5-to ten billion dollars a day or 1.8 to 3.65 trillion dallars a year. No more deficits.
We might even find that the 36 trillion dollar debt is vastly and even fraudulently inflated and not nearly as high as they say....just evil bankers trying to cash in on the interest they want to charge the American people. For that matter who gets to set the interest rates on the debt..and can we get a clear audit as to who gets the interest payments in the main? What is the mechanism by which rates may rise or fall? Is there fraud involved with the setting of these rates? I know about the basics of the stated “theories” as to how they do it and I undertand why and what incurs inflation...but with the revelation that so many thieving thumbs have been on the weight scales of our economic and tax systems, I now have to question everything!
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