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| DOGE slashes billions more in expenses for programs like Peruvian climate change and gender equity in Mexico |
| 2025-03-27 |
| [FoxNews] DOGE claims it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it had terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion Tuesday, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru's climate change activities. "[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'" the department posted on X. DOGE also announced the Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in "America Last" grants, totaling $237 million in savings. The funding that was canceled included $10 million for "gender equity in the Mexican workplace," $12.2 million for "worker empowerment in South America" and $6.25 million for "improving respect for workers' rights in agricultural supply chains" in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Also eliminated was $5 million to elevate women’s participation in the workplace in West Africa, $4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia, $3 million to enhance Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh and $3 million for safe and inclusive work environments in the southern African country of Lesotho. The department has canceled numerous diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at federal agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underused federal buildings and duplicate agencies and programs. As of March 26, DOGE claims on its site it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Me? I started paying into Social Security when I was sixteen, Difar Dave, as an assistant gymnastics coach at the local Jewish Community Center (the newspaper route I had from 9th grade didn’t involve government paperwork that I’m aware of), worked full time ages 19-29, then part time for two years in my mid-thirties after we returned from Europe, once trailing daughter #2 was in school full time. I had planned to do something more than wife-and-mothering once the trailing daughters were in junior high, but in my case Chronic Fatigue Syndrome doesn’t allow such luxuries. Social Security informs me every year that I need to work six months more |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-27 23:23 |
| #3 AFAIK, there is vesting for Medicare but not for social security. SS payments are based on the average of your highest earning 35 years. Only worked 1 year? That will get averaged in with 34 years of $0 income. You may not get much but you will get something. |
| Posted by: Difar Dave 2025-03-27 18:24 |
| #2 You know I adore you, NN2N1, but please wait until there actually is money to share rather than a slightly smaller gigantic hole before demanding a bigger piece of the pie. In exchange I promise never to collect my own share of Social Security — as Mr. Wife’s someday widow, I mean, because I got sick six months short of being vested in my own right, so all my donations to the fund will not be credited to me. The Millennial generation is paying twice as much into Social Security as we did per dollar earnt, with the warning that they will never get any of it back because the fund will be bankrupt before they retire. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-27 12:25 |
| #1 Given, we now KNOW and have PROVEN that the Biden Admin LIED about what the Inflation Rates. A LIE that resulted in much smaller COLA's to retirees. Plus, DOGE has saved roughly $800 per taxpayer in just 2 months. With projections of a possible $1 Trillion savings by years end. How about giving US Retirees a back dated check, and a corrected realistic COLA ? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-27 05:15 |