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| DOGE announces more than $1B in savings after canceling 104 federal DEI contracts, EPA probies looking at summary termination | |||
| 2025-02-01 | |||
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." EPA workers receive termination warning letter [FoxBusinessNews] The letters sent to EPA employees come amid the Trump administration's push to reduce the federal workforce
The email, which was sent to 1,100 EPA employees on Wednesday according to the email reviewed by FOX Business, notifies workers that they were deemed to be on probationary status or are in a trial period as an employee and could be terminated immediately.
"As a probationary/trial employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804," the email explained. "The process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended immediately." Trump orders all federal employees to remove pronouns from their emails Employees fume as Trump wipes 'transgender' from CDC and deletes 'climate change' from agriculture department JD Vance reveals surprising first target for DOGE isn't a cost saving [Daily Mail, where Maerica gets its news] Vice President JD Vance revealed the most important role of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, and it wasn't cost saving. The vice president sat down with Fox News where he discussed the creation of so-called DOGE which will is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Trump announced DOGE after winning the November election before taking office. He said it would be created to cut down government waste. 'The most important thing it's going to do, I don't even think it's the cost savings,' Vance told Sean Hannity in the interview. 'It's making the bureaucracy responsive to elected president,' the vice president continued. 'If you look at okay, the president issues an executive order saying we're not going to give grants to organizations that do X, Y and Z and the bureaucracy just does not respond, DOGE has identified grants that were going to be made in violation of an executive order and stop them before the money is wired,' Vance claimed. He argued it 'makes the people's government responsive to the people's president.' Trump strips millions from DEI foreign aid programs funding Irish musicals, LGBTQ programs in Serbia and more Related: Environmental Protection Agency: 2025-01-30 Senate easily confirms ex-LI Rep. Lee Zeldin as Trump''s EPA chief Environmental Protection Agency: 2024-12-30 Illinois Board of Education to Use Nearly $20 Million in Federal Grants on Electric School Buses Environmental Protection Agency: 2024-12-20 Biden Administration Greenlights California''s Gas-Powered Car Ban, EV Mandate | |||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Yes, it's a long overdue start. But $1 Billion to the Fed's is like a drop of water in a hurricane. Not even a day of UKRAINE/DC Swamper US Taxpayer donated pocket $,$$$,$$$. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-02-01 14:14 |
| #4 ^I guess, you haven't seen teaching college graduates in action. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-02-01 12:50 |
| #3 Because EPA bureaucrats will be unemployable outside of teaching and ruining coffee. Being taught by a bureaucrat is boring. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-02-01 12:38 |
| #2 ^Why? |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-02-01 10:54 |
| #1 The quality of high school biology teaching is about to plummet. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-02-01 10:10 |