In more big news from Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), $100 million in grant funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training that the Department of Education had been issuing, with Musk and DOGE saying that the funding that had been cut was “wasteful” spending of the sort DOGE is here to cut.
Announcing the cuts in a post on X, DOGE said, “Today, the Department of Education terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101mm. One sought to train teachers to ‘help students understand / interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis.'”
Chiming in, commenters said things like, “DOGE should change it’s name to the Department of Exposing Democrat Corruption” and “We shouldn’t be spending $100 million on any kind of training for teachers. Either they know what they’re doing or they should get fired. Enough with the training bs.” Another commenter said, “Good work. Now, Abolish the Department of Education.”
Other commenters chimed in and said things like “Those students are just being robbed of their potential while their parents are being robbed. None of that nonsense makes them competitive in the workforce” and “Why do taxpayers need to fund the Word Salad Industry? It’s a lot of money for nothing but blah, blah, blah.”
In any case, the DEI funding was under an eighth of the total Department of Energy cuts effected by DOGE. In another post, a quote tweet of the original post about DEI, DOGE said, “Also today, the Department Of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm. One contractor was paid $1.5mm to ‘observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center.'”
In still another post, this one about cuts to DEI, DOGE announced, “Today’s contract update: 58 cancellations with savings of >$150M in categories including Media, DEI, and Consulting. This includes $405K at DHS for “resilience, energy, and sustainability management program support services” and ~4M at DoT for “DEIA program and project management support services.”
Further, Elon said, “DOGE has now saved taxpayers over $1 billion in crazy DEI contracts,” in response to a post from DOGE stating, “Through 1/29/2025, 85 DEIA related contracts totaling ~$1B have been terminated within the Dept. of Ed, GSA, OPM, EPA, DoL, Treasury, DoD, USDA, Commerce, DHS, VA, HHS, State, NSF, NRC, NLRB, PBGC, USAID, RRB, SSA, SBA, BLM, CFPB, NPS, and NOAA.”
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Describing a particularly insane program that has since been cut, DOGE said, “While looking into this, the team identified a $25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece” with the description “To provide material, legal and psychological support to LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees; inform and raise awareness of civil society on issues faced by the LGBTQIA+ community.” It has now been cancelled.”
Musk has remained a high-profile opponent of DEI as his war with the Deep State and government apparatus has escalated. For example, in a recent video, he said, “DEI is simply racism rebranded. I’m against racism and sexism no matter who it’s directed against. We should really accept no racism or sexism in any form.” Watch him here: