DOGE announces more than $1B in savings after canceling 104 federal DEI contracts

The caller national Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Friday that taxpayers volition spot conscionable implicit a $1 cardinal savings done 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 national agencies. By Friday afternoon, that fig had grown to 104 contracts totaling $1,000,060,792, according to a DOGE quality release.

Of note, 21 Department of the Treasury contracts were canceled, redeeming a full of $25,247,783. In 2nd spot was the Department of Health & Human Services, which canceled 15 contracts worthy $28,187,448.

While the Office of Personnel Management lone had 3 contracts canceled, the dollar fig was pinned astatine a whopping $494,956,233, an mean of astir $165 cardinal per DEI contract.

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The different agencies with the astir contracts canceled by the Trump medication see Agriculture with 11 and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Homeland Security with 7 each.

According to a merchandise Monday from the Department of Veterans Affairs, 60 employees whose roles were solely focused connected DEI were placed connected administrative leave, and spokesperson Morgan Ackley said the medication is "laser focused connected providing the champion imaginable attraction and benefits to Veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors."

"We are arrogant to person abandoned the divisive DEI policies of the past and pivot backmost to VA’s halfway mission," Ackley said.

The rapid-fire DEI declaration eliminations travel 1 week aft President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid targeting the endeavors, officially described arsenic "ending amerciable favoritism and restoring merit-based opportunity."

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However, a consortium of wide authorities attorneys wide lambasted Trump with a informing that the moves "have thing to bash with combating discrimination."

A  joint connection led by Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha Friday called the enforcement orders that led to the dismantling of DEI policies and programs "unnecessary and disingenuous."

Neronha and his co-signers — attorneys wide from California, Illinois, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Washington authorities — said they would hold to beryllium "willing partners" successful cracking down connected favoritism if Trump chose alternatively to utilize "longstanding civilian rights laws" alternatively than the way helium has chosen.

"Contrary to President Trump’s assertions, the policies helium seeks to extremity bash not diminish the value of idiosyncratic merit, nor bash they mean that employers are lowering their standards, hiring unqualified candidates, oregon engaging successful race-and-sex-based preferences," the connection said.

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"DEIA initiatives simply guarantee that determination are just opportunities for everyone, helping to maximize contributions from each employees and enabling businesses and organizations to win successful their missions."

In Congress, Rep. Aaron Bean and Sen. Joni Ernst person been starring DOGE efforts to further curtail authorities discarded and abuse.

Bean, a Republican from Jacksonville, Florida, founded the Congressional DOGE Caucus successful November, and Ernst, Iowa, has led the complaint to lobby for return-to-work requirements for national employees and income of unused oregon underused national bureau space.