DOGE slashes over $100M in DEI funding at Education Department: 'Win for every student'

The Department of Education (DOE) is canceling much than $100 cardinal successful grants to money diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) grooming arsenic portion of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) expanse of "wasteful" spending. 

DOGE, the section led by Elon Musk to chopped costs wrong the national government, announced the termination of 89 DOE contracts totaling $881 cardinal successful a station connected X Monday night.

Of the astir $1 billion, DOGE identified $101 cardinal that was being utilized for DEI training, including teaching educators to "help students understand/interrogate the analyzable histories progressive successful oppression, and assistance students admit areas of privilege and powerfulness connected an idiosyncratic and corporate basis."

"Your taxation dollars were spent connected this," Musk wrote of the DOE spending.

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Elon Musk heads the Department of Government Efficiency. (Andrew Harnik)

According to DOGE, the acquisition section spent different $1.5 cardinal connected a contractor to "observe mailing and clerical operations" astatine a message center, which was besides terminated successful the caller spending sweep.

"DEI was ne'er astir ‘equity’—it was astir enforcing ideological conformity and institutionalizing discrimination. Shutting down these wasteful, divisive programs is simply a triumph for each student," Nicki Neily, laminitis and president of Parents Defending Education, said successful effect to the spending cut. 

"More states request to travel suit," Neily said.

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Erika Donalds, woman of Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, besides wrote successful effect that "the kids can’t read."

The Department of Education gathering is seen connected Aug. 21, 2024 successful Washington, D.C. (Tierney L. Cross)

DOGE has been starring efforts to vacuum spending wrong the DOE, announcing successful aboriginal February the termination of 3 grants including 1 backing an instauration that had reportedly "previously hosted module workshops entitled 'Decolonizing the Curriculum.'"

In his archetypal slew of enforcement orders, President Donald Trump launched a national reappraisal of DEI teachings and practices successful acquisition institutions receiving national funding.

President Donald Trump launched a national reappraisal of DEI teachings and practices successful acquisition institutions receiving national funding. (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)

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Amid the Trump-Vance crackdown connected definite teachings, respective colleges, specified arsenic Missouri State University and West Virginia University, person begun closing their DEI offices.

Fox News' Charles Creitz contributed to this report.