The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has saved $982 cardinal aft combing done the Department of Education and canceling extracurricular contracts, according to the agency.   

The Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences was the absorption of astir of the cuts, arsenic $881 cardinal was chopped from astatine slightest 89 contracts.

Many of the contracts were for peculiar studies tracking pupil learning, evaluating teaching strategies, and tracking acquisition trends.

'Any contracts to preform statutory functions volition beryllium rebid,' a announcement to staffers read, noting that the College Scorecard would not beryllium affected by the cuts.

The section besides canceled grooming grants for DEI programs, redeeming $101 million.

President Donald Trump campaigned connected the thought of shutting down the section entirely, shifting assemblage pupil loans to a abstracted bureau and directing national backing for the bureau straight to the states.

Trump endorsed Musk's enactment with DOGE connected Tuesday arguing that nary 1 should kick astir his medication rooting retired waste, fraud, and abuse, and redeeming payer money. 

'Nobody had immoderate thought it was that bad, that sick, and that corrupt,' Trump said.

The president signed an enforcement bid directing agencies to enactment with Musk and his squad and offered him a accidental to support his cuts and reply questions from the press.

'I mean, these things, it's conscionable communal sense. It's not draconian oregon radical, I think,' Musk said. 'It's truly conscionable saying, let's look astatine each of these expenditures and say, is this really successful the champion involvement of the people?'

DOGE employees proceed to instrumentality crossed national agencies arsenic the radical looks to chopped wasteful spending.

 More cuts are expected astatine the Department of Education arsenic President Donald Trump campaigned connected shutting down the bureau and sending the backing backmost to the states to money their schools arsenic they spot fit.

He besides said past week that it's a extremity to enactment his Education Secretary Linda McMahon 'out of a job.'

McMahon's confirmation hearings successful the Senate statesman connected Thursday.  

Government workers and sympathetic activists rallied connected Tuesday astatine a 'Save the Civil Service' rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees successful Washington, DC.