by | February 15, 2025 · 2:29 pm

Promises made. Promises kept.

We gave Trump a mandate to cut the bloated government and get unsustainable spending under control. In its first month, DOGE et al. saved We, the American Taxpayers $51 Billion dollars. Below are highlights from last week, which – FULL TRANSPARENCY – are posted as they happen at the DOGE X site.

Friday, February 7 – The government terminated 199 wasteful contracts for a savings of ~$250 million. Our money is no longer going to “climate change mitigation adaption and resilience coordinator” for Sri Lankan forest service or a workshop for “Intercultural communication diversity dialogue circle communicating across differences.”

Monday, February 10 – The Department of Agriculture terminated 18 contracts for a total of ~$9 million. These included money allocated for “Central American gender assessment consultant services”, “Brazil forest and gender consultant services”, and the “Women in forest carbon initiative mentorship program.”

Monday, February 10 – The Department of Education terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101 million. 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.” Education terminated another 89 contracts worth $881 million. Among them were $4.6 million to coordinate Zoom and in-person meetings, $3.0 million contract to write a report that showed that prior reports were not utilized by schools, and $1.5 million to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center,

Wednesday, February 12 – The Department of Homeland Security recovered the full payment that FEMA deep state activists illegally sent to NYC to house illegals in hotels. One of these was the Roosevelt Hotel, which has served as a Tren de Aragua base of operations; Laken Riley’s killer stayed there. The Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan is owned by the government of Pakistan. Meanwhile, American hurricane victims are sleeping in tents.

Wednesday, February 12 – The DOGE team canceled a $25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece.”

Wednesday, February 12 – Fifty-eight more cancellations with savings of more than $150 million in categories including Media, DEI, and Consulting. They included $405,000 at DHS for “resilience, energy, and sustainability management program support services” and ~$4 million at DoT for “DEIA program and project management support services.”

Wednesday, February 12 – The EPA canceled three DEI contracts, saving American taxpayers $45 million. The EPA also announced it would not be renewing Politico subscriptions, saving us another $458,919 per year.

Thursday, February 13 – The EPA canceled a $50 million Biden-era environmental justice grant to the Climate Justice Alliance, which believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.”

Thursday, February 13 – Elon’s genius posse saved ~$115 million by canceling 167 contracts, including $2.23 million for “equity assessments of existing program policies.”

Friday, February 14 – DOGE located $1.9 billion of misplaced HUD moneys that were no longer needed.

Friday, February 14 – Lee Zeldin at EPA canceled 9 more wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice contracts, saving American taxpayers another ~$60 million. Zeldin says, “I’m just warming up! I have ZERO tolerance for even a penny of your hard-earned tax dollars to be wasted or abused.”

Friday, February 14 – In the last 48 hours, the Department of Education terminated 70 DEI training grants totaling $373 million. One was to train teachers to “engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets.” In addition, the departments of education in all 50 states were sent a letter notifying them they have 14 days to remove all DEI programming in all public schools or face a loss of federal funding.

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  1. mindful webworker's avatar mindful webworker
    February 16, 2025 at 10:58 am

    “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.” 

    We didn’t get this back in our school days. I feel our education was so neglected.

    a workshop for “Intercultural communication diversity dialogue circle communicating across differences.”

    That may win the award for the most gobbledygook nonsense of all of these. How do you even write a proposal for such a thing?

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