 [FoxNews] …including over $100 million for DEI funding.
The Department of Education (DOE) is canceling more than $100 million in grants to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sweep of "wasteful" spending.
DOGE, the department led by Elon Musk to cut costs within the federal government, announced the termination of 89 DOE contracts totaling $881 million in a post on X Monday night.
Of the nearly $1 billion, DOGE identified $101 million that was being used for DEI training, including teaching educators 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."
"Your tax dollars were spent on this," Musk wrote of the DOE spending.
According to DOGE, the education department spent another $1.5 million on a contractor to "observe mailing and clerical operations" at a mail center, which was also terminated in the recent spending sweep.
"DEI was never about ‘equity’—it was about enforcing ideological conformity and institutionalizing discrimination. Shutting down these wasteful, divisive programs is a win for every student," Nicki Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education, said in response to the spending cut.
"More states need to follow suit," Neily said.
DOGE has been leading efforts to vacuum spending within the DOE, announcing in early February the termination of three grants including one funding an institution that had reportedly "previously hosted faculty workshops entitled 'Decolonizing the Curriculum.'"
In his first slew of executive orders, President Donald Trump launched a federal review of DEI teachings and practices in educational institutions receiving federal funding.
Amid the Trump-Vance crackdown on certain teachings, several colleges, such as Missouri State University and West Virginia University, have begun closing their DEI offices.
Terrified staff left hysterical as 'well drilled' DOGE nerds storm hyper 'woke' Department of Education
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk's nerd army stormed into the Department of Education on Tuesday and saved over $900 million.
Musk's DOGE lieutenants Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran, both 22, already have access to the department, NBC News reported.
And as many as 16 DOGE team members have entered the premises as the agency begins to be ripped apart.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury, (D-MD) described the terror agency staff are feeling after Musk's team entered to 'actively dismantle' the institution.
'They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts,' she said in an interview with HuffPost.
'It's not legal. They know it's not legal. But they're doing it anyway,' Stansbury went on. 'The only recourse we have right now is to to go the courts.'
She added that she expects the agency to be 'dissolved in the coming days.'
The Department of Education was targeted by Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
during his campaign, He is keen to dismantle the so-called 'Deep State' constantly working against conservatives.
Most Republicans believe the department employs some of the most activist liberal babus bureaucrats in the federal government.
Trump plans to sign another executive order on Tuesday to order all agencies to work with DOGE, according to Semafor, including with the 'workplace optimization initiative.'
The order is the latest sign that Trump is fully on board with Musk's efforts amidst protests from Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
that he is an unelected billionaire.
The department has already terminated 89 Education Department contracts worth $881 million.
And over 29 training grants for DEI have been eliminated saving $101 million, according to the DOGE X account.
President Donald Trump campaigned on shutting down the Department of Education and sending the funding back to the states to fund their schools as they see fit.
He also said last week that it's a goal to put his Education Secretary Linda McMahon
 ...business executive, and former professional wrestling performer. She was the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019. McMahon has been nominated to lead the Department of Education under the second Trump administration. McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional business in the northeast to a large multinational corporation. She made occasional on-screen performances, most notably in a feud with her husband that culminated at WrestleMania X-Seven. In 2009, she left World Wrestling Entertainment to run for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut as a Republican, but lost to Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 general election. She was the Republican nominee for Connecticut's other Senate seat in the 2012 race, but lost to Chris Murphy because that's the kind of guy people in Connecticutt like best. ...
'out of a job.'
Government workers and sympathetic activists rallied on Tuesday at a 'Save the Civil Service' rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees in Washington, DC.
Democratic politicians were denied entry to the Department building in Washington, DC on Friday.
Democratic members of congress raged at an unnamed individual blocking their way, demanding to see his identification and answer their questions.
Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for life from California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 33.20198 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 48.19992 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, demanded the individual blocking her access to reveal his name, but he refused.
The White House on Tuesday reacted to Waters' aggressive behavior, calling her 'annoying AF.'
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'This deranged behavior is like a scene ripped straight out of Flowers in the Attic,' White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung wrote on social media.
DOGE employees continue to fan across federal agencies as the group looks to cut wasteful spending.
Democrats have rallied behind activists protesting Musk's efforts to cut costs, announcing Monday his decision to launch a special task force to combat Trump's actions to cut government.
The group is co-chaired by Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), along with Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), two members of Congress from states bordering Washington, DC.
'We are engaged in a multifaceted struggle to protect and defend everyday Americans from the harm being inflicted by this administration,' Jeffries wrote in a letter announcing the group.
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson endorsed Musk’s efforts during a presser on Tuesday.
’What Elon and the DOGE effort is doing right now is what Congress has been unable to do in recent years because the agencies have hidden some of this from us,’ he said, calling their efforts ’good, and right for the American people.’
’Stay tuned, there is a lot more to come,’ he added. 
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