Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced that the department has already canceled 104 contracts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across a bevy of federal agencies, saving taxpayers over $1 billion.
Headed by Elon Musk, the nongovernmental advisory commission provided the DOGE operational update in a Jan. 31 post on X, which features a list of 25 federal agencies along with a corresponding number of DEI-related contracts that have been canceled.
The Department of the Treasury led with 21 canceled contracts, saving $25,247,783, followed by the Department of Health & Human Services, which canceled 15 contracts worth $28,187,448. Notably, the Office of Personnel Management canceled three contracts totaling $494,956,233, averaging about $165 million per contract. In total, the canceled contracts have saved taxpayers $1,000,060,792, according to DOGE….