DOGE's greatest hits: Look back at the department's most high-profile cuts during Trump's first 100 days

As President Trump marks his 100th day in workplace on Tuesday, the Department of Federal Government Performance (DOGE) states that it has actually cut a minimum of $160 billion in waste, scams, and abuse in the federal government, consisting of a number of prominent cuts that have actually been highlighted over the previous couple of months.

Doubtful costs in USAID’s $40 billion spending plan, consisting of ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq

Among the most discussed DOGE targets in Trump’s very first term was investing at the U.S. Firm for International Advancement (USAID).

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman, who states she speaks with Musk about investing cuts every couple of days, released a list of tasks and programs she states the U.S. Firm for International Advancement (USAID) has actually assisted fund throughout the years.

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Ernst highlighted that the firm “licensed a tremendous $20 million to develop a ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq.”

Under the Biden administration, USAID granted $20 million to a not-for-profit called Sesame Workshop to produce a program called “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” in an effort to “promote addition, shared regard and understanding throughout ethnic, spiritual and sectarian groups.”

Numerous more examples of doubtful costs have actually been discovered at USAID, consisting of more than $ 900,000 to a “Gaza-based horror charity” called Bayader Association for Environment and Advancement and a $1.5 million program slated to “advance variety, equity and addition in Serbia’s work environments and service neighborhoods.”

Fox News Digital formerly reported that almost 15,000 grants worth $60 billion are set to be removed, according to internal files. The grants total up to about 90% of foreign help agreements and followed an evaluation on costs by the State Department.

DOGE’s efforts at USAID did not come without opposition, consisting of a federal judge in Maryland who ruled that the relocations were unconstitutional. In March, a federal appeals court approved the Trump administration’s movement to extend a stay enabling DOGE to continue running at USAID.

Slashing DEI agreements throughout the board

On the project path and given that taking workplace, President Trump has actually made it clear he intends to slash DEI costs in the federal government while making the case that a system of meritocracy ought to be the focus.

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DOGE has actually revealed over the last couple of months that it has actually cut numerous millions in DEI agreements.

Previously this month, DOGE revealed it had actually dealt with the U.S. National Science Structure to cancel 402 “inefficient” variety, equity and addition (DEI) grants, which will conserve $233 million, consisting of $1 million for “Antiracist Instructor Management for Statewide Improvement.”

The Department of Defense might conserve approximately $80 million in inefficient costs by letting go a handful of variety, equity, and addition (DEI) programs, the firm revealed last month.

The Defense Department has actually been dealing with the Elon Musk-led Department of Federal Government Performance (DOGE) in slashing inefficient costs, DOD representative Sean Parnell stated in a video published to social networks.

Parnell noted a few of the preliminary findings flagged by DOGE, much of it including countless dollars provided to support numerous DEI programs, consisting of $1.9 million for holistic DEI improvement and training in the Air Force and $6 million to the University of Montana to “enhance American democracy by bridging divides.”

The Trump administration revealed previously this month it is slashing countless dollars in DEI grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Provider (IMLS) as part of its general DOGE push.

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In February, the Department of Education (DOE) stated it is canceling more than $100 million in grants to DEI training as part of DOGE’s efforts.

Cutting the federal labor force

DOGE has actually made efforts to cut federal costs by cutting the federal labor force, which it argues has actually ended up being puffed up with lots of staff members doing tasks that are unneeded or might be structured.

In February, DOGE ended work for 3,600 probationary Health and Human being Providers staff members in a cut it states is approximated to conserve about $600 million in taxpayer dollars yearly.

FOX Service reported in early April that over the previous 2 months, DOGE’s lowerings have actually been credited to 280,253 layoffs of federal employees and specialists at 27 firms, according to Opposition tracking. There were an extra 4,429 task cuts credited to the downstream impact of cutting federal help and ending agreements, mainly at nonprofits and health companies.

Approximately 75,000 federal staff members accepted a delayed resignation program, Fox News Digital reported in February, which DOGE has actually argued will conserve the federal government cash in the long run.

‘ Gold bars’: DOGE-inspired EPA finds $20 billion in waste

The Epa (EPA), influenced by DOGE’s crackdown on federal costs, stated it had situated $20 billion in tax dollars within the firm that the Biden administration apparently “understood they were losing.”

” An incredibly troubling video distributed 2 months earlier, including a Biden EPA political appointee speaking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,’ hurrying to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin stated in a video published to X on Wednesday, pointing out another video from December.

The EPA discovered that simply 8 firms were managing the circulation of 10s of billions of taxpayer dollars to various entities “at their discretion,” such as the Environment United Fund, which apparently got simply under $7 billion.

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” The ‘gold bars’ were tax dollars, and ‘tossing them off the Titanic’ implied the Biden administration understood they were losing it,” Zeldin stated, pledging to recuperate the “gold bars” that were discovered “parked at an outdoors banks.”

Zeldin stated that the “plan was the very first of its kind in EPA history, and it was intentionally developed to obligate all the cash in a rush task with decreased oversight.”

In a Fox News interview, the EPA administrator applauded DOGE’s work at the firm and stated that the cost-cutting department is “making us much better.”

” They develop excellent suggestions, and we can decide to act upon it,” Zeldin stated.

Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano added to this report