#DEI contracts cancellation

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From DC to Des Moines: How DOGE is Inspiring a New Era of Govt Accountability

Since its launch, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has rapidly become synonymous with cutting-edge oversight and accountability. In its latest breakthrough, DOGE revealed that millions in unemployment insurance benefits were paid out to “claimants” who aren’t even born yet. This landmark finding showcases the power of the Department of Government Efficiency to root out waste,…

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If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days

Sure would be a shame if this attempt to get snitches attracted a bunch of unrelated emails.

[saywhat-politics]

Five more law firms have struck deals with President Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders against them, ramping up a concerning trend of firms caving to the president’s will.

The deals, which Trump shared on social media Thursday, are similar to ones other law firms have agreed to in recent months and require them to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in free legal services to causes supported by Trump, including the assistance of veterans and law enforcement, ensuring fairness in the justice system and combating antisemitism.

The deal struck with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft requires the firm to provide $100 million to those pro bono legal services. A joint deal struck with four law firms ― Kirkland & Ellis, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Latham & Watkins ― mandates $500 million total in free legal work from their staffs.

The firms also agreed not to “engage in illegal DEI discrimination and preferences,” Trump said, referring to the diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices he and other Republicans have railed against in recent months.

The flurry of deals comes a day after Trump dropped an executive order targeting the law firm Susman Godfrey, which is representing Dominion Voting Systems in defamation cases against former Trump officials who claimed the election was rigged against him. Like other executive orders he’s issued against law firms Trump feels have wronged him, the action suspends all Susman Godfrey lawyers’ security clearances, restricts their access to government buildings and threatens to cancel their clients’ federal contracts.

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Nina Lakhani at The Guardian:

A Donald Trump-appointed US attorney has told one of the country’s top law schools to immediately end diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, warning that his justice department office will not hire students or other affiliates associated with a university that utilizes DEI. In an extraordinary letter sent to the dean of Georgetown law school, the recently appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, said he was investigating the academic institution after it had come to his “attention reliably” that they were teaching and promoting DEI. “This is unacceptable,” wrote Martin, in a letter re-sent this week after the original sent in February was misaddressed, according to the Washington Post. “At this time, you should know that no applicant for our fellows program, our summer internship, or employment in our office who is a student or affiliated with a law school or university that continues to teach and utilize DEI will be considered.” The letter was reportedly addressed to William M Treanor, a constitutional law scholar and one of the nation’s longest-serving deans. Martin, a conservative activist with no prosecutorial experience who has been nominated to take control of the DC office permanently, put two questions to dean Treanor: “First, have you eliminated all DEI from your school and its curriculum? Second, if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in any way, will you move swiftly to remove it?” Martin’s letter was first reported and posted by the Post Millennial, a rightwing website. The move was condemned by legal commentators. “Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the first amendment,” said Adam Steinbaugh, a first amendment lawyer at the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (Fire), on the social media platform Bluesky. This is the latest attack by the Trump administration on diversity, equity and inclusion practices which proliferated as part of the nation’s reckoning triggered by the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The White House campaign against tackling systemic and structural inequalities in US society have so far led to outright bans on agencies, academic institutions and private businesses – some of which are being challenged in the courts. In one case, a federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement against large universities and publicly traded companies from a Trump executive order canceling federal contracts that include components of DEI.

Ed Martin is a pathetic disgrace to America.

[mariacallous]

The “deep state” is a top-tier conservative bogeyman, right up there with DEI and George Soros. But it seems fair to ask: If a bunch of shadowy, unelected figures, many with shared business interests and connections, took over government functions at the highest levels and directly contravened the will of Congress, what might you call that? How about … DOGE?

After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.

Secretive? The so-called Department of Government Efficiency has never provided an org chart, did not have a publicly documented leader until last week, and refused to reveal the identities of its young staffers in early internal meetings. Check.

Unelected? Self-evidently so. Check.

A web of connected interests outside of government? DOGE is inarguably the Elon Musk extended universe. Current and former employees from X, SpaceX, the Boring Company, and Tesla currently control or are deeply embedded in countless government agencies, including the ones they’re ostensibly regulated by. (How many of them? Hard to say exactly, so score another point for “secretive.”) In fairness, some DOGE staffers appear to have no prior affiliation beyond an apparent zeal for dismantling the US government. But otherwise … Check.

And this is all in service of an agenda set not by Congress but by the world’s richest man. Look no further than DOGE’s deep freeze of the legally mandated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the unilateral canceling of around 10,000 humanitarian aid contracts apportioned by Congress, or the firing of thousands of probationary workers and others—without apparent cause—for evidence that it is executing an agenda outside of any legislative framework. Check, check, check.

It’s true that “deep state” is a tricky term to pin down, largely because it’s so often used as shorthand for “things Glenn Beck doesn’t like.” Let’s look, then, at how Elon Musk defines it.

“If there's not a good feedback loop from the people to the government, and if you have rule of the bureaucrat, if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have,” Musk said at a recent Oval Office visit. And then, moments later: “We have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, which has, in a lot of ways, currently more power than any elected representative. This is … This is not something that people want, and it does not match the will of the people.”

Sounds bad. Also sounds like DOGE. This is the same unelected Elon Musk that met yesterday with GOP senators and representatives desperate for a say in where the DOGE wrecking ball heads next. Musk reportedly claimed that agency heads were the ones doing the firing, not DOGE. But who do you think installed most of those leaders? Who told them to cut until they hit bone? It was a bald demonstration of power. Musk has it. Elected representatives do not. DOGE is the bureaucracy it came to destroy.

(Small point of order: Musk is both head of DOGE and not head of DOGE, depending on who you ask and what’s legally more convenient at the time. They’re really running up the scoreboard on the secrecy thing.)

Or maybe we should look to a neutral party. FBI director Kash Patel is not himself a member of DOGE, and he literally published a whole book about the deep state just two years ago. “It is worthwhile to be very clear who we are talking about,” Patel writes in Government Gangsters, and yes that is the actual name of the current FBI director’s recent book, “because the Deep State likes to operate in the shadows using arcane bureaucracy, opaque legal minutia, hidden levers of power, and insider political gamesmanship largely unfamiliar to the American public.”

Concerning. Also? DOGE. The agency has subsumed the most arcane corners of US bureaucracy to launch its incursions. To justify its firing spree it has attempted to draw legal distinctions so opaque, so minute, that it was recently reprimanded in court. It used an exemption intended to help onboard disabled workers faster to install SpaceX employees at the Federal Aviation Administration before anyone knew it was happening.

The only thing missing is gamesmanship, because DOGE is the kind of guy that plays Jenga with a hammer.

Or if you need a more precise definition, let history be a guide. The term “deep state” has its roots not in drive-time talk radio but in 1970s Turkey, where a bunch of unelected officials seized power within political structures.

“It is a phrase that generally refers to a kind of shadow or parallel system of government in which unofficial or publicly unacknowledged individuals play important roles in defining and implementing state policy,” writes historian Ryan Gingeras in Last Rites for a ‘Pure Bandit’: Clandestine Service, Historiography, and the Origins of the Turkish ‘Deep State’. In Turkey, those shadows were cast primarily by military figures, not juvenile technocrats, but you get the point.

There are signs, at least, that people are beginning to see DOGE for what it is. Republicans have faced loud protests in town halls, even in deep red districts. It’s gotten so bad that GOP House members have been told to stop meeting with constituents in person. The Supreme Court has handed the agency its first major defeat at that level of the judiciary. Improperly fired workers are starting to return to their jobs.

“Deep state is limited,” writes Patel. “It depends on a lot of people either having no idea what’s going on or being led to believe that what the Deep State is doing is actually good. When those people stop listening, the Deep State starts to lose control.”

The impacts of DOGE’s cuts are increasingly impossible to ignore, or to confuse with any greater good. Whether DOGE loses control will depend, though, on if anyone in power can see that it’s the very thing they’ve warned against. Or if they can bring themselves to care.

[darkmaga-returns]

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has eliminated $3.3 billion in federal contracts, delivering immediate taxpayer savings of $2.6 billion. Total savings to date: $155 billion (nearly $1,000 per taxpayer) via canceled leases, regulatory rollbacks, fraud crackdowns and asset sales.

Audits identified and cut contracts related to DEI initiatives and gender-related programs, including $36,000 DHS DEI workshops, $1 million SSA "Gender X Initiative," $4 million DOL DEI training and multiple USDA diversity consultants (230K–230K–1M).

DOGE operates with radical transparency, deploying Silicon Valley analysts to uncover fraud and waste. It also exposed misuse of funds across agencies like IRS, FEMA, USAID and OPM—despite 11 lawsuits alleging privacy violations.

Critics claim DOGE illegally accessed sensitive data (tax records, student loans, security clearances), citing the Privacy Act of 1974, but then supporters argue it's exposing systemic waste, achieving more than "decades of congressional hearings."

Trump hails DOGE as a historic government overhaul, vowing deeper audits, while officials call recent cuts "just the beginning," signaling more aggressive reforms ahead.

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Lee Zeldin Cancels Millions in Wasteful DEI Contracts, Reveals Shocking Amount of Money Spent on 'Media Contracts' After Stopping Biden EPA's 'Gold Bar' Heist | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Farmers are caught in a political brawl over climate and DEI language. (Washington Post)

Excerpt from this Washington Post story:

Carolyn Jones never thought it was controversial to herd her cattle to different parts of her 200-acre ranch in northeastern Mississippi to give the grass time to grow back between grazing.

“This is really simple stuff we have been doing since the beginning of time,” said Jones, a lifelong farmer and the head of the nonprofit Mississippi Minority Farmers Alliance.

About 40 percent of U.S. cattle ranchers already use this technique, according to federal data. It helps ranchers keep their grass healthier, but it also helps the environment, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Last year, the Alliance won a USDA contract to educate other farmers about these long-standing conservation practices. The project description labeled them “climate resilient farming practices” to appeal to President Joe Biden’s green priorities.

Now, the Trump administration is considering axing the project, along with hundreds of other agreements “related to climate initiatives,” according to internal USDA documents and two people familiar with the agency’s deliberations. The whiplash shows how farmers have been caught in the middle of a political battle over the language used to describe federal programs.

An internal USDA spreadsheet and accompanying instructions obtained by The Washington Post show more than $400 million of climate-related projects administered through the department’s Natural Resources and Conservation Service (NRCS) are under review for possible termination.

It is the latest setback for the USDA’s conservation efforts, beginning in late January with a sweeping funding freeze affecting farm conservation programs worth more than a billion dollars as department officials scrambled to comply with the Trump administration’s priorities.

For decades, the USDA has paid experts to help farmers implement techniques to keep their land fertile and productive, such as fencing off fields to keep cows from overgrazing, planting cover crops to keep soil from eroding or targeting fertilizer use. Many of these projects also help the environment by reducing pollution or greenhouse gas emissions.

The spreadsheet of USDA projects under review was attached to a Feb. 25 email that instructed regional and state conservationists to scrutinize each line item for such terms as “climate adaption and resilience planning,” “environmental education/workforce training,” “biodiversity and ecosystem resilience related to climate change,” and “climate smart agriculture and land use that does not directly benefit farmers.”

Staff were askedto recommend ways to cut the climate-related pieces from each listed project or to flag projects that were entirely climate-related to be canceled, according to the email. The recommendations would be reviewed by department higher-ups, who had already started a similar process with conservation initiatives related to environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, records show.

Jones’s project was among those flagged for termination on the spreadsheetdraftreviewed by The Post. The reason, according to the draft, was that the project was funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s signature climate program. The IRA added extra funding to long-standing USDA conservation programs, meaning more farmers and ranchers could take advantage of them — especially if they branded their projects “climate smart.”

“Now you put these big names to it and it becomes the enemy,” Jones said. “I don’t understand why farmers are being made into the enemy of America.”

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has publicly committed to honoring contracts made directly with farmers. Still, the draft spreadsheet shows the USDA is considering ending many support services, including outreach and education initiatives, as well as programs that pay technical experts to help farmers with projects they want to do to make their land more fertile or healthy. The document indicatesthat at least a few agreements with individual farmers are also potentially on the chopping block.

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Ross Rosenfeld at New Republic:

As the old saying goes, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Elon Musk has demonstrated mastery of all three, often simultaneously. Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has made wild claims about the savings it has supposedly accrued during its blunt force takeover of government institutions, including the Office of Personnel Management, where Musk’s minions—some just recent high school grads—are wreaking havoc.

Before Trump took office, Musk promised to find $2 trillion in savings each year, despite the fact that discretionary spending totals only around $1.8 trillion. So far, no such savings—or anything close—has materialized, and no evidence of the massive waste and fraud Musk vowed to uncover has emerged. Instead, Musk and the Trump administration keep throwing out random figures that are misleading at best, and often downright lies. Their goal is not merely to apply a veneer of truth and legitimacy to their wholesale wreckage of the federal government, or to make it even more difficult for the fact-checking media to keep up with the Trump administration’s relentless, dizzying moves. It’s also a sleight of hand to make it appear as if it’s not corporate titans like Musk himself who are receiving sweetheart deals and robbing the American people blind, but “deep state” bureaucrats, DEI recipients, and African children. Though Musk alleges that the government is rife with incompetence, he and his DOGE team appear most incompetent of all, having created a website that was easily hacked last week. But that pales in comparison with the dubious statistics published on the site and spouted elsewhere by the administration. Some examples: DOGE posted claims of $16 billion in savings on Monday, half of which it said came from the elimination of a single contract for a diversity program at ICE. They were only off by a factor of over 1400, since the real savings from the canceled contract was no more than $5.5 million. As The New York Times pointed out, the contract they cited was actually for $8 million, not $8 billion—and $2.5 million of it has already been spent, and thus is unrecoverable. Even after the mistake was pointed out, DOGE continued to assert the $8 billion figure. The Times also noted, “A larger total savings number published on the site, $55 billion, lacked specific documentation.”

Not only was that $8 billion complete bunk; turns out, so were the next three highest “savings” claimed on the site. DOGE professed to find another $1.9 billion in savings from terminating three contracts for USAID, each for $655 million. But these contracts were what are known as Indefinite Delivery Vehicles, or IDVs. Such contracts allow the government to set spending limits but do not require it to meet those limits, meaning that it can cancel the contract at will. So far, the government had spent only $55 million of that $1.9 billion. It’s worth noting that spending on USAID—which Musk called “a criminal organization” and the Trump administration has unilaterally (and possibly illegally) shut down—is not wasted money, but brings tangible benefits, including providing HIV treatments in Africa, countering Russian propaganda, and aiding civilians devastated by war in Syria and Ukraine. It’s our best tool for soft power, burnishing America’s image around the world by providing material help where it’s need most. And despite Donald Trump’s claim that “billions of dollars have been stolen” by the organization, former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios told 60 Minutes that it is “the most accountable aid agency in the world,” with 40 percent of the staff, he estimated, made up of lawyers and accountants tasked with watching every dollar. The administration has also made the suspect claim that millions of dead people are receiving Social Security benefits. Musk said it “might be the biggest fraud in history” even shared a graph on X purporting to show this, apparently believing that everyone at the Social Security Administration was so stupid as to not recognize that the agency was sending out more than 5 million checks to people past the age of 140. Yet the only fool in the equation was Musk. Neither he nor Trump, who repeated the claim, appear to understand that while there are millions of people still in the Social Security database because their deaths were never recorded, these people do not receive checks. A total of 89,000 people 99 years old and over receive checks, which, unsurprisingly, aligns remarkably well with the U.S. Census estimate that there are 85,000 people 100 and over in the country. Simply checking a list of Social Security check recipients would have cleared up the entire issue. Yet Musk was either too dumb or too lazy to do so. Or, perhaps more likely, he just didn’t care if it was true or not because it served his purposes.

The stats that Trump and Musk are spouting in order to justify draconian cuts are bogus.

[mariacallous]

For people who make video games, 2024 was a year of holding on for dear life. At the annual Game Developers Conference in March, “Survive till ’25” was this year’s incantation, summoned to keep morale on pace. Others resorted to full-on screams, as layoffs in the industry charted record highs and developers found themselves under attack online for conspiratorial nonsense.

In 2023, more than 10,000 developers lost their jobs; one-third of game-makers surveyed at the beginning of this year reported they’d been affected by layoffs in some way. While there were wins for labor organizers at big studios like Activision Blizzard, and collective action around fighting for protection from the encroachment of AI on employment, the industry’s collective brain drain continued in 2024 as workers lost jobs en masse. Six months in, this year’s layoff tally had already surpassed that of 2023. According to Matthew Ball, an adviser and producer in the games and TV space, 2024’s job-loss count will wind up being about 40 percent higher than the previous year’s.

"The explanation is complex and wide-ranging for the same reason the layoffs are so deep and continuous, and sit alongside many studio closures and even more canceled games,” Ball says.

As the industry faltered, games suffered. High-profile releases like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League were commercial failures. While there were many reasons for this, online right-wing groups reduced it to a single mantra: “go woke, go broke.” By their logic, if a game does poorly and has even a whiff of diversity—be it regarding gender, sexuality, or race—that disappointing performance is the fault of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Although there have been incredible games released this year—Balatro, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Astro Bot, Black Myth: Wukong—they just couldn’t distract from the troubles faced by the people making them. They couldn’t make up for the fact that the meta-narrative of video games in 2024 was bleak.

Ball says that the blame for all of this can’t be pinned to a single thing, like capitalism, mismanagement, Covid-19, or even interest rates. It also involves development costs, how studios are staffed, consumers’ spending habits, and game pricing. “This storm is so brutal,” he says, “because it is all of these things at once, and none have really alleviated since the layoffs began.”

For indie developers, specifically, the threat to their existence has been substantial. Dozens of small studios shuttered in 2024, though it’s difficult to get a full picture of how many indie studios the industry lost, as they’re more likely to shut down quietly and without much fanfare—or before many players even know they exist.

With dwindling opportunities to get funding from investors and little cash to go around, developers sought alternative methods to fund their games in the past year. Some took bankrolling into their own hands. Among Us creator Innersloth launched an initiative to give fellow developers backing to finish projects. Others, like Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios, made their plans public in early development in hopes of attracting investments—all while fending off racist attacks from the anti-DEI crowd, making the challenges they’re facing twofold.

Even studios owned by tech juggernauts weren’t immune to the industry’s contraction. Microsoft shuttered Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks; Sony shut down Firewalk. The latter’s shuttering wasn't wholly surprising. Its big 2024 release, Concord, was largely considered a flop. But having a hit didn't give any studios a safety net. Near-universal acclaim for Tango's Hi-Fi Rush didn't stop Microsoft’s ax. (It did, though, give Tango just enough juice to be revived by a new buyer.)

In other words, it’s been a dismal year for morale. When developers gathered in Los Angeles in June for Summer Game Fest, developer New Blood Interactive bought out a billboard solely to memorialize their fellow developers who’d lost jobs: “We love you. We miss you. We hate money.”

This year may have been the 10th anniversary of Gamergate—the 2014 online hate movement that shaped the internet harassment tactics apparent today—but online, conversations felt like a trip back in time. Conservative ideologues bemoaned the inclusion of characters who did not fit the cookie-cutter image of a white, cis, hetero man. They complained that DEI was being forced upon them. (It wasn’t.)

In March, harassment toward a small consultancy company called Sweet Baby Inc. reached new heights as bad actors organized through Discords, Steam forums, and other online spaces. Branding themselves as Gamergate 2.0, online mobs harassed developers using tweets, DMs, YouTube videos, and Twitch streams. They targeted anyone with any connection to Sweet Baby and other consultancies—a fairly wide net, as consultants are often brought on to advise on accuracy, sensitivity, and more. Their mission was fighting against “wokeification.” The realities of the economic issues impacting games they love had no place in their tactics; the specter of diversity had more pull than analysts and experts.

Games with Black leads and characters were derided as forced. Female characters deemed unattractive or masculine were suffering from “DEI chin.” Dragon Age: The Veilguard, was criticized by far-right trolls for its customization options, which allow players to create characters with top surgery scars or play with a nonbinary companion. After reviews were released, conspiracists latched onto clichéd phrases or other language as proof that studio BioWare was instructing reviewers how to talk about their game.

Even not-yet-released titles faced bombardment. Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight, about a young Black woman in the Deep South, drew ire from the anti-DEI crowds on platforms like X, where they’ve photoshopped the heroine to make her looks less “repulsive” and put forth conspiracy theories about Sweet Baby’s influence on the game’s development.

But pressure to remain apolitical—a curious agenda for an entertainment form that marries the artistic preferences of narrative and imaginary worlds with agency granted to players who inhabit them—did not come just from a vocal minority. Following the release of Black Myth: Wukong, some streamers were given instructions to avoid talking about Covid-19 or “feminist propaganda.” The guidelines had the opposite effect, encouraging streamers to lead with the code words they’d been barred from: a push against standards meant to actually censor players.

Looking ahead to 2025, Ball says he hears more pessimism generally, but “it just sucks to contemplate, let alone predict.” If there is one plus, he says, it’s that there is “a lot more hiring happening than is generally believed. Downside is, it’s not nearly compensating overall, especially at indies.”

As 2024 comes to a close, the industry is operating—from the outside—with a business-as-usual mindset. In early December, developers gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate at The Game Awards. On stage, host Geoff Keighley made a small speech, amid game announcements, accolades, and a performance from Snoop Dogg.

“The sad reality is that over the past few years the gaming industry has suffered significant and unprecedented industrywide layoffs,” Keighley said. “Those affect the games we get to play and, even more important, the people who make the games we love. We can debate and certainly disagree with the reasons why, and honestly as a show we kind of struggle with how to address these topics in a constructive way.”

Keighley used the segment to introduce TGA’s first “game changer” award, a nod to an individual who has positively impacted the industry. Then the show continued, with headline-dominating announcements about major projects like The Witcher 4 and the next title from The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog.

Amid all of this is the specter of AI. There’s still little insight on how much AI will continue to grow and how future games might use it, but it’s a rising concern as rank-and-file workers are laid off. No one knows when, or if, the industry will bounce back with sustainable jobs and compensation. Yes, there will be games to play. It’s harder to say how many people will be able to make them.

[selfmaderibcageman]

claimed 20m of dei savings by cancelling contracts, both contracts had a max outlay of 10m, but ZERO dollars had been spent on either so far. Saving money that doesn't even exist !

[darkeagleruins]

DOGE update on The Department of Education Terminated Contracts Include:

- $4.6 million to coordinate in person and zoom meetings

- $3 million contract to write a report that a previous report was not utilized by schools (This is real)

- $1.4 million to observe in-person mailing and clerical operations

- Termination of 89 Contracts savings estimated at approximately $881 million

- Dissolution of the DEI Council, cost $2.6 million

- Cancellation of 29 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Training Grants:

These DEI Grants:

- Trained teachers to help students understand complex histories related to oppression

- Promote recognition of areas of (white) privilege and (white) power among students

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FUCK they finally got around to enforcement

Basically, no institution with DEI programs or who are boycotting Israel are eligible to receive funds, and if they find out you are doing those things, they reserve to cancel the grant and take back the money.

For those outside of STEM-- NIH is by far the primary funder of research related to human health, including both treatments and basic research on bacteria, organ function, sleep, mental health, land other aspects of well-being. To give you a sense of scale, NIH has more than 50,000 grants awarded to more than 2,500 institutions, according to their website. Their budget is $48billion.

This effectively holds that money for ransom to ensure that every institution in the US (and some outside) that does biomedical research will comply with the institution's directive to support Israel and pretend that discrimination is fixed.

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Exclusive–Breitbart Fight Club Roundtable: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Leading ‘Largest Deregulatory Action’ with Trillions of Dollars in Cuts

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on the Breitbart Fight Club Founders’ Roundtable Tuesday that the agency is leading what amounts to the “largest deregulatory action” ever, slashing “trillions of dollars in deregulation.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Zeldin spoke during the Breitbart Fight Club Roundtable with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about the agency’s efforts to slash government waste, fraud, and abuse.

The EPA administrator, a former congressman, has moved to cancel over $22 billion in contracts as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) policies, environmental justice grants, and other superfluous government spending.

He emphasized the degree to which the administration has been able to make significant savings by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse at the agency. Zeldin said that the agency’s annual operating budget is $10 billion, while they have been able to cut $22 billion in grants.