The Doge Bites Again—Slashes Huge Amount From Education Dept., Including $100M for DEI

There’s a famous line from “The Terminator” where one of the characters fighting the robot assassin from the future says, “It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”

I feel you could apply a similar line to the Department of Government Efficiency, except you’d replace “until you are dead!” with “until you are really, really efficient!”

In their latest move, they slashed almost $1 billion from the bloated Department of Education, including almost $100 million in DEI projects that don’t actually improve students’ knowledge of reading, writing, science, and math.

The DOGE reports:

Also today, the Department Of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm.

One contractor was paid $1.5mm to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center.” https://t.co/VaAw1vNAoa

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025

Of course, you can expect activist judges to do everything in their power to usurp the power of the executive branch because that’s exactly what they’ve been doing lately as DOGE and its boss Elon Musk go about the much-needed job of cutting out the fat that is the behemoth of the federal government.

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The department’s “Institute of Education Sciences” isn’t going to be happy:

A federal research agency that tracks the progress of America’s students is being hit with almost $900 million in cuts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency found no need for much of its work.

It’s unclear to what degree the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences will continue to exist after Musk’s team slashed scores of contracts. Industry groups said at least 169 contracts were suddenly terminated Monday, accounting for much of the institute’s work.

Some of the biggest contracts were for long-term studies that track students’ learning from kindergarten through high school, a study evaluating strategies for teaching elementary school reading, and research on the effectiveness of supports for youth with disabilities, according to list of cuts obtained by The Associated Press.

The tone of the AP’s article makes it clear that they disapprove of the cuts, but they left in a revealing paragraph (emphasis mine):

The action will not affect the institute’s primary work, including the NAEP assessment, known as the nation’s report card, and the College Scorecard, a database of university costs and outcomes, Education Department spokesperson Madison Biedermann said.

“Will not affect the institute’s primary work.” Interesting. You mean, much of their work is unnecessary, and we can save a billion dollars? Sounds like a plan.

DOGE also nuked a slew of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, the type of which Trump has promised to get rid of throughout the federal government.

Of the nearly $1 billion [in total announced cuts], 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.

Indeed they were. 

This seems appropriate:

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