Boy the alphabet people and their liberal congress butt buddies are not going to like this but it looks like the team Dodge did it again friends. Turns out that the USDA got rid of 420 grants for a savings of $2.3 billion, according to DOGE. Among the programs the money was used for, $361,000 went toward "gender non-conforming, non-binary, two-spirit" BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) farmers in New York. We kid you not and if you are not clear as to what these people are getting paid to produce neither does anyone else.
In a post on X, the Elon Musk-led group said it got rid of the contracts, which have a ceiling value of $250 million and a savings of $70 million. The problem contracts included a $14,000 commitment by the Department of Health and Human Services for an "executive transformational leadership training program." Another was a $5.2 million contract with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the human resources agency for the federal government, to "provide strategic advisory and assistance to improve and transform current processes and organizational systems".
DOGE recently announced $51 million in cuts from the U.S. African Development Foundation, which included hundreds of thousands of dollars for marketing shea butter and pineapple juice, as well as mango drying facilities. The group was created in an effort to slash government waste and provide additional transparency in government spending. It recently helped the U.S. Coast Guard save $32.7 million by eliminating an "ineffective IT program" known as the Logistics Information Management System.
Americans recently shared mixed reviews of the transparency group. Fox News Digital conducted interviews in Knoxville, Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; Detroit; and Houston, where citizens provided reactions and graded its ongoing efforts. Some criticized DOGE for "trying to do their job with a sledgehammer," while others praised the group for looking into government waste. Nearly half of all layoffs so far in 2025 have been driven by cuts related to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to slash government funding and reduce the size of the federal workforce, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
The report shows that “DOGE Actions” led to 283,172 job cuts in the first four months of 2025, and “DOGE Downstream Impact” was cited as the reason for another 6,945 job losses, which the report indicates largely come from non-profits and education organizations. Together, that accounts for 48 percent of all job cuts announced so far this year. The vast majority of job cuts related to “DOGE Actions” occurred in March, which saw 216,670 positions cut. Government job cuts last month also accounted for the vast majority of layoffs across all sectors, which totaled 275,240 in March. In April, job cuts attributed to DOGE plummeted, with just 2,919 announced cuts attributed to the government cost-cutting initiative spearheaded by tech billionaire Elon Musk.
But April still saw a high number of job cuts — 105,441 — the highest level since April 2020, which was the highest month ever recorded by the outplacement firm, which began reporting on job cuts in 1989. Reasons given for April cuts include “Market/Economic Conditions” and tariffs and restructuring. “Though the Government cuts are front and center, we saw job cuts across sectors last month. Generally, companies are citing the economy and new technology,” said Andrew Challenger, the firm’s senior vice president. “Employers are slow to hire and limiting hiring plans as they wait and see what will happen with trade, supply chain, and consumer spending.” Gross domestic product shrank during the first quarter of 2025 as a surge of imports ahead of President Trump’s tariffs, which he announced in March and later delayed for 90 days, hit economic growth calculations.
