Over a period of two days, 239 “waste” contracts with a “ceiling value” of $ 1.7 billion was terminated, the Ministry of Government (DOGE) said on Thursday, including a subsidy intended to teach transgender and queer urban farmers on “food justice”.
The elimination of contracts represents a saving of $ 400 million, according to a Tweet Doge published on X.
Among them, there was a consulting contract of $ 8.5 million for “budgetary stewardship to improve the management and operations of the program in order to stimulate innovation and improve the efficiency and efficiency of business services; Remestant, realign and reskill the workforce; And improve the program service thanks to a certain number of transformational initiatives ”.
DOGE demonstrators gather outside the key department after employees should not go to work
Elon Musk speaks during an event at the Oval Office with President Donald Trump at the White House on February 11. (Images AP)
On Tuesday, DOGE announced that the National Institutes of Health had canceled several federal subsidies linked to trans and sexual identity. These include $ 699,000 to study “cannabis consumption” among “se
DOGE and agencies cancel 200,000 credit cards from the federal government
Under President Donald Trump, the DOGE led by Elon Musk reduced billions in what he considers unnecessary public spending. (Musque: Reuters / Money: Istock / Trump: Getty)
Another included $ 225,000 in federal funds for the University of Colorado in order to study the “effects of hormones on headaches among transmasculin adolescents”.
On Wednesday, the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, noted that a subsidy of $ 379,000 US Department of Agriculture in the San Francisco Bay region to educate urban farmers and consumers of food justice and trans and bipoc values on food justice and aligned values.
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“By arresting these unnecessary expenses here at USDA, we end the identity policy and we will refocus our agency on its main mission to support American agriculture, breeding and forestry,” she said in a video message.