The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has found close to $1 billion in savings by eliminating DEI programs in America and abroad. On Inauguration day, President Donald Trump signed executive orders dismantling inherently discriminatory DEI practices in the government and private sector.
Courts have ruled in President Trump’s favor that efforts to eliminate DEI policies and programs in the federal government may go into effect despite the efforts of far-left groups hoping to retain DEI programs.
Why is DEI so harmful? DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is an ideology rooted in Marxist and Communist theory embedding racism, sexism, and many other ‘-isms’ into all levels of society and institutions. At its root, DEI removes merit and capability from the measure of a person and reduces them to their immutable characteristics such as sex, race, and ethnic background.
Wai Wah Chin wrote in a paper entitled, The Equity Delusion and Its Marxist Roots, “(DEI) just rehashes communism’s slogan, “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” which dates back to before Karl Marx. Equity, in this context, demands that we confiscate and redistribute, all while employing discrimination to achieve its ends.”
The United States worked very hard to pass the Civil Rights Act and move beyond the stain of slavery. There was a time when institutional and societal racism and sexism was not just the norm, but was codified into law.
DEI works directly against the victories of the Civil Rights Movement by implementing more racism now to combat what they perceive as latent effects of racism from the distant past.
Trump’s efforts to remove this new DEI stain are moving ahead with full force.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said on X recently, EPA “cancelled more than 400 DEI grants across nine unnecessary programs totaling $1.7 billion in savings for the American people.”
“Working hand-in-hand with DOGE to rein in wasteful federal spending, EPA has saved more than $2 billion in taxpayer money,” said Zeldin. “It is our commitment at EPA to be exceptional stewards of tax dollars.”
In recent days, over $373 million in DEI grants were removed from the Department of Education (DOE) alone including over 70 DEI training programs. The DOE sent a letter to all 50 states ordering them to remove DEI programs or risk loss of federal funding. The letter said, “Overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this nation’s educational institutions” will not continue or be tolerated.
“The law is clear: treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal under controlling Supreme Court precedent,” the letter reads.
DEI grants from the DOE funded courses and workshops on DEI concepts—including ‘white privilege,’ ‘systemic racism,’ and ‘linguistic supremacy’—as well as the establishment of a ‘social justice’ center.
DOGE isn’t just finding DEI programs embedded into American educational institutions, taxpayers funds have been spent overseas on DEI. One example, $45 million was spent on DEI scholarships in Burma.
Trump promises to eliminate DEI across the nation and allow people to compete and excel based on their own merit and choices not on physical characteristics they were simply born with.