The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) terminated former Biden administration-era contracts worth millions of dollars.
Seventy-eight contracts ended, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced. The contracts totaled to $132 million.
Several of the terminated contracts included, as listed by the USDA:
- $2.77 million for media contracts
- $374,000 for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Onboarding Specialist
- $254,000 to hold Diversity Dialogue Workshops
- $298,000 for International Development for Historically Underrepresented Communities
- $229,000 on a Brazilian Forest and Gender Consultant
- $121,000 on a Women and Forest Carbon Initiative Mentorship Program
- $91,000 for African and Middle Eastern and Latin America and Caribbean Regions for training, education, and access to professional and economic opportunities for women and increasing their participation in climate change adaptation activities
- $29,000 for a Central American Gender Assessment Consultant
- $33,000 for a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Utility Van
- $11,000 for a Hawaii conference room rental for 100-person USDA Meeting on Biodiversity
“I welcome DOGE’s efforts at USDA because we know that its work makes us better, stronger, faster, and more efficient. I will expect full access and transparency to DOGE in the days and weeks to come,” Rollins told USDA staffers.
The USDA further identified and ended 948 employee trainings. Of those, 758 involved diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Other trainings pertained to environmental justice and gender ideology.
Billions of “misplaced” dollars from the previous White House administration have been discovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process,” DOGE stated in a post on X, sharing screenshots of financial records. “These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. @SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury,” DOGE added.
Last week, DOGE found that FEMA spent nearly $60 million on illegal immigrants staying in luxury hotels.
