{"id":37096,"date":"2025-03-27T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/doge-slashes-billions-more-in-expenses-for-programs-like-peruvian-climate-change-and-gender-equity-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:42:29","slug":"doge-slashes-billions-more-in-expenses-for-programs-like-peruvian-climate-change-and-gender-equity-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/doge-slashes-billions-more-in-expenses-for-programs-like-peruvian-climate-change-and-gender-equity-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE slashes billions more in expenses for programs like Peruvian climate change and gender equity in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> (DOGE) announced it had terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion Tuesday, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities.<\/p>\n

“[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for \u2018Peru climate change activities,'” the department posted on X.<\/p>\n

DOGE also announced the Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in “America Last” grants, totaling $237 million in savings.<\/p>\n

The funding that was canceled included $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace,” $12.2 million for “worker empowerment in South America” and $6.25 million for “improving respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains” in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.<\/p>\n

DOGE SLASHES NEARLY $1M FOR ALPACA FARMING IN PERU, OTHER QUESTIONABLE GRANTS IN LATEST WASTEFUL SPENDING CUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Also eliminated was $5 million to elevate women\u2019s participation in the workplace in West Africa, $4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia, $3 million to enhance Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh and $3 million for safe and inclusive work environments in the southern African country of Lesotho.<\/p>\n

DOGE, led by Elon Musk,<\/a> is a temporary organization within the White House created via executive order earlier this year.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> tasked the organization with optimizing the federal government, streamlining operations and slashing spending and gave the agency 18 months to do it.<\/p>\n

OPM’S SECOND EMAIL TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASKS WHAT THEY DID LAST WEEK \u2014 AND ADDS A NEW REQUIREMENT: REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The department has canceled numerous diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at federal agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underused federal buildings and duplicate agencies and programs.<\/p>\n

As of March 26, DOGE claims on its site it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer.<\/p>\n

DOGE critics contend the organization has too much access to federal systems and should not be permitted to cancel federal contracts or make cuts to various agencies.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Eric Revell and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it had terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion Tuesday, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities. “[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for \u2018Peru … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}