DOGE cuts $51M from US African Development Foundation, including $229K to market shea butter

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced $51 cardinal successful cuts from the U.S. African Development Foundation, which included hundreds of thousands of dollars for selling shea food and pineapple juice, arsenic good arsenic mango drying facilities.

DOGE made the announcement connected X, highlighting respective initiatives the wealth was enactment toward.

For instance, $229,296 was utilized to marketplace 100% integrated shea food successful Burkina Faso; $246,217 was spent connected mango drying facilities successful the Ivory Coast; and $239,738 was spent connected selling pineapple foodstuff successful Benin.

The section besides said $99,566 was spent to summation yogurt accumulation successful Uganda; $84,059 was spent connected a concern incubator for spa and wellness entrepreneurs successful Nigeria; $50,000 was spent to bid farmers however to turn dragon effect successful Senegal; and $48,406 was spent connected a WhatsApp selling chatbot successful Kenya.

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DOGE made $51 cardinal successful cuts from the U.S. African Development Foundation, including $229K utilized to marketplace integrated shea food successful Burkina Faso. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

DOGE, led by Elon Musk, is simply a impermanent enactment wrong the White House created via enforcement bid earlier this year.

President Donald Trump tasked the enactment with optimizing the national government, streamlining operations and slashing spending and gave the bureau 18 months to bash it.

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Late past month, DOGE shared that it had terminated 113 contracts valued astatine $4.7 billion, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting declaration valued astatine $145,000 for Peru clime alteration activities.

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Elon Musk's Tesla showroom locations person faced repeated protests implicit his relation successful DOGE.  (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The backing that was canceled besides included $10 cardinal for "gender equity successful the Mexican workplace," $12.2 cardinal for "worker empowerment successful South America" and $6.25 cardinal for "improving respect for workers' rights successful cultivation proviso chains" successful the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

The section has canceled galore diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives astatine national agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underused national buildings and duplicate agencies and programs.

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As of Monday, DOGE claims connected its tract that it has saved Americans $140 billion, oregon astir $870 per taxpayer.