White House highlights over $2B in savings from DEI cuts during Trump administration's first 100 days

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An investigation of the Trump administration's efforts to extremity diversity, equity and inclusion passim the national authorities during the president's archetypal 100 days successful bureau revealed that astir 750 DEI employees person been placed connected permission oregon fired for a savings of much than $2 billion.

The investigation provided by the White House showed that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education and the Department of Labor saw immoderate of the biggest savings. The trio of agencies fired oregon placed connected permission 256 DEI employees, redeeming taxpayers implicit $1.3 billion, the investigation noted.

Overall, the Trump medication fto spell of 745 employees moving successful DEI offices oregon connected DEI-related programs passim the authorities and saved taxpayers astir $2.33 billion. 

"President Trump ordered the extremity of extremist and racist DEI propaganda successful government, and the medication is swiftly enacting the president's order," White House main lawman communications manager Alex Pfeiffer told Fox News Digital. "Common consciousness has returned to government."

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President Donald Trump and a DEI book  (Getty Images)

In summation to savings and unit cuts, the White House's investigation highlighted the assorted grants that were slashed and different changes made arsenic a effect of the Trump administration's efforts to escaped the national authorities of DEI.

Those programs included race-based grants oregon quota programs astatine aggregate agencies and race-based promotion commitments. Multimillion-dollar grants for DEI grooming and DEI-focused activistic groups were besides among the cuts astatine astir agencies.

At the State Department, a $5 cardinal assistance to "strengthen organizational capableness enactment and interaction for mid-sized autonomous intersex and trans quality rights organizations" was cut. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) saved $1.7 cardinal by eliminating 4 years of DEI unit grooming connected topics ranging from "microaggressions" to "identifying and preventing racism successful your marketing." 

"You indispensable judge what has happened and what you person done," a narrator of 1 of the LinkedIn grooming sessions funded done these grants stated. "If you can’t judge what the marketplace is telling you, that this portion of contented is sexist, racist, homophobic … you can’t determination guardant arsenic a leader."  

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DEI-focused training, including immoderate   that was mandatory, was commonplace nether  the Biden administration, according to the White House's analysis. 

DEI-focused training, including immoderate that was mandatory, was commonplace nether the Biden administration, according to the White House's analysis.  (Istock; Getty Images)

Other USDA grants, according to the White House's analysis, spent wealth connected unit grooming aimed astatine "cultivat[ing] an Eye for Inequity," portion Trump medication unit besides recovered "DEI Bingo" cards near implicit from the Biden administration. The bingo cards included spaces to beryllium checked off, like, "I cognize what the ‘I’ successful LGBTQIA+ means" and "I person pronouns successful my signature line."

USDA besides dispersed race-based grants, specified arsenic wealth for "LATINX Growers" and "Black Women's Regenerative Farming," according to the White House analysis. The investigation besides indicated that the USDA spent $600,000 connected probe into the menstruation of biologic males and $361,000 to enactment queer and trans farmers.

Similar DEI-related materials were recovered astatine the Department of Education, including a achromatic committee with slug points astir race-centric priorities. Below the heading "Projects" was a slug constituent that said "Black antheral assets doc," portion "Goals of the Week" included "Tighten up Black Ed Roundtable" and "PAC pictures." Another container connected the whiteboard said, "Black antheral governmental appointees." 

The Education Department nether President Donald Trump has besides slashed grants promoting radical hiring quotas and galore teacher grooming sessions connected topics similar resisting "settler patriarchy" and however America's acquisition strategy is 1 of the "settler-colonial realities."

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Whiteboard astatine  Department of Education shows Biden admin's DEI priorities.

Various DEI priorities were written connected a whiteboard astatine the Department of Education erstwhile the caller Trump medication took over.  (White House/Department of Education)

According to the administration's investigation of its DEI cuts, astir 100 antisemitic incidents were near unresolved by the erstwhile Biden-Harris administration's Office of Civil Rights wrong the Education Department. According to the analysis, staffers successful the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights were besides told by the past medication to "sit on" a civilian rights ailment against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. 

The Biden medication besides reportedly neglected Freedom of Information Act requests astir its DEI efforts. The White House's investigation recorded arsenic galore arsenic 4,000 outstanding requests sent to the Department of Labor, which, nether President Joe Biden, promoted DEI-based hiring and mandatory grooming programs for staff.

The Health and Human Services Department besides saw steep cuts to DEI programs during Trump's archetypal 100 days. 

At the National Institutes of Health alone, over $350 cardinal successful DEI projects were slashed, including grants for studying "multilevel and multidimensional structural racism" and "gender-affirming hormone therapy successful mice," among others.

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The Health and Human Services Department saw steep cuts to DEI programs during Trump's archetypal 100 days. At the National Institutes of Health alone, implicit $350 cardinal successful DEI projects were slashed. (Getty Images; Fox News)

In summation to each the cuts, the Trump medication has taken steps to rectify the Biden administration's DEI focus. It ended DEI-related grooming courses wrong the DOT online learning absorption strategy and disabled an interior email diagnostic astatine the Department of Transportation that fto users database their pronouns. The medication did the aforesaid with different pronoun policies astatine different agencies.

The medication has besides taken proactive steps astatine different agencies, specified arsenic removing DEI criteria from much than 2,900 supervisory show standards astatine the Energy Department. At the Department of Interior, the agency's "DEIA Council" was terminated. It had a stated intent of embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles into "everything" the bureau does.

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Trump's crusade against DEI began connected the archetypal time of his 2nd presidency with an enforcement order, "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing." In the order, President Trump accused the Biden medication of forcing "illegal and immoral" DEI programs connected the American people. 

"This was a concerted effort stemming from President Biden’s archetypal time successful office," Trump's bid insisted. 

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