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DOGE announces $881M in cuts for Education Department
Quick Hit:
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced $881 million in cuts to Education Department contracts, targeting diversity training and research programs.
Key Details:
- About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were terminated.
- The cuts include 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training grants worth $101 million.
- The move comes as President Trump is expected to issue an executive order to wind down the Education Department.
Diving Deeper:
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) confirmed Monday night that it had cut $881 million in Education Department contracts, marking a major step in the Trump administration’s plan to restructure the agency. The cuts target nearly 170 contracts, including several linked to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the department’s research division.
Among the terminations are 29 grants related to diversity, equity, and inclusion training, which collectively totaled $101 million. One of the grants aimed to train teachers on how to help students “interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression” and recognize “areas of privilege and power,” according to DOGE’s statement.
The American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit specializing in social science studies, confirmed that it received multiple termination notices for IES contracts on Monday. “The money that has been invested in research, data, and evaluations that are nearing completion is now getting the taxpayers no return on their investment,” said Dana Tofig, a spokesperson for AIR. He argued that the terminated research was essential to evaluating which federal education programs are effective.
The cuts coincide with President Trump’s expected executive order to wind down the Education Department, a long-standing conservative policy goal. Meanwhile, Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, is set to testify before Congress on Thursday.
The Education Department and DOGE have yet to comment on the specifics of the terminations. However, the move signals a clear shift in priorities, with the administration pushing to reduce federal involvement in education spending, particularly in programs aligned with progressive social initiatives.
USAID wasn’t just funding biased reporting. They were actively reshaping foreign governments.
Former State Department official Mike Benz, an expert on cyber policy, censorship, and information warfare, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience Wednesday and dropped jaw-dropping insights into USAID’s absurd abuse of US tax dollars.
According to Benz, USAID has been funneling taxpayer dollars into so-called investigative journalism, but the real goal isn’t transparency—it is control.
“Everything they do is a hit piece about an instance of corruption that can be used by prosecutors in the area to arrest the political opponents of the State Department,” Benz explained.
USAID’s program, officially called Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting, claims to promote a free press. But Benz revealed its true purpose is to ruin people’s lives and go after political targets in order to change the policies of foreign governments from the inside.
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For a mere investment of $20 million, USAID’s state-sponsored hit pieces were able to:
• Generate at least $4.5 billion in fines against targets of these hit pieces.
• Influence over 548 policy changes across foreign governments and private sectors.
USAID justified these programs under the term “capacity building,” which Benz warned is a red flag. “Now, this is the phrase everybody has to know. Capacity building is what this is all built under. That means pumping up the Blob’s assets,” he explained.
And USAID wasn’t just funding biased reporting. They were actively reshaping foreign governments. Benz revealed 548 policy changes resulted from these state-sponsored media attacks, which he suggested were for the “furtherance of USAID’s or the State Department’s foreign policy goals.”
Think about what that means. The U.S. government is secretly funding media outlets to push narratives, destroy political opponents, and manipulate foreign policy, all under the guise of investigative journalism.
The question is – if they’re doing this overseas, how much of it is happening at home?
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From LifeSiteNews
Pierre Poilievre promised that a new base in the Arctic would be ‘up and running within two years’ after he becomes prime minister and that the money to do so will come from cutting ‘foreign aid.’
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre vowed that he would cut Canadian foreign aid given to “global” organizations and other groups worldwide should his party form the next government.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday in Iqaluit, Nunavit, about his plans for the nation’s Arctic defences, Poilievre said that funding of future bases will “100 percent” come out “of our foreign aid budget.”
“In fact, today’s announcement will actually reduce the deficit because I plan to cut foreign aid more than the full cost of the announcement that I’ve made today,” he said.
Poilievre promised that a new base in the Arctic would be “up and running within two years” after he becomes prime minister and that the money to do so will come from cutting “foreign aid.”
“Let me be clear: the Canadian Arctic belongs to Canadians, and Canadians will take back control of their Arctic waters, Arctic skies, and Arctic land,” he said.
“All of these improvements will be funded by dramatically cutting foreign aid, most of which or a lot of which goes to dictators, terrorists, and global bureaucracies.”
Poilievre said the cuts in foreign aid are needed because Canada has “enough problems at home.”
“We’ve got our own backyard to protect. We can’t be sending billions of dollars to other places, often, and much of it is wasted and stolen and swallowed up by bureaucracies that act against our interest,” he added.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) the government arm that doles out money to foreign aid projects, with a similar mandate to America’s now-embattled United States Agency for International Development (USAID), was exposed for funding several pro-LGBT and other woke projects. In fact, a GAC spokesperson recently boasted it has promoted an “inclusive, intersectional, transformative” foreign “feminist” policy for as long as Justin Trudeau has been prime minister.
When looking through the archives, some projects funded by GAC include $6,806,618.19 for “ensuring meaningful engagement through reform for gender equality” and $2,658,050 for “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Disaster Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Groups such as the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has said funding must be drastically slashed to GAC’s budget.
As reported by LifeSiteNews last week, Conservative MP Shuv Majumdar alleged that GAC had “wiped” its searchable public database “clean,” effectively “hiding where your taxpayer dollars are going,” which includes spending millions on pro-LGBT and DEI initiatives across the world.
GAC denied this was the case for the reason its database was unsearchable. As of press time, GAC notes that while its database is now working it is still having “performance slowdowns.”
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