The Department of Government Efficiency announced Thursday that 239 contracts “wasted” with “ceiling values” of $ 1.7 billion were terminated over two days. This included a grant to educate transgender urban farmers and those who identify as queer about the concept of “food justice.”
According to a DOGE Tweet posted on X, the elimination of these contracts will save $400 million.
One of them was an $8 million contract with a consulting firm for “fiscal management to improve program and management operations to drive innovation, improve efficiency and effectiveness and business services. Rethink, realign, and skill the workforce. Enhance program delivery by implementing a variety of transformational projects.”
DOGE announced on Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had canceled several federal grants relating to sexuality and transgender identity. DOGE reported that $699,000 was allocated to study “cannabis usage” by “sexual minorities gender diverse individuals”, and $620,000 went towards “a LGB+ inclusive teenage pregnancy prevention program” for transgender males.
The federal government also provided $225,000 to the University of Colorado for the study of “the effects of hormones on the headaches of transmasculine teenagers.”
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had canceled a grant of $379,000 in San Francisco Bay Area for educating queer, BIPOC and trans urban farmers about values-aligned market and food justice.
In a video, she stated, “By stopping these wasteful expenditures here at USDA, we are ending the identity politics, and we will refocus our agency on its mission to support American agriculture, ranching, and forestry.”
