Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wasted no time beginning its purge of reckless government spending by shutting the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council, the world’s richest man revealed.
Musk shared a screenshot hours after President Trump’s inauguration Monday showing the website for the office responsible for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA was no longer working).
“It begins,” Musk wrote, while his DOGE’s official account added: “Progress.”
The CDOEC, part of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is “the principal interagency forum to implement and sustain a national strategy for DEIA across the Federal government and position the Federal government as a model for DEIA,” according its website.
DOGE’s action followed Trump’s promises to do away with diversity and inclusion agendas on his first day back in the White House.
His order asks senior officials in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the OPM to determine what programs need to be gutted.
“It asks for OMB and OPM to coordinate with the various agencies to terminate all discriminatory programs in the agencies — so that is going to include illegal DEI mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities,” the aide said.
Musk walked back on his initial claim that DOGE would be able to cut the roughly $6.75 trillion annual federal budget by $2 trillion — but was still confident he could find $1 trillion to slash.
