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JUST IN: DOGE Reveals Its Next Target, Announces Billions In New Cuts

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March 27, 2025

A new horizon has manifested for the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, this time targeting more “woke” overseas initiatives that slipped by its first pass of agencies like USAID.

Within the first month of the second Trump administration, the newly formed cost-cutting department gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development, a sprawling network of more than 10,000 employees stationed at outposts around the globe and buttressed by a $40 billion annual budget. Along the way, DOGE and advisor Elon Musk held up their examples of wasteful spending by the agency, including millions of dollars on line items such as “gender equality and women empowerment hubs” and “biodiversity conversations.”

In those same veins of progressive policymaking, other federal agencies have been found to be performing many of the same functions, DOGE announced on Tuesday.

“Tuesday, agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'” the department posted on X.

In addition, DOGE announced that the U.S. Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in “America Last” grants, saving taxpayers approximately $237 million.

Fox News reports that some of the terminated programs include:

$10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace”;
$12.2 million for “worker empowerment in South America”; and,
$6.25 million for “improving respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains” in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Other USDOL programs targeted for closure include:

$5 million to elevate women’s participation in the workplace in West Africa;
$4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia;
$3 million to enhance Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh; and,
$3 million for safe and inclusive work environments in the southern African country of Lesotho.

Under Musk, DOGE is now in its third month of conducting cost-cutting reviews across the federal government. As a special employee, the Tesla founder has been granted 18 months by President Trump to turn every bureaucracy inside out, shaking the proverbial piggy bank in a self-stated bid to save taxpayers more than $1 trillion in its first year.

A significant portion of the savings are expected to be routed back into a permanent extension of President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, currently under debate in the U.S. House. Any leftover savings may wind up in the form of direct checks to Americans, a possibility the president has deemed a “DOGE dividend.”

Searching for overseas savings has proven to be a lucrative hiding spot for Trump and Musk to explore. In addition to DOGE’s work, the president has promised to launch a new External Revenue Service tasked with recouping lost costs owed by other nations. His ongoing tariff wars with China, Mexico, and Canada are intended to level the U.S. trading deficit, returning savings back to Americans in the form of greater domestic production and employment.