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# DOGE Slashes $370M in Education DEI Grants in 48 Hours
- URL: https://goodoil.news/doge-slashes-370m-in-education-dei-grants-in-48-hours/
- Published: 2025-02-19T00:30:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-19T00:30:23.000Z
- Description: The most recent round of spending cuts follows DOGE’s announcement of the termination of 89 additional DOE contracts worth $881 million.
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: USA Politics, Culture

[**DTNZ**](https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/doge-slashes-370m-in-education-dei-grants-in-48-hours/?ref=goodoil.news)

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has eliminated $373 million in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training grants from the US Department of Education, citing a commitment to cutting government spending.

Among the 70 terminated grants was $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop a Cambodian youth enterprise programme.

The move follows DOGE’s broader crackdown on DEI-related funding, including the recent termination of $881 million in Department of Education contracts.

Additionally, state education departments have been ordered to remove DEI policies within 14 days or risk losing federal funding, reinforcing a stricter stance against race-based initiatives in education.

One grant was reportedly funding training for teachers to “engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets”, the cost-cutting department said.

The most recent round of spending cuts follows DOGE’s announcement of the termination of 89 additional DOE contracts worth $881 million, including over $100 million allocated to DEI grants.

This article was originally published by the [Daily Telegraph New Zealand](https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/doge-slashes-370m-in-education-dei-grants-in-48-hours/?ref=goodoil.news).