Pentagon Announces $80 Million in Savings From First DOGE Review

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Press secretary Sean Parnell said that DEI and climate change programs are โ€˜not a core function of our militaryโ€™ and constitute โ€˜a distraction.โ€™

The Department of Defense (DOD) has identified more than $80 million through Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team that it says is wasteful spending, a spokesperson confirmed on March 3.

In a video release on social media platform X, Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell said that some of the funding was primarily dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change programs.

โ€œThis stuff is not a core function of our military … this is a distraction,โ€ Parnell said. โ€œWe believe that these initial findings will probably save $80 million in wasteful spending.โ€

As examples, Parnell said that the U.S. Air Force allocated $1.9 million for โ€œholistic DEI transformation and training,โ€ $6 million went to the University of Montana to โ€œstrengthen American democracy,โ€ and $1.6 million went to the University of Florida to study โ€œsocial and institutional detriment of vulnerability in resilience to climate hazards in African Sahel.โ€

Parnell said that the DOD is working โ€œhand in gloveโ€ with DOGE to identify programs to pare back, with more cuts coming.

Created by President Donald Trump in an executive order in January, DOGE has gone from agency to agency to identify what it considers wasteful or abusive spending and to propose ways to downsize the federal workforce.

Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of the social platform X, has delivered regular updates on DOGEโ€™s work as well as warnings to federal employees through his X account, which has tens of millions of followers.

Over the weekend, Musk wrote that every federal agency is working with DOGE and confirmed that a second round of emails asking employees what they did in the last week was sent out.

For the State Department, the Pentagon, and several other agencies, โ€œsupervisors are gathering the weekly accomplishments on behalf of individual contributors,โ€ Musk wrote in a post on March 1.

Separately, Musk said that โ€œanyone working on classified or other sensitive matters is still required to respond if they receive the email, but can simply reply that their work is sensitive.โ€

An email that was sent to Pentagon civilian employees over the weekend and seen by The Epoch Times advised employees on how to respond to the โ€œwhat you did last weekโ€ email and directed them to respond within 48 hours.

โ€œA response to this email satisfies all OPM requirements for the past two weeks,โ€ the Pentagon email said.

Byย Jack Phillips

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