Pentagon officials and members of Elon Musk's Doge team have identified roughly $80 million in fat that can be trimmed on the Pentagon, the agency announced Monday.
Hodge Podge of numerous programs and costs, including diversity equity and inclusion initiatives in the chopping block, rattles off by Chief Dodd spokesman Shawn Parnell In a social media post.
The Air Force has allocated nearly $2 million for comprehensive DEI transformation and training and defense personnel efforts that provide DOD personnel data management and analysis, and spent $3.5 million to support the DEI group, he said.
Another $6 million flowed into the University of Montana, strengthening American democracy by bridging the division, and the University of Florida received $1.6 million to study the social and institutional determinants of vulnerability and resilience in the African Sahel region.
The University of Florida program is supported by a grant from the Minerva Research Initiative, launched by DOD in 2008. It funds research to better understand regions around the world “strategically important to the US”, schools I said it online.
In a message Monday, Parnell revealed that the programs he listed were “not a core function of our military.”
“This is not what we're doing, it's a distraction from our core mission,” said the former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger.
He said the initial findings revealed by the DOD and government efficiency would save about $80 million in wasted spending, and more cuts would come.
“We're grooming along with Doge, so look forward to a few weeks in advance to trim fat, preserve muscle and make DoD more missions more deadly and fatal,” Parnell vowed.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegses previously said he welcomed the mask team into the pentagon and identified unnecessary spending.
“HQ has waste, redundancy and personnel that need to be addressed,” he said.
