Dougie Ron Musk's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) immediately shut down the Chief Diversity Officer Executive Council and began a purge of reckless government spending, the world's richest man has revealed.
Hours after President Trump's inauguration on Monday, Musk shared a screenshot showing the website of the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA was no longer in effect).
“It's the beginning,” Musk wrote, while DOGE's official account added, “Progress.”
The CDOEC, part of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is the “primary interagency forum for implementing and sustaining the national DEIA strategy across the federal government and positioning the federal government as a model for DEIA.” listed on the website.
DOGE's action followed President Trump's promise to scrap his diversity and inclusion agenda on his first day back in the White House.
The president's order asks senior officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to determine which programs need to be eliminated.
“We are calling on OMB and OPM to work with various agencies to end all discriminatory programs within their agencies, including any unlawful DEI mandates, policies, programs, preferences, or activities. “It will be difficult for them to do so,” the aide said.
Musk walked back his initial claim that DOGE would save $2 trillion from the roughly $6.75 trillion annual federal budget, but remained confident he could find $1 trillion in savings.
President Trump nominated Musk to co-lead the meme-inspired agency with biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, but Ramaswamy later declined.
Musk will likely lead the cost-cutting project from an office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, although not in the West Wing, giving him close access to Trump. According to the New York Times.
DOGE expires on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
