There’s a famous line from “The Terminator” where one of the characters fighting the robot assassin from the future says, “It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”
I feel you could apply a similar line to the Department of Government Efficiency, except you’d replace “until you are dead!” with “until you are really, really efficient!”
In their latest move, they slashed almost $1 billion from the bloated Department of Education, including almost $100 million in DEI projects that don’t actually improve students’ knowledge of reading, writing, science, and math.
The DOGE reports:
Also today, the Department Of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm.
One contractor was paid $1.5mm to “observe mailing and clerical…