Millions for DEI and Climate: Here’s Where DOGE Found Waste and Abuse in Federal Grants

White House documents obtained The Daily Signal back up the Trump administration’s previous claims that the Department of Government Efficiency had unearthed large amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse.

The documents reveal that the Department of Defense paid $2.3 million “to support its virtual reality training course featuring a DEI avatar” at Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.

“In line with the command’s effort to incorporate digital-age technology across the command, the Leading Inclusively Virtual Experience, or LIVE, program is a modernized tool that consists of a mixed virtual reality experience that uses a combination of interactive scenarios with authentic, real-time dialogue to challenge individuals to engage in difficult diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) conversations,” the grant states.

Two million dollars for a virtual reality DEI avatar? Are you kidding me?

DOGE, a temporary agency headed by Elon Musk, aims to clean up the federal government ahead the July 4, 2026, deadline terminating the agency.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press Wednesday that the White House would provide screenshots of the contracts DOGE had unearthed that demonstrate the waste, fraud, and abuse it has uncovered in the federal government.

A source inside the White House provided documents to The Daily Signal demonstrating federal spending on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and climate change.

The DEI movement relies on critical race theory, the idea that America is systemically racist against black people and that racial preferences for minorities are essential to correct historic injustices. The Trump administration has rightly declared that DEI programs clearly violate civil rights laws by judging people on the basis of skin color.

The documents include a $36,126 contract from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training for leadership and supervisors who manage teams.” The document shows that, while the original contract only obligated USCIS to pay $12,000 for the DEI training, the “total contract value” reached three times that amount.

Another contract shows that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office paid $2.86 million for a “public relations firm contract” for the Council for Inclusive Innovation. The performance of the contract began in March 2023 and was scheduled to run into March 2026 before the Trump administration canceled it.

According to the Patent and Trademark Office, the Council for Inclusive Innovation grew from a report finding that “women and minorities are underrepresented as inventors and as patentees named on U.S.-granted patents.” The council aimed to “support a national strategy for increased participation of underrepresented groups in innovation.”

Another contract revealed that the U.S. Forest Service paid $35,338.58 for “Sri Lanka climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience coordinator services.” The contract started in September 2023 and ran until Jan. 30.

While it may be noble to pay for Sri Lanka, a country off the coast of India, to beef up its infrastructure to face natural disasters, this grant follows the logic of climate alarmism, which attributes any natural disaster to the supposed ill effects of human beings burning fossil fuels. Furthermore, Americans may be distraught to see their tax dollars funding such projects across the world, especially funds from the Forest Service, which should be taking care of America’s forests, not shoveling money to Sri Lanka.

Another contract revealed that the Department of Labor paid $4.1 million for “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) consultation services and training for the Job Corps program.” The contract started in June 2022 and the Trump administration terminated it on Jan. 22.

These grants represent a few isolated examples of the waste and abuse in the federal government.

DOGE has highlighted how one agency in particular, the U.S. Agency for International Development, has directed Americans’ tax dollars to promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and transgender orthodoxy internationally. USAID has often allied with the organization launched by notorious Hungarian American billionaire and left-wing donor George Soros, the Open Society Foundations. USAID has directed money to the same entities abroad that Open Society supports, and even feeds former USAID staff to the foundation.

Open Society, now run by Soros’ son Alex, is a major force in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” The book reveals how the Left’s dark money network funds a system of left-wing nonprofits that staffed and advised the Biden administration.

As the Capital Research Center’s Parker Thayer has revealed, USAID awarded more than $4.2 billion in grants to “miscellaneous foreign awardees.” USAID may censor the name of grant recipients for security purposes, but it strains credulity that the agency truly needs to hide the recipients of $4.2 billion of taxpayer funding.

President Donald Trump and DOGE currently face lawsuits from some of the same organizations I exposed in “The Woketopus,” particularly unions like the AFL-CIO and its affiliate, the American Federation of Government Employees.

Meanwhile, 64% of Washington, D.C.-based federal employees who voted for Kamala Harris say they won’t obey a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.

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