Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Newsmax on Monday that the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts, led by Elon Musk, to streamline the federal government by eliminating waste and fraud have been “historic and unprecedented.”

Federal government expenditures declined 5.1% for the first quarter of this year, and DOGE reported April 29 that in the previous three weeks, the Department of Agriculture terminated 420 grants totaling $2.5 billion, resulting in $2.3 billion in savings.

Included in those grants were $150,000 for “gender lensed curricula designed to be transdisciplinary in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences”; $100,000 for “climate resilience and sustainable agriculture in Ghana”; and $361,000 for “gender nonconforming, nonbinary, two-spirit” Black, Indigenous, and people of color farmers in New York.

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