Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) keep on racking up the wins for the American taxpayers. The latest? They've identified $370 million in cuts from the Department of Education earmarked for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) horse squeeze. 

If that's not a waste of the taxpayer's money, there's no telling what is.

In just 48 hours, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashed a whopping $370 million in taxpayer dollars being spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the Department of Education.

DOGE, the newly formed department led by Elon Musk to purge spending by the federal government, revealed in a post on X that they terminated 70 DEI training grants within the department.

According to DOGE, the grants totaled $373 million.

One grant was reportedly funding training for teachers to "engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets," the cost-cutting department said.

Cast your optics over that last sentence; that's not one of the biggest loads of bureaucratic double-speak to issue forth from the Deep State. It's difficult to ascertain any real meaning from that word salad, other than "We're going to use racist tactics to show you how racist you are."

Yes, this richly deserves to be cut from the budget.

But wait! There's more!

Over the past several weeks, DOGE has announced the canceling of various streams of funding to DEI in education, including $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills."

The latest spending sweep comes just days after DOGE announced the termination of another 89 DOE contracts totaling $881 million, which included more than $100 million in DEI grants.

It is belaboring the obvious to note that a taxpayer-funded program aimed at one identifiable ethnicity - Cambodians, in this case - is a severe violation of the principle of equal treatment under the law - or, in this case, in a tax-supported education institution. What government does for anyone it must do for everyone or it must do for no one. Besides, honestly, how much faith should we have in UC Berkeley, these days, being able to determine what "enterprise-driven skills" even are?

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The Department of Education (ED) honestly should be on the chopping block altogether. Not only is there no constitutional authority for it to exist, but the standard test scores for American kids in reading, writing, and math have gotten worse since the ED was founded in 1980. This identification of $370 million in DEI grants is, yes, a victory for American taxpayers and the fiscal picture of the federal government, but it's only the beginning of what needs to be done.

We got along fine without the ED before 1980. Clearly, it's failing. Even more clearly, it's spending our money on the kind of stuff one shovels out of stables. There's no reason to keep it as part of the federal government. Education should be solely the province of state and local governments.