Musk: Education Department has made most 'progress with efficiency'
Elon Musk, the head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), released a table Tuesday showing the Department of Education has made the most “progress with efficiency.”
“The league table of which departments in the US government have made the most or least progress with efficiency,” Musk said in a post on the social platform X, which he owns.
The top five government agencies that Musk said have made the most progress are the Education Department, the General Services Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Labor and the Office of Personnel Management.
DOGE claims in total to have saved $65 billion in “a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings.”
One of the biggest contracts for the Education Department that was canceled, according to the list, went to the American Institute for Research and was focused on “effectiveness of transition supports for youth with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).”
The list comes as a judge recently ruled for DOGE to lose access to some of the Education Department’s servers that have sensitive student information.
DOGE has touted for weeks changes made at the department, with the most contracts canceled at the Institute for Education Sciences, with advocates decrying risks to teachers and students.
The Education Department has likely been a big target of DOGE due to President Trump's desire to see the department completely eliminated one day.
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