Elon Musk’s DOGE wasting no time making DEI cuts: ‘It begins’

DOGEElon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wasted no time beginning its purge of reckless government spending by shutting the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council, the world’s richest man revealed.

Musk shared a screenshot hours after President Trump’s inauguration Monday showing the website for the office responsible for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA was no longer working.

“It begins,” Musk wrote, while his DOGE’s official account added: “Progress.”

The CDOEC, part of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is “the principal interagency forum to implement and sustain a national strategy for DEIA across the Federal government and position the Federal government as a model for DEIA,” according its website.

DOGE’s action followed Trump’s promises to do away with diversity and inclusion agendas on his first day back in the White House.

Elon Musk said “it begins” after DOGE appeared to announce OPM’s Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council was being shut down. REUTERS

DOGE announced that the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council was no longer working. @DOGE/X

His order asks senior officials in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to determine what programs need to be gutted.

“It asks for OMB and OPM to coordinate with the various agencies to terminate all discriminatory programs in the agencies — so that is going to include illegal DEI mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities,” the aide said.

Musk walked back on his initial claim that DOGE would be able to cut the roughly $6.75 trillion annual federal budget by $2 trillion — but was still confident he could find $1 trillion to slash.

Trump tapped Musk to co-head the meme-inspired agency alongside biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — but Ramaswamy later backed out.

Musk is likely to lead the cost-cutting project from an office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is in the White House complex although not in the West Wing, giving him close access to Trump, according to The New York Times.

DOGE will expire July 4, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.