The government’s Department of Efficiency (DOGE) has announced a $51 million cut from the US African Development Foundation. This includes hundreds of thousands of dollars and mango drying facilities for the marketing of shea butter and pineapple juice.
Doge made an announcement on X, highlighting several initiatives that have been put into the money.
For example, $229,296 was used to sell 100% organic sea butter in Burkina Faso. $246,217 was spent on a mango drying facility in Ivory Coast. $239,738 was spent on marketing Benin’s pineapple juice.
The department also said $99,566 was spent on increasing yogurt production in Uganda. $84,059 was spent on a business incubator for spas and wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria. $50,000 was spent training farmers on how to grow dragon fruit in Senegal. $48,406 was spent on WhatsApp Marketing Chatbot in Kenya.
Doge helps save nearly $33 million on the Coast Guard by eliminating “ineffective IT programs”
Doge has won a $51 million cut from the US African Development Foundation, including $229,000 used to sell organic sea butter at Burkina Faso. (John Wessels/AFP)
Leading by Elon Musk, Doge is a temporary organization within the White House created by executive order earlier this year.
President Donald Trump has given the organization 18 months to do it, tasked with optimizing the federal government, streamlining its operations and reducing spending.
Doge cuts the costs of programs such as climate change and gender equity in Peru, Mexico, to billions of dollars
Later last month, Doge shared that it had terminated 113 $4.7 billion contracts, including USDA (USDA) consulting contracts worth $145,000 for Peruvian climate change activities.
Doge has significantly reduced nearly $1 million for Peru’s alpaca farming, and other suspicious grants in the latest wasted spending cuts
Elon Musk’s Tesla showroom location faces repeated protests against his role in the Doge. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The cancelled funds included $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace,” $12.2 million for “South American Worker Empowerment,” and $6.25 million for “improving respect for workers’ rights in the agricultural supply chain” in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The department has cancelled numerous Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives with federal agencies, consulting agreements, leases of underused federal buildings, and replication agencies and programs.
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As of Monday, Doge claims it saved Americans $140 billion, or about $870 per taxpayer, on its site.
Greg Wehner is a news reporter for Fox News Digital.
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