Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency slashed millions in contracts and grants at the Education Department.
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During the first two months of the second Trump administration, the Education Department slashed $1.3 billion in contracts and terminated $504 million in grants, according to a new report from the agency’s inspector general.
The 91-page report, released Tuesday, provides a more complete accounting of how the billions in federal spending cuts made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency played out at the Education Department from Jan. 20 to March 31, 2025.
“I fought for this report because Americans deserve to know what Donald Trump is doing to gut education in this country,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement to Inside Higher Ed.
