Washington elites love to spend your money. It’s practically a sport for them. While hardworking Americans tighten their belts, federal agencies have been on a shopping spree that would make even the most dedicated mall-rat blush. And they weren’t just buying paperclips and printer toner.

The swamp creatures in D.C. spent the last four years building a government that prioritizes ideology over efficiency. Remember when government agencies focused on their actual missions instead of forcing employees to sit through endless training sessions about their “unconscious biases”? Those were the days. Democrats never met a social engineering program they didn’t want to fund with your tax dollars.

The Trillion-Dollar Ideology

A bombshell study just revealed the staggering scope of ideological capture in our federal government under the Biden administration. Researchers identified a whopping 460 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs spread across 24 government agencies, with taxpayers footing a bill of over $1 trillion.

The comprehensive study, conducted by the Functional Government Initiative and the Center for Renewing America, meticulously documents how DEI principles infiltrated nearly every corner of the federal bureaucracy. This follows the classic Democrat playbook: create a crisis, throw money at it, then create more bureaucracy to manage the money.

From ‘Fox News’:
“The cumulative budget of these programs exceeds $1.1 trillion,” the report says. “However, this figure does not encompass all DEI-related expenditures, nor does it include every program across these agencies. The findings reveal a substantial increase in DEI spending, largely attributable to policy directives under the Biden administration.”

This isn’t just spare change found in the government’s couch cushions. We’re talking about serious money that could have fixed our crumbling infrastructure, strengthened our military, or simply been left in taxpayers’ pockets where it belongs.

The study categorized these programs based on their DEI focus: 10 programs exclusively dedicated to DEI (ripe for immediate elimination), 144 allocating significant resources to DEI initiatives, and 306 incorporating DEI to varying degrees.

DEI’s Government Takeover

Want examples of how your tax dollars were wasted? Look no further than our national defense. The Defense Department apparently thought it was more important to “integrate environmental/economic justice tools” than focus on, you know, defending America.

Not to be outdone, FEMA decided it needed to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.” Because when your house is underwater during a flood, what you really care about is whether the rescue team has completed their sensitivity training.

The Labor Department pushed to “embed equity in a sustainable manner that recognizes the multiple and overlapping identities held by workers.” Whatever that means. Translation: spend millions on consultants to create PowerPoints about pronouns instead of helping actual workers find jobs.

One particularly egregious example: while Americans struggled with inflation, Biden’s administration spent $40 million on a DEI program at the Treasury Department – the very agency that should be focused on our economic stability. Talk about misplaced priorities!

Wade Miller, Senior Advisor for the Center for Renewing America, didn’t mince words about the situation: “DEI is deeply rooted throughout all aspects of the federal government, and it needs to be eliminated completely.”

Trump’s Government Efficiency Push

President Trump wasted no time addressing this ideological capture of our government. On his first day back in office, he issued an executive order to eliminate what he called “radical and wasteful” DEI “programs and preferences” from the federal government. No ceremonial first 100 days – just immediate action to drain the swamp.

“The executive DOGE team is confident, they think they can get $1 trillion,” one lawmaker familiar with the meeting told Fox News Digital. “Now, we’ll see, right? And the thing is, he acknowledged that we’re going to make mistakes, but we’re going to correct them very quickly.”

The study authors have offered their report as a resource for the Trump administration to “identify, destroy, and permanently remove DEI from the federal government.” Strong language, perhaps, but fitting for the scale of the problem. Unlike the previous administration, there will be accountability for every dollar spent.

Roderick Law, spokesman for FGI, explained why this matters: “The nature of DEI is both divisive and anti-American, so why force it onto the military or the Commerce Department or the EPA?”

Key Takeaways:

• The Biden administration embedded 460 DEI programs across 24 government agencies, costing taxpayers over $1 trillion.
• Critical agencies like Defense, FEMA, and Labor were forced to prioritize ideological initiatives over their core missions.
• President Trump and the DOGE initiative are working to eliminate wasteful DEI programs and restore government efficiency.

Sources: Fox News, The Center for Renewing America, Yahoo News