The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made the announcement on March 26, revealing that the grant for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace” was worth a staggering $10 million in taxpayer dollars.
“Great work today by @USDOL @SecretaryLCD @Sonderling47 cancelling $577M in ‘America Last’ grants for $237M in savings,” the announcement posted to DOGE’s official X account read.
The post also listed several other examples of wasteful “America Last” grants that were canceled by the Labor Department, including $12.2 million for “worker empowerment in South America,” and $6.25 million for “improving respect for Worker’s rights in agricultural supply chains” in three countries: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
A $3 million grant for “safe and inclusive work environments” in Lesotho was also canceled, along with a $3 million grant to “enhance social security access and worker protections for internal migrant workers” in Bangladesh, a $4.3 million grant for “assisting foreign migrant workers” in Malaysia, and a $5 million grant for “elevating women’s participation in the workplace” in West Africa.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer also celebrated the new grant terminations in a post on X, writing: “The era of Americans’ tax dollars bankrolling foreign handouts for things like “Improving Gender Equity in the Mexican Workplace” is over. We just saved $237M, which will be used to reinvest into developing our workforce and protecting our children.”
This news comes as DOGE has already updated its savings leaderboard to reflect a staggering $130 billion in total estimated savings thus far, just over two months into President Donald Trump’s second term. According to DOGE’s website, the total estimated savings is a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.”
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