At President Donald Trump's direction, the newly christened Department of Government Efficiency has been rooting out examples of waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars in departments and agencies across the federal government, and some of what has been uncovered has been both shocking and infuriating.

One particularly egregious example involves approximately $67 million in grant money set aside by the Environmental Protection Agency during the prior Biden-Harris administration to help fund their "environmental justice" mandate, according to the New York Post.

Those funds, which were destined for distribution to various leftist activist groups and universities, have now been shut down by DOGE and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

$67 million in canceled grants

In an X post on Saturday that linked to the New York Post's report, the EPA's Zeldin wrote, "UPDATE: I just canceled another 21 wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants, with the help of our amazing @DOGE team, racking up $67M more in savings!"

Per the article, the EPA and DOGE recently identified 21 questionable grants totaling more than $77 million, of which more than $67 million had not yet been distributed and have now been canceled.

That includes more than $12 million of the $16 million earmarked for the Vermont-based Institute of Sustainable Communities in a pair of grants to fund a "National Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center."

Also canceled was more than $4 million of a $5.1 million grant for the San Diego State University Foundation to help provide "environmental justice" for "tribal, indigenous, and Pacific Island communities" that have historically been "underserved."

Nearly $25 million more in undistributed grant funds were canceled for a trio of environmentalist activist groups based in Baltimore, Maryland, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Restoring accountability and "fiscal responsibility"

In a statement to the Post, Zeldin said, "We will make sure every penny spent by EPA goes towards protecting human health and the environment, and Powering the Great American Comeback," and added, "I am proud to partner with DOGE to restore fiscal responsibility and accountability in our government."

Also heralding this discovery and the broader efforts of DOGE beyond just the EPA was Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), who told the outlet, "For four years, the Biden Administration irresponsibly spent taxpayer dollars like drunken sailors."

The congresswoman added, "The days of wasteful bureaucratic spending on woke pet projects are over. Tax dollars must serve hard-working Americans and protect our nation’s future."

Tens of billions saved so far

The announced cancelation of more than $67 million in "environmental justice" grants by the Biden-Harris EPA comes a little more than a week after EPA chief Zeldin revealed that he'd found roughly $20 billion in EPA grant funds that had been shifted at the last moment to an unnamed outside financial institution, presumably to negate or reduce effective oversight of where those funds ended up.

Billions of dollars more have also been identified and cut by the EPA for other shady grants and dubious contracts, and Zeldin has made it clear that he intends to continue working with DOGE to find additional savings for taxpayers.

As for DOGE's efforts more broadly, it claims on its website that, as of last Monday, it had already saved at least $55 billion for taxpayers by way of "a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings."