DOGE cancelled a $349,000 grant to replace a museum’s HVAC after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, court documents show

The Trump administration’s efforts to slash diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives left another acronym on the chopping block: one museum’s $350,000 grant to replace its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.

Court documents from a recent lawsuit reveal the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashed more than $100 million in projected funding distributed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), about half the agency’s yearly budget, on the basis of projects relating to DEI. DOGE employees tasked with overseeing the cuts, Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh, used ChatGPT to determine if proposals pertained to DEI efforts, filings show.

The American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Authors Guild filed a joint motion earlier this month arguing DOGE violated First Amendment rights and the Constitution’s equal protection clause by cuts made through illegal control of the NEH. Cancelling grants and funding on the basis of DEI constitutes discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, and other qualities, the organizations claimed.

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“BuT ThE ExEcuTivE OrDer SaiD DEI aNd ChAtGpT sAid It WaS OkAy…”

Lock up Elon and every one of his doge kids. They broke the law and they need to face consequences.

For every grant dollar the economy generates $2.50 ish. Elon is a poster child cuck this system. Epstine class for the win.

So HVAC is woke DEI now

Get rid of the republican congress thieves, stealing daily

Saw an acronym and thought those gays don’t need anymore money.

Not that it justifies this, but they were probably just trying to hurt the museums because they have displays that doge would consider “pro-DEI”. If the grants had been for toilet paper they probably still would have cancelled them.

So there is method to the madness. But the madness is still racist and fascist.

Isn’t it funny how quiet Musk has been lately.

The world is being run by spoiled children and he’s off pretending he doesn’t suck

When you lack intelligence so you rely on an artificial one.

Probably the butter museum hahahaa.

To be fair, it was bi… it ran AC/DC.

We got screwed so hard by musky and his entourage of criminals.

I clicked on the website and what a shitty experience I had, was too many popups and ads, oh well in a year it will mostly bots talking to bots anyway.

This is the AI the Pentagon has chosen to use for autonomous weapons. Let that sink in.

So musk went in there to test his ai on the bureaucracy on the country? Do I understand this correctly?

They were so incompetent. They saved no money and flagged HVACS as DEI while costing thousands and thousands of people their jobs, and killing thousands and thousands more by cutting US Aid.