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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled another round of cuts to programs Thursday worth $580 million that he claimed were either “wasteful” or didn’t align with the administration’s agenda.

With those cuts, Hegseth estimated that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found roughly $800 million in savings so far at the Pentagon.

“They are not a good use of taxpayer dollars — ultimately that’s who funds us and we owe you transparency and make sure we’re using it well,” Hegseth explained in an X video while briefly ticking through a few of the savings.

3 Pete Hegseth touted the cuts as part of his push to save taxpayer dollars. x/DODResponse

One of the cuts he listed was “an HR software effort” that went more than $280 million over budget and seven years behind schedule. The program was initially supposed to take one year to complete and cost $36 million, according to Hegseth.

The secretary also claimed that some $360 million worth of grants were excised.

Among these were grants to decarbonize missions undertaken by Navy ships, a $5.2 million diversity initiative “to engage BIPOC students and scholars” and about $9 million to help a university he declined to name to support “equitable AI and machine-learning models.”

“I need lethal machine-learning models, not equitable machine-learning models,”