In a deposition video from January, which recently went viral, DOGE employee Nate Cavanaugh said cost-cutting efforts fell far short of its original $2 trillion goal. The deposition was part of a larger lawsuit filed by the American Council of Learned Societies, a nonprofit consortium of scholarly institutions, alleging DOGE used OpenAI's ChatGPT to identify and then cancel more than $100 million in diversity, equity, and inclusion grants.
"You don't regret that people might have lost important income…to support their lives?" one attorney asked Cavanaugh regarding the grant cancellations.
"No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero," said Cavanaugh, who is also the founder of AI-powered accounting firm Flow Finance.
"Did you reduce the federal deficit?" the attorney asked.
"No, we didn't," Cavanaugh replied.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fortune's request for comment.
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