(The Center Square) – Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will take over a new effort to make the government more efficient.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, is a government efficiency effort that has turned a public spotlight onto government waste and duplication in a way not done for years.
While journalists and nonprofits have been writing about examples of government waste during that time, very little of it actually got much attention.
Musk created a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) account on X where he is asking followers for suggestions.
Aside from lopping off entire agencies, here are some examples of controversial federal spending that, based on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent comments, could be in the line of fire for coming cuts:
Billions to maintain office buildings, many of which are empty as employees work from home.
$6 million for United States Agency for International Development to boost tourism in Egypt.
$400 million of taxpayer dollars for presidential campaigns.
$2.6 million in taxpayer dollars to fund a critical race theory program that trains students to promote CRT.
Millions to train school teachers in DEI.
Hundreds of millions of FEMA dollars for migrants.
Tens of millions per year for DEI at the Pentagon.
Nearly $32 million in COVID funding for luxury cars.
$1.2 million in taxpayer dollars to find evidence that racism is to blame for poor sleep in minority communities.
$426,250 for an app to encourage Latino men to exercise.
$28 million for camouflage uniforms that you can see.
Billions in improper payments of COVID funds to businesses.
$100 million for projects in wealthy Manhattan.
$1 million for the West Harlem “Environmental Justice Center.”
$50 million via “Environmental Justice” grant to anti-Israel group.
$3 billion overall for “Environmental Justice” grants to groups, many of which are accused of partisanship.
Part of New York’s $9 billion in federal COVID funding went to train staff in ‘culturally responsive sustaining instruction’ and ‘privilege’ and to recognize ‘equity warriors.’”
$200,000 spent by the Department of Defense on Starbucks espresso machines
Millions to study COVID “misinformation.”
We taxpayers provide more than $120 billion each year to help millions of students pay for higher education. Let the students work their way through college and maybe they won’t have time to waste on woke indoctrinations, student protests, that just educate them in entitlement activities that mature them into even more financial burdens of government social dependency to have to overcome. Financial student aid should only apply to critical occupations. like doctors, engineers, technicians, construction, that grow wealth, that do not growi more social division between the races and classes of society. Getting out of the government backing of the student loans that guys like Biden can use to buy votes in Unconstitutional student loan forgiveness should be wiped off the map and the books.
In with the DOGE,,,out with the D**che ( Democrats Of Underhanded Criminal Heartbreaking Evil)
I forget where i read the suggestion, but i LIKED ONE I saw from a number of years bac.
Govt (MEANING WE THE TAX PAYER) Pays for your college.
AFTER YOU graduate, YOU OWE WE the tax payer (meaning the govt) 6 years minimum service to pay it back..
When democrats are in power, their definition of repaying in government service is stuffing ballot boxes, and faking election poll results, or showing up in numbers for Kamala media exposing Campaign rallys to make her look more popular than she really is.
Our U.S. Government is supposed to be FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE.
NOT for the government and by the government as this traitorous Democrat Party has done its best to make it.
When the Democrat Party has the opportunity, it takes as much of our money as possible in taxes and makes as many laws that benefit the government and hurts our U.S. citizens.
Can anyone give a good logical reason why the Democrat Party controlled government imported 14 MILLION illegal immigrants and forced the U.S. taxpayers to total support them with FREE food, clothing, housing, medical, dental, schooling/college and transportation??? 🙁 🙁 🙁
At a cost to the U.S. taxpayers, thirty-five billion dollars each and every month!!!
🙁 🙁 🙁
A good logical, and only reason is TREASON.
AND The dems keep whining how “IT will be economically UNVIABLE TO deport all the illegals”.
BUT IF IT SAVES US That 35 BIL EACH MONTH, at say a cost of 70 bil to deport them all. IT WAS BLOODY WELL WORTH IT to me.