Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and entrenched government employees are going to have a difficult time trying to ignore the new elephant in the room: Elon Musk. Under his supervision, DOGE is quickly making its mark on the government's wasteful spending practices. Once the information on waste surfaces, it will be hard even for the marginally informed citizen to ignore and even harder for Democrats and government employees to defend.
But, of course, there's a difference between knowing and doing. For years those in the know have only been able to shrug their shoulders and throw up their hands: "What can we do about it?"
But, of course, there's a difference between knowing and doing. For years those in the know have only been able to shrug their shoulders and throw up their hands: "What can we do about it?"
The waste and fraud are hard to ignore because the numbers are big, really, really big: Billions of bucks.
In 2023 Richard Lardner, Jennifer McDermott, and Aaron Kessler reported for the AP that "fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent." *
Spending, one might think, is supposed to be in the national interest. Ask yourself if you deem the following expenditures by USAID to be in the national interest:
Tourism in Egypt? Let's guess: People have never heard of the pyramids, Khartoum, and the Valley of Kings.
DEI in Serbia? A DEI musical in Ireland?
Your money. My money. Someone at the Plain of Nazca on the Andes' Pampas de Jumana reading a comic book on transgenderism to a llama?
That so many politicians on both sides of the aisle have permitted this runaway waste to continue over the past 75 years is in itself a crime against the American people.
So, yes, now there's an elephant in the room, and hopefully, no one will be able to ignore it.
*https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78
**https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/
In 2023 Richard Lardner, Jennifer McDermott, and Aaron Kessler reported for the AP that "fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent." *
Spending, one might think, is supposed to be in the national interest. Ask yourself if you deem the following expenditures by USAID to be in the national interest:
- $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
- $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
- $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
- $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
- $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt **
Tourism in Egypt? Let's guess: People have never heard of the pyramids, Khartoum, and the Valley of Kings.
DEI in Serbia? A DEI musical in Ireland?
Your money. My money. Someone at the Plain of Nazca on the Andes' Pampas de Jumana reading a comic book on transgenderism to a llama?
That so many politicians on both sides of the aisle have permitted this runaway waste to continue over the past 75 years is in itself a crime against the American people.
So, yes, now there's an elephant in the room, and hopefully, no one will be able to ignore it.
*https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78
**https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/
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