Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will take over new efforts to make government more efficient.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an effort to make government more efficient, drawing public attention to waste and duplication in government that hasn’t been done in years.
During this time, journalists and nonprofit organizations have written about examples of government waste, but few have actually received much attention.
Musk has created a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) account on X and is asking his followers for suggestions.
Apart from cuts across agencies, here are some examples of controversial federal spending that could be targeted for future cuts based on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent comments.
- billions of The goal is to maintain office buildings, many of which are vacant as employees work from home.
- 6 million dollars For the United States Agency for International Development,
Promote tourism in Egypt. - $400 million Taxpayer money is being used for presidential election campaigns.
- $2.6 million Taxpayer dollars are being funneled to fund critical race theory programs that train students to advance CRT.
- millions of Train school teachers on DEI.
- Hundreds of millions FEMA dollars for immigrants.
- tens of millions a year For Department of Defense DEI.
- almost $32 millionn With coronavirus financing for luxury cars.
- $1.2 million with taxpayer money Finding evidence that racism causes sleep deprivation in minority communities.
- $426,250 For apps that encourage Latino men to: exercise.
- $28 million You can see the camouflage uniform.
- billions of Improper disbursements of coronavirus funds to businesses.
- 100 million dollars in wealthy Manhattan projects.
- 1 million dollars For the West Harlem Environmental Justice Center.
- $50 million Through “environmental justice” grants to anti-Israel groups.
- 3 billion dollars Overall, “environmental justice” grants to groups, many of which have been accused of partisanship.
- part of new york 9 billion dollars Federal coronavirus funding was used to train staff in “culturally responsive and sustainable instruction” and “privileges,” and to recognize “equity warriors.” ”
- $200,000 How much the Department of Defense spent on Starbucks espresso machines
- millions of To study “misinformation” about the new coronavirus.
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