As a president Donald Trump This week, I celebrated his 100th day. Elon Musk The Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has cut at least $160 billion in federal waste, fraud and abuse.
When Trump signed an executive order to set up the agency on his inauguration day, Doge set an ambitious goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget.
According to the Government Ethics Bureau, “special government officials” like masks can work for the federal government within 130 days a year. Pair his time He leads a controversial agency.
Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” Democrats opposed, and Republicans had the opportunity to see behind the infamous doge curtains of masks that they celebrated after Trump returned White House this year. “Doge Boys” reminded Watters on Thursday of some of the most shocking savings secured by the department this year.
According to the Media Research Center, Doge leader Elon Musk was hit with 96% negative coverage at ABC, NBC and CBS Evening Newscasts. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Funding to former Taliban members
Early this year, Doge has been discovered The US Institute of Peace (USIP) has transferred $132,000 to former Taliban member Mohammad Qassem Halimi, a former Afghan protocol chief. Doge announced on March 31 that the contract was cancelled.
Harimi was detained in the United States and was detained for a year at Bagram Air Force Base from January 2, 2002. I’ve been appointed As Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs in Afghanistan in 2020.
“The small institution called the American Peace Institute is definitely the institution we fought the most. We actually entered the institution and found them loaded guns at their headquarters – the institution.” “So, ironically, they are the most peaceful agencies we’ve worked with. What’s more, we found out they’re spending money on things like private jets and have a $130,000 contract with former members of the Taliban. This is true.”
USIP did not respond immediately to Fox News Digital inquiries.
Elon Musk looks back at Doge’s 100 days and previews the future of “long-term businesses”
Elon Musk will speak at an event at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC on February 11th. (AP image)
Caesar Palace Party
Fox News Digital reported earlier this year that schools in the country had spent $200 billion on “almost monitoring” or impacting students, with little surveillance or impact. Hotel rooms in Las Vegas Buy ice cream trucks, according to Doge’s audit.
Utah’s granite school district spent the Covid Relief Fund for $86,000 in hotel rooms for an education conference at Caesars Palace, a Litsy Las Vegas casino. The Granite School District later refused to “misconduct against educators taking part” at the Las Vegas Conference.
The cost-cutting department also revealed that the school spent a $60,000 Covid Relief Fund on swimming pool passes and that the California area used the funds to buy ice cream trucks.
“They were basically partying about taxpayer dollars,” Musk told Watters Thursday.
President Donald Trump will greet Elon Musk as he arrives to attend the launch of the SpaceX Starship rocket’s 6th trial flight, held in Brownsville, Texas on November 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Millions of Sesame Street in Iraq
Senator Joni ErnstR-Iowa, chairman of Senate Speaker Doge Coucus and working closely with Musk to identify crazy waste, revealed that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has “approved $20 million to create a ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq.”
Ernst said under the Biden administration, USAID awarded $20 million to a nonprofit called the Sesame Workshop. Created a show called “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” to “promote inclusion, mutual respect and understanding of ethnic, religious and sectarian groups at large.”
Billions of “inappropriate payments” in 2024 alone
Doge received a hand from the US Government’s Office of Accountability (GAO). Report was released in March It revealed that federal agencies have wasted $162 billion in “inappropriate payments.” This was actually a $74 billion decrease from the previous year.
GAO’s analysis revealed that out of the 16 government agencies reporting inappropriate payments, 75% of the discovered waste is concentrated in five programs. HHS Medicaid $31 billion. $16 billion from the Treasury Department’s earned income tax credit. $11 billion from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. $9 billion from Small Business Administration (SBA) Restaurant Revitalization Fund.
President Donald Trump speaks to a White House reporter. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Massive DEI spending within the federal government
On the campaign trail, and since taking office, Trump revealed he is aiming to slash Diversity, Equality, Inclusion (DEI) While arguing that federal spending should be focused on a meritocratic system.
Doge has announced that it has cut hundreds of millions of yen in DEI contracts over the past few months.
Earlier this month, Doge announced We have partnered with the National Science Foundation to cancel the 402 “wasteful” DEI grant. This saves $233 million, including $1 million in “anti-racist teacher leadership for statewide change.”
The Department of Defense can save up to $80 million in wasted spending by reducing a small number of DEI programs. It was announced last month.
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The Department of Defense is working with Doge to reduce wasteful spending, Dod spokesman Sean Parnell said in a video posted on social media.
Parnell listed some of the original findings by Doge. Many of them consist of millions of dollars given to support a variety of DEI programs.
The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it was cutting millions of dollars from museums and library services research institutes with DEI grants as part of the entire Doge Push.
February, Ministry of Education I said I had cancelled As part of Doge’s efforts, it has won over $100 million in grants for Dei training.
Aubrie Spady from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
