Get along, little DOGE

Diogenes

Diogenes

Nemo me impune lacessit
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The numbers are staggering: $149 billion in improper government payments last year alone.

That's enough to fund NASA for seven years or build 15 aircraft carriers.

Medicare and Medicaid lead the pack with over $60 billion in misspent funds, followed by tax credits ($20+ billion) and food assistance ($10+ billion).

These aren't just accounting errors—they represent a fundamental failure of government oversight.

Most revealing is what happens after improper payments are discovered.

Of $33.5 billion identified as potentially recoverable in 2024, agencies managed to claw back just $22.6 billion.

The rest evaporates into bureaucratic limbo.

Critics claim DOGE is overreaching by targeting agencies like USAID, but the data shows waste pervades our largest programs.

While some improper payments may be legitimate mistakes, the system's inability to prevent them year after year suggests deeper institutional problems.

The waste continues because it serves the bureaucracy.

Without DOGE's intervention, next year's report would likely have shown the same failures with higher numbers.
 
The IRS has cancelled a massive IT contract after DOGE review exposed questionable spending.

Treasury took the unprecedented step of publicly sharing contract details in name of transparency.

U.S. Treasury Department: "We have been working to identify waste, fraud & abuse".

The terminated contract was for "Enterprise Program Integration Services" - bureaucrat-speak for what appears to be standard IT management that somehow warranted a $1.9B price tag.



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The State Department has axed "non-mission critical" media subscriptions, targeting outlets like the failing NYT, the Economist, and Reuters.

Staff must now justify why access is "mission critical" to keep their taxpayer-funded subscriptions.
 
The Department of Education has terminated 18 grants for $226 million to Comprehensive Centers, which provided "consulting services with a large focus on DEI".

One Center application stated: “Embedding DEI reviews across all deliverables and materials ensures it is not a one-off task specific activity.”

A 2019 study (which itself cost $8 million) was “not able to measure the causal impact of the centers’ work”.


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Imagine you're a bureaucrat "working" from home, and you hear a chopper flying low, and when you look out the window, this is what you see:




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NOT VERY WISE​


Braindead Biden's EPA awarded a $5B "eco grant" to a group that had employed Jahi Wise, the senior EPA official overseeing that same grant program.

After his team at EPA disbursed the grant, Wise left to join a Soros group as a fellow.

The grant recipient is the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC).

Wise worked as the policy director for CGC until January 2021.

He then joined braindead Biden's White House Climate Office.

After the laughably-named Inflation Reduction Act was passed in late 2022, Wise was appointed as the founding director of the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Program.

It was under that program that his recent employer CGC received the massive $5B grant.



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The $5B grant is also notable because ANOTHER former braindead Biden WH official and Wise's close colleague David Hayes serves on the group's board of directors.

Hayes joined the group's board in Oct. 2022 after having served as a special assistant to the purported president in the White House Climate Office.

Hayes and Wise worked at the White House together for roughly 21 months.



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After joining CGC, Hayes said he was "hopeful that tens of billions of dollars of additional clean power investment, focused on low-income and disadvantaged communities, lies in the immediate future of CGC."

CGC said he would be involved in its application for EPA funding.


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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the situation shows waste and abuse at braindead Biden's EPA was "deeply interwoven" and "serious conflicts of interest were ignored."

Government ethics groups @PublicsTrust and @apublictrust also raised concerns about the matter.

"The founding director of the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awarding $5 billion to his former employer is the sort of self-dealing revolving door that has become a hallmark of green energy handouts."

The $5B grant is part of the larger $20B pot of money Zeldin and the Trump EPA found parked at an outside financial institution, a first-of-its-kind arrangement at the EPA that was executed shortly before Wise departed the agency to join Soros's Open Society Institute.

This revelation comes one day after another $2B from that pot was awarded to a brand new group linked to Democrat politician Stacey Abrams that had reported just $100 in revenue before braindead Biden's regime gave her billions.


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