The efforts of the Spacex Executive Director Elon Musk at the Ministry of State Efficiency of President Donald Trump (Doge) have discovered a number of examples of government waste that have dominated the headlines in recent weeks, as his team continues to revise the Federal Government despite opposition to Democrats.
Here are some of the best lines from Doge’s findings:
Musk reveals Minski nightmare ‘Iron Mountain’
Musk has revealed this week that Doge is investigating limestone Mine in Pennsylvania where the federal pensions of employees are handled by hand.
“In retirement of federal employees, they are processed by paper, manually, in the old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. The 700+ worker mine operates underground 230 feet underground to process ~ 10,000 applications per month, stored in envelopes and cardboard boxes. months, ”Musk announced on X.
Doge’s efforts of Elon Musk have discovered several examples of wasteful consumption. (Getty, Ap.doge/x.)
Musk said that only 10,000 federal employees can be withdrawn for a month because it takes so much time to process paperwork and sort through millions of manila envelopes. He described the minute “Iron Mountain” as a “time burning” that slows a completely manual federal procedure for retirement.
This photo, posted on February 11, 2025, shows the old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, where the organization says that about 700 workers operate more than 230 feet underground to process about 10,000 federal pension applications a month. (Doge / x)
“The limiting factor is the speed at which the mines elevator can move, determines how many people can withdraw from the Federal Government. The elevator sometimes falls apart, and then no one can withdraw. Does that don’t sound crazy?” Musk told reporters at an oval office on Tuesday.
EPA inspired by Dogeu locates $ 20 billion dollars waste
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), inspired by Doge’s breakup of federal consumption, said she found $ 20 billion in the agency at the agency at the agency that the Biden administration was allegedly “knew they were spending”.
The EPA administrator has exposed $ 20 billion with wasteful consumption at the agency. (Al Drago)
“The extremely disturbing video circulating two months ago, which was a political named Biden Epa who spoke about” throwing gold grids from the Titanic “, rushing to get one billion of your tax before the door,” EPA Lee Zeldin administrator said In the video posted on X on Wednesday, quoting another video since December.
EPA revealed that only eight agencies control the distribution of dozens of billions of taxpayers to different entities “at their own discretion”, such as the Clime United Fund, which allegedly received just under $ 7 billion.
The “golden grilles” were tax dollars, and “Throwing them from the Titanic” meant that the Administration of Biden knew they were spending it, “Zeldin said, promising to renew the” golden grilles “found” parked in an external financial institution . “
Inscriptions at the headquarters of the United States of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, DC (Reuters)
Zeldin said that “the scheme was the first of its kind in the history of EPA, and it was deliberately conceived that all the money in the urgent business with reduced supervision.”
In an interview with Fox News, the EPA administrator praised Doge’s work at the Agency and said that the cost of the cost of reducing the costs “improves” us.
“They come with big recommendations, and we can make a decision to act on that,” Zeldin said.
DHS returns
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a leading government hand for a relief disaster, gave over $ 59 million for a home illegal immigrants In luxury hotels in New York, just last week, Doga discovered.
Migrants see how to sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel at Midtown Manhattan, New York City. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)
On Monday, Musk exhibited a consumption, which in the post on X wrote that “sending this money broke the law and is a large extent in the executive order of the President”, which has been reviewed by FEMA to improve “the efficiency, priority and priority of the agency and competence.”
Of the $ 59.3 million, $ 19 million was for direct hotel costs, while balance funded other services such as food and security, a New York Hall Fox spokesman confirmed.
The day after Doga discovered consumption, the Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that he was “Secretary” [Krisit] Noem has reduced the complete payment that FEMA Deep State activists unilaterally gave NYC migrant hotels, “DHS spokesman told Fox News Digital.
Asylum seekers are set up in front of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, turned into a city management shelter for a newly formed migrant family in New York. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency)
Shortly thereafter, Trump on Tuesday, in the social place of truth on Tuesday, suggested that Fema should be abolished.
“Femma spent tens of millions of dollars in democratic areas, non -compliance with orders, but left the inhabitants of North Carolina high and dry. This is now in review and investigation,” the president said.
“Biden Run Fema was a catastrophe. Fema should be interrupted! It was slow and completely ineffective. Individual states should cope with storms, etc., as they come. Big savings, far more efficient !!!” The president added.
Pentagon lost thousands on cups of coffee and soap dosers
Pentagon budget in the amount of $ 850 billion could be as follows on a bureaucratic block for chopping. Fox News Digital reported to waste and inefficiency this week in the largest American discretionary budget.
Defense Committee in 2015 found that Ministry of Defense It could save $ 125 billion over five years by negotiating services contracts and consolidating bureaucratic processes.
In 2018, a congress investigation revealed that air forces consume $ 1,300 for each cup of coffee on one of its aircraft. Air Force spent $ 32,000, replacing 25 cups, according to Senator Chuck Grassley, R-iowa.
The two -year audit of the General Inspector of the Ministry of Defense last year revealed that Boeing had exceeded air forces by 8,000% for soap supplies. They overpaid for $ 149,072.
US Defense Minister Peta Hegsetth brings objections during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Pentagon on February 5th in Arlington, Va. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
Trump’s new Defense Minister, Pete Hegsetth, He said he greets Doge at the Ministry of Defense.
“We will work with them. It’s long late. The Ministry of Defense has a huge budget, but it must be responsible,” Hegsetth told Fox News.
Questionable consumption in USAID Budget of $ 40 billion, including ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq
Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, President of the Doge Senate, who says she tells a male about spending a reduction every few days, recently posted the list Projects and programs, which he says has helped the US International Development Agency (USAID) financing over the years.
Ernst described the “wasteful and dangerous” consumption that captured the taxpayers until Doge came in.
Senator Joni Ernst pointed out that USAID “approved a whopping $ 20 million to create” Sesame Street “in Iraq.” (Getty Images)
Ernst pointed out that the Agency “approved a whopping $ 20 million to create” Sesame Street “in Iraq.”
According to Biden administration, USAID awarded $ 20 million with non -profit Workshop called Wesame Workshop Produce the show called “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” in an effort to “promote the involvement, mutual respect and understanding in ethnic, religious and sectative groups”.
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A few more examples A questionable consumption has been discovered on USAID, including more than $ 900,000 in a “terrorist charity organization in Gaza” called Bayader Association for the Environment and Development and Program of $ 1.5 million, which is scheduled to “improve diversity, capital and involvement to the jobs and business communities of Serbia. “
Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton were contributed by Morgan Phillips and Emma Colton.
Morgan Phillips Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
