President Trump’s vision behind appointing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The mission of DOGE is to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
What follows are some of the things that DOGE will be able to cut without as much as a whimper from anybody.
Elon Musk believes they can cut a minimum of $2 trillion in wasteful spending, some recent examples of which include:
* $1.7 billion to maintain 77,000 empty federal buildings
* $250 million to construct border walls in the Middle East and North Africa
* $168 million to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation
* $477,121 to make lab monkeys transgender
* $100,000 to study if tequila or gin makes sunfish more aggressive
* $1 million to study if cocaine makes Japanese quail more promiscuous
* $6 million to boost Egyptian tourism
* $2.1 million to encourage Ethiopians to wear shoes
* $1.3 million to verify that hearing bad news decreases happiness levels
* $750,000 to study if the moon landing line was “One small step for Man” or “One small step for ‘a’ man” (the study was inconclusive)
The above could well be a part of a comedy routine except they are so far out that they are not funny … laughable, but not funny! To me these cuts are all slam dunks!
12/31/24