The left isn’t at all happy with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and they are pretty vocal about it. Now, think about that for a moment; the left, both in government and the legacy media, are against reducing government waste and against making government more efficient.
This is a big part of what President Trump ran on, of course, and he and Elon Musk laid out their plans for DOGE very clearly in the campaign; Donald Trump won, so I guess that tells you something about where the American public stands.
Elon Musk wasted no time digging in. He’s found some shocking examples of waste, and no doubt, plenty of graft. Here are five of the biggest instances of government waste – so far.
Musk revealed this week that DOGE is investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where federal employee retirements are processed manually.
“Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months,” Musk announced on X.
Why is this still being done on paper? My wife went through the Veterans Affairs’ (VA) disability process some years ago, and it took over a year; almost two, if memory serves. Is this why–a bunch of people working in the dark down a mine shaft are still processing these things on paper? Why not buy a half-dozen modern PCs and automate the whole thing?
Data security, I’m sure, is a concern – so, air-gap them. It’s not rocket science. The financial sector and the national intelligence apparatus know about data security (I hope!) Take a cue from them. Next up:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), inspired by DOGE’s crackdown on federal spending, said it had located $20 billion in tax dollars within the agency that the Biden administration reportedly “knew they were wasting.”
“An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago, featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,’ rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a video posted to X on Wednesday, citing another video from December. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
