Pentagon Fails Seventh Straight Financial Audit: Billions of Taxpayer Money Unaccounted For in Latest Government Scandal

[Nithavela]

If and when they solve American health and mental crisis then it's ok to spend money on stupid stuff.

You don't think that studying the effects of drugs on behaviour contributes to solving mental health problems?

 

[Laodicean60]

You don't think that studying the effects of drugs on behaviour contributes to solving mental health problems?

Study on the problem that concerns the species, geez. As far as the effects of drugs ask someone you can communicate with or I'll tell ya.

 

[Nithavela]

Study on the problem that concerns the species, geez. As far as the effects of drugs ask someone you can communicate with or I'll tell ya.

Beside yourself, who else shall be given drugs and observed regarding changes in their behaviour?

 

[Laodicean60]

Beside yourself, who else shall be given drugs and observed regarding changes in their behaviour?

We have a history of drug use in this country so there is a lot of data.

 

[Nithavela]

We have a history of drug use in this country so there is a lot of data.

So, random drug users taken from the streets? Brilliant.

 

[mindlight]

It's probably being used for torture blacksites, destabilising foreign governments or something like that. I don't know what y'all are upset about.

I was hoping for space drones, James Bond-style gimmicks, and maybe a secret moon base. But maybe this is just bad accountancy from people who do not care about the numbers as much as the security of the free world.

 

[BCP1928]

If and when they solve American health and mental crisis then it's ok to spend money on stupid stuff.

They can't do that--it would be "socialism."

 

[essentialsaltes]

Despite its name, [DOGE] is not expected to be a federal executive department, the formation of which would require the approval of the U.S. Congress.

It's just some guys jawing their opinions.

Now we have a forum for them to jaw at some congresscritters. A new subcommittee chaired by MTG.

 

[Pommer]

Now we have a forum for them to jaw at some congresscritters. A new subcommittee chaired by MTG.

Wow, C-SPAN just got fun, (again)!

 

[Vambram]

DOGE Will Seize ‘Historic Opportunity’ to Downsize, ‘Delete’ Federal Government

The two business leaders President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with downsizing the federal bureaucracy say they are "not going to squander" the 2024 election

washingtonstand.com

The two business leaders President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with downsizing the federal bureaucracy say they are “not going to squander” the 2024 election mandate and plan to slash wasteful spending, eliminate unnecessary jobs, and possibly abolish whole federal agencies.

Last Tuesday, Trump called on Tesla founder Elon Musk and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The leaders have said everything is on the table.

“We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” Ramaswamy told Mario Bartiromo on the Fox Business “Sunday Futures.” The department will oversee “massive cuts in federal contractors and others who are over-billing the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above, and I think people will be surprised by … how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us.” Earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned a judicial activist ruling establishing the “Chevron deference,” which gave the federal authority vast powers to regulate the private sector.

President Trump has repeatedly promised to abolish the Department of Education, a Carter-era agency many conservatives believe acts as a pay-off to teachers’ unions. “One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. and sending all education ... back to the states,” said the president-elect in an online video. “They’ll do a much better job of it. You can’t do worse. We spend more money per pupil, by three times, than any other nation, and yet we’re absolutely at the bottom.”

The president cited many education officials’ hostility to Christian precepts as one reason to return education to state, local, and parental control. “The Marxism being preached in our schools is also totally hostile to Judeo-Christian teachings, and in many ways, it is resembling an established new religion,” insisted Trump in an “Agenda47” video. “My administration will aggressively pursue potential violations of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution. That’s very simple.”

“Additionally, on day one, we will begin to find and remove the radicals, zealots, and Marxists who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education, and that also includes others,” he declared. “Joe Biden has given these lunatics unchecked power — I will have them fired and escorted from the building. And I will tell Congress that any appropriations bill I sign must reaffirm the president’s ability to remove defiant employees from the job. It’s all about our children.”

 

[KCfromNC]

If and when they solve American health and mental crisis then it's ok to spend money on stupid stuff.

Can we apply the same to, say, military spending or misguided attempts to deport millions of workers vital to the US economy?

Or is it possible that a government the size of the US's can do more than one thing at a time?

 

[Laodicean60]

Spending on fish and quail over military and deportation aren't the same. There is nothing wrong with the mass deportation of criminal illegals and asylum seekers.

 

[wing2000]

Is this what DOGE is going to tackle?

....that remains to be seen.

So far, Ramaswamy has suggested: “We can & should save hundreds of billions each year by defunding government programs that Congress no longer authorizes,”

That's a misunderstanding of how the funding works, but in any case, it speaks to his intent.

[top 5 in descending order]

1) Veterans Health Care $119 Billion
2) Opid addiction (drug research). $48 Billion
3) State Department $38 Billion
4) Housing Assistance $37 Billion
5) Justice Dept. $35 Billon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/16/trump-musk-ramaswamy-doge-program/

 

[wing2000]

Spending on fish and quail over military and deportation aren't the same. There is nothing wrong with the mass deportation of criminal illegals and asylum seekers.

....however, rounding up and detaining illegal immigrants will increase DHS spending considerably.....private prison companies are elated (their stock prices shot up since the election).

 

[Laodicean60]

....however, rounding up and detaining illegal immigrants will increase DHS spending considerably.....private prison companies are elated (their stock prices shot up since the election).

All stocks went up on the Trump Trade. I also assume that it will increase DHS spending but spending is what our government loves. I believe this admin is starting with illegal/ amnesty(?) criminal aliens and this will take time unless the government has been tracking location.