Are you having fun yet?
Its important to Musk that youre having fun.
Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R) escorts Elon Musk (2nd-R) as he arrives with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (L) at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC.© Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars.
This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining .
DOGE will not, technically, be a new department.
Only Congress can create new federal agencies.
In practice, that may not matter.
What DOGE actually accomplishes will be anyones guess.
At almost $7 trillion, the U.S. budget is enormous.
Conservatives have been crowing about cuts to public spending for a long time.
Its so frequent that its become a brand.
Some NGOs publish yearly catalogs full of fun graphics and colorful language decrying perceived government cost overruns.
Even politicians have gotten in on the act.
On style, Grassley cant compete with Sen. Rand Pauls (R-KY)annual Festivus report.
In his latest Festivus report, Paul identified $900 billion in waste he wanted to see cleaned up.
Paul called out South Carolinas Monkey Island ($33.2 million).
Yes, this is the same island from which more than 40 monkeys recently escaped.
If only theyd had more funding to keep them locked down.
Not all of Pauls examples are frivolous.
The U.S. also already has government agencies that catalog and fight wasteful spending.
And then theres the Government Accountability Office.
Established in 1921, theGovernment Accountability Officeinvestigates and reports on cost overruns and other Washington abuses.
It recently called out the U.S. Navy and defense contractors for spending too much on nuclear submarines.
For the past 14 years, its published a report identifying places where America could save money.
We have no idea how DOGE will run other than what Musk is posting about it online.
The proposed interactive leaderboard is just the online evolution of what Grassley and Paul have been doing for years.
Its a dumbed-down version of the government reports published weekly by the DoD IG and GAO.
According to reports from inside Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire isfollowing Trump aroundlike a lost dog.
Hes behaving as if hes a co-president and making sure everyone knows it, a sourcetold NBC News.
Trump met with a closed session of House Republicans today for the first time since his victory.
Musk was right beside him.
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