What Waste of Money Would You Denounce to a DOGE-like Agency Auditing DC Government Expenses?
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Anonymous
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A $400K was paid to a big law firm, Latham & Watkins, to investigate Trayon White after the FBI investigated him and showed videos of him receiving bribes.
https://wjla.com/news/local/trayon-white-dc-council-seat-ad-hoc-committee-meeting-investigation-councilmember-ward-8-code-of-conduct-violation-federal-bribery-charges-independent-investigation |
Anonymous
| I don't understand your question. |
Anonymous
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Mayor Bowser's home gets taxpayer-funded renovation
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/mayor-bowsers-colonial-village-home-renovations-spark-scrutiny-over-525k-price-tag |
Anonymous
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Department of education
Anything related to housing |
Anonymous
| Any remaining remnant of restorative justice in schools. |
Anonymous
+1 Housing and developers is a huge Pandora box pending to open it. |
Anonymous
Oh shut up and go get a tan. |
Anonymous
| The DoD. So much waste fraud and abuse in the DoD and on military bases. They get billions of dollars yet can aleven provide decent housing for soldiers and sailors. |
Anonymous
DC having its own DOD is a massive waste. Unless we plan on getting that land back from VA... |
Anonymous
| Anything truly qualifying as fraud or waste needs a comparison to prove it was fraud of waste. You can’t just point to any instance of government spending that you disagree with and claim it’s fraud. |
Anonymous
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contracting and procurement. DC will get items from a local company as long as it costs no more than 12% over other places it can be purchased. Basically, a company can buy stuff on amazon or wherever and sell it to DC for a 12% markup. I see some value in buying local but 3% seems fine.
Also DC could get tons of money if it more vigorously booted and towed cars with unpaid tickets. Removing the personal property tax filing requirement for businesses with less than $225k in property would not reduce tax revenue and DC could process 58,000 fewer returns. This would save money and make life easier for businesses. The DC tax reform commission considered this (see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f84tmUL2Mfatfr_uvaw0--8Mplm8n8K9/view) but they stupidly twisted it into getting rid of the tax altogether and then the commission imploded. The Council could still do this though. DC should also get rid of the "married filing separately on the same return" filing status. No state has it, it makes things more complicated for tax filers, and it costs DC money. Just use the same filing statuses as the federal return. |
Anonymous
DC doesn't have a DoD. Are you thinking of the National Guard? |
Anonymous
| Purple line. All of it. |
Anonymous
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Trump taking his car ' the beast' to drive around a car race. Going to the Super Bowl. Flying to Mara Lago every weekend.
What a waste. |
Anonymous
+1 His plans to use taxpayer money to pave over the Rose Garden so it looks like Mar-a-lago. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/style/white-house-rose-garden-photos.html |