DOGE ... Elon and Vivek ... and results by 2026

[Anonymous]

How much spent on mar a lago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess we will see. Saw this on X last night:

• The CBO revealed at least 1,264 federal programs and bureaus have expired authorizations, but they still received $516B in funding for FY2024

• The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government wastes $247B in taxpayer money each year

• The Department of the Treasury reported $24.5B in "unreconciled transactions" in the past meaning it spent ~$25B on unknown items

• Department of Agriculture employees misused government issued credit cards spending millions on personal purchases like concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie and car payments

• $33.2M was spent on transgender monkey research

• The NIH spent part of a $2.7M grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill

• The DoD ruined $170M of military equipment by leaving it outside

• The US Agency for International Development spent $6M to promote tourism in Egypt

• The SBA gave over $200M to music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne through the Covid Paycheck Protection Program

• The US military bought soap dispensers for aircraft at over 80 times the commercial price

What is the source? X in and of itself is not a reliable source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess we will see. Saw this on X last night:

• The CBO revealed at least 1,264 federal programs and bureaus have expired authorizations, but they still received $516B in funding for FY2024

• The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government wastes $247B in taxpayer money each year

• The Department of the Treasury reported $24.5B in "unreconciled transactions" in the past meaning it spent ~$25B on unknown items

• Department of Agriculture employees misused government issued credit cards spending millions on personal purchases like concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie and car payments

• $33.2M was spent on transgender monkey research

• The NIH spent part of a $2.7M grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill

• The DoD ruined $170M of military equipment by leaving it outside

• The US Agency for International Development spent $6M to promote tourism in Egypt

• The SBA gave over $200M to music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne through the Covid Paycheck Protection Program

• The US military bought soap dispensers for aircraft at over 80 times the commercial price

You saw this on X so it must be true. Could you tell us who owns X?

DP, but here you go:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf

Every year Senator Rand Paul puts his report out on federal gov’t waste.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ironic they plan to decrease federal workforce by starting a new agency.

it's not a new government agency. Guessing the funding isn't coming from government. So maybe someone with a X account can ask him directly where he funding to run DOGE is coming from.

Pretty sure then that they can't access....oh....records or data to figure out what's wasteful. It's just another garbage "report" to keep E/V busy, since Elon seems to want to pretend play that's he's actually the president.

Why not?
Nearly everything they need is accessible through FOIA.
Not to mention, there is basically no federal law preventing the President or agency head from voluntarily disclosing anything at all.

There actually are laws preventing this. Whether Trump wants to follow them or not is up to him and given his immunity, I'm sure he'll push all the limits he can. However, on the PII information, there is definitely a limit on what can be shared with people without proper clearances or a need for the data.

PP here. Yes, there is a restriction on PII. But that is not the information necessary to make these recommendations. They aren't doing individual reviews of staff...
PII is basically the only restriction, and those parts can be redacted.
What other restriction are you thinking of?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am worried about FERS and CPRS.

I am too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ironic they plan to decrease federal workforce by starting a new agency.

it's not a new government agency. Guessing the funding isn't coming from government. So maybe someone with a X account can ask him directly where he funding to run DOGE is coming from.

Pretty sure then that they can't access....oh....records or data to figure out what's wasteful. It's just another garbage "report" to keep E/V busy, since Elon seems to want to pretend play that's he's actually the president.

Why not?
Nearly everything they need is accessible through FOIA.
Not to mention, there is basically no federal law preventing the President or agency head from voluntarily disclosing anything at all.

There actually are laws preventing this. Whether Trump wants to follow them or not is up to him and given his immunity, I'm sure he'll push all the limits he can. However, on the PII information, there is definitely a limit on what can be shared with people without proper clearances or a need for the data.

PP here. Yes, there is a restriction on PII. But that is not the information necessary to make these recommendations. They aren't doing individual reviews of staff...
PII is basically the only restriction, and those parts can be redacted.
What other restriction are you thinking of?

What are you thinking of what they are doing in terms of figuring out how to make things more efficient, since you know what they will and will not do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am worried about FERS and CPRS.

I am too.

If you are a current fed I would not worry. Honestly. Changes to that will almost certainly be 'employees hired after x date' kind of changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess we will see. Saw this on X last night:

• The CBO revealed at least 1,264 federal programs and bureaus have expired authorizations, but they still received $516B in funding for FY2024

• The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government wastes $247B in taxpayer money each year

• The Department of the Treasury reported $24.5B in "unreconciled transactions" in the past meaning it spent ~$25B on unknown items

• Department of Agriculture employees misused government issued credit cards spending millions on personal purchases like concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie and car payments

• $33.2M was spent on transgender monkey research

• The NIH spent part of a $2.7M grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill

• The DoD ruined $170M of military equipment by leaving it outside

• The US Agency for International Development spent $6M to promote tourism in Egypt

• The SBA gave over $200M to music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne through the Covid Paycheck Protection Program

• The US military bought soap dispensers for aircraft at over 80 times the commercial price

I saw on X that none of those claims is true. Whose anecdote wins?

[Anonymous]

It’s incredible misleading to call out programs with expired authorizations that are still receiving money like it’s some bad thing. This happens all the time when Congress wants a program to continue, but doesn’t want to change it or can’t reach agreement on legislative amendments to change it. In that case, they fund the program via annual appropriations acts at whatever funding level they agree is appropriate, exactly the same way they did before the “authorization of appropriations” provision in the authoring act expired.

Many newer programs no longer have “authorization of appropriation” provisions at all. They are a relic of the past in many ways. Their purpose was for the authorizing committees of Congress to signal to the appropriations committees how much they thought the appropriators should provide in implementation funding. The appropriators have always been free to disregard that and decide on a higher or lower amount. At the end of the day, if a program receives funding, it’s because Congress voted to provide it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess we will see. Saw this on X last night:

• The CBO revealed at least 1,264 federal programs and bureaus have expired authorizations, but they still received $516B in funding for FY2024

• The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government wastes $247B in taxpayer money each year

• The Department of the Treasury reported $24.5B in "unreconciled transactions" in the past meaning it spent ~$25B on unknown items

• Department of Agriculture employees misused government issued credit cards spending millions on personal purchases like concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie and car payments

• $33.2M was spent on transgender monkey research

• The NIH spent part of a $2.7M grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill

• The DoD ruined $170M of military equipment by leaving it outside

• The US Agency for International Development spent $6M to promote tourism in Egypt

• The SBA gave over $200M to music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne through the Covid Paycheck Protection Program

• The US military bought soap dispensers for aircraft at over 80 times the commercial price

You saw this on X so it must be true. Could you tell us who owns X?

DP, but here you go:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf

Every year Senator Rand Paul puts his report out on federal gov’t waste.

LOL! Another unimpeachable source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am worried about FERS and CPRS.

I am too.

Im a mid career millennial and I am worried they will take away the health care in retirement....which truly just keeps cutting into any "benefits" for feds.

[Anonymous]

Maybe 5% of this will come to pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess we will see. Saw this on X last night:

• The CBO revealed at least 1,264 federal programs and bureaus have expired authorizations, but they still received $516B in funding for FY2024

• The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government wastes $247B in taxpayer money each year

• The Department of the Treasury reported $24.5B in "unreconciled transactions" in the past meaning it spent ~$25B on unknown items

• Department of Agriculture employees misused government issued credit cards spending millions on personal purchases like concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie and car payments

• $33.2M was spent on transgender monkey research

• The NIH spent part of a $2.7M grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill

• The DoD ruined $170M of military equipment by leaving it outside

• The US Agency for International Development spent $6M to promote tourism in Egypt

• The SBA gave over $200M to music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne through the Covid Paycheck Protection Program

• The US military bought soap dispensers for aircraft at over 80 times the commercial price

You saw this on X so it must be true. Could you tell us who owns X?

DP, but here you go:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf

Every year Senator Rand Paul puts his report out on federal gov’t waste.

I meant an actual scientific study, not more propaganda.

Anyways, i can’t find anything about transgender monkeys, and the “Russian” cat study was performed by Georgia Tech, a high caliber technical university and hardly a bastion of wokeness, who collaborated with a Russian science agency. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9163443/

I’m sure wounded worriers paralyzed on the battlefield would be interested in fundamental research on locomotion in mammals, but sure meme it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s incredible misleading to call out programs with expired authorizations that are still receiving money like it’s some bad thing. This happens all the time when Congress wants a program to continue, but doesn’t want to change it or can’t reach agreement on legislative amendments to change it. In that case, they fund the program via annual appropriations acts at whatever funding level they agree is appropriate, exactly the same way they did before the “authorization of appropriations” provision in the authoring act expired.

Many newer programs no longer have “authorization of appropriation” provisions at all. They are a relic of the past in many ways. Their purpose was for the authorizing committees of Congress to signal to the appropriations committees how much they thought the appropriators should provide in implementation funding. The appropriators have always been free to disregard that and decide on a higher or lower amount. At the end of the day, if a program receives funding, it’s because Congress voted to provide it.

Thank you for taking the time to explain this. Good info to have to respond to others parroting what they have seen on x

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess we will see. Saw this on X last night:

• The CBO revealed at least 1,264 federal programs and bureaus have expired authorizations, but they still received $516B in funding for FY2024

• The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government wastes $247B in taxpayer money each year

• The Department of the Treasury reported $24.5B in "unreconciled transactions" in the past meaning it spent ~$25B on unknown items

• Department of Agriculture employees misused government issued credit cards spending millions on personal purchases like concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie and car payments

• $33.2M was spent on transgender monkey research

• The NIH spent part of a $2.7M grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill

• The DoD ruined $170M of military equipment by leaving it outside

• The US Agency for International Development spent $6M to promote tourism in Egypt

• The SBA gave over $200M to music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne through the Covid Paycheck Protection Program

• The US military bought soap dispensers for aircraft at over 80 times the commercial price

What is the source? X in and of itself is not a reliable source.

Sure. Believe, or not, what you like.
Vivek. I did not state true or not. Merely shared.

As it turns out, there was MUCH MORE reliable info related to the election on X, than what the MSM fed all of you.