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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

+1 and thank you.

Several other misleading things in the list. For example, Covid PPP money to performers was to pay staff and crew who would otherwise not be employed because concerts weren't happening. (And before you say "rich artists could cover it" - so could all the corporations that took PPP money.) More to the point, that money is already spent and not being recovered, so unclear how Musk will "fix" this issue.

Government credit card fraud being described in a report has by definition been discovered already, and the money already being recovered from the bad actors if at all possible. Again, not being fixed by Musk. Although we can wonder if cutting personnel and red tape will lead to better fraud detection in the future ... doesn't sound likely.

Most of the rest of it is money appropriated by Congress and spent on something you don't think is worthy: complain to your elected rep, but [i]somebody [/i]told that agency to spend that money in that way. People love to dump on "bureaucracy" but bureaucracy only carries out the orders it gets from Congress or the president, it doesn't magically get a checkbook and then think up ways to spend.[/quote]

+1,000![/quote]

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