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

You saw it on X!  That’s better than seeing it in person.

How about original sources?[/quote]

Assuming this is all true, it means it’s already identified / being looked into. The soap dispensers were from a DOD IG audit. GAO presumably did the work and made recommendations related to the waste you mentioned. So systems in place already are doing that work.

Also, I don’t know the specifics of the tourism $ in Egypt but I did take a class in grad school on soft diplomacy and its impacts. (Eg the cherry trees in DC were a gift / example of soft diplomacy)

I remember asking - when I interned at a policy think tank 20 years ago - a presenter from the state Dept why the US was paying for irrigation in a Middle Eastern country. The answer was that it enabled people to grow cotton. A huge percentage of the population was men under 25 and if they didn’t have irrigation and didn’t farm cotton they were more likely to grow poppies (less water?) and make opiates or accept payments to engage in terrorism. It’s in the US’s national security interests for people in other countries to be able to thrive at jobs that don’t hurt the US. [/quote]

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