Top 5 Most Outrageous Ways The Government Has Wasted Your Taxes, As Uncovered By Elon Musk's Doge

As President Donald Trump celebrated his 100th time successful agency this week, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has trim astatine slightest $160 cardinal successful waste, fraud and maltreatment successful nan national government. 

When Trump signed an executive bid establishing nan agency connected his Inauguration Day, DOGE group an eager extremity of cutting $2 trillion from nan national budget. 

According to nan Office of Government Ethics, "special authorities employees" for illustration Musk tin activity for nan national authorities nary much than 130 days a year, which successful Musk's lawsuit will autumn connected May 30. He has already started pairing backmost his hours starring nan arguable agency. 

Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters Primetime" had nan opportunity to spot down nan curtain of Musk's infamous DOGE, which Democrats person railed against and Republicans person celebrated since Trump returned to nan White House this year. The "DOGE boys" reminded Watters connected Thursday of immoderate of nan astir shocking savings secured by nan section this year. 

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DOGE leader Elon Musk has been deed pinch 96% antagonistic sum connected ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts, according to nan Media Research Center.  (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Funding a erstwhile Taliban member

Earlier this year, DOGE discovered nan United States Institute of Peace (USIP) had transferred $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi, a erstwhile Taliban personnel who was Afghanistan's erstwhile Chief of Protocol. DOGE announced connected March 31 that nan statement was canceled. 

Halimi was detained by nan U.S. and held astatine Bagram Air Base for a twelvemonth opening Jan. 2, 2002. He held respective positions successful Afghanistan's authorities pursuing his merchandise and was appointed arsenic nan Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs successful Afghanistan successful 2020. 

"A mini agency called nan United States Institute of Peace is decidedly nan agency we've had nan astir conflict at. We really went into nan agency and recovered they had loaded guns wrong their office — Institute for Peace," a DOGE staffer told Watters. "So by far, nan slightest serene agency that we've worked with, ironically. Additionally, we recovered that they were spending money connected things for illustration backstage jets, and they moreover had a $130,000 statement pinch a erstwhile personnel of nan Taliban. This is real. We don't brushwood that successful astir agencies."

USIP did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's inquiry. 

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Elon Musk speaks during an arena successful nan Oval Office of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 11. (AP Images)

Parties astatine Caesars Palace 

Fox News Digital reported earlier this twelvemonth that nan nation's schools spent $200 cardinal successful COVID-relief costs connected expenses "with small oversight aliases effect connected students," specified arsenic Las Vegas edifice rooms and buying an crystal pick truck, according to DOGE's audits. 

Granite School District successful Utah spent their COVID-relief costs connected $86,000 successful edifice rooms for an acquisition convention astatine Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas casino, while Santa Ana Unified successful California spent $393,000 to rent retired a Major League Baseball stadium, according to a study by Parents Defending Education and shared by DOGE. Granite School District has since denied "any impropriety for having our educators participate" successful nan Las Vegas conference.

The cost-cutting section besides revealed that schools spent $60,000 of COVID-relief costs connected swimming excavation passes, while a California territory utilized its costs to acquisition an crystal pick truck.

"They were fundamentally partying connected nan taxpayers' dollars," Musk told Watters connected Thursday. 

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President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk arsenic they get to be a viewing of nan motorboat of nan sixth trial formation of nan SpaceX Starship rocket successful Brownsville, Texas, connected Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Millions for 'Sesame Street' successful Iraq

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is chairwoman of nan Senate DOGE Caucus and who has collaborated intimately pinch Musk to place discarded to cut, revealed that nan U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) "authorized a whopping $20 cardinal to create a 'Sesame Street' successful Iraq." 

Ernst said that nether nan Biden administration, USAID awarded nan $20 cardinal to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop to nutrient a show called "Ahlan Simsim Iraq" successful an effort to "promote inclusion, communal respect and knowing crossed ethnic, belief and sectarian groups." 

Billions successful 'improper payments' successful 2024 alone 

DOGE received a manus from nan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which released a study successful March revealing that national agencies wasted $162 cardinal successful "improper payments," which was really a alteration of $74 cardinal from nan erstwhile fiscal year. 

GAO's study revealed that of nan 16 authorities agencies reporting improper payments, 75% of nan discarded recovered was concentrated successful 5 programs: $54 cardinal from 3 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Medicare programs; $31 cardinal successful HHS Medicaid; $16 cardinal from nan Department of nan Treasury’s earned income taxation credit; $11 cardinal from nan Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; and $9 cardinal from nan Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Restaurant Revitalization Fund. 

President Donald Trump speaks pinch reporters astatine nan White House.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Large amounts of DEI spending wrong nan national government

On nan run way and since taking office, Trump has made it clear he intends to slash diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending successful nan national government, while making nan lawsuit that a strategy of meritocracy should beryllium nan focus.

DOGE has announced complete nan past fewer months that it has trim hundreds of millions successful DEI contracts. 

Earlier this month, DOGE announced it had worked pinch nan U.S. National Science Foundation to cancel 402 "wasteful" DEI grants, which will prevention $233 million, including $1 cardinal for "Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation."

The Department of Defense could prevention up to $80 cardinal successful wasteful spending by cutting loose a fistful of DEI programs, nan agency announced past month.

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The Defense Department has been moving pinch DOGE to slash wasteful spending, DOD spokesperson Sean Parnell said successful a video posted to societal media.

Parnell listed immoderate of nan first findings flagged by DOGE, overmuch of it consisting of millions of dollars fixed to support various DEI programs, including $1.9 cardinal for holistic DEI translator and training successful nan Air Force and $6 cardinal to nan University of Montana to "strengthen American populist by bridging divides."

The Trump management announced earlier this period it is slashing millions of dollars successful DEI grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services arsenic portion of its wide DOGE push.

And successful February, nan Department of Education said it is canceling much than $100 cardinal successful grants to DEI training arsenic portion of DOGE's efforts. 

Fox News Digital's Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.