Breitbart News 26 Feb 2025
In the annals of government reform efforts, the efforts of Elon Musk and his task force of DOGE techies are more than tough love.
Because the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has (mostly) been given access to the books of government agencies, it has spotted billions of dollars in questionable grants, make-work programs, and outright gifts to politically connected activists who provided political support to their government paymasters. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss a few examples, but also address a deeper question: “So what?”
“Even if the cuts DOGE has found are drops of water in the ocean of the U.S. national debt,” says Schweizer, “they shift the conversation.”
From a $324,000 grant to enhance “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming within Integrated Pest Management” at the agriculture department to a $3 million Department of Education report that showed that its previous reports were not being used, the details are eye-popping even where the amounts are not.
Schweizer stresses that the stories show not just bureaucratic inertia, but efforts by the political class to launder money. At the Environmental Protection Agency, new director Lee Zeldin unearthed a $2 billion grant to a start-up nonprofit group associated with Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.
The $2 billion was used for the “decarbonization of homes” in low-income communities and paid for new household appliances, such as water heaters, induction stoves, solar panels, EV chargers, and weatherization, according to an April 2024 press release from Power Forward Communities as reported by Fox News.
Zeldin also identified a potential “conflict of interest” payment of $5 billion to the former director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund under President Joe Biden. “All this money was put up front,” Zeldin said. “It was going to their friends on the left.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/26/peter-schweizer-doge-is-exposing-money-laundering-operations-recall-usaids-link-to-clinton-cash/The General Services Administration purchased 37,000 WinZip licenses for employees, DOGE found, although its file shrinking functions have been part of the Windows operating system for years, for example.
“Meanwhile, we’re stealin’ logins at GAI” to save money, Eggers quips.
