Musk uncovers significant government waste

 American Action News:

The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) Elon Musk said Thursday on Fox News that the group found the federal government spent almost $1 billion on a survey that could’ve only cost thousands.

Following President Donald Trump entering office in January, his administration pushed for Musk and DOGE to comb through the government’s spending and identify potential cuts to save taxpayer dollars. On “Special Report with Bret Baier,” the Fox News host sat with Musk and his DOGE team and asked the billionaire what has been the most “astonishing thing” he’s witnessed so far in this process.

“The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government,” Musk said. “It is astonishing. It’s mind-blowing. We routinely encounter waste of a billion dollars or more, casually.”

“For example, like the simple survey that was literally [a] 10 questions survey. You could do it with SurveyMonkey, [which] would cost about $10,000. The government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that,” Musk added.
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You have to question the management that would pay a billion dollars for a $10,000 job.  If that happened in a business, those responsible for it would be fired and likely prosecuted.  Management would also face repercussions, including firing.

See also:

Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments

And:

 Wall Street Apes

American citizens are PISSED finding out that they’ve been paying for illegal migrants to get mortgages to buy homes through FHA

The taxpayer funded loans given to people who ARE NOT CITIZENS were $186,000

Illegals have been buying houses. You can’t afford rent

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