🧵We can eliminate more than $2 trillion of waste in Washington in 22 easy steps.
Here is how @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @DOGE can begin to trim the fat and #makeemsqueal. 👇
Here is how @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @DOGE can begin to trim the fat and #makeemsqueal. 👇
1. Ghost Workers 👻
We are spending $15.7 billion a year on underutilized buildings.
Many are vacant!
Bureaucrats refuse to show up to work, so why are we paying for empty buildings?
We are spending $15.7 billion a year on underutilized buildings.
Many are vacant!
Bureaucrats refuse to show up to work, so why are we paying for empty buildings?
2. Audit the IRS
Hundreds of IRS agents owe millions in back taxes.
150,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in back taxes government-wide.
After we are done, these numbers need to be zero.
Hundreds of IRS agents owe millions in back taxes.
150,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in back taxes government-wide.
After we are done, these numbers need to be zero.
3. Undo Biden's Billion-Dollar Boondoggles
Biden has spent $7.5 billion to build 17 EV charging stations and $42 billion to expand rural broadband but has connected zero people to the internet.
Pulling the plug on these programs will be the only efficient part about them.
Biden has spent $7.5 billion to build 17 EV charging stations and $42 billion to expand rural broadband but has connected zero people to the internet.
Pulling the plug on these programs will be the only efficient part about them.
4. Cancel the Crazy California Gravy Trains 🚂
Three trains in California are costing taxpayers $144 billion to build.
Let's put a stop to these train wrecks.
Three trains in California are costing taxpayers $144 billion to build.
Let's put a stop to these train wrecks.
5. Stop Christmas in September 🎅
From $4.6 million for lobster tail to $2.1 million for games, the ridiculous "use it or lose it" model encourages wild spending by federal agencies before the end of fiscal year.
@DOGE needs to be the Grinch and save taxpayers $53 billion.
From $4.6 million for lobster tail to $2.1 million for games, the ridiculous "use it or lose it" model encourages wild spending by federal agencies before the end of fiscal year.
@DOGE needs to be the Grinch and save taxpayers $53 billion.
6. End Welfare for Politicians
The Presidential Election Campaign Fund uses tax dollars to fund the candidacy of longshot and fringe candidates running for the White House.
Tax dollars shouldn’t be financing the failed ambitions of politicians – let's save $16.6 million.
The Presidential Election Campaign Fund uses tax dollars to fund the candidacy of longshot and fringe candidates running for the White House.
Tax dollars shouldn’t be financing the failed ambitions of politicians – let's save $16.6 million.
7. Bad Pennies
Currently, the federal government is paying 3 cents to produce a penny and 11 cents to make a nickel.
That makes no sense!
Only Washington could lose money making money.
Changing the composition of coins would save $50 million a year.
Currently, the federal government is paying 3 cents to produce a penny and 11 cents to make a nickel.
That makes no sense!
Only Washington could lose money making money.
Changing the composition of coins would save $50 million a year.
8. Trillion Dollar Secret Slush Funds
Washington is hiding $1.6 trillion in unobligated funds, including billions from COVID.
We should not be hording money for secret pet projects when we are $36 trillion in debt.
Washington is hiding $1.6 trillion in unobligated funds, including billions from COVID.
We should not be hording money for secret pet projects when we are $36 trillion in debt.
9. Bogus Bonuses 🚀🛰️
The federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars giving bureaucrats and contractors unearned bonuses for work that often never took place, including more than $500 million at @NASA.
Time to end this moondoggle.
The federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars giving bureaucrats and contractors unearned bonuses for work that often never took place, including more than $500 million at @NASA.
Time to end this moondoggle.
10. Silly Science
🦐How fast does a shrimp run on a treadmill?
🐼How fast does a panda poop?
🚽Which tastes better - toilet water or bottled water?
🐘Can elephants solve puzzles?
These are just a few of the bizarre studies funded using hundreds of millions in tax dollars.
🦐How fast does a shrimp run on a treadmill?
🐼How fast does a panda poop?
🚽Which tastes better - toilet water or bottled water?
🐘Can elephants solve puzzles?
These are just a few of the bizarre studies funded using hundreds of millions in tax dollars.
11. Unemployment for Millionaires
Nearly 15,000 Americans earning a million dollars in income collected $213 million in unemployment last year.
The million-dollar question - why are hardworking folks paying for this?
Nearly 15,000 Americans earning a million dollars in income collected $213 million in unemployment last year.
The million-dollar question - why are hardworking folks paying for this?
12. Government Swag
Federal agencies collectively spend $1.5 billion every year on public relations including snuggies, mascots, key chains, and coloring books.
Let's bag the swag.
Federal agencies collectively spend $1.5 billion every year on public relations including snuggies, mascots, key chains, and coloring books.
Let's bag the swag.
13. Head in the Clouds ☁️💻
Consolidating federal agencies’ cloud computing software licenses would save $750 million a year.
Consolidating federal agencies’ cloud computing software licenses would save $750 million a year.
14. China's Mad Scientists 🧑🔬
My investigations uncovered that Dr. Fauci and others have sent millions to shady Chinese labs for sketchy experiments.
The worst part is that a lack of transparency means we don't even know how many millions are being spent or for what.
My investigations uncovered that Dr. Fauci and others have sent millions to shady Chinese labs for sketchy experiments.
The worst part is that a lack of transparency means we don't even know how many millions are being spent or for what.
15. UN Overpayments
The USA pays higher dues to the UN than any other country, and sends $15 billion more voluntarily, despite UN employees participating in terrorist attacks and encouraging illegal immigration to the USA.
Why are tax dollars undermining our national security?
The USA pays higher dues to the UN than any other country, and sends $15 billion more voluntarily, despite UN employees participating in terrorist attacks and encouraging illegal immigration to the USA.
Why are tax dollars undermining our national security?
16. Defenseless Spending
The Pentagon wastes $125 billion on bloated bureaucracy and has never passed an audit.
Let's declare war on wasteful spending.
The Pentagon wastes $125 billion on bloated bureaucracy and has never passed an audit.
Let's declare war on wasteful spending.
17. Unhealthy Benefits
The Federal Employees Health Benefits program wastes $1 billion annually paying for ineligible individuals.
The Federal Employees Health Benefits program wastes $1 billion annually paying for ineligible individuals.
18. Paid Not to Work
Federal employees with no work assignments admit to napping, playing dominoes, and chess on the clock.
Simply enacting a law passed by Congress would save $31 million a year.
Federal employees with no work assignments admit to napping, playing dominoes, and chess on the clock.
Simply enacting a law passed by Congress would save $31 million a year.
19. Stop Giving Away the Farm 🚜
@USDA spends millions to support pet projects like teaching pigs to play video games, subsidizing cricket farms, and other nonsense that does nothing to support our farmers.
@USDA spends millions to support pet projects like teaching pigs to play video games, subsidizing cricket farms, and other nonsense that does nothing to support our farmers.
20. Snap Back Payments 🫰
Bureaucratic blunders result in $10 billion ineligible SNAP payments a year.
With the snap of a finger, we could fix this.
Bureaucratic blunders result in $10 billion ineligible SNAP payments a year.
With the snap of a finger, we could fix this.
21. Reducing Duplication
Efficient and government rarely go with each other but implementing hundreds of recommendations from Congress' nonpartisan watchdog @USGAO would increase efficiency and save $200 billion a year.
Efficient and government rarely go with each other but implementing hundreds of recommendations from Congress' nonpartisan watchdog @USGAO would increase efficiency and save $200 billion a year.
22. Common Sense
For every $1 billion spent by Washington, $102 million is waste.
Implementing basic management principles would have saved taxpayers $688.5 billion last year.
For every $1 billion spent by Washington, $102 million is waste.
Implementing basic management principles would have saved taxpayers $688.5 billion last year.
This is just a $2 trillion start.
@elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @DOGE and I will be hard at work putting waste on the chopping block and carving up Washington’s bloated budget. #MakeEmSqueal
@elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @DOGE and I will be hard at work putting waste on the chopping block and carving up Washington’s bloated budget. #MakeEmSqueal
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