Top 5 most outrageous ways the government has wasted your taxes, as uncovered by Elon Musk's DOGE

As President Donald Trump celebrated his th day in office this week Elon Musk's Department of Cabinet Efficiency DOGE declared it has cut at least billion in waste fraud and abuse in the federal cabinet When Trump signed an executive order establishing the agency on his Inauguration Day DOGE set an ambitious goal of cutting trillion from the federal budget According to the Office of Authorities Ethics special cabinet employees like Musk can work for the federal cabinet no more than days a year which in Musk's matter will fall on May He has already started pairing back his hours leading the controversial agency Fox News Channel's Jesse Watters Primetime had the opportunity to see behind the curtain of Musk's infamous DOGE which Democrats have railed against and Republicans have celebrated since Trump returned to the White House this year The DOGE boys reminded Watters on Thursday of particular of the majority shocking savings secured by the department this year DOGE'S GREATEST HITS LOOK BACK AT THE DEPARTMENT'S MAJORITY OF HIGH-PROFILE CUTS DURING TRUMP'S FIRST DAYSEarlier this year DOGE discovered the United States Institute of Peace USIP had transferred to Mohammad Qasem Halimi a former Taliban member who was Afghanistan's former Chief of Protocol DOGE revealed on March that the contract was canceled Halimi was detained by the U S and held at Bagram Air Base for a year beginning Jan He held several positions in Afghanistan's regime following his release and was appointed as the Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs in Afghanistan in A small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we've had the majority fight at We definitely went into the agency and unveiled they had loaded guns inside their headquarters Institute for Peace a DOGE staffer advised Watters So by far the least peaceful agency that we've worked with ironically Additionally we uncovered that they were spending money on things like private jets and they even had a contract with a former member of the Taliban This is real We don't encounter that in the greater part agencies USIP did not at once respond to Fox News Digital's inquiry ELON MUSK LOOKS BACK ON DAYS OF DOGE PREVIEWS FUTURE OF THE 'LONG-TERM ENTERPRISE'Fox News Digital revealed earlier this year that the nation's schools spent billion in COVID-relief funds on expenses with little oversight or impact on students such as Las Vegas hotel rooms and buying an ice cream truck according to DOGE's audits Granite School District in Utah spent their COVID-relief funds on in hotel rooms for an educational conference at Caesars Palace a ritzy Las Vegas casino while Santa Ana Unified in California spent to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium according to a summary by Parents Defending Mentoring and shared by DOGE Granite School District has since denied any impropriety for having our educators participate in the Las Vegas conference The cost-cutting department also revealed that schools spent of COVID-relief funds on swimming pool passes while a California district used its funds to purchase an ice cream truck They were basically partying on the taxpayers' dollars Musk narrated Watters on Thursday CAESARS PALACE MLB STADIUM AN ICE CREAM TRUCK DOGE REVEALS HOW SCHOOLS SPENT BILLIONS IN COVID-RELIEF FUNDSSen Joni Ernst R-Iowa who is chairwoman of the Senate DOGE Caucus and who has collaborated closely with Musk to identify waste to cut revealed that the U S Agency for International Advancement USAID authorized a whopping million to create a 'Sesame Street' in Iraq Ernst disclosed that under the Biden administration USAID awarded the million to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop to produce a show called Ahlan Simsim Iraq in an effort to promote inclusion mutual respect and understanding across ethnic religious and sectarian groups DOGE received a hand from the U S Regime Accountability Office GAO which circulated a description in March revealing that federal agencies wasted billion in improper payments which was indeed a decrease of billion from the previous fiscal year GAO's analysis revealed that of the cabinet agencies reporting improper payments of the waste unveiled was concentrated in five programs billion from three Department of Robustness and Human Services HHS Medicare programs billion in HHS Medicaid billion from the Department of the Treasury s earned income tax credit billion from the Department of Agriculture s USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Initiative and billion from the Small Business Administration s SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund On the campaign trail and since taking office Trump has made it clear he aims to slash diversity equity and inclusion DEI spending in the federal executive while making the episode that a system of meritocracy should be the focus DOGE has broadcasted over the last limited months that it has cut hundreds of millions in DEI contracts Earlier this month DOGE reported it had worked with the U S National Science Foundation to cancel wasteful DEI grants which will save million including million for Antiracist Professor Leadership for Statewide Transformation The Department of Defense could save up to million in wasteful spending by cutting loose a handful of DEI programs the agency stated last month The Defense Department has been working with DOGE to slash wasteful spending DOD spokesman Sean Parnell stated in a video posted to social media Parnell listed selected of the initial findings flagged by DOGE much of it consisting of millions of dollars given to advocacy various DEI programs including million for holistic DEI transformation and training in the Air Force and million to the University of Montana to strengthen American democracy by bridging divides The Trump administration released earlier this month it is slashing millions of dollars in DEI grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of its overall DOGE push And in February the Department of Mentoring explained it is canceling more than million in grants to DEI training as part of DOGE's efforts