It was apparent from the beginning that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the people working in it were going to find themselves in a target-rich environment. But, we have to admit, until the DOGE members started digging, not even the most pessimistic among us realized how much waste there really was – or how much money was being frittered away by incompetence and graft.
Now we have another example. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner has formed a DOGE task force to work with the larger effort to comb through HUD’s books, and one of the first things they found was $1.9 billion – that’s “billion” as in a “b” followed by an “illion” – that had been “misplaced” by the Biden administration.
How, for the luvva Pete, do you “misplace” almost two billion taxpayer dollars?
DOGE revealed that $1.9 billion in HUD money…
