The bombshell reports came quickly after Donald Trump won the presidential election, took back the Oval Office, and directed Elon Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, quickly uncovered, along with his DOGE team, staggering amounts of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, including jaw-dropping expenditures at agencies like USAID for woke social justice projects and funding to folks with ties to terrorists.
But they uncovered something else too: some of our government’s technology is ridiculously outdated:
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process…
