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

As President Donald Trump celebrated his 100th time successful bureau this week, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has chopped astatine slightest $160 cardinal successful waste, fraud and maltreatment successful the national government. 

When Trump signed an enforcement bid establishing the bureau connected his Inauguration Day, DOGE acceptable an ambitious extremity of cutting $2 trillion from the national budget. 

According to the Office of Government Ethics, "special authorities employees" similar Musk tin enactment for the national authorities nary much than 130 days a year, which successful Musk's lawsuit volition autumn connected May 30. He has already started pairing backmost his hours starring the arguable agency. 

Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters Primetime" had the accidental to spot down the curtain of Musk's infamous DOGE, which Democrats person railed against and Republicans person celebrated since Trump returned to the White House this year. The "DOGE boys" reminded Watters connected Thursday of immoderate of the astir shocking savings secured by the section this year. 

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DOGE person Elon Musk has been deed with 96% antagonistic sum connected ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts, according to the Media Research Center.  (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Funding a erstwhile Taliban member

Earlier this year, DOGE discovered the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) had transferred $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi, a erstwhile Taliban subordinate who was Afghanistan's erstwhile Chief of Protocol. DOGE announced connected March 31 that the declaration was canceled. 

Halimi was detained by the U.S. and held astatine Bagram Air Base for a twelvemonth opening Jan. 2, 2002. He held respective positions successful Afghanistan's authorities pursuing his merchandise and was appointed arsenic the Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs successful Afghanistan successful 2020. 

"A tiny bureau called the United States Institute of Peace is decidedly the bureau we've had the astir combat at. We really went into the bureau and recovered they had loaded guns wrong their office — Institute for Peace," a DOGE staffer told Watters. "So by far, the slightest peaceful bureau that we've worked with, ironically. Additionally, we recovered that they were spending wealth connected things similar backstage jets, and they adjacent had a $130,000 declaration with a erstwhile subordinate of the Taliban. This is real. We don't brushwood that successful astir agencies."

USIP did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's inquiry. 

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Elon Musk speaks during an lawsuit successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 11. (AP Images)

Parties astatine Caesars Palace 

Fox News Digital reported earlier this twelvemonth that the nation's schools spent $200 cardinal successful COVID-relief funds connected expenses "with small oversight oregon interaction connected students," specified arsenic Las Vegas edifice rooms and buying an crystal pick truck, according to DOGE's audits. 

Granite School District successful Utah spent their COVID-relief funds connected $86,000 successful edifice rooms for an acquisition league astatine Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas casino, portion Santa Ana Unified successful California spent $393,000 to rent retired a Major League Baseball stadium, according to a study by Parents Defending Education and shared by DOGE. Granite School District has since denied "any impropriety for having our educators participate" successful the Las Vegas conference.

The cost-cutting section besides revealed that schools spent $60,000 of COVID-relief funds connected swimming excavation passes, portion a California territory utilized its funds to acquisition an crystal pick truck.

"They were fundamentally partying connected the taxpayers' dollars," Musk told Watters connected Thursday. 

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President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk arsenic they get to be a viewing of the motorboat of the sixth trial formation of the SpaceX Starship rocket successful Brownsville, Texas, connected Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Millions for 'Sesame Street' successful Iraq

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is chairwoman of the Senate DOGE Caucus and who has collaborated intimately with Musk to place discarded to cut, revealed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) "authorized a whopping $20 cardinal to make a 'Sesame Street' successful Iraq." 

Ernst said that nether the Biden administration, USAID awarded the $20 cardinal to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop to nutrient a amusement called "Ahlan Simsim Iraq" successful an effort to "promote inclusion, communal respect and knowing crossed ethnic, spiritual and sectarian groups." 

Billions successful 'improper payments' successful 2024 alone 

DOGE received a manus from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which released a study successful March revealing that national agencies wasted $162 cardinal successful "improper payments," which was really a alteration of $74 cardinal from the erstwhile fiscal year. 

GAO's investigation revealed that of the 16 authorities agencies reporting improper payments, 75% of the discarded recovered was concentrated successful 5 programs: $54 cardinal from 3 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Medicare programs; $31 cardinal successful HHS Medicaid; $16 cardinal from the Department of the Treasury’s earned income taxation credit; $11 cardinal from the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; and $9 cardinal from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Restaurant Revitalization Fund. 

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters astatine the White House.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Large amounts of DEI spending wrong the national government

On the run way and since taking office, Trump has made it wide helium aims to slash diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending successful the national government, portion making the lawsuit that a strategy of meritocracy should beryllium the focus.

DOGE has announced implicit the past fewer months that it has chopped hundreds of millions successful DEI contracts. 

Earlier this month, DOGE announced it had worked with the U.S. National Science Foundation to cancel 402 "wasteful" DEI grants, which volition prevention $233 million, including $1 cardinal for "Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation."

The Department of Defense could prevention up to $80 cardinal successful wasteful spending by cutting escaped a fistful of DEI programs, the bureau announced past month.

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The Defense Department has been moving with DOGE to slash wasteful spending, DOD spokesperson Sean Parnell said successful a video posted to societal media.

Parnell listed immoderate of the archetypal findings flagged by DOGE, overmuch of it consisting of millions of dollars fixed to enactment assorted DEI programs, including $1.9 cardinal for holistic DEI translation and grooming successful the Air Force and $6 cardinal to the University of Montana to "strengthen American ideology by bridging divides."

The Trump medication announced earlier this period it is slashing millions of dollars successful DEI grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services arsenic portion of its wide DOGE push.

And successful February, the Department of Education said it is canceling much than $100 cardinal successful grants to DEI grooming arsenic portion of DOGE's efforts. 

Fox News Digital's Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.