Top 20 Insanities DOGE revealed in 2025

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Ladies and gentlemen, we did it before and we’re doing it again.

February 2025 - DOGE update

DOGE is still operating. It’s just not as visible with the departure of high-profile advocates like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

So gather ‘round and behold this year’s Official Pageant of Governmental Fraud. What follows is a Top 20 countdown of federal spending so baffling, so gloriously disconnected from reason, that one can only assume the nation’s checkbook is being balanced by a raccoon with a bleeding head injury. Strap in.

#20 – Behold: $1.4 million so a troupe of professional onlookers could stand around the

Department of Education watching folks sort mail. Not improve it, not measure it — just observe, like it was some majestic migration of swallows.

#19 – And because one mail‑watching spectacle wasn’t enough, we shelled out $1.5 million for another group to marvel at mail sorting over at the Department of Energy. America: where even envelopes have a fan club.

#18 – Next up: $2.7 million for Russian cats on treadmills. If you ever wondered how

taxpayer dollars could be used to improve international feline cardio, wonder no more.

#17 – Then the Department of Education spent $3 million proving their last ignored report was still being ignored.

#16 – $4.6 million to coordinate Zoom and in‑person meetings. Because apparently the Department of Education needed a concierge to schedule Zoom calls.

#15 – USAID tossed $6 million toward Egyptian tourism. That’s right: while Americans save pennies for gas, we’re out here helping Egypt book more vacationers.

#14 – $9 million for a “gender consultant” in Central America. Nobody’s quite sure what they consulted, but the money evaporated faster than light.

#13 – $17 million spent advising Liberia on its tax code — an admirable act of charity, unless you’re one of us Americans still trying to understand IRS instructions.

#12 – $19.5 million for broadcasts into Iraq, Libya, and Chad — a relic of the Cold War kept alive purely out of nostalgia. Like keeping carrier pigeons “just in case.”

#11 – $33.2 million on transgender monkey studies. That’s the entire sentence.

#10 – $59 million in unemployment checks sent to citizens claiming to be 115 years

old. Either we’ve discovered a scientific breakthrough — or Democrats are stealing again.

#9 – FEMA had $59.3 million quietly detoured into New York City hotel rooms for migrants. Eventually clawed back, but only after the nation collectively yelled, “Excuse me?!”

#8 – $69 million in unemployment benefits paid to “future babies.” Yes — unborn recipients. The bureaucracy has achieved time travel, but only for your tax dollars.

#7 – The Pentagon misplaced $80 million into “non‑mission fluff,” proving that even the world’s mightiest military cannot defeat its own paperwork.

#6 – The Department of Energy spent $100 million on DEI trainings — enough money to build a small power plant, but instead devoted to lectures on how White males are the root of all evil.

#5 – $170 million in military gear destroyed by storing it worse than a teenager’s laundry. Tanks for the memories!

#4 – $254 million in unemployment benefits for toddlers under five. If your preschooler is filing claims, we may have bigger issues than fraud.

#3 – The DOD built an HR IT system that ran 780% over budget at a casual $280 million.

Somewhere, a contracting executive is laughing on his yacht that just docked in the Greek islands.

#2 – HUD “misplaced” $1.9 billion. Misplaced! As if money that could pave a small state just slipped behind the couch cushions.

#1 – And the grand champion: $516 billion spent on 1,264 expired, defunct, fossilized government programs. Half a trillion dollars shoveled into the graveyard of bureaucracy. No wonder the Uniparty attacked DOGE so fervently.

And there you have it: twenty shining examples of why the interest on the national debt exceeds the Department of War’s budget.

And given what DOGE has uncovered in less than a year, my question remains:

What in the actual hell is the role of an Inspector General?

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