Donald Trump has been President for one month, and that squealing sound you hear is coming from Leftist pigs who are outraged that their endless supply of government slop no longer is being mindlessly dumped into their bottomless troughs.  Simply put, Trump has derailed their gravy train, and for once, the interest of the taxpayer is being considered.

Trump arrived with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ready to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending.  It wasn’t hard to find.  As of February 18, and after reviewing the books of only a handful of agencies, DOGE has uncovered mind blowing excesses, and has recovered some $55 billion in illegal or wasteful spending.

Back at a time when our elected officials actually paid attention to how they spent your money, Senator Everett Dirksen famously mused, “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.”  Multiply that by a thousand and you get, “A trillion here, a trillion where?  And is it any wonder we’re going broke?”

Elon Musk and his highly intelligent wunderkind have been hard at work looking into areas of the government that the bureaucrats hoped would never be inspected.  What they have found is shocking.

After the election, the Biden Administration frantically went about trying to spend as much money as possible before Trump arrived and could shut down the Democrats’ free candy store.  Some of the bureaucrats even bragged about it.

A now former EPA official posted about the rush to offload your tax money,  “It truly feels like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing, like, gold bars off the edge.”  They sent some $600 million to something called The Alliance for Climate Justice, which sounds laudable, but which turns out to be an anti-Semitic front, whose website proclaims, “Climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.”  New EPA Director Lee Zeldin was able to claw back $50 million.

Zeldin also found that the EPA had run out of phony front groups to shovel your money to, and had parked $20 billion in two banks, in preparation for pissing it away to some Leftist group, which no doubt would kick back to deserving Democrat politicians.  He got that money back.

Democrats wasted your money on things that even The Babylon Bee couldn’t dream up.  $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique.  $25 million for biodiversity in Colombia.  UC Berkeley got $9.7 million to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills.”  $32 million to the Prague Civil Society Center.

Here’s a Democrat slush fund if ever there was one – $486 million to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening.”  That dubious group spent money on elections in Moldova and India.  $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in Bangladesh.  Is there one?  Maybe the money went for shrubbery.

Nepal made out very well.  They got $20 million for “fiscal federalism,” whatever that is, and $19 million for a “biodiversity conversation.”  At that price, it must have been a long conversation.  Biodiversity deals with endangered species.  I’m sorry there are only 193 Bengal tigers left in Nepal, but it’s not my fault, and I don’t want to pay for it.

DOGE found that HUD had “misplaced” $1.9 billion.  When that much government money gets “misplaced,” somebody ought to go to prison.  Shockingly, the DOGE boys uncovered government payments totaling $4.7 trillion, for which there were no listings as to what, or to whom, the money had been paid.

Now, I don’t for a moment believe that all that money was fraudulently spent or stolen, but I would bet that in that mind boggling amount of untraceable money, some of it surely went astray.  Maybe I’m just jaded from having practiced criminal law for 45 years.  All I’m saying is, I know people who will kill you for 2 dollars, so if there’s trillions, and nobody’s looking …

Perhaps the most alarming revelation came from DOGE’s cursory look into the records of the Social Security Administration.  Social Security spent $1.35 trillion in 2023.  But, I must digress.  I’m pretty conservative, but my dentist is so conservative he puts me to shame.  A few weeks ago, during a cleaning, he told me millions of people over the age of 115 were receiving Social Security checks.  I doubted him.  Sorry Doc.

Elon Musk has found millions of listings for Social Security recipients whose reported ages on the SSA books are from 100 to over 300 years of age.  Now, while I’m sure there are plenty of deposits going to dead people, I can’t believe it numbers in the millions, but that’s not the point.  If a government agency is spending over a trillion dollars a year, shouldn’t its records be accurate?

Musk claims that the number of people getting Social Security payments exceeds the reported population of the country.  What if he’s right?  A study has shown that 75% of the untold millions of illegal aliens are using fraudulent Social Security numbers.  Until Trump arrived, the SSA would do nothing about that.  Again, somebody, maybe a lot of somebodies, need to go to prison.

Predictably, Democrats are opposing the efforts of DOGE.  A number of lawsuits have been filed.  The Democrat line is, “we’re not in favor of waste and fraud, of course, but we just don’t like the way its being uncovered.”  “Musk wasn’t elected,” they scream.  True, but what’s the point.

The President is the Chief Executive.  He’s responsible for all the money spent by these myriad agencies, but Democrats incredibly claim that he has no right to look at the books.  They say it’s illegal and unconstitutional.  Bullshit!

Look at it this way.  If a President hired a Big Eight accounting firm to do audits at $600 an hour, that would be wasteful, but legal.  Here, Trump has gotten the richest man in world to do the job for free, and the Dems have a problem with that.

“Musk isn’t a government employee,” they cry.  Not so fast.  It turns out he is a senior advisor to the President.  Joe Biden had Anita Dunn in that role, and nobody ever questioned what she was doing (which probably was running the entire government for Clueless Joe).

But Democrats are marching and singing about DOGE, and they’ve sued Trump to stop the DOGE inspections.  Not to avoid uncovering fraud, of course, but because Elon Musk wasn’t confirmed by the Senate.  Uh huh.  And if you believe that, USAID has a bridge to sell you, probably in Nepal.

No, no, Democrats protest, it’s not the results of the audits, it’s the process.  Sure, that’s what it is.  They don’t object to you finding out they’ve been cheating and stealing for 50 years, they just want to ensure no laws are broken in the process of proving them to be crooks.  The truth is, these bastards are opposing Trump on the basis that he’s recklessly saving your money.  Isn’t that noble?

Even Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan isn’t buying that one.  Remember her?  She’s the D.C. Judge who was trying to throw Trump in prison, even after the Supreme Court said he might have immunity.  14 Democrat AGs sued Trump to stop the DOGE audits that are leading to the cancelling of wasteful grants.  They want to protect their phony baloney federal stipends, so they sought a preliminary injunction.  Judge Chutkan said, “No.”  Did we really need a Federal court to rule that the President is allowed to access government computers?

Trump and Musk claim that the efforts of DOGE can cut up to a trillion dollars out of the Federal budget.  Let’s hope they keep looking under the rocks.  The American taxpayer is entitled to see what crawls out.