Transgender monkeys, DEI and checks to dead people where Elon Musk can start cutting federal spending

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are tasked with cutting down the $6,750,000,000,000 the federal government spent in 2024 under their new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).The group will work outside of the government to “dismantle bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies,” according to a statement from President-elect Donald Trump.John Hart, CEO of watchdog Open the Books, which monitors fiscal waste, told The Post they will curb “spending that has been on autopilot where there’s no real thought or purpose behind it.”Finding areas to cut isn’t hard — many jaw dropping examples are admitted in the government’s own reports.

Here are some of the first gravy trains expected to be derailed:In 2023, the federal government shipped $1.3 billion in checks to dead people from the IRS, Medicare and assorted veterans groups, according to RealClear Investigations.According to Hart, it could easily be stopped.“The Treasury department has a do-not-pay list.

These people should all be on it.But there is no cross checking between the agencies paying out and the Treasury,” he said.Prisoners thought to still be free and out-of-work received $171 million in unemployment payments or Social Security in 2023.

Medicaid and Medicare also sent out $101 billion in improper payments, largely due to fraud, and tax cheats took the IRS for at least $546 million.In 2021 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $549,000 to a Russian lab performing experiments on cats, including removing part of their brains and seeing if they could still walk on treadmills, according to the Washington Times.American taxpayers shelled out $4 million last year for Joe and Hunter Biden to go on a trip to Ireland, as The Post reported. That included $1.2 million on an elaborate sound system and light show for a Biden speech and $760,000 to rent out an entire hotel in Dublin.Spending by the NIH includes $33 million to a firm...