Posted on 03/11/2025 4:57:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
The Department of Government Efficiency has been like a force of nature since Donald Trump took office and Elon Musk set the DOGE loose to uncover waste in the government. And oh, what waste and fraud they’ve found, from our funding of jihadists and extreme social justice programs overseas through USAID to the discovery of $1.9 billion that Biden’s Housing and Urban Development Department “misplaced.”
We all knew that there was plenty of funny business going on, but some of what DOGE has found has been truly jaw-dropping.
It doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop either, as DOGE announced on Saturday night that the Small Business Administration had loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to small enterprises during the COVID pandemic. Sounds fine, right?
Except for the fact that the business owners in these cases were all 11 years old or younger:
Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE · Follow In 2020-2021, SBA granted 5,593 loans for $312M to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used… Show more Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.
In one case, a 157 years old individual… 4:10 AM · Mar 9, 2025
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
DOGE Makes Another Bombshell Discovery
3/10/2025, 12:13:50 PM · 9 of 38
Liz to All
Remenber when Democrats needed “unlimited”
COVID relief funds to help “struggling Americans?”
Now DOGE exposed the mind-boggling incompetence of Biden Democrats.
<><>C 2020-2021, SBA handed out 5,593 loans totaling $312M to “business owners”
<><>the “business owners” were aged 11 y/o or younger.
<><>kids were stuck in Zoom school,
<><>but their classmates were running multimillion dollar govt funded enterprises.
<><>plus the pint-sized entrepreneurs used S/S nos that didn’t match their names.
I wish I were young and DOGEy.
Team Musk doesn’t have the capability for that. But yes, it would be reassuring to hear that thousands of referrals had been sent by now to the DoJ—and I’ve not heard much of that.
IDIOTS
I don’t see a problem with kids 11 and younger getting a SBA loan in the millions. With the price of lemons going up, they need a helping hand getting their lemon aid stands up and running.
Seriously, the rats are quite ingenious and diverse in finding ways to scam tax payer dollars into their own pockets. This appears to be going on in every govt agency and department.
I thought MIC and endless wars was the biggest scam in history. I bet when all the scamming is added up across the whole government that the MIC game is just peanuts.
It’s easy to see why Trump hates the IRS, as they are the tax collectors taking the money to give to the grifters. And the EPA and DOE are primarily huge wastes of money and those need to go.
5his is all great, and needs to happen, however, going forward, it must be remembered that democrats are extremely vengeful and hateful people who never forget- and conservatives in gov will have to be extra upright if liberals regain power because the left will be looking for any little infraction to arrest them over. Heck, the left will lie and invent crimes to charge the right with.
Ever since the right took their slaves away, th3 left have been out for revenge. Denying al Gore and Hillary yhe presidency and Impeaching Clinton really set them into a rage. Now doge is taking away their play money, and you can bet that their rage will be a supercharged demonic effort to get back at them.
We can fight tough, but they can fight tougher simply because they own and or control the majority of power in the us- ie they run cops, courts, judges, social media, the press, blm, antifa, soros $$, big businesses, etc etc etc. But conservatives must fight, as conservatives are the only thing standing in the way of outright satanic domination.
Merely attempting to relieve your ignorance y providing enlightenment
How do you contract with a kid?
I think you are right. I think Trump and Musk have discovered that and come to the same conclusion.
The whole government of America and the west have been ripping off American taxpayers for a very long time. Draining the swamp is actually draining the whole collective west. Right now they are howling like a pack of wolves in a forest fire.
The globalists/dems/marxists have started this war and this spring and summer won’t be pretty.
It is going to take being tough and determined. Already there are some who are keeling over rather than standing together.
It's pretty obvious that these are pure FRAUD. I Hope the FBI is tracing this money and will SOON be making arrests and indictments!
Months or years to prosecute one case times 100,000 cases all in less than four years…all the while opposed by leftist judges and the National Lawyers Guild.
They better devise a new way rather than using the judicial system.
Ya think? When the government is so awash with money they don't miss 100 BILLION, they are ripping off taxpayers and have TOO MUCH money. Only one solution given that Government is addicted to spending, we must balance the budget and CUT TAXES significantly.
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What they (and Thomas Massie) don’t see is the stops that will be in place for the first budget in 20 years for 2026.
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Imagine believing there WILL be ‘stops’, let alone an actual BUDGET. Or even the farce that the Congress of TODAY can dictate...ANYTHING to their future self.
Upcoming (ILLEGAL) CRs (as Congress hasn’t passed individual appropriation bills OR have an actual budget, in DECADES) that spend MORE than ‘24 are “*BAD*” to be against *facepalm*
A lot of kids have baking businesses that I’m sure suffered during Covid. I’d hope they look at the kids company before making this a thing.
I could see some of these 10-year old kids observing dad filling out the paperwork for the gov’t loans, and figuring...why can’t I do a form and ask for $20,000? All they can do is turn me down.
They wake up 2 months later....check in the mailbox...$20k.
In the 70s, I went to school with kids who had the guts to do this...just on a whim.
[[When the government is so awash with money they don’t miss 100 BILLION, they are ripping off taxpayers and have TOO MUCH money]]
Exactly! Musk and pres Trump need to state that fact to the msm point blank. Make them own the fsct that they are so feckless that they can’t even be bothered to investigate real crime and waste.
The GOP is as interested in keeping the fraud and abuse as the dems.
Me too Uncle Miltie. To be young again and have that brainpower to use it to help the republic and civilization. Remarkable individuals. WOW!
I am waiting for the final audit.
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