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You've Got to Be Kidding Me: DOGE Uncovers Hundreds of Millions in SBA Loans… to Children
Redstate ^ | 03/09/2025 | Bob Hoge

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doge; fraud; ripoff; sba; scam
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1 posted on 03/11/2025 4:57:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
So, the corruption is so vast that Team Musk can do little more than expose the culprits? No charges of fraud against the perps? No clawing back the funds from the personal accounts of our "elected pimps and whores" who have profited?

Cause we keep reading about this yet how many people have been indicted?

2 posted on 03/11/2025 5:01:17 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: SmokingJoe

“Little Lebowski Urban Achievers, yes, and proud we are of all of them.”


3 posted on 03/11/2025 5:02:16 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: LouAvul

Apparently, you are not paying attention. If you did you would know that the DOGE team is charges with finding the waste and corruption. The responsible agency is then notified and takes action.

Your rant is misguided and premature


4 posted on 03/11/2025 5:09:17 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: SmokingJoe

HOORAY individuals at DOGE! Can you get names and faces of these people receiving and sending our tax dollars?


5 posted on 03/11/2025 5:11:17 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: LouAvul

Takes further investigation to prosecute. It might be the case that DoJ doesn’t have enough manpower resources to prosecute all the cases.


6 posted on 03/11/2025 5:26:45 AM PDT by Bayard
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They should take all the laid off agents from other agencies and sic them on these newly-discovered fraudsters.

Problem is, there is so much fraud that the new agency would probably completely absorb the layoffs.

Net zero indeed.

7 posted on 03/11/2025 5:31:28 AM PDT by caddie
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They are finding billions, but most of it can’t be clawed back so the dems are downplaying the savings. 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.

Even finding and prosecuting the thieves won’t get the money back


8 posted on 03/11/2025 5:36:38 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: bert
And you're ignorant. In case you haven't noticed, we now have a 4th branch of govt, viz. low level, low IQ federal whores on federal benches who are conspiring to so completely inundate the current administration with nuisance lawsuits as to completely subvert and obstruct the Executive Branch.

I'm still waiting to see Hitlery do the perp walk in shackles and orange jump suit. And that's from 2016.

Don't post to me again. You're boring.

9 posted on 03/11/2025 5:42:24 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: LouAvul
we keep reading about this yet how many people have been indicted?

As you know, it's not DOGE's job to prosecute the guilty fraudsters or even to gather the evidence.

And it’s too early to expect prosecutions because fraud investigations take time, requiring forensic accounting, witness testimony, and legal scrutiny before charges can be filed.

DOGE must first refer cases to law enforcement (DOJ, FBI), which then conducts its own investigations. White-collar fraud cases are complex, especially when involving government contracts or international money flows, often taking months or years to untangle. Additionally, political and bureaucratic resistance can and will delay or obstruct prosecutions.

If this fraud is as massive as Trump and Musk have hinted, its investigation and prosecution will shake the world. But it won’t happen overnight.

10 posted on 03/11/2025 5:42:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("Think AI is scary? Imagine the world run by gov't bureaucrats.")
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To: Bayard
.....all the cases....

Big difference between "all" and "none." We're currently at the latter.

11 posted on 03/11/2025 5:43:29 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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“So, the corruption is so vast that Team Musk can do little more than expose the culprits? No charges of fraud against the perps? No clawing back the funds from the personal accounts of our “elected pimps and whores” who have profited?”

So do you think Trump is a FRAUD? If not, then you must think he’s an idiot for letting Musk run around making a fool of him.


12 posted on 03/11/2025 5:45:08 AM PDT by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: SmokingJoe

Maybe in some kids needed money to expand their lemonade stands.


13 posted on 03/11/2025 5:45:17 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: RoosterRedux
it won’t happen overnight.

Color me skeptical. With a treasonous Kongress and equally disreputable sKotus and low level, low IQ prostitutes on federal benches, I'm not getting my hopes up.

Kudos to team Trump and Musk. But ...

14 posted on 03/11/2025 5:46:42 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: SmokingJoe

Good work by the DOGE team .... but I can’t help thinking all these reports provide a distraction from the Epstein file. Where does that stand? Its release has seemed to disappear.


15 posted on 03/11/2025 5:47:22 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: bert
Apparently, you are not paying attention. If you did you would know that the DOGE team is charges with finding the waste and corruption. The responsible agency is then notified and takes action.

Your rant is misguided and premature

Your admonition is premature.   We have not heard of any responsible agency taking action against the waste and corruption, be it against the fraudsters or the bureaucrats that allowed.

16 posted on 03/11/2025 5:50:59 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: LouAvul

Plenty of clawing back has been done.
For example they clawed back the $59 million sent to that hotel in New York for illegals.
Prosecutions will follow in due time.


17 posted on 03/11/2025 5:52:06 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: LouAvul
Same here.

This is going to be a counterrevolution. A casting off of the shackles of the Marxist Democrats.

They won't give up without total war.

18 posted on 03/11/2025 5:53:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("Think AI is scary? Imagine the world run by gov't bureaucrats.")
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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.


19 posted on 03/11/2025 5:54:53 AM PDT by Liz
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To: All

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.


20 posted on 03/11/2025 5:54:53 AM PDT by Liz
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