The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been going department-by-department, agency head-by-agency head through every expense and policy line looking for wasteful and fraudulent spending and they are finding a lot of it.
Cabinet members and agency heads are also taking a close look at policy and procedure to tighten things up and make sure the policy is advancing America and reflecting our values.
Attorney General Pam Bondi took her turn with the DOGE chain saw announcing some of what she has found and cut at the Department of Justice. In the first few weeks of Trump’s presidency and creation of DOGE, Bondi said, “It's the President's right to control the budget, & these are our tax dollars that have been squandered away.”
Bondi said on X, “The Department of Justice has started cutting millions of dollars in wasteful grants. Some of the greatest hits include:
· $2M for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience”;
· $695k for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services”; and
· $250k for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities.
“More to come,” is the simple message from Bondi.
The Department of Justice, under Bondi’s leadership, is also spearheading the battle to enact President Trump’s agenda to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse of the federal taxpayer dollars. As states, unions, and non-governmental agencies sue Trump to keep the status quo waste in place, Bondi is fighting back in the courts for the American people.
DOGE has been the target of over 120 lawsuits to prevent DOGE staff from looking at data and processes. The desire to keep the grift going is strong. A lot of people have made out very well for a long time with no light ever shined on what they do and how they spend money.
Bondi said in an interview with Fox News, “TRUMP WILL ‘PREVAIL’: The Democrat state attorneys general suing to stop DOGE from exposing waste and abuse are playing politics — and will fail.”
Lawsuits have been filed around a variety of issues including downsizing of federal agencies, moving core functions to another appropriate agency, stopping grants that fund DEI or sexual ideology in the United States and abroad.
Bondi made clear in a recent cabinet meeting that the issue isn’t just waste and out of core mission spending, but actual fraud. Bondi made it known that the DOJ has a task force working with every government agency and they will be filing charges against those they find have defrauded the federal government.