From the Right: Washington blew your money, DOGE exposed it 

We’re only one month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and the literal swamp is draining at the speed of a Category 5 hurricane. This endeavor wasn’t a haphazard effort—it was a meticulously planned, strategically executed offensive against the bloated bureaucracy that has been bleeding taxpayers dry. The revelations so far are nothing short of staggering.

Political ideology aside, most reasonable people don’t like having their hard-earned money stolen and wasted on nonsense—unless, of course, you are a Congressman reaping the benefits or an insider profiting from the grift.

Nobody goes to work each day hoping the asinine amount of money they have to pay to their government in taxes goes toward “Diversity Equity Inclusion” (DEI) scholarships in Burma (a country in Southeast Asia), securing Paraguay’s border, a Harvard study on lizards being blown off trees with leaf blowers, a bearded ladies cabaret show on ice focused on climate change, voluntary circumcisions in Mozambique, or a study on ‘smart toilets’ that recognize the user’s ‘anal print.’

Enter DOGE—the “Department of Government Efficiency.” In just four weeks, this initiative, led by Elon Musk, owner of X and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and countless other companies, has uncovered and dismantled some of the most wasteful, nonsensical, and downright ridiculous spending projects Washington has been dumping our tax dollars into. 

And the Democrats’ response? Well, if you thought they’d take a moment of self-reflection, you’d be sorely mistaken. Instead, they’re clutching their pearls, crying about extremism, and fighting tooth and nail to keep the cash flowing to their pet projects—despite the fact that the American people overwhelmingly voted for this. 

Let’s take a moment to look at where our money was actually going before DOGE entered the chat, shall we?

Within five minutes of hitting the scene, DOGE revealed that ten million dollars in taxpayer funds were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys, and another million was spent to find out if these “transgender rats” would overdose on date rape drugs. 

More than two million dollars was awarded to pay for “gender-affirming care” in Guatemala. While millions of Americans struggled under Biden’s inflation, Washington elites thought it was a great idea to send your tax dollars to fund gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies in Central America. Because, apparently, that’s a top national priority. DOGE, of course, shut it down, and Democrats had a meltdown. 

According to them, cutting this funding is hateful. Imagine living in a world where the government of the United States owes Guatemalans taxpayer-funded gender transitions but doesn’t owe its own citizens secure borders or an economy that doesn’t crush the middle class.

As if taxpayer-funded gender transitions in Guatemala weren’t bad enough, DOGE also exposed millions of dollars being funneled into absurd cultural programs overseas. For example, under Biden, the State Department thought it was a great idea to fund drag shows in Ecuador as part of an initiative to promote “diversity and inclusion” abroad. Evidently, what struggling American families really needed was for their hard-earned money to bankroll gender-bending cabaret performances in South America.

DOGE further revealed that $47 million was spent to “improve learning outcomes” in Asia while American students fell further behind, $20 million was handed to Iraq for Sesame Street programming, $1.5 million went to Liberia to boost “voter confidence,” $101 million was wasted on 29 DEI contracts, and $100 million was funneled into condom distribution in Gaza, which reports suggest was repurposed by Hamas to make bombs. 

But that’s not all. DOGE uncovered millions sent to Pakistan to fund “gender studies programs” aimed at promoting feminism and LGBTQ+ activism. While American veterans went homeless and inflation crushed the middle class, Washington elites decided Pakistan needed a crash course in gender theory—courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. 

Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were also used to rent the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal migrants, proving once again that non-citizens were a higher priority to the previous administration than the people footing the bill.

As DOGE peeled back the layers of wasteful government spending, one agency kept appearing at the center of the grift: USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development. Supposedly created to provide foreign aid and economic assistance, USAID has instead functioned as a glorified money-laundering operation for globalist elites and a CIA front for regime-change operations. 

What was pitched to Americans as “humanitarian aid” turned out to be yet another bottomless pit of taxpayer dollars funding radical NGOs, left-wing pet projects, and media propaganda—both at home and abroad.

But USAID didn’t just bankroll progressive activists and globalist policies—it has secretly been funding the mainstream media worldwide to manipulate the news you consume. DOGE uncovered that the agency has been a major player in ensuring the mainstream media parrots only government-approved narratives. 

Through a tangled web of grants and partnerships, USAID funneled millions to some of the biggest names in media, including NPR, PBS, BBC, The New York Times, Reuters, and Politico. These so-called “independent” news outlets took government cash while pushing sponsored propaganda that served the Democratic Party and global elites. COVID hysteria, climate alarmism, anti-Trump propaganda—you name it, they sold it, all while pretending to be watchdogs holding the powerful accountable.

While DEI programs drained billions from the economy in the name of “equity,” and millions were funneled into media outlets to manipulate us with propaganda, this is just a fraction of the taxpayer-funded waste. 

Washington bureaucrats burned through mountains of cash on absurd climate studies—like research on cow farts supposedly destroying the ozone layer—and poured millions into woke climate startups that produced nothing but flashy marketing campaigns and corporate virtue-signaling.

The Biden administration worked tirelessly to funnel taxpayer money into the climate grift, with the EPA acting as a key player in the heist. After Trump took office, DOGE revealed that billions were funneled into so-called “green initiatives” that made politicians rich while delivering nothing for the American people. 

The winners? Environmental lobbyists, the Deep State, and the same people who lecture you about eating bugs to save the planet while flying around in private jets. The losers? American workers, families, and small business owners who bore the financial burden.

But those days are over. DOGE is dismantling wasteful agencies, cutting off funding to radical groups, and reversing regulations that strangled the economy. With real leadership back in the White House, the era of climate hysteria, reckless spending, and DEI is finally behind us.

Meanwhile, the Democrats aren’t even trying to hide their desperation. They’ve launched congressional investigations, screamed “fascism” at every press conference, and even enlisted Hollywood celebrities to guilt-trip Americans into supporting wasteful spending. 

But here’s the thing—DOGE isn’t a new idea. Obama talked a big game about cutting government waste and making agencies more efficient. Biden’s Build Back Better agenda promised to eliminate bureaucracy bloat while streamlining federal spending. Even Bush and Clinton paid lip service to reducing government excess. 

Yet somehow, the swamp only got bigger, the money flowed faster, and Washington became even more detached from the people footing the bill.

The difference this time is that Trump actually did it. One month into his second term, Trump is proving once again why he was elected. The waste is being cut, the swamp is panicking, and America is winning. And for the first time in a long time, taxpayers are finally getting what they deserve—a government that works for them, not the other way around.

Megan Redshaw is an attorney and investigative journalist with a background in political science. She is also a traditional naturopath with additional certifications in nutrition and exercise science.