DOGE Claims To Have Found Missing Funds

By
Rachel Stevenson
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From the moment Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) got to work, it was obvious they’d be swimming in a sea of bureaucratic waste. The federal government is a bottomless pit of inefficiency, but even the most hardened cynics probably weren’t prepared for just how much taxpayer money was vanishing into the abyss. And now, thanks to the DOGE team digging through the mess, we’ve got another jaw-dropping example: HUD “misplaced” $1.9 billion. Yes, billion. As in, a number so large that most people can’t even visualize it without scientific notation.

How, exactly, does one misplace almost two billion dollars? Did someone leave it in an old coat pocket? Did it fall behind the filing cabinet? Maybe it was tucked away in the same magical storage facility where Biden’s memory and Kamala’s coherent thoughts have been hiding for the past few years. Either way, this is not some loose change slipping between the couch cushions—this is nearly two thousand million dollars of taxpayer money that simply disappeared.

According to DOGE, this $1.9 billion had been “earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed.” No longer needed? What does that even mean? Money doesn’t just sit in a government slush fund and suddenly become “unnecessary.” Either someone was using it, misusing it, or trying really hard to make sure nobody could track where it actually went. Given the Biden administration’s track record, none of those options would be surprising.

Thankfully, DOGE worked with HUD Secretary Scott Turner to un-misplace these funds, and they are now safely back in the hands of the U.S. Treasury. Now, ideally, this money would go toward paying down the national debt rather than just sitting around waiting for another big-government boondoggle, but at the very least, it’s not being wasted for now. That alone is a win for taxpayers.

And HUD’s internal DOGE Task Force isn’t stopping there. Turner announced on Thursday that they’ve already identified another $260 million in savings. And they’re just getting started. This is exactly why Trump’s administration put DOGE into action—because, left unchecked, the bureaucratic class will happily siphon away taxpayer dollars into oblivion with zero accountability.

Let’s be real: this isn’t just a matter of “misplacement.” This is either gross incompetence or outright corruption—maybe both. The Biden administration spent four years acting like the federal budget was Monopoly money, throwing billions at pet projects, green energy failures, and God knows what else, all while the economy spiraled into disaster. Is it really that hard to believe that a massive chunk of money got “lost” along the way?

The real question now is: how much more is out there? If HUD alone managed to “misplace” nearly $2 billion, what’s lurking in the ledgers of the Department of Education? The Department of Energy? The Pentagon? The list goes on. DOGE has a monumental job ahead, and they’re working on borrowed time. With less than two years of a friendly Congress, they need to move fast to uncover, recover, and—more importantly—prevent this kind of nonsense from happening again.

Of course, the hope is that Trump’s successes will keep the House and Senate in Republican hands after 2026, but conservatives know better than to count their chickens before they hatch. In the meantime, the DOGE team needs to keep its foot on the gas because, if history has taught us anything, the deep state isn’t going to clean up its own mess.

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