One year after DOGE promised to clean up Washington, the waste, fraud, and abuse are doing better than ever. Thriving, even.
The Justice Department opened the day with a dramatic 94-page indictment against 15 people in Minnesota — lots of words like “antifa,” “conspiracy,” and “lawlessness.” When reporters asked what injuries federal agents actually suffered, the answers got a little fuzzy. This is also the same office that’s already had about half its individual protest cases dismissed, so.
Then there’s the Reflecting Pool. $14 million in renovations. Green within a week. Today’s solution: dump hydrogen peroxide into 6.75 million gallons of water. One doctor did the math and it wasn’t pretty.
The screwworm is back too. DOGE cut the $300 million program that kept flesh-eating parasites out of U.S. livestock for decades. The replacement facility now costs $750 million. A major outbreak could cause $1.8 billion in damage. So that’s going well.
And the ballroom Trump promised — repeatedly, on camera — that taxpayers would never pay for? The Washington Post says $300 million in federal funds are already committed, with the total now estimated at $600 million. Kurt Bardella joins us to track the damage on that one, plus new allegations that FBI Director Kash Patel handed out over a million dollars in bonuses to agents on his personal security detail.
