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Who is gonna "Audit DOGE!"... ? [1]

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Date: 2025-04-26

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This in not an endorsement of the man — but rather a spotlight on one helluva good idea.

Please use accordingly:



Steve Bannon Rips DOGE's Accounting—'None of This Makes Sense'

by Andrew Stanton, Newsweek — April 24, 2025

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[Bannon] said there needs to be a "very specific accounting as what he found as far as fraud goes and waste," signed off by every department head. " We need to know exactly what he found because we went from $2 trillion a year to $1 trillion to year to $150 billion next year with nothing this year. None of this makes sense," Bannon said. "The cuts you've seen that have been announced are programmatic, whether it's USAID or DOE, that's a totally different thing." He also said there must be a "letter of certification" that no data of the government or any citizens are held by "anybody" except for the Trump administration or U.S. government in May, before Musk takes a step back from DOGE. The billionaire said during Tesla's earning call this week that he plans to refocus his efforts on his businesses, rather than DOGE, in the near future. When asked by Semafor's editor-in-chief Ben Smith if he "trusts" Musk to not take data, Bannon responded, "trust but verify."

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The more precise response should be: “Trust Musk? Hell No!”



Dems would be wise to jump on this “DOGE accountability bandwagon.”

Or better yet — start calling for the Democrat’s version of Musk-DOGE accountability. You’ll know before the Billionaire profiteer ‘gets out of Dodge’ … or gets the Mike Johnson ‘hall pass’.

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Also of note: Bannon takes on the largest source of “waste and fraud” in the U.S. Budget — that of Defense blank-check-book:

… its accounting [DOGE’s] doesn't "make sense" given the lack of cuts at the Pentagon.

Yup.

See that 2nd branch of Discretionary Spending, for $0.8 Trillion per year:

Defense Discretionary Spending:

$317 Billion — Operation and Maintenance

$173 Billion — Military Personnel

$142 Billion — Procurement

$122 Billion — Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation

$82 Billion — Other

Those last 3 items, especially get my attention. If Elon is really concerned about “Waste and Fraud,” why isn’t he looking in those spending buckets?

Could it be that “Military Contracts” are one of his own “Cash Cows?”

Could it be that kind of data, is worth the most on the black Rubles market?



Could it be that the fact that the Pentagon has failed 7 Audits in row — but they’re “working on it” ...

And they have found just the “right guy for the Job,”

— you know, someone who can keep those Procurement Wheels greased ...

Wouldn’t want any “legal roadblocks” getting in the way now — eh Pete?

SpaceX has some ‘Projects’ to Green-light ...

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