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President-elect Donald J. Trump will officially take the oath of office on January 20, 2025. Between now and then, he and members of his administration are doing what they can to Make Our Country Great Again. 

One department we are anxiously awaiting to see in action is the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. 

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur, are the co-heads of the new agency created by  Trump to root out government waste and find ways to save taxpayers money. This comes as the U.S. national debt rises to shocking new heights, largely due to spending that has gone out of control over the last few decades.

In the meantime, incumbent President Joseph Biden continues to stir up his detractors by pardoning his son, Hunter Biden. Hunter's pardon goes back to 2014. He was only found guilty this year of tax evasion, illegal gun purchase, and illegal drugs, so why does the pardon go back 10 years to 2014? The question arises of how someone can be pardoned for a crime(s) if he hasn't been found guilty of anything. This raises another question: what is Biden trying to hide? If that wasn't bad enough, Biden's distractors are furious about the president's pardon on Thursday, December 12, of the Cash-for-Kids Judge Michael T. Conahan, a former Pennsylvania judge.  In this scandal, Conahan conspired alongside former Luzerne County President Judge Mark Ciavarella, who remains incarcerated. Their illicit activities yielded a staggering $2.8 million, as outlined in their federal indictment. The conspiracy involved manipulating the juvenile justice system to construct new detention facilities and expand an existing center, with both judges agreeing to channel convicted youths to these facilities in exchange for hefty financial kickbacks.

Moving back to government waste, Musk and Ramaswamy are joined by Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, who penned a report on the topic, "Out of the Office." 

The Senator claims, among other things, that federal office buildings are sitting empty, which taxpayers are paying for. According to that document, bureaucrats have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own businesses, and even getting busted for doing crimes while on taxpayers’ time. President Biden’s cabinet members claimed to be on the clock while out of office and unreachable.

The report states;

Just three percent of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, six percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote. Most federal employees are eligible to telework and 90 percent of those are. Some come to the office as infrequently as once a week. The Biden administration redacted the locations of over 281,000 rank-and-file federal employees.

You may be more likely to see a ghost than a bureaucrat haunting the halls of some government buildings in Washington, D.C. these days. Not a single headquarters of a major government agency or department in the nation’s capital is even half full.143 Yet it’s costing $8 billion every year to maintain or lease government office buildings.144 Another $7.7 billion is being expended annually for the energy to keep them running.145 And billions more are being spent buying brand new furnishings for the largely abandoned offices inside them.146 The average occupancy rate in more than 20 headquarters is a mere 12 percent, according to the Public Buildings Reform Board (PBRB), an independent agency created to reduce unnecessary government property. Three-quarters or more of the space in the buildings are going unused, according to a separate analysis by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO).147 Federal agencies own 7,697 vacant buildings and another 2,265 that are partially empty.

 

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