The Air Force Inspector’s General Report that Boeing charged 8,000% more for soap dispensers for the C-17 aircraft than they would have cost on the commercial market (total waste $149,072) is just one more reminder that the giant corporations-giant pentagon mutual inefficiency and waste has to be broken up. Elon Musk’s new commission on waste and reform has to include the Pentagon, says Newt Gingrich.
There’s no shortage of govt waste for @elonmusk to find and eliminate.
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) November 8, 2024
The most shocking part of this was that the Air Force had no idea it was paying $90k for a small bag of bushings. And I guarantee it did nothing to fix it after it found out.
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🚨 RAND PAUL EXPOSES "TOP TEN" WASTES OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
— Todd Peterson (@toddamtrib) March 11, 2024
1. $1 million dollars to a nonprofit in Minnesota to build a coffee shop for refugees
2. $500,000 for gardens in San Francisco
3. $1.2 million earmark for bike paths in Rhode Island
4. $4 million for a… pic.twitter.com/9d8hDEDpo8
The last IG report on this found that $394 million of the $804 million Air Marshal budget could have been “put to better use”: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/12/politics/tsa-air-marshal-waste-ig
Great idea, Greta
We should offer a % bonus to any govt employee who identified waste that is then returned to Treasury (taxpayers)- 15% of what is identified and returned?? If we did, govt waste would diminish (not completely but a lot)
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) September 24, 2024