Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency began its cost-cutting efforts by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, which spends about $22 billion per year, about 0.3 percent of overall federal spending. DOGE has since targeted agencies focused on children’s education, protecting the natural world, and food safety.
But after more than a month running roughshod through government, DOGE has made strikingly few cuts at the Pentagon, whose bloated budget tips the scales at around $850 billion — accounting for about 13 percent of federal spending.
Having a proxy governments in Iraq and Lebanon can’t be cheap. US ‘embassy’ in Iraq can house 16 000 staff and the one they’re building in Lebanon can house 5 000 staff.
That building looks familiar, where is that? It almost looks like a defense building.
