Elon Musk Drops Chilling Bombshell On Final Day In White House
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is wrapping up his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a role he held under an executive order signed by President Trump on Inauguration Day. As his term comes to a close, Musk gave an exclusive interview to Fox News host Jesse Watters, unveiling five of the most “shocking” instances of federal waste his team uncovered.
Established with the ambitious goal to “slash $2 trillion from federal spending,” DOGE has been Musk’s part-time mission, constrained by regulations limiting “special government employees” to just 130 workdays per year. Musk’s official departure is set for May 30, and Fox News noted he has already begun to reduce his involvement.
Before stepping away, Musk revealed some of DOGE’s most egregious findings, shedding light on a wide range of reckless and questionable expenditures.
One early case involved the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), which had awarded $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi—a former Taliban official who once served as Afghanistan’s Chief of Protocol and later as Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs in 2020. The contract was canceled by DOGE on March 31.
Halimi had been detained by U.S. forces at Bagram Air Base in 2002 and held for a year. Despite that history, he held multiple roles in the Afghan government before receiving U.S. funding.
“A small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we’ve had the most fight at,” a DOGE insider told Watters. “We actually went into the agency and found they had loaded guns inside their headquarters — Institute for Peace. So by far, the least peaceful agency that we’ve worked with, ironically. Additionally, we found that they were spending money on things like private jets, and they even had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban. This is real. We don’t encounter that in most agencies.”
Another major revelation came from DOGE audits of pandemic-related school spending. According to Fox News Digital, about $200 billion in COVID-relief funding was spent “with little oversight or impact on students.” Some examples include hotel stays in Las Vegas and even the purchase of an ice cream truck.
A report by Parents Defending Education, provided through DOGE, highlighted that Santa Ana Unified in California spent $393,000 to rent a Major League Baseball stadium. Meanwhile, Granite School District in Utah used $86,000 in relief money for hotel accommodations at Caesars Palace for an educator conference. Granite later defended the expense as appropriate.
DOGE also found that one district in California used relief funds to purchase an ice cream truck, and that others spent around $60,000 on swimming pool passes.
In the Senate, DOGE Caucus chair Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) revealed another eyebrow-raising expenditure: USAID “authorized a whopping $20 million to create a ‘Sesame Street’ in Iraq.”
The funds were awarded to Sesame Workshop to produce Ahlan Simsim Iraq, a TV program aimed at fostering “inclusion, mutual respect and understanding across ethnic, religious and sectarian groups,” according to USAID under the Biden administration.
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report in March supported DOGE’s findings, showing $162 billion in erroneous federal payments—an improvement from the prior year, but still a staggering figure. Five programs across HHS, Medicare/Medicaid, the Treasury, Agriculture, and the SBA made up 75% of those errors.
President Trump has long criticized federal funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, arguing for a return to merit-based systems. Reflecting this vision, DOGE has identified and eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars in DEI-related contracts in recent months.