Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his team have revealed shocking examples of waste and mismanagement within the U.S. government, exposing billions of dollars in misused COVID relief funds and questionable contracts, including one with a former Taliban member.

DOGE staffer Steve Davis told Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime that a $4 billion coronavirus fund allocated to the Department of Education had virtually no oversight. “There was a $4 billion COVID fund in the Department of Education, and there was no receipts required, so people could draw down on it, and when people looked into it—it wasn’t us, it was before us—they found the money was used to rent out Caesar’s Palace for parties, rent out stadiums,” Davis said. He added that DOGE implemented a simple fix: requiring receipts for withdrawals. “That was the only change that was made,” Davis noted. “And upon doing so, nobody drew down any money.”

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EXCLUSIVE: @elonmusk and the @DOGE boys EXPOSE reckless spending at the @usedgov . Caesars Palace and stadiums were being rented out for parties on YOUR dime.

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Musk didn’t hold back, saying that government employees were “basically partying on the taxpayer’s money.”

The investigation didn’t stop there. At the U.S. Institute of Peace—an agency meant to promote global conflict resolution—DOGE uncovered even more troubling findings. A staffer revealed to Watters that the agency had a $130,000 contract with a former Taliban member for “generic services” with no clear description of the work. “We found that they were spending money on private jets and even had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban,” the staffer explained. “It was a contractor, they received $130,000 for generic services—and to Elon’s point—there was no actually a clear description of what the contract services were for.”

The situation escalated when DOGE entered the Institute’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. “Just a few hours after we got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant had deleted over a terabyte of accounting records,” the staffer said. “You have to ask the question: why would someone do that? The DOGE team, fortunately, was able to recover the data with the help of a few great employees at the Institute of Peace.” Musk called the incident “the definition of a cover-up.”

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BREAKING: DOGE staffer reveals the ‘Institute of Peace’ had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban and deleted 1 Terabyte of accounting records when DOGE entered headquarters.

The data was recovered and evidence was referred to the FBI and DOJ.

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