Letter: Real government waste and abuse
Published: 06-11-2025 8:56 AM |
Since Trump’s much-ballyhooed DOGE has been fully revealed as catastrophically inept and ineffective, I offer my services to root out real fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money. With absolutely no impact on any citizen or group, we can eliminate $600-700 million of clear, unequivocal waste and abuse in three easy steps.
First, Trump should pay for his own golf expenses. In his first ten weeks, he played golf at an astounding rate of once every three days, racking up at least $26 million in taxpayer costs. At this rate, his golfing will cost the taxpayer over $540 million by the end of his term. All evidence suggests his golfing has not slowed down. Indeed, Trump ditched West Point’s graduation early to play yet another round. Since he loves to tell everyone how rich he is, he can pay for his own golf expenses.
Second, cancel his Vanity Military parade, which is estimated to cost between $50 and $100 million taxpayer dollars. Nobody but Trump asked for it.
Third, cancel HHS Secretary Noem’s plan to purchase a $50 million luxury jet to fly around on her photo op tour. The overwhelming majority of Americans would support these cuts. I suspect there is more I’ve overlooked. Furthermore, no one needlessly loses their job, no benefits are lost, no research cancelled, no weather forecasts are compromised. These cuts sound like the very definition of waste and abuse to me.
Mark Hodgdon
Epsom