Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
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2h
Each year, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) receives $55M in congressional (taxpayer) funds.

- Prior management would sweep excess funds into its private Endowment (zero congressional oversight).
-In the past 10 years, USIP has transferred ~$13M to its private Endowment, mainly used for private events and travel.

USIP contracts (now cancelled) include:
- $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi, an ex-Taliban member who was Afghanistan's former Chief of Protocol.
- $2,232,500 to its outside Accountant, who attempted to delete over 1 terabyte of accounting data (now recovered) after new leadership entered the building
- $1,307,061 to the Al Tadhamun Iraqi League for Youth
- $675,000 for private aviation services
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
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5h
As of Friday, $4.3B of COVID era funds remained unused and mostly dormant. Thanks to the work of @SecretaryLCD
and @Sonderling47
@USDOL
, $1.4B was recovered and returned directly to the Treasury general account, and team is moving urgently to return the remaining $2.9B.

This had been pointed out in a 2023 IG report, and action is now being taken.
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Lee Zeldin
@epaleezeldin
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7h
The Biden Admin spent $4M in tax dollars on a museum to tell a selective story of @EPA
history. It costs $600K per year to operate even though only 1,909 external visitors came through in the last 9 months. Today we are closing it.

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