In our current administration’s dogmatic search for waste, fraud and abuse, why aren’t President Donald Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency and Trump’s congressional allies looking at the one department that has not been audited in years due to non-existent accounting practices and procedures? That’s the U.S. Department of of Defense (“A judge refuses to toss states’ lawsuit against Elon Musk and DOGE,” May 28).
The late William Proxmire, a longtime member of the U.S. Senate, famously awarded the ”Golden Fleece Award” for wasteful military spending that he was able to find. In the Trump administration’s present quest for extending tax cuts overwhelmingly favorable to corporations and wealthy individuals, the “Big Beautiful Bill” approved by the U.S. House of Representatives awards the DOD a huge increase of $275 billion. That’s more money unlikely to be audited.
To offset the cost of this bill, Republicans search for savings from social programs and international aid programs for the least advantaged. Many of President Donald Trump’s supporters believe our country ought to be a “Christian nation.” Yet I don’t recall the part of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus said, “Take from the poor and distribute it to the wealthy.”
The odiferous hypocrisy of this administration is visible to everyone who has discerning eyes — or a sense of smell. Make no mistake, the waste, fraud and abuse extends from the Oval Office and with support from congressional sycophants.
— Robert Gassman, Dundalk
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