DOGE was created to cut unnecessary spending in the government, but there are at least two situations where ridiculous expenditures by the government have not been looked into or even considered for cutting: Unnecessary lawsuits by the Department of Justice and the second is the excessive cost of President Donald Trump’s golf outings.
Since taking office, Trump has issued more than 160 executive orders, spawning more than 300 lawsuits challenging them in court. Why isn’t the DOJ vetting the presidential orders for legality before they are signed? When these orders are challenged, the DOJ has to assign attorneys to defend then in court. There is no current estimate of the astronomical expense to this date, but paying lawyers to defend orders that were never vetted in the first place is an astounding waste of the taxpayers’ money.
On the other hand, Trump’s golf outings are easily traced and accounted for: To date the taxpayers have funded over $26 million for Trump’s golf outings, according to a Huffington Post analysis. He golfed almost 30 times as of the end of May, or an average of more than 1.5 times per week since returning to office in January.
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Couldn’t DOGE limit Trump’s golfing to once a week? Naturally the president is entitled to some form of stress relief, but couldn’t he sometimes simply retire to the residence and read a book to soothe his addled brain? Wouldn’t expanding his knowledge now and then be better, and a lot less expensive, than improving his putting?
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