Pink bicycles or a cure for cancer: How do you believe our money should be spent?

I person battled a variety of national agencies for implicit 2 decades, archetypal arsenic a backstage lawyer moving connected behalf of the authorities of Wyoming and tiny businesses, and presently arsenic Wyoming’s lone typical successful the U.S. House. I americium well-versed with bureau structure, lingo, procedures and mentality, particularly erstwhile it comes to legislature oversight and assets allocation. 

Considering the treatment surrounding President Donald Trump’s instauration of DOGE to destruct waste, fraud and maltreatment successful the enforcement branch, I judge it is important to exposure however national agencies person historically avoided accountability, portion diverting resources to prosecute policies that Americans don’t want, Congress ne'er approved, and are contrary to their intent and mission.

I often notation to bureau misallocation arsenic the "Pink Bicycle Effect." Using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) arsenic an example, and erstwhile fixed the prime betwixt spending $1 cardinal connected curing crab or, say, buying pinkish bicycles (being a spot tongue-in-cheek), they volition take the pinkish bicycles. Why? Because the inducement operation for spending nationalist funds is wholly antithetic than what incentivizes the backstage sector. 

Agencies are conditioned, aft decades of shortage spending, to judge determination is nary bounds to however overmuch wealth volition beryllium disposable for their programs. (Fox News/Getty Images)

Agencies are conditioned, aft decades of shortage spending, to judge determination is nary bounds to however overmuch wealth volition beryllium disposable for their programs, nary substance however silly oregon unnecessary, arsenic Congress has ne'er forced them to warrant their spending oregon held them accountable.

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More insidiously, agencies walk payer dollars connected ridiculous things due to the fact that they are incentivized to bash truthful by our appropriations process. These agencies presume they tin nonstop their wealth to buying pinkish bicycles, and erstwhile called retired for failing to cure cancer, they autumn backmost connected their tried-and-true reply of "Congress didn’t springiness america capable money!"   

Under a functioning system, Congress would respond to these bureau shenanigans by appropriating wealth with circumstantial instructions to walk each wealth connected curing cancer. But alas, nary specified inducement operation yet exists, with Congress year-after-year appropriating wealth for cancer, portion watching arsenic the agencies bargain "pink bicycles," or, arsenic successful the lawsuit of NIH, paying for gain-of-function probe successful Wuhan, China, and torturing beagles. 

One caller acquisition relating to an agency’s misdirection of assets progressive Attorney General Merrick Garland. On June 4, 2024, I questioned Garland during a Judiciary Committee proceeding astir what the DOJ was doing to support our Native American tribes from the Mexican cause cartels invading reservations due to the fact that of Biden’s disastrous open-border policies. 

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When confronted with quality trafficking, cause smuggling, and assemblage devastation, Garland trotted retired the aforesaid bushed excuse that "Congress has not fixed america the money...." Sadly, his excuse lone serves to corroborate the "Pink Bicycle Effect." 

The DOJ spent millions of dollars to forestall Trump’s 2016 election, undermine his quality to govern arsenic president and crook our tribunal strategy into a governmental limb of the Democrat Party. Yet, erstwhile asked a elemental question of wherefore the FBI isn’t protecting tribes from cause dealers and quality traffickers, Garland reverted to the classical excuse, ignoring DOJ’s entree to each assets indispensable – including demanding President Joe Biden adjacent the borderline – to support Indian reservations. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies during a House Judiciary Committee proceeding connected June 4, 2024, connected Capitol Hill. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Let’s present consider what DOGE has found successful exposing corruption and waste: $250,000 to summation "Vegan Local Climate Action Innovation" successful Zambia; $74 cardinal for "inclusive justice" successful Colombia; $52 cardinal for the outright evil World Economic Forum; $40 cardinal to "improve the societal and economical inclusion of sedentary migrants," and $40 cardinal play to the Taliban, on with galore different violent organizations. 

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I expect that DOGE volition yet exposure hundreds of billions of dollars being spent astir the satellite connected programs that are downright un-American – and colossal misdirection of assets – that undermine the precise instauration of who we are arsenic a culture.

Congress ne'er appropriated wealth for these circumstantial programs. Congress alternatively appropriated wealth to agencies expecting them to negociate those resources pursuant to the intent for which the programs were created. Congress assumed that if these agencies identified their ngo arsenic "feeding the mediocre successful the Congo," that they were really feeding the mediocre successful the Congo. 

No 1 wants our agencies to bargain pinkish bicycles with our taxation dollars. We privation our Forest Service to efficaciously negociate our forests, our Bureau of Reclamation to run our national h2o infrastructure and physique dams, and our Department of Agriculture to support our nutrient producers from overseas threats. 

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We indispensable marque wide that we volition nary longer tolerate the misdirection of assets and resources to prosecute an docket that the American radical bash not privation and that does not further our American interests. 

Congress present has the accidental to reclaim its work arsenic appropriators, and with the assistance of DOGE, national agencies volition soon beryllium retired of the concern of buying pinkish bicycles. 

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