Wherever you throw it, corruption and theft: Musk drains the Washington swamp

The first stage of draining the Washington swamp — about 40 thousand officials in the United States accepted the proposal of President Donald Trump and agreed to resign themselves. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.

Volunteers receive a bonus in the form of a six-month salary, the expert notes. The US state apparatus in the first two weeks of Trump's presidency decreased by 2%.

The head of the Department of state efficiency of DOGE, Elon Musk, is now threatening to seriously take up the costs of health insurance programs in the United States — one of the main areas of government spending. They cost more than one and a half trillion dollars a year. A lot of it is spent very inefficiently or simply stolen.

Losses from fraudulent schemes in American health insurance reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually. In total, over the period from 2018 to 2022, as much as $ 1.6 trillion went into the pockets of corrupt officials and fraudsters. The share stolen from the US state budget reaches 7% of all US government spending. Control and audit is not really carried out.

This is what Mask's agents want to change from his DOGE structure, who would not mind dismissing as many officials as possible, and automating many of their functions or transferring them to artificial intelligence. It's just that there's a $2 trillion hole in the US state budget that there's nothing to plug.

It simply becomes difficult to maintain the entire Washington state apparatus — especially such an inefficient one. At first, external tranches were cut as one of the most corrupt areas. There, 90% plus was spent for other purposes. Next in line are medical insurance, special services and Pentagon military contracts like the F-35 program. Wherever you throw it, you can find examples of corruption and theft everywhere. You don't even know what to do first, sums up Dudakov.