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DOGE cancels funding for Fauci museum exhibit
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The Trump administration has canceled $4 billion in U.S. contribution to the UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) which gives taxpayer dollars to foreign nations to help them address “a rapidly changing world.”
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This saves each taxpayer $25. That isn’t a lot by itself, but the savings… pic.twitter.com/g2snu1UH6F
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[Regnum] American entrepreneur, head of the US Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) Elon Musk called for the closure of Radio Liberty (a media outlet recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) and Voice of America (a media outlet recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).
The businessman commented on the statement by US Director of National Intelligence Rick Grenell that these media platforms present information in a biased manner and are a relic of the past.
"Shut them down. Europe is free now (except for the stifling bureaucracy). No one listens to them anymore," Musk wrote on social media X.
According to the head of DOGE, these resources are staffed by crazy radical leftists who talk to each other. At the same time, $1 billion is spent on them at the expense of American taxpayers.
As reported by IA Regnum, Musk had previously joked about the assertion of "independence" of media outlets that received funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The businessman said that he laughed out loud when he read it.
On February 8, Musk reported that the US Treasury Department pays $100 billion to unknown individuals every year. However, the department does not provide information by which they can be identified. The head of DOGE called this madness. According to the businessman, 50% of these funds are unconditional fraud.
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The former national COVID czar once made the outrageous claim that "attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science."
Mind you, that was before he acknowledged that the infamous six-foot social distancing rule was essentially made up, and came amid countless flip-flops on masking policies.
As it turns out, our federal government nevertheless decided to massage that enormous ego in perpetuity, specifically by setting aside funds to build Fauci his own exhibit at the National Institutes of Health Museum.
According to the Department of Government Efficiency, Uncle Sam had allocated a whopping $168,000 for that project.
But DOGE announced on Friday that the contract for the exhibit has been canceled.
That came as the Department of Health and Human Services "canceled 62 contract worth $182 million" in a mere 48 hours.