For the last eight years, the U.S. House and Senate—Democrats and Republicans shoulder-to-shoulder—have delivered a lazy, half-hearted sham of oversight on federal spending. Tasked with reining in departments and agencies, they’ve instead unleashed a bloated, corrupt bureaucracy that’s squandered billions—likely trillions—of taxpayer dollars. Fraud, waste, and abuse don’t just slip through; they’re practically invited by unelected bureaucrats who’ve turned stalling into a science while Congress dozes. Both sides have fueled this dumpster fire for decades, misdirecting funds to terrorists, padding NGOs, and greasing officials’ palms—all while the debt ceiling soars and Americans pay. It’s criminal that it took Donald Trump tapping Elon Musk for a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in 2025 to even gesture at fixing this—a disaster so dire the government shouldn’t have needed DOGE if it weren’t run by spineless fools.
A Bloated Mess Bleeding Billions
The numbers indict both parties. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) pegged improper payments at $100 billion in 2024—$1.3 billion overpaid by the Social Security Administration in 2015, $128 million in COVID funds to illegal immigrants in Washington state in 2023, $6.6 million for a Colorado Springs golf course. FEMA’s $44 billion for 2017 hurricanes? $10 million got siphoned to ICE for detention beds. Trillions—$6 trillion-plus annually by 2024—gush through a bureaucracy too obese to track its own spending. Oversight catches scraps after the fact; the cash vanishes—no recall, just bipartisan shrugs.
Fraud and Waste: Bureaucrats Run Wild
Unelected bureaucrats don’t stumble—they orchestrate fraud. The SBA tossed $50 million of COVID relief at New Jersey’s World Cup bid, not small businesses. The Pentagon, failing its seventh audit in 2024, can’t account for $858 billion in defense funds. This isn’t error; it’s a system where abuse thrives. Slow-rolling oversight—dodging subpoenas, “losing” docs—is their weapon. House Oversight’s 2023 COVID waste hearings? Agencies yawned, knowing Comer’s gavel can’t touch spent cash. Senate HSGAC’s Rand Paul pushed 2025 energy grant probes—good luck before the next election. Bureaucrats stall, leadership shifts, and accountability dies.
DOGE: A Criminal Indictment of Congress
Enter DOGE—Trump’s 2025 fix, with Elon Musk tapped to slash the fat. It’s been needed for decades, yet its mere proposal is a felony-level indictment of both aisles. House and Senate chairs—Cole, Collins, Comer, Paul—had one job: guard the purse. They botched it so badly that it took an outsider billionaire to propose what they should’ve done all along. That DOGE exists proves the government’s a criminal enterprise—decades of laziness from Dems and GOP alike left a $35 trillion debt and a bureaucracy that mocks oversight. If they’d done their damn jobs, Musk wouldn’t need to play janitor.
DOJ: Too Fat to Fight
The Department of Justice? A ghost. With budgets topping $6 trillion and programs too many to count, prosecutions for spending abuse are a joke. Fraud’s massive—$100 billion yearly—but DOJ’s either overwhelmed or complicit. Low-level fall guys might fry; the architects? Untouched. The scale protects the guilty—too big to fail, too big to jail.
Both Sides Guilty: Decades of Rot
This is a bipartisan catastrophe. Pelosi’s Dems shoveled $3 trillion in COVID relief (2020–2021), shrugging at the waste. McCarthy’s GOP gutted oversight staff in 2017, then whined when Trump’s DoD shifted $3.6 billion to the border wall in 2019. Schumer’s Senate Dems blessed Obama’s $535 million Solyndra flop; McConnell’s Republicans let defense bloat soar. Decades of neglect—pork for all, accountability for none—prove neither side cares when it’s their turn at the trough.
Misdirection: Funding Enemies, Not America
Where’s the money? Not America’s corner. Billions flow to hostile hands—$400 million to Iran in 2016, $1.7 billion to Afghanistan pre-2021, now Taliban cash. Oversight’s MIA—Senate Appropriations’ Susan Collins might frown, but the checks clear. Funds for relief or defense get rerouted to NGOs, fattened by bureaucrats and their cronies. Kickbacks? Hushed D.C. gossip—officials and lawmakers score “consulting” fees or campaign boosts from grateful contractors. No receipts? Oversight’s too weak to demand them.
Stalling Wins, Oversight Loses
Agencies play the clock: stall, and Congress caves. GAO says just 30% of its fixes stick—SSA’s 2016 fraud tech? Still “pending” by 2020. DoD’s audit flops? Seven years, no hammer. House Budget’s Jodey Arrington talks 2025 cuts; agencies wait him out. Refusals—ignored subpoenas, “lost” files—gut oversight’s spine. Bureaucrats know: stall, and the circus moves on.
Private Sector vs. Public Scam
If a private company blew $100 billion, its officers would be in cuffs or canned—look at Enron’s Skilling, 24 years locked up. Citizens budget or bust—miss a payment, lose the car, skip food, starve. The feds? Torch $6 trillion, jack the debt ceiling—$35 trillion by 2025. No firings, no jail. Congress pads its pay, agencies balloon, and taxpayers bleed.
The Bottom Line
The House and Senate—Cole, Collins, Comer, Paul, Dems, GOP—were elected to guard the till. For eight years, they’ve dozed, letting a monstrous bureaucracy waste trillions, fund terrorists, and fleece America. Fraud’s baked in when oversight’s this spineless. Kickbacks, misdirection, padded NGOs—it’s a swamp both parties built and won’t drain. DOGE and Musk? A desperate patch for a criminal failure decades deep. If Walmart or you or me ran books this rotten, we’d be broke or behind bars. The feds? They just borrow more and laugh.
