{"id":33404,"date":"2025-02-15T00:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/doge-says-it-dug-up-another-1-9-billion-in-taxpayer-money-misplaced-by-biden-admin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T00:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:54:49","slug":"doge-says-it-dug-up-another-1-9-billion-in-taxpayer-money-misplaced-by-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/doge-says-it-dug-up-another-1-9-billion-in-taxpayer-money-misplaced-by-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE says it dug up another $1.9 billion in taxpayer money &#8216;misplaced&#8217; by Biden admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>-led group tasked with eliminating wasteful spending, on Friday said it found $1.9 billion that was misplaced by the Biden administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The funds were from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and have been recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed,&#8221; a DOGE post on X stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6364562435112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>THROUGH THE EPA, WE CAN PURSUE ENERGY DOMINANCE, LEE ZELDIN SAYS | FOX NEWS VIDEO<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HUD Secretary Scott Turner worked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/federal-judge-hears-labor-departments-renewed-request-block-doge-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with DOGE<\/a> to &#8220;fix the issue&#8221; and &#8220;de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Turner announced the creation of a DOGE task force within his agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be very detailed and deliberate about every dollar spent in serving tribal, rural and urban communities across America,&#8221; he said in a video posted on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-taps-former-new-york-congressman-lee-zeldin-lead-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>TRUMP TAPS FORMER NEW YORK REP LEE ZELDIN TO LEAD EPA<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turner said his team had identified $260 million in savings just two days prior. DOGE has identified billions of dollars in questionable spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the help of DOGE, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/lee-zeldin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Lee <\/u>Zeldin<\/a> said he has canceled a Biden-era $50 million environmental justice grant to an organization that believes &#8220;climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EPA also sent $160 million to a Canadian electric bus manufacturer under the Biden administration, Zeldin said during a Thursday appearance on &#8220;The Story with Martha MacCallum.&#8221; He noted that the Biden administration sent the full amount to the manufacturer, rather than making payments along the way as school buses were being produced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since receiving the money, he added, the company has declared bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Musk-led group tasked with eliminating wasteful spending, on Friday said it found $1.9 billion that was misplaced by the Biden administration.\u00a0 The funds were from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and have been recovered.\u00a0 &#8220;$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being &#8230; <a title=\"DOGE says it dug up another $1.9 billion in taxpayer money &#8216;misplaced&#8217; by Biden admin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/doge-says-it-dug-up-another-1-9-billion-in-taxpayer-money-misplaced-by-biden-admin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DOGE says it dug up another $1.9 billion in taxpayer money &#8216;misplaced&#8217; by Biden admin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}