Tech billionaire Elon Musk and the newly designated Department of Government Efficiency have been hard at work for the past few weeks uncovering countless jaw-dropping examples of egregious waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending.

On Monday, popular podcast host Joe Rogan spent part of his show discussing just some of the absurd and infuriating things that U.S. taxpayer funds were spent on during the prior Biden-Harris administration, according to the Daily Mail.

Rogan accused former President Joe Biden and Democrats of using controversial cultural issues like "beach balls" bouncing around at a concert to distract the American people from looking too closely at what their tax money was being spent on.

DOGE uncovers massive examples of wasteful and fraudulent federal spending

On President Donald Trump's first day in office, he created the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from a largely defunct Obama-era office and then placed Musk in charge with a task to "maximize governmental efficiency and productivity."

What that has resulted in thus far, according to the Daily Mail, is the discovery of tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions in wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive spending of U.S. taxpayer dollars on myriad things that Congress never authorized and a vast majority of the American people would never approve of.

Democrats and the media have been outraged, not at the exposed examples of unnecessary or controversial federal spending, but rather at Musk and DOGE for exposing it, and they have found limited success in some instances in convincing partisan judges to issue orders to block or delay DOGE's continued work.

"This is why Trump won the election"

During Monday's episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience," the famous host spent some time talking with his guest, author and comedian Bridget Phetasy, about some of what Musk and DOGE had uncovered thus far and took a critical swipe at former President Biden in the process.

"It's not just the money being spent, it's what it's being spent for and what's going on, which is an enormous propaganda machine," Rogan said. "This is why Trump won the election. People don't really believe in these things."

"The amount of people that think that transgender biological males should be competing against your daughter in sports is so f--king small, but yet, our own government was propping it up," he continued. "And why are they propping it up? Because it's a f--king beach ball at a concert, you keep tossing it up in the air and everybody gets distracted."

Biden's distracting "beach balls"

Some of the Biden "beach balls" that Rogan referenced in addition to transgender rights included social issues like abortion and gay marriage, which the Biden-Harris administration and their Democratic comrades did indeed use constantly to distract the American people from far more important issues.

"As long as you can keep a few things going. Here's the things you ought to keep going: Abortion, right? Overturning Roe V. Wade is so good for business because now it's like a battle, the battlegrounds, and women's rights and their lives are at stake," Rogan said. "Gay marriage -- that's a huge one. They're gonna take away gay marriage, oh my God, bounce that f--king beach ball."

The podcaster also highlighted how DOGE discovered that taxpayer dollars were used for years to fund a "left-wing narrative" that was aligned with "propaganda funded by our own government." He also suggested that Biden's bouncing beach balls were used as a distraction from the now-confirmed rumors over the past couple of years that not all of the nearly $200 billion sent to Ukraine was actually used to support that nation's war effort against Russia.

"It's crazy! Americans give a lot of their hard-earned money because they are actually kind-hearted and want to donate to countries," Phetasy said. "And then you find out [the money is going to] some trans performance. There is a lot of nonsense."

"A lot of nonsense in the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars," Rogan added.