A new report from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) detailed millions of dollars in spending on frivolous or unnecessary projects that will likely be cut under President-elect Donald Trump.

DOGE is led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, two CEOS who are intimately familiar with the need to cut spending in order to make their businesses profitable.

The House has formed a DOGE Caucus that got 65 of the House's 435 members to attend an initial meeting, including three Democrats.

Before Trump is even inaugurated, Musk used X to crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) 1,547-page spending package, succeeding in getting it replaced with a 116-page one instead.

Some examples

One particularly egregious example of wasteful spending is a study of whether cocaine turns animals transsexual.

"It just, it's the craziest thing that you would never spend your own money on. But when agencies have money to burn, they will spend money on literally everything," DOGE caucus co-chair Aaron Bean (R-FL) said.

Another study funded with almost $1 million in taxpayer dollars studied sexual activity of Japanese quail after being given cocaine.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has for years put out an annual report detailing wasteful spending. Maybe DOGE will combine efforts and seek to defund some of those things, too.

He found $12 million being spent on a pickleball court in Las Vegas and $108,000 on a Caribbean resort that hadn't functioned in years.

Cutting trillions

DOGE is tasked with cutting trillions from the federal budget over a period of years.

Trump knows that federal spending can't go on the way it has been, so he put the best experts he knows in charge of changing the existing patterns of spending.

Musk has a history of making major cuts in labor and other costs in order to improve functioning, with mixed results.

There's no doubt that there is a lot of pork in the budget that can be cut by Congress or the executive branch.

Hopefully, DOGE will be able to make significant cuts and give us a leaner government that actually works.