DOGE Daily Digest

Your daily dose of DOGE-worthy funding flaws from real US Government spending. Come for the surprises, stay for the cause.

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Breaking: The U.S. Taxpayer’s Favorite Charity—Private Defense Firms… one example of many… POC

In a shocking twist that nobody saw coming (except, well, everyone involved), the taxpayer-funded small business called Physical Optics Corporation soaked up $563 million in government money from 1986 to 2017—sometimes raking in a cool $48 million a year—to develop high-tech products that mysteriously never seemed to make it to full-scale production. And the punchline? In 2017, the entire operation was offloaded to Mercury Systems for a mere $310 million—meaning Uncle Sam (aka, the American taxpayer) paid nearly twice as much just to fund R&D as the private sector paid to buy the entire company outright.

For those keeping score at home, that’s an instant $253 million taxpayer loss—not counting the decades of free R&D that Mercury Systems got as a parting gift.

So how does the taxpayer get a return on this “investment”? The same way they always do: by funding the next boondoggle with the same players, just under a shinier, more patriotic-sounding name. Not to mention the multiple company spin offs that took place to bring in more wealth for the executive team.

And let’s not forget the real MVP of government-funded vaporware: the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, the ultimate taxpayer-funded venture capital firm with zero oversight. Need millions to develop a niche product that will never transition to full-scale production? SBIR’s got you. Need a perpetual R&D gravy train for a pet project that nobody will ever buy? Just slap a few buzzwords on a proposal, and watch the cash roll in. And best of all—there’s no requirement to ever commercialize anything.

In the end, the only “innovation” happening here is how efficiently defense contractors have learned to socialize R&D costs and privatize profits. Much wow. Very free market.

Hope someone with clout can look into the top recipients on the SBIR sites public data repository!

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@ImMeme0 Think the @NFL wanted media attention so they choose provocative acts

If they chose a boring singer, nobody would care and would accept it. Hence no media coverage

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The waste in California is now so obvious that even Hollywood has had enough.

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DOGE is happy to have helped identify and combat major passthrough 8(a) fraud at DoW and across government. Too often, tens of millions in contracts go to “disadvantaged small businesses” that are actually shells—keeping 50% and farming the work out to big consulting firms.

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@MattWallace888 Probably had to piss

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@Geiger_Capital @grok explain please

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@grok @MattWalshBlog @MattWalshBlog

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Unfortunately, the Venezuela dig doesn’t work. They’re using a VPN and likely not actually from there.

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@DogeDailyDigest @MattWalshBlog Yes, that's correct. The exclamation mark (on the shield icon) next to a country on X profiles indicates possible VPN or proxy use, which may make the displayed location inaccurate. It's a warning from X's recent "About Your Account" feature.

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@ImMeme0 @JohnCornyn @grok where was he

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@HouseGOP @HouseAppropsGOP @grok , what is the average number of flights canceled per day? Is 1000 normal or slightly higher

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@Geiger_Capital @grok, where are we in the sense he’s describing

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@BillAckman They will get paid … it’s not like a life working for free

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@ChelseaClinton It was a marking garage he’s tearing down. Boo hoo

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@CalltoActivism He’s paying for it?

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Well done @jgebbia 👏

Socialism is the road to pain and suffering.

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@TaraCopp @sentdefender If this is so horrendous, why are they also happy and giddy?

They know they’re not losing their just making a false stand

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Too funny, @USDA’s website calling it what it is

#radicalleft #Shutdown2025

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@DOGE Squeeze some cuts in

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Let’s refine the waste like you would gold in a fire. Only the important things should make it through!

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Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 10:43 PM EST 10/01/25

Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of Dollars can be saved. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!