President Donald Trump's creation of a Department of Government Efficiency on Day One of his second presidency, and delegation of responsibility for its oversight to Elon Musk, has resulted in revelations of extraordinary waste and fiscal irresponsibility not only within aid agencies but within government departments. Among the more astonishing (and infuriating revelations) are the following:

-- The United States Agency for International Development reportedly funded the college education of Anwar al-Awlaki, who later had ties to the 9/11 terrorists.

-- USAID sent $15 million to the Taliban for condoms -- a bizarre decision, since the Taliban has outlawed all contraception. Then again, perhaps it wasn't the Taliban; we're also hearing that the condoms were actually for Palestinians in Gaza instead. But that, too, is problematic, given Hamas' past use of condoms to make improvised explosive devices.

-- Millions of dollars were sent by USAID and the State Department to countries around the world to promote atheism in Nepal, drag shows in Ecuador, transgender opera in Colombia, and LGBTQ activities in Peru, Slovakia, Albania, Cyprus, Serbia, Western and Central African nations and throughout the Caribbean. How is any of this the concern of Americans?

-- In what sounds like a perverse version of Gringotts from the "Harry Potter" universe, the processing of federal employee retirement applications is still being done by several hundred individuals underground, in an old Pennsylvania mine, using paper records........

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