The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency released shocking findings on Sunday that the
Biden-Harris administration had awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts
to an unexpected group: children. An agency announcement revealed that the Small Business
Administration disbursed $312 million in payments to companies whose purported owners are
under the age of 11. This disclosure comes as DOGE works to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in
federal spending. During the announcement, DOGE also disclosed that an additional $333 million
was distributed in 3,095 loans between 2021 and 2022 to businesses owned by individuals aged 115 or older.
In one case highlighted by Fox News, a 157-year-old business owner received a total of $36,000 in grants,
including funds from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan,
which were designed to help businesses survive shutdowns. In cases involving businesses allegedly owned
by children, Biden administrators approved nearly 5,600 such loans between 2020 and 2021—almost all of
which were forgiven without repayment after the owners pledged to use the funds to avoid staff layoffs.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting advisor, met with House Republicans last
Wednesday to discuss his aim of eliminating $1 trillion in government waste, according to sources. Several
GOP members have voiced doubts about the pace and accuracy of some of these cuts when facing frustrated
constituents at local town halls, though some of those same lawmakers have speculated that many ‘protestors’
are not really constituents but paid actors. Amid growing pressure from his party to limit spending cuts,
Trump appeared to curtail Musk’s influence last week by directing his Cabinet members to use their discretion
in managing their departments, guided by recommendations from Musk and DOGE. In response,
Musk has intensified his efforts to justify the need for layoffs and contract cancellations while quickly
rehiring employees who were later deemed essential. Now in its seventh week of investigation,
DOGE has uncovered additional politically connected contracts linked to the Biden administration.
One former member of the previous president’s transition team was tied to a nonprofit that secured
over half a billion dollars in government grants to operate a Texas facility for migrants—a facility that was never utilized.
