Elon Musk called it “a time warp.” You’ll call it something stronger.
Deep inside a limestone mine in Pennsylvania — 230 feet below the surface — approximately 700 federal workers manually process every retirement application for every federal employee in the United States. Paper files. Manila envelopes. Cardboard boxes. About 10,000 applications a month, processed by hand, in an underground cave.
When the mine elevator breaks down, retirements stop. Completely. For everyone.
That’s just DOGE’s first finding. Here are four more.
BIDEN’S EPA FIRE SALE: In the final days before Inauguration Day, Biden appointees rushed nearly $20 billion out the door at the EPA alone — apparently aware that what they were doing wouldn’t survive a new administration. One appointee described it on camera as “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.” DOGE found the video. America found out where its money went.
"A Biden EPA political appointee said they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic— trying to get BILLIONS of $ out the door before Inauguration Day with an eye towards getting jobs at the recipient NGOs." pic.twitter.com/l64HiDIss5
— Red Line News (@RedLineNewsUSA) March 5, 2025
FEMA’S LUXURY HOTEL BILL: FEMA spent $59.3 million on luxury hotel accommodations in New York City — for migrants. Nineteen million in direct hotel costs, the rest on food and security. DOGE flagged it. Then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem clawed back nearly every dollar within one day of discovering it.
THE $1,300 COFFEE CUP: The Air Force paid $1,300 for a single reheatable coffee cup. When they needed 25 replacements, the bill was $32,000. Boeing charged the Air Force 8,000% over fair market price for a soap dispenser — a $149,072 overcharge on a soap dispenser.
USAID’S SESAME STREET: The U.S. Agency for International Development spent $20 million on an Iraqi adaptation of Sesame Street to promote “inclusion and mutual respect.” Also on the books: $900,000 to a Gaza-based environmental group and $1.5 million for diversity training in Serbia.
The federal government was processing retirements in a limestone mine, rushing $20 billion out the door on the way out, putting migrants in luxury hotels, paying $1,300 for coffee cups, and funding Sesame Street in Iraq.
DOGE found the receipts. Now you’ve seen them. How can anyone be ok with this kind of waste, fraud and abuse? And the politicians who are fighting to keep these programs going.
NBC went inside the mine where federal employees process all retirement paperwork for the entire federal government. The retirement process is done completely on paper and can take months to complete.
DOGE is working to modernize this process. pic.twitter.com/bp9HsVrpdW
— Red Line News (@RedLineNewsUSA) April 8, 2025
