The DOGE Files: Tracking the Insane Things Your Tax Dollars Are Paying For

CRC’s Parker Thayer joins The Federalist’s Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle on The Federalist Radio Hour to dive into the convoluted world of taxpayer-funded pet projects and analyze the effect President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will have on cutting back spending.

At the end of 2024, Capital Research Center launched the DOGE Files, an ongoing project to document some of the most egregious examples of the government’s careless use of federal tax dollars. This massive project is combing through billions of dollars of federal spending records to identify the wasteful, ludicrous, and downright awful nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) receiving massive grants from the U.S. government.