The Department of Government Efficiency has been like a force of nature since Donald Trump took office and Elon Musk set the DOGE loose to uncover waste in the government. And oh, what waste and fraud they’ve found, from our funding of jihadists and extreme social justice programs overseas through USAID to the discovery of $1.9 billion that Biden’s Housing and Urban Development Department “misplaced.”
We all knew that there was plenty of funny business going on, but some of what DOGE has found has been truly jaw-dropping.
It doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop either, as DOGE announced on Saturday night that the Small Business Administration had loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to small enterprises during the COVID pandemic. Sounds fine, right?
Except for the fact that the business owners in these cases were all 11 years old or younger:
In 2020-2021, SBA granted 5,593 loans for $312M to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used… https://t.co/PHCd4l7qFs
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 9, 2025
The tweet continues:
While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used an SSN with the incorrect name.
@DOGE and @SBAgov are working together to solve this problem this week.
I’m sure there are some extremely entrepreneurial youngsters out there… but 5,593 who are sophisticated enough to start businesses and apply for loans from the federal government? Color me dubious.
It doesn’t add up:
DOGE said it identified that the Small Business Administration (SBA) granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. The loans were issued in 2020 and 2021 – while the world struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic – and it is unclear what they were used for.
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Remember the “vampires” my colleague Nick Arama wrote about, those millions of folks that are still on the Social Security rolls yet are over 110 years in age? With one listed as being between 360 and 390 years old?
Turns out there are some really elderly business people out there too:
When making the announcement, DOGE shared a post on X from Tuesday when it also revealed that in 2020 and 2021 the SBA issued 3,095 loans for $333 million to borrowers over 115 years old.
The borrowers were still marked as alive in the Social Security database. In one case, a 157-year-old individual received $36,000 in loans, the agency said. The loans included PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan) loans.
In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.
In one case, a 157 years old individual… https://t.co/5NnCgin5Li
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 4, 2025
In one case, a 157 years old individual received $36k in loans.
While the liberals shriek about Elon Musk’s role in the government—at this point, you can imagine Dems chanting, “We want waste! We want waste!”—the abuse, scams and outright criminality he and his team are uncovering daily are the stuff of nightmares.
Keep chomping, DOGE.
DOGE is finding billions of dollars in wasteful spending, and the Democrats are losing their minds as they realize their gravy train and woke projects are coming to an end.
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