Trump’s Musk-led government efficiency dept. takes aim at Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding
Caroline MolloyIn a Wednesday op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy called out Planned Parenthood by name while outlining their plan for the soon-to-be established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – of which President-elect Donald Trump appointed them co-commissioners.
Musk and Ramaswamy outlined that, as one part of its plan to make the government run more efficiently, DOGE will “take aim” at the millions of taxpayer dollars currently being sent annually to abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
“DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended,” the announced co-comissioners explained in their op-ed.
The businessmen specified that these expenditures include the “nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”
They also mentioned the “$535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations.”
Musk and Ramaswamy emphasized that these spending reductions are part of their commission’s focus “on delivering cost savings for taxpayers.”
