The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking public assistance to audit the agency.
In the new @DOGE_HUD account on X, the task force wrote: “DOGE is looking for help from the general public! Please DM insight for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, along with any helpful insights or awesome ideas. Send us a message to @DOGE_HUD.”
The X account launched yesterday and generated 34,000 followers within 24 hours. The account is only following two X accounts – those belonging to DOGE and its leader, Elon Musk.
DOGE has also created similar X accounts to other federal agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission (DOGE_SEC), the Internal Revenue Service (DOGE_IRS), the Social Security Administration (DOGE_SSA) and the Department of Agriculture (DOGE_USDA).
On Feb. 14, the DOGE X account announced, “$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. @SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury.”
I have so many cost saving – and housing inventory solution ideas – relevant to HUD and FHA. Too many to list in this eamil.
I’ve been in housing finance for nearly 50 years and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from MBA, NAHREP, NAREB, etc. and — done correctly — I believe strongly in the DOGE initiative.
Feel free to reach out to me. Phil Bracken
Impressive set of initials Phil! Now sign up for X and send those ideas in.
The article specifies: “Send us a message to @DOGE_HUD.”
DOGE & HUD are not monitoring comments on digital articles seeking invitations from people to reach out to.
Your reading comprehension & apparent lack of simple sense make me question how you received any awards.
how about withhold pay for Congress until they balance the budget
The $20 Billion in no-bid contracts between SpaceX, Boring & Tesla would help with a lot of down payments. Go DOGE!
Go spend a month doing the work in any of these agencies. Dare you to criticize the government workforce without any evidence other than the propaganda put out there.
use the tens of billions of dollars give to elon musk for unnecessary spending to be given to firsr time hone buyers so they can afford to buy a house.
NO to Leftist giveaways of tax dollars!! Give monies saved or found in audits BACK TO TAXPAYERS!!
Amen Rob!!
Let all the “nonessential” government workers investigate applications for citizenship from productive immigrants rather than laying them off or firing them. We want PRODUCTIVE immigrants to become part of a USA we can be proud of. We need to fund social security with all the money we have found and increase our military salaries. Both of these groups of people shouldn’t be living at the poverty line. Set things right, DOGE!
Agreed!!!
Probably a good idea to root out waste and fraud … But this is not that. The Grift is on!
AMEN!
All of those things sound wonderful but where is the proof? Why didn’t Trump do any of this his first term when he had all 3 branches instead of adding $8 trillion to the deficit. If anybody thinks anything found will benefit them, they might want to reconsider that thought. I’m all about cutting wasteful spending but the deficit is going to increase another $4 trillion to help extend tax cuts to the rich. The rich need to pay their fair share for getting rich off the backs of us hard working Americans and then you may see the deficit shrink. There is a lot of deflecting going on. The fact that food prices are increasing after Trump promised he would cut them on his first day in office are very concerning. The things that impact me directly is what I care about. Claiming to find billions of dollars that I know I will not be a beneficiary of does not matter to me. Firing everyday Americans and raising the unemployment rate, inflation continuing to rise will not prompt the fed to decrease rates anytime soon. This is nothing to do with any particular political party because it effects everyone so don’t come at me with hatefulness. We are all on here to express our opinions and this just happens to be mine.
Even if the rich were taxed at 100% it wouldn’t put a dent in our national dent. It has to be a lot of different cost savings, waste stopping, fraud catching, tariff matching, and raising our GDP ( gross domestic product) which is a measurement of the market value of all goods and services produced within the country. Which means we need to increase manufacturing in the USA.
He did! You need to educate yourself instead of parroting others who have been lying to you.
If the Trump-era tax cuts (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – TCJA) had expired at the end of 2025, a person with $50,000 Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) would likely see an increase in federal income tax due to:
Higher Tax Rates – The pre-TCJA tax brackets had higher rates, particularly for middle-income earners.
Lower Standard Deduction – The TCJA nearly doubled the standard deduction.
Return of Personal Exemptions – Before TCJA, taxpayers could claim personal exemptions, but they were eliminated in favor of the increased standard deduction.
Tax Increase Estimate for a Single Filer ($50,000 AGI)
Comparing 2024 (TCJA rates) vs. Pre-TCJA (2017 rates):
Under TCJA (2024 rates):
Standard Deduction: $14,600 (for 2024)
Taxable Income: $50,000 – $14,600 = $35,400
Tax Brackets (12% and 22%):
First $11,600 taxed at 10% = $1,160
Next $23,800 taxed at 12% = $2,856
Total: $4,016 in federal income tax.
Under Pre-TCJA (2017 rates):
Standard Deduction: $6,350
Personal Exemption: $4,050 (was available per person)
Taxable Income: $50,000 – ($6,350 + $4,050) = $39,600
Tax Brackets (15% and 25%):
First $9,325 taxed at 10% = $933
Next $28,875 taxed at 15% = $4,331
Last $1,400 taxed at 25% = $350
Total: $5,614 in federal income tax.
Tax Increase Estimate:
2024 Tax (TCJA rates): $4,016
2017 Tax (Pre-TCJA rates): $5,614
Increase if TCJA expired: $1,598 more in taxes (about a 40% increase in tax liability).
This estimate assumes a single filer with no dependents. The increase would vary based on filing status, deductions, and credits. Would you like me to estimate for a different filing status?
HUD was established after WWII. It has barely changed since then. It is soooo sloooow in getting anything done. I just think that the employees need to be reminded that his is not the 1940’s or 1950’s. Shake a leg and get to work!!!
I would also encourage you to look into the NMLS program. it started out having the job of advising people of a person who may have committed fraud in one part of the country and then moved to another. That mandate is long gone. Now they virtually want their annual report to match your tax returns. Who gave them that right? And what do they do with it?
I am 100% support DODGE to get rid of bureaucratic waste of time and invaluable fund immediately.
Oh how it is time for this to be updated to the modern principles and practices of why it was founded. There are many wise people that could give amazing input to this department.
Let’s cut out the waste and fraud by eliminating the all the money that is given to Elon Muskrat. The government workforce are valuable to us having a functioning society. They work so well, some people think they are irrelevant and do nothing. They are the mere bean counters and nerds who keep the flights in the air, keep our environment and food safe, provide the research in order to develop medical breakthroughs to combat disease and other health issues. They work to protect us from foreign and domestic attacks, they make sure the checks go out to our social security recipients who need them to survive. They make sure people get the money needed to eat and have housing. How dare these greedy oligarchs demonize people who make this country function properly, just so they can reap all the benefits of the government while everybody else suffers. Wake up, Mr. I Agree with DOGE. You are being manipulated. Mr. Musk makes billions from government contracts. If he wants to handle waste, fraud and abuse, he needs to start within his own poorly ran companies. How ironic that the first targeted federal agencies, just happen to have been investigating his businesses. Imagine that. He is not doing any of us any favors.
If the government employees are invaluable for keeping us healthy, medical breakthroughs, and keeping planes in the air, then why aren’t they doing their jobs?
We as a society are the UNhealthiest country on the planet and it’s not because we don’t have access to food. It’s because Big Food and Big Pharma are in bed together. Big Food is putting additives in our food that are making us sick and Big Pharma is gladly providing the medicine that makes us “better”. Why is the government not regulating that? Because they are getting a cut of all the action.
Why is that we have been working on a cure for cancer for DECADES and it appears that anytime that someone says they are close that person seems to disappear or die in a freak accident? Or the research gets shut down for some reason. I remember reading an article about 3 years ago about monoclonal antibodies and how they had promising studies showing that it was curing certain types of colon cancers. Why is this not being something that is a treatment option outside of the Mayo Clinic?
Why are planes literally falling out of the sky? Why are there videos of American Airlines and Spirit Airlines planes where pieces of the plane are just falling off the plane?
Obviously the regulators aren’t doing their jobs. Why would we want their jobs protected? Can we please get people and policies in place that actually protect people and promote improvement? I think DOGE is a good place to start. Why can’t we audit the auditors? This is what being an American is, questioning our government and making sure that they are also kept in line because they are not infallible. In fact there are many greedy people filling their pockets at the tax payer expense. Did you know that there are thousands of 150 year old people collecting social security right now? I didn’t realize people could live that long, did you? If it’s not them, then who is receiving their social security checks? Maybe that is something that DOGE should look into.