DOGE wants to trim a $500 billion list of federal ‘zombie’ programs that includes veterans’ healthcare, Pell Grants, and NASA
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Image credit: Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng / BI. Article by Ayelet Sheffey, Andy Kiersz. Yahoo!News – updated November 22, 2024. Originally published by Business Insider.
- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wrote an op-ed detailing their vision for cutting government costs.
- One of their targets is a list of programs with expired funding authorization totaling $516 billion.
- The largest items on that list include veterans’ healthcare, college grants, and housing assistance. […]
