In just three weeks of research, President Donald Trump's government efficiency revealed an astounding amount of federal waste, abuse and potential fraud.
One of the worst findings was the recent FEMA spending of $59 million on housing immigration at a New York City hotel.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Federal agencies under President Joe Biden have concentrated millions of nonprofits on nonprofits like Road NY, which actively protects illegal immigration from federal authorities.
This should infuriate all hardworking New Yorkers. Your taxes will be wasted on unexplainable spending while veterans, working families and small businesses are ignored.
New York City and the state follow the same reckless blueprint. While citizens receive scrap, they pour billions into immigration services and other left-wing priorities.
The city's 2025 budget includes $66.3 million in legal services for illegal immigration alone. This includes $12.3 million to NYC for free legal assistance, $35 million for legal assistance for other immigrants, and $5.4 million for legal translators for asylum seekers.
An additional $13.7 million has been designated to help immigrants obtain state IDs.
But the city throws millions at immigrants, but can't cut a small fraction of that amount for local veterans.
City Council Treasury Chairman Justin Brannan ignored my call for double funding for veterans' services.
Later, in his run to Secretary, he found just $540,000 for his existing veterans program.
This is how politics works here. Civil servants will not serve you, they will serve their ambitions.
It's not just that illegal immigrants are getting large funds.
Politically motivated nonprofits have “influenced” the policies of politicians who funded them in the first place, while attracting millions from urban funding.
The city has poured at least $31 million into “incarceration alternatives” this year, bringing back to communities where repeated offenders are barely accountable.
Vocal Nee, another taxpayer-funded group, fights over generous drug policy to testify before city councillors of a racist convicted sex offender.
The city has allocated $1.2 million this year to “gun violence prevention” and “crisis management services,” but that money has been demonized and continues to be violent. Regardless, it often funds political activist groups that curb crime. It rises.
That's not the end. The city allocated $415 million last year to the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. This is an agency that clearly makes residents less safe.
The nearly $5 billion budget would have served as a kindling to help ease the exorbitant heating costs for New Yorkers.
The restoration law industry has siphoned over $12 million in the guise of reducing school suspensions, but instead of maintaining discipline, these programs resolve serious misconduct and hurt students at schools. It hurts.
Elsewhere in that monster education budget, our city spends $3.5 million on LGBTQI+ community services, $1.58 million on trans equity programs, and $700,000 on programs labeled “Dei in Tech.” . .
Why not spend these millions of dollars on improving failed schools and boosting the performance of terrible students?
Instead, this corrupt government is forcing taxpayers to fund political indoctrination of children.
Even the city's public health budget is being misused for ideological programs.
The city is pouring $74 million into health equity centers to pursue healthcare DEIs.
Why are we spend more on protecting illegal immigrants than ensuring that veterans and law-abiding citizens get the support they deserve?
And where is the surveillance that ensures that these groups do not wash taxpayer money for political influence?
Doge effectively exposed waste, fraud and abuse at the federal level.
New York desperately needs its own version for both cities and states. Independent watchdogs investigate reckless spending, eradicate corruption, and hold institutions accountable.
But while the sitting city chief Brad Lander should be doing this job, he is more focused on climbing the political ladder than defending the taxpayer dollars.
Public funds continue to be poured into politically relevant nonprofits and special benefits with little oversight, so local Doge ultimately brings to errors and accountable financial mismanagement It may be.
New Yorkers deserve a real audit that deserves accountability and harsh outcomes for misusing taxpayer dollars.
To get it, tenure people must care more about you than their careers, their donor friends, or special interests.
Councillor Robert Holden (D) represents District 30 of Queens.
