$300 billion = 30% of the defense budget. That’s the Pentagon Excess we can easily cut, in keeping with DOGE’s goals.
A 30% cut works out to about $1,882 per taxpayer. That's what D.O.P.E. wants to cut, and give back to Americans.
The Department of Pentagon Excess (D.O.P.E.) is here to finish the job DOGE couldn’t.
Our mission is simple: take the money back from the military-industrial scam Eisenhower warned us about—and give it back to the American people.
Cut just thirty percent of the waste and bloat. That’s $303 billion a year. Money that could help families buy a home, pay the rent, afford childcare, get healthcare without going bankrupt, and make sure kids have enough to eat. Or it’s nearly a thousand bucks a year back in every taxpayer’s pocket.
DOGE once promised 30%3. Did it happen? Of course not. The war profiteers got their way. The Bomb Lobby shoved through the first trillion-dollar defense budget in American history.
So now it’s on us. D.O.P.E. is here to take it back. To stop the excess. To put America’s money where it belongs—with the people, not the war machine.
Here’s the reality. The Pentagon already eats up more than half of all discretionary spending. Nearly one trillion dollars for the Department of Defense alone. And with the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, Congress pushed past a trillion dollars with funding for other defense-related agencies.
Now, let's be clear: D.O.P.E. isn’t going after our troops. Nobody's attacking the men and women who serve. D.O.P.E. is going after the excess. The waste. The scams. The wars we don’t want, and the weapons we don’t need — while the rest of the country fights over what’s left.
*This chart is from 2024, but US spend is going up dramatically in 2025!
Now, ask yourself this: why does the United States spend more on war and war preparation than the next nine countries combined — most of them our allies — while we’re told there’s never enough for our own people?
In 2018, the Air Force shelled out about $1,300 per electrical coffee cup for KC-10 aircraft. [independent institute, 2018].
Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly 8,000% for soap dispensers for C-17 aircraft that cost almost $2,500 each [The Heritage Foundation, 2025.]
The Pentagon spent $61 billion in a single month, including over $9000 on a single Wexford leather club chair [Military Times, 2019].
The most expensive weapons program in history, still plagued with engine issues and performance failures [GAO, 2023].
The total the Congressional Budget Office warned nuclear modernization could cost by 2046 [CBO, 2017].
a 2016 Defense Department Inspector General Report found The Pentagon's books riddled with accounting adjustments that made $6.5 Trillion effectively "disappear" [DOD IG, 2016].
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Footnotes:
D.O.P.E.’s $303 billion savings target is 30% of the $1.01 trillion FY 2026 budget for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other non-DoD defense-related funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Department of Defense Comptroller - Budget Materials FY2026Targeted D.O.P.E. savings of $303 billion (30% of the $1.01 trillion FY 2026 budget for the DoD and other defense-related agencies), divided by DOGE’s estimate of 161 million individual federal taxpayers.
Department of Defense Comptroller - Budget Materials FY2026In October 2024, Musk pledged DOGE could cut $2 trillion, or over 30%, from the federal budget. He then walked that back to $1 trillion in a 2025 White House Cabinet meeting, with analysts estimating actual savings to date even lower than the $206 billion listed on the DOGE website.
BBC - "How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US government spending" (April 2025)DOPE is a parody website brought to you by Up In Arms, not a real government agency. All of the data is sourced and accurate to the best of our knowledge.
