Trump Administration Federal Grant Oversight Gets Boomerang Award After Trying to Track Unicorns in the Budget
In a move that has Internet historians rolling their eyes so hard they might need medical attention, the Trump administration’s latest federal grant oversight initiative has gone viral for trying to audit the invisible hand of the market. According to a leaked memo, officials demanded receipts for “federal grant oversight” of a program that was already self-auditing via a Facebook group called “We Gave Away Money, Now What?” The irony? The oversight committee itself forgot to file its own grant application, resulting in a government-wide reboot of the “How Not to Paperwork” training module. Meme lords are calling it the ultimate “I am once again asking for your financial transparency” moment, but with a side of “who watches the watchmen?”—and the answer is apparently no one, because they were too busy tweeting about it.