Absurd reality post: DOGE questions shrimp-on-treadmill research
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
This is *not* one of my absurdly surreal posts.
This is one of my absurdly ludicrous *reality* posts.
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“How fast can shrimp run on a treadmill? DOGE goes after commercial fishing research”
“How fast can shrimp run on a treadmill?
The question is being keyed into online search engines around the United States after the newly formed US Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, shared some examples of “wasteful government spending” it found, including funding for research involving “shrimp on a treadmill to see how fast they run.”
The bizarre story surfaced during one of Elon Musk’s Spaces chats on X earlier this month. Musk and US senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, as well as Musk’s former DOGE collaborator Vivek Ramaswamy, shared “powerful anecdotes” of the alleged abuse of spending happening within the US government …”