DOGE uncovers the dumbest study EVER with government blowing $1.2 million... to find out the obvious

A DOGE lawmaker is blowing the whistle connected implicit $1.2 cardinal worthy of national funds spent connected studying the drinking and enactment habits of Super Bowl watchers.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been moving to uncover national discarded and slash it from national equilibrium sheets. 

This week DOGE claims it canceled national subscriptions to the New York Times, chopped disconnected backing for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and terminated millions successful consulting contracts. 

During these reviews Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) came crossed immoderate shocking Super Bowl-related expenditure up of this weekend's large crippled betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles successful New Orleans.

'We've been focusing connected the Super Bowl, and what we person seen is astir $1.2 cardinal spent by the National Institutes of Health connected a brace of studies to fig retired if determination is much binge drinking connected Super Bowl Sunday, and past if determination is simply a babe roar 9 months aboriginal successful the winning squad city,' Ernst told DailyMail.com.  

These eye-popping National Institute of Health (NIH) projects were approved strictly to find the wellness outcomes aft the Super Bowl.

One 2017 survey titled 'Super Bowl Babies': Do Counties with Super Bowl Winning Teams Experience Increases successful Births Nine Months Later' received a staggering $710,000 dollars from NIH. 

The different shocking technological survey published successful 2014 was titled 'Super Bowl Sunday: Risky Business for At-Risk (Male) Drinkers' and it received $563,800. 

'So I conjecture they're trying to find retired if radical are really, truly blessed aft celebrating,' Ernst joked. 

But the monolithic magnitude of wealth spent connected the probe is nary laughing matter, she added. 

The Republican wondered 'if there's a definite necktie to a assemblage oregon someone's alma mater,' which could person prompted specified astonishing spending to beryllium doled out. 

'The NIH, possibly they conscionable think, well, we've got the money, truthful we're going to walk it. Well, what I would beryllium saying close present is, I'm atrocious you're not going to get that wealth anymore due to the fact that you've wasted it.'

'Why are we spending taxation dollars connected this?' Ernst continued. 'I can't recognize what the bully is for the American people.'

The results from the studies findings are conscionable arsenic shocking than the existent expenditures, however. 

The $710,000 babe roar survey was a full bust. 

It recovered that determination was nary accordant signifier of accrued births successful the counties wherever the Super Bowl winning teams were located. 

The drinking study, meanwhile, did find that men who portion a batch thin to portion much connected Super Bowl Sunday than their mean Saturday. 

In fact, the survey recovered that these men drank connected mean 2 to 3 much alcoholic beverages than mean during the large game.

'These findings suggest that dense drinking during the Super Bowl (and successful relation with different sporting events), peculiarly among men, warrants further attraction owed to the imaginable for deleterious nationalist wellness consequences,' the survey found. 

Essentially, NIH spent implicit fractional a cardinal dollars to corroborate that, yes, men portion much intoxicant connected Super Bowl Sunday.