Trump shredded after wild claim involving 'transgender mice' and millions in tax dollars

President Donald Trump made a wild, eye-catching claim about government waste during his address to Congress this week — but it was completely false, Rolling Stone reported on Wednesday. "The chief executive of the United States told the country that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency had uncovered an outrageous expenditure authorized by the previous administration: a whopping $8 million 'for making mice transgender,'" reported Miles Klee. But there's an even bigger problem: in all likelihood, the "transgender" mice Trump was referring to were actually transgenic mice genetically altered to allow easy study of potential treatments for cancer, asthma, and HIV. The White House later tried to produce a fact sheet supporting Trump's claim about "transgender mice" — but none of the taxpayer-funded studies they linked involved any transgender mice, Klee reported. "It certainly appears that the president’s anti-DEI forces simply flagged a random selection of National Institutes of Health material that included some combination of hormones, mice, gender, and words with the prefix 'trans,' then rolled this all up into the dumbed-down talking point Trump used on Tuesday night," Klee wrote.