Doge rumors about Cubans, Gate, Buffett were involved in biden Treasury 'Pay-for-Play scandal'

In a rumor that was distributed online in early May 2025, an investigation of the Efficiency of the Ministry for State Efficiency of the Ministry, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett took part in a “Pay-For-Play scandal” with the former Ministry of Finance of the former President Joe Biden.

A LinkedIn user, for example, posted the rumor together with photos of Kubaner, Gates and Buffett (archived).

(Scot O./Linkedin)

The caption of the article was:

These three billionaires received quarterly payments from bidens finance in a largest pay-for-play scandal to date.

“Mark Cuban, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett each donated over one billion dollars for the bidges 2020 campaign,” said Doge Auditor, Joe Barron, “and then received $ 250 million quarterly or $ 4 billion. The taxpayer subsidized their donation four times above.”

Nobody would have ever known without a dog.

Variations of the rumor that were distributed on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), threads (archived) and X (archived).

Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual narrative of real events. However, searches by Bing, Duckduckgo and Google found no reporting that indicates that Doge or other state institutions uncover a “pay-for-play scandal” in which the three men were involved.

Rather, the rumor with America's last defense line – a network of Facebook pages and websites that describe their edition as a satirical nature. The contributions and articles of the network often contain the wrong name “Joe Barron”.

For example, the text published by the above-mentioned LinkedIn user is right in a contribution of May 3 (archived) on the Reagan von Reagan, which is managed by Allod. The picture of the article showed the three men with the label “S” for “satire” together with the words “of America's last line of defense. Nothing on this page is real.”

(Reagan was right/Facebook)

The Reagan was the right side, which also contains an organic reading, “an authorized dumping reason for profitable rights propaganda and confirmation distortion base, with the kind approval of the last line of defense in America. Nothing on this page is real.”

In a similar contribution (archived) on the last Facebook page of the America -on the “flagship page” of the satire network -the US Federal Election Commission claimed the matter in contrast to Doge.

In the past, Snopes has addressed other untrue claims about gates and Buffett. In a rumor, for example, Gates was offered an offer of 333 million US dollars for the purchase of Tech -Milliarche Elon Musks Social -Media platform X, while another said Buffett had acquired Musk car manufacturer Tesla for 1 Billion US dollar.

For the background is here Why We alert the readers to rumors created by sources that describe their edition humorous or satirical.