However, the dodge site says they have only saved the tax payers about 150 billion.
A lot of Federal employees have to go to prison for this. It has to happen.
Yawn! Congress will do nothing. If Trump tries to do something a leftist federal judge will order him to stop. He will obey the order and possibly appeal. The Supreme Court will use every excuse in the book to not make a decision. Time will click on to the midterms where if the Dems capture either or both houses of Congress it is game over for the Trump administration, just as it was in the 2018 elections.
The Deep State has a million ways to delay. Delay works against Trump who is blamed daily for every ill in the universe.
Sadly, while Trump won a majority vote in the 2024 election, an overwhelming majority of the citizens must favor change before the corrupt political system and the bureaucracy will change. Trump doesn’t even have the majority of his own party in Congress behind him. I applaud his efforts but his initial moments is slowly disappating as the resistance gains strength.
Cockroaches are attracted to food.
In this case, the food wasn’t carelessly discarded scraps, they were intentionally invited to an all you can eat buffet.
And the Deep State (AKA DemonRATs/RINOs) skimming a huge portion of that explains their violent resistance to DOGE.
As I have said many times, illegals should get nothing, no EBT, no medical insurance, no drivers license and nothing in the way of government assistance. If a church feels it is their duty to feed them, let them use their own money.
Not one single dime of taxpayer money should be wasted on them except the transportation back to the border.
Maybe that is why it is going bankrupt.
Shocked face....😴
...and let me guess, MSM won’t touch it with a 10ft pole, except to say Trump/Musk are killing innocent children...am I right or am I right?
Until arrests are made, and CONGRESS makes the changes necessary, this is all for naught... and WILL continue.
“This is old news, but beautifully put together by Elon and his fellow DOGE-er on the stage. “
"Illegals getting Social Security, from there getting voter registration, and lots of federal, state and local bennies."
Regarding programs like Social Security, there's no constitutional problem with citizens paying into government healthcare and retirement programs if they want to.
That being said, the MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM with FEDERAL Social Security is the following imo. The states have never expressly constitutionally given the very corrupt, post 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators ) Amendment ratification federal government the specific powers to establish anything like Social Security for ordinary citizens, the Constitution's drafter reserving such power uniquely to the states.
In other words, Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR, as popular as he was, scandalously ignored first leading Congress to successfully petition the states for a new amendment to the Constitution which would have given Congress the specific power that it needs to tax and spend for Social Security.
It's no surprise that the FDR-era Supreme Court decided Helvering v. Davis, which challenged the constitutionality of Social Security in Congress's favor, based on a politically correct interpretation of the Constitution's General Welfare Clause (GWC; 1.8.1).
"Helvering v. Davis, was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that held that Social Security was constitutionally permissible as an exercise of the federal power to spend for the general welfare and so did not contravene the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." —Helvering v. Davis (1937)
Regarding Congress basing any spending solely on the GWC, President James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had vetoed the Bonus Bill of 1817, an infrastructure spending bill to facilitate commerce and defense.
Madison noted in his veto explanation that, while he agreed with Congress that such a law would improve commerce and defense, he pointed out that the clauses following GWC in Section 8 limited what Congress could spend tax revenues for, no clauses, not even the "Necessary and Proper Clause" reasonably justifying the public works bill. Section 8 allows Congress to build only postal roads for example.
"The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers, or that it falls by any just interpretation within the power to make laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution those or other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States." —President James Madison, March 3, 1817: Veto Message on the Internal Improvements Bill
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States." (non-FR)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, not only had the 19th century Supreme Court clarified that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of state power issues, healthcare for example a state power issue, but the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had noted that the states had left the care of the people with the states, not the federal government.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
The unconstitutional (imo), Social Security-fostering 16th Amendment (direct taxes) is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime imo, that amendment wrongly weakening our 4th Amendment protections imo, and needs to be repealed along with the 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
That’s great.....but I never seem to read about how “exposed” turns into “benefits cancelled” which becomes “deported” then those that allowed this getting perp walked. “Exposed” is old news - let’s move on to the next steps.