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Elon's DOGE Just Took Out Another Career DC Bureaucrat
Townhall.com ^ | February 02, 2025 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 02/03/2025 5:15:28 AM PST by V_TWIN

The Trump administration has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” access restricted spaces at the agency on Saturday, said current and former USAID officials.

The placement of the security officials — John Voorhees and his deputy — on administrative leave is the latest effort by the Trump administration and Musk to wrest control of the world’s largest provider of food assistance, which they have denigrated without offering evidence as left-wing and corrupt amid objections from Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

Amid the turmoil at the agency, Matt Hopson, the USAID chief of staff and a political appointee, resigned, according to a current and former USAID official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Hopson did not respond to requests for comment.

Voorhees was put on leave after he did not allow DOGE officials to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a “SCIF”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; doge; elonmusk; feedthemtothedoge; johnvoorhees; matthopson; putthedogeonthem; scif; setthedogeonthem; stopthehammering; trumpmas; usaid; voorhees
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1 posted on 02/03/2025 5:15:28 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

while they’re at it take a hard look at their bank accounts

where did all that money come from?


2 posted on 02/03/2025 5:17:31 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: V_TWIN
The Department of Education is rumored to be next.

Yes Please!

3 posted on 02/03/2025 5:18:39 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: V_TWIN

By the way, I should add...Matt Vespa is a Gaia Worshipping hardcore Leftist.


4 posted on 02/03/2025 5:19:36 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: V_TWIN

Missing from the story - did they have clearance or not?


5 posted on 02/03/2025 5:20:46 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: V_TWIN

they did mean world’s crookedest food supplier...right?


6 posted on 02/03/2025 5:21:06 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: V_TWIN

Why would this government agency even need a SCIF for top secret information is beyond me.

I like, though when they quoted some comments from another article, we saw the good old Tried and true” without evidence” comment to Trump’s claim that this is a corrupt organization.

And as always, when you see the main media say” without evidence” you can bet your bottom dollar there’s an absolute mountain of evidence that they’re simply ignoring


7 posted on 02/03/2025 5:21:32 AM PST by suasponte137
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I like, though when they quoted some comments from another article, we saw the good old Tried and true” without evidence” comment to Trump’s claim that this is a corrupt organization.

They also say it while they're actively blocking officials from getting that evidence, as with attempted audits of the 2020 election/voter rolls, or Biden's Senate voting record. It goes like this:

R: You're corrupt!
D: Prove it!
R: Okay, let me see your records.
D: NO!!

Thus also with USAID.

8 posted on 02/03/2025 5:26:53 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: suasponte137

Working in an aviation Quality department for 17 years taught me a lot of things......one of which was every single time a person or department behaved in an invasive manner they were hiding something.......every time.


9 posted on 02/03/2025 5:31:34 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: suasponte137

“without evidence”

Don’t need evidence...it’s a given in these union government agencies.


10 posted on 02/03/2025 5:33:19 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: suasponte137

Whatta think that the SCIF facility hides a lot of EVIDENCE?

I’m guessing there’s plenty of evidence, now they’re going after the hard proof.

If nothing else, we’re seeing a once-in-a-lifetime shakeup happening.


11 posted on 02/03/2025 5:34:41 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: suasponte137

Whatta think that the SCIF facility hides a lot of EVIDENCE?

I’m guessing there’s plenty of evidence, now they’re going after the hard proof.

If nothing else, we’re seeing a once-in-a-lifetime shakeup happening.


12 posted on 02/03/2025 5:34:41 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: V_TWIN

Any time a Federal employee tells representative from President Trump “No” they should be fired on the spot.

For too long these various government agencies have been allowed to run free without any supervision or accountability.

They have become a law on to themselves enriching themselves while pushing their own agenda.


13 posted on 02/03/2025 5:38:56 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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Freeper ransomnote insightfully tells us:
<><>MSM flunkies are in collusion with “do-good” USAID
<><>colluding to hide that 25% of USAID tax dollars to foreign entities is for weapons/defense;
<><>they demean Trump and are conning readers
<><>insisting Trump is denying orphans and widows drinking water, food, Humanitarian aid.

USAID swears it is a “do-gooder”-— delivering heat, light, food, water, Ukraine’s firewood to the needy.

So when we hear talk of USAID’s “classified information” secured in top secret “SCIFs,” we want to know what kind of classified information?

Tax paid “do-good” USAID officials don’t want to talk about
<><>giving 10% to the ‘Big Guy’,
<><>disguising the true purpose of tax dollars,
<><>shipping crates of tax dollars to Globalist despots around the world,
<><>all while sap-happily chatting around the water cooler.


Wiki’s definition: SCIFs are related to military, national security/national defense and intelligence. Do-good USAID was overly ‘active’ in those realms, yet the MSM rattles on about Trump denying orphans and widows clothing/food/heat/light/water.


14 posted on 02/03/2025 5:41:16 AM PST by Liz
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To: V_TWIN

HOORAY Elon & Presient Trump!


15 posted on 02/03/2025 5:41:45 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: \/\/ayne

It is officially an executive branch agency now so I would think POTUS vested them with whatever authority they would need to conduct their work.


16 posted on 02/03/2025 5:43:20 AM PST by Spacetrucker
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Repeating:

For too long these various government agencies have been allowed to run free without any supervision or accountability.

They have become a law unto themselves enriching themselves while pushing their own agenda.


17 posted on 02/03/2025 5:44:04 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: V_TWIN

“ Voorhees was put on leave after he did not allow DOGE officials to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a “SCIF”

Why does USAID need a SCIF?

L


18 posted on 02/03/2025 5:44:47 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: V_TWIN

I get it - there needs to be secrecy when it comes to military and security but food and aid. The American people have the right to know where there money is going. Most likely is just a big money laundering scam.


19 posted on 02/03/2025 5:46:14 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lurker

See my post #9


20 posted on 02/03/2025 5:49:09 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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