Posted on 02/15/2025 5:57:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
Elon Musk and the DOGE crew are now a few weeks into their work, and the examples of brazen waste, fraud, and misuse of taxpayer funds are exploding forth like a gusher.
At the first agency targeted, USAID, an early revelation was that much of the left-wing press has been quietly underwritten by the taxpayers in the form of hundreds of phony premium-priced subscriptions to such outlets as The New York Times, Associated Press, Politico, and Reuters. On February 5, the White House put out a document titled “At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep,” listing a dozen or so categories of abusive payments, including “Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab . . . Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria . . . Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund . . . the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan, benefiting the Taliban. . . .”
These are just examples. What other pet causes and activities of the Left have been getting paid for by USAID, and more broadly, by other various federal agencies?
A notable aspect of the past few weeks is that the shutting down of some of the federal money spigot funding the Left has been accompanied by the drying up of many of the notable activities of recent years. Could it be that many of these activities have been funded by the American taxpayers? Here are some examples where I would like to know how much has been paid for by the U.S. taxpayer:
Migrant caravans. We have been treated to extensive reporting of caravans of thousands of people trekking north from South America, through Central America and Mexico to the U.S. border. These treks take weeks. During that time, the people appear to be well fed. They seem to have camping supplies and equipment that magically appear for them to sleep at night. The cost of organizing one of these caravans and feeding and supplying it has to run into the many millions of dollars. Suddenly with USAID disrupted, the caravans have melted away. Who was putting up the money for these caravans? Did much of it come from the U.S. taxpayer?
Services in the U.S. to illegal aliens. Services provided to illegal aliens once in the U.S. can vary greatly from place to place, but can include everything from food to shelter to medical care to help finding a permanent home. Many to most illegal aliens also seem to have access to legal advice on how to avoid getting deported or how to present a claim for asylum. How much of all of this gets funded by the federal taxpayer? As another gigantic example, illegal aliens are supposedly not eligible for Medicaid and other federal medical assistance. Does anybody think that the Biden administration actually enforced this rule? How many illegal aliens in fact are receiving federally-funded medical care?
DEI. Over the past few years, a whole infrastructure of “diversity, equity and inclusion” stuff has been put together — staffs in every business and school, training programs, curricula, books, etc., etc. Who has been paying for this, particularly in the education sector? On February 11, Fox News here reported that DOGE had found and cut some $100 million of spending in the Department of Education directed toward DEI training programs in public schools. That is a start, but clearly is just a tiny piece of total spending on DEI. How much have the federal taxpayers been spending to support this propaganda?
Climate alarm. As with DEI, schools are filled with an infrastructure of climate alarm propaganda, ranging from staff training to curricula to textbooks and more. How much is the federal government spending on this?
Those are just a few categories that occur to me today. The funding model of agencies like USAID appears to be to make multi-million dollar grants to left-wing NGOs for high-minded sounding topics like “promoting democracy,” and then the NGOs spend the money as they see fit. It would not surprise me at all if we start to learn that things like Antifa and Black Lives Matter got large amounts of back-door funding that originated with the federal taxpayer. And how about the wave of anti-semitic demonstrations and riots that broke out on U.S. campuses in the aftermath of the massacre of October 7, 2023? Was federal taxpayer money involved in supporting that? I would actually be surprised if it wasn’t.
I would like my money back.
How much? All of it.
Manhattan Contrarian ping
We were paying for it. Not Bill Gates. Not George Soros.
Politico should be required to refund the "premium" subscription to the federal government.
Many of us have been assuming this for quite a while.
Wasn’t Politico the one which was always fact checking Trump and pushing Dem talking points? Have they published exactly how much the gummit paid them?
The value of the First Amendment becomes apparent. You can get away with a lot, with a lying “press” covering for you. You can get the “press” to lie by throwing money at them.
This beats all get out.
Call Congress: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.
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Attach news clips, other relevant documents, links.
Message: USAID tax dollars went to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s “Archwell Foundation.” Royals pocketed $13,004,470 tax dollars. Harry’s got US tax dollars and he’s not even a US citizen. Their lavish lifestyle includes: globe-trotting in a private jet, living in a huge luxe mansion in ritzy Santa Barbara.
We demand this money be returned to struggling working class taxpayers at once.
BTTT
The information about the subscriptions came from a publicly available database that had been in existence for years.
Actually years. Disgusted by it and not believing anything would be done to correct it. Enter the D-11 bullDOGErs! With youthful racists (per jamee ratskin) tossing transparency software like grenades. No wonder the democriminals are crappin’ their depends. W.I.N.N.I.N.G!
There was an article on FR this morning (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4297775/posts) whining about some poor taxi driver in Uganda and his loss of USAID support.
He’s married to a woman and it implies he has a HIV positive homosexual “partner.”
He’s complaining because the United States taxpayers aren’t buying his condoms and lube anymore.
This freak needs to be used in DOGE ads.
The DNC has already lost.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Mississippi v. Johnson reinforced the separation of powers by affirming that the judiciary could not enjoin the President from performing his executive duties, particularly those involving discretion. This case set a precedent for the immunity of the President from judicial injunctions concerning discretionary actions.
Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. 475, 18 L. Ed. 437, 4 Wall. 475, 1866 U.S. LEXIS 897
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/87790/mississippi-v-johnson/
Courtesy diogenesis
It is all true...and more. Let’s see some people in handcuffs for this blatant and long-standing theft of money from US Citizen Taxpayers. I’m sure handcuffs come on all sizes. They will even fit some our our “leader” class.
Brazen waste, fraud, and misuse of taxpayer funds.
Yes most of it caused by to many voters allowed it to happen by not having the wits to know who and what the hell they were voting for.
The democrat party have had them trained for years their end result make America California.
Isn’t it amazing to see the huge massive protests against DOGE?
Oh wait, it’s a handful of effeminate “men” and childless blue haired cat ladies.
The rest of the rabble are staying home because they aren’t getting paid to protest.
Trump should hone in on this illicit waste of money. He can stick it to those grifters with just a few well chosen words.
Yes but....... the judges can still rule and then the ruling must be contested in courts that take forever to make a decision.
There must be a war on the judges where they are indicted for something. Then their houses, their summer houses, their offices, their wife’s underwear drawer, their lawyers offices are thoroughly searched. Any and all computers tablets and phones must be confiscated. Their lives must be thoroughly and totally disrupted. Their wives must be subjected to unending shame. Their children must be hounded out of school.
The judges must be absolutely destroyed
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