Posted on 05/05/2025 8:16:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A former housing official who worked under President George H. W. Bush has made an astonishing claim that the U.S. government spent years funneling money into the creation of a secret underground “city” where the rich and powerful can shelter in the event of a “near-extinction event.”
Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing between 1989 and 1990, made the shocking allegations during an appearance on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, although there is no concrete evidence to support her claims.
Fitts, 74, who is originally from Philadelphia, cited research by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore, who released a report in 2017 stating that he and a team of scholars had uncovered $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.”
At the time, Skidmore noted that he first began investigating the unreported spending after he heard Fitts “refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”
“Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending,” the report noted.
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Keeping something that big a secret would be impossible.
Yeah, I saw this in Agents of Shield. It’s called the ‘Lighthouse’.
there is no concrete evidence.....................
There is somewhere............tons of it.........
Exactly.
Pretty damn simple answer. Where is it?
So all those hundreds (if not thousands) of contract employees all have never mentioned it?!?!
Their families who ask Husband/Dad, “What did you do at work today?” “Just another day building a secret underground city for the rich in case there’s a nuclear war, honey.”
Yeah, I believe it exists. /sarc off/
The Greenbrier Bunker.
I believe they spent the money, just not on this. Our government is AWASH in tax dollars. I think we could cut middle class taxes in half and still run everything necessary in government.
I’ve heard stories about the Colorado Airport, there being an underground facility there.
You didn’t get your invitation? Oh my, this is an embarassment....it seems you are not on the list...
Sounds like a Vault from the Fallout games.
Seems unlikely.
None of the Bush family is smart enough.
Makes Tucker look like the stupid one wouldn’t you say?
“Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!”
assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing
Otherwise known as the Department of Redundancy Department.
I started watching that Carlson interview but didn’t finish it. Need to go back and watch the rest of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the government did build some kind of underground facilities for themselves. I’d be more surprised if they didn’t.
Would make a nice place for disabled vets
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