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"How USAID got to the top of the DOGE list”
X ^ | 2/7/25 | Autism Capital

Posted on 02/07/2025 5:36:51 PM PST by hardspunned

Trump decided to pause Foreign Aid for 90 days -- reasonable enough. A couple days later the White House said this USAID leadership was trying to circumvent this Executive Order. That alerted the DOGE team and Elon confirmed this on X. He said all DOGE did was check to see which Federal Agency was violating Trump's orders the most and that turned out to be USAID, so that became our focus."

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: audit; doge; doged; followedthemoney; followingthemoney; followthemoney; investigate; trump; usaid; winning
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USAID asked for it.
1 posted on 02/07/2025 5:36:51 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Take away the cash that supports waste and fraud and the agencies and crooked politicians will scream in protest.

Stopping the funding makes it easier to shut down the swamp.


2 posted on 02/07/2025 5:41:44 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: hardspunned

Really not complicated at all...LOLOLOL....


3 posted on 02/07/2025 5:42:23 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: hardspunned

sounds like fafo


4 posted on 02/07/2025 5:42:44 PM PST by MNDude
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To: hardspunned

My question is did POTUS 45 know this was a slush fund for CIA or was it kept hidden from him.


5 posted on 02/07/2025 5:43:22 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: hardspunned

Epic!


6 posted on 02/07/2025 5:43:53 PM PST by dadgum (Trump 2024. Fight to Win or Do Not Fight at All)
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To: hardspunned

Doge is being censored in Google news search


7 posted on 02/07/2025 5:43:53 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: hardspunned

Normal, smart people working for US ... love it!


8 posted on 02/07/2025 5:45:07 PM PST by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: hardspunned

Today I had to help untangle a bunch of electrical cables in the lab.

Unplug one and see what stops working. Then you get the lines sorted out.

That’s basically what happened here.

“Cut funding, let’s see who can’t make payroll. Politico! So let’s see how much money they’re getting.”


9 posted on 02/07/2025 5:46:37 PM PST by packagingguy
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Doge is being censored in Google news search

Yes, it is. And Google image search.

10 posted on 02/07/2025 5:47:12 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: RummyChick
My question is did POTUS 45 know this was a slush fund for CIA or was it kept hidden from him?

Donald knew.

So did Leon.

11 posted on 02/07/2025 5:47:20 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: hardspunned

Well, that answers the question I’ve had, i.e., “How did he know to go there first?”

They tipped off DOGE themselves. If they’d just have done what they were told, they could have stayed under the radar. They narced themselves.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 5:48:32 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

As the saying goes, You catch the most flak when over the target!


13 posted on 02/07/2025 5:49:34 PM PST by freebird5850 (The only way I can treat this fever....More cowbell!)
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To: hardspunned

Yet more evidence of the truth of that old saw that “the nail which sticks up gets pounded in.”


14 posted on 02/07/2025 5:52:29 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: MayflowerMadam
They narced themselves.

A fact that makes this all the more delightful.
15 posted on 02/07/2025 5:52:42 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Professional

“Doge is being censored in Google news search.”
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Doge needs to search the treasury database for every payment going to Google, and shut them all off.


16 posted on 02/07/2025 5:53:41 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: packagingguy

The best part about cutting funding to a bunch of media organizations, and NGO‘s is not merely the loss of those funds, but the high likelihood that those organizations have all borrowed money based on that stream of cash flows from the government. No stream of cash flows, and the loans are going to get called in and lines of credit shut down. This has a very beneficial reverse multiplier effect.


17 posted on 02/07/2025 5:55:36 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

Any word on Rudi ?


18 posted on 02/07/2025 5:58:09 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: MayflowerMadam
If they’d just have done what they were told, they could have stayed under the radar. They narced themselves.

Lasting wisdom from my dear departed father:

You can be one clever

But not two clever.

19 posted on 02/07/2025 5:58:09 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: Professional

It would seem over the past few years along with Google’s current behavior they are setting themselves up for an antitrust trial.


20 posted on 02/07/2025 5:58:18 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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