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Vicious Cycle: DOGE Finds $100M in Taxpayer Dollars When to AFL-CIO Union's NGO (and Back to Dems)
Twitchy ^ | 2/25/25 | Amy Curtis

Posted on 02/25/2025 2:10:50 PM PST by CFW

The main reason why the Left is freaking out over DOGE and President Donald Trump taking a chainsaw to USAID and federal spending is because he's cutting off the endless spigot of taxpayer money the Left used to fund and maintain its 'resistance' and hold onto political power.

It's why the Left screams DOGE is not only making stuff up, but are filing lawsuits against it. They don't want the gravy train to end.

But all their bloviating does is make Americans more likely to support DOGE and less likely to feel sorry for them, and this revelation certainly won't help:

DOGE: American taxpayers are spending more than $100 million funding the Democrat-aligned AFL-CIO's international NGO. The NGO is a thinly veiled way the Democrats use federal money to fund the Union.

The hypocrisy is glaring. The AFL-CIO, through the Solidarity Center, routinely backs left-wing labor movements abroad while simultaneously benefiting from government contracts at home. The Center’s activities in Mexico, for example, have involved direct interventions in labor disputes, assisting the formation of new unions and pressuring businesses to accept unionized workforces. This is an astonishing development: a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization engaging in labor agitation in foreign countries, often against the very companies that drive American economic prosperity. Meanwhile, in the United States, the AFL-CIO pushes for higher corporate taxes, greater union protections, and government interventions that stifle business growth—creating a double bind in which American companies face union-backed pressure at home and taxpayer-funded labor activism abroad.

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We knew this of course, but it is nice to see it confirmed. Now the question is will Trump be allowed to stop it.

"BREAKING: Biden Judge Dresses Down DOJ Lawyers Over USAID Disbursement, Orders Trump Admin to Pay Foreign Aid Contracts"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-biden-judge-dresses-down-doj-lawyers-usaid/

1 posted on 02/25/2025 2:10:50 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Waiting for arrests…


2 posted on 02/25/2025 2:12:30 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: CFW

how about NO!


3 posted on 02/25/2025 2:12:35 PM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: CFW

Add it to the list boys.


4 posted on 02/25/2025 2:13:26 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: CFW

I also think there is zero sympathy for laid-off federal workers. Most everything I read is people saying “TOUGH! That’s what we live with every single day.”

Victor Hanson pointed out how American farmers have NO guaranteed income and their income depends on so many variables out of they control (rainfall, crop prices when they harvest, etc).

So many Americans live by their wits with no salary and variable income. People are fed up with salaried federal “workers” bitching about their layoffs.


5 posted on 02/25/2025 2:15:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: All

The America “Left” is actually astroturf.

FAKE media funded by taxpayers running fake stories. NYT, Reuters, AP, etc.

Create FAKE consensus with push polls and stories confirming the bias.

Two weeks ago a story was out there were 1.5 MILLION more votes than voters in an audit of just seven states.

Dems are about 30% of the American population.

Only reason they’ve won anything is through fraud.

The entire operation is Deep State. They funnel the money to prop it up and maniuplate the American public just like they do coups in other countries (e.g. the $5 billion we spent to upend democracy in Ukraine to install Zalinsky.)

Need to further yank funding for MSM by not letting big phrama prop them up.


6 posted on 02/25/2025 2:17:54 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: CFW

This is the big battle that must be fought and won.


7 posted on 02/25/2025 2:18:29 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CFW

There are BILLIONS more of this waiting to be uncovered.


8 posted on 02/25/2025 2:20:15 PM PST by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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To: crusty old prospector

There is no ‘waste’.

It’s 100% theft.


9 posted on 02/25/2025 2:22:11 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Congress needs to pass some sort of auditing law so that this problem does not recur. Because you know it will, if the Left gets into power and can once again divert taxpayer money to promote Leftist Revolution.

Inspector Generals have proven to be worthless.
Congressional Oversight committees have proven to be worthless.

They need to find a way to stop this stuff.


10 posted on 02/25/2025 2:23:48 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Meanwhile, some music to DOGE by, a parody version of Madonna’s “Vogue”...

https://patriots.win/p/19AdbpVuWu/come-on-doge-/c

It’s a hoot!


11 posted on 02/25/2025 2:25:00 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s absolutely wild how we are finding all this out. We all knew there was dark money donations, but had no idea of the scale, and how USAID was funding the entire show!
The entire thing for the past 40+(?) years has been a complete fraud! I think of the Wizard of Oz, “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! “

If we can actually turn off all this money flowing from our tax dollars to USAID, to NGOs and circling back to the Democrat party, they may not win another election for 50 years!


12 posted on 02/25/2025 2:25:17 PM PST by boxlunch
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To: CFW

Imagine if this was a war, and the amount of power the establishment’s side lost since Elon purchased Twitter.


13 posted on 02/25/2025 2:25:51 PM PST by MNDude
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The email response Elon wants is meant to flush out all the ghost employees whose jobs don’t actually exist and whose paychecks pass through to the Mafia... I mean government employee union bosses.


14 posted on 02/25/2025 2:26:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If the Democrats ever gain control of the White House we are toast.

It is just that simple.

See my tagline.


15 posted on 02/25/2025 2:26:41 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CFW

The question is, does Trump want to stop it? So far he has handed unions two huge victories with Labor Secretary and Social Security.


16 posted on 02/25/2025 2:32:37 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Is that why taxpayers spend billions to coddle and support mearly all aspects of farming ??


17 posted on 02/25/2025 2:32:57 PM PST by erlayman (E )
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To: SpaceBar

You smashed the bell on the high striker— pick your prize from the top shelf.


18 posted on 02/25/2025 2:35:59 PM PST by Irenic
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To: mewzilla

: ) Thanks mewzilla.


19 posted on 02/25/2025 2:38:01 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CFW

The democrats are experts at money laundering


20 posted on 02/25/2025 2:38:38 PM PST by butlerweave
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