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DOGE investigations reveal mysterious Defense Department payments to Reuters for "large scale social deception" project between 2018-2022. While DARPA claims it was for cyber defense, questions swirl about why a news agency received millions for "social engineering." The revelation comes as other media outlets face scrutiny over federal funding. Source: USASpendingGov, @stillgray

It is astonishing what the media and other Democrats get outraged about and what they don’t. In FY 2024, the U.S. had an almost $2 trillion deficit, almost 7% of the total GDP, in a supposedly good economy. Total debt is over $36 trillion, and our economy has a GDP of less than $30 trillion, which includes massive amounts of government spending. Total federal spending in FY 2019, before COVID was $4.4 trillion. Today it is around $7 trillion, up over 50% while inflation is up a little over 20%. So, government spending is up two- and one-half times inflation....

TIMECODES 00:00 Trump signs executive order for a U.S. sovereign wealth fund 00:32 The risks of a government-controlled investment fund 01:07 How sovereign wealth funds breed fraud and corruption 02:37 Why politicians have no skin in the game with public funds 03:24 The dangers of unlimited government-controlled capital 05:24 Historical lessons from the Mississippi Bubble 07:00 Could the U.S. sovereign wealth fund trigger hyperinflation? 08:48 The potential benefits of a sovereign wealth fund 10:05 The role of U.S. gold reserves in funding the program 12:14 Challenges in funding and implementing the sovereign wealth fund 13:17 Political greed and the risk...

In 2022, the DA Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million. DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal. Despite that someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to...

Ukraine has imposed sanctions on former president and opposition politician Petro Poroshenko, including asset freezes and a ban on withdrawing capital from the country, a presidential decree published on Thursday said. Poroshenko, one of Ukraine's richest men who heads the largest opposition party in Ukraine's parliament, served as president from 2014 until 2019 when he lost his bid for a second term at an election won by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The decree did not say why the sanctions were imposed, but Zelenskiy said earlier that his security council would announce sanctions targeting people who had undermined Ukrainian national security. "The...

Yesterday was a terrible, no-good, very bad day for the Swamp. Trump struck back in a coordinated assault on all fronts. He's not waiting for the courts to do the right thing—nor is he defying them.

The Senate’s confirmation hearings for President Trump’s political appointees have been gladiatorial spectacles. Tulsi Gabbard; Kash Patel; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. followed Pete Hegseth’s example in demonstrating fierce determination and an unwillingness to have their honor questioned by dishonorable Democrats. Gabbard told the Intelligence Committee that the Russia collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and her own experiences as a Biden regime surveillance target proved that the CIA and its sister agencies had become politicized weapons endangering the Republic. Kennedy admonished Senator Bernie Sanders for being a bought-and-paid-for stooge of the pharmaceutical industry. When Senator Adam Schiff (who...

ere are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE. “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud, and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt. The agency will expire on July 4, 2026. Ultimately, Trump can propose program cuts, but Congress holds the authority to approve or reject them. He...

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday said she intends to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The Senate voted along party lines to advance Kennedy’s nomination for a final vote, which is expected Thursday. Murkowski was one of 53 Republican senators to support his nomination, along with Alaska’s other senator, Dan Sullivan.

China has floated a proposal to hold a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump to help end the Ukraine war, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Chinese officials in recent weeks have raised a proposal with the Trump team through intermediaries to hold a summit between the two leaders and to facilitate peacekeeping efforts after an eventual truce, according to people in Beijing and Washington cited by the newspaper. Asked about the newspaper report at a regular news conference on Thursday, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said he had "no...

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source” that President Donald Trump “has effectively surrendered” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Host Kaitlan Collins said, “You’ve previously said that that you believe Putin sees Trump as what you described as an easy mark. You were there for their first meeting in Helsinki. What are your expectations for this one?”

WASHINGTON — About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but be paid through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management. The offer's deadline closed Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program. NBC News cannot independently verify the number of employees who took the White House's offer. The number of federal employees who are reported to have taken the offer amounts to less than 5% of the federal workforce. The administration had set a higher expectation, hoping that 5% to 10% of the...

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A senior administration official told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that DOGE has worked with various agencies to cancel several contracts in the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor, and several other areas. "Taxpayer dollars will no longer be wasted on nonsense," the official told Fox News Digital. ADVERTISEMENT The canceled spending includes a $36,000 contract for DEI related workshops at Homeland Security and the cancellation of a $1 million contract that supports the "Gender X Initiative" and involves public-facing SSA applications that allow for the "non-binary" field. Doge Slashes Over $100M In Dei Funding At...

Recently I've found myself fascinated by zoos and aquariums in China. I know that's very specific, but I'm starting to lose track of all of the stories of downright wackiness that are coming out of that nation's zoos and aquariums. It feels like there's a constant flow of stories that feel like they were some sort of get-rich-quick scheme cooked up by a Hanna-Barbera character. We've seen dogs being painted to look like pandas. A robotic whale shark swimming around an aquarium. A live mermaid getting bit on the head by a giant fish. Now, we've got a zoo trying...

Elon Musk, with son in tow, appeared in the Oval Office Tuesday for a press conference and gave an update of some of the waste and fraud that DOGE is digging up. This event has triggered all of the people who think Musk is the co-president. .."So name one thing y’all have seen about JD Vance & what he is up to. I was watching clips of Trump & Elon in the Oval Office and thought this is weird, but uhhh even more odd is that he clearly has a partner in crime… it just doesn’t seem to be the...

EXCLUSIVE: Retired New York Giants safety Jack Brewer and his global ministry are on the ground in Guatemala City this week, helping officials receive migrant families deported from the U.S., providing food, support and prayer as they essentially start life anew. Brewer and his Jack Brewer Foundation have years of experience working in impoverished areas of the world like Haiti, Malawi and Central America, which Brewer said has allowed him to work closer than most and interact with the returning families. "They’ve been told by coyotes and different people that you can just come [to the U.S.], and if you...

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Hamas says it will continue implementing Gaza deal, including hostage exchange Hamas said on Thursday it will continue implementing the Gaza ceasefire deal, including a hostage exchange within the agreed timeframe, reports Reuters.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed legislation designed to drastically expand school voucher access throughout the Volunteer State that will allow families to use taxpayer dollars on private school expenses regardless of income. However, while the $447 million initiative has been touted as a “universal" program for anyone interested, Republican leaders included a key provision: Students living in the country illegally will be prohibited from participating. According to the new law — which goes into effect July 1 — Tennessee's Department of Education “shall deny” any school voucher application where the family “cannot establish the eligible...