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  • The #1 Waster of Healthcare Dollars and How to Stop It

    09/26/2025 2:50:23 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/26/25 | By Deane Waldman
    As Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare. The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index. Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers are passing these additional expenses on...
  • $2.2 billion solar plant in California turned off after years of wasted money: ‘Never lived up to its promises’

    09/23/2025 6:39:30 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 86 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9-23-25 | Michael Kaplan
    Seen from the sky, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert resembles a futuristic dream. Viewed from the bottom line, however, Ivanpah is anything but. The solar power plant, which features three 459-foot towers and thousands of computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats, cost some $2.2 billion to build. Construction began in 2010 and was completed in 2014. Now, it’s set to close in 2026 after failing to efficiently generate solar energy. In 2011, the US Department of Energy under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project and the Secretary of...
  • Barack Obama’s Fake ‘Library’ Balloons to Massive $700 Million Construction Costs

    09/19/2025 6:23:40 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 60 replies
    Chicago Contrarian ^ | September 18, 2025 | Warner Todd Huston
    The Obama library — which isn't a library — has ballooned to a construction cost of more than $615 million, up from the original estimate of $300 million when the edifice was proposed in 2019. As 2024, the estimate had soared to $615 million, with the cost adding up to a whopping $615,674,047. But according to the Chicago Tribune, other estimates have already placed construction costs past the $700 million mark. Along with these massive cost overruns, the Barack Obama Presidential Center has had a very troubled history already, and it hasn’t even been completed yet. Originally, the Obama Center...
  • DOGE Announces Another $2B in Savings—You Won’t Believe What They Found

    08/25/2025 6:54:29 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Red State ^ | 08/25/2025 | Chase Jennings
    If you thought the Trump Administration was finished making cuts to government spending, think again. No other institution on earth can spend money like the U.S. government—the effort by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to get spending under control and cut waste has never happened on this level before. On Sunday, the DOGE team announced another round of major cuts, nearly $2B worth: Contracts Update!Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated 163 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.9B and savings of $647M, including, a $35M USAID contract to “acquire contractor support to establish and manage a flexible,...
  • World leaders gather in Seville for UN aid summit amid crisis over US funding cuts

    06/30/2025 6:14:24 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    France24 ^ | June 30, 2025
    A UN conference to boost support for global development aid begins on Monday as US funding cuts jeopardise the fight against poverty. But key player the United States is snubbing the biggest such talks in a decade, underlining the erosion of international cooperation on combating hunger, disease and climate change. UN sustainable development goals set for 2030 are slipping from reach just as the world's wealthiest countries are withdrawing funding for development programmes. President Donald Trump's gutting of the US development agency USAID is the standout example, with Germany, Britain and France among other rich economies making cuts when faced...
  • Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Rahm to Consider Run for President in 2028

    06/18/2025 4:18:53 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/18/2025 | Joel B Pollack
    Former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel confirmed Wednesday that he is considering a run for president in 2028 on the Democratic ticket, taking advantage of a vacuum in leadership. Crain’s Chicago Business reported: “’Of course’ it’s fair to say he’s considering running for president, declared Rahm Emanuel, hands for the moment neither waving nor pointing but resting on the table. ‘I’m looking at the (Democratic) field and, most importantly, what I have to contribute.’” Emanuel was the architect of Democrats’ victory in the 2006 midterm elections, when they ran socially moderate candidates in swing districts...
  • 🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s D.C. military parade for the Army’s 250th will feature missiles, rocket launchers, F-22 flyovers, and 7,000 troops.

    06/07/2025 9:54:44 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 87 replies
    Benny Johnson on Twitter X ^ | June 7, 2025 | Benny Johnson
    Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s D.C. military parade for the Army’s 250th will feature missiles, rocket launchers, F-22 flyovers, and 7,000 troops. 8:45 AM · Jun 7, 2025
  • Cuts to Medicaid Called "Unfair" [semi-satire]

    06/02/2025 10:45:14 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 3 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 1 June 2025 | John Semmens
    Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) assailed the Big Beautiful Bill's cuts to Medicaid as "an unfair assault on the heath of America's most vulnerable people. Millions will be denied coverage. Others will be forced to work in order to get health care. When voters find out what Republicans are doing they will vote them out of office." Rep. Erin Houchin (R-Ind) defended the legislation, saying "if you think about the four things that we're doing in Medicaid to strengthen it, you'll see that we're removing any payments that are illegal, ineligible or duplicate, and we're ensuring that able-bodied adults have a...
  • Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Riles Nuclear-Armed Foes

    05/27/2025 8:22:59 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies
    Wall Street Journal MSN News ^ | 5/27/2025 | Austin Ramzy, Thomas Grove, Timothy W. Martin
    President Trump’s “Golden Dome” plan has riled the three countries whose weapons technology poses the greatest threat to American territory, with China, Russia and North Korea claiming the missile-defense project is driving a dangerous new arms race. -snip- North Korea slammed the Golden Dome on Tuesday as the “largest arms-buildup plan in history.” China and Russia in a joint statement earlier this month called the project “deeply destabilizing.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in a briefing to journalists Tuesday, said the plan “represented a direct disruption to the foundations of strategic stability.” All three countries have also denounced Trump’s...
  • As Dems Fearmonger Over Medicaid, Dr. Oz Reveals the Staggering Amount of Waste and Fraud in the Program

    05/26/2025 7:10:24 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/25/2025 | Bob Hoge
    Democrats are busy fearmongering and predicting widespread tragedy that would emanate from the “Big Beautiful Bill” if it passes, but they should maybe think about taking a deep breath and listening to what Dr. Mehmet Oz has to say. They claim that the evil GOP wants to take away healthcare for the elderly and the disadvantaged with the measure, but Republicans counter that what they are really trying to do is get rid of the eye-opening waste and fraud that programs like Medicaid and Medicare are victims of. And there’s a whole lot of grift going on, according to Oz,...
  • They burned Elon’s businesses to the ground.

    05/25/2025 12:22:14 PM PDT · by george76 · 59 replies
    x ^ | May 24, 2025 | Matt Van Swol
    They burned Elon’s businesses to the ground. They vandalized Teslas across the country. They assaulted Tesla employees and Tesla drivers… …all because Elon found waste and fraud in government …and the GOP won’t even vote on the cuts I can’t wrap my head around this.
  • DOGE Provides Update to One of the Biggest Scams Uncovered by Musk’s Team

    05/08/2025 6:52:22 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 08, 2025 | Staff
    The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) provided an update to one of the biggest scams uncovered by Elon Musk’s team on Wednesday evening. DOGE says it has saved approximately $105 billion in a “combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings,” and other workforce reductions. The Democrats are angry that DOGE is saving American taxpayers money, so they devised a scheme to stop Elon Musk and his team. There are currently nearly a dozen lawsuits challenging DOGE over its authority, data access, and privacy laws. There is also a secret resistance...
  • At The Current Rate, It Would Take Russia Centuries And Tens Of Millions Of Casualties To Capture Ukraine

    05/01/2025 3:54:15 PM PDT · by Apparatchik · 68 replies
    Forbes ^ | 1 May 2025 | David Axe
    Russian forces managed to capture around 68 square miles of Ukraine in April. But it cost them 4,800 vehicles and more than 36,600 dead and wounded troops, according to one statistician who collects data mostly from official Ukrainian sources including the general staff in Kyiv. In the same month, Ukrainian losses were “minimal,” concluded analyst Konrad Muzyka of Rochan Consulting in Poland. Ukraine sprawls across 233,000 square miles, 19% of which is under Russian occupation. At the current rates of advance and loss, the Russians would capture the rest of Ukraine in the year 2256 at the cost of 101...
  • Dr. Oz Uncovers Billions in Medicare and Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse: ‘If You Thought USAID was a Problem, This Will Bring a Little Shiver to You’

    04/25/2025 4:57:27 PM PDT · by airdalechief · 21 replies
    thegatewaypundit ^ | Apr. 25, 2025 12:00 pm | by Jim Hᴏft
    Dr. Mehmet Oz, newly sworn in as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has exposed billions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse plaguing America’s healthcare safety nets. Appearing on America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer, Dr. Oz laid out a clear and urgent mission: protect the most vulnerable — not enrich bureaucrats, fraudsters, and corrupt insiders. “Right now, my main focus, without any question, is to wage a war on fraud, waste, and abuse — because that’s what’s required. All hands-on deck,” Dr. Oz said.
  • Court blocks DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Social Security Administration

    04/21/2025 11:56:07 AM PDT · by CFW · 54 replies
    CNBC ^ | 4/21/25 | Lorie Konish
    A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to block the Department of Government Efficiency from further access to sensitive personal information at the Social Security Administration. The order blocks the agency from granting DOGE access to systems containing personally identifiable information including Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, tax information and family court records. A federal judge has once again blocked Department of Government Efficiency staffers, operating inside the Social Security Administration, from accessing sensitive personal data of millions of Americans. U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction to block the so-called...
  • California to re-open e-bike voucher program. Here’s what you need to know

    04/18/2025 3:23:32 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 21 replies
    KTLA ^ | April 18’ 2025 | by: Iman Palm
    California will soon reopen its e-bike voucher program, offering eligible residents up to $2,000 toward the purchase of an electric bicycle. The state-funded program is designed to help lower- and middle-income Californians replace car trips, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut commuting costs. Incentive funds can be applied as a discount at the time of purchase toward the cost of an eligible e-bike and related accessories. To be eligible, applicants must be at least 18 years old and have a current and valid California driver’s license, AB 60 license, or state ID. Additionally, participants must meet income requirements, with household...
  • Might of the Living Feds: 1,500+ Cash-Sucking 'Zombies'

    04/12/2025 4:58:27 PM PDT · by CFW · 10 replies
    Real Clear Investigations ^ | 3/25/25 | Bob Ivry and Jeremy Portnoy
    In 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation to connect lower-income Americans involved in civil disputes with free legal help. The law that established the agency stipulated that authorization for its funding would expire in 1980, when lawmakers were required to vote on whether to keep it alive. They never did. Still, Congress has funded LSC every year since. In fiscal 2025, its 51st year, LSC’s 135 employees will spend 95% of its now $560 million annual budget paying legal groups to represent Americans in cases such as eviction, domestic violence, and disputes over government benefits, according to Ron Flagg,...
  • EU funding of NGOs 'too opaque', auditors find amid political storm

    04/08/2025 7:20:16 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 11 replies
    AFP via MSN ^ | April 8, 2025
    EU funding of non-governmental organisations is "too opaque", auditors found on Monday in a report set to further fan a heated political tussle over the financing of environmental groups. The European Union awarded about 7.4 billion euros ($8 billion) to a plethora of NGOs between 2021 and 2023, but public information about who got the money and how it was used is patchy, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said. "EU funding for NGOs is too opaque and suffers from a lack of transparency," said Laima Andrikiene, the report's lead auditor. "We are not talking about peanuts here," she added,...
  • Over 1,900 researchers describe 'assault' on science by White House: 'We see real danger'

    04/02/2025 7:12:28 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 68 replies
    ABC News | Disney ^ | April 1, 2025 | By Mary Kekatos
    Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to President Donald Trump's administration, calling for a stop to its "assault" on science. The letter was signed by elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a congressional chartered organization that provides independent analysis and helps inform public policy decisions. "We are speaking out as individuals. We see real danger in this moment," the letter said, in part. "We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a...
  • EPA shuttering museum that cost $315 per visitor to stay open — with barely anyone showing up

    04/01/2025 5:32:49 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 36 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 31, 2025 | Steven Nelson
    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is canceling a year-old museum dedicated to the EPA’s history — citing its $315-per-visitor cost to operate. The museum is located on the ground floor of the environmental agency, but recorded very little foot traffic, despite its prime location just a block north of the Smithsonian’s Natural History and American History museums on the National Mall. “The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate,” an EPA official said. “It had less than 2,000 external visitors between May...