BREAKING: SCOTUS hands Trump yet another win and guess who blasts KBJ

The Supreme Court just handed President Trump another legal win as they struck down a San Francisco lower court's injunction that would stop the administration from cutting the federal work force. 

The order says the judge who put a stop to Trump cutting several federal agencies can now go ahead with the cuts and see how it plays out on its merits.

Some of the cuts will be: HUD, HHS, DoD, Department of Agriculture,  Department of Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security. These cuts will be staffing from these agencies and are designed to save taxpayer funding. 

The is part of the DOGE effort and Trump's campaign promise.

The ruling actually comes as a rebuke of Justice Jackson, but it doesn't come from a conservative justice, it comes from Justice Sotomayor. 

She writes:

"I agree with Justice Jackson that the President cannot restructure federal agencies in a manner inconsistent with congressional mandates. See post, AT 13. Here, however, the relevant Executive Order directs agencies to plan reorganizations and reductions in force "consistent with applicable law." App. to Application for Stay 2a, and the resulting joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management reiterates as much. The plans themselves are not before this Court, at this stage, and we thus have no occasion to consider whether they can and will be carried outconsistent with the constraints of law. I join the Court's stay because it leaves the District Court free to consider those questions in th first instance."

The ruling passed 8 -1 with Jackson the only one who didn't know what she was doing.

Not a doctor, and not much of a lawyer

Thus, SCOTUS came down with an opinion before they broke for their summer recess. They ruled that nation-wide injunctions with these nation-wide causes can no longer go to the level as before where, for example, a judge in San Francisco can change a policy for someone that's living in New York City. 

The fact that Jackson's colleague has to remind her of what the law really says, shows us that she really does not deserve to be a Justice. And she certainly is not a doctor.

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Female athletes testify before Congress members at DOGE hearing on trans athletes

Stephanie Turner and Payton McNabb, two tough female athletes, stepped up to the plate at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee hearing, “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” 

They were laying it down for Congress, but things got wild when Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) rolled up.

Crockett tried to play nice, hitting them with, “‘You’re both very courageous. You’re very courageous being here, and I want to say thank you for all of this,’” as Turner explained to Fox News Digital. But Turner wasn’t having it. She clapped back, “Payton and I both took time out of our day to be here, and I find it very disrespectful that you would co-opt this hearing that is about me and Payton and make it about your own politics.”

See, Crockett had just hijacked the mic to rant about Trump instead of sticking to the script—protecting women’s sports. She even turned it into a circus with some “Trump or Trans” game, quizzing a witness on who’s to blame for random nonsense like “increasing the price of everything.” 

Spoiler: the witness said “Trump” every single time. Twelve rounds of that garbage.

Crockett’s been loud about dissing Republican pushes to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports, even mocking folks who’ve been hurt by it. But then she tried to cozy up to McNabb and Turner? Nah, McNabb saw through it. “I think she was lying,” McNabb told the outlet. “I did not believe one word she said, because literally the theatrics… it was like a whole other person than what we all saw 10 seconds before she got over there.”

Fox News Digital tried to get Crockett’s side, but no word back because she has no guts.

The hearing was a straight-up mess—shouting matches, wild comments, chaos city. Turner and McNabb were left shook. McNabb, who got permanent brain damage in high school after a trans opponent spiked a volleyball into her head, had to hear Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, suggest banning spiking altogether to “fix” it. “I would argue that the answer is to ensure people can’t spike volleyballs into other people’s heads,” Goss Graves said.

Maybe they should use Nerf balls instead.

McNabb was like, “That was just absolutely ridiculous… it was a man who hit me in the face, it’s really just that simple.” Then Goss Graves had the nerve to offer to help McNabb recover from her brain injury. McNabb shut that down quick: “That’s not happening. This woman is obviously not sane.”

Turner, who went viral for kneeling instead of fencing a trans opponent and got slapped with a black card and a year’s probation by USA Fencing, was pissed at Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA). Simon claimed protecting women’s sports would bring back racial segregation and screw over Black women. Huh?

Turner, a Black woman herself, wasn’t here for it. “I find that, as a Black woman myself, to be quite offensive… I was born in Washington D.C., raised in one of the bluest parts of America… and no, I don’t agree with you, that’s wrong.”

It was also the first time Turner faced USA Fencing chair Damien Lehfeldt since her protest. Lehfeldt, subpoenaed to the hearing, got grilled by Republicans over his org’s pro-trans policies and Turner’s punishment. 

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) straight-up demanded he apologize to Turner. He didn’t. Mace wasn’t fazed, hitting him with, “Real men protect women, you’re not one.”

Turner wasn’t shocked Lehfeldt didn’t say sorry. “An apology is just empty words without actions,” she said. 

She’s now gunning for USA Fencing to overhaul its gender eligibility rules to protect women. The org’s whining it’ll only change if “forced.” Meanwhile, Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s new Title IX team is digging into Turner’s case with trans fencer Redmond Sullivan.

This hearing was a clusterfrack, but Turner and McNabb are still out here fighting the good fight. Respect.

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DOGE cuts mucho dinero from US African Development Foundation

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been sniffing out some serious government waste, and they're not afraid to take a bite out of it. In their latest announcement on X, DOGE revealed they've slashed $51 million from the U.S. African Development Foundation's budget, and the details are juicier than a pineapple in Benin.

Apparently, our tax dollars were being used to fund some real head-scratchers, like $229,296 to market "100% organic shea butter in Burkina Faso" and $239,738 for "marketing pineapple juice in Benin." 

I mean, I love a good smoothie as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure why American taxpayers need to foot the bill for it. And don't get me started on the $246,217 spent on "mango drying facilities in the Ivory Coast" – sounds like a real tropical boondoggle.

But wait, there's more! There's always more.

DOGE also uncovered $99,566 spent on "increasing yogurt production in Uganda," $84,059 for "a business incubator for spa and wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria," $50,000 to "train farmers how to grow dragon fruit in Senegal," and $48,406 for "a WhatsApp marketing chatbot in Kenya." 

I don't know about you, but I feel so much better knowing my hard-earned money is going toward dragon fruit and WhatsApp bots.

Led by Elon Musk, DOGE is a temporary White House group created by executive order earlier this year. President Trump gave them 18 months to whip the federal government into shape, and they're clearly not messing around. Just last month, they axed 113 contracts worth a cool $4.7 billion, including a $145,000 USDA consulting gig for "Peru climate change activities." 

Adios, amigos!

But the cuts didn't stop there – DOGE also nixed $10 million for "gender equity in the Mexican workplace," $12.2 million for "worker empowerment in South America," and $6.25 million for "improving respect for workers' rights in agricultural supply chains" in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Oh, and they've been busy canceling DEI initiatives, consulting contracts, leases for empty federal buildings, and redundant agencies left and right.

As of Monday, DOGE is claiming they've saved us $140 billion – that's about $870 per taxpayer. Not too shabby for a group that's only been around for a few months. Keep sniffing out that waste, DOGE – we salute you! And keep protesting the DOGE's efforts to eliminate waste and fraud--the GOP appreciates your willingness to lose the trust of the normal American people.

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March for our Lives is dying slowly

Perpetually angry at something gun related

There’s a certain absurdity baked into the gun control movement, a kind of tragicomic repetition that would make even Sisyphus wince. Everyone on that side of the debate seems compelled to start their own little outfit, each one parroting the same tired lines as the last, as if the sheer volume of organizations might somehow drown out the Second Amendment.

March for Our Lives at least had the decency to carve out a niche, focusing on America’s youth—a group typically more preoccupied with their phones than with policy. Born from the blood and anguish of Parkland, spearheaded by survivors who turned trauma into a megaphone, it burst onto the scene with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Money flowed in, headlines followed, and for a moment, it looked like they might actually shift the tectonic plates of American gun culture.

But apparently not enough money flowed in to keep the lights on, as the group has just sacked most of its full-time staff—a pruning so severe it’s less a trim and more a clear-cut.

March For Our Lives is slashing its employees and anointing a new leader. Last week, the gun-control crusaders announced they’d be parting ways with 13 of their 16 full-time staffers—leaving a rump outfit that could barely man a picket line, let alone a movement. They’ve also tapped Jaclyn Corin, a 24-year-old Parkland survivor and co-founder, as their new executive director, thrusting her into the unenviable role of captaining a ship that’s sprung more leaks than a pair of Biden's 3-week-old skivvies.

“We are facing financial challenges as an organization, not unlike many nonprofit advocacy organizations in this time,” Corin told The 19th, with the sort of measured resignation you’d expect from someone watching their dreams sink into the quicksand of reality. “I am sure things would look differently with a different outcome of the election, but these are the systems and circumstances in which we have to make adjustments based on the financial situation we find ourselves in. It is incredibly unfortunate that these cuts have to happen.”

This isn’t just a stumble—it’s a face-plant for one of America’s loudest anti-gun voices. With the midterms looming, their ability to influence anything beyond a Twitter thread is now in serious doubt. It’s the culmination of a slow, pitiful decline from the dizzying heights of their early days—a fall from grace that’s been as predictable as it is painful to watch.

When I first saw the headline and dug into the piece, my mind went straight to DOGE—the Musk-Trump efficiency juggernaut—taking a flamethrower to the NGO gravy train. The money wasn’t meant to go directly to gun control groups, of course, but we all know the game: it gets funneled through pass-through entities, those clever little NGOs that scoop up USAID cash and sprinkle it onto anti-gun campaigns like confetti at a protest. With that spigot now largely shut off, I suspect we’re witnessing the first tremors of a broader reckoning for these outfits.

That said, I wouldn’t pin it all on DOGE’s budget axe. March For Our Lives was showing signs of distress before Trump swaggered back into the Oval Office and Musk started slashing government waste with the zeal of a man who’d rather be colonizing Mars. The rot, it seems, was already setting in.
The numbers tell a grim tale. Public records show fundraising at its two nonprofit arms has cratered. The non-political foundation went from $2.2 million in 2022 to $1.4 million in 2023, landing more than $300,000 in the red—a shortfall that’s less a hiccup and more a financial coronary. Its political advocacy wing fared worse, plunging from $7 million in 2022 to under $3.5 million the next year. Both bled deficits, and neither came close to the $18.6 million war chest they amassed in 2018’s heady days.

We don’t have 2024’s figures yet, but Corin’s comments suggest the bleeding hasn’t stopped—it’s just gotten messier. She admits they overreached, took on more than they could sustain, and watched the cash evaporate.

Michael Bloomberg could’ve plugged the gap with the loose change from his Mayfair townhouse, but he didn’t. I’d wager the laid-off staffers are mulling that over as they draft their CVs.

What we’re seeing here is a classic case of hubris meeting reality. They rode a tsunami of donations in 2018, assumed the well would never run dry, and built their operation on the shaky premise that the cheques would keep coming. They didn’t. Inflation bit, ordinary Americans tightened their belts, and even the deep-pocketed donors got stingier—perhaps tiring of a cause that’s starting to feel like a broken record.

Rather than adapt, they clung to optimism, hoping the tide would turn. It didn’t, and now they’re binning over 80 percent of their full-time staff—including, presumably, the very people tasked with shaking the money tree. A bold strategy, if your goal is to accelerate your own irrelevance.

March for Our Lives stormed in with righteous fury and a fat bankroll, but it’s limping out as a cautionary tale: even the loudest voices fade when the cash runs dry. They wanted to change America. Instead, they’ve just reminded us that idealism, unchecked by pragmatism, ends up as little more than ash.

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NPR, PBS on hotseat--their leaders defend the indefensible

Imagine this: Wednesday rolls around, and the House DOGE subcommittee decides it’s time to drag "public" broadcasting into the hot seat. Why? Because NPR and PBS have been happily cashing taxpayer checks while pretending half the country doesn’t exist. 

Under a relentless GOP grilling, NPR CEO Katherine Maher—who’s clearly been practicing for the “oops, my bad” Olympics—admits it was a "mistake" to shrug off the Hunter Biden laptop story like it was a bad TikTok trend. She also wrings her hands over some pre-NPR tweets where she called Trump a "deranged racist sociopath" and mused that looting’s no biggie (it’s just "counterproductive," you see). 

Oh, and if reports are true, NPR’s newsroom has zero Republicans? She says that’d be "disturbing." Uh-huh. Sure, Kathy, as if you didn't know.

Now, how much airtime did this spicy little showdown get on ABC, CBS, and NBC? Zilch point pooh. Nada. Crickets. Not a peep on the evening news, not a whisper on the morning gabfests the next day. You’d think a hearing with this much red meat would at least get a nod, right? You would be wrong.

But don’t worry—the Big Three weren’t too busy to obsess over "Signalgate." 

Yep, Trump’s crew chatting up a Houthi strike on the encrypted Signal app—while letting Trump-hating leftist journo Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic and PBS’s "Washington Week" host, eavesdrop—was apparently the story of the century. If he gave a fig about the country, he would have immediately told the host on the Signal meeting that somehow they screwed up by having him on. Instead, he quietly took notes and later reported on it. As it turned out, the Houthi strike went without a hitch in spite of it all.

ABC’s "World News Tonight" and "NBC Nightly News" trotted out footage of CIA boss John Ratcliffe and DNI Tulsi Gabbard sweating under Democrat questions about the breach. NBC’s Lester Holt hyped it as a "bombshell text" to kick off his broadcast—because of course he did. Over on "CBS Evening News," Ed O’Keefe was practically salivating for scalps, asking if heads would roll. He even roped in Goldberg and Obama’s old Defense Sec Chuck Hagel to fan the flames. 

By the end, O’Keefe noted the Senate Armed Services Committee’s bipartisan call for a probe, with GOP chair Roger Wicker grumbling that it’s "a shame this security question is distracting the public from the success of that mission." A shame? You don’t say.

The networks’ playbook is predictable as a sitcom rerun: bury Trump wins, amplify Trump stumbles. 

So let’s dig into the PBS-NPR hearing they conveniently ignored: NPR’s Maher finally copped to the Hunter Biden laptop fumble. Back in 2020, they dismissed it as a "pure distraction"—now, with GOP heat on and taxpayer bucks at stake, she’s all, "Our current editorial leadership thinks that was a mistake, as do I." Breaking news, folks: NPR admits a screw-up! Mark your calendars.

Maher also did a mea culpa on her unhinged tweets—like calling Trump a "deranged racist sociopath" and saying America’s "addicted to white supremacy." She’s "evolved," she claims in the style of Barack Obama on gays in the military, but those hot takes fit NPR’s woke vibe like a glove. Bet they were on her résumé under "qualifications."

PBS prez Paula Kerger and Maher swore up and down their news is "nonpartisan and unbiased." Then Texas Rep. Pat Fallon dropped some NewsBusters truth bombs: "News Hour" slapped "far-right" labels 162 times but only used "far-left" six times. PBS’s 2024 convention coverage was 72% negative for the GOP, 88% positive for Dems. Kerger’s response? "Never heard of those studies." Great prep work, Paula, if you're being honest.

Remember NPR editor Uri Berliner’s exposé? He found 87 Democrats and zero Republicans in NPR’s D.C. newsroom. Another zero.

 Maher called it "disturbing" if true, but after a year on the job, has she hired a single non-lefty? Nope. Berliner wasn’t even GOP, and they still canned him.

GOP reps pointed out NPR interviewed Dem Rep. Adam Schiff 25 times during the Russia hoax—some say 32, but who’s counting? Meanwhile, Rep. James Comer, the Republican Oversight chair, got zero chats about his Biden probe. Fallon asked Maher about it; she drew a blank. Zero’s the answer, Kathy. The Sunday shows pull the same stunt.

This isn’t new. For 50 years, broadcast news has hyped Democrat hearings—Watergate, Iran-Contra, Anita Hill, January 6—like they’re Super Bowls, while GOP-led ones get tossed in the shredder. PBS and NPR had to cover this DOGE hearing, but they weren’t happy about it. NPR’s David Folkenflik whined it was more about "scoring points than finding facts." Pot, meet kettle.

The networks? They’ll skip any fact that messes with their narrative. It’s not about truth—it’s about winning. And they wonder why we don’t trust ‘em.

And this has been where our tax money has been going without our permission.

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Busted! Commie arrested in Molotov cocktail attack at Las Vegas Tesla shop: faces federal charges

Well, folks, it seems like a commie in Vegas have traded in his hammer and sickle for a Molotov cocktail and a can of spray paint. Paul Hyon Kim, a 36-year-old genius, decided to channel his inner anarchist and torch a few Teslas at a dealership last week. 

Nothing says "workers' paradise" like setting fire to some sweet electric rides, right?

The Las Vegas Metro Police nabbed this Einstein on Wednesday after he allegedly turned at least five cars into a barbecue on March 18 at the local Tesla Collision Center. Kim's facing a laundry list of charges longer than a CVS receipt—destruction of property, arson, and possessing a fire device. 

Sounds like he’s ready for the big leagues!

But hang on, there’s more. The feds are jumping in on the action too. 

Spencer Evans, the FBI’s top guy in Vegas, told reporters on Thursday that Kim’s got some federal charges coming his way. Evans dropped this gem: "There's nothing courageous or noble about firebombing private property and terrorizing your local community." 

Boom! Tell it like it is, Spence. He went on: "The self-righteous mob that's cheering you on today to commit acts of violence on their behalf will leave you high and dry and forget about you tomorrow. And at the end of the day, you and you alone will be held responsible and face the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence." Preach, brother! Sounds like Kim’s about to learn that revolution comes with a side of jail time.

Here’s how it went down: Kim rolled up in a black Hyundai Elantra—real subtle—then strolled over to the Tesla joint decked out in gloves, black clothes, and a concealed face. This guy’s watched one too many spy flicks. He allegedly took a rifle to the surveillance cameras—because who needs evidence?—and spray-painted "resist" on the front doors. Deep, man. Oh, and they found an unlit Molotov cocktail in one of the cars. Guess he forgot the matches or couldn't count to six.

The police say Kim’s social media is a treasure trove of communist fanboy posts and Palestinian cause shoutouts. His DNA matched samples from the scene—shocker!—and when they raided his place and cars, they hit the jackpot: rifles, a shotgun, a handgun, gun parts, and enough ammo to start a small militia.

This isn’t a solo act either. Tesla dealerships and factories have been under siege lately, mostly by folks ticked off at Trump and Elon Musk. Why? Elon’s not just the Tesla kingpin—he’s also stirring the pot at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which sounds like a cryptocurrency but is actually a government gig. 

The haters are out in force, and the FBI’s had enough. They’ve teamed up with the ATF to form a task force to squash these pyromaniacs like the cockroaches they are.

So, there you have it—another day, another leftist lunatic thinking he’s Che Guevara. Good luck in the slammer, Kimmy! Maybe they’ll let you spray-paint "resist" on your cell wall.

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Heads explode as Trump gives DOGE more power

President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order Wednesday to “further reign in government waste and officially implement” the Department of Government Efficiency’s “cost efficiency initiative.”

Hoo boy--you can hear the flatulence-sounding explosions going off in Eric Swalwell's circle of Chinese Communist friends and others.

Trump's order requires each agency head to work directly with the DOGE team and find where government contracts and grants can be modified or even canned altogether. And this is to "commence immediately" with the aim to reduce federal spending or “reallocate spending to promote efficiency and advance the policies” of the Trump administration.

President Trump signed the order after holding the first cabinet meeting of his new administration, during which his senior adviser, Elon Musk, who influences DOGE’s actions, spoke at length about the department’s goals, causing Democrat hands to be wrung and tsk-tsks to be made.

“The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to address the enormous deficit,” Musk told Trump cabinet members on Wednesday. “We simply cannot sustain as a country two-trillion-dollar deficits. Just the interest on the debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending.”

Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said that DOGE is working as “a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments to help achieve those savings to effectively find 15% reduction in fraud and waste.” 

Trump’s executive order seeks to increase DOGE’s ability to drastically reduce federal spending. The order requires “Each Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, [to] conduct a comprehensive review of each agency’s contracting policies, procedures, and personnel.”

Per the president’s order, the DOGE team is required to provide the DOGE administrator with “a monthly informational report on contracting activities” that includes “all payment justifications provided pursuant to that process, to the extent consistent with law.”

Earlier this month, the White House clarified that Elon Musk is not the DOGE administrator. On Monday, they announced that Amy Gleason, a healthcare executive with experience in both the Trump and Biden administrations, holds the position. From 2018 to 2021, Gleason was part of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), which later transformed into DOGE.

President Trump recently issued a new directive for DOGE, building on an executive order he signed earlier this month. That order instructed federal agency heads to “coordinate and consult” with DOGE during hiring and to “limit hiring to essential positions.”

Some critics are growing worried about DOGE and Musk’s expanding influence within the Trump administration. On Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump if any cabinet members were “unhappy” with Musk’s involvement. Trump replied that some might “disagree a little bit,” but he went on to say, “For the most part, I think everyone is not only happy, but thrilled.”

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USAID workers are packing up their stuff

USAID workers will be given a quarter of an hour to clear out their work areas as the agency comes to an end. For many college students, a quarter of an hour, they believe, is 25 minutes, which also implies how well the Department of Education has been doing lately.

Thousands of USAID workers who have been terminated or placed on leave as part of the Trump administration's getting rid of the agency are being told to clear out their workspaces between Thursday and Friday.

USAID has placed 4,080 staffers who work across the globe on leave Monday. That was joined by a “reduction in force” that will affect another 1,600 employees, a State Department spokesman said in an emailed response to questions. 

The agency is one of Trump's and the Department of Government Efficiency's biggest targets thus far in the project of Elon Musk to dramatically cut the size of the federal government. USAID will leave only a fraction of its employees on the job and the way things look, it may only be the toilet cleaners and window washers.

Trump and Musk have moved swiftly to shutter the foreign aid agency, calling its programs out of line with the president’s agenda and explaining that its $40,000,000,000 annual budget is wasteful in its role in foreign aid.

When you allocate $20,000,000 to produce a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq, known as "Ahlan Simsim Iraq," some may consider that wasteful spending initiated by the Biden administration. While they claim the show promotes inclusion and mutual respect across ethnic and religious groups, it seems that Hamas and other Islamic nations didn't get the message. DOGE argues that it represents frivolous spending and questions its relevance to U.S. taxpayers and its tangible impact. In other words, just because it sounds good doesn't mean it's doing any good anywhere other than lining the pockets of certain individuals.

Then we have up to $10,000,000 in USAID-funded meals that reportedly ended up with the Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group who enjoy killing people for religious reasons. Obviously, this is not merely wasteful spending, but clearly a potentially harmful misdirection of funds that also raises concerns about oversight and accountability within USAID.

Then there's the smaller projects such as a $2,000,000 grant for Moroccan pottery classes, and the same amount to promote tourism in Lebanon. WTAF? How are they connected to American interests?

DOGE argues they show a pattern of funding niche projects over more important domestic priorities.

Let's never forget how important the left sees DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) as being part of hiring practices like the one we had for a US Vice President last administration.

Examples include $1.5 million to promote LGBTQ+ advocacy in Serbia and $5.5 million for similar efforts in Uganda and Jamaica, countries with restrictive laws on these communities. DOGE views these as wasteful and ideologically motivated, aligning with Trump’s executive order to end DEI programs in federal agencies. A $70,000 grant for a DEI musical in Ireland further fuels this narrative, seen as an extravagant use of funds with little strategic value. 

Although the programs mentioned above, ranging from millions to tens of millions, are only a fraction of USAID's budget, DOGE sees them as symbolic of broader inefficiency.

The agency’s total cuts under DOGE are reported at $6.5 billion to $8 billion, with USAID leading the list of contract cancellations. Critics argue these cuts, while impactful in scale, often lack a nuanced assessment of the programs’ long-term benefits, such as the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which DOGE axed despite its efficiency in optimizing food aid distribution.

In a report earlier this month from the Congressional Research Service, they say that  congressional authorization is required “to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID.” 

However, the Republican majorities in the House and Senate have made no pushback against the administration’s actions, just like the Democrats do when they have control of the House and Senate.

There’s virtually nothing left to fund, anyway: The administration now says it is eliminating over 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in U.S. assistance around the world. That's good for the taxpayers, good for the economy, and good for America.

It’s unclear how many of the more than 5,600 USAID employees who have been fired or placed on leave work at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington. A notice on the agency’s website said staff at other locations will have the chance to collect their personal belongings at a later date.

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Poopy-mouth Dem Rep. tell Musk to eff off and gets ripped a new one on social media

Classy Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett got her clock rewound on social media after her ghetto mouth got her in trouble. She told Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head and wealthiest man on planet Earth to "f**k off." Her inappropriate verbiage is making her a star among fellow ghettonians and all around miscreants.

"F**k off," the nasty babe told reporter Joe Gallina outside Capitol Hill on Tuesday when asked what she would tell Elon Musk if she could tell him anything.

Crockett’s lazy filthy mouth and lack of a introspection  immediately drew blowback from conservatives on social media, who took issue with her disgusting verbiage and tone.

Here is what a few conservatives on X had to say:

"The face of the American left, ladies and gentlemen," conservative account Johnny MAGA posted on X. 

"Classy," conservative commentator Benny Johnson also posted on X. 

"Jasmine Crockett = trash," comedian Tim Young posted on X. 

"Please make Jasmine Crockett the spokesperson of the Democrat Party," former GOP congressional candidate Kathleen Anderson posted on X.

Fox News Digital reached out to Crockett's office for comment and they told the media outlet to 'f**k off.' Just kidding--they simply didn't respond.

Many on the left in Congress are afraid of DOGE and pretty much anything that challenges mediocrity with meritocracy. They and their voters are not used to being required to account for the existence of their jobs and are therefore protesting Musk's people cutting wasteful spending.

However, in a recent poll, amplified by Musk on social media, the outcome suggests a majority of the American people support DOGE's mission.

The Harvard CAPS-Harris poll revealed a majority of Americans support reducing wasteful government spending. Most voters agree there should be a government agency dedicated to efficiency and that DOGE is helping to make major spending cuts, the non-probability-based poll found.

This scares the f**k out of DEI supporters and leftists, if you don't mind me saying so.

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DOGE Finds $2 B in Taxpayer Funds meant for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found out that $2,000,000,000 of taxpayer money was given to a new nonprofit connected to Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who keeps losing elections.

In April 2024, the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave Power Forward Communities the huge grant through a program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This group got the money for green energy projects even though it was only started in late 2023 and had almost no experience. According to its latest tax records, it made a mere $100 in its first three months.

Power Forward Communities was one of eight groups that got a piece of the $20 billion the EPA handed out in April 2024. On February 13, 2025, EPA boss Lee Zeldin said his team, along with DOGE officials, discovered that Biden’s administration had moved that $20 billion to a private bank before leaving office. This made it harder for the government to keep an eye on how the money was being used.

Finding out that Power Forward Communities got some of this cash raises big questions about whether Biden’s team picked favorites when giving out these giant grants. Abrams strongly supported Biden’s green energy plans and campaigned for Kamala Harris, the former vice president.

 
Republicans have warned for years that Biden’s allies might create groups just to grab federal money from programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This program, started by the Democrats’ huge 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, was meant to act like a “green bank” to fund eco-friendly projects.

“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”

“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” Zeldin added. “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

Neither Power Forward Communities nor Abrams answered questions about this.

Power Forward Communities was set up in October 2023 by a number of groups, including Rewiring America, a left-leaning organization pushing for electric power over fossil fuels. Abrams, who works as Rewiring America’s senior counsel, said she was “thrilled” to join the group. “This is how we expand access to clean energy—by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” she posted on X.

The group’s website says it’s the first big nationwide program to pay for energy-saving home upgrades. It wants to help homeowners, builders, and renters switch out gas appliances—like old stovetops—for electric ones, like induction stovetops.

In its only press release so far, Power Forward Communities said it would use the $2 billion from the EPA to install things like heat pumps, solar panels, home batteries, electric car chargers, and better insulation.
“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud,” said Daniel Turner from Power the Future, an energy advocacy group, in an interview with the Free Beacon.

Power Forward Communities lists a number of partners on its site, including two nonprofits Abrams started after losing the 2018 Georgia governor race: the Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count. The Southern Economic Advancement Project, which works on racial equity and economic power in the South, is backed by the Tides Center, a group that gives tons of money to left-wing causes.

Other partners include the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO, two big labor unions that support Democrats. The teachers’ union leader, Randi Weingarten, and Abrams both advise Climate Power, a group that spent $55 million on ads for Kamala Harris’s presidential run in September 2024.

“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity, instead of serving the American people,” Zeldin said. “Those days are over.”

Right before Biden’s team left office, they put the $20 billion—now tracked down by Zeldin and DOGE—at Citibank. The eight groups that got the money, including Power Forward Communities, have only used a small amount of it thus far. But this setup makes it tough for Trump’s administration to take the money back, though Zeldin is working hard to do just that.

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DOGE uncovers $4,700,000,000,001.75 in Treasury payments that were missing tracking code

If you counted one second per number to 4.7 trillion, it would take 149,037 years! Don't believe me, ask Alexa.

Anyway, that's the number of dollars DOGE discovered in Treasury payments that were missing a critical code that makes "traceability almost impossible."

DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) announced Monday that the payments were missing a critical tracking code known as the Treasury Account Symbol (TAS), which is an identification code that links a Treasury payment to a budget line item, as DOGE explains, and says such a code is a "standard financial process."

“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,” read an X post from DOGE. Use of the TAS code is now mandatory, according to Elon Musk and DOGE.

The Musk-led project to curb waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government said that in light of the discovery, use of the TAS code is now mandatory and whoever may have been putting money in their proverbial pockets will now have to show up and work for their pay.

“As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going,” DOGE said, thanking the Treasury Department for its “great work” implementing the change.

Musk called the change as a “major improvement in Treasury payment integrity.”

“This was a combined effort of [DOGE, Treasury and the Federal Reserve],” Musk tweeted. “Nice work by all.”

The US Treasury Department, which facilitates trillions of dollars worth of government payments every year, was one of the first agencies DOGE began to audit after President Trump’s inauguration.

DOGE staffers at Treasury have been granted access to the department’s highly sensitive payment systems in an effort to root out waste, fraud and abuse, in spite of the Democratic Party wanting to keep the books hidden.

“This is not some roving band … This is methodical and it is going to yield big savings,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said of DOGE at a Bloomberg TV interview last week.

DOGE recently proposed “deleting paper checks” at Treasury, arguing that it would save taxpayers “at least $750 million per year.”

The initiative noted that the Treasury Department must keep “a physical lockbox” to collect the more than 100 million checks it processes each year, which costs about $2.40 per check to maintain.

In fiscal year 2023, some $25 billion in tax refunds were delayed or lost due to returned or expired checks, according to DOGE.

Anyway, in case you're wondering, I was kidding about the $1.75 in the title--I don't want to exaggerate and make it sound so big.

People in Washington, D.C. have been freaking out and searching online how to clean their computer data from their own devices--seriously. They should contact Hillary Clinton for the best advice and purchase Bleach Bit and a hammer, just in case.

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DOGE ends cutting off the foreskins of male anatomy in Mozambique, saving taxpayers $10 million, for starters

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced that it gave a thumb's-down

on almost a billion U.S. tax dollars from funding ridiculous overseas programs, including $10 million to “voluntary medical male circumcisions” in Mozambique.

Ouch.

In a Saturday post to X,  DOGE announced a total of $729 million in savings, listing multiple crazy initiatives being funded by U.S. taxpayers with zero knowledge of where the money was going. Democrats don't seem to think this is good for the country and they minimize the money saved without considering that the savings are just for one year and will continue over time.

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:

$10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"

$9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
$2.3M for "strengthening independent voices in Cambodia"
$32M to the Prague Civil Society Center
$40M for "gender equality and women empowerment hub"
$14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia
$486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for "inclusive and participatory political process" in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India
$29M to "strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh"
$20M for "fiscal federalism" in Nepal- $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal
$1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia
$14M for "social cohesion" in Mali
$2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa"
$47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia"
$2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt"

This is the kind of stuff that freaks out the left, but more and more people are waking up and see this oversight as a good thing for the country.

Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren (D-MA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck 'Nostrils' Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Jamie 'Lizard Man' Raskin (D-MD), and others keep acting like they're losing it over Musk's DOGE and the so-called "constitutional crisis." But, in truth, what's really driving Congressional Democrats crazy is probably the end of their gravy train of influence money.

Last month, GOP lawmakers demanded former alleged President Joe Biden's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) be investigated for allegedly using taxpayer money to fund at least 21 abortions in Mozambique through PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Breitbart News reported.

The nonsense goes on and on--it's time to investigate, indict those who are corrupt, and eradicate the wasteful programs the taxpayers didn't approve of or even know about.

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USAID aided terrorist groups longitudinal study shows

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has given millions of dollars to extremist groups linked to Islamic terrorist organizations, according to a report from the Middle East Forum, a U.S. think tank.

"The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164,000,000 of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122,000,000 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters," the conservative think tank wrote in its report published Feb. 4.

"Billions more of federal dollars have been given to leading American aid charities which have consistently failed to vet their terror-tied local partners, and show little interest in improving their practices, to the apparent indifference of the federal government."

The report specifically looks at funds from USAID and the State Department that ended up supporting radical groups and organizations connected to terrorism.

The think tank reported that USAID provided more than $900,000 to a "Gaza-based terror charity" called Bayader Association for Environment and Development. The funding started in 2016, with the latest allocation just days before the Hamassholes attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Bayader describes itself as an NGO working "to build a civil society" in the Gaza Strip.

"Founded in 2007, shortly after Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip, Bayader operates in close cooperation with the Hamas regime. Its 2021 annual report notes ‘coordination’ and ‘meetings’ with Hamas’s Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture," the report found.

The funds were channeled through other NGOs like Catholic Relief Services and medical groups.

"But USAID coordinates directly with Bayader as well," according to the report. "USAID officials have praised Bayader’s work on social media, and even visited Bayader’s offices, where one senior USAID official, Jonathan Kamin, received an award from the terror-linked charity."

The report also discovered that USAID approved a $12.5 million grant in 2024 to the American Near East Refugee Agency, a "long-standing partner" of Bayader. This agency was established in 1968 to aid refugees after the Arab-Israeli War.

It was found that employees of this NGO have publicly shared "violent ideas" like calling on God to "erase the Jews," supporting "brave prisoners" in Israeli jails during the Hamas-Israel conflict, and describing Oct. 7, 2023, as a "beautiful morning" without apparent reprimand from higher-ups.

Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch, highlighted these findings on X, calling them "horrifying."

"USAID won't even tell us how much they gave the Unlimited Friends Association, a Gaza terror charity which operates with help from Hamas. The head of the charity promises to ‘cleanse’ their land of ‘impure Jews,’" Westrop posted.

"USAID gave millions to Islamic Relief, whose Gaza branch openly works with senior terrorist officials in Gaza, including Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad. who promised that Hamas would repeat Oct 7 attacks ‘time and again until Israel is annihilated,’" he posted in another example from the report.

USAID funds amounting to $125,000 were traced to the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2015, despite the U.S. Treasury designating it a global terrorist organization in 2004 due to links with Osama bin Laden.

The report states that USAID "undoubtedly knew of ISRA’s terrorism activities. In 2010, the executive director of ISRA’s U.S. branch (IARA-USA) and a board member pleaded guilty to money-laundering, theft of public funds, conspiracy, and several other charges. The plea was listed on USAID’s own website," the report found.

The funds were funneled to ISRA through an evangelical charity called World Vision, which works on providing clean water in Sudan, according to the report.

A World Vision official told Fox News Digital that they earned approval to work in Sudan "to help build a better world for the most vulnerable children and their families" and take "compliance obligations seriously."

"As soon as we became aware that a local partner, Islamic Relief Agency, might be on the list of organizations banned from transactions by the United States, we suspended the grant and asked the US Government to confirm its status," the official said. "We would never knowingly put those we serve or our staff at risk by working with a partner on the list of banned organizations. We exist to help build a better world for children and their families, serving in the name of Jesus Christ. We have no evidence that any of our funds have been used for anything other than urgent humanitarian work."

"As a Christian humanitarian organization, we do not compromise our beliefs nor commitment to integrity as we work with governments throughout the world," the official added. "It is not easy to operate in fragile contexts, yet this is where the Lord is calling us. We remain committed to our vision of bringing life in all its fullness to vulnerable children around the world."

Fox News Digital reached out to Bayader, the American Near East Refugee Agency, and Catholic Relief Services but received no responses.

USAID faces scrutiny from the Trump administration as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, investigates its spending and considers restructuring or closing the agency. USAID is currently under the interim leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

On Feb. 4, USAID announced on its website that nearly all staff would be placed on leave by Friday, exempting those in "mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs." Its overseas missions have also been instructed to close.

Amid this potential dismantling, past USAID spending has come under review, revealing funds going to questionable initiatives like creating a version of "Sesame Street" in Iraq or funding pottery classes in Morocco,

USAID was set up in 1961 during the Kennedy administration to manage civilian foreign aid in close cooperation with the State Department. Rubio has suggested in a letter to Congress on Feb. 3 that USAID might be integrated into the State Department or abolished entirely.

Elon Musk has publicly stated on X that USAID is a "criminal organization" and that it's "time for it to die."

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Jaw-dropping how much Congress spent illegally on programs

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Our beloved Congress has spent no less than $516,000,000,000 on programs without authorization in 2024. That means they spent your tax money illegally and you can't blame this on Trump. A gut-wrenching report by the Congressional Budget Office clearly emphasizes why the Left is attacking President Trump's right to audit payments by the Treasury Department, a government department over which he has significant authority.

For example, the President appoints the Secretary of the Treasury, while there is a balance by legislative and administrative checks. The President can direct the Department's policy through executive orders and set priorities, or influence fiscal policy, especially issues like taxation, debt management and current policy, and through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) can propose the federal budget to Congress. However, Congress holds the "power of the purse," and has to approve all expenditures.

In a report titled "Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024," the CBO observes: "Historically, House and Senate rules restrict lawmakers from considering an appropriation if it lacks a current authorization." Nevertheless, "CBO estimates that $516 billion was appropriated for 2024 for activities with expired authorizations, which the agency identified for each House and Senate authorizing committee and appropriations subcommittee." That $516 billion in illegal payments cover "1,264 authorizations of appropriations that expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2024 and 251 authorizations of appropriations that were set to expire by the end of fiscal year 2024." The legal authority for some of these payments expired 40 years ago!



The data shows that Congress has created a shadow funding stream for their pet projects where senior members can shovel money in pork-filled spending packages under the pretense of preventing a government shutdown.

The money is paid despite there being no legal authority for the disbursement. This is akin to embezzlement but on a more gargantuan scale. If you and I did this, we'd to to prison for years. When congresspeople do it, they get reelected for years.

Making this all the more intriguing is that it would seem that President Trump could stop those illegal payments without worrying about violating the Impoundment Control Act, simply because they're illegal according to Congress' own rules.  

This is why they're having accidents in their skivvies, because when DOGE delves deeper into this, there's gonna be a lot more illegal stuff they're gonna find.

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USAID. aided Catholic Relief Services with $4.6 billion so they could support pro-abortion groups

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was the top recipient of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Forbes reported Feb. 3.

According to Forbes, CRS, a nonprofit, received $4.6 billion from 2013 to 2022. Other top recipients include Chemonics International, a for-profit organization that received $4.5 billion; FHI 360, a nonprofit that received $3.8 billion; and Development Alternatives, a for-profit organization that received $3 billion.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio became the acting director of USAID on February 3, as CatholicVote previously reported. This decision came after the agency tried to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing its financial records.

CRS has been controversial in the past for supporting programs that are involved in terminating the lives of unborn babies.

As CatholicVote reported in 2023, the organization tried to mislead senators by claiming that African bishops were not opposed to an AIDS relief program that would promote abortion. In reality, six African bishops signed a letter organized by the conservative advocacy group The Heritage Foundation opposing the Biden-era President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). CRS then claimed that the bishops did sign the letter but didn't understand what they were signing.

“Heritage reached out to the bishops, who said they knew exactly what they were signing,” Catholic Vote President Brian Burch said at the time. “A seventh African bishop sent a statement to point out that he wasn’t on the original letter and wanted to be added.”

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USAID, Trump's not a fan: they locked DOGE out of the building

In the sunbaked lunacy of Florida politics, or rather, the political swamp of Washington, D.C., President Trump had decided he'd had just about enough of USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was set on giving it a good shakeup or maybe just tossing it into the Potomac. But the bureaucrats at USAID, bless their hearts, didn't take kindly to this, acting like they held the keys to the kingdom rather than the elected commander-in-chief.

The Resistance Attempts a Coup at USAID and It Doesn't Go Well

HUGE: President Trump Considering Scaling Back USAID, Rolling Into State Dept.

On a night when the moon was full and the stars were out to watch the show, Trump decided it was time to serve up some comeuppance to those not playing by his rules.

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.

People from Musk's office, with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop, tried to muscle their way into the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, but got the door slammed in their faces.

The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said.

Elon Musk, the maverick billionaire, wasn't holding back his thoughts on the matter:

USAID is a criminal organization.
Time for it to die.
— Elon Musk (
@elonmusk) February 2, 2025

RedState’s Ward Clark, with the wisdom of a man who's seen too many Floridian sunsets, penned a piece on why USAID needed a swift kick or a complete overhaul:

Not only is USAID paying for stupidity like sending condoms to the Taliban, along with all manner of money poured out overseas, but their 2025 budget request is asking for $42.8 billion. That's a "B" followed by an "illion." That's a lot of American taxpayers' dollars to let USAID play Santa Claus to the world. In case anyone hasn't noticed, we can't afford it. We're broke. Our national debt situation is untenable, we may well be past the point of no return, and we can't keep paying for things like condoms for terrorists anymore.

Musk had even more to add to his pile of opinions:

USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America
— Elon Musk (
@elonmusk) February 2, 2025

Trump, not one to sit idly by while his orders are ignored, was making it abundantly clear that defiance would not be tolerated.

Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.

USAID Director of Security John Voorhees and his deputy found themselves on leave, caught in the high winds of change, with whispers that Trump might just fold USAID into the State Department – a move Democrats were squawking about as illegal.

From the General Services Administration to the DEI pushers in the Pentagon, government employees were learning fast that messing around with this administration would lead to a swift "find out" response. In the land where the alligator meets the concrete, the message was clear: don't mess with the bull, or you'll get the horns.

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