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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Biden takes yet another vacation from his elected office

Biden takes a vacation from his vacation

PINO Joseph R. Biden spent five days relaxing on vacation at the 8,000-acre home of Joe Kiani, a billionaire CEO of Masimo, a medical technology company in Santa Ynez, California. The alleged President refers to Kiani as "one of my closest friends," which upset his other "closest friends," Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the mainstream media, and Cornpop.

Well, after five tedious days of still being alive, Biden headed out to his Rehoboth beach house in Delaware for at least another three days of stayin' alive, stayin' alive, uh, uh, uh, uh, stayin' aliiiive . . . barely. 

So with Harris doing her campaigning, it stands to reason that Nancy Pelosi is running the country, or perhaps someone else. It certainly isn't AOC or we'd all be dead by now.

The Republican National Committee posted on X: 

Biden — who held just one public event this week — is currently lounging on the beach in Delaware.

He has spent 40% of his entire presidency on vacation.

Who is running the country? pic.twitter.com/NAva2BLPMm

If this doesn't concern you, I suspect you're a Democrat.

Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee report that Kiana contributed $1 million to the Biden Foundation in 2017, $750,000 to the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, and $1 million to the Biden Inaugural Committee.

Concerned about the ties between Biden and Kiani, they wrote a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in April 2022 that stated:

We are conducting oversight of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) role in ensuring that government contracts and loans are not inappropriately awarded to President Biden’s political donors. … On September 22, 2021, Joe Kiani, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Masimo received an appointment to the influential President’s Council on Science and Technology (PCAST). Mr. Kiani is a prolific Democratic donor, contributing over $1 million to the Biden Foundation in 2017, $750,000 to the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, and $1 million to the Biden Inaugural Committee.

In addition to receiving an appointment to PCAST, Mr. Kiani’s company Masimo has received nearly $3 million in federal government contracts since January 2021. Several agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have awarded contracts to Masimo.While Masimo has received government contracts in previous Administrations, Mr. Kiani’s close ties to President Biden, including an appointment to a White House board creates the appearance that he is benefiting from his political contributions.

So again, who's running the country? We know it isn't Biden then it has to be somebody who was not elected by the public, like Kamala Harris, for example. 

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OMB nominee called out during confirmation hearing for her GOP hate tweets

It didn't take long into her confirmation hearing that Neera Tanden was confronted with her hostile and rather disgusting tweets she posted against several GOP lawmakers. Tanden is President Biden's nominee for the position of director of Office of Management and Budget.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) was the first Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee to question her and he immediately brought up the hater's posts, many of which she deleted last year to cover up what she really thinks about half the country's voters. 

"I believe that the tone, the content and the aggressive partisanship of some of your public statements have added to the troubling trend of more incivility and division in our public life, and in your case I'm concerned that your personal attacks about specific senators will make it more difficult for you to work with them," Sen. Portman said, noting that OMB directors must be able to work in a bipartisan fashion and she doesn't appear to make the cut.

Portman gave examples of "a few of the thousands of negative public statements" the hate-filled Tanden has made. She called Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) "the worst," and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) a "fraud," and even said that "vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz." And when it comes to vampires, Tanden ought to know. She referred to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as "Moscow Mitch" and "Voldemort," a Harry Potter villain.

The cowardly piece of work thought she was smart enough by deleting her tweets, but even so, Portman said that there were still nine pages of acrimonious posts still online. Evidently, she didn't think they were all that bad that it might present a problem for her in the future because, after all, the Democrats were in power and they had the media on their side.

"I wonder, specifically, how do you plan to mend fences and build relationships with members of Congress you have attacked through your public statements?" Portman asked of the leftist nominee.

"I recognize the concern," Tanden replied unconvincingly. "I deeply regret and apologize for my language — some of my past language. I recognize that this role is a bipartisan role, and I know I have to earn the trust of senators across the board. I will work very aggressively to meet that concern," she said in her most convincing voice, so much so that even M&Ms wouldn't melt in her mouth.

Tanden claimed that she hopes to work "in a bipartisan and nonpartisan manner," while acknowledging that "it’s upon me to prove that to this committee and to members." 

Yeah, sure.

Tanden eventually offered a direct apology for her caustic and highly inflammatory remarks.

"For those concerned about my rhetoric and my language, you know, I'm sorry and I'm sorry for any hurt that they've caused," she lied.

Portman referred to a report that Tanden had deleted thousands, yes thousands of tweets and he asked if she did it because she knew about the impending job possibility she might be offered. 

"I deleted tweets because I regretted my tone and I've deleted tweets over many months," Tanden said because she had to. She did not say she removed the posts with a job in mind.

But if that is true, why then did Tanden leave up nine pages of hate posts?

She'll get confirmed because the left doesn't care that she posted hateful anti-Republican rhetoric. In fact, they probably chuckle over it in private.

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