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February 13, 2025 - Top Biden HHS official funnels billions to illegal aliens through her nonprofit connections

Robin Dunn Marcos

A top official in the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directed millions in migrant assistance grants to nonprofits where she previously held senior positions, a watchdog report revealed Thursday.

Robin Dunn Marcos, who led HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under former President Joe Biden, oversaw $22.6 billion in grant distributions since 2020, with her former employers emerging as top beneficiaries. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she spent 23 years as a senior director, received $598 million, while Church World Service, her employer of four years, was awarded $355 million, according to an OpenTheBooks report.

“Consistent with the Ethics Pledge, Robin Dunn Marcos is recused from participating in particular matters involving specific parties in which IRC is or represents a party,” a spokesperson for the Administration for Children and Families, ORR’s parent agency, told the outlet. “That recusal obligation lasts for two years from her date of appointment, which was September 11, 2022.”

While HHS officials maintained to the outlet that Dunn Marcos recused herself from decisions involving her former employers, OpenTheBooks reported that IRC’s funding increased dramatically during her tenure, jumping from $22 million in fiscal year 2021 to over $235 million in 2023.

Through a network of nonprofit organizations, ORR provided an extensive array of benefits to migrants, including dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for vehicle and home purchases, small business loans up to $15,000 and credit repair loans up to $1,500. Additional services included “cultural orientation,” emergency housing support, legal assistance and Medicaid care. The OpenTheBooks report called the programs a “giant magnet for those seeking to cross the border and claim asylum.”

ORR dramatically increased funding in general during Dunn Marcos’ tenure, with annual grant disbursements soaring from $2.6 billion in fiscal year 2020 to a peak of $10 billion in fiscal year 2023, according to the watchdog group. The surge in spending coincided with record-breaking southern border crossings, as Customs and Border Protection reported 2.4 million apprehensions during the same period.

The most substantial portion of funding — $12.4 billion — went toward programs for unaccompanied minor children, even as the agency faced mounting criticism over its handling of minors in its care. Tom Homan, now President Donald Trump’s border czar, estimated that 300,000 migrant children were unaccounted for under the program’s watch, he said in a January 2023 interview with Fox News.

OpenTheBooks filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2023 for any emails exchanged between Dunn Marcos and IRC and has not yet received a response. Dunn Marcos left her post at ORR after Trump took office in January. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 2/13/2025)  (Archive)

February 14, 2025 - There is an eruption of D.C. internet searches for "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Criminal Defense Lawyer" that suggest deep state panic mode

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for “Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “RICO Laws” went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington’s political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE’s efforts to neuter USAID’s funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Now, more suspicious search trends have erupted among DC residents as DOGE efforts went into beast mode at the end of the week.

“Washington DC searches soar for “Swiss bank” (yellow), “offshore bank” (green), “wire money” (red) and “IBAN” (blue),” WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday.

Search terms “Wipe” (blue) and “Erase” (red) also moved higher in recent weeks. Wipe hard drives?

Well, yes, the search term “wipe hard drive”across the DC metro has gone absolutely parabolic.

And “BleachBit” too!

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 2/14/2025)  (Archive)

February 14, 2025 - A list of the unreleased Russiagate documents

Russiagate is the greatest political scandal of all time for a simple reason: the combined forces of Obama, the sitting president at the time, along with the FBI and CIA, worked to take down President Trump based on something not only fabricated—but fabricated by them. It was an attempted coup by a sitting president against his democratically elected successor.

Yet here we are, eight years after the full weaponization of government to remove Trump, and not only has no one been held to account, but vast troves of critical documents remain unreleased.

While many documents have come out, there has been no concerted effort to secure the rest—nor even a clear list of what’s still missing.

Below is a list of crucial documents that remain unreleased (big thank you to @ClimateAudit and @FOOL_NELSON for compiling it). The list may not be complete, so feel free to add to it. The point is simple: if we don’t define what’s missing, there will be no effort to release it. We cannot let Obama’s attempted coup fade into history. There needs to be relentless pressure to get these documents released in the coming weeks and months—before new hoaxes are unleashed on Trump and this is once again forgotten:

Unreleased Russiagate Documents

2016:
•DNC Logs: May 23–25
•Crossfire Reports: Related to DNC & DCCC
•DHS Attribution Assessments & Briefings: Leading to Oct 7 announcement
•FBI Intel Assessment on Steele Reporting (Oct): Drafts & corresponding materials
•Unredacted FBI 302: Aug 2 interview with Australian diplomats Alexander Downer & Erika Thompson
•Unredacted Cables: Downer cable (May 11)
Thompson cable (May 16)
•Downer’s U.S. Embassy Visit (July 26): Correspondence & minutes
•Declassified Briefings: CIA to Senate Intel Committee (Nov 23)
•FBI-DNI to House Intel Committee (Dec 5)
•Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA): Declassified & unredacted drafts on Russian interference (Dec 9)
Classified version presented to Obama (Jan 5) & Trump (Jan 6)
•Senate Intel Committee Report (2020): Unredacted section on ICA
•Christopher Steele Interview (Oct): FBI 302, notes & correspondence
•Brennan Notes: Unredacted version of July 28 White House briefing on Clinton’s plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent
•Fusion Cell (CIA, NSA, FBI): All memos and emails, unredacted Sept 7 memo

2017:
•Lyall-Grant Memo: Mark Lyall-Grant’s warning about Steele
•FBI & DOJ documents and correspondence on FBI’s identification & interviewing of Igor Danchenko (Steele’s Primary Sub-source)
•FBI documents and correspondence regarding conferral of Confidential Human Source status to Danchenko
•Transcripts & reports of FBI interviews with Danchenko (post-Jan 2017)
•FBI & DOJ briefings leading up to Mueller’s appointment
•FBI & DOJ role and documents regarding Jeff Sessions’ recusal
•Papadopoulos Interview (Jan): Full transcript
•Mueller “Investigation”: Withheld FBI 302s, unredacted FBI 302s, documentation of interviews in non-302 format, correspondence about Christopher Steele

2018 & Beyond:
•Horowitz Report: Classified version
•Horowitz Interviews: Transcripts or reports
•Durham Report: Any classified version
•Durham Interviews: Transcripts or reports
•Danchenko Trial: Exhibits

February 13, 2025 - Shellenberger: USAID paid for Trump impeachment effort

Michael Shellenberger at a Congressional hearing on Thursday testified about a program funded and controlled by USAID that was used to propagate Russiagate.

REP. THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): Mr. Shellenberger, can you explain how you traced USAID funding that served as the basis for whistleblower report in 2019 which led to the impeachment of President Trump?

MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: Sure, well you may remember that the so-called whistleblowers in the White House was actually a CIA analyst and in that whistleblower’s complaint which led to the impeachment, one of the central pieces of evidence was created by a USAID-funded and controlled organization called the OCCRP. And we have another piece out today about how it participated in the Russiagate hoax as well, creating essentially very important information leading to that. So I mean you have in USAID a much larger fund of money and a much broader strategy for information control that included censorship but also as I mentioned taking control of investigative journalism really worldwide.

I amazing. So yeah, I mean that’s an agency when we saw that get shut down by Doge, I thought that was completely appropriate. If there’s something in there that it was doing that’s valuable, then you could refund it later.

But my view, same thing with CISA, death penalty for organizations that participated in violations of the First Amendment like CISA. Cybersecurity is an extremely important function. It shouldn’t be contaminated and undermined by censorship activities.

MASSIE: I think it’s always been known that our government has funded the change in administrations, if we can say it politely, of other governments. But isn’t it borderline treason when the taxpayer, when organizations entrusted with protecting our country are now undermining our own government?

SHELLENBERGER: Absolutely. I mean if you’re trying to do regime change, illegal, if you’re weaponizing DHS, FBI, CISA, that’s treasonous regime change activities redirected that you developed abroad, that we developed abroad for regime change directed against the American people and our representatives. I mean it’s shocking and we still haven’t dealt with it as a country.

(RealClearPolitics, 2/13/2025)  (Archive)

Michael Schellenberger and Dan Bongino are covering the USAID aspect of the Trump impeachment but they are overlooking the outcome of that operation which was Norm Eisen’s first Trump impeachment which was to pre-bunk Joe Biden’s corruption before the 2020 election. The USAID story was one piece of that.

Norm then went on to work with the national security state on the lawfare portion to take out Trump. Senator Grassley exposed the operation. It was called Arctic Frost.

The National security state has been working with Norm Eisen to take out Trump since 2016. It’s called a color revolution/coup. They are continuing this effort today via lawfare (FBI case, USAID funding, all of the Trump EOs, etc).

Everyone involved should be charged with sedition and/or treason.

UPDATE 6/22/2025

Jonathan Katz (Credit: Brookings Institute)

Now there is evidence that a high-level USAID official was involved in this likely criminal scandal involving the White House leaker Eric Ciaramella and Norm Eisen, one of the leaders in the far left globalist movement to remake America into a communist one-party regime.

Jonathan Katz is the the co-author of Norm Eisen’s Democracy Playbook which is based on Gene Sharp’s color revolution book “From Dictatorship to Democracy.”

Katz is also Ciaramella’s counterpart at USAID who allegedly met with the Ukrainian delegation back in 2016.

This was confirmed by Fool Nelson and the Elizabeth Zentos interview with Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in 2020.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 6/22/2025) (Archive)

February 16, 2025 - CBS 60 Minutes portrays Kristina Drye as a fired civil servant for USAID; Instead was employed by an NGO and Samantha Power’s former speech writer

Kristina Drye (she/her) claims to be a “National Security professional” on LinkedIn.

Turns out she was a speechwriter for USAID’s director Samantha Powers.

But before USAID, Drye worked for Giant Oak, Inc. (GOI)—an international intelligence gathering firm. GOI claims to sweep the internet to monitor the world population and “helps close windows of vulnerability” by finding “negative news in chat rooms, social media and discussion websites, the deep web, and articles or sources in foreign languages” which they claim “makes the world a safer place.”

February 17, 2025 - US Congress: USAID Islamic terror financing allegations shake Washington

(Credit: RAIR Foundation)

The DOGE investigations have shattered long-dismissed claims that USAID is funneling American taxpayer dollars to terrorist organizations. What was once labeled “conspiracy theory” is now backed by hard evidence: billions of dollars have been funneled over decades into terrorist training camps and Islamic terror groups, including the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and ISIS Khorasan.

Now, the truth is coming to light, and Washington is in crisis mode.

$697 Million Per Year—Plus Billions More in Cash Shipments—Directly to Terrorists

In a bombshell congressional hearing, Republican Congressman Scott Perry accused USAID of funneling $697 million annually—along with weekly cash shipments of $40–$80 million—to Islamic terrorist groups.

“Who gets some of that money? Your money—$697 million annually—plus shipments of cash go to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and ISIS Khorasan. That’s what it’s funding,” Perry declared.

These revelations were confirmed by the Defense Oversight and Government Ethics (DOGE) investigation, which uncovered a stunning network of fraudulent programs used as cover to launder taxpayer dollars to terrorists.

The Afghanistan Scam: “Women’s Programs” That Fund the Taliban

Perry exposed the fraudulent USAID programs supposedly meant to help Afghan women:

  • Women’s Scholarship Endowment – $60 million per year
  • Young Women Lead – $5 million per year

These programs claim to empower women in Afghanistan, yet Perry pointed out the obvious absurdity:

“The Taliban bans women from speaking in public, yet somehow, the American people are supposed to believe that this money is being used for the betterment of women in Afghanistan? It is not. You are funding terrorism, and it’s coming through USAID.”

Even more disturbing, a new DOGE report reveals that some of this money is being redirected to Taliban-run “martyrs’ welfare” programs—providing stipends to families of Taliban fighters killed attacking U.S. troops.

CIA whistleblower Sarah Adams confirmed:

“We’re paying Taliban families whose members died fighting us. Meanwhile, our veterans’ families get squat.”

Pakistan’s : $8.84 Billion for “Ghost Schools”

The Pakistan education scandal is even bigger than originally reported. Since 2002, USAID has pumped $8.84 billion into education programs—with no proof that the schools even exist.

Among the most blatant frauds:

  • $136 million was allocated for 20 schools—not a single one has been found.
  • $20 million went to educational television for kids who can’t attend school—because the schools don’t exist.

“We even spent $20 million on educational TV—for kids who don’t have access to these nonexistent schools. It’s absurd!” Perry slammed.

Meanwhile, Haqqani Network leader Sarajuddin Haqqani and Abdullah Bin Laden (Osama Bin Laden’s son) have reportedly benefited from USAID-linked funds, further proving that taxpayer dollars are ending up in the hands of Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups.

(Read more: RAIR Foundation, 2/17/2025)  (Archive)

February 17, 2025 - Congressman Tim Burchett: DOGE is going to find a “paper trail” of money that went overseas and ended up back into pockets of lawmakers

Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) said the Democrats are terrified of Elon Musk and DOGE because there is a “paper trail” of money that went overseas and right back into their pockets.

“You’re going to see a paper trail come back to Washington, DC. That’s why a lot of people are nervous. You’ll see a lot of retirements. They are stealing from the American taxpayer and now they’ve got their hand caught in the cookie jar, and all they can do is attack Elon Musk,” Burchett said on Fox News.

(…) It is all hands on deck to stop Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing federal data so the Trump Administration can cut wasteful government spending.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 2/17/2025) (Archive)

When Elon Musk asked how Norm Eisen could be financed, I replied, “If the United States govt gave money to Qatar, knowing Qatar was going to send that money to organizations within the USA intended to carry out an objective of a small group in U.S. govt., what would that be called?”

Qatar is a major source of funding for the Brookings Institute.  Brookings funds various Lawfare operations, including Norm Eisen.  The extended process is quite simple. If elements within the U.S. Govt., wanted to indirectly fund Brookings, could they do it by sending funds to Qatar?

The question is not supposition, because this was the exact process Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta used for the State Dept to send weapons to the Libyan “rebels,” aka Operation Zero Footprint.

Operation Zero Footprint was the State Dept/CIA sending funds to Qatar, and the Qatari govt then purchasing missiles from the CIA to give to al-Qaeda affiliates in Libya.  We can consider the historic Iran-Contra scandal under a similar framework. However, the nuanced difference is about sending money toward a foreign govt (via USAID), while knowing the money would return to fund a domestic agenda inside the USA.

Example: USAID sends money to the U.K, and then British political allies send political operatives into the USA to support Kamala Harris.  We know the latter part of that sentence happened.  So, did the Biden administration (Samantha Power) fund the Labour Party operation?

Are the various political NGOs and activist groups in the USA actually funded, indirectly, by U.S. taxpayers?  Many signs point to, yes.

Against this high likelihood, it becomes just a natural extension of the process if U.S. politicians are beneficiaries of the circular laundry operation. That is what Representative Tim Burchett believes will surface if the DOGE team follow the money trail. (Conservative Treehouse, 2/17/2025)

February 17, 2025 - D.C. District Judge Chutkan declines to immediately issue order halting Musk and DOGE from accessing federal data

Judge: Had hearing on Friday, I asked Plaintiffs to file proposed order narrowing; filed narrowing proposed scope on Sat. at 4; at Friday’s hearing it was my harm extremely serious & colorable claim; but TRO wasn’t tailored to gov’t; narrowed from 11 to 2 dept; revised to ask to enjoin Musk, DOGE, defendants, accessing/copying in 7 agencies; or terminating agents/employees in agencies: OPM, educ., labor, hhs, energy, transportation, commerce; asked for 14 days; cite complaint, declaration, news report. Gov’t responded: remains too broad & not tied to appointment clause; asked to proceed on PI; 1:30 a.m. Plaintiffs filed reply, arguing threat of data disclosure & dismanteling will cause irreparable harm, and oppose PI and seek discovery. On Friday: TROs/PI are extraordinary remedies, PI only after notice; TROs purpose to preserve status quo; same 4 part test applies to both. Emergency TRO so immenent. Plaintiff if deny & get PI, then allow discovery?

Plaintiffs: We are confident we have evidence necessary to get TRO. Judge: Lots of news reports out there. Court can’t act based of news reports–they can’t find basis for TRO. Plaintiffs: I can point to what has already happen. Absolutely narrowing request. Our concern is how they are using data–for purpose other than designed to be collected. Judge: Tie to complaint? Plaintiff: From statement Musk makes; X posts; DOGE website (workforce; regs; finance): Using data they have access to to decide how to make cuts. So, Educ. Dep’t: School notes shortage of educators, poor outcomes, plus money–rely for operational & technical support. What is threatened by DOGE? Plaintiffs: DOGE has affected funding cuts across Educ. including research program, such as Institute of Educational Science have in past studied programs used in New Mexico. Judge: If I don’t issue TRO & convert to PI: And you win? If it gets slashed can’t you get money. Cuts to nuclear hurts New Mexico. Plaintiff: We’re getting reports to DOGE direction called for cuts to CDC staff, including Indian Health Staff, just made public, new secretary is trying to rehire poeple…New Mexico has large tribe…Judge: It has to be extreme harm it has to be imminent, and tomorrow and it will definitely happen. Something that can’t be “undone”–difficult or challenging, it can be undone.

Judge: Generalized fear, even if likely, isn’t enough for TRO and I’m not seeing it so far. Plaintiffs Lawyer: If Defendants have evidence to refute this. . . (NOT Defendants’ job). Cites to Washington Post article of DOGE memos of plans to spending cut. On Wednesday will start with continue to staffing cuts–nothing described. Judge must have rolled eyes: “I understand your frustration.” Plaintiff references X posts of “Education’s next” so ask TRO based on identified targets with agencies with direct ties and direct harms.
Judge: References other cases, why can’t Plaintiffs get TRO in 2 days b/c it is happening tomorrow or today? This is a prophaletic TRO and that’s not allowed. Plaintiff: “Going back to Washington Post” and showing DOGE memo saying all agencies will be targeted, between DOGE memos, statements, and X posts, on Wednesday we will see more. This is Appointment Clause claim, is different then other TROS. Our request is drastically different b/c we aren’t seeking to enjoy Agencies: It is targeted to Musk & DOGE and that they aren’t using info in unconstitutional ways.
Judge: Look at relief? What is harm if they have access to the inform? How is that directed to harm?
Plaintiff: It is the use of the data. How they identify how to make cuts is through access to data.
Judge: But it is in DOGE’s remit (authority) to analyze data. Also, if it already happened, it’s not imminent.
Plaintiff: Yes, they were charged w/ rooting out waste. These are not advisors, based on statements, etc., it is clear that CMS, directions where to cut were from Musk & DOGE and only able to do through anaylsis of data. Giving “directives” is well beyond EO.
Judge: Again, you are for TRO: You also want to stop all personnel decisions, how does this cause harm.”
Plaintiff: Only place for safe disposal of nuclear waste; Energy issued notice to terminate personnel, that includes staff who oversee disposal.
Judge: Wouldn’t those employees have the claim.
Plaintiff: Our harm is state’s ability to carry out its function. Lose of administration personnel, no one to pick up phone, or write checks.
Judge: TRO actions OMP access, have different claims, privacy

Judge: Why wouldn’t those other cases provide relief that bar access to data. noted two other cases that cover access/firing. (Judges Cooper & Bates)
Plaintiff: Those were privacy act claims. We want to make sure Musk & DOGE aren’t using data inappropriately.
Judge: BUT the harm you are alleging is already being considered in other cases & still broad: 7 large agencies no data/no firing?
Plaintiff: Yes, because relief has not been issued yet. Difference between enjoining agency & enjoining Musk/DOGE. That is significant distinction.
Judge: What would imminent harm re DOT & Dep’t of Commerce, to Plaintiffs States.
Plaintiff: Inability to carry out programs & functions. (She isn’t answering).

Judge to Musk: reports of 1000 who received termination notices. Is it true?
Gov’t: I can’t confirm.
Judge: Wait! Not small thing, you haven’t looked at it?
Gov’t: I looked to what was relevant. I’ll look at it.
Judge: And are additional terminations planned in next 14 days. I can’t base on news reports. But you should be able to say we fired & we will fire x more.
Gov’t: Starting w/ State Declaration to justify imminent injury. Only 3 states discuss data access and concerns by residents. New Mexico: Says it has data at 3 agencies. Plaintiffs say that the concern is “not the access,” so the TRO shouldn’t address it. All discuss possible actions, that may affect downstream: That’s not imminent.
Judge: Reason that language is used is because DOGE actions have been unpredictable & scattershot. Will there been terminations/will there be?
Govt: There basic point is that Musk or DOGE is exercising sovereign power without authority–but all the actions complained about, there is a paper trail. What is clear is that you have a properly named officer exercising his authority. NO evidence of Musk or DOGE doing the terminating.
Judge: Musk hasn’t been appointed/confirmed–essentially a private citizen to fire/hire/contract/terminate, without congressional.
Govt: He is a Special Government Employee. There theory is that Musk exercises authoritative “influence.” THAT is not an appointment clause claim: They have not shown any formal or actual authority to make any decision himself.
Judge: I think you’re going too far.
Gov’t: Has state marshalled evidence of imminent harm.
Judge: Can gov’t agree to hold off on mass termination while PI is litigated? If not, what is harm?
Gov’t: I can’t make commitment. Agency heads have authority to manage work place.
Judge: Allegation is DOGE is directing termination. Accessing data/firing people/terminating contract, i.e., essentially running government.
Gov’t: Need evidence to back it up & it’d be easy to find: Someone is exercising power. And they can’t show that “someone” isn’t a person with power. Identify who fired. What authority. States haven’t done. Just saying puppetstrings:
Judge: Has a Court ever granted TRO re Appointment Clause?
Plaintiffs: I’d have to confirm. Judge: No, I haven’t found any. This is factually one of a kind situation. There may not be a TRO issued but we’ve never experienced this type of wielding of power. Our papers speak for themselves on points Gov’t made.

Plaintiff: Seeking to restrain DOGE & Musk & not agencies, if they don’t have authority then it won’t hurt agencies.
Judge: Thank you for coming in and making yourself available. I will rule motion for TRO & issue further scheduling. Hope to get out in 24 hours. If you have to come for PI briefing, what are you proposing: Plaintiff meet w/ Gov’t attorney & work out.

UPDATE 2/18/2025

Judge Chutkan Denies Democrat AGs Request For Restraining Order Against Elon Musk and DOGE

February 17, 2025 - Over 25 million American Social Security recipients are aged 100 and older, some older than the U.S. Constitution itself

Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database.

The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.

Late Sunday night, Musk tweeted a staggering claim accompanied by a table of ages, suggesting that the Social Security Administration might be paying out benefits to “vampires.”

February 17, 2025 - DOGE: An identification code linking Treasury payments to a budget line item was optional; $4.7 Trillion in payments was left blank and untraceable

The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (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. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.

https://tfx.treasury.gov/taxonomy/term/10257

February 17, 2025 - Buttigieg suddenly interested in transportation issues, Sean Duffy responds

Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.

Here’s the truth: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees. Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.

Mayor Pete chose to use this amazing department—that is so critical to America’s success—as a slush fund for the green new scam and environmental justice nonsense. Not to mention that over 90% of the workforce under his leadership were working from home – including him. The building was empty!

When we finally get a full accounting of his mismanagement, I look forward to hearing from him.

In the meantime, I will not rest until I return the Department of Transportation and its incredible employees to its mission of efficiency and safety.

February 18, 2025 - Prime Minister of Hungary releases statement about George Soros & USAID

“WARNING! Our fears have come true: the globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network is fleeing to Brussels, after President Trump dealt a huge blow to their activities in the US. Now 63 of them are asking Brussels for money, under the guise of various human rights projects. Not going to happen! We will not let them find safe haven in Europe! The USAID-files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network. We will not take the bait again!” —Viktor Orbán Prime Minister of Hungary

There are few forces more corrosive to civilization than @georgesoros and his insufferable heir, @AlexanderSoros. These two financial arsonists have spent decades pouring billions into the globalist machine, fueling lawlessness, eroding borders, and undermining national sovereignty at every turn. Now, with @elonmusk and President @realDonaldTrump slamming the door on their USAID funding pipeline, the Soros network is scrambling, desperately trying to relocate its chaos operations to Brussels. Viktor Orbán, who has been sounding the alarm for years, is making it clear that Hungary will not be the refuge for these parasites. The fact that 63 Soros-linked NGOs are now crawling to the European Union for their next round of destruction should terrify every sane person. The globalist game plan has never been about democracy or human rights, it has always been about control, destabilization, and the calculated collapse of Western societies.

The Cloward-Piven strategy, a blueprint for societal implosion, has been Soros’s weapon of choice. Overwhelm systems, whether through mass migration, economic collapse, or manufactured social unrest, until they break, and then install your own puppet solutions. From defunding the police to open border policies, Soros-backed initiatives are designed to swamp national institutions, leaving them paralyzed and ripe for takeover. This is not conspiracy, it is documented strategy. Hungary, under @PM_ViktorOrban, has refused to play along, and now Brussels is being pressured to bankroll the next phase of this globalist coup. But with Trump back in office and the Soros pipeline running dry, the game has changed. The USAID-files have laid bare the shadow network that has been manipulating policy behind the scenes, exposing their dark practices to the world. The Soros empire is not about philanthropy, it is about controlled demolition.

Europe now faces a critical choice, will @vonderleyen resist, or will the EU roll over and allow Soros’s tentacles to tighten further around its institutions? If Brussels funds these NGOs, it will confirm what many already suspect: that the EU is little more than a globalist vassal state. Orbán, to his credit, is standing firm, warning that these organizations will not find safe haven in Hungary. The European Commission, predictably, will cry about rule of law and democratic values, as if turning the continent into a Soros playground has anything to do with democracy. The fight against Soros is not just about Hungary or the United States, it is about the survival of Western civilization. Every nation that values its sovereignty must take the same stand, no more money, no more influence, no more manufactured crises. The world has seen the consequences of his meddling, and for once, the right people are shutting the door in his face.

February 18, 2025 - A top DOJ official who covered for Hunter Biden's tax fraud case has been removed from his post

More good news from Trump’s DOJ.

Blomberg confirms that associate deputy AG Bradley Weinsheimer, considered Lisa Monaco’s right-hand man, has been removed from his post. A 30+-year veteran of the DOJ, Weinsheimer was given the option of moving to a new immigration enforcement office or resign/be fired.

Weinsheimer was involved in the Hunter Biden matter, running interference for the Bidens and going over the head of Special Counsel David Weiss.

According to a 2023 New York Post article, Weinsheimer was “a conduit for Hunter Biden’s legal team in the final stretch of the tax fraud investigation” proving that main Justice–or at least Monaco and Weinsheimer–were really in charge, not Weiss.

DOJ prosecutor, Leslie Wolf, is subpoenaed on November 21, 2023 to testify about her forewarning the Biden team of search warrants (Credit: FedBar)

After lawyers for IRS whistleblowers who later testified to the political nature of DOJ decision making in the Biden investigation, contacted Weinsheimer–the alleged “nonpartisan” DOJ official in charge of handling whistleblower complaints to ensure protection for those employees–Weinsheimer met with Weiss and Hunter Biden’s attorney.

One day later, according to lawyers for the IRS whistleblowers, “Weinsheimer scheduled a meeting with Mr. Biden’s defense counsel to appeal over the head of Mr. Weiss in a way that was totally at odds with the narrative that David Weiss was acting independently.

The Deputy Attorney General’s office then claimed to us it was genuinely interested in addressing the whistleblower’s allegations, without disclosing its meeting with Hunter Biden’s lawyers. We now know that shortly after that meeting Weiss’s assistant [Lesley Wolf] offered to end the case with no guilty plea at all on the very same day that DOJ removed our client and his entire IRS team from the case.”

Weinsheimer also wrote a five-page letter to Congress restricting the testimony of Wolf, another DOJ official protecting the Bidens. On at least 79 occasions, Wolf cited Weinsheimer’s letter as an excuse to refuse to answer Congress’ questions as to her role on the investigation.

Good riddance, Brad!

February 18, 2025 - Trump fires all 'Biden-era' US attorneys

“Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System – THAT BEGINS TODAY!”

The decision is part of a broader effort by Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to overhaul the DOJ, which they claim has been “weaponized” against American citizens and used to target political opponents. The administration insists that removing Biden-era appointees is a necessary step toward depoliticizing federal law enforcement.

It is common for U.S. attorneys to be replaced when a new administration takes office, especially when the party in power changes. However, Trump’s move is notable for its sweeping scope and immediate execution. (Read more: The Post Millennial, 2/18/2025)  (Archive)

February 19, 2025 - Molly Hemmingway on the DOGE battle raging in DC: “A fight 100 years in the making."

“We’ve built up this fourth, completely unconstitutional branch of government that enforces the laws, creates the laws in many cases, this regulatory state, this administrative state, the bureaucracy.

“The question is, can you have a constitutional system of government with this completely unaccountable, unelected fourth branch of government?”

“But that’s what it’s about. That’s why Democrats are freaking out about it. And that’s why Trump has chosen this battle.”

February 19, 2025 - Trump orders agencies to stop taxpayers’ funding for illegal migrants, saving up to $450 billion

President Donald Trump signs an executive order. Jan. 20, 2025. (Credit: Evan Vucci/AP)

President Donald Trump has ordered his agencies to scrub their regulations and spending programs to ensure illegal migrants are not getting taxpayers’ funds via hidden channels.

Trump signed the Executive Order titled “Preserving Federal Benefits for American Citizens” late on Wednesday.

The policy could save tens of billions of dollars per year. But the full economic impact will not be known for many months because Trump’s deputies must find the aid programs, change policies to stop some funding. fend off lawsuits, and then gradually rewrite regulations to stop more funding.

Democrats will furiously protest Trump’s aid cutoff because the cash flows through their vast and vital farm teams of supporters at government agencies and non-profits.

Democrats also support the funding because it attracts migrants to the United States. The aid also deters them from going home by anchoring them to U.S. society via subsidized jobs, housing, schooling, government credentials, and political support.

But the aid cutoff will also help the Democrats’ media allies to attack Trump’s popular migration policies by spotlighting pitiable migrants — for example, mothers with children — on the evening TV news shows.

The illegal migrant population in the United States is at least 13.7 million, many of whom have crowded into Democratic-run states — California and Illinois, for example — that provide healthcare and other aid to illegal migrants.

A White House fact sheet said:

The surge in illegal immigration, enabled by the previous Administration, is siphoning dollars and essential services from American citizens while state and local budgets grow increasingly strained.

…

According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), providing welfare to one million illegal aliens could cost American taxpayers an additional $3 billion annually.

The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee estimated that taxpayers could pay as much as $451 billion to care for [roughly 9 million] illegal aliens and gotaways that have entered the United States unlawfully since January 2021.

(Read more: Breitbart News, 2/19/2025)  (Archive)

February 19, 2025 - DOGE: Biden EPA funneled $2 billion taxpayer funds to an organization tied to Stacey Abrams—and then tried to cover it up

Doge just uncovered that Democrats funneled $2 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds to an organization tied to Stacey Abrams—and then tried to cover it up before Trump could find out.

The Biden administration’s EPA awarded the massive grant to Power Forward Communities in April 2024, an organization with direct links to Abrams.

Abrams was a fierce advocate for Biden’s green energy agenda and also actively campaigned for Kamala Harris.

DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.

The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant’s dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.

Power Forward Communities’ grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government’s oversight of the program.

The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin’s team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration’s green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris.

It also appears to validate concerns expressed for years by Republicans that Biden administration allies would prop up organizations that were specifically designed to receive federal funding under programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created to operate as a “green bank” by Democrats’ behemoth Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

“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,” the EPA administrator continued. “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.”

Power Forward Communities and Abrams did not respond to requests for comment. (Read more: Free Beacon, 2/19/2025)  (Archive)

February 20, 2025 - Project Veritas undercover op exposes a Dept. of Education official admitting to operating a rogue ‘Sanctuary Program' for illegals aliens

BREAKING: Dept. of Education Operating as Rogue ‘Sanctuary Program’ for Illegal Immigrants, Hiding Secrets from @DOGE and Congress on Encrypted App

“If Congress actually knew that we don’t have [citizenship requirements] … there would be a lot of uproar…”

“If you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not supposed to. So, everybody uses… an app called Signal now.”

February 20, 2025 - Senate Judiciary Democrats hold last minute rally to block Kash Patel as FBI Director; Shortly after, Kash is confirmed

I am honored to be confirmed as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support.

The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11. The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. The politicalization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.

My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI.

Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of.

And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning. We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet.

Mission First. America Always. Let’s get to work.

February 20, 2025 - DOGE battles to free ideologically captured scientific institutions; DEI grants on chopping block will save $ billions

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As the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health get the DOGE-treatment, scientists are filled with dread.

Before COVID, Americans generally trusted its scientists.

Post-COVID, Americans’ trust in science has declined significantly. In 2023, only 57% of American adults said science had a “mostly positive” effect on society, down 16 percentage points from pre-pandemic levels. The percentage of Americans with strong trust in scientists fell from 39% in 2020 to 23%.

Now two of the major institutions funding American science are receiving the DOGE- treatment, as the Department of Government Efficiency staff has begun looking at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health. There appears to be an effort to streamline and refocus these groups so they support actual science rather than narrative support.

NSF has already terminated 168 probationary employees, representing approximately 10% of its workforce.

The National Science Foundation fired 170 probationary employees and experts Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce, the agency confirmed.

In a written statement, NSF spokesman Mike England pointed to President Donald Trump’s executive order last week that included plans to reduce the size of the federal workforce as part of the work of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

“To ensure compliance with this E.O. the National Science Foundation has released 168 employees from Federal service effective today,” England said Tuesday. “We thank these employees for their service to NSF and their contributions to advance the agency mission.”

And as those probationary employees were hired under the Biden administration, the move is likely to benefit real science.

NSF grants are also being targeted, especially if they contain the hallmarks of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion.

Many grants seem to be in jeopardy. Nature recently reported that roughly 10,000 existing grants were marked for potential cancellation given their inclusion of keywords like “women” and “people of color,” which are targeted in the Trump Administration rollback of DEI initiatives.

At the National Institutes of Health, the fun is just getting started. DOGE has proposed drastic cuts to NIH research funding, reducing “indirect costs” to 15% of previous levels.

One complaint is that grant recipients, such as our woke universities, receive this money supposedly to cover the practical costs related to the research (e.g., light and heat for the laboratory facility), but not the research itself—to 15%. However, these indirect costs are often nearly a substantial portion of the grant and can be used to support non-scientific endeavors that might otherwise be unsustainable.

For example. the ever-expanding administrative state associated with universities. “Indirect costs” cover:

  • General administration
  • Accounting and financial management
  • Human resources
  • Legal affairs
  • Grant administration

How many of these are DEI-activists supporting the progressive antics at their institutions? And how many thwart the hiring of scientists whose research may challenge the current orthodoxy related to climate, gender, and other critical fields?

Of course, scientists attending the current meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are on edge as a result of the new scrutiny they are under from Elon Musk’s team of super-geniuses. (Read more: Legal Insurrection, 2/20/2025)  (Archive)