Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General of Florida, has been confirmed as the next Attorney General by a vote of 54-46, with one Democrat, John Fetterman, joining the republicans to confirm her. Since she was appointed, she has already moved to create a “Weaponization Working Group” to investigate the lawfare prosecutions of President Trump and other DNC-CCP opponents.
Bondi also immediately halted funding to all Sanctuary cities, cities run by the party of sedition, the DNC-CCP, that openly defy Federal laws regarding illegal immigration. She also issued a warning to prosecutors that “Targeting of Catholics, Parents, and Pro-Life Americans must stop.”
Senate Confirms Bondi As The Next U.S. Attorney General– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Senate has confirmed Pamela Bondi as the next United States attorney general.
The Senate confirmed Bondi in a vote of 54 to 46 Tuesday night, with all Republicans and one Democrat voting in favor of confirmation. The former Florida attorney general earned a reputation for fighting opioid “pill mills,” human trafficking, and organized crime. Trump said when he tapped Bondi for the role of United States attorney general that “she is smart and tough” and “will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime.”
“Congratulations to our wonderful and very talented United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who gets sworn in today amid tremendous support, and the respect of ALL,” President Donald Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social. “I know Pam well, it was an honor to appoint her, and my prediction is that she will go down as one of the best and most consequential Attorney Generals in the history of our Country.”
Bondi will likely play an instrumental role in Trump’s reform of federal law enforcement. If Congress confirms Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel, the duo will be tasked with de-weaponizing an apparatus that, for far too long, has targeted conservatives — from Trump, to non-violent Jan. 6 protestors, to a whistleblower who exposed child transgender mutilations.
Bondi’s office will also face issues like enforcing immigration law, executing antitrust laws against Big Tech, and ensuring equal treatment of citizens by federal agencies.
Our new Attorney General: “My overriding objective will be to return the Dept of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously prosecuting criminals. I will do everything in my power to MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!”
AG Pam Bondi Establishes “Weaponization Working Group” To Investigate Politicized Justice– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to establish the “Weaponization Working Group,” which will review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of “politicized justice.”
The “Weaponization Working Group” will review politically motivated investigations including Special Counsel Jack Smith, NY DA Alvin Bragg, NY AG Leticia James, and the prosecution of J6ers.
The working group’s first reviews will include prosecutions against Trump led by:
-Former Special Counsel Jack Smith; who was after President Donald Trump in the 2020 election case and the classified documents case – both were dismissed.
-Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who pursued the Hush Money case
– And New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against Trump and his family resulting in a historic and unheard of $454 Million bond being issued
AG Pam Bondi Halts Funding to Sanctuary Cities– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Independent: Hours after she was sworn in, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Justice Department to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities. Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants. She also tasked the department with investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions obstructing law enforcement and “directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.” Several offices within the Justice Department provided $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023 (Independent).
New York Post: The memo orders an immediate 60-day pause on distribution of funds — with a report on further steps due to Bondi’s desk within 45 days. Bondi’s order also says the DOJ “shall not enter into any new contract, grant, or other agreement to provide Federal funding to non-governmental organizations that support or provide services, either directly or indirectly (e.g., through sub-contracting or other arrangements), to removable or illegal aliens” (New York Post).
Attorney General Pam Bondi: “Targeting of Catholics, Parents and Pro-Life Americans Must Stop”– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Bondi was confirmed in a 54-46 vote with support from all 53 Senate Republicans and a lone Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA. The swing-state senator has recently made headlines for breaking with his party on multiple issues, including border security.
All other members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted against Bondi.
Attorney General Bondi will head the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Bondi was confirmed in a 54-46 vote with support from all 53 Senate Republicans and a lone Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA. The swing-state senator has recently made headlines for breaking with his party on multiple issues, including border security.
All other members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted against Bondi.
Attorney General Bondi will head the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
AG Pam Bondi Halts Funding to Sanctuary Cities– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Independent: Hours after she was sworn in, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Justice Department to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities. Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants. She also tasked the department with investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions obstructing law enforcement and “directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.” Several offices within the Justice Department provided $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023 (Independent).
New York Post: The memo orders an immediate 60-day pause on distribution of funds — with a report on further steps due to Bondi’s desk within 45 days. Bondi’s order also says the DOJ “shall not enter into any new contract, grant, or other agreement to provide Federal funding to non-governmental organizations that support or provide services, either directly or indirectly (e.g., through sub-contracting or other arrangements), to removable or illegal aliens” (New York Post).
AG Pam Bondi Establishes “Weaponization Working Group” To Investigate Politicized Justice– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to establish the “Weaponization Working Group,” which will review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of “politicized justice.”
The “Weaponization Working Group” will review politically motivated investigations including Special Counsel Jack Smith, NY DA Alvin Bragg, NY AG Leticia James, and the prosecution of J6ers.
The working group’s first reviews will include prosecutions against Trump led by:
-Former Special Counsel Jack Smith; who was after President Donald Trump in the 2020 election case and the classified documents case – both were dismissed.
-Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who pursued the Hush Money case
– And New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against Trump and his family resulting in a historic and unheard of $454 Million bond being issued
Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has uncovered a major, decades-long insurrectionist slush fund disguised as humanitarian aid from the U.S. The intention of the fund appears to be to fund insurrectionists at home and abroad, from funding far-left illegal political content marketers to George Soros’ seditionist Attorney Generals, the billions of dollars flowing out of that fund appears overwhelmingly to be nothing but a slush fund and money laundering operation for the DNC-CCP.
The pushback from the insurrectionist left is coming through courts, who are unconstitutionally blocking efforts by DOGE to uncover the rot and purge the system of the insurrectionists within it, and Democrat operatives both in elected office and in their illegal content marketing companies who are issuing death threats to DOGE employees and “Nazi” accusations against the Trump administration, rhetoric designed to trigger their sleeper cells to violently attack the republic. A full report on USAID will be included in the next issue (February 14, 2025) of MIA Mid-Monthly. Go here for an updated link report.
List of USAID’s Outrageous Grants – PJ Media– pjmedia.com Source Link Excerpt:
Read some examples below from Mast’s list of other preposterous expenditures of our hard-earned cash, and keep in mind how many Americans were struggling to pay bills or suffering from natural disasters under the Biden-Harris administration:
$1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
$14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.
$20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.
$47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.
$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.
$55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the State Department.
$3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.
$7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.
$80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.
$3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.
$16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.
$10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.
$8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.
$1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.
$70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.
$39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.
$2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities through USAID [this is especially silly since most Vietnamese are too dirt-poor for any car; I’ve seen that in person].
$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.
It’s all a total grift. No more than 12 cents of every USAID dollar actually reaches the intended target. It seems pretty clear that the agency is little more than a money-laundering operation and, as such, it’s praiseworthy and long overdue that the Trump administration aims to shut it down.
Clinton Appointed Judge BLOCKS DOGE From Reviewing Financial Transactions– gellerreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Updated: The far left activist judge has blocked DOGE
BREAKING: A Federal Judge just limited DOGE’s access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system records.
Now I wonder what’s in those records that you would restrict another government agency from viewing….
DOGE: 81yo Judge Kollar-Kotelly is the same judge that sentenced 75yo pro-life protester Paula Harlow to two years in prison. Now she’s blocking Trump’s administration from making changes to the Treasury Department’s payment system. DOGE is blocked completely and Treasury… pic.twitter.com/mMHOEwuxWv
USAID helped fund the ‘Soros prosecutors’– www.americanthinker.com Source Link Excerpt:
If Elon Musk—who has been an advocate for free speech and small government—has an evil twin, that evil twin is George Soros. Soros, as conservatives know, has spent his billions funding organizations dedicated to leftist causes. One of the causes with the greatest impact has been funding “Soros prosecutors”—hard-left lawyers who refuse to prosecute criminals but enthusiastically prosecuted Trump and other conservatives. It now appears that some large amounts of the money the Soros organizations used to get these prosecutors in office came from USAID.
The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. Here’s a short version of what Discover the Networks (“DtN”) says about these two related organizations.
The set-up is that the Tides Foundation and the related (although legally distinct) Tide Center are two sides of a public charity that operates as a clearinghouse between wealthy leftists and hard-left institutions. By donating to Tides, the donors aren’t seen as having a direct connection with radical groups. Leftist non-profits can also get money from Tide and then funnel it to their affiliated for-profit organizations. The whole thing was set up as a scam and a cover.
Per DtN, these are just a few of the leftist causes Tides funds:
Among the crusades to which Tides contributes are: radical environmentalism; the “exclusion of humans from public and private wildlands”; the anti-war movement; anti-free trade campaigns; the banning of firearms ownership; abolition of the death penalty; access to government-funded abortion-on-demand; and radical gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender advocacy. The Foundation is also a member organization of the International Human Rights Funders Group, a network of more than six-dozen grantmakers dedicated to financing leftwing groups and causes.
Defunding USAID Is About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The most common argument you’ll hear from those defending the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is that the grant dollars in question are just a fraction of the federal budget — less than one percent! Even if the Trump administration eliminated USAID altogether it wouldn’t put much of a dent in the deficit or help control the national debt, is the argument. Everyone from the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC to Jim Geraghty at National Review are repeating this line.
But trimming the federal budget and reducing the deficit aren’t really the point of this exercise. The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down. In the six decades since it was established, USAID has gone from fighting poverty, spreading American ideals, and undercutting Soviet propaganda, to becoming a woke propaganda operation of its own that actively undermines the pillars of western civilization. It’s gone from exporting democracy to exporting deviancy, and now we can all see it.
President Trump this week tasked Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with a review of the agency’s grants and expenditures, which has already shone a much-needed light on where tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are going. My colleague Tristan Justice detailed a handful of some of the most insane projects USAID funds, including “$70,000 for a ‘DEI musical’ in Ireland, $47,000 for a ‘transgender opera’ in Colombia, $32,000 for a ‘transgender comic book’ in Peru, and $1.5 million for an LGBT jobs program in Serbia.” Other projects were to fund electric vehicles in Vietnam, infrastructure in Egypt, meals for Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, and internet censorship in the United Kingdom.
Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for ‘Politico’ Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There – redstate.com
Things are about to get much worse, though, so buckle up. According to recently revealed records, left-leaning news outlet Politico received over thirty-four million dollars from USAID and other government agencies. That money went to pay for “subscriptions” for various bureaucratic officials, including “pro” subscriptions that add up to over $10,000 a pop.
The Politico scandal is worse than you think.
It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.
It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.
A breakdown of some of the expenditures shows USAID paid $443,998 for just 37 subscriptions to Politico for FDA officials. Another outlay for “subscriptions” cost $862,025.
Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they’ve written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from “51 intelligence officials” saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
In other words, it sure looks like the Biden administration was paying a news outlet to do its bidding. Are we supposed to believe it’s just a coincidence that Politico was routinely the go-to for Democratic Party politicians and officials to launder their propaganda?
REVEALED: Politico Received Huge Amounts of Taxpayer Money From USAID — Awarded Over $8 Million in Hundreds of Grants | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com Source Link Excerpt:
Politico / Screenshot Via Facebook
Now it is starting to make sense.
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of Americans, Politico was receiving huge amounts of taxpayer money from USAID.
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk seek to gut the corrupt agency and stop the disbursement of billions of dollars around the world, many people have pointed out some of the most ludicrous “grants” handed out by USAID.
Among the lucky recipients is Politico, a prominent digital news company covering U.S. and global politics.
Politico is a for-profit venture. In 2021, it was bought by Axel Springer for a staggering $1 billion.
Nevertheless, the company has received over $8 million dollars from USAID across hundreds of grants.
Watch: How USAID Spread Fake News with Your Tax Dollars– www.louderwithcrowder.com Source Link Excerpt:
The left continues to lose over the USAID spending scandal, as it’s been revealed that your tax dollars have been financing the disinformation that the fake news media has been feeding the masses. Today’s show breaks it down.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed yesterday that “more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening.”
White House cancels millions in Politico subscriptions amid Musk-led budget cuts– www.euronews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Announcing millions of dollars of cuts to online subscriptions, the Trump administration’s press secretary repeated misleading statements used to justify the dismantling of the US government’s international aid and development agency.
The White House has said it is cancelling millions of dollars in subscriptions to online news outlet Politico, part of a sweeping programme of cuts that has seen tech entrepreneur Elon Musk given the opportunity to gut government payrolls and budgets — and even to effectively shut down entire US agencies.
The announcement came from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who told a press conference on Wednesday that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had spent $8m ($7.72m) on subscriptions to the outlet’s Politico Pro output, and that the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) intended to cancel them.
USAID Funneled Tax Dollars to WEF, Bill Gates, George Soros– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
As President Donald Trump’s administration continues to expose alarming levels of deep state corruption in the federal government, details are beginning to emerge to reveal who has been benefiting from this unprecedented misuse of American taxpayer money.
Trump has tasked the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to investigate and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse from federal agencies.
These investigations have exposed shocking abuses, particularly at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
As Slay News has reported, DOGE has uncovered evidence showing that USAID has been wasting billions of dollars in taxpayer money on fraudulent foreign schemes.
Even more disturbingly, USAID has been using U.S. tax dollars against the American people by funding leftist corporate media propaganda efforts and even the bioweapons research that developed the COVID-19 virus in China.
Reddit Bans Liberal Community After Death Threats Pour In Against DOGE Workers– dailycaller.com Source Link Excerpt:
Reddit temporarily banned a page over threats directed at staff of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Elon Musk accused users of breaking the law, according to multiple posts online.
Users on multiple pages were engaging in “threats and doxing,” prompting the site to issue 72-hour bans against some of them, including “r/WhitePeopleTwitter,” a Reddit Safety post said. They noted that the pages violated Reddit Rules and described the shutdowns as a “cooling-off period.”
Users on the popular social media app were sharing posts with threatening language directed at members of the DOGE Team, according to screenshots from Reddit Lies.
“Time to hunt,” one user posted, the images showed, while another apparently wrote “lets drag their necks up by a large coil up rope.”
“They have broken the law” Musk wrote, quote-tweeting the post showing the screenshots.
Raving Dem Lawmakers Protest Elon Musk, DOGE; ‘Shut Down the Senate, We are at War’– legalinsurrection.com Source Link Excerpt:
The last straw for Democratic lawmakers came when Elon Musk’s team of 18 to 25-year-old geniuses pulled back the curtain and exposed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as little more than a global charity for progressive causes. In a collective frenzy, what looked like the majority of House Democrats along with several senators, converged outside of the Treasury Department building to let their voices be heard. Why, it almost sounded as if they were calling for an insurrection.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver bellowed into the microphone, “We will not take this! We will fight back! And godd*** it, shut down the Senate! We are at war!”
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley directed her ire toward her Republican colleagues. With California Rep. Maxine Waters grinning at her side, she yelled, “Pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!”
She referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley calls for violence: “I want to say to our Republican colleagues — pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!” pic.twitter.com/YpUzB8EVt0
Trump Rocks Bill Gates as USAID Shakeup Squeezes Out His Foundation– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Pour one out for poor Bill Gates.
Gates, the Microsoft gazillionaire who has officially taken the leap from “global philanthropist” to “supranational, self-appointed health and climate official,” has been seen using his money and influence on the world stage to peddle ideas like geoengineering to “dim” the sun and cool the planet or push lab-made meat upon us, ostensibly to solve the same problem.
In the latest of his weird Bond villain ideas, Gates’ charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, approved a grant to research turning mosquitoes into “flying vaccinators,” a move which, in no way, sounds like something out of the first ten chapters of a Michael Crichton novel, before things go wrong.
Clearly, this is a man who needs access to avenues to distribute money and global reach to export these grand schemes — two things, just coincidentally, that USAID, the government agency currently in the process of being shuttered by the Trump administration, provides his charity.
USAID: A Cancer That Is One Of The Core Epicenters Of Evil In The U.S. Government Is Being Ripped To Shreds– lidblog.com Source Link Excerpt:
Trump told reporters on Sunday: “USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we’re getting them out and then we’ll make a decision.”
I totally agree with Trump on this point.
Virtually everyone at USAID needs to be removed from their positions.
Fortunately, things are moving in that direction. USAID employees were told to stay home on Monday, and hundreds of staffers were locked out of the computer systems…
Stay at home and don’t bother to come into the office. That was the message to staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Monday who were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters.
The advice came via a notice distributed to the career bureaucrats, AP reports, after Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency down.
According to AP, USAID staffers said they “also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.”
USAID Whistleblower Says He Was Forced to Attend DEI Boot Camp– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
A USAID whistleblower says he learned the hard way what happens to employees of the agency who report corruption.
Former USAID director Mark Moyar told Fox News’ Jesse Watters he was fired from his job at the agency when he reported one of his subordinates for criminal conflict of interest.
Moyar explained that shortly after he spoke up, he was accused of publishing classified information, which was used to justify firing him. He’s been in court for three years trying to get the agency to “turn over the facts.”
EXCLUSIVE: USAID whistleblower, Mark Moyar, reveals what happened when he raised concerns that the agency was a corrupt money pit. He found out the hard way that reporting corruption gets you in a lot of trouble… pic.twitter.com/I1BINBd0qp
Vast Majority of Donations From USAID Workers Went to Democrats– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
Employees from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have donated almost entirely to Democrats.
USAID staff made $406,790 in political contributions in the 2024 election cycle, according to data collected on OpenSecrets. While $241,079, more than half of the total, went to Kamala Harris for president, only $999, which is a quarter of a percent, went to Donald Trump. 97% overall, a bit over $377,000, went to Democrats, but only $12,704 went to Republicans.
Political donations of USAID employees over $200 to PACs and candidates were tracked by Open Secrets with data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The numbers above show the rampant political bias at the agency.
UN Chief Panics as Trump Cuts Funding for Globalist Causes– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres is panicking over fears about President Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent American tax dollars from being used to fund foreign organizations advancing a globalist agenda.
In a letter distributed to UN staff, Guterres warns that Trump’s America First policies will create a “difficult challenge” for the unelected international body.
In the letter, Guterres wrote:
“I assure you that we are working closely with colleagues throughout the United Nations system to understand and mitigate the extent of its impact on our operations.
“Now, more than ever, the work of the United Nations is crucial.
“As we face this difficult challenge, your dedication and support will help us to overcome and move forward.
“Together, we will ensure that our Organization continues to serve people in need around the world with unwavering commitment.”
Things are about to get much worse, though, so buckle up. According to recently revealed records, left-leaning news outlet Politico received over thirty-four million dollars from USAID and other government agencies. That money went to pay for “subscriptions” for various bureaucratic officials, including “pro” subscriptions that add up to over $10,000 a pop.
The Politico scandal is worse than you think.
It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.
It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.
A breakdown of some of the expenditures shows USAID paid $443,998 for just 37 subscriptions to Politico for FDA officials. Another outlay for “subscriptions” cost $862,025.
Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they’ve written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from “51 intelligence officials” saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
In other words, it sure looks like the Biden administration was paying a news outlet to do its bidding. Are we supposed to believe it’s just a coincidence that Politico was routinely the go-to for Democratic Party politicians and officials to launder their propaganda?
Biden Judge Doubles Down on Blocking Trump’s Federal Spending Freeze– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
The federal judge who halted President Donald Trump’s sweeping freeze on government spending is doubling down on her initial ruling.
Judge Loren AliKhan of Washington D.C. issued a temporary restraining order after non-profit groups complained that they still can’t access funding.
The complaints emerged even after the Trump administration had lifted the spending freeze.
Judge AliKhan, a Biden appointee, wrote:
“For many, the harms caused by the freeze are non-speculative, impending, and potentially catastrophic.”
At a Monday hearing, AliKhan heard from the Justice Department and lawyers representing a group of non-profit organizations that depend on federal funding.
Those groups say they are still having trouble accessing federal money.
USAID helped fund the ‘Soros prosecutors’– www.americanthinker.com Source Link Excerpt:
If Elon Musk—who has been an advocate for free speech and small government—has an evil twin, that evil twin is George Soros. Soros, as conservatives know, has spent his billions funding organizations dedicated to leftist causes. One of the causes with the greatest impact has been funding “Soros prosecutors”—hard-left lawyers who refuse to prosecute criminals but enthusiastically prosecuted Trump and other conservatives. It now appears that some large amounts of the money the Soros organizations used to get these prosecutors in office came from USAID.
The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. Here’s a short version of what Discover the Networks (“DtN”) says about these two related organizations.
The set-up is that the Tides Foundation and the related (although legally distinct) Tide Center are two sides of a public charity that operates as a clearinghouse between wealthy leftists and hard-left institutions. By donating to Tides, the donors aren’t seen as having a direct connection with radical groups. Leftist non-profits can also get money from Tide and then funnel it to their affiliated for-profit organizations. The whole thing was set up as a scam and a cover.
Per DtN, these are just a few of the leftist causes Tides funds:
Among the crusades to which Tides contributes are: radical environmentalism; the “exclusion of humans from public and private wildlands”; the anti-war movement; anti-free trade campaigns; the banning of firearms ownership; abolition of the death penalty; access to government-funded abortion-on-demand; and radical gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender advocacy. The Foundation is also a member organization of the International Human Rights Funders Group, a network of more than six-dozen grantmakers dedicated to financing leftwing groups and causes.
DOGE: 81yo Judge Kollar-Kotelly is the same judge that sentenced 75yo pro-life protester Paula Harlow to two years in prison. Now she’s blocking Trump’s administration from making changes to the Treasury Department’s payment system. DOGE is blocked completely and Treasury… pic.twitter.com/mMHOEwuxWv
White House cancels millions in Politico subscriptions amid Musk-led budget cuts– www.euronews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Announcing millions of dollars of cuts to online subscriptions, the Trump administration’s press secretary repeated misleading statements used to justify the dismantling of the US government’s international aid and development agency.
The White House has said it is cancelling millions of dollars in subscriptions to online news outlet Politico, part of a sweeping programme of cuts that has seen tech entrepreneur Elon Musk given the opportunity to gut government payrolls and budgets — and even to effectively shut down entire US agencies.
The announcement came from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who told a press conference on Wednesday that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had spent $8m ($7.72m) on subscriptions to the outlet’s Politico Pro output, and that the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) intended to cancel them.
USAID Funneled Tax Dollars to WEF, Bill Gates, George Soros– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
As President Donald Trump’s administration continues to expose alarming levels of deep state corruption in the federal government, details are beginning to emerge to reveal who has been benefiting from this unprecedented misuse of American taxpayer money.
Trump has tasked the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to investigate and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse from federal agencies.
These investigations have exposed shocking abuses, particularly at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
As Slay News has reported, DOGE has uncovered evidence showing that USAID has been wasting billions of dollars in taxpayer money on fraudulent foreign schemes.
Even more disturbingly, USAID has been using U.S. tax dollars against the American people by funding leftist corporate media propaganda efforts and even the bioweapons research that developed the COVID-19 virus in China.
UN Chief Panics as Trump Cuts Funding for Globalist Causes– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres is panicking over fears about President Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent American tax dollars from being used to fund foreign organizations advancing a globalist agenda.
In a letter distributed to UN staff, Guterres warns that Trump’s America First policies will create a “difficult challenge” for the unelected international body.
In the letter, Guterres wrote:
“I assure you that we are working closely with colleagues throughout the United Nations system to understand and mitigate the extent of its impact on our operations.
“Now, more than ever, the work of the United Nations is crucial.
“As we face this difficult challenge, your dedication and support will help us to overcome and move forward.
“Together, we will ensure that our Organization continues to serve people in need around the world with unwavering commitment.”
Vast Majority of Donations From USAID Workers Went to Democrats– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
Employees from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have donated almost entirely to Democrats.
USAID staff made $406,790 in political contributions in the 2024 election cycle, according to data collected on OpenSecrets. While $241,079, more than half of the total, went to Kamala Harris for president, only $999, which is a quarter of a percent, went to Donald Trump. 97% overall, a bit over $377,000, went to Democrats, but only $12,704 went to Republicans.
Political donations of USAID employees over $200 to PACs and candidates were tracked by Open Secrets with data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The numbers above show the rampant political bias at the agency.
REVEALED: Politico Received Huge Amounts of Taxpayer Money From USAID — Awarded Over $8 Million in Hundreds of Grants | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com Source Link Excerpt:
Politico / Screenshot Via Facebook
Now it is starting to make sense.
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of Americans, Politico was receiving huge amounts of taxpayer money from USAID.
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk seek to gut the corrupt agency and stop the disbursement of billions of dollars around the world, many people have pointed out some of the most ludicrous “grants” handed out by USAID.
Among the lucky recipients is Politico, a prominent digital news company covering U.S. and global politics.
Politico is a for-profit venture. In 2021, it was bought by Axel Springer for a staggering $1 billion.
Nevertheless, the company has received over $8 million dollars from USAID across hundreds of grants.
USAID Whistleblower Says He Was Forced to Attend DEI Boot Camp– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
A USAID whistleblower says he learned the hard way what happens to employees of the agency who report corruption.
Former USAID director Mark Moyar told Fox News’ Jesse Watters he was fired from his job at the agency when he reported one of his subordinates for criminal conflict of interest.
Moyar explained that shortly after he spoke up, he was accused of publishing classified information, which was used to justify firing him. He’s been in court for three years trying to get the agency to “turn over the facts.”
EXCLUSIVE: USAID whistleblower, Mark Moyar, reveals what happened when he raised concerns that the agency was a corrupt money pit. He found out the hard way that reporting corruption gets you in a lot of trouble… pic.twitter.com/I1BINBd0qp
Trump told reporters on Sunday: “USAID has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we’re getting them out and then we’ll make a decision.”
I totally agree with Trump on this point.
Virtually everyone at USAID needs to be removed from their positions.
Fortunately, things are moving in that direction. USAID employees were told to stay home on Monday, and hundreds of staffers were locked out of the computer systems…
Stay at home and don’t bother to come into the office. That was the message to staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Monday who were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters.
The advice came via a notice distributed to the career bureaucrats, AP reports, after Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency down.
According to AP, USAID staffers said they “also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight.”
Trump Rocks Bill Gates as USAID Shakeup Squeezes Out His Foundation– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Pour one out for poor Bill Gates.
Gates, the Microsoft gazillionaire who has officially taken the leap from “global philanthropist” to “supranational, self-appointed health and climate official,” has been seen using his money and influence on the world stage to peddle ideas like geoengineering to “dim” the sun and cool the planet or push lab-made meat upon us, ostensibly to solve the same problem.
In the latest of his weird Bond villain ideas, Gates’ charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, approved a grant to research turning mosquitoes into “flying vaccinators,” a move which, in no way, sounds like something out of the first ten chapters of a Michael Crichton novel, before things go wrong.
Clearly, this is a man who needs access to avenues to distribute money and global reach to export these grand schemes — two things, just coincidentally, that USAID, the government agency currently in the process of being shuttered by the Trump administration, provides his charity.
Reddit Bans Liberal Community After Death Threats Pour In Against DOGE Workers– dailycaller.com Source Link Excerpt:
Reddit temporarily banned a page over threats directed at staff of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Elon Musk accused users of breaking the law, according to multiple posts online.
Users on multiple pages were engaging in “threats and doxing,” prompting the site to issue 72-hour bans against some of them, including “r/WhitePeopleTwitter,” a Reddit Safety post said. They noted that the pages violated Reddit Rules and described the shutdowns as a “cooling-off period.”
Users on the popular social media app were sharing posts with threatening language directed at members of the DOGE Team, according to screenshots from Reddit Lies.
“Time to hunt,” one user posted, the images showed, while another apparently wrote “lets drag their necks up by a large coil up rope.”
“They have broken the law” Musk wrote, quote-tweeting the post showing the screenshots.
Defunding USAID Is About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The most common argument you’ll hear from those defending the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is that the grant dollars in question are just a fraction of the federal budget — less than one percent! Even if the Trump administration eliminated USAID altogether it wouldn’t put much of a dent in the deficit or help control the national debt, is the argument. Everyone from the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC to Jim Geraghty at National Review are repeating this line.
But trimming the federal budget and reducing the deficit aren’t really the point of this exercise. The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down. In the six decades since it was established, USAID has gone from fighting poverty, spreading American ideals, and undercutting Soviet propaganda, to becoming a woke propaganda operation of its own that actively undermines the pillars of western civilization. It’s gone from exporting democracy to exporting deviancy, and now we can all see it.
President Trump this week tasked Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with a review of the agency’s grants and expenditures, which has already shone a much-needed light on where tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are going. My colleague Tristan Justice detailed a handful of some of the most insane projects USAID funds, including “$70,000 for a ‘DEI musical’ in Ireland, $47,000 for a ‘transgender opera’ in Colombia, $32,000 for a ‘transgender comic book’ in Peru, and $1.5 million for an LGBT jobs program in Serbia.” Other projects were to fund electric vehicles in Vietnam, infrastructure in Egypt, meals for Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, and internet censorship in the United Kingdom.
Watch: How USAID Spread Fake News with Your Tax Dollars– www.louderwithcrowder.com Source Link Excerpt:
The left continues to lose over the USAID spending scandal, as it’s been revealed that your tax dollars have been financing the disinformation that the fake news media has been feeding the masses. Today’s show breaks it down.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed yesterday that “more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening.”
Raving Dem Lawmakers Protest Elon Musk, DOGE; ‘Shut Down the Senate, We are at War’– legalinsurrection.com Source Link Excerpt:
The last straw for Democratic lawmakers came when Elon Musk’s team of 18 to 25-year-old geniuses pulled back the curtain and exposed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as little more than a global charity for progressive causes. In a collective frenzy, what looked like the majority of House Democrats along with several senators, converged outside of the Treasury Department building to let their voices be heard. Why, it almost sounded as if they were calling for an insurrection.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver bellowed into the microphone, “We will not take this! We will fight back! And godd*** it, shut down the Senate! We are at war!”
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley directed her ire toward her Republican colleagues. With California Rep. Maxine Waters grinning at her side, she yelled, “Pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!”
She referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley calls for violence: “I want to say to our Republican colleagues — pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!” pic.twitter.com/YpUzB8EVt0
Next, Waters herself took the microphone and delivered a reprise of her infamous 2018 rant where she encouraged supporters to harass Trump Cabinet members wherever they may be. Except this time, her anger was aimed at Elon Musk. “We have got to tell Elon Musk, ‘Nobody told you you could get all of our private information. Nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country. Nobody elected your a**!’ This is not Elon Musk’s country!”
“Nobody elected your ass! This is not Elon Musk’s country!” – Rep Maxine Waters goes on an unhinged rant attacking Elon Musk at the anti-Elon rally.
All this drama because Americans simply asked what our tax dollars are funding. pic.twitter.com/tNRwfAKNPi
Naturally, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) weighed in. “Not one Democrat in America voted for Elon Musk, not one. Not one Republican in America voted for Elon Musk. Not one independent in America voted for Elon Musk. Not one libertarian in America voted for Elon Musk, dammit, not one vegetarian in America voted for Elon Musk, and yet, Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the American people.”
Warren forgets that no one elected USAID’s leadership either, yet they have the power to distribute $40 billion in taxpayer funds as they see fit.
She also appears to forget that no one voted for the individuals who actually ran the government during President Joe Biden’s four years in office. He was clearly incapable of governing.
I guess the Democrats’s new playbook is to scream about how no one elected Elon Musk.
Well, you wretched witches, we actually did vote for the creation of DOGE led by Elon Musk, and we are loving the results so far. pic.twitter.com/WVifDs4Ufg
Even Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer showed up. He said, “We cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have! We are going to fight this fight. I am going to stand with you in this fight. And we will win!”
RALLY FROM THE TREASURY BUILDING:
We are here to tell Elon Musk and DOGE that a secret squad of company men cannot pull off a hostile takeover of America’s Social Security and tax information in the dead of night. pic.twitter.com/cmWrwyzPGh
Conspicuously missing from Schumer’s list of what Musk is supposedly taking away from Democrats is the real reason for their outrage: their power. Over the years, Democrats have concealed their reckless spending on progressive causes by calling on independent government agencies like USAID and government-funded NGOs to bankroll their projects. This strategy has allowed them to appear as heroes while taxpayers remained blissfully unaware of where their tax dollars were going. By shutting down the USAID gravy train, Musk is stripping them of that power.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters discussed this story on the Tuesday night edition of his eponymous show. He highlighted some of the wasteful projects USAID has spent money on. Examples include: “$27 million to give gift bags to illegals before we deport them,” “millions to help Afghanis grow crops instead of opium … opium production doubled,” “$300 million to build diesel-fueled power plants in Afghanistan,” and “$9 million to Syria for humanitarian aid, but someone messed up and it went to Al Qaeda.” Watters concluded that “USAID is a deep state $40 billion slush fund.”
Then he addressed the more nefarious projects the agency has been involved in. Watters said, “USAID is an American intelligence cutout. They’ve been caught staging coup after coup across Latin America and funding paramilitary groups.
He continued, “USAID was pouring billions of dollars into open borders group. We were literally funding the invasion and buying them gift bags as they left.”
Watters reminded viewers that “USAID is only 0.7% of the federal budget. If they found this much fraud and corruption in this one tiny agency, imagine how bad the rest of it is.”
Watters played a recent clip of Trump advisor Stephen Miller describing USAID:
There’s probably no entity in the government that is more of an entrenched power center of unelected bureaucrats with less accountability, less oversight than USAID. They funnel money to their cronies all over the world through a swampy network of NGOs – non-governmental organizations … focusing on such things as regime change and destabilizing foreign countries. This is not about America’s interests.
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Americans voted for one man. … They voted for Donald Trump to make government accountable to the taxpayer.
DOGE is to Democrats what a pail of water is to the Wicked Witch of the West. Expect to hear even more shrieking from the Left as this group continues to expose wasteful spending in the federal budget. That outcry is simply proof that DOGE is fulfilling its mission: to “giv[e] power back to the people.”
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Lawler joined a growing chorus of high-profile Republicans who condemned Dems for considering changing state election laws to keep the deep-red upstate District 21 seat held by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) open well after her expected resignation.
“I am going to be requesting that the Department of Justice open up a RICO investigation into New York State, because this is as corrupt a state as we have seen,” Lawler said.
Anti-Trump protesters storm LA freeway and face off with police in riot gear during daylong demonstration agai – Daily Mail Source Link Excerpt:
Protestors waving Mexican flags stormed the 101 Freeway and to block the roads and clash with cops in riot gear as darkness fell in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Hundreds demonstrated against Trump’s sweeping deportation efforts and orders to expand migrant arrests just outside the Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena – sparking scenes of defiance and chaos in the culturally diverse metropolis.
Police in riot gear stood shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to stop the protestors spreading down the road.
Idaho National Guard Needs a Purge after Brass Says ‘No Christians Allowed’– lidblog.com Source Link Excerpt:
I don’t know who needs to hear it, but the top brass of the Idaho Army National Guard need to be cashiered out of the service after being caught saying Christians are not allowed to be promoted to officer ranks.
The Liberty Counsel has filed a lawsuit against the military branch, but lawsuit or no, Governor Brad Little — a putative Republican — needs to start firing his top Army officers for this.
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of an Idaho Army National Guard infantry officer against Governor Brad Little and two army generals for unlawfully removing the officer from command solely due to his personal Christian expression on biblical sexuality made outside of the military environment. An investigation into the officer, which revealed no wrongdoing, nevertheless recommended a policy to monitor potential candidates for command for any “concerning ideologies” as a way of “rooting out” any “extremism” in the ranks. In this case, the decision to remove him from command on this basis shows that his superiors believe his Bible-centered beliefs on sexuality to be concerning and essentially puts an unconstitutional “No Christians in Command” policy into action.
El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal with Trump administration– www.cnn.com Source Link Excerpt:
El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – that has alarmed critics and rights groups.
Rubio unveiled the agreement after meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, as part of a tour of several Central American countries intended to consolidate regional support for the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
“In an act of extraordinary friendship to our country … (El Salvador) has agreed to the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio told reporters Monday.
The country will continue accepting Salvadoran deportees who illegally entered the US, he said. It will also “accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua and house them in his jails,” he said – referring to two notorious transnational gangs with members from El Salvador and Venezuela.
Belgium moves to the right as new prime minister De Wever sworn in – Borneo Bulletin Source Link Excerpt:
Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in yesterday as Belgium’s new prime minister, after striking a hard-fought coalition deal that moves the country to the right.
Struck late Friday after seven months of tortuous negotiations, the agreement makes De Wever the first nationalist from Dutch-speaking Flanders to be named Belgian premier.
The 54-year-old – who in recent years has backed off on calls for Flanders to become an independent country – took the oath of office before King Philippe, in a ceremony at the royal palace in Brussels.
From there, he headed straight to a gathering of European Union (EU) leaders a few blocks away, for talks on defence and transatlantic relations.
Split between French- and Dutch-speaking communities and with a highly complex political system, Belgium has an unenviable record of painfully protracted coalition discussions – reaching 541 days back in 2010-2011.
Trump Prepares Executive Action To Dismantle Education Department– trendingpoliticsnews.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump is preparing to issue a series of executive actions to dismantle the Department of Education, according to a report from The Washington Post. Trump had previously promised to abolish the department outright while on the campaign trail, pointing to its record of inefficiency over the past several decades.
According to the report, which cites multiple people familiar with the order, Trump’s executive action acknowledges that Congress has the authority to abolish the department outright. As a result, Trump will reportedly be enacting a series of policies that will work to dismantle the Education Department from within by redirecting funding and reducing its workforce.
In the first two weeks of the second Trump Administration, hundreds of federal employees have already been placed on paid administrative leave, including all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) workers, several federal prosecutors who worked to prosecute Trump and his supporters over the January 6 Capitol protests, and dozens of FBI agents.
The work is continuing in the Department of Education, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative has deployed 20 staffers to focus on the department. DOGE staffers are currently looking for ways to cut spending and staff, three people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
Report: Illegal Border Crossings Collapse By 93 Percent Since Trump’s Election– lidblog.com Source Link Excerpt:
Deportation is not the only benefit of Donald Trump’s border policies, America. Illegal border crossings are also down an astonishing 93 percent as illegals come to understand that they won’t make it in and won’t be able to stay, even if they do.
The lies by Biden that our border was “secure” and that he had illegal migration “under control” is further revealed as the bald faced lie it always was.
White House Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News on Sunday that illegal border crossings are down 93% since Donald Trump won his belated reelection in November. Speaking with Maria Bartiromo, Homan also promised, “When we find that criminal, he’s most likely with others, and they’re gonna go too. So if you wanna be a sanctuary city, you’re gonna get exactly what you don’t want. More agents in the community and more non-criminals arrested.”
State Farm proposes home insurance price hike after $1 billion spent on LA fire claims– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
State Farm wants to raise home insurance rates for Californians by an average of 22% after the company paid out roughly $1 billion in claims due to the Los Angeles fires.
As the largest home insurance company in the United States, State Farm covers 20% of the area devastated by the fires in Los Angeles County, which the company said ranked as “the costliest disasters in the history of State Farm General.” In Altadena alone, 6,000 homes, or around 40% of all residential units, were destroyed by the fires, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis.
German election poll: Merz’s far-right gambit costs conservatives – POLITICO Europe Source Link Excerpt:
Early signs suggest Germany’s conservatives may have lost their big bet.
Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to align with the far right on tough immigration measures appears to have dealt a swift blow to his center-right alliance, with a key poll showing his conservatives sliding by two points from last week ― to 28 percent.
The German pollster Forsa, which released its most recent survey on Tuesday, marks the first snapshot of voter sentiment since Merz’s controversial maneuver last week to attempt to push through a series of tough immigration measures with the help of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, weakening Germany’s quarantine of the far right, in place since the end of World War II.
