Author name: Jason Walsh

Economics

DOGE Uncovers 90 Million Shady Transactions from Over 4 Million Government Credit Cards

Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed an eye-watering level of federal spending abuse, revealing that over 4.6 million active government credit cards were used for 90 million transactions totaling nearly $40 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 alone.

DOGE broke down the figures in an X post on Tuesday:

“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24. DOGE is working with/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs – we will report back in 1 week,” the account wrote.

The Department of Defense (DOD) led the spending, with 2.4 million individual accounts processing 27.2 million transactions in just one fiscal year.

President Donald Trump responded with a scathing memo, ordering all government agencies to implement “radical transparency” in taxpayer spending.

The statement reads:

“The United States Government spends too much money on programs, contracts, and grants that do not promote the interests of the American people.

For too long, taxpayers have subsidized ideological projects overseas and domestic organizations engaged in actions that undermine the national interest.

The American people have seen their tax dollars used to fund the passion projects of unelected bureaucrats rather than to advance the national interest. The American people have a right to see how the Federal Government has wasted their hard-earned wages.

I therefore direct the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to take all appropriate actions to make public, to the maximum extent permitted by law and as the heads of agencies deem appropriate to promote the policies of my Administration, the complete details of every terminated program, cancelled contract, terminated grant, or any other discontinued obligation of Federal funds.

Agencies shall ensure that such publication occurs in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the underlying contract, grant, or other award.”

These revelations, shocking as they are, may be just the tip of the iceberg as the Trump administration continues investigating corruption among Washington elites.

However, government officials have yet to respond to the findings, with sources indicating that an internal probe may soon follow.

Without immediate and significant reforms, public trust in the government may never recover.

As the Trump administration reverses America’s economic decline, the coming weeks will reveal just how deep this corruption runs.

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Religion

Pope Francis Tells Aides He’s “Preparing for Death” Amid Double-Pneumonia Battle

Pope Francis has told his aides he may not survive his recently diagnosed pneumonia, which has now spread to both of his lungs after he was rushed to the hospital last Friday.

The Pontiff, 88, told aides he “might not make it this time,” according to a report by Politico.

Despite the Vatican stating that Francis’s condition was stable, subsequent reports suggest he fears he will soon die and is “tying up loose ends” ahead of his successor.

According to those close to the Pope, he is suffering from intense pain and is now completely at the mercy of “doctors’ orders.”

The Pontiff is also distressed after being barred from delivering his regular morning Angelus sermon. Earlier this month, Francis was admitted to a special ward at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital after suffering from bronchitis.

Doctors told the Pope “in no uncertain terms he was at risk of dying” if he stayed at the Vatican.

However, the Vatican warned on Monday that a longer hospital stay was needed in the face of a “complex clinical picture” that involved a “polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract.”

Following the news, all of the Pope’s engagements have now been canceled, and his double-lung pneumonia diagnosis has left him with little hope of survival.

A statement issued by the Vatican yesterday read: “The chest CT scan that the Holy Father underwent this afternoon […] demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia that required further pharmacological therapy.”

They also added that Francis’ respiratory infection involved asthmatic bronchitis, which requires extensive antibiotic treatment. The Pope had part of his lung removed years ago and is now vulnerable to pulmonary conditions. Expert Italian pulmonologist Barbara Moscatelli said the Pope’s condition is “neither easy to define nor to manage.”

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Big Government

Speaker Mike Johnson: Elon Musk “Cracked the Code for “Defeating the Deep State”

House Speaker Mike Johnson said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally “cracked the code” on how to break the “deep state” with the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Speaking with Life, Liberty & Levin host Mark Levin, Johnson said he met with Musk for an hour at the DOGE leader’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building last week.

The speaker noted that Musk has been working out of the old Secretary of War Suite, remarking, “We laughed about how appropriate that is because he’s declared war on the deep state and the bureaucracy.”

Johnson added: “You have Democrats now out having rallies to stop him. What is he doing?”

“He’s identifying and allowing us to cut out fraud, waste, and abuse,” he added. “How could they be against that? It’s irrational. It’s going to work against them.”

Levin got Johnson to agree that Democrats are being hypocritical for opposing Musk’s work to root out corrupt government spending while embracing billionaire George Soros, who has influenced policy.

Johnson also noted how Musk is helping Congress perform its constitutional duty to keep the Executive Branch in check by providing a much-needed level of transparency.

“The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy have not turned over the data,” Johnson said.

“They wouldn’t give us the information we were seeking. We didn’t know all this because it was hidden,” he added.

“Now Elon has cracked the code. He is on the inside of the belly of the beast, Mark,” the speaker continued.

“And he is unveiling and revealing all these things that we knew intuitively were happening but we didn’t have the evidence.”

Johnson concluded: “This is a game changer. It is truly revolutionary, and we’re going to restore, ultimately through this process, the federal government to the original intent of the Founders.”

The speaker added: “And that’s what has the Big Government socialist liberals and Democrat Party apoplectic because they’re afraid of what the final result of this is going to be. And it’s very exciting for the people.”

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Entertainment, Uncategorized

TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She “Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore”

Whoopi Goldberg appeared to be channeling twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” sentiment by admitting she can’t even talk to people who support President Donald Trump.

Does Whoopi realize she is now referring to the majority of America?

Goldberg still refuses to mention Trump by name, opting instead for terms like “the man in the White House” or “you know who.”

On Monday, she took it even further by expressing her disdain for the American people who voted for him. The meltdown erupted when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin acknowledged that Trump’s efforts had been paying off during his first month in office.

“One of the things he is excellent at, and the media takes the bait often, is he writes himself into every story,” Griffin said. “He didn’t just do the Super Bowl interview, he attended the Super Bowl … he is working in a 21st-century media environment that is outpacing traditional media but also the opposition.

“I think Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor, if I go on ‘Meet the Press,’ it’s going to stop him.”

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Co-host Ana Navarro also admitted that the “resistance” against Trump had not materialized in the ways she believed it should, reflecting how Democrats have struggled with “reaching people” to organize.

“We all need to come together and show them that we’re mad as hell.”

Griffin suggested that Democrats would need to “go into uncomfortable spaces” and include Trump voters in their efforts to bring more people in.

Goldberg didn’t like this. “I think this is beyond Democrats and Republicans,” Goldberg said.

“It’s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don’t matter in the country … When you support THAT person … when we find the stuff that we agree on, that’s what we do.

“When we find the stuff that is disagreeable to the majority, now, I didn’t find anything of interest for me in Project 2025,” she said. “I didn’t feel like this is geared to us as a nation, I felt it was geared to very specific folks, and that bothered the poo out of me.”

“I understand what you’re saying, and we do have to talk to each other,” she finally conceded.

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DEI, DEI Pushback

DOGE Uncovers Shocking Program that Framed Newborn Babies as “Racists”

Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative has exposed a bizarre “antiracism” training program that framed newborn infants as racists, highlighting a shocking example of government waste driven by left-wing ideologies under President Joe Biden.

Conservative activist Chris Rufo outlined the program in a lengthy X post on Friday.

The program, funded by the Department of Education, was just one of many “antiracism” training programs used for teachers following the rise of Black Lives Matter after the death of George Floyd.

One slide, titled “Did You Know? Racial Awareness in the Early Years,” asserted that infants become racist before turning one year old if they are not exposed to diversity.

The slide argues that infants can begin to categorize faces based on race and even develop preferences for faces they see most often, which usually corresponds to their own race.

The DEI consultant explains in the training:

“At nine months, infants are unable to distinguish the facial features of racial groups other than their caregiver unless they frequently see images of racially diverse people.

By the age of two, children are putting people into categories based on race, and they are observing and internalizing power dynamics,” a DEI consultant explained during the training.

At age three, children develop biases and begin assigning meaning to race by attributing positive traits to the dominant race.

However, children can still respond to positive messages about their own and others’ racial identities. By age five, children of all races demonstrate social biases, primarily by attributing negative traits to non-white races. At this age, children are capable of acting against racial injustice.”

The consultant then labeled young children as “racists,” saying, “Racist idiocy is a form of racism.”

Elon Musk pointed to the training as an example of the sheer decay within the federal government.

“Funding for racist baby training is canceled,” Musk wrote.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning DEI policies and training within the federal government.

Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Charles Ezell, informed acting department and agency heads in a memo that all government DEI offices would be forced to close by the end of the day.

Employees at these agencies were informed they would be placed on paid leave.

Federal workers were also ordered to remove all DEI-related websites and social media accounts, cancel contracts or training programs, and report any efforts to disguise DEI programs using coded or imprecise language.

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Main Story, Ukraine

Trump Working on Plan to Claw Back $350 Billion Biden Sent to Ukraine

President Donald Trump asserts that Ukraine will pay back the $350 billion the U.S. sent to the country to fight Russia as he moves forward with efforts to bring peace to the region.

While speaking to reporters briefly before flying to Daytona Beach for the Daytona 500, the president announced that the $350 billion sent to the Zelensky regime would be repaid to the U.S.

Trump suggested the funds were allocated without safeguards for U.S. interests, emphasizing the need for “security on our money.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now negotiating the terms under which Ukraine would provide the United States with a significant portion of its rare earth minerals, oil, and gas reserves.

Such resources are vital to industries such as technology and defense and could bolster both strategic interests and the U.S. economy.

Watch:

Here is the transcript.

Reporter: Would you support Zelinsky’s seeding territory or exchanging territory in any agreement to end the war?

President Trump: Well, he’s going to have to do what he has to do, but his poll numbers aren’t particularly great, to put it mildly. He’s got a country where it’s been savaged and attacked, and he’s got an army that’s been very, very brave, actually, despite the fact that we’ve given him, in my opinion, $350 billion. That’s what the number is. You don’t hear that number. And Europe has given, in my opinion, $100 billion. And they’ve done it in the form of a loan.

And I have a Secretary of Treasury right now who’s actually quite brave. He’s over in Ukraine on a train, and there’s a lot of things happening around that train that aren’t so good. And he’s going there to get a document done where we’re going to be assured that we’re going to, in some form, get this money back because we’re putting up far more money than Europe.

And Europe is in far more danger than we are. We have an ocean in between. Europe has nothing in between. You know what they have in between? They have Ukraine in between. So as you know, Europe is putting up money, and they’re getting it in the form of a loan.

And the United States, under Biden, didn’t do loans. They just handed money. Every time somebody walked in from Ukraine, they just handed them money foolishly. This should have never happened. It should have never started. And once it did, other things should have happened. Other things should have taken place. So we’re getting security on our money. We’re going to have it secured by… They have raw earth, and they have oil and gas, and they have a lot of other things. And we’re asking for security on our money. So does it mean you are not sending any more aid to Ukraine? They’ve agreed to it. Ukraine has agreed to it.

Reporter: Does it mean you are not sending any more aid to Ukraine?

President Trump: No, we are, but we want it secured, and the money is going to be secured..

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Main Story

Thousands of Secret JFK Assassination Files Discovered by Trump’s FBI

The FBI under President Donald Trump discovered thousands of unsubmitted records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Two thousand four hundred records tied to the assassination of the former president were uncovered by officials after Trump ordered that all documents be released.

The records were meant to be transferred to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board and the National Archives in compliance with the 1992 JFK Records Act but remained hidden. The classified records are among 14,000 pages of documents uncovered during the FBI review ordered by Trump.

“This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination. “The FBI is finally saying, ‘Let’s respond to the president’s order,’ instead of keeping the secrecy going.”

However, various U.S. intelligence agencies requested that some redactions be made to protect sources and methods. White House staffers said Trump would “hit the roof” if there were any attempts to prevent the disclosure of the records.

After more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration stated that 97% of the 5 million pages were available to the public. However, around 3,000 documents remained classified, and an additional 30,000 had redactions.

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Uncategorized

Elon Musk Considers Ron Paul to Audit The Federal Reserve

Elon Musk is considering appointing former Congressman Ron Paul and “End the Fed” author to lead an audit team within DOGE, targeting the Federal Reserve.

The news follows a suggestion from X user Liam McCollum, who proposed that “DOGE and @elonmusk should let @RonPaul lead a Federal Reserve audit team.”

Musk immediately responded, stating, “Good idea.”

Paul is a well-known critic of the Federal Reserve and has long advocated for increased transparency.

His potential involvement with DOGE could deal a significant blow to the Federal Reserve and aligns with the Trump administration’s mission to enhance governmental efficiency and reduce waste.

Furthermore, this move could spark a major shift in the oversight of the nation’s central banking system.

Unsurprisingly, a federal judge in New York temporarily blocked DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems last week, as establishment elites fight tooth and nail to conceal their fraud.

Musk’s consideration of Ron Paul highlights his commitment to reforming federal operations and could bring renewed scrutiny to the Federal Reserve’s controversial practices.

Auditing the Federal Reserve is something Paul has been pushing for decades.

To quote Ron Paul: “There is no authority in the constitution authorizing a central bank, which means there should be no federal reserve system.”

Mario Nawfal explained:

Paul himself has not yet commented on Musk’s offer.

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Big Government

Just 294 out of 14,000 USAID Employees Identified as “Essential”

Following a review of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a measly 294 of the agency’s 14,000 employees have been deemed essential to administering civilian foreign aid.

The internal review appears to have been initiated by President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is currently serving as the agency’s acting director.

The news comes as Sec. Rubio began transferring the few core programs within USAID intended to serve U.S. national interests into the State Department.

The move signals that the agency may soon be abolished.

President Donald Trump is expected to place most USAID staff on leave, while the 294 workers deemed essential will be the few staff directed to remain at their posts.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed the agency’s eye-watering expenditures.

According to the data, almost 90 percent of Ukrainian media relies on the U.S. federal aid agency to operate.

It was also uncovered that George Soros’s organizations received $260 million in taxpayer money disbursed by USAID.

Sec. Rubio noted how USAID was operating as if it were funded by U.S. taxpayers.

On Monday, former senior advisor to Trump, Stephen Miller, said the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) operated as a financial pipeline for left-wing causes.

Miller said USAID used taxpayer dollars to fund global gender surgeries, diversity and inclusion programs, and climate initiatives.

As President Trump moves to cut off USAID funding, Miller noted that agency officials are in total panic.

“Yes, the USAID was a slush fund, first of all, for left-wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries around the world, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal, climate scams, and every other lunatic left-wing project that is bankrupting this country,” Miller said.

Miller said these groups use government money to influence the corporate and public sectors and to resettle millions of illegal immigrants at the expense of taxpayers.

“But even beyond that, it was funding an army of left-wing activists, these NGOs, non-governmental organizations,” he said.

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Sport, Sports

Taylor Swift’s Boyfriend Says Having Trump at Super Bowl Will Be a “Great Honor”

Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, stated that it is a “great honor” to have President Donald Trump attend Super Bowl LIX.

During media day on Wednesday, when asked to react to the news that Trump would attend the Super Bowl, Kelce said, “That’s awesome. It’s a great honor.”

“I think, you know, no matter who the president is, I’m excited because it’s the biggest game of my life. Having the president there — it’s the best country in the world — and that’s pretty cool.”

Kelce’s comments come just months after Taylor Swift received harsh criticism from Trump following her endorsement of then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

Not long after Swift announced her support for Harris, Trump said he “was not a fan of Taylor Swift.” He added: “It was just a question of time… But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat. And she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”

During an episode of the Kelce brothers’ podcast, New Heights, in 2024, Travis Kelce said it is “always an honor” to visit the White House, regardless of who is sitting in the Oval Office.

“Anytime I get a chance to be recognized by the president of the United States and get to go with my teammates and a group of men and women that I had success with to the point we get acknowledged,” he said, “I’m doing it every time, no matter who’s up there at the helm. No matter what’s going on in this world, it’s just such a cool opportunity.”

Former President Joe Biden invited Travis to the White House in May 2024 after the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, which was held in Las Vegas.

During the press conference, Travis joked:

“My fellow Americans, I’m going to be honest, President Biden, they told me I’d get tased if I came up here, so I’m going back to my spot.”


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