In an interview with Fox News, however, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the agency had become filled with “rank insubordination.”

“They just think they’re a global entity and that their master is the globe and not the United States. And that’s not sustainable,” Rubio said.

Rubio told reporters on his first foreign trip to Latin America he is now the acting director of USAID after employees and congressional Democrats were locked out of the headquarters this week.

“There are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy,” Rubio said in El Salvador.

A review of its recent priorities reveal the agency had more to do with far-left social engineering overseas than responsible diplomacy. Here’s a look at what USAID has been funding with American tax dollars:

The White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has finally gained access to the U.S. government’s payment system after a career bureaucrat had blocked them out. In an executive order creating DOGE, President Donald Trump ordered all agencies to provide the small but energetic team, headed by Elon Musk, with “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems,” for the purpose of identifying and exposing areas of government waste, which can later be cut.

A single payment system within the U.S. Treasury Department is effectively the spigot for every dollar Uncle Sam spends, and for decades access to it has remained closely held among career officials in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service. Since the election, agents of DOGE have requested access to this system, and they renewed their requests after Trump’s executive order made their department official.

Yet through the first week of the Trump administration, Acting Treasury Secretary David Lebryk denied DOGE access to the payment system. Last Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump’s nominee, received Senate confirmation, and Trump administration officials placed Lebryk on administrative leave.

On Friday, Lebryk announced his retirement in a letter to Treasury employees — rather a high-flying move for a civil servant. The letter addressed the Fiscal Service without addressing the controversy directly. “The Fiscal Service performs some of the most vital functions in government,” he said. “Our work may be unknown to most of the public, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t exceptionally important.”

This could simply be encouraging comments, or it could be a subtle call to further resistance against impending changes by the Trump administration. The latter would be both inappropriate and unwelcome. //

“The fact that there are people in the government, paid by taxpayers, who think the President of the United States or his designee cannot see who is being paid by the federal government is a scandal of the highest order,” Kilgannon added. “Expect resignations and firings until this situation is corrected. We have a right and a duty to know where federal dollars are flowing.”

Meanwhile, the mainstream media is not enamored by the thought of public accountability for public spending; their reporting attempts to make the access by DOGE appear sinister. //

For now, the stated purpose of DOGE is to audit the government for waste, so that the elected agents of the people can actually control the government that governs in the people’s name. The team is too small and moving too fast to pull illegitimate shenanigans along the way. //

But even mechanical jobs need oversight because machines can malfunction, too. Musk reported on Saturday, “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once.” //

“More will come out,” Gacek continued, “but two things are clear: Trump was watching how Elon Musk took over Twitter, and there will be no #resistance in the federal workforce.”

Cafeblue32
5 minutes ago
Like I said, pattern recognition. I see it all the time with democrats now. Whatever crime they're accusing the GOP of committing and whatever awful character flaw they assign conservatives is inversely proportional to the guilt of the accusers themselves. The louder they are, the guiltier they are of trying to deflect. This has always been so to a point, but nothing like today. Hillary did it by gaslighting her working with Russia to get rid of Trump and transferring all onto Trump to take the attention off her involvement, and dems have been openly doing this since. //

Sandy-like the beach I can be
2 hours ago
"All the billionaires I know..." How does a bartender from the Bronx know so many billionaires? Never mind. //

reddog1
2 hours ago
"the danger ... in the lack of expertise ... that Elon has"

I can't think of anyone with more demonstrated achievements in more diverse fields. I don't know if it's expertise or just boldness and some ability to assimilate information at a pace that most of the rest of us don't possess, but the guy is amazing.

AOC as the PR voice for your movement -- that's what I would call not smart. //

GeoMcGeo
an hour ago
I'm sitting here working remotely from my home high in the mountains with reliable high-speed Starlink internet service put in place by SpaceX, two ventures that were unimaginable to most people 20 years ago, and marveling at Elon Musk's vision and execution skills. What has AOC and her party done for me? Reduced my spending power by 20% over the last 4 years and wrecked my childrens' career prospects as they wrapped up college at the beginning of the COVID panic.

The US Digital Service was a part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) established by Barack Obama. Trump then renamed that unit "DOGE." Most of the people in the EOP are "unelected" as are most of the people in the executive branch and the USAID officials. Chuck thinks they are somehow sacrosanct and immune from review.

Schumer is essentially saying the elected president doesn't have any right to review an agency within the executive branch. Indeed, it is Schumer who is arguing that an "unelected shadow government" of bureaucrats from USAID should not be questioned or reviewed by the president and the people in the EOP when USAID has control of $50 billion a year.

Plus, imagine Democrats having fits about things being run by a shadow government when Joe Biden was in cognitive decline for four years. They have some nerve. //

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @DOGE is doing work that really matters.

This is the one shot the American people have to defeat BUREAUcracy, rule of the bureaucrats, and restore DEMOcracy, rule of the people. We’re never going to get another chance like this.

It’s now or never. Your support is crucial to the success of the revolution of the people.

Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.

DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be…
3:59 AM · Feb 4, 2025

It seems shocking that a government entity that has the word "aid" in its acronym would ever be accused of doing dirty tricks and worse against the friends and foes of the U.S., much less be defanged or shut down by Donald Trump. For the world's lefties this defanging is unthinkable. But now, we're finding out all kinds of skullduggery attributed to our color revolutionistas at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Victoria Nuland, and Samantha Power and their kindred through the years. And color revolution coups have been their specialty. See Ukraine 2014.

Need a race riot in Africa? No problem, USAID is your go-to riot planner. Want to force out a democratically elected president? Call USAID for an information onslaught guaranteed to get rid of any elected populist. Need conservatives censored? Call USAID.

But you may not have heard this one unless you follow the work of former CIA targeter and Defense Department operative Sarah Adams. See her interview on the "Shawn Ryan Show" podcast below.

She tracked the Al-Qaeda operation and operators that Jake Sullivan and Hillary Clinton denied were part the Benghazi attack and proved it was a preplanned Al-Qaeda terrorist attack.

And Adams has tracked-back the money being sent by the United States government to our enemies—the people we went to war against to settle the score for 9/11.

Catherine reports nearby that USAID dollars support Iran's proxies Hamas. If that's shocking, then you'll want to sit down for this next revelation. The U.S. State Department and USAID pay millions of dollars per week to the Taliban, the bin Laden family leading the group, and the Haqqani terror network. Remember those guys? Didn't we wage a 20-year-long war to get rid of them ...??? //

And now, as Adams reckons, we pay the Taliban and all the above parties between $40-87 million per week that is carried on a plane complete with a bag man who doles out the payoffs. //

We pay our enemies—and they're our enemies—millions per week. We share intelligence with them, and we left our other enemy, China, in the driver's seat in Afghanistan. How does this help the United States? Both the U.S. State Department and USAID and the Pentagon made that happen.

Whose side are they on? //

And even though we're paying them millions per month, Adams says Al-Qaeda terrorists who's training camps we're paying for have gone gotten visas from Brazil, come up through Panama's Darien Gap, and entered our country for Hamas-like attacks in the U.S. Thanks, Joe Biden.

I know Trump talked about negotiating with the Taliban to get out of Afghanistan when he was President #45, but considering that the USAID employees were attempting to sidestep his foreign policy priorities (and were fired for it), wouldn't it be a good idea to get a reckoning of how much we're paying these terrorists to kill us? //

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"Now, many of my Democratic colleagues and some of the tofu-eating wokeratti at the USAID are screaming like they're part of a prison riot because they don't want us reviewing the spending. But that's all Mr. Musk is doing, and he's finding some pretty interesting stuff. To my friends who are upset, I would say, with respect, you know, call somebody who cares...They better get used to this. It's USAID today, it's going to be Department of Education tomorrow."

Kennedy said for four years under Joe Biden, that these people asked one simple question, "Who needs to pay more in taxes?" "Well, that's not the question that the Republicans and President Trump are going to ask," Kennedy explained. "Our question is, 'What the hell happened to the money?'"

Exactly, and that's why Democrats are flipping out — because, finally, all of this is being unraveled.

ALX 🇺🇸 @alx
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Elon Musk on USAID threatening Senator Joni Ernst: “It’s outrageous that a taxpayer-funded organization would threaten a U.S. Senator who is simply trying to figure out if American taxpayer money is being spent correctly and not fraudulently.”

12:51 AM · Feb 3, 2025
https://x.com/alx/status/1886291382949527609

But imagine the power they believe they have if they think they can threaten a senator. Sounds like this is one more thing that needs to be investigated by U.S. Attorney Martin. All of this has to stop. This obviously has desperately needed oversight for a long time.

Ernst also posted an interesting thread about some of the bad things they've found so far. You can check out the thread here.
https://x.com/SenJoniErnst/status/1886530928379617675

Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for DHS, was recorded saying that the agency’s career bureaucrats do not allow political appointees to interfere with their operations. He told the undercover reporter, "Kristi Noem? I f*cking hate her."

“The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can't actually tell us what to do,” Wright told an undercover OMG journalist, later adding, "The truth is, we don't let them [secretaries] get in our way.” He said, "If we don’t agree with those priorities, there is a lot of room for interpretation, in terms of how we interpret what those priorities are."

He compared the government's bureaucratic structure to a septic tank, saying that there are layers that allow employees to filter directives in a way that minimizes their impact. “There’s a lot of layers like that in the government. And by the time the actual marching orders get to, like, me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship,” he said. //

The Department of Homeland Security provided the following statement to O’Keefe Media Group:

“Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation … The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.” //

SLOTown Hoosier
2 hours ago
Sadly, Wright was only stating the truth - “saying that the agency’s career bureaucrats do not allow political appointees to interfere with their operations”. This has been a known fact for decades and no one in the District of Corruption, on either side of the aisle, took action. DJT had other distractions the first time around but these people are going to get the Apprentice treatment this time around.

To say Democrats and their press allies were upset would be an understatement. Nothing seems to incense the left more than stopping the federal government from wasting taxpayer money overseas. Politicians who never said a word about the lack of funding for Hurricane Helene victims rushed to the podium to decry how "cruel" and "dangerous" it is to stop funding abortions in the Gaza Strip, among other insane wastes of money. //

LEAVITT: Here's the reason Elon Musk and others have been taking a look because if you look at the waste and abuse that has been run through USAID over the years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on.

1.5 million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do. To get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government.

Now ask yourself, what possible benefit to America's standing could come from promoting DEI in Serbia or paying for a transgender comic book in Peru? And that's assuming the money even went to those things. To be frank, many of the grants given out by USAID sound so ridiculous that it would make more sense for them to just be money laundering operations. //

GBenton
an hour ago
I'm guessing none of those funded projects or causes got a fraction of the money or even existed. Probably all fronts for the Dems and Republicans who authorized the pay to play.

Understand what this means. Trump and Musk are cutting off the enemy's money supply and exposing the dirt behind how they funded Covids creation and release and Trump's lawfare, too.

wanna bet the money trail leads directly back to the scumbags crying into microphones?

They're all dirty corrupt maggots and they're all going down.

All they can think of to do is scream and cry and probably accuse Trump of persecuting his critics when they get indicted.

But he's got the receipts and they're screwed.

Wanna bet Cheney and McConnell and Ryan and Romney are all in on this?

of course they are. Its all about the grift with this treasonous traitors.

When Democrats and the media say they’re concerned about ‘independence’ in Trump’s appointees, they mean they want insubordination. //

Neither Democrats nor the Washington-based news media want Donald Trump’s presidency to succeed and one of the most effective ways to ensure it doesn’t is for people to sabotage his administration from within, as was often the case in his first term.

But they don’t explicitly acknowledge that reality. They instead cloak the subversion in nobility by referring to “independent” administration officials or cabinet appointees whom they urge to “exercise independence.”

On Friday’s episode of The New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast, reporter Jonathan Swan said Trump and his closest allies are “scouring the executive branch, looking for any pockets of independence and removing them.” Likewise, during the confirmation hearing for Trump’s pick for attorney general Pam Bondi, Democrat Sen. Chris Coons said, “One of the concerns I’ve raised … is safeguarding the Department of Justice’s independence…”. //

Every elected Republican and “career civil servant” (aka government bureaucrat) who did that in Trump 1.0 was turned into a media hero: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Alexander Vindman, Miles Taylor (who?!), Mark Milley, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Christopher Wray, John Brennan and on and on and on.

Each one of those “independent” fellows proved their courage by undermining the person to whom power was bestowed by the voters. To be called “independent” by Democrats and the media is to do everything Democrats and the media want you to do. Amazing how that works.

The Department of Justice, FBI, and USAID are posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a malignant federal bureaucracy. //

The Office of Personnel Management and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are also posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a federal bureaucracy that has, by design, resisted elected control since its inception. //

USAID is widely perceived as a CIA front organization. Former State Department official Mike Benz says USAID has funded international censorship and regime change operations. As demonstrated by journalists Diana West and M. Stanton Evans, the State Department has embedded Communist subversives from well before Whittaker Chambers all the way through secretaries Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken, making it another top strategic threat to American self-governance. //

Last Monday, acting agency administrator Jason Gray placed 50-60 USAID employees on paid administrative leave while he investigates “information that they may have been conspiring to circumvent Trump’s executive orders requiring the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the agency,” reported RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree. //

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Sunday complaining about the incident and insisting that “by law” Congress must determine whether the president can revise a president-created agency. //

If the executive cannot control his own personnel, agencies, and funding lawfully given to him by a duly elected Congress, elections mean nothing. If the executive is not actually an executor, then the entire bureaucracy is an autocratic, self-licking ice cream cone. It runs the country, not any elected official. And Congress is complicit, because it allows the distribution of opium funds to Afghanistan and queer “safe spaces” in Kenya without ever having to take a public vote on any of this garbage, so long as these taxpayer-provided slush funds slather their retirements and relatives with “nonprofit” and “contractor” lard.

KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab—research that likely led to the creation of COVID-19.

The CIA’s deception regarding COVID-19 origins becomes much clearer when considering USAID's long history of serving as a CIA front organization.

houdini1984
8 hours ago
In a perfect world, Snowden would have been able to report the IC's violation of Americans' rights to Congress. He should have attempted to do so. But is he a traitor? Hardly.

Here's the thing. We're talking about a Congress that failed to punish the intelligence community for... wait for it... spying on Congress. Yes, that's right. The IC was literally spying on our representatives, and forced to admit to those activities. And what did Congress do? They continued to renew all the powers that the IC regularly abuses.

Anyone who's paying attention understands that our elected representatives are, almost to a man and woman, scared to death of this country's intelligence community. They are terrified that their own secrets may be used against them by a vengeful IC. They are willing to sacrifice your liberties to maintain some semblance of peaceful coexistence between themselves and the forces of the deep state.

So, yeah. Snowden's actions are easy to criticize. And they were illegal, in the purest sense of that word. But was he wrong to distrust Congress? Was he right to believe that the American people deserve to know that their government is violating their rights on a daily basis? Did he have an obligation to choose between going to prison or remaining silent?

Personally, I am glad that the truth came out. And I don't blame Tulsi one bit for refusing to be nagged into calling the man a traitor. That nagging is just designed to distract from the real issue, which is that our government has long been weaponized against us.

anon-w8wg houdini1984
5 hours ago edited
Snowden was kind of simultaneously hero and traitor. His actions absolutely threw a wrench in America's military and intelligence gears (I was in the military at the time). However, he brought to light things that the people needed to know, things that never should have been approved. Personally, I don't have a problem calling him traitor. I have no problem with Tulsi Gabbard not calling him a traitor, though, as long as she notes what was bad about his actions. She did this, which makes her more qualified than most intelligence directors, IMHO.

In fact, now that I think of it, Snowden might have helped put us on the MAGA track. So, maybe there's more good to him than I've given him credit for.

Random US Citizen
11 hours ago
What Snowden did was illegal and punishable by law. On the other hand, Gabbard is right—he also exposed a lot of domestic spying by the U.S. government against its own citizens. It’s interesting—in a sort of horrifying way—that so-called conservative Republicans are more upset that Gabbard opposes Patriot Act overreach than any other issue that came up at her confirmation hearing.

anon-bjec NightStalker
9 hours ago
I doubt we would have had one Trump presidency, much less two, without Snowden. Who would have believed the massive duplicity with which the deep state acts? A lot of us might have actually bought into the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA nonsense, not believed it was even possible for Obama to weaponize the IC against a political opponent. A lot fewer people would have been aware of just how bad the IC and deep state are when operating domestically.

People like Schifty Schiff see Russians under every rock without stepping back to see the big picture. Snowden exposed sources and methods alright. Sources: massive domestic spying apparatus weaponized against Americans. Methods: outrageous violations of every basic tenet of the Constitution and founding principles.

We needed to know.

A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.

In fiscal year 2023, the United States disbursed $72 billion of assistance worldwide on everything from women's health in conflict zones to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti-corruption work. It provided 42% of all humanitarian aid tracked by the United Nations in 2024. //

NavyVet Largo Patriot
11 hours ago
We should amend the Constitution, if we can't get legislation, that prevents any and all aid, grant, or other funding when the government has a deficit.

If we can't afford to give money away - i.e. government has to borrow money to meet its obligations - then it should be expressly illegal, and, any elected official proposing it should be immediately removed from office and barred from running in the future. //

doctor goodheart Weminuche45
4 hours ago
In my personal experience (Russia 1990's), it's a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Beltway bandits, with a tiny percent of funds actually hitting the ground in foreign countries.

Per William Easterly's books (e.g. The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good), foreign aid has repeatedly been shown to do more damage than good. It creates a large pool of money and therefore power to one tribe vs. another tribe; substitutes US-made food supplies for local growers, thereby perpetuating poverty--and so on and so forth as President Reagan would have said.
Anyway what to the leftists care? They used to be concerned about world poverty. Now they want to worsen it to depopulate the world, or at least keep most of the world unable to have cheap energy, the source of prosperity and health.

BECS are officially referred to as “voluntary,” and supposedly developed by “consensus,” for state and local governments to implement building energy efficiency requirements. The International Code Council (ICC), through its numerous committees, publishes these codes and generates revenues by selling them to whoever needs them (e.g., code officials, builders, trades, etc.). ICC energy codes are organized and managed under a separate division of the ICC called the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). //

“Consensus” building energy codes have been largely and silently commandeered by EERE which has accelerated under the Biden administration. “Consensus” comes through “packing the bleachers” of committees with loyalists to further the Net-Zero concept. Tactics include “improving” building energy efficiency codes through “public/private partnerships.” However, the true cause of Net-Zero policies is to advance electrified “energy efficiency” via “clean” (a.k.a. renewable) energy so that consumers can be more readily controlled. //

RedStorm
9 hours ago
I find energy consumption information useful as a consumer on major appliances, for example. Not that I think I’m ‘saving the planet’ by buying an appliance that uses less energy, but I like knowing relatively what that sucker is going to cost me to operate. Same with mileage information about an automobile. Those are useful regulations, requiring producers to provide information that is of value to consumers. Give me information to make decisions that make sense to me and my lifestyle, don’t restrict my options, let the market take care of that. If only regulators could stay in that lane…

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order a freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees, to be applied throughout the executive branch. As part of this freeze, no Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or other applicable law. Except as provided below, this freeze applies to all executive departments and agencies regardless of their sources of operational and programmatic funding.

This order does not apply to military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety. Moreover, nothing in this memorandum shall adversely impact the provision of Social Security, Medicare, or Veterans’ benefits. In addition, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may grant exemptions from this freeze where those exemptions are otherwise necessary.

PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND EXPANDING INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an historic Executive Order that protects the civil rights of all Americans and expands individual opportunity by terminating radical DEI preferencing in federal contracting and directing federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination. It enforces long-standing federal statutes and faithfully advances the Constitution’s promise of colorblind equality before the law. This comprehensive order is the most important federal civil rights measure in decades: //

RESTORING THE VALUES OF INDIVIDUAL DIGNITY, HARD WORK, AND EXCELLENCE: Individual dignity, hard work, and excellence are fundamental to American greatness. This Executive Order reaffirms these values by ending the Biden-Harris Administration’s anti-constitutional and deeply demeaning “equity” mandates, terminating DEI, and protecting civil rights:

Reversing the progress made in the decades since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 toward a colorblind and competence-based workplace, radical DEI has dangerously tainted many of our critical businesses and influential institutions, including the federal government.

• In the private sector, many corporations and universities use DEI as an excuse for biased and unlawful employment practices and illegal admissions preferences, ignoring the fact that DEI’s foundational rhetoric and ideas foster intergroup hostility and authoritarianism.
• Billions of dollars are spent annually on DEI, but rather than reducing bias and promoting inclusion, DEI creates and then amplifies prejudicial hostility and exacerbates interpersonal conflict.

A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said.

The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said. //

Musk wrote:

Before even getting to timed scripts, the number of government jobs that could be replaced simply with a mouse macro is astounding!

ConservativeInMinnesota
4 hours ago
This is very good news. I’ll bet Musk told Trump to so. I work in InfoSec and this is best practice when there’s a risk of employees sabotaging systems.

Locking out HR means they want to review historical records like job titles without interference. The HR data will help expose deep state operatives via unearned promotions as well as DEI hires.

Expect to see a lot of people let go who worked on DEI, for hiding DEI hires or sneaking political appointees into non-political positions. This is a solid win.

TK421 ConservativeInMinnesota
4 hours ago
Preventing them from hiding what they were doing, especially with respect to DEI crap, does seem like the most likely reason for this action.b

Kneeman TK421
2 hours ago
In Trump 1 he was resisted by the deep state in the shadows of the government. Trump 2: shine lights in those shadows before they have a chance to destroy evidence like the J-6 committee did. They never thought he would lock up the HR records on day 1. Who is working from ‘home’ and charging 20 hours of OT per pay period. Who applied for accommodations for a new disability after Nov. 5 so they could keep working from home. Etc.

stripmallgrackle ConservativeInMinnesota
an hour ago
Post J6. How much research? How many interviews? How many task forces assembled? How much does Trump know that he didn't know at the end of the first term?

Consider the last four years a gift. Add one bumbling figurehead and a successor that instilled no confidence, and the colossal loss to the democrat brand just ices the cake. //

anon-onh5
5 hours ago
"The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said."

I'm gonna stop right there and ask what in the hell those systems were doing unlocked?! After all Obama sold my info once, it's not like it's any better the second time. //

GALTean
5 hours ago
This is to keep malicious actors from’Leaking’ personal information and blaming it on DOGE…this ain’t checkers ya taxpayer fatted dingleberries!