Kennedy asked Wright about the money that went out the door in those 76 days between the time President Trump was elected and the time Joe Biden left office. //

"During that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?" Kennedy asked.

"From the loan program office, in loans and commitments, $93 billion. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years," Wright replied. //

Wright responded, "I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases...There's lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency..."

"So you're telling me that the Department of Energy, in the 76-day period, before their boss was gonna leave office, gave or loaned money to entities that had no business plan?" Kennedy inquired.

"Correct," Wright said.

Kennedy continued, asking Wright if he was going back and checking over these applications. Wright said, "Yes," and "My blood pressure is rising right now" over what they had found. He said some of the people who applied "should be ashamed."

Kennedy, who always has a quip for everything, observed, "It's rare that I'm speechless." He asked again if this money was "shoveled out the door" by the Biden team in this period. "It is correct and distasteful," Wright confirmed. "Confidence undermining."

"My God!" Kennedy exclaimed. Kennedy said Wright should take whatever time he needed to go through all these projects, "penny by penny." "They were spending money at the Department of Energy like it was ditchwater! Their budget went from $60 billion to $160 billion since fiscal year 2021. It just sounds to me like there were a lot of people coming to the Department of Energy who had all four feet and their snout in the trough. I hope you'll turn down the boondoggles and refer the thieves to the Department of Justice."

"We will indeed," Wright promised.

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Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led the charge, slamming Kennedy for a $3 billion drop in federally funded biomedical research compared to last year.

Kennedy stood his ground.

“We’re cutting waste, we’re cutting duplicative programs,” he said.

Still, Baldwin wouldn’t let up. She framed the loss of “3,200 fewer grants” as an attack on “life-saving programs.”

Kennedy hit back with a devastating stat.

“We spend 70% of the world’s biomedical research out of NIH. 70%. And we’re the sickest country in the world,” he said.

“We’ve had a 38% increase in our agency growth over the past four years,” he added. “That money has not been well spent.”

The exchange summed up a broader dynamic: Democrats trying to paint RFK Jr. as a villain, slashing life-saving science, while Kennedy pointed out that America’s health is declining because of how this money is being spent, not despite it.

3:19 PM · May 20, 2025 //

Senator Kennedy: How many employees were there at HHS when you took over?

HHS Secretary Kennedy: 82,000.

Senator Kennedy: How many do you have today?

HHS: 62,000.

Senator Kennedy: OK.

HHS: That's about the level it was in 2019, right before COVID.

Senator Kennedy: Is, is this the first time that an institution in America has ever downsized?

HHS: I don't think so. I think private and public institutions have.

Senator Kennedy: Microsoft just announced that they were going to reduce their workforce by 6,000 people. You think that will be the end of Microsoft?

HHS: Senator, we wouldn't have reduced anybody...

Senator Kennedy: You think that will be the end of Microsoft?

HHS: I don't think so, Senator. //

Senator Kennedy: Do you hate medical research?

HHS: No, I think we need to lead the world in medical research in this country.

Senator Kennedy: In fact, isn't it true, Mr. Secretary, that you would like to see more money spent on medical research?

HHS: Obviously. I'm the secretary of this department and no secretary wants to see his budget cut.

Senator Kennedy: Well, one way of doing that, it seems to me, would be to stop some of the stealing. And let me tell you what I mean by that. Suppose NIH gives a university $100 million to research, for medical research, to research a cure. And that university takes $30 million of it, doesn't spend it on the research, they use it to subsidize the rest of their university. Is... does that show a commitment to medical research?

HHS: No, and I mentioned before the example of Stanford, which was taking 78 percent in indirect costs, and we don't know what they were spending it on.

Senator Kennedy: That's a theft, isn't it?

HHS: It's not a good way to spend federal money.

Senator Kennedy: In Louisiana, we call that stealing. We call that stealing.

Governing magazine found that in the 2021-2022 election cycle, “the biggest public-sector unions spent more than $700 million on election-related activity,” including $160 million from union political action committees. Most union members and all their public-sector leaders are Democrats, and not surprisingly, 96 percent of their funding went to Democratic politics, while the data show that Republican political entities received almost nothing.

Federal government public sector unions, by themselves, are a substantial force. Open Secrets magazine showed that dues mostly paid from U.S. national government salaries (some unions have state members also) constituted half or more of total public sector union political contributions. Again, Democrats received almost all of the funds, while Republican and conservative groups received little or even zero contributions. //

The National Treasury Employees Union and its ilk is one of the major ways the Deep State has remained entrenched, wrapping itself in red tape and restrictions that made it next to impossible for its employees to be removed. Trump's executive order has leveled that barrier and now an appeals court has affirmed his authority to be... well, a president. We elect presidents to protect the national interest, and part of that role is to deem who and what falls under the purview of national security, as well as who he tasks to enact and protect those interests.

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Hey America - while you were sleeping the Republicans started to put out their plan to rip health care away from millions of Americans. Almost 14 million people lose their health care so the GOP can fund tax cuts for the rich.
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The Congressional Budget Office tells Democrats that the GOP changes to Medicaid and the Obama health law will knock 13.7 million people off the health insurance rolls. Letter at https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/cbo-emails-re-e%26c-reconcilation-scores-may-11%2C-2025.pdf
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Likely that there are 13.7 million fraudsters in the Medicaid program. //

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I hope Tanden is right: there are surely 14 million on Medicaid who are not actually poor. (One of my best friends, who died last year, was on it even though he had over a million dollars in the bank because he didn’t have any “income.”)

Obama extended Medicaid way beyond its mission. Here in NM our governor has a scheme to extend it to all working class (as opposed to poor) people.

HINSON: Can you define for the committee today what an improper payment is, and some examples of what you're seeing — and why these procedures were not already in place before, Mr. Secretary?

BESSENT: Well...it's a bit mystifying why they weren't in place. And what we are seeing is that there was a very complacent upper level of management in many departments...across the entire government. What I can say at Treasury is that of the 1.5 billion payments...we send out every year, they are required to have something called a TAS — the Treasury Account Symbol. We discovered that more than one-third — one-third — of those payments did not have a TAS number. So, as the Appropriations Committee, you should be shocked by that because: How can a payment be tracked back to an appropriation? Only through the TAS number. So there was no accountability. So that is why the 450 organizations that sit above Treasury, where Treasury acts as the paymaster, are unable to pass an audit. So, we have cracked down on that. Every payment now requires a TAS number — very simple.

The decision to incorporate as a city empowers Starbase to set its own tax policies and urban planning priorities, free from the bureaucratic red tape that often stifles innovation. This aligns with conservative principles of local control and minimal government overreach. The Texas Legislature is even considering a bill to grant Starbase authority to manage local highways during SpaceX launches and regulate access to nearby Boca Chica State Park, further reinforcing the community’s ability to balance economic growth with public safety. //

Starbase’s rise also underscores Texas’s growing appeal as a haven for businesses fleeing progressive strongholds. In July 2024, Musk relocated SpaceX’s headquarters from California to Starbase, citing frustration with the Golden State’s stifling regulations and social policies. He made a similar move with X, shifting its base from San Francisco to Austin.

Any organization as vast and complex as the federal government is ripe for fraud. There are literally millions of people managing all the ways money flows into and out of the government, and amazingly, a lot is disbursed through things like QuickBooks accounts that can be edited after checks are cut. Embezzlers do get caught, nonetheless. These systems must have some kind of audit trail, because that is how a fraudster at the State Department got caught. Fox Business anchor Elizabeth McDonald broke that story on X on Sunday. //

She wrote 5 dozen checks to herself and 3 more to an individual with whom she had a personal relationship, but then changed the listed payee in the Quickbooks system to an actual State Department vendor. No one would have caught this without an audit.

There are more than 2,000 Quickbook accounts throughout the federal government that are ripe for a Doge audit. The GAO’s Fraudnet got 4,044 fraud allegations against thousands of federal workers in just 2023 alone at 50 agencies including the Pentagon, the DOJ and the Treasury Dept. //

Think on that for a moment; 2,000 QuickBooks accounts? From which low-level bureaucrats can just write checks? That seems inexcusably loose. But this report prompts the question: If the GAO knows that between $213 billion and $521 billion is being stolen annually by federal workers, if they are getting in excess of 4,000 allegations per year, why aren't we seeing more of the fraudsters getting caught? //

The federal apparatus is great at tracking down people who owe $48 in back taxes, but they seem to be a little too easy to defraud from within.

The world’s richest man stayed mostly on the sidelines of the political battles in the country for much of his career, but then he bought Twitter when he saw that it was an anti-free speech, censorious platform, and following that, he put his weight firmly behind Donald Trump's presidential bid and campaigned for him relentlessly.

He of course went on to become the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has been leading his team in finding billions upon billions of government waste, fraud, and abuse. For this, he has been vilified and threatened by the corrupt media and the progressive zealots, because how dare you attempt to trim the fat off the federal bureaucracy?

As he prepares to step aside and head back to his duties as CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX (as was always planned), the tech mogul was asked if he regrets his role in making America great again. “No,” was his answer: //

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Elon Musk: “Yes joking No! I think it was essential for President Trump to win to ensure that America remained great and that we reached greater heights.”

“I think if President Trump had not won, I think the Democrat campaign to import vast numbers of illegal voters would have succeeded," adding that America would have risked becoming a "one-party state from which we could never escape."

"Some people out there may be somewhat skeptical. They may think, 'Well, there isn't some Democrat plan to subvert democracy and achieve a permanent one-party, deep blue socialist state.' I assure you, the more you research it, the more that you will see it is true."

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9:45 PM · May 3, 2025 //

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"It's not been a boring year: At least, I didn't get shot. That's what happens when you go after fraud. The people doing the bad things want to keep getting the money”

12:23 AM · May 4, 2025

Once again, we have a wonderful argument for taking the federal government, or indeed any level of government, out of the financing of education altogether. Our higher education systems have become far too casual about accepting federal largesse while working at cross purposes to the American public, and we are expected to pay for it.

For decades, the federal government has been backing long lines of dump trucks full of taxpayer cash up to the Ivy League universities and dumping them out, and those universities responded by looking the other way as antisemitic agitators took over their campuses, as the curricula swelled with idiotic Ethnic Underwater Dog-Polishing Studies courses and even degree programs, and the faculty spent more time inculcating young skulls full of mush with Marxist claptrap than with instilling in those skulls knowledge and marketable skills.

Cutting that cash-green string is the right idea - in fact, it's the right idea regardless of the university's DEI policies or lack thereof, regardless of the school's curricula, regardless of the political affiliations of their faculty. Let the parents pay for their kids' education, or let the kids get part-time jobs or find some other way to pay. If they need to borrow money, let them present themselves to a private lending institution and make their case based on their academic record to date and their prospects for employment. Do all this, and the ridiculous classes and programs would disappear in a trice - as would a lot of the Marxist professors.

The family has held a federal grazing permit through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for nearly 60 years and are permittees in good standing. The permit allows them to graze their cattle on the Buffalo Gap National Grassland and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, which reviews the map every time the permit is renewed. There has never been a problem before.

In March 2024, the USDA notified the Maudes that a hunter complained about a fence blocking access to Buffalo Gap National Grassland, according to a letter Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., sent to then-Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, seeking help for the family.

On May 1, 2024, the Maudes met with the Forest Service and everyone in the meeting agreed to do a land survey to figure out exactly where the fence belonged.

On May 6, 2024, a U.S. Forest Service special agent escorted a survey crew onto the Maudes’ property.

Then, with no warning, on June 24, 2024 the Maudes received a visit from Forest Service special agents with indictments for each of them. Charles and Heather Maude were charged separately — they had to get separate attorneys. The charge was “Theft of national grasslands managed by the United States Department of Agriculture, namely, approximately 25 acres of National Grasslands for cultivation and approximately 25 acres of National Grasslands for grazing cattle,” the indictment said. All for a fence that was placed before either of them was born. //

The Maudes tried to work out a solution, but the Biden Administration immediately dragged them into court on a charges that come with 10 years of prison and a $250,000 fine, one for each of them — totaling a half million dollars for the family. The spouses were instructed not to speak to each other about the case.

Despite a state ban on sectarian charter schools, the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board approved St. Isidore’s request to participate in the state’s charter school program. The ban is rooted in the anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment added to Oklahoma's constitution in 1907.

This set up an interesting conflict where the governor, a Republican, and the Republican state superintendent of public instruction supported the applications, but the Republican attorney general brought the case that the Supreme Court heard Wednesday. He sued in 2023 to block the charter because it would violate state law and the US Constitution. In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with Attorney General Gentner Drummond that St. Isidore's Catholic character, despite being open to everyone and requiring attendance of no one, would violate the Constitution's establishment clause.

The crux of the questioning centered on religious neutrality versus hostility to religion. Justice Kavanaugh hit this theme hard. “You can’t treat religious people, and religious institutions, and religious speech as second-class in the United States,” Kavanaugh said to Gregory Garre, a former Bush administration solicitor general who represented Oklahoma's Attorney General Gentner Drummond. (As an aside, it is interesting to note how many prominent "conservatives" are lining up to oppose what I consider to be conservative positions once those positions have the high likelihood of becoming law. Funny, that.) “And when you have a program that’s open to all comers except religion...that seems like rank discrimination against religion,” Kavanaugh added. “They’re not asking for special treatment, they’re not asking for favoritism. They’re just saying, ‘Don’t treat us worse because we’re religious.’” //

If the Court rules the way it appears headed, it will shake up the charter school programs everywhere. First off, it will mean the thirty-eight Blaine Amendment states can no longer use that to block religious schools from applying for charter school status. The attorney for Oklahoma painted a picture of this, opening the door for the state to make personnel and curriculum decisions. "And if religious schools can qualify as public charter schools, it will raise questions about who can be admitted to such schools, whom the schools can hire as teachers, and what the curricula at those schools will be."

In reality, Oklahoma's lawyer is out of his tree. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the government has to stay out of the hiring and firing decisions of people filling "ministerial" functions in religious organizations (Supreme Court Tells Ninth Circuit to Stay Out of Personnel Decisions of Religious Organizations – RedState). And there is no controversy over admission (anyone who wishes to participate may), and St. Isidore agreed to follow the state educational standards when it applied for the charter.

Some online comments have warned that this opens the door to "Satanist" schools or Alphabet-people schools. News flash, we already have those. The real fear by the establishment, Democrat and Republican, is that religious charter schools will proliferate (they will) and that many parents will opt for them because they can be sure their kids will not be introduced to gay porn or secretly "transitioned" without their knowledge or consent. The same people invariably raise the question of Islamic madrassas as though I give a rip about how someone else educates their child. As the charter lays out specific testing and achievement goals, the fear of Middle East-style schools is simply a straw man argument designed to appeal to the worst sort of bigotry. //

The only real question is whether the Court will follow the direction of Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh and issue a full-throated defense of religion as a critical component of American history and society, or will it just nibble around the edges, causing decades of future controversy. //

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The real opposition to this is by the Teacher Unions ... if religious schools take off, union membership will likely drop off - and with it union dues payments. //

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I'd say the States are even more opposed. When this happens they lose some control of education, maybe even all of it.

Not that this diminishes the (religious?) ferver with which teachers unions oppose it. //

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"it is interesting to note how many prominent "conservatives" are lining up to oppose what I consider to be conservative positions once those positions have the high likelihood of becoming law."

Of all the things Trump has accomplished (and the list is lengthy) his exposure of the faux conservative wing of the GOP is at the very top of the list. He has caused these UniParty hacks to expose themselves for whom they really are...and they hate him for it. //

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How about the Federal and State governments stay out of schooling altogether? Make schools competitive, profit-driven organizations; that means antitrust actions against teachers(and other) unions. It also means shining a spot light on tax collections and requiring that those collections be justified by value delivered to the taxpayers. It has become very clear(Thank you DOGE) that government is, almost always, a terrible waste of resources. I would point to Medicare as corollary evidence of that claim. Governments should be the parties of last resort when solving problems.

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🚨This is NUTS: Secretary Rubio just announced that he found DOZENS of files kept by Joe Biden's State Department that classified American citizens as "vectors of disinformation" — with the intention of censoring them.

That's not all.

Marco Rubio says that there's someone in President Trump's cabinet meeting RIGHT NOW that was being monitored.

"There's at least one person at THIS TABLE TODAY who had a dossier in that building..."

Joe Biden's administration was corrupt ALL THE WAY THROUGH!

1:21 PM · Apr 30, 2025. //

Well, we are going to turn over these dossiers to the individuals and they'll decide whether they want to disclose it or not.

But just think about, the Department of State of the United States had set up an office to monitor the social media posts and commentary of American citizens to identify them as "vectors of disinformation."

When we know that the best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency, and so that's what we're going to be in the business of doing—we're not going to have an office that does that.

The media and the Democrats whine on about Trump being a dictator, a Hitler devotee, and a fascist. In reality, it was Joe Biden who showed much more of an authoritarian streak, and his use of the federal government to go after his perceived enemies was deeply sinister. He used the Department of Justice and its henchmen to go after Donald Trump and used the Department of State and other agencies to spy on and censor the people.

This family, targeted solely over what should have been a civil dispute over grazing rights over 25 acres of government land, was prosecuted, credibly threatened with jail sentences, so extreme that they were told to find alternatives to raise their young children. Charles and Maude live on a 5th-generation family farm in Pennington County, South Dakota, close to Mount Rushmore. There, they farm 400 acres. They raise about 250 head of cattle, and about 40 sows. //

The Biden administration criminally charged the Maude family for theft of government property. And for too long, for years now, they have endured a torturous legal process and suffered as victims of the Biden regime's reckless lawfare. Just imagine, a government that would be willing to de facto orphan American children over a mere dispute over 25 acres of land. The men of Lexington and Concord knew what (this) sort of government was like, and they knew what to do about it. The Maude family too, faced with destruction at the hand of the state, made their appeal to heaven, and providence answered. Thanks to the leadership and the unequivocal, bold leadership of President Trump and his directive to put Americans first, we now have the pleasure to announce that the criminal prosecution of the Maudes is now over. They will not be driven from their home. They will not be jailed. They will not be fined. And their children will grow up with a mother and a father who they love and who love them. //

This dispute - and there was, legitimately, some confusion over the status of the 25 acres and the exact boundaries between that acreage and the Maude family land - should never have come to this in the first place. In a sane world, this would have been resolved by having one or two Department of Agriculture officials come out, sit down with the Maudes, make sure everybody understood and agreed to a solution to the dispute, and arrive at a mutually agreed-upon survey of the property boundaries.

Instead, the Biden administration threatened the Maudes with jail time. The Biden administration threatened to break up the Maude family, to effectively orphan the Maude children. And all of this is over a dispute over 25 acres of grazing land. This is the same administration, mind you, that allowed millions of unscreened, unvetted, illegal immigrants to flood into the United States. //

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You should go deeper into the story. The Government was even more heavy handed than you present. They were cooperating and were waiting for a survey to come back to discuss when they raided their house, arrested them and tried them separately. They also barred them from communicating with each other on their defense. This is pure evil. //

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Every Federal employee involved with this abomination needs to be fired and the Maude family must be reimbursed for all legal expenses + an extra 100% as damages.

Last week, Treasury went live with its first automated payment verification system. In total, $334 million in improper payment requests were identified and rejected due to:

-Missing budget codes
-Invalid budget codes (i.e. the payment was not linked to the budget)
-Budget codes with no authorization (i.e. the budget had already been fully spent)

Unfortunately, DOGE has thus far failed to achieve significant savings because Musk has instead focused on high profile culture war targets to maximize headlines rather than the quiet, boring work of deficit reduction.

MAGA Republicans may thrill at attempts to defund DEI contracts, Politico subscriptions, government employees and foreign aid. Yet this spending is barely a rounding error in the federal budget. //

So while Musk’s target savings have fallen from $2 trillion annually, to $1 trillion and now
$150 billion, its “wall of receipts” has verified just $2 billion of savings — or 1/35 of 1 percent of federal spending. //

Three-quarters of all federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, veterans and interest, and the final quarter includes priorities such as infrastructure, justice, border security, national parks, unemployment benefits, disaster aid and disability benefits.

‘Protecting’ GOP voters
Trump has already taken much of this spending off the table for cuts, and Congress is highly unlikely to gut these functions. //

A serious war on bloated federal contracts would begin in the Defense Department, where procurement contracts routinely face cost overruns in the billions of dollars. //

Yet DOGE has seemingly lacked both the expertise and patience to sufficiently prioritize the hard work of rebuilding the payment systems across hundreds of federal programs.

It is jarring to see DOGE claim success even as congressional Republicans quietly passed a budget that expands budget deficits by an additional $5.8 trillion over the decade. //

There is a responsible path forward. Stop focusing on flashy “spending cut theater” targets and dig into the hard work of reforming entitlement payment systems, defense contract overruns and program duplication. //

Such non-ideological savings reforms will have the added benefit of likely winning congressional approval, making them fully legal and sustainable.

Otherwise, Trump supporters may be surprised at the end of the year when — after all the tweets, promises and headlines — spending and deficits have sharply climbed again.

The federal government doesn’t just pass laws in Congress. Each year, many of the 438 federal agencies—nominally under the president’s control through the executive branch—publish tens of thousands of pages in regulations, red tape that increases the costs of business, transportation, and many other factors Americans often don’t consider.

This imposes a kind of hidden tax that makes everything more expensive. It also justifies the work of the Department of Government Efficiency and other efforts to streamline the federal government, according to Clyde Wayne Crews, a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of the annual report, “Ten Thousand Commandments.” Crews released the 2025 version of the report on Thursday.

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On Thursday, a new poll released by the Napoleon Institute confirms what most of us have long suspected. Results showed that 76 percent of bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris in November said they would “do what [they] thought was best,” in regards to following legal orders from President Trump. Of those polled, 16 percent said they would follow orders, and nine percent said they were unsure. Of the federal employees who voted for Trump, 80 percent said they would follow orders even if they disagreed with them, 18 percent said they would not, and just two percent said they were unsure. https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/24/democrat-voting-federal-bureaucrats-trump-orders-poll/

The question asked in the poll of federal employees was framed like this: "Imagine that you were the head of a federal government agency," and "President Trump gave you an order that was legal but you believed was bad policy." "Would you follow the President's order or do what you thought was best?" Over half, 56 percent, said that they would embrace their own political agendas and either "strongly resist" or "somewhat resist" Trump's America First agenda, with 16 percent saying they would “neither support nor resist." The poll surveyed 500 bureaucrats “living in the National Capitol Region and earning at least $75,000 annually," with a margin of error of four percent. //

Founder of the Napoleon Institute, pollster Scott Rasmussen, had this to say about the survey results.

"Our research confirms that the Administrative State is not composed of thoughtful, nonpartisan experts who are making neutral decisions for voters. The deep partisan divide within the federal bureaucracy and the shifting public opinion present significant challenges for the current administration. However, the silver lining is that with such high levels of chaos in this bureaucratic 'civil war', there may be an opening for the common sense voice of the American people to rise above the political noise and once again become the shaping force of the nation's dialogue."

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🧵🧵This thread shows how $4 Trillion in Federal Funds Were Funneled Through Leftist NGOs to Enrich Activists, Mobilize Voters, and Power Anti-Trump Protests—With Receipts

This is maybe the most important thread I have ever done. It explains how the two biggest pieces of legislation from the Biden administration filled the coffers of all of these activist groups that have been engaging in the Trump 2.0 resistance. From GOTV efforts, to Anti-Tesla protests to the legal battles against Trump.

The Center for American Progress (CAP), founded by Clinton ally John Podesta, is more than a think tank—it’s the strategic command center for the modern Left. Under Biden, CAP helped orchestrate the biggest activist cash grab in U.S. history: $4 TRILLION.
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Let’s be clear: these aren’t apolitical charities.

•Indivisible was built to oppose Trump.

•Sunrise led sit-ins to demand Biden go further left.

•Faith in Action and EDF advocate openly for progressive legislation.

And they’re all funded by your tax dollars—thanks to Podesta’s CAP and their policy-to-grant pipeline. This is government-funded activism, hidden behind a green mask.
12:45 PM · Apr 24, 2025

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This is what they mean by “saving democracy”:

•Billions to leftist orgs

•Massive GOTV ops under federal cover

•Protest movements
subsidized by taxpayers

•Power concentrated in NGOs that answer to no one
12:45 PM · Apr 24, 2025

When you compare whatever you did to what happened at long-gone electronics chain Crazy Eddie, most malfeasance will likely pale into insignificance. Put another way, your infractions would likely be as noticeable as a miniature barnacle on the backside of a blue whale.

...The Antar clan emigrated from Syria, which Weiss says partly explains the grey attitude towards paying taxes. Indeed, scamming New York State of sales taxes was how the Crazy Eddie debacle started.

However, it was when Sam Antar learned the in-and-outs of Wall Street, finance and public accounting, that the fraud really ramped up. Gone was dodging sales tax. In was cooking the company’s books and going public. Sam Antar had figured out that the family could make even 1more money by falsely boosting profits to help push the stock price higher.

Once the fraud was exposed, and Eddie Antar was charged with securities fraud and insider trading, but fled the country, Sammy offered to testify as long as he had immunity. //

Since 2009, Sam Antar has been a forensic accountant, working with federal and local law enforcement agencies, teaching them what to look for in paperwork - and where to look for paperwork - as well as digging on his own time into waste, fraud, and abuse, always on the hunt for white collar crime.

He is a man on a mission.

And way back in February, while going through the records from Letitia James' 'luxury campaign spending,' as he calls it, Sam came across some wonky-looking personal finance filings. Things weren't adding up to the eagle-eyed Antar. //

After our recent investigations exposed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ pattern of luxury campaign spending and creative accounting, a deeper examination of her personal financial disclosures reveals troubling new questions about her property holdings and financial reporting.

The same pattern of obscured luxury that characterized her campaign spending now emerges in her personal financial statements, starting with a Virginia investment property that seems to defy financial logic. Purchased in August 2020, James values the single-family home at “$100,000 to under $150,000” in her 2023 financial disclosure. Yet somehow, this same property carries mortgages totaling up to $400,000 – potentially more than twice its declared value. //

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Memo to @NewYorkStateAG Letitia James: I know every trick in the book. Every trick that’s been left out of the book. And every trick you’re thinking about doing but haven’t done yet.
11:44 PM · Apr 21, 2025. //

When a guy's already done time for legendary crazy, there's not much he's going to worry about when he's on the right trail of wrongdoing.

This is gonna be sumpthin' to see.