Dude "CIA slush fund" has been repeated over and over about USAID.
Pick a lane.
Good or bad?
Or are you awaiting further orders?
And, all evidence suggests it was a CIA slush fund. That doesn't mean all the programs funded by USAID were bad. Are you really that stupid?
USAID has been collapsed and, once the audit is complete and remaining programs are established it will be folded directly into the Office of the State Department...where it should have been all along.
Why are you against ferreting out government waste and abuse?
Trump's CIA bad now?
Not any more. Trump's CIA in his first term appears to have been bad. Yes.
It appears John Ratcliffe is on board with the President's agenda to clean house.
Is that bad, Chump?
What a ing failure your Trump is.
How many excuses do you need to make for his failures?
It's not an excuse. Every time you've raised the issue of the poor first term I've said he not surround himself with the best people. He relied on the Republican establishment to help build his cabinet and administrative appointees. It was a mistake. He's admitted it. I've acknowledged it. We've both moved on.
Obviously, he's not making the mistake again.
So many excuses.
Never Trump's fault.
Just one acknowledgement.
So, tell me, is auditing government spending and weeding our corrupt officials a bad thing now, Chump?
There are nonstupid ways to do it.
You're being stupid.
How is the way their conducting the audit and weeding out of corruption being stupid?
Frankly, jumping in with both feet and not giving the criminals time to catch their breath or hide evidence is the best way to find abuses and weed out corruption.
Seriously, I'd like to know how you would have approached this task.
If you suspected an agency, such as USAID, with a large contingent of former U. S. Intelligence officials of fraudulently disbursing or otherwise wasting taxpayer dollars; how would you approach it?
You shut down the entire Medicaid payment system, you moron.
You think former CIA could just hit DEL and erase all the payment and grant records?
Hitler salute = enemy of the people.
This isn't hard to understand.
I didn't do anything. And, not that you would believe it but, the funding freeze specifically excluded Medicaid. The outage, according to the administration was unrelated to the Executive Order and it was fixed in a day.
Frankly, if it turns out it was related to someone's mistaken interpretation of the OMB Memorandum, I suspect a case of malicious compliance (a la removing the video on the Tuskegee Airmen from the Air Force Academy classrooms) on the part of someone over at OMB. The memorandum [Read it here] that caused all the ruckus wasn't sent through the normal vetting processes and was issued directly by the Office of Management and Budget, in response to Executive Orders issued by the President.
Two footnotes in the memorandum explicitly state the pause was not meant for those receiving individual assistance (which would include Medicaid). I've helpfully included the footnotes, below:
If you want more, read the memo and then read the Executive Orders and then read 2 CFR 200, all of which are referred to in the memorandum.1 2 CFR 200.1 defines Federal financial assistance to mean “[a]ssistance that recipients or subrecipients receive or administer” in various forms, but this term does not include assistance provided directly to individuals. For the purposes of this memorandum, Federal financial assistance includes: (i) all forms of assistance listed in paragraphs(1) and (2) of the definition of this term at 2 CFR 200.1; and (ii) assistance received or administered by recipients or subrecipients of any type except for assistance received directly by individuals.
2 Nothing in this memo should be construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits.
So, how would you have approached USAID without giving them any time to destroy evidence? How would you approach any facility or organization, in which you suspect fraud and abuse, without tipping them off?You think former CIA could just hit DEL and erase all the payment and grant records?
The records are there. It's not like these Politico funds were actually illegal, for example.
Why the secrecy? Isn't this about revealing secrets?
https://x.com/josephfcox/status/1887183140143104504
Elon reports to....Elon.
Not Trump.
https://x.com/samstein/status/1887207700259311902
Nope, no conflict here....Elon says so.
https://x.com/SteveRattner/status/1887174203469713528
real people affected by the unconsi uional Musk/Trump spending coup
Trumpism teaches hatred of poor people and half of America, so it's a selling point for them that people get hurt
https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-02-04/...g-grant-accessHalf of Virginia’s community health centers have been cut off from federal grant money, forcing some to stop providing certain services and others to close branches.
The commonwealth has 31 Federally Qualified Health Centers with over 200 locations — a majority of which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care. Annually, about 400,000 Virginians rely on the care provided by these nonprofit, community-based centers, according to the Virginia Community Healthcare Association.
They provide primary health, dental, behavioral health, and pharmaceutical and substance abuse services to people with Medicaid or Medicare, the underinsured and the uninsured. They also treat those with private insurance on a sliding fee scale.
Since Jan. 28, 16 of the state’s FQHCs have been unable to access federal funding that allows them to pay employees, according to Joe Stevens, a VCHA spokesperson.
That wasn’t a Hitler salute. You know this, or, more likely, you’re stupid. Dangerously so.
Post the entire clip, loser. We’ll compare.
Look, a real shadow government.
Conservatives complain about this with 0 evidence. Real evidence from their own side comes out that they're really establishing a shadow government, crickets and/or cheers.
Y'all suck.
wrecking and hurting people is what they're best at, that's what they're doing
DOGE to make "rapid safety upgrades" to US air safety
Can't think of why El0n wants to get his hands on the safety policy of the agency that regulates his company, maybe he just cares about safety that much.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2693143.htmlTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will take part in upgrading the U.S. aviation system following the deadliest airline accident in decades.
“Big News,” Duffy wrote on X. “Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.”
Musk reposted Duffy’s message, adding: “With the support of President @realDonaldTrump, the @DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system. Just a few days ago, the FAA’s primary aircraft safety notification system failed for several hours!”
Cry harder
dry eyes here, I've always been a frequent poster
do you have a take on the El0n/Trump coup?
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