According to media reports, President Trump has removed the entire leadership structure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), previously run by Samantha Power.
This is not necessarily a domestic issue. Those who walk the deepest political weeds well understand that USAID is the cover agency for the interventionist efforts of the CIA. USAID is the agency silo that coordinates the meddling in foreign elections, organizes the revolutions and political opposition of those deemed out of alignment with global democratic norms, funds the NGOs who do the ground operations, and generally seeks to replace foreign leaders.
President Trump has just removed the entire leadership structure of the USAID enterprise, approximately 60 government officials. You can bet that nationalist leaders of foreign countries are smiling now while Brussels (EU Commission) is left wondering who will pay for the foot soldiers.
(Via Politico) – […] The order — sent via email to members of the senior executive and senior Foreign Service — was issued close to the end of the business day Monday and was effective immediately, according to two current USAID officials and three former USAID officials told of the communication. It comes as USAID and the State Department have been ordered to impose halts on a vast number of humanitarian and related programs around the world.
The decision appears to affect nearly every career staffer who holds a top leadership role at the agency, at least in Washington — around 60 officials, the current and former officials said.
The cuts have left many offices within the agency entirely devoid of senior non-political leadership. The entire cadre of leaders who run USAID’s bureau for global health, for example, was put on leave, according to two of the officials.
“This is a huge morale hit,” said a former senior Trump administration official who was also told of the move. “This is the leadership of the agency. This is like taking out all the generals. I don’t know what they hope to accomplish by it.” (read more)
PDJT Promised to clean the swamp: Alligator #1,You next? Alligator #2, Naw, it’s your turn. Both Alligators; Who’s Owns those 10 Black SUV’s in the driveway?
Trump is trump-proofing his executive orders. Check. Your move, Schumer.
Yes. They were trying to “Trump proof” the agency.
Acting USAID Administrator Jason Gray sent an email to all staff later Monday saying the decision was related to apparent efforts of some staffers to obstruct recent directives from President Donald Trump.
“We have identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the president’s executive orders and the mandate from the American people” he wrote in the email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. “As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions.”Gray did not say what the alleged actions were or the number or names of employees in question.”
President Trump is now turning the tables to make sure his administration is “swamp proof”.
Perhaps that $, that was still going to go to Ukraine, AFTER he said “whoa!” had something to do with it.
USAID was THE main route for funneling $ to Ukraine, wasn’t it?
In furtherance to the Trump-proofing and counter-Trump-proofing theme, and since Sundance highlighted Samantha Power, I distinctly remember that in the last hours of the Obama administration, Power said or Tweeted “We will not go quietly into the night”, clearly indicating an intention to obstruct from within government agencies any attempt to shift foreign policy away from liberal/neocon interventionism.
They all think they are smarter than Trump – stand by, morons. You have much to learn.
Go loudly then vermin, but above all go!
When a true dirt bag commie like Powers says something like that you need to make their goodnight memorable and quiet. No perp walk, no media and who is the ” we”, normally you would say “I will not go quietly”. These are communists and should be stripped of everything as well as anyone coming to their aid. Rats travel in packs.
It occurred to me after posting that one might state the matter instead as Trump-proofing vs. Trump-proofing-proofing
FAFO. They found out!
Smucky Schemer is a domestic terrorist insurrectionist.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. “.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.”.
🤬🤬🤬
Maybe if we can get enough of them riled up and they get out of hand, we can arrest them for attempting an insurrection. HA HA HA HA HA
Right now the Senators are on the floor of the Senate deriding President Trump’s freezing of funds. Cry more losers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxqj9zflvQ
seriously, what could happen in 90 days that is of such importance to them? It’s only temporary, sheesh!
/s
Many countries breathing a sigh of relief right about now… lots of regime change ops were ongoing, now halted 😀
I suspect that a Federal Judge will put a block in this very soon, as one just did for the freezing of grants etc et.
I swear, this is absolutely the most amazing thing to watch!!!!!!
The president has plenary powers over the executive branch. Why would he have to listen to the judge? Can’t he just ignore him?
If a judge(s) make(s) a ruling, then let them enforce; to paraphrase a past president
Yrs, how many divisions does the Judge command?
As SD referenced a couple days ago…
Exhibit A:
Plenary power.
Trust God.
Fear not.
oh man just read over on cfp that pdjt has offered all government employee’s an 8 month severance package with benefits to resign.as the old saying goes.”you have to spend money to make money”estimates are 5-10% will take the offer and save close to 100 billion.heck yeah
i TOLD ” the Boss ” WE ( the TAX PAYERS ) Were Getting OFF CHEAP with This Offering !
Between PAY, COLA ( Cost of Living Allowance ) and Benefits – EARLY BUYOUTS ARE CHEAPER.
This is better than I’ve dreamt about!
This one simple act will shake the world and he makes it seem so simple. That is true genius. I’m trying to rank this victory and I think it falls just below the deportations. If this were bowling, President Trump has rolled a perfect 300 game in only two frames.
“USAID is the agency silo that coordinates the meddling in foreign elections, organizes the revolutions and political opposition of those deemed out of alignment with global democratic norms, funds the NGOs who do the ground operations, and generally seeks to replace foreign leaders.”
The agency that must not be named has wandered so far off its path that it will now need to be picked up out of the weeds and forcefully placed back on it. While they were focused on all the crap laid out above, they STILL will not state with high confidence that covid escaped from the lab in Wuhan. They should have had that locked down in 2020. WOULD have had they not been busy fiddling with all that other junk.
Time to get back to basics. In football that means blocking and tackling. In the IC that means gathering human intel. There is no substitution for it. And it can’t be done from a computer terminal.
Oh, and just to be clear, their purpose, their entire reason for their existence, is the advancement and protection of the interests of the American people, just in case anyone is confused about who they work for.
It is a dangerous and unforgiving world out there. Good luck.
SO MUCH WINNING!!! Es ist Wunderbar!!!
Sie sprechen Deutsch! Wunderbar, ausgezeichnet, und paradiesisch. Zu viel machen Herr Trump in 8 tage!
Genau!
Hit me with your rhythm stick … das ist gut, hmmmmm?
… fantastic!
— Ian Dury
Promises kept!!!!!
A leadership official states she does not understand what Trumps seeks to accomplish by this action. And there in lies the problem. Devoid of any critical thinking skills or to keep the hell out of internal domestic politics. Let the people decide, but that’s what scares the hell of them, its the Trump Doctrine on the march.
They know exactly what he’s doing… Putting them out of the sabotage business!
The beauty of it is, whereas the Municipal United States, Inc., (the ALL CAPS folks) was liquidated in bankruptcy last October, there’s nothing much any of ’em can do about getting a pink slip. The most important target is the Senior Executive Service.
they have to pretend not to know what POTUS is doing in order to continue to pretend they are doing nothing wrong.
Can’t wait for carnage at the FiB. The 50 agents investigating our President, The Kneelers.
I hope its on a Friday, so I can enjoy the weekend just a little bit more.
Yep, this is all happening now that Rubio is in place.
Expect big moves like this now that Hegseth is sworn in.
And then FBI and AG after that.
Expect the Senate GOP to get desperate because they can’t slow all this down without making themselves targets for furious voters. But they know what is coming, and that these confirmations will trigger even larger-scale action.
Reportedly, Hegseth has pulled Milley’s security detail, and appointed a commission/panel to investigate whether Milley should have a star pulled.
Hopefully accurate. Just because he got a pardon doesn’t mean something can’t be done about that guy.
Milley needs to be subject to much more than a Star pulled, and losing his security detail, but it’s a start.
I trust Pete implicitly, methinks this is just Pete’s opening salvo.
My opinion only, but I think Milley committed a serious breach of American Security by acknowledging he would certainly let Chy-Na know if an attack from the US was imminent. That was during Trump’s first administration. I think I have that correct, but any Treeper is welcome to let me know otherwise.
Carry on Pete! Go get the baddies!
Usurping the chain of command & giving aid/comfort to the enemy… is treason against the United States.
Those 50 agents are on everyone’s radar. Let’s see what happens.
They have been stripped of their clearances which also strips them of their [imagined] power and prestige. Ironically, they are still idiots, but no longer useful.
Another great group of potential firings…..
All the Federal Employees that retained their jobs after being caught spending countless hours watching pron while ‘working’.
Not to spoil your point, but being from the IT security world those types of sites are blocked at the firewall/proxy/DNS security rings soo……
It would have minimal impact…
I would rather choose a different measure….like whoever contributed to Obama/Biden/Harris campaigns…
That is what I would consider as a good measure…..
You’re correct that people working in a government controlled office would have inappropriate sites blocked by the local firewall, etc., the problem is that only about 10 or 20% of the federal work force has been working in an office for quite some time. Those that are “working” from home certainly have personal computers that they can use. Even if their work computer is on a VPN which enforces the government firewall rules, their personal computers are surely free from that restraint.
HOORAY!!! YEE HAW JESTERS DEAD
“This is the leadership of the agency. This is like taking out all the generals.”
Y’all know I’ve got a name for this, right?
Operation:Decapitation.
It is immensely satisfying to see my vision come to life. This will torch the purveyors of “color revolution”.
More, please.
Yes,…not that he hadn’t planned this anyway, but Our President ought to tweet, quoting that line about the Generals, and then say “Oh, taking out all the Generals? What a GREAT IDEA!” and then right there announce he is firing the whole top two layers of the Pentagon,…
We KNOW that all those who participated in the disaster of the Afgan withdrawal are gonna get the Axe,…the waiting must be killing them.
I can’t wait – please President Trump, make this happen soon!
How about Re-capture
Operation: Devolution by decapitation.
PDJT swings for the bleachers. Popcorn everywhere! 🤠🤣🤣
The deep state forgot the first rule of power – if you attempt to kill the king, you’d best not fail.
Gives you somewhat of an idea of how much they cheated this time and still got walloped. They knew it was going to be like this, and tried everything to stop it. And they couldn’t. They just could not.
The joy of too big to rig…
A MUST HAVE moving forward…
In every election, in every district, for every position…
We CAN NOT ALLOW these Communists into power ever again…
VIGILANCE is our DUTY…we are lucky that we have another opportunity to practice it again…
Thank you President Trump!
Well said!
Also give thanks to Almighty God who allowed all of this to happen.
After the two attempts or was it three…. They knew the 300 million plus weapons we retain would come looking for scalps if they tried anything else to take down our lion king. God wasn’t having any of it! Amen
Wow I have been anti USAID. And their Color Revolution. Winning
“President Trump is a racist, he’s against revolutions of color.”.
AOC/DC?
WINNING!
This, plus all else going on is like a Giant Humongous Bankrupcy proceeding.
Chapter by chapter. More than meets the eye I think.
I am scratchin’ my noggen…
Eyes Right…
👀
That former Trump admin. official is “former” for a reason. The fake news thinks that describing him this way gives the story credibility. They probably just made it up.
So are any of them in Hungary and can that be arrested for their crimes against the state?
says Samantha Power, “I’m in Hungary”
Probably wondering if we are going to leave her there. I vote yes.
PULL her Citizenship for SUBVERSION and SEDITION
and Then
It’s Up to Hungary’s ORBAN and IRELAND
Why did Hungary even let her in? She should have been barred from entry forever and declared persona non grata
“This is a huge morale hit,” said a former senior Trump administration official
…named Mike Pompeo
‘Zactly
Too bad – so sad traitor Pompeo.
This is what presidential plenary power looks like. We can thank the Lawfare Crew (we see you Jack Smith) and the U.S. Supreme Court for giving PDJT a very large baseball bat to knock the DC Establishment into compliance.
Trump is moving so swiftly and decisively that he has rocked the entire DC Establishment and Big Media complex onto their collective heels.
In military terms it’s called getting inside your opponent’s decision cycle. While the establishment is still trying to fathom and push back against what PDJT did the day before, he’s on to the next move and then the next one after that.
His opponents simply cannot keep up or predict his next attack. Demoralization and paralysis are inevitable.
We are looking at nothing less than PDJT’s first 100 Days as a form of political blitzkrieg.
Seems that the Obamaden appointed Federal Judges are tip of the spear of De Resistance. SCOTUS is going to be very busy.
On his birthright citizenship XO that’s already happening. No doubt other challenges will be forthcoming. But when it comes to power moves on personnel Trump is cleared hot. He has the power. He has absolute immunity. And as they say in Washington: Personnel is Policy!
The birthright XO gets the real debate going – not just among the public, but the legal debate in the courts.
This will eventually wend its way up to SCOTUS… and I doubt they can punt on it, declaring something silly like “no standing”.
Whatever they rule… it will set the stage for what comes next.
If they agree with DJT, Great!!
If they don’t… all the debate and discussion will fire up parts of the public, to move for a constitutional amendment to supersede the 14th. Prohibition started with one amendment – and ended with another.
And given enough public anger and disgust, it could move pretty quickly.
And each order should be IGNORED…make THEM enforce their putrid orders..
I don’t think President Trump would risk everything by doing that, but both Obama and Biden did. Repeatedly.
well said.
He is floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee, and peppering them with so many blows, after just a few rounds, they are ready for the k.o.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
The great smell of Brut, and the punch of Ali.
Back when they made good commercials.
Love it!
And also making it PAINFULLY expensive to try to run their covert operations by having them exposed by everyone around them.
Excellent points!!! I know how the history books used to go on and on, about FDR’s “first hundred days”, as if it were holy scripture.
Well, now we have DJT’s “first hundred hours”!!
Wait till the first hundred days are done!
First Hundred Hours! I like that!
Shock and Awe. Knock the whole establishment back on their heels and keep driving until they are overwhelmed. PDJT is mowing every thing down.
I notice that only Sundance mentioned this story. There is so much going on, no one can keep up, and most of the news (i.e. propaganda) outlets fixate on a fraction of the action.
It’s relatively easy to hit one ping pong ball at a time back over the net. Trump is throwing boxfuls everyday. Excellent strategy.
Almost too good to be true, but it is!
Glorious Wrecking Ball!
FAFO
Just the headline here gives me great pleasure.
It’s like Michael Corleone “taking care of all the family business “🤣
Yes, it is isn’t it? Great description of the carnage taking place.
Just getting rid of Samantha Powers would improve the looks of an agency by 400%.
Maybe the whole country!
And now…indict Samantha Powers.
And revoke her security clearance pronto. That’s how she gets employable. The world will breathe a sigh of relief.
Passport too.
No one wants to see that face!
Let’s not forget Nuland.
Blessed be the peace keepers like dear Toria.
Well the bad guys just rolled out their black robed resistance (judges) so they can continue robbing the taxpayers of America.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/breaking-biden-appointed-judge-blocks-trump-spending-freeze/
Zero made certain in Trump Term One that President Trump knew the perfidious nature of the Derp Judiciary and has to have expected this as he developed his plan.
I can’t wait to see how he counters it.
Wait, does this mean we get to call the Communists of Team Zero REACTIONARIES?
Cuz dats all they got, kicking against the pricks.
Can the OMB just ignore the judge? I vaguely remember President Jackson made some comment when the Supreme Court ruled against him like ‘let him enforce it’.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2145695
I believe the ending of judicial tyranny will require exactly that kind of ignoring.
The Communists only love the Judiciary because they queered our system towards excessive obeisance.
Along with capturing it, of course; Communists have Millennia of practicing subversion.
Am assuming that President Trump will be immediately appealing that Judge’s order directly to the Supreme Court.
Listening to Karoline Leavitt recite the legal justification for President Trump’s actions – sounds like he’s ready and loaded for bear this time around. She said they would take these cases to the Supreme Court as necessary.
That’s why PDJT needs to show unequivocally in court that the election was stolen and Bidung was fraudulently installed as a cardboard cutout. Please get his term nullified.
All the judges that were installed would all be thrown out. Amongst everything else that puke signed, touched or approved. Please Dear Lord make it so. 🙏🏽❤️
ANOTHER BOOM! MILLEY CLEARANCE REVOKED AND SECURITY DETAIL PULLED
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/just-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-immediately-revoking-disgraced/
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
MASSIVE BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has REVOKED General Mark Milley’s security detail and security clearance. Hegseth is now planning on DEMOTING the General. Hegseth also ordered the removal of all Pentagon portraits of Milley. Total Humiliation
Removing all the Milley portraits – that alone will keep many people from becoming ill at the sight of one.
Now do Ariane Tabatabai the Iranian mole in the Pentagon
TY Charlotte99
I am loving g all this Winning
I WILL NEVER TIRED OF WINNING!
Hopefully Samantha Power is left in some far off country with no return flight.
Kidnapped by the Taliban?
This is awesome!
It’s like Israel taking out the leadership of Hezbolah!
More winnamins!
“I am YOUR Retribution!” – President Donald J. Trump
and he meant it.
My goodness Sundance, if he keeps going like this you’re going to believe that President Trump has CTH readers on his staff and that he has spent four long years planning to try to salvage our Republic!
That thought crossed my mind too… like Sundance wrote the script for this. The only thing missing on these orders is the Mickey finger!
Respectfully, if you think Mickeys finger is missing,…you just haven’t been paying attention.
They are saying “Hey, I thought he said he was only going to “act like a dictator for a day!”?
Lol, deal with it, Bitches.
Ah, very true, I didn’t catch Orban’s pic. But understandable because I come here for the articles, lol.
Party’s over folks! Time to gut this pig.
That’s when our party starts!
Pig in the ground and all that!
With Banana & Guayava tree leaves too 🙂
I wonder how hard Viktor Orban and other European leaders not on the Left’s dance card are laughing right now?
Hey nim, didn’t you see Orban’s middle finger directed towards Samantha Power in the picture above?
yeah, I saw it
I’d still like video footage of him and others around a table laughing
Israel halts cooperation with UNRWA too, with PT’s support. Banner day, I’d say.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-chief-open-war-israel-after-hamas-sympathetic-relief-agency-banned
Kicked them right out!
Sundance has a fine sense of humor. What he did in this article with the photos of Orban and Powers might be the high water mark thus far.
It’s only been a week and a half. This is incredible. So much winning!
It will be interesting to watch what happens overseas as a result. President Trump is saving the world.
I say rehire the SOBs tomorrow, send them on their mission with dispatch, and then expose their identities to our enemies, and let’s see how many Nathan Hales there are amongst them. I say there are zero
“,…this is like taking out all the Generals,..”
Thats next, fudswad!
TNBSA, the Tolerate No Bull Shit Administration.
Can these leaders be shown to be engaged in work either shaping or carrying out POLICY,…ni this case Foreign Policy?
In that case, it doesn’t matter if they are embedded as “career staffers”; they are “fair game”.
Holy pink slips, Batman!
Even the nattering nabobs of negativeity are going to be hard pressed to find anything to carp about, and they would bitch if Our President Trump hung them with a new rope!
You get a pink slip and you get a pink slip . . . everybody gets a pink slip!!
They F’d around and now they are finding out.
No quarter!!!
They FA, now they will FO.
I guess all of them thought there would be no retribution after their four years of carp they threw at us. I’m loving the scorched earth, too good to be true.
Will Selena Gomez have a crying jag for Poor Sam Powers.
Then there’s dear Toria.
Politico is a rag. If they’re upset, I’m a happy camper.
Politico, The Hill, Roll Call
– i TRY to Read ALL of Them to Catch the Narrative
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration Freeze On Federal Grants And LoansU.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-administration-freeze-on-federal-grants-and-loans_n_679953b7e4b0535cbc5f7b9a
OMG I’ll never tire of Winning. Now do the CIA.
Federal judge temporarily freezes President Trump’s aid freezes – and Letitia James is among those suing him.
Hopefully the stay is ignored. Send this Biden judge a memo that his position has been eliminated effective immediately.
Biden even ignored the SC. Seems to be a bit of play in these rulings.
I hardly wait for the State Of The Union address.
Won’t be the same w/o Harris and Pelosi at the desk.
I have zero sympathy.
Other reporting suggests they took action to continue providing aid and ignoring President Trump’s order to freeze it.
The days of playing a resisty little leftist are over.
Hell is coming with me
https://tenor.com/view/hells-coming-with-me-tombstone-gif-18079673
“I don’t know what they hope to accomplish by it.” The end of an ‘error’, that’s what.
These people have caused so much misery for innocent people that I’m loving fact they are beginning unceremoniously fired without notice.