The following message is the only message on the landing site of USAID.Gov
“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).
For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.
Thank you for your service.”
The American people have only just begun to discover what the USAID operation was all about. Many people thought it was a charitable enterprise and are only just now realizing it was something else entirely.
Historically we discussed how USAID was actually the front group for CIA influence operations globally. The intelligence community aspect is only just beginning to be discovered by the American people. However, in keeping with the theme, multiple U.S. leftist media outlets were also funded by USAID as part of their information control mission.
Yes, USAID is a ball of worms.
More empty office space in all those Northern Virginia/suburban D.C. high-rises, love it; BTW, I know how it feels to be unemployed, been furloughed/bankruptcies several times over my career, sympathy meter on empty.
Think it will make a difference in how the DC area votes? Lots of people not working there because they will NOT be able to afford it, they WILL have to move!!!
Real estate prices will plummet.
Not right away… no… there will be a 2 to 5 year lag before those prices follow the vacancies…. maybe even longer when you look at what has been happening in NYC.
Also none of us want to move there.😁
Maybe their real estate broker friends will stress the importance of availing themselves of the market value right now before it goes down! Bigger commissions!
Between government downsizing and expulsion of illegal aliens, home prices, rentals, and hotels ought to get less expensive, all over the country. I hope the downsizing doesn’t cause a general recession.
The ’08 financial crash wasn’t helped by GM’s huge layoffs in ’05/’06 in Michigan, concurrent with auto supplier bankruptcies, and GM’s own impending bankruptcy – a lot of people suddenly couldn’t pay their mortgages
Does not seem to be happening.
My mom sold a house in 3 days this week in Northern VA. Top dollar.
I also some are moving back to come into the office. I guess they thought it would last forever.
One of the hidden positive consequences of the obvious benefits.
Shrink DC – I love the concept!
Give all the residential / commercial areas of DC back to Maryland.
Just need to give everyone a new zip code.
Doesn’t even register on my sympathy meter, huecowacko.
Exactly. Whatever these leeches are feeling right now, I want MORE of it!!!
But if the DC swamp bureaucrats get spooked, then they may stampede, like wildebeests, and untold damage may occur.
You mean like a Jan 6 sort of thing?
no they will not. said won’t be there anymore to paid them to riot
USAID
aka SADS
Yeah, being RIF’d is no fun. I was never offered 8 months of severence!
I got a “We will not contest anything you do.” LOL
My first one, we got $0.10 on the $1, if we were vested.
Ermagerd some of the DC elite may. have to downsize their Dewey and Bethany beach houses! You may even see a Kia on Georgetown Pike!
Sunshine is the best disinfectant of corrupt government. President Trump is pouring a universe full of sunlight on the most rancid department of government we have.
Hallelujah!!
Bleach, vinegar, and lethal doses of UV shouldn’t be left off the table…
-Chemo and Radiotherapy?…
Is it not fraud to use USAID to fund personal things, media, friendly NGOs?
If it’s legal, then why not fund the startup of free-media, election observers NGOs, investigative type NGOs, etc?
Play the same game, but rightfully.
Because it’s unethical. This is why they hid it.
Illegal
Criminal negligence, malfeasance, mal administration
My thoughts.
Why not fund manufacturing plants here?
I think the most apt term is probably racketeering. A racket means creating a fake problem and then selling the solution essentially to yourself or “friends”.
If any of that money landed in the bank accounts of politicians or their PACs – such as through 3rd or 4th party campaign contributions – that’s just money laundering to illegally finance a campaign.
USAID is very likely the House Banking Scandal on crack. Back then, they were cashing checks to enrich themselves. USAID gives them a layer of protection because the transaction isn’t at the front counter. It’s all handled “in the back” by wiring money to NGO’s and others who then make campaign contributions to the politician’s PAC.
I would be unsurprised to learn that various Soros groups were taking USAID money and using it for political campaigns.
How much of USAID $$$ went to ActBlue via smurfs?
Massive Racketeering, Hokkoda.
Per current DOGE reporting, USAID would funnel payments thru 3-4 Contractors who took most of the targeted funding before it reached the Named target that only received appx 12 % of the designated USD.
Nice racket if you can getaway with it. If not, and those “usual suspect” contractors remitted Kickbacks to USAID approved Funders of Tax Payer USD (as PDJT alluded to in the Oval yesterday),… then Right in the Jail Cellar for many surprised WDC Swamp Dwellers.
What was it that Nasty Nan Pelosi was always saying? Oh yeah,… “No One is Above the Law!”
Well, let’s just see now,… Nasty? Don’t worry, DOGE will get around to uncovering any/all Congressional Insider Trading violations in due time,… Tick, Tock, former Speaker.
“pink slips flying like confetti”–Jesse Waters
Nice to see a bartender complain about a person not having any idea how to do the job they are appointed/elected to do. Nice to see Waters still has the ability to call on street attacks. Still waiting for her to be indicted for the one during the 2016 election. Nice to see that Schumer can sing. And sing I hope he does at his hearing inciting violence.
She was recruited by USAID. It won’t be long before she’s back behind bars… whatever kind of bars you prefer to imagine 😉
-I thought Ocrazyeyes was a barrista(?) – Bartenders are *Waayyy* more skilled…
(…- Also, whichever it was, that’s what I believe is known in tradecraft circles as a ‘Non Official Cover’, non? 😉 )
If working the vagrants out by the dumpsters in the alley behind the bar counts, than AOC is good to go…
-Oof, That’s Ruff… – The things you hafta do as a spook on the payroll, lol:…
Clerks (1994) 😉
Watters used DOGE as a verb! “[Musk] DOGE’d ’em!”
git along little dogies
…- You know the dole line will be your new home…
Yes… and let’s hope the $$$ for THAT project is cut WAAAYYY back, as more jobs pop up as Industry comes back to the USA.
I sure hope the little dogies have protection because the Dems ratted them out.
Their pictures everywhere.
I worry about their safety too
[*Paging Merriam-Webster*] 😉
One problem. There is now a vacuum in these 3rd world countries that China will fill.From what I know China is not in good shape, but still.
Good bankrupts China.
Always a vacuum when we stop pouring our tax dollars to crooks. I hope the vacuum is so hard the crooks get tried and jailed
The vacuum will be filled by the people that USAID cheated out of their rightful gov’ts.
A vacuum of what? Is it really a problem when the US stops funding leftist NGOs, color revolutions, or money laundering operations to democrat aligned groups? Do you believe china has the funds to continue these subversive activities, which do not materially benefit it? If there is a vacuum that develops from defunding these leftists groups, it is a benefit to the US.
China has a vested interest in Africa for it’s resources. It’s disgusting what it’s doing there, mass deforestation and no care for the people or animals that inhabit it.
Fact: China cannot feed herself. Withhold the food and see how she responds!
China’s leader in the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping, stated that “it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice!”
This was his pragmatic economic philosophy that revealed that he realized that Commie economics was failing and that he was in favor of whatever system works best to Feed 1.4 Billion Chinese,… be it Commie Command/Control or Free Market Economy.
He was setting the stage for a move to Free Market gradually cuz he was aware of what millions of starving Chines could do to a nation that failed to feed them.
His policies toward Free Market economics were working and Chinese Entrepreneurs were succeeding until 2012 when Xi Jining gained total control of the CCP/China stopped free market attempts and reverted to Chairman Mao’s original Commie brand of Command/Control, top down economics.
Let’s see how long Xi continues to back his Black cat if his econ falters and millions of jobless Chinese start demanding Food! Belt and Road will be gone in a flash as XI struggles to find cash for food,… much of which he has to import now.
If only we had a great Negotiator to parlay with him then??? “MEOW!”, says the white cat.
No, there’s not. That’s the point. That USAID money very likely was not going to actual “aid” to impoverished people. It was being paid out to a vast network of consultants, NGO’s, nonprofits, and media (among others like politicians in foreign governments).
We’re not buying bags of rice to feed poor people in Africa for the most part. If we do, it’s a) for show and b) it’s most likely being stolen. See also: Puerto Rico’s warehouses of stolen food and water.
Don’t be surprised if we find out the ChiComms figured out how to steal some of that USAID money for themselves.
I remember seeing bags of “fertilizer” with USAID labels in Afghanistan. It was nitrogen that the Afghans used for those Improvised Explosive Devices that burned and killed so many of our service men in Afghanistan. Same stuff that Timothy McVeigh used at the Murrah Building.
Just like the 50Millions dollars of condoms earmarked for Gaza–to make floating bombs
They used $5,000 for condoms to make balloon bombs, the other $49,995,000 went into pockets along the way.
Or the Democrat PACs / Party
Politico won’t be reporting this,…. hear they just lost a lot of USAID funding,… shucks, dancing with the Devil will cost them Bigly!
Always appreciate your comments Hokkoda!
And that vacuum is the effect *Not* cause of Ross Perot’s ‘Giant Sucking Sound’ (Yeah I know, he was on about NAFTA, but at this point we can prolly all extrapolate, no? (Also:- Yup, China’s economy looks like it’s heading down the sh***er, too – Real Estate, *Ahem*; Credit Markets, *Ahem* – but that’s *Equally* true for both (US.gov $30Tn in the sh***er, and headed south)… – Welcome to Globohomo, where the US and CCP economies are merely two *Inextricable* halves of a pair of siamese twins))…
…- Ross Perot (And others, besides, both before and since) did try to warn alla y’all…
…-Globalism is a *Complex*, *Interdependant* beast.
No they won’t. They can’t even honor infrastructure commitments in some of these countries that they go into. China always gets in saprophytic relationships with the countries it does business with. Ask your Vietnamese friends.
In Saigon in 1994, I was impressed with how hospitably I was treated by all in Vietnam while on a Biz trip there.
When asked, I was told “No, we don’t hate the USA, even after all the bombing,.. and not even the French after their 100 year occupation of VN,…. It’s China we despise and hate, we have been stopping them form murdering us for over 1,000 years now.”
I was told this after I asked about the stone figure of General Dao in full battle rattle on a high granite pedestal on a traffic circle in the 1st District (down town HMCity). In appx 1285 he led his VN army to defeat the invading army from China.
His statue’s outstretched arm points to the South China Sea. Was told he commanded his people to join him in the fight in the North, or go to the South China Sea and swim away. Apparently, it worked.
I didn’t say I trusted them, just that they liked and needed us. Regarding China’s taking of their SCS islands, I recommended that they invite the USN 7th Fleet back into Cam Ranh Bay and China’s bullying would stop fast.
It would also grant assurance to US Companies invited back into VN to rebuild the place that they wouldn’t be nationalized as other nation’s companies had been since 1975. This was my reason for the Biz trip.
USAID wanted us to believe there would be a vacuum without them. But what you look at the things they funded, like transgender opera, I doubt China would be willing to spend money that way. The only people who would spend money that way are EU countries
As for the political things people like Nulan or Susan Rice were involved in, China is already trying to rope countries into its silk road deal.
^ Said by someone who’s never gone through an Audit before.
Right. A little taste of the their own terror techniques.
Said by someone who certainly has no problem with things like the notorious halfrican moslem sodomite and his big, ugly husband wearing wigs while pretending to be First “Lady” for eight years…
FIFY
Sounds like Biden should have pardoned all the government workers in DC.
Damn this is getting to be overload on steroid winnamins. I love it.
I want every damn crook in DC nailed to the wall.
They have stolen our hard earned money and gave it away like drunk sailors at a strip club.
steroid winnamins on stereo without the side effects!
Not cool that Congress folks are telling people to fight on the streets.
We know what Trump is now going to do. That kind of talk is not constitutionally protected, any more than yelling fire in a crowded theater is.
It’s only dirty if the books are dirty…and illegal if that’s what you’ve been doing.
Like they don’t love feeling dirty and illegal-its what they live for
No, you’re supposed to do what your boss (President Trump) tells you to do, that’s what DOGE is doing.
“We’r supposed to stop everything we’re doing”… well, yeah, that’s the point… you have been ‘doing’ America for far too long.
What,… the Dept of Labor not Working?
Reminds me of the US President’s exclamation, “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!”,.. from Dr. Strangelove.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/995085a8-f9a4-45fa-a472-060c0159a76b
I would have preferred Department of
EducationIndoctrination first.But I look forward to learning whatever sculduggery Labor is up to. It’s all good.
Go after the CIA!
I think this USAID boondoggle, at $68 Billion/year, is a good indicator why the DoD can’t pass an audit. Can you imagine what has been going on for a department with a budget around $800 Billion?
Hillarious C…DoD budget is well over $900 billions a year….
One after another as we learn what taxpayer monies are spent on we see that it is pushing depravity all over the world. In conjunction with the legal assaults on Christians, Catholics, praying grandmas, etc., it is clear that the previous regime was totally owned by Satan.
Which goes hand in hand with their Marxist tendencies.
0’Bama had a gay diplomat run out Syria for pulling just these types of far-left community organizing shenanigans.
Catholics need to stop funding catholic charities.
Eh, Catholics don’t fund them; Rome does…
Parishioners are not donating like they used to. The Vatican is having to dip into their own $ to pay for priest retirements, etc
And when parishioners donate to help those retired priests and nuns, the Church scrapes its cut off the top. If they cared about helping retired priests, they’d make it possible donate DIRECTLY to the retirees. Maybe they do, but at mass the donations just go in the basket like always.
Talk to the priest, there is a way to ear mark your money to keep it local.
I hope that you are accurate on that. No reason that the Vatican should be so obscenely wealthy, when supposedly, they are doing good works.
We have. There’s a big financial crisis in the Church because donors have fled. Partly due to the Church’s aggressive obedience of the State during the COVID lockdowns, and relatedly the Marxist Pope drifting the Church very slowly towards Episcopalian degeneracy.
We stopped contributing 30 years ago when CC of Milwaukee suggested we go to Planned Murderhood (!) to get advice for adoption options. Last week, CC of Milwaukee published a video advising illegals on methods to avoid ICE! Foolish, WOKE Catholics!
Umm, I haven’t (yet) seen Catholic Charities on the list…
But there was a list of faith-based orgs who have been laundering our taxpayer $$ through USAID to give it to illegal alien invasion purposes.
So I wouldn’t automatically assume that either parishioners or Rome have been footing that much of the bill in this area. Soros is paying about a third of the freight for Antifa. Could be a similar split…
government propaganda……we were always right on target
Look for funding for “Authentic Campaigns.”
That’s the group Judge Merchan’s daughter works for.
USAID from the American people. To the pockets of democrats and their lackeys.
See the black clouds opening and look, there’s sunshining on an eagle.
this is a holy reckoning. they pissed off the wrong people.
after we end the abuse, then it is time to deliver brutal, unmerciful Justice. . . . . . so their kind shall not rise again.
100 percent agree
^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^
And if the great patriots of this country don’t, it will be all for naught.
We are just scratching the surface of their evil.
Decommission. Depopulate. Disclose.
Rinse and repeat.
If those politicians were smart, they would pretend to be SHOCKED and not show themselves protesting the take-down of massive corruption. Now they just implicate themselves SO obviously.
How is that even possible when they are outted for taking $? They are already implicated.
Doesn’t it just make it worse when they try to defend it? They could at least pretend they thought those “business ventures” were legitimate.
Exactly..they are outing themselves.Hysterical.
They know they’re one Elon tweet away from being outed. “Look whose name we found when we tracked USAID funds to see if any American politicians were accepting illegal campaign donations via laundered USAID funds …”
Great point. Thanks.
Welcome to the Real World!
I know what it’s like to be fired and laid off, not fun. I’m retired now, thank God. Looking back I definitely would have done things differently. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
USAID should be shutdown completely. They can learn to code. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When John F. Kennedy authorized the creation of “US Aid” under the recently-passed legislation, he should have thought at that time to impose a time limit, review and renewal process.
President Trump should, indeed terminate “USAID.” And, the enabling legislation should be revised by Congress in light of what has now been discovered. The legislation itself should require: regular audits, a fixed length of time that the aid-agency can exist, and a formal review-and-renewal process to extend its duration for a finite period thereafter. Yes, the President can designate the new forms of aid. But, thereafter, they are subject to these legislative checks and controls.
Very simply stated, if you “hand anyone a blank check,” they’re not going to continue using it [just …] in the ways that you intended. Human Nature tells us all this . . . “if the cat’s away …”
We should have known better, all along.
P.S.: I would point out that “legitimate charities” are already subject to such Federal-and-State regulations and oversight. Furthermore, most legitimate charities post their CPA-audited financial statements online every single year, voluntarily going above-and-beyond the minimum legal requirement. This is not too much to require, or to expect.
Honestly it isn’t the idea of USAID it’s the people who actually run it. It won’t matter the restriction on any agency if the top people are corrupt. The FBI underlings didn’t corrupt the top the top corrupted the underlings. There is no amount of guardrails you can put on an agency like this doling out money that will keep it in its lane because every new president runs it. It’s to political and need CPS to go.
This is specifically why I suggest “reform the enabling legislation.” John Kennedy had no idea what the entity that he innocently authorized would one day become. Nor did the legislators who wrote and passed the original Act.
Do the same thing with FEMA!
USAID is a big story. What is missing? Names. Who doled out the money? Who received it?
There are those who would withhold the names. But we have seen how quickly sensational stories can fall off the front pages, so name the names. The public needs to know.
😁
It occurs to me that the FBI agents who want to remain unnamed (re January 6th, for example) may manage to remain nameless for the time being but those at the top, we know their names and so their lower-level people not wanting to have their names known can be seen to be disloyal to Chris Wray and the AG Merrick Garland as well. The odor is all over them, like dog poop.
I want names named, because I think this trail leads to the VIPs, the people right at the top of the pecking order. She, whose name must not be said, could be named!
Or perhaps our side learns how to leak the way the left does.
Skunk scent is more permanent.
That’s coming. They’re going to check and triple check that list. Plus it takes time to track where the money went next.
“And then…
And then…
And then…”
Hunter Biden the crack whore ran 42 shell companies. You only do that to launder and hide money. And it’s incredibly complex.
The part Trump and Bondi will need is the money trace from USAID to whoever, and from whomever to whomever until they “Kevin Bacon” their way to US Senators and Reps. Once you show the money flies, DOJ can start filing subpoenas to establish how that exchange of money to the politicians happened. Some of the Pols themselves might not even realize that nonprofit X was one of 1,000 recipients of USAID money when it donated to their reelection campaign.
Oh, I think they know where the money came from. That’s the whole point of giving it to them.
There was a website which I think was called muckety.org – you could type in a name and see connections – very powerful and informative – but then it went away.
Coming, I think.
Imagine. After DOGE decimates the USG, Musk should form a company, incorporate, and then offer his services to state and local governments. Should I live that long.
With Musk’s baby engineers, they should be able to complete this in 50 days.
“The American people have only just begun to discover what the USAID operation was all about. Many people thought it was a charitable enterprise and are only just now realizing it was something else entirely.”
This.
Many will still be trying to make sense of it all, now that those who told them it was basically beneficial and humanitarian are now saying PTrump’s closing of USAID is unwarranted, evil, and based on lies and tyranny. The saddest part? There is a significant plurality (~25%) who will never believe what is being revealed is the truth. I have family among those.
It makes a lot of sense now, how so many groups like Antifa/BLM (and others domestically) as well as so many in other countries (like Ukraine) were so well-funded an operated with such impunity. They were all funded by the infinite printing press of the US Treasury through USAID.
It makes sense now, why the House has not proposed a true budget since the Obama administration. It makes total sense now, why the government has run on one continuation Omnibus bill after other, and why the national debt has skyrocketed.
We were funding the WEF takeover of this nation and the world through USAID. And the American populace didn’t have a clue.
Here’s prayers the next 4 years clears out much of this apparatus.
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And I’m guessing that programs within USAID are also facilitating child sex trafficking rings under some guise.
I think we all know it’s a massive money laundering scheme, and black ops, at our expense.
I consider the ones yelling the loudest to be the most guilty, or completely, unbelievably, inexcusably naive by choice.
I have a feeling that, when the truth comes into the sunlight, we will find that the USAID, the child sex trafficking, and the drug trade were funding most of the evil around the world – the “color” revolutions, the private wars, and most all of the “off the books” black ops projects – as well as lining the pockets of enabling politicians.
Want to know how House reps and Senators become multimillionaires off of salaries that are, for all intents and purposes, decidedly upper middle class?
Human trafficking. Drug cartel kickbacks. Money laundering via black ops.
Those yelling the loudest right now, as well as those opposing PTrump the most (openly AND secretly), have the most to lose in this current draining of the Swamp. I don’t believe any in either Congressional chamber are so naive as to not know what was going on.
What is happening now, is the Deep State’s nightmare in waking reality, in real time.
Waiting for the Epstein list to drop.
That would flush out over half of both Congressional chambers, and a significant number within the bureaucracies and judiciary.
Who knew what when, and did they oppose it, or facilitate it?
Leniency given only to those who turn state’s witness.
I’d propose the guilty be banished to remote southwest Alaska, with 3 days rations and nothing more. For many of these, the death sentence is far too lenient, far too quick, for the evil they have brought upon our nation.
You mention Jeffrey Epstein. Well, the trail of his abhorrent behavior was seeded in large part by a man who is still alive, kicking and who for a long time was a huge donor to the Ohio Republican Party: Leslie Wexner (The Limited and Victoria’s Secret women’s apparel). The Ohio State University also benefited greatly from his largesse thru the years. Epstein was his supposed “financial advisor.” Wexner switched to “Independent” status when Donald Trump came along in 2016. Wexner was a big supporter/controller of guys like John Kasich, Congressman and then OH Governor, who was an opponent of DJT in 2016, too. He was the crumb who refused to show up on the floor at the RNC which was being held in CLE that year, to show support for Trump. Hasn’t been heard from since.
I was just rushed to the ER from OD’ing on my daily dose of Winnamins.
“…mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”
I hope that means the medical care being provided under its auspices, until other funding can be secured, but I doubt it does mean that.
Hoping whatever agency has links to planned parenthood gets an audit. As bad as I think it will be, we need to open eyes to those poor little murdered babies.
Sundance, how many more of these government agencies like USAID need to be cut?
It’ll shut off the graft. seems to me that all of these supposed news agencies have all been on the take.
How else does a completely failed organization like MSNBC pay Rachel maddow 30 million bucks a year.
We already know that toad Bill Krystal was recieving his kick backs.
Impossible to say. Look at the Politico story today – they were getting payoffs from at least four different Govt sources. Entirely.possible that ALL agencies have their pet.projects.
The DOD was giving money to Reuters.
Sounds like an insurrection!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
That’s a good one.
By the millions, right.
Ed Malarkey. Must be a friend of Biden.
The hit by rock dogs across the fence, Bark the loudest.
Hahahah. These people are so pathetic. Not only have the ‘usual suspects’ aged out – but its the same old 1970s BS. Are sit-ins next??? Looks like mainly aged Dem pols, maybe staffers – no $$$ to buss in and pay for agitators???
Notice how the camera view field is always tight, so we can’t see the numbers of those attending are something like 50 or so??
Notice how they’re now bringing hand painted signage – no stacks of printed signs to hand out?? That USAID shut off really had an immediate effect.
Notice how Schumer is being mocked even by Dem culture warriors?
Remember those crowd control devices that Trump said he’d use? Yeah he’s at the beginning of his second term now, I think he has nothing to lose.
Yes, it is really interesting. USAID funded Politico and the New York Times to the tune of millions. Funny how Politico suddenly has a payroll problem and paychecks weren’t issued.
But I saw this photo which shows a USAID sticker on a filing cabinet of the Azov neo-Nazi militia. I hope it will be completely shut down and not revived in the future – or at least not revived with the same game plan and the same people.
Trump and his legal team have checkmated the Dems. DOGE is not a new agency. It is the USDS created under the Obama years, renamed and refocused. But it’s all about EFFICIENCY via technology. It’s fully authorized and funded by Congress.
Keep the popcorn supplies up. It’s going to be a fruitful four years.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1887038847629877714.html
Well played.
All these agencies use, and rely on IT systems. All of which have copious amounts of records subject to auditing.
If the US Government needs to know what is in my bank account, I should be able to see the US Government finances whenever I want to see them.
It is interesting that similar actions in the CIA is not bringing out the rats like the USAID clean up. Perhaps the CIA actions is not directly affecting the rats money pockets.
HUZZAH!!!
Posted Change.org petition to stop Donald Trump from shutting down USAID – why would Sundance block this post? “Awaiting approval”
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-usaid-stop-work-order-protect-jobs-security-and-america-s-future/psf/promote_or_share
I have accidentally bumped a letter off my user name, and didn’t realize it until my comment went into moderation as a new name, a new poster. We’re fortunate that they are so careful to monitor this site, but little things can have an effect.
Easy to happen when posting from a mobile device with small typeface.
Let’s recognize how that *if* the FBI survives these reductions in force, there is plenty of space available for them to use *if needed*. Cancel the new building, even if it is under construction today.
The last thing DC needs is another building. And /or another surveilance camera.
My question here is what percentage of staff is going on leave and what is the duration of that leave? When will they come back or moreso when will they stop being paid? “ with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”
Things just keep looking up. I pray it is sustainable
$5.5 b to CANADIAN universities???????
Explains all the wokeness…right?
I wonder over what period of time does the above chart cover.?
I’m still bog down with student loans.
Where USAID Cash Is (Was) Going
While Western North Carolina, Maui and LA remain ruined and not rebuilt! The Swamp better heed Admiral Yamamoto’s dire warning!
So how much of this funding was returned through Act Blue?
Antifa was heavily funded by corporations well beyond just the NFL, and that was also likely laundered through Act Blue.
And the squishy RINO’s had control of CONgress and never bothered to have oversight over this USAID????
You don’t REALLY think this is limited to one side of the aisle, do you?
Why do you think it is called the Uniparty?
RINOs drinbk from this trough as well!!!
Apparently, Joni Ernst was trying to do that but she encountered a brick wall. Rubio said the same…
Never cared. So pathetic.
Elon Musk Fires Warning as Far-Left Politico Unable to Make Payroll Amid USAID Shut Down: More Media Outlets will See “Mysterious Drop in Revenue”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musk-fires-warning-as-far-left-politico/
Posted on the Presidential. Seems appropriate here as well. For all you deep divers!
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Wow.
Someone try searching Save the Children
And Jill Biden
Thank You.
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pick query, push the button, publish
Get the dirt out there.
Wonder if they’ll find a USAID funded entity that funded Antifa and BLM.
This account on X is following the DOGE inquiry very closely.
Look up Alpha Kappa Alpha. Minority sorority that has a lock on school jobs here in Dekalb, GA.
Interesting chat between Mike Benz and Tucker Carlson on how USAID operates. I would love to see this agency burned to the ground, and as Steve Bannon says about the FBI building in DC: Salt the earth so that nothing ever rises from that ash heap again:
https://x.com/TCNetwork/status/1887218996912459842
I may have posted this before, either in part or in full but it might be worth reposting now. Also posting original link but it’s no longer available ( as everyone knows by now)…
https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/dec-11-2024-administrator-samantha-power-americas-ground-game-how-usaid-changing-and-why-it-matters?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Administrator Samantha Power on “America’s Ground Game: How USAID is Changing and Why It Matters
Dec 11, 2024
Samantha Power:
With the partners that we work with on the ground as well, of course, the local organizations, we are trying to shift from the top down approaches that we often used in the past, and instead, are engaging with local leaders from the very beginning, the local leaders who have the deep contextual knowledge and relationships in their communities to understand the most effective levers of change. These leaders don’t leave when a USAID program ends, they continue working to better their own communities.
So, we are increasing our outreach to these partners, expanding our use of local languages and simplifying, again, the process of partnering with us. We are also channeling more funding directly to local civil society, government, and private sector leaders who are driving change in their communities. From 2021 to 2024, we doubled the amount of funding going to local partners, but ….still just about 11 percent of USAID’s funding is going to these groups directly. …. We are also looking to reduce barriers that hinder our direct engagement with partner governments, so called G2G assistance, which is absolutely critical again, to driving sustainable change at scale that will continue long after USAID’s initial investment.
The second part of being catalytic is really seeing ourselves now as a leveraging agency, upping our focus on engaging with foundations, the diaspora, multilateral development banks, and the private sector, so that we can draw in other partners who will contribute their own resources and skills to our work. For instance, companies are natural partners in development work, so much of which comes down to generating economic opportunity. Yet, historically, we have not invested nearly enough in building these partnerships. So, we have set out to change that. We are cultivating deeper, more lasting relationships with private sector partners, from small businesses to mega corporations. They tell us what is deterring them in a given place from investing in development priorities, and then we, working with others, try to help take down those barriers.
USAID has established a first of its kind fund to draw in private capital. Some of you know about this fund. It’s called the EDGE Fund, and it dedicates $50 million a year to help de-risk commercial investments on behalf of development objectives. To date, USAID’s $100 million of investments in the EDGE Fund have brought in more than $280 million in commitments from private sector partners with the potential to mobilize an additional $2 billion in investments over the next five years.
Thanks to efforts like these, from 2021 to 2023 alone, private sector partner contributions to USAID activities jumped by 42 percent. We have also substantially increased our engagement with multilateral development banks, who can channel resources to the problems we face again at the scale and with the time horizons that are required.
…Governments need significant financing to rebuild these systems, so we invested in the Global Financing Facility, which offers technical assistance to countries to help them shape national strategies to improve primary health care and bring World Bank financing to implement them. Every dollar invested in the GFF connects partners with $7 more in financing from the World Bank. This is leveraging.
And third, the third way we are thinking about and trying to become more catalytic, is recognizing that sometimes pushing for key policy changes can yield impact far beyond individual programs. Now, I know this sounds obvious, of course, that’s the nature of advocacy. It’s the nature of what even we advocate for within government – policy change. But what is so exciting at USAID is seeing a fresh cadre of so-called development diplomats who, in addition to thinking about programs and how to leverage those programs and those resources, are identifying and pushing for policy changes around the world. …
POLICY CHANGES AROUND THE WORLD!! Good grief… the absolute arrogance of this woman and her co-workers. She brags about her regime change operations! Also, it appears USAID has become a big business in this vein. Private financing? What the heck could possibly go wrong….
No wonder President Trump chose USAID first.
R Green…Worth the read.
The dirty deeds of the
CIAIDUSAID racket is well summarized and resourced in this one article:https://revolver.news/2025/02/viral-video-reveals-why-dems-are-freaking-out-over-usaid-feared-more-than-cia/
I hope by the end of all this, that D.C., traditionally an over priced recession proof metro area for obvious reasons, becomes a shithole that barely supports any businesses at all.
Is anyone going to be arrested?
I think I addicted to all this marvelous Winning,…. Don’t stop now Donald!
We should learn from what has recently been discovered (but known for a very long time), and revise the enabling legislation that John F. Kennedy first used:
• Mandatory annual CPA audits, which the entity must pass every year without exception.
• Real-time disclosure of all disbursement activities – to the public, and to an Inspector General.
• Limited initially-authorized time of life, not to exceed X years.
• Mandatory review and renewal to extend that life for no more than an additional Y years.
• The right of immediate foreclosure (suspension or permanent shutdown) if an audit fails, or if illegal or inappropriate disbursements occur.
• Explicitly affirm that any President has the explicit right to terminate or suspend the entity, for any reason or for no reason.
• Payroll is not deducted from contributions, but is funded separately and equally.
• Perhaps other safeguards.
“When the cat’s away, the mice will play.” A well-intended Act of Congress can turn into a money laundry, or worse. (As it did.) This is in part a fault of weakness in the design of the implementing legislation, which Congress should immediately address and correct. The existing structure was exploited in ways that the framers did not anticipate nor intend.
Legitimate charities already are subject to similar controls, and many of them go beyond the legal minimum requirements in order to affirm to their contributors that their generosity is being well-spent. The taxpaying public is entitled to the same and more.
I am all for Musk and his boy engineers to do quarterly audits of each department/agency with unannounced audits whenever they want to do so. With the technology that they have now they could complete an audit very quickly especially because these groups will be on such a tight leash that their funding will be pretty straightforward.
Some groups will be audited in Jan, some in Feb, and others in March. Then every 3 months they get checked again. Fast and easy.
Big picture: The media-NGO complex didn’t just spend government grants—many have probably leveraged grants for massive loans. Now that the money flow is in question, so is their entire financial structure.
This isn’t just about cutting @politico’s funding—it’s about banks reassessing risk, pulling credit lines, and forcing a reckoning for countless organizations that thought government cash was a forever guarantee.
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And here’s the kicker:
Trump might not have to lift a finger.
Even if he saves USAID, banks could still reassess risk and tighten NGO credit. Employees start looking for the exits.
The entire NGO-industrial complex might just deflate under its own weight.