U.S. Secretary of State / National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, and Director of National Intelligence ODNI Tulsi Gabbard continue making background moves well worth noticing.
♦ Secretary Marco Rubio has moved forward with instructions to fire all overseas USAID staff.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered U.S. embassies around the world Tuesday to move ahead with a directive to fire all remaining staffers with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He said the State Department will take over USAID’s foreign assistance programs by Monday.
A federal judge had temporarily blocked an executive order by President Donald Trump for mass firings at multiple federal agencies, including the State Department, and plaintiffs say Rubio’s reorganization plan appears to violate that court injunction.
The Trump administration says the plan was already underway when the president issued the order, so there’s no possible violation. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has yet to make a determination. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Tuesday that Rubio’s directive “wasn’t a surprise.”
“So this was a cable, telling our posts exactly what they were expecting to be told, which is that those positions were being eliminated. So it wasn’t a surprise. It’s nothing new,” she said. “And, it is exactly what we previewed, in February and March of this year.”
Rubio told embassies to stick to the department’s plan “to abolish all USAID overseas positions” by Sept. 30. (link)
Meanwhile, in an ancillary story that only begins to make sense in hindsight, we discover that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, a name very familiar to those who followed the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, was removed from his DOJ-NSD oversight role and has been transferred to the Federal Reserve office.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz begins his new position on June 30th, with the announcement date noted as June 6th:
PRESS RELEASE – “Michael E. Horowitz has been appointed to lead the Federal Reserve Board’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) effective June 30, 2025. By statute, the Federal Reserve’s OIG also serves in that same role for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency financed by, but autonomous from, the Federal Reserve. The OIG is tasked with making recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the agencies, as well as preventing and detecting waste, fraud, and abuse.” (more)
♦ The press release date about Horowitz’s move becomes interesting when contrast against the timing of the Intelligence Community hit against DNI Tulsi Gabbard, also on June 6th.
WaPo …”Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard installed one of her top advisers to a position within the office of the inspector general of the intelligence community, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. […] The adviser, Dennis Kirk, was placed within the watchdog office on May 9, but reports to the DNI, according to one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. […] In a statement to The Washington Post, Gabbard’s press secretary, Olivia Coleman, accused the intelligence community inspector general of failing to fulfill “the responsibility to be an independent organization unbeholden to partisan interests.” Coleman said that Kirk was assigned to the watchdog office as part of the transition team and found “evidence of overwhelming and intentional politicization by the current IC IG team.” (details here)
The timing here does not appear to be, well, coincidental. Remember, Horowitz is part of the ICIG system because he has IG oversight for the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). The departure of DOJ-NSD Inspector General Michael Horowitz is made simultaneous to the ICIG pushing leaks about DNI Tulsi Gabbard having put Dennis Kirk inside the ICIG to keep an eye on them.
[As an ancillary footnote, Inspector General Michael Horowitz was installed as the inspector general of the DOJ in April of 2012. The story that exploded in April 2012 was the IRS targeting of ‘conservative’ and ‘patriot’ groups, which originated from within…. wait for it…. the DOJ.]
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Good job Tulsi and Marco!
Das freut mich! Most excellent.
Would have been more excellent if they made him IG for a gov’t toilet in the South Pole.
I like both posts. He was moved, but should be removed.
Swamp people never go away, they get recycled.
Or promoted.
How exactly?? into Soylent GSAYellowstripe?
Exactly. Why is it that these totally corrupt, high paid slime bags get to stay employed.
One could hope I suppose that they cut a deal with him. Info and future testimony in return for being able to complete the years needed for retirement. Likely too much to hope for. Sigh.
It’s legally involved and politically messy to outright fire an IG. He’s being pushed to the side while they acquire the necessary justification and political window. It’s very difficult to move quickly in DC.
He should be formally investigated and subsequently charged for conspiracy, along with many others
Agree, but I think it’s a strategic move to send him somewhere he cannot do much harm (then maybe get rid of him later) thus blunting the constant media attack that Trump is “getting rid of opposition and installing cronies” throughout government.
Hah!
His report on the toilet wouldn’t be finished until the statute of limitations was up.
That would stink.
I suspect they queried him as to whether he was aware of any FBI hard files hidden away or computer data files with controlled secret access such as “prohibited access”. He answered he was not and they believed him. It is indeed credible that he was one of the very reasons the file existed. So he may be honest, but just tired in his job.
Then again, Horowitz may be the whistleblower who revealed the “prohibited access.”
I concur Mrs. Sunshine! 💁🏻♀️
Absolutely!
Nah, way beyond his integrity and competence
MAGA Fabulous!
👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
IIRC, the ICIG and the CIA IG both left their positions a few months ago. Other IGs were expected to leave around the same time.
Those two IGs left right around the first of the year.
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2024/11/intelligence-igs-head-exit-trumps-return/401183/
Tamara Johnson is the Acting ICIG (also Principal Deputy IG) and Robert Host is the Acting IG at CIA.
Peter Thomson’s nomination to be CIA IG was received in the Senate and referred to the SSCI on May 6th. (PN141-37).
Now if only we could get rid of the Federal Reserve and put him out of a job at the same time.
That could be the plan.
👍👊👊👍
Topple the Crown
Free the World
💀🙏💀
If by the Crown you mean the British Crown Corporation then I say Amen, brother!!
DITTOS
The Federal Reserve does not report to the US Government. How screwed up is that.
Perhaps because it is a private bank….part of a system of private banks whose purpose is to lend only to governments.
So nice to have some good news for a change… Marco and Tulsi have given some hope….
The Best Is Yet To Come 💃🏼
-bit by bit
and then,
💥 Let’s Dance!
✝️❤️🇺🇸
Dylan: “Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re going to have to serve somebody”
Yes, let us pray!
Wow,they continue to be the most effective and standout players in President Trump’s administration.
Well done!!
Noem has been very good. So has Bessent. So has Duffy.
Hegseth is good….that mess up with tne signal app was an own goal, but that’s way in rear view mirror now.
And RFK ….. liking him so far as well.
Bondi ain’t doing bad, and my hats off to Elon for doing what he could. Hoping to hear more from rfk – he’s such a likable guy.
These two appointees continue to impress with the positive substantive effect of their actions.
Keep sending Prayers for both of them for their continued wisdom, protection, and health….
GB.. very well said. And, it is interesting to watch PDJT’s potential successors attempt to show their stuff like they’re in an extended job interview..
I never watched ‘The Apprentice’ but wasn’t that the basic plot line?
Actually I never watched that show either, Felipe.
I was still working and attending night classes online during those years.
Rarely had time to watch tv. 😎
Team Trump, especially the Economic Team and Rubio/Gabbard, are really giving the global blob some deadly wounds.
The actions of both groups of people have given me confidence that they are seriously inflicting the deadly wound to one of the heads of the One World Beast.
Along with all our prayers!!!
What about the ngo’s funding the violent insurrection in our streets? When will we apprehend and freeze their accounts?
Maybe they’ll do that tomorrow. I am going to celebrate the victories today.
Follow Data Republican for that info. She is on the job.
https://x.com/DataRepublican
When will Kash Patel:
– shut down Antifa?
– shut down Hmong, Mexican, and Chinese gangs multi-Billion-dollar Northern California drug operations hiding in plain sight?
Some of that sounds like a job for the DEA rather than FBI.
This is all hands on deck.
“What about the ngo’s funding the violent insurrection “
I wonder if “Trump’s parade” on the same day as the No Kings uprising is because it allowed the Admin additional resources, like secret service or spying to investigate the funding, etc.
That event is massive in scale, global, and planning likely started prior to Trump going on about “his” parade.
It’s not “Trump’s parade.”
“The parade, coinciding with the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, Flag Day, and Trump’s 79th birthday, has been officially framed by the Army and the White House as a celebration of the Army’s milestone, not a personal event for Trump. However, critics have seized on the timing and Trump’s history of showmanship to argue it’s a self-aggrandizing display, and some statements attributed to him have fueled this perception.
In an NBC News “Meet the Press” interview on May 4, 2025, Trump emphasized the parade’s connection to Flag Day and the Army’s anniversary, saying, “My birthday happens to be on Flag Day. I view it for Flag Day, not necessarily my birthday. Somebody put it together. But no, I think we’re going to do something on June 14, maybe, or somewhere around there. But I think June 14. It’s a very important day.” This suggests he was distancing himself from framing it as a personal celebration. Additionally, a June 6, 2025, Truth Social post by Trump described the event as honoring “the 250th anniversary of the greatest fighting force in history, the United States Army,” with no mention of it being “his” parade.”
No Kings is fueling the perception that it’s “Trump’s parade ,” a personal use of taxpayer monies to celebrate himself and his power, as the basis for their coordinated rallies on June 14 and as justification of their “defiance” of his supposed authoritarianism and King-like use of the office of President. No Kings
WashingtonPost — WaPo. say it fast several times _WaPo-WaPo-WaPo-WaPo What does it sound like?
Hint: It sounds like a flat tire on a 1953 Hudson (that would be an old motor car). In 1953 I was old enough to turn sounds into words. So, what does this have to do with subject at hand? The byline, WaPo reminds me it’s about as useless as an old car w/four flat tires when it comes to objective news.
And yet: Sundance can even find something useful, at times, in something so useless as the WaPo!
A new 1953 Hudson.
Living large were you?
I guess I was.
I only remember the back seat was a big playroom for me and my brother when we went on trips.
When I lived in the DC area long ago…I referred to it as the Potomac Pravda 😎
Hudson’s were a beautiful car.
My Father own a 1937 Hudson Terraplane. Bought it and restored. Beautiful car.
More great news!
God bless these three! Their work is paying dividends for our representative republic. We don’t live in a democracy media hacks.
It was inevitable, with the unprecedented degree of judicial overstep we’ve seen, that the co-equal Executive would begin the inevitable and necessary process of nullification.
It’s past time for the judiciary to assume its place as the weakest of the “co-equal” branches.
J
What a pleasant surprise Marco Rubio has turned out to be!
Maybe Horowitz can release a report recommending that the CFPB should be folded into Treasury where it can be dismantled.
The CFPB, like Planned Parenthood, is a money laundering operation for the democratic party.
They are just street level extortion {$$} muscle for the mob {Federal Reserve}…
Someone works in finance
But Planned Deathhood is MUCH more EVIL!!!
Assigning Horowitz to the Fed is like assigning Dirty Harry to personnel.
Harry Callahan gets transferred to Personnel
I cannot agree with the analogy. Dirty Harry got GOOD things done for the taxpayer, which is why he got transferred to HR.
Horowitz has always and only been a double-agent.
Meanwhile, in an ancillary story that only begins to make sense in hindsight, we discover that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, a name very familiar to those who followed the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, was removed from his DOJ-NSD oversight role and has been transferred to the Federal Reserve office.
The guy (Michael Horowitz) seems odder than a $3 bill. I won’t rest easy until he is either removed from government “service” or “retires”.
IIRC, Michael Horowitz was supposed to retire a few years ago. Instead, he is still around.
Trump does not especially like or trust Jerome Powell. Now Trump has moved Horowitz to the IG spot at the Fed. If Trump wanted to get rid of Horowitz from the DOJ or from the US government, he could have moved Horowitz to the IG post at the VA where Doug Collins is secretary. The VA has an acting IG. The state dept also has an acting IG.
The Fed’s own financial house is not in order. They are operating in the red but simultaneously paying out dividends on nonexistent earnings to their shareholder member banks. This garbage needs to end and Jerome Powell needs to be gone.
Behold:
How Can the Fed Pay Dividends to Its Shareholders When It Has No Profits?
https://mises.org/power-market/how-can-fed-pay-dividends-its-shareholders-when-it-has-no-profits
I like the reorganization strategy, as it gives better control to the new admin. It is always better for a manager to have longer tenure than the associates. That is why I did not mind the new building for the FBI. Even if you can’t fire them all, you can destabilize their covert operations.
I guess I am confused about the role of the IG. I thought the IG was a command function, that is, the commander (the President in this case) appointed IGs (and fired them). So who’s saying this turd gets to go to the Fed?
Some IG’s are appointed by POTUS and some by department heads. POTUS IG’s are confirmed by the Senate. AFAIK any can be terminated or reassigned at will, with appropriate notice to Congress.
One scenario is keeping Horowitz in play to keep an eye on him but trimming down his privileges and powers and possibly placing him somewhere scheduled for demolition. Zealots rarely change their ideology, rather just where and when they exhibit it.
“……………DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, a name very familiar to those who followed the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, was removed from his DOJ-NSD oversight role and has been transferred to the Federal Reserve office.”
“By statute, the Federal Reserve’s OIG also serves in that same role for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency financed by, but autonomous from, the Federal Reserve.”
So………It sounds like it’s going to be open season for graft and corruption over at the Fed and within the CFPB. (as if it isn’t that way already)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Isn’t that Pocahantas’ hang out? That could get interesting.
Now we wait for Blondie, Mr. Cashew and Bongo Man to get on board and do something, anything.
You are tiresomely nasty.
What Constance said…
They will never receive any help from the marxist left, like you.
I can’t remember which podcaster recently asked Dir. Gabbard how many people she “trusts” out of the “whole” US Intel Apparatus.. it doesn’t really matter who it was because her answer was “about ten” out of the whole monstrosity.
Her people.
CFPB is Elizabeth Warren’s baby. If they’re going for proof of her milking money from it while Horowitz plays defense for her, that would be DELICIOUS. Kill two buzzards with one stone.
So…. can Marco take on another position?
The Red Sox need a 1st baseman about now…
Someone else needs to do it.
One of the things that makes the Silo construct that SD constantly instructs us on work…..is that each Silo COUNTS on the other Silos to do their thing.
It would appear that Rubio and Gabbard are trying to flush the Silos they are in.
If they succeed, then just maybe the other Silos will weaken, or even implode.
We’ll find out 🤗
Firing overseas USAID is glorious. I hope Rubio has cleaned out the State Dept., they are corrupt money slingers too. I also hope someone will keep an eye as to where all the USAID people end up, as we know w/ACORN these types simply re-group under a new name. Maybe Rubio can trace all the money Hillary stole.
I know where they SHOULD go—prison!!!
You are a gentle soul.
I had another place in mind…
I doubt it’s possible to clean out the whole State dept. It’s nothing but commie marxists. That’s been the hiring practice for decades. If you aren’t a commie you can’t get into State. But making a good dent will help for awhile.
It’s a good start. 👍
Horowitz should have been transferred to the Bureau of Wildlife Fisheries in Alaska. Not another cushy job with the Federal Reserve.
Come on folks. How about a little retribution? Just a little.
Maybe they’re actions will publicly humiliate the AG and FBI Director into something resembling action…
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So what kind of trouble can this guy (Horowitz) cause as OIG at the Federal Reserve and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
There probably is plenty of badness to deal with at the CFPB alone. Trump fired the former CFPB director who tried to pretend that there was no appreciable difference between revenue and net earnings. Seriously. This guy, Chopra, was the head of a financial watchdog agency and obviously less than honest or less that qualified or both.
What a wreck.
So… respected IG Horowitz… is dirty?
I want to see a list, salary, and position of every Congressional family member ’employed’ by an NGO.
I see no difference between Mr. Horowitz and a fence post.
Personally I see a significant difference in Horowitz and a fence post. Even the crookedest fence post that I have dealt with is much straighter than Horowitz.
Are we seeing the initial presentation for a Rubio/Gabbard 2028 ticket?
The Apprentice: Empire Edition
I wonder why we are unable to stay focused on the current battles?
It is still…WAY TO EARLY… to even seriously discuss the next administration,
By tomorrow we could be disappointed in these two persons.
Failure to plan…
Rubio/Gabbard 2028?
Rubio was born in the US but his parents did gain their US citizenships until about 4 years later.
Not a natural born citizen.
Where do you find the definition of “natural born citizen”?
Long, tiresome debate… Both sides interest me, though.
Thanks, Elon!!!
JUST IN: House Votes to Advance DOGE Cuts to NPR, PBS, and USAID – Final Floor Vote Expected This Week
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/just-house-votes-advance-doge-cuts-npr-pbs/
The Gateway Pundit Called It… There was NO VETTING! Biden Admin Evacuated 55 Afghans on Terror Watchlist to U.S. During Botched Withdrawal, New DOJ Report Confirms
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/biden-admin-evacuated-55-afghans-terror-watchlist-u/
La Reconquista: Mexican Senate President Floats a Plan to Annex Part of United States as Illegal Aliens Continue to Cause Mayhem in LA (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/la-reconquista-mexican-senate-president-floats-plan-annex/
A declaration of war.
Maybe these two should be called;
The Dynamic Duo
They and Robert F Kennedy Jr are about the only three getting anything done.
Really?
So, Homan, Bessent, Lutnick, Witkoff, Greer, Zeldin, Duffy, Hegseth, Burgum, Rollins, Turner, Wright, McMahon, Collins, Leavitt, Habba, Martin, Bove…are not getting anything done?
Wow.
You can have your opinion, of course, but may I suggest you at least glance at all of the posts by Sundance?
I sincerely beg your pardon. You are correct.
I should have been more specific about those three rooting out the Deep State.
Because the article was about the removal of Deep State actors I was incorrect in believing that my comment would be understood to have been about Trump Administration officials seriously going after and removing Deep State actors.
All of the people you listed are absolutely doing a wonderful job of supporting President Trump and the MAGA agenda.
One of the obvious questions is has the DNI demanded that each of the 17? Intelligence agencies reveal all access classifications and if (ha) prohibited access or similar hidden files exist. The catch 22 is the denial of by the agencies cannot be trusted and proving a negative can only approach certainty there will always be doubt. This is obvious to me but I don’t get to ask questions.
It’s not a good job to leave Horowitz in charge of anything. Also the cpfb is not autonomous by any stretch – their funding is 100% dependent on the federal reserves profits.
Reply to L4 Grasshopper
Why do U like. RFK? The COVID vax is still on the schedule for children. And evidently old people are still encouraged to take it. Chem trails are thick in the skies everywhere. We are sprayed like bugs. I guess U can tell that I am disappointed.
Currently, I am making the assumption that there are some serious gordion knots that were created by Collins/Fauci et al which RFK/Battachyra are still looking to unravel.
Looks like they had to cut one when they recently released all those people and will now hire new ones for the board.
They have also changed from the reporting of studies to the Established Journals to creating a new publication focused on the publishing of replications studies – the way science used to be done.
This is essential infrastructure change. It will go a long way to assisting our nation in making informed decisions.
Some states are already making it a statewide requirement to give shots when the feds have removed them from such a list. That is the state’s right.
But now the local people can push their legislators to make the necessary local changes about such overreach. Return of power to the people.
Despite its ups and downs, the revelatiins that came out directly from DOGE, uncovering not that hard to find Waste, Fraud and Abuse when the mission statement of the IG’s IS “waste, fraud and abuse” should have had all IG’s resigning in shame.
Its obvious the whole I.G. system has been subverted to protect the blob, not the taxpayer.
Good riddance to another empty suit.
Horowitz was at the Jan. 2016 meeting with the Ukraine delegation organized by Ciaramella. He runs a session w/former DoD OIG Storch. Its on the translated meeting agenda published by John Solomon.
https://x.com/matildamaymorse/status/1932727935854858542
I have this sense of Deja vu. I thought USAID was shut down and all staff was fired months ago.
Try to keep up.
I also forgot the overseas staff were still on payroll.
Why make Horowitz an IG at the federal reserve when he is obviously in the business of investigating and hiding information? If he couldn’t be fired outright why didn’t they assign him to something like the motor pool?
Question for Sundance:
Forgetting for the moment that Patel and Bongino appear to be under a great deal of non-job-related pressure (and not from the public either) what would be the shopping list for the “disappointing appointees” to prove themselves as MAGA patriots?
I think such a list would as least help shape the kinds of things we are looking for and what “accomplishments” we should ignore. So far, I’m ignoring pretty much everything from the FBI at the moment for the one issue of the obvious Epstein cover-up. When we have a soured perspective on a topic or an entity or characters, it becomes an emotional block to seeing anything else which I must admit is where I’m at today. So I want to be able to see more and knowing what to look for might be helpful.
The United States is NOT the U.N. Somebody tell Tulsi the truth about Japan. We are so sorry she is related to the people that bombed Pearl Harbor, but her regrets are not our regrets.