Did you know that approximately $1,000,000,000 in obviously fraudulent payments flow through the U.S. Treasury’s payment system every week? Until Elon Musk and his DOGE team stepped in, nobody in the government was doing anything about this theft. Please read all the way to the end of this article for the details. Suspiciously, the Democrats are desperately trying to get the courts to keep Elon Musk and his team out of the U.S. Treasury’s payment system. Why is that? What are they working so hard to hide?
The truth is that Elon Musk and his DOGE team are beginning to scratch the surface of the greatest heist of all time, and the Democrats are starting to get very nervous. If they are allowed to complete what they have started, the American people will finally learn what has really been going on in Washington and nothing will ever be the same after this.
According to the Washington Post, Musk and his team have been “disrupting operations in at least 14 government agencies” so far…
Staffers and allies of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fanned out across Washington in recent days, seeking access to sensitive data and disrupting operations in at least 14 government agencies in pursuit of a dramatically smaller federal government.
DOGE, which stands for the Department of Government Efficiency, has not disclosed the names of its staff. But The Washington Post has identified more than 30 people working for or closely with it by examining the internal directories of multiple agencies and interviewing numerous federal workers, virtually all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
The Washington Post is attempting to put the activities of Musk and his team in a negative light, because the Post stands to lose quite a bit of revenue as their government contracts get canceled.
But millions upon millions of ordinary Americans are thrilled about what Musk and his team are doing, because we are finally learning what has really been going on behind the scenes.
One of the latest agencies to get visitors from DOGE is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The DOGE team must have discovered something big, because the acting director of the agency has ordered virtually all work to come to a standstill…
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ordered staffers at the agency to stop all work in an email Saturday night.
“I am committed to implementing the President’s policies, consistent with the law, and acting as a faithful steward of the Bureau’s resources,” Vought wrote in the email reviewed by USA TODAY. “Effective immediately, unless expressly approved by the Acting Director or required by law, all employees, contractors and other personnel of the bureau shall… cease all supervision and examination activity.”
For those that don’t know, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created in 2011 after U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren relentlessly pushed for it.
And since that time, it has been pursuing a far left agenda.
Hopefully we shall soon get some details about what DOGE has learned about that agency.
FEMA is another agency that just got a visit from DOGE…
Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump said his administration would consider making the Federal Emergency Management Agency “go away,” representatives of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service were at the agency and reviewing the grant programs it uses to help communities prepare for and respond to disasters, according to four current and two former FEMA officials.
The presence of DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency, at FEMA has caused uncertainty and confusion, raising fears that Trump could soon follow through on his pledge to dismantle the agency, as his administration is doing with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
According to the officials, a small team that does not have security clearance has access to FEMA’s network, which contains the private and sensitive information of tens of thousands of disaster victims. For example, FEMA officials said that on Feb. 5, Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old former college student who goes by the moniker “Big Balls” online and now works for Musk, was given a FEMA badge. The officials, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fears of professional retaliation.
I have written quite a bit about FEMA’s failures in North Carolina and elsewhere.
Hopefully the Trump administration can get that agency back on the right track, because there are lots of people out there that still need help.
On the other hand, USAID appears to be hopelessly corrupt and needs to be shut down permanently. This is an agency that was run by a woman that saw her net worth soar by 23.3 million dollars while she was making a salary of just $180,000 a year…
EX-USAID CHIEF SAMANTHA POWER’S NET WORTH SKYROCKETS—FROM $6.7M TO $30M ON A $180K SALARY
Samantha Power, Biden’s ex-USAID chief, saw her wealth explode while earning just $180K per year.
Where did the extra $23.3M come from? And all of this in just 3 years! USAID oversees billions in global funding—was she cashing in?
The public deserves answers. Follow the money.
Of course it isn’t just Samantha Power that is swimming in cash.
A secretive NGO known as “Internews Network” got almost half a billion dollars from USAID. The following was just posted by WikiLeaks on Twitter…
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.
Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government
I was stunned when I first read that last line.
Without the U.S. government, Internews would essentially not have any revenue at all.
So our tax dollars were paying Jeanne Bourgault’s ridiculously bloated salary, and a whole bunch of other Internews employees were making more than 200 grand a year as well…
They were living the high life at our expense.
During the Biden years, one of the primary things that Internews was focused on was censorship of “disinformation”…
USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum.
Like what they did to 𝕏?
“Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content, and so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists and really try to challenge the global advertising industry to focus their ad dollars towards the good news.”
Notably, Bourgault’s call for global ad boycotts coincided with a widespread advertising boycott targeting Elon Musk’s 𝕏, which has been at the forefront of defending free speech online.
USAID has funneled $472 million to Internews and $68 million to the WEF, where both groups collaborate on censoring the internet.
Is this a good use of American taxpayer funds?
Internews was being paid giant mountains of cash to promote censorship of independent websites such as mine that dared to question the dominant narratives that were being pushed by the Biden administration.
Needless to say, this violated the Constitution.
The Biden administration was illegally using non-governmental entities to suppress the First Amendment rights of anyone that they did not agree with.
I think that Internews must have quickly figured out that their scam was over once Donald Trump won the election, because the “headquarters” of Internews in California now appears to be abandoned…
Sadly, I have a feeling that the fraud that will ultimately be uncovered at the U.S. Treasury will be even greater than the fraud that was going on at USAID.
Elon Musk and his DOGE team were able to access and map the Treasury payment system before the left even realized what was happening…
In Treasury’s basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.
“We’re in,” Akash Bobba messaged the team. “All of it.”
Edward Coristine’s code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor’s algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran’s analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn’t even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about Treasury’s operations than people who had worked there for decades.
Once the left learned what Musk’s team was up to, they started screaming bloody murder, and now they are absolutely determined to get the courts to keep Musk’s team completely out of the Treasury’s payment system.
But it may already be too late.
It appears that Musk’s team has already mapped the system, and reforms are beginning.
In fact, Elon Musk just released a list of initial reforms that the Treasury and his team have mutually agreed to…
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
– All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!
– The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.
The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
Read those last three paragraphs again.
Officials at the Treasury openly admit that about a billion dollars in fraudulent payments are going through their system every week.
That is a bombshell.
So who is receiving those payments?
If the truth about that comes out, it will be one of the biggest news stories of the decade.
Our government has literally been hemorrhaging money, and at this moment we don’t know who has been stealing it.
But the fact that the Democrats are working so hard to cover this up is extremely suspicious.
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