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Yeah, thanks, I just learned that too....The claim about DOGE uncovering a $6 million grant awarded to Whoopi Goldberg to "promote diversity on The View" is not true. According to a fact-checking website, the rumor originated from a satirical website called the Dunning-Kruger Times, which clearly states that its content is fictional
and there's the rub... what if all this so-called debt is fraudulent?I really appreciate the tremendous efforts by Elon Musk and the people at DOGE to cut government spending. It needs to happen-- responsible spending is critical to solving America’s $36+ trillion debt crisis.
**Note: It's more than six agencies. The judge, rightfully so, said they lied about the reason they got rid of them in a way that would make it hard for them to obtain new employment and collect unemployment.
Judge orders 6 federal agencies to rehire fired probationary workers
Washington — A federal judge in California ordered six federal agencies to reinstate probationary employees who were fired last month, finding that their terminations by the Office of Personnel Management were unlawful.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco handed down his order in a challenge brought by a group of unions against the Trump administration from the bench. He said that neither OPM nor its Acting Director Charles Ezell had the authority to direct the terminations across agencies.
More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/j...ationary-workers/ar-AA1ARy7y?ocid=socialshare
Rachel Maddow reads from the court transcript in which a federal judge blasts the Trump administration's defense of its firing of thousands of federal workers and orders that the jobs be restored, with some harsh words for Trump's lawyers to boot.
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Are you implying that Canada and Mexico should be buying 5-gallon buckets of pickles and mayomnaise from the USA?As the reserve currency we enjoy a certain immunity to failing. Not that it can't happen... but as the largest consumer economy in the world it's a privilege for the world to access it.
If you shop at Sams or Costo you pay a fee to be a member. That seems to be the model Trump is implementing using tariffs.
As for retribution via a dollar-collapse, I couldn't say.
All I know is corruption is being exposed and we kind of know who is responsible. Whether or not they are prosecuted remains to be seen.
This is why I'm so negative.81% of the American people are in favor of DOGE finding the waste and the government cutting it. Yet yesterday the Senate voted down a measure to make the cuts permanent.
Also this CR that just passed kept funding everything at last years levels.
So, WTF is being accomplished here? Everything is being exposed and yet nothing is being eliminated.
I agree.This is why I'm so negative.
Because the corruption is so broad and deep...so entrenched. The Elites love it - I have no idea how many new millionaires owe their status to NGO grants, but I'm guessing (of new-money, again) most. The ENTIRE bureaucracy is benefiting from it, some massively, some only in that their jobs are secure.
At least 2/3 of the elected Federal structure is getting something out of it. And of those who aren't, directly, they benefit from other corruption, such as permission to trade on insider information, or on their own pending laws/regs.
So it's not so simple as arresting a few and sending them to life in prison. Not so simple as a couple of hangings for Treason. THE WHOLE ARTIFICE IS ROTTEN TO THE FOUNDATION.
I don't think it can be saved or the corruption can be rooted out. Collapse is not only eventual and inevitable, but it's necessary for a cleansing and rebirth.
as soon as there is a trial and a conviction.When is somebody's ass going to prison?
Thats nothing new though. Lois Lerner did a bunch of that under Obama too. Trump didn't prosecute her when he had the chance. She collects her comfy gov pension now.I'm sure there is plenty of dirt in the IRS' closets. They were weaponized for targeted audits/harassment.
He was told - by Insiders - to let bygones be bygones.Thats nothing new though. Lois Lerner did a bunch of that under Obama too. Trump didn't prosecute her when he had the chance. She collects her comfy gov pension now.