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EXPOSED 🚨 California Democrats have been using a loophole to take in more federal funds

“California figured this out, that they can force the federal government to spend $9 for every $1 that it spends. They're using it to launder money, and this is the way they do it.

- It costs no money to California because they raise taxes on managed care companies, the companies that are providing Medicaid.
- So they go to these companies and say, we're going to tax you, but don't worry, we're going to give you all of the money that we just taxed you from, right back.
- But in the meantime, we're going to take that money and we're going to pull down federal dollars, and that'll let us have more money so that we can spend it on expanding the population for Medicaid and spend it on illegal immigrants.

In fact, this scheme has allowed California to spend nearly $4 billion to put illegal immigrants to have Medicaid. $4 billion. This is crazy. And this total scheme is spending more money in federal dollars in California that we send in federal dollars than the entire state of Florida spends in one year in their entire annual budget. So this is absurd.

This has to be corrected. California is stealing federal dollars and they're, they're rubbing our noses in it by paying for illegal immigrants and encouraging them.”


BREAKDOWN

Based on the analysis of legal documents, particularly the U.S. Constitution and related federal laws, the operation described in the X posts—where states like California exploit federal funding mechanisms to expand programs like Medicaid for illegal immigrants—appears to deviate from the original intent of the U.S. federal system as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Here's a detailed breakdown:

### Constitutional Framework
1. **Federalism and Enumerated Powers**: The U.S. Constitution establishes a federal system where powers are divided between the federal government and the states. The federal government's powers are enumerated in Article I, Section 8, and include responsibilities like national defense, interstate commerce, and foreign policy. States retain residual powers under the Tenth Amendment, which states that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.

2. **Spending Clause**: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 grants Congress the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States." This has been interpreted broadly to allow federal spending on programs like Medicaid, but the intent was to ensure that such spending benefits the nation as a whole, not to enable states to manipulate federal funds for purposes that might contradict federal law or policy, such as aiding illegal immigrants in ways that undermine federal immigration enforcement.

3. **Immigration and Naturalization**: Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 gives Congress the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. This power has been interpreted to mean that immigration policy is primarily a federal responsibility. States are not intended to create policies that conflict with federal immigration law, as established in cases like *Arizona v. United States* (2012), where the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot enact laws that interfere with federal immigration enforcement.

### Legal and Policy Analysis
- **Medicaid and Federal Funding**: Medicaid is a joint federal-state program, with the federal government providing matching funds to states based on their expenditures. However, the federal government sets eligibility criteria, which traditionally exclude illegal immigrants. The scheme described in the X posts suggests a circumvention of these criteria through a loophole, which could be seen as an abuse of the federal funding mechanism. This is not aligned with the original intent of federalism, where states are expected to operate within the bounds of federal law and policy.

- **SALT Deduction**: The State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, as discussed in related posts, allows taxpayers in high-tax states to deduct state and local taxes from their federal taxable income. Historically, this was intended to prevent double taxation and support state autonomy in taxation. However, the cap introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017 was a response to concerns that the deduction disproportionately benefited high-income taxpayers in high-tax states, potentially undermining the principle of tax equity. The original intent of the U.S. tax system, as reflected in constitutional debates, was to ensure a fair distribution of the tax burden, not to subsidize state policies that might be seen as inefficient or contrary to federal interests.

- **Immigration Policy**: The Founding Fathers did not anticipate modern issues like illegal immigration, but the Constitution's structure implies a unified national approach to such matters. The federal government is tasked with securing borders and enforcing immigration laws, as seen in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). States exploiting federal funds to support illegal immigrants could be seen as undermining this federal authority, which is not in line with the intended operation of the U.S. system.
 
Both parties allowed it to happen



Mind Blowing information from Marco Rubio

- Only 12 cents of every dollar spent from USAID went to recipients, the other 88 cents went to NGOs who pocketed the money
- Even with the reforms we put in place and what we're suggesting in changes to our foreign aid, we still will provide more foreign aid, more humanitarian support than the next 10 countries combined

- China doesn't do humanitarian aid. China does predatory lending, they provide debt traps
- China has no zero record of doing humanitarian aid in the world

- The US State Department was captured, “The State Department had to change. It was no longer at the center of American foreign policy. It had often been replaced by the National Security Council or some other agency of government when in fact, we have these highly talented people -- that were being edged out."
 
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt discovery in DOGE case

The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to halt discovery in a lawsuit seeking access to documents and information about the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) operations.

The emergency application asks the justices to lift a judge’s order allowing limited discovery into whether DOGE is an “agency,” which would make it subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the application that DOGE, also referenced in filings as the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS), is a “presidential advisory body” within the Executive Office of the President — not an agency — and thus exempt from FOIA, which lets the public request information from the government.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=12593f8c90b94805b50289bb5bee7765&ei=24
 


🧾🇺🇸 We're Not Broke Because of Math; We're Broke Because of Corruption

This week, Elon Musk declared his intent to step away from politics, citing that he's "done enough" and sees no reason to spend his money on politics. This has fired off a lot of speculation.

I haven't commented on the Big Beautiful Bill until now, mostly because I think both sides are right. It's not enough. But it is also the best we're going to get for a long while.

And that's the crux of the problem.

The most "responsible" plan anyone can come up with still adds trillions to our debt, just at a slightly slower rate. That's the hard truth. Even with the most disruptive leader in modern history, this is where we landed.

Interest rates are creeping up again. After Moody's downgrade, mortgage rates topped 7%, and 30-year Treasuries crossed 5%. In 2023, we collected just under $2.2 trillion in federal income taxes. At 5%, debt interest alone eats up 80% of that. What's left barely covers anything. And the rest of our revenue sources? Mostly payroll taxes, locked up in programs we can't touch.

We are out of money.
We are out of time.
And still, we act like it's not a problem.

I'm not saying this to sound hopeless. But we have to face the truth: this is happening because of a culture of corruption.

Both parties know where the fat is. But even the ones who campaign on responsibility won't touch foreign aid, defense waste, or pet projects. They'd rather swing at Medicaid.

This isn't a math problem; it's a cultural one.

So that’s where my focus is going. Who benefits. Who protects them. Who looks the other way. Because we don't fix this by balancing a budget. We fix it by telling the truth: loudly and clearly, until the rot has nowhere left to hide.

Al Capone didn't fall because the system held him accountable. He fell because someone followed the money.

I'm going to keep doing that.
 
DOGE kills 12 million democrat voters.

DOGE Says It Completed 'Major Cleanup' Of Social Security Records | Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times​

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a statement on Thursday that its staff have completed a “major cleanup” of Social Security records after it was discovered that more than 12 million people aged 120 or older were in the system.

“After 11 weeks, Social Security has finished this major cleanup initiative,” DOGE wrote in a post on social media platform X, adding that some 12.3 million individuals listed as being aged 120 or older “have now been marked as deceased.”

But it added that “some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file,” which “will be investigated in a follow-up effort.”

DOGE also provided a portion of a screenshot that showed there were about 3.3 million people aged 120 to 129, 3.9 million aged 130 to 139, 3.5 million listed as age 140 to 149, 1.3 million listed as age 150 to 159, and around 124,000 listed as age 160 to 169, all of whom were marked as deceased in the Social Security system.

The update comes as new Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano told Fox Business earlier this week that Social Security’s “records were not very good, and that’s the source of fraud.”

“The amount of people that were not alive that did not show on the system ... was outstanding. Millions and millions. And that is a source of potential for fraud,” he told the news outlet, adding that the work that DOGE did in the agency “was 100 percent accurate” in a bid to locate anything that could lead to fraud.

That’s because, according to Bisignano, an active Social Security number that is “still alive in the system” presents the “opportunity for fraud.”

Established by President Donald Trump in January, DOGE is tasked with finding what officials say are fraud, waste, and abuse. But its efforts have been blocked in several court cases, namely in the Social Security Administration.

DOGE’s recent announcement on its Social Security record cleanup efforts comes as the Trump administration submitted an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month to allow access to Social Security data after lower courts blocked its access.

In March, U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander, who is based in Maryland, ruled that DOGE could not access Social Security systems because such a move could run afoul of the federal Privacy Act, also alleging that the task force’s mission to root out fraud, waste, and abuse is a “fishing expedition.” She also directed the DOGE team to delete any personally identifiable data that it may have in its possession.

“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion. It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack,” the judge wrote.

A month later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a ruling to uphold Hollander’s order, prompting the Trump administration to file its appeal with the Supreme Court.

A court filing submitted by Solicitor General D. John Sauer on May 13 argued that Hollander effectively superseded the executive branch and “dictated ... which government employees can access which data and even prescribed necessary training, background checks, and paperwork for data access.”

“When district courts attempt to transform themselves into the human resources department for the Executive Branch, the irreparable harm to the government is clear,” he wrote.

Read more:

DOGE Says It Completed 'Major Cleanup' Of Social Security Records | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
zerohedge.com zerohedge.com
 


California Rep Carl DeMaio was put on the Budget Committee. He brought up Gavin Newsom was illegally qualifying illegals for healthcare with federal reimbursements

He was warned to keep it quiet

He then discovered a 73 NGO Democrat money laundering operation

He was removed

“A pretty lengthy career that I've established in turning around financially troubled organizations, doing audits, doing fiscal and financial transparency reports, performance management. And I took all those skill sets and have been applying them to government at the federal, state and local level for the past 30 years. So when I was elected and I was appointed to the budget committee

— So the first meeting I uncovered that the Newsom budget was not balanced. And Newsom said that in January that his budget was, quote, modestly balanced, it had a modest surplus. And I said, no, he's a liar. You have a $10- $12 billion deficit. That's what I was saying in January and here we are in May and Newsom admits that he has a $10- $12 billion dollars deficit

- That same meeting I pinpointed what was driving our deficit in large part was the free health care handouts to illegal immigra at state taxpayer expense. And we blew the lid open on the financial crisis in Medi Cal program they're using to give out the free health care to illegal immigrants and that it wasn't costing $6 billion and reimbursing with reimbursements from the federal government. It's costing $10 billion. And there are no reimbursements from the federal government because these are ineligible recipients. You can't use federal funds for illegal immigrants for welfare under federal law. And so we expose that. Then in the next meeting I exposed, by the way, they warned me after that first meeting that I better shut up, that I better stop it better myself

- So in the second meeting I went after their MONEY LAUNDERING. We identified contracts and grants that Newsom and Democrats have been using through the state budget with your state taxpayer money to fund far left wing groups. We came up with 73 NGO groups that are being funded with your taxpayer money through a COVID 19 project that COVID 19 is so far, you know, gone and done, but they're still having these COVID 19 programs with all this money being given out. And we went through these 73 organizations and they're all left wing lobbying groups, fringe political groups, your taxpayer money funding far left politics.

And so at the end of that hearing, I was thrown off because Newsom and the Democrats they don't like it when you shine a light on their corruption and their wasteful spending.

And so I knew, I knew that there would be retaliation.”

With all this information and evidence, how are Democrats and Gavin Newsom not being raided and thrown in prison
 


NEW: David Sacks says Elon and Trump made history with DOGE—but the RINOs in Congress are killing it.

@DavidSacks
just reminded us why the birth of DOGE was a once-in-a-generation moment.

“We had a wonderful moment here where you have Elon come in with DOGE, which the president made possible. Okay?”

“No other president would have even had done this.”

The All-In crew didn’t argue. They all agreed.

Sacks laid it out:

“You get a total outsider to come in and bring a team of like—young, big-balled geniuses—and you let them go through these departments line by line, and start deleting things.”

That same team uncovered a staggering $160 billion a year in cuts that could be made.

“They made, I think, great progress,” Sacks said.

However, there’s one thing even Elon and Trump can’t fix alone: Congress.

“Beyond that, they need Congress to approve it,” Sacks admitted.

“And I will acknowledge that there are still a number of soft on spending RINO Republicans.”

“And there's just not a majority for the types of austerity and cuts that you guys would like to see.”

DOGE proved it could be done.

But the establishment is doing everything it can to stop the slashing of bloated bureaucracy.
 


DOGE official pulls out stacks of papers that the federal government uses for retirees.

"This is thicker than the Lord of the Rings trilogy."

One retiree = HUGE stack of papers. The process takes months. They are now eliminating this process and bringing it online from this point forward.

@ElonMusk
: "If somebody wants to retire, they can't because it takes 6 months to compile the paper and carry the paper into a mine where it is stored. And all the calculations are done by hand."

DOGE member: "These are all compiled by hand and moved around on carts through the mine. It takes many months to do that. And this one is a single retiree's paper required to leave the government."
 


The defining American industry of recent times has been the manufacture of licenses, certificates, franchises, memberships, rankings, and degrees. They are, like our money, produced by fiat, finally, ostensibly for the benefit of all but inarguably for the benefit of the issuers, whose cultish formulas and procedures are invaluable, closely-guarded assets, able to conjure wealth almost at will.

Now these "status factories," as one might call them, are being inspected, audited, and questioned in ways that their owners, managers, and benefactors -- by far the largest group, which includes so many of us -- find outrageous, impudent, ominous. The people at the top are rising up. Against what, though? They sit on the thrones. They make the crowns. To finesse this absurdity, they've decided to recruit the less privileged to their cause and to style themselves as tribunes of the marginalized. But will the low agree to serve the high as moral and political shields? Will outsiders carry the banners of the insiders? And for what price, if so? Or is this a game they've played and lost before and know to be wary of in its latest form?

For me, it's question of the moment as the "downrising" of the high-status class heats up.

Or grows cold and flops.
 

Tech Bro Had to Go​

Elon Musk came to Washington with a chain saw and left with a black eye.

Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly — and apparently on hallucinogens.

As with President Trump’s tariffs, DOGE has created more volatility than value.

A guy who went bankrupt six times doesn’t really care about spending. And Trump certainly didn’t want to see the headline, “Trump Cuts Social Security.”

He just wanted to get revenge on “the bureaucracy” by deputizing Musk to force out a lot of federal employees and give the impression they were cutting all the waste.

More:

 

Elon Musk Was on Crazy Combo of Drugs During Trump Campaign​

Elon Musk was getting high on ketamine, psychedelics, Adderall, and ecstasy frequently while on the campaign trail for President Trump last year. Multiple sources reported that the billionaire was using so much ketamine that it was hurting his bladder, a common side effect of frequent use.

The New York Times reports that Musk traveled with a box of about 20 different pills on him, including but not limited to Adderall, according to a photo and multiple sources.

Musk being high all the time might explain some of the “quirks” that his fans chalk up to him being some misunderstood genius. That weird, babbling speech at CPAC in February? The weird jumping? That might have something to do with frequent use of the drugs mentioned above.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1FMLzW?ocid=socialshare
 
TDS, a hope of more USAID payments...plus, they have to serve their audience, which are Woked-up beyond any definition of sanity.
 
Musk exposed the bureacracy. Their stooges took it out on cars and dealerships. That's disgraceful.
 
nickndfl said:
Musk exposed the bureacracy. Their stooges took it out on cars and dealerships. That's disgraceful.
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That's Leftism.

Brain-stem rage; assassination of intellect; mindless violence. They have discipline - the discipline to stop and start on the Leader's signal.

But that's it.

The Left, like the Bolsheviks, like the Maoists, like the Castroites, like Organized revolutionary pawns everywhere...uses chaos and violence to demoralize the public.
 
I keep on saying.

Only a fiat-money collapse/crash is gonna stop this tyranny.

Only State Secession (regional independence) will restore the Rights of Man, codified in the Constitution.

Only educated, rational citizens (which of course are not everyone) will support this, will lead this movement, can serve in the new nation's administration.

Several changes are key here. First is, the end of Universal Franchise - QUALIFIED voters, only.

Second is, LIMITS ON TENURE IN OFFICE.

Third is, a charter-document stipulation of SOUND MONEY. NO MATTER what economic panic might ensue (or be ginned up to create pressure for another Central Bank).

If these things happen - and if we can push the sodomites back into their closets - we will keep the interior regions of the continent, free.
 
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