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based on recent reports, it’s true that DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has been integrated into many federal agencies through embedded teams, staff, or operational units—often described as “DOGE offices” or equivalents—that continue its mission of efficiency, waste reduction, and oversight. This decentralization followed the quiet disbandment of DOGE as a standalone entity around November 2025, ahead of its original July 2026 expiration. While sources vary on the exact scope (e.g., “all” vs. “many” agencies), the embedding is widespread and includes:

  • Office of Personnel Management (OPM): Acts as a central hub for DOGE’s workforce reduction directives, with embedded staff handling HR overhauls and agency-wide efficiency mandates.
  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Institutionalizes DOGE’s tools for deregulation, AI audits, and budget cuts, with teams funded through agency IT modernization funds.
  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Former DOGE staffers in roles like chief technology officer, focusing on fraud detection and program streamlining.
  • State Department: Embedded personnel overseeing foreign assistance and efficiency reforms.
  • Department of Education: DOGE teams with access to federal student loan data and other systems for waste elimination.
  • Treasury Department (including IRS): Staff integrated for system access and financial oversight.
  • Other agencies: Reports mention integration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Naval Research, General Services Administration (GSA), Social Security Administration, and dozens more, with over 100 former DOGE staffers reassigned across the government.
  • Some agencies were directed to establish minimum teams of four specialists (e.g., engineer, HR expert, lawyer, and lead) coordinating with a rebranded U.S. DOGE Service in the Executive Office of the President.

This model makes DOGE’s influence more pervasive and harder to dismantle, as it’s no longer a single target but distributed “watchdogs” with data access and decision-making roles.
Critics, including Democrats, have raised concerns about political influence from these embedded staffers. Overall, while not every minor agency may have a formal “DOGE office,” the embedding affects a broad swath of the federal government, with ongoing activities like contract terminations (e.g., $1.9 billion in recent cancellations).
 
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I want to partner with USAID and get paid. Make it rain bitches!
 

OPINION: THE REAL DOGE DIVIDEND: WHEN TRANSPARENCY BECAME A MAJOR PART OF THE CUT

Washington had never seen anything like it.

DOGE actually threw the bureaucrats into a collective aneurysm.

DOGE swung a chainsaw through the federal ledger and left a trail of data to prove it.

The numbers tell the story. DOGE claimed $202 billion in savings.

This is the largest one-year trim in modern federal history.

Contracts cut: 2,274 across forty-seven batches, from a $4.7 million Russian climate grant to a $759 million DEI consulting line.

Rules removed or pending repeal: 1,589, including forty-seven Energy Department regulations worth $11 billion in projected savings.

Agencies eliminated: none, though the Inter-American Foundation dropped from sixty-four staff to one, and eighteen minor boards were defunded.

Fraud blocked: $334 million in improper payments stopped after DOGE forced ID verification on high-risk transfers.

A dent, not a cure, against an annual $500 billion waste estimate.

Federal spending still rose 5 percent year-over-year, and the headline goal of $500 billion in cuts never materialized.

But the cultural shock was real.

For the first time, budgets updated live on a public dashboard.

Bureaucrats watched their departments shrink in real time while the public refreshed the feed.

Transparency turned from a buzzword into a pressure test.

Sources: @DOGE, Fortune, BudgetHouseGov
Video: @teslaownersSV
 
Like any organism under attack, the bureaucracy will conserve inward to regroup & then adapt/change to meet the attack.

Humans are a living organism so we evolve our life/world just like any organism does.

Humans developed Gov/ Bureaucracy so it has all the characteristics of an organism.

Organism's strive to live & expand. The bureaucrats will adapt.
 
It's still verking!


Contracts Update!

Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated and descoped 43 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $3.5B and savings of $222M, including a $4.3M Dept. of Treasury IT contract to “develop a comprehensive strategic narrative and management approach aimed at the Human Centered Transformation and Enhanced Partnerships”, and a $29M Dept. of Commerce consulting contract for “providing the necessary staff to perform Program Management, providing planning, analysis, and support in managing projects”.
 

BOMBSHELL: Information request unveils Tim Walz's Minnesota is funneling property taxes to NGOs

"Ramsey County gave a whopping $38.4 million to a total of 213 NGOs!"

"They proposed that for the next year's budget to increase property taxes by 9.75%. So they're spending $38.4 million on 213 NGOs, and now they want more!"

"Property tax money does NOT belong in the coffers of NGOs. It just doesn't. And ultimately, I think that it's a gross misappropriation of funds!"

"[The state is] not auditing these NGOs receiving property tax money from Ramsey County."

H/t
@AlphaNews
 
Let's face it.

"Nice" Scandinavian-American Minnesota, was just...NOT PREPARED...for the effects of the Third World Invasion, brought on by the Cocoa Messiah and the Party of Chaos.

Even that microcephalic loser, Waltz, had to be brought in - from a drunk tank, where, South Dakota? He's loud, stupid, an obvious pinhead, and he's hell-bent on destroying that state, filled with puke-awful whites.

And here we are. It's New Somalia. Where the family tree goes straight up.
 
They need to check the DNA on some of the immigrants.
 

USAID FUNDED WUHAN LAB RESEARCH AND OVERSEAS ELECTION TECH, NOW TIED TO 'NO KINGS' PROTESTS

USAID did funnel cash through EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

About $1.1M for bat virus hunting under the PREDICT project, but officials swear it wasn't true gain-of-function or COVID creation.

Still, critics like Rand Paul holler it skirted the 2014 GOF pause.

On Smartmatic?

No direct USAID bucks there, the company's caught in Philippine bribery beef, but aid agencies' linked to election tech in spots like Bosnia scanners from Smartmatic.

Now reports are tying it to the "No Kings!" rallies that appeared and vanished in a blink.

Connected or conspiracy?

With USAID's history of global ops, folks are demanding transparency.

Source:
@TheSCIF
 

DOGE FIRES THE MONEY CANNON IN REVERSE, $1.6B IN FEDERAL WASTE GONE IN THREE DAYS

DOGE just dropped a clean, brutal numbers update.

Over the last three days, federal agencies terminated or descoped 55 contracts flagged as wasteful, wiping out $1.6 billion in ceiling value and locking in $542 million in real savings.

The canceled deals tell the story.

A $47 million State Department contract tied to armored personnel carriers and support for Somalia and Djibouti is gone.

A $19.5 million HHS IT services contract for managing websites, mobile tools, and social media for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences was cut.

Even smaller items didn’t escape, including a $151,000 Department of Work education contract for a leadership program at Northwestern University.

This isn’t a paper audit or a promise to “review spending.”

These are live contracts getting shut down, budgets shrinking in real time, and agencies being forced to justify every dollar.

DOGE’s approach is simple and visible: identify the excess, cut it fast, and put taxpayers back in control of where their money goes.

Source:
@DOGE
 
Looks like token "savings" were found.

Call me when you've managed to get the budget back in the black Elon.
 

Exclusive: DOGE cuts prompt scramble to feed troops at remote US base​

An Army base in Alaska responsible for protecting the U.S. homeland from nuclear missile attack has struggled to feed its soldiers in recent months due to the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce, according to a military document.

Fort Greely is tucked in the rugged interior of the 49th state, just north of a gap in the glacier-capped mountains of the Alaska Range. The base experienced a "critical disruption in food service operations" after the remote Army base lost "essential" federal civilian cooks in the wake of efforts to shrink the workforce, said an Army official whose name was redacted in an official contract document published Jan. 7.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/e...t-remote-us-base/ar-AA1TQF12?ocid=socialshare
 
When 𝕏 began digging into NGOs last year, there was a clear learning curve. I and many others had to figure out how donor-advised funds (DAFs) work, how grants are documented, and how nonprofit financial reporting actually functions. Mistakes were made, including by me. But those early errors didn't invalidate the core finding: the shadow nonprofit government as a function of the Deep State is real.

The same applies with the DOGE release. These Medicaid agencies manage billions of dollars and are likely functioning largely as billing pass-throughs. Enrollment surged in part because of deinstitutionalization. You'll also encounter technical quirks that are easy to misinterpret... for example, a single doctor appearing as the servicing provider for an entire state under a specific billing code, even though their staff are the ones delivering the services.

Even so, the dollar amounts are real, and much of the growth remains unexplained. That's the strength of crowdsourcing: people refine their understanding over time. A learning curve doesn't erase the underlying signal.
 
Another piece of the puzzle


THE SHELL GAME

This goes back to reporting I did with the late, great Scott Bennett.

19,000 Swiss bank accounts.
Billions of dollars.
During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State under Obama.

State sponsors of terror — UAE, Qatar, Iran and others — moving money through those Swiss bank accounts like HSBC and UBS.

A UBS whistleblower comes forward.

What does the State Department do?

Slaps a 2% fine on the accounts.

Two percent.

Then suddenly:
The accounts vanish.
The money disappears.

Poof.

Now look at the law firm in the middle of it: Covington & Burling.

Eric Holder’s firm.

They represented the countries.
They represented the banks.

Conflict?

It gets worse.

One of the attorneys, Robert Kehlner was General Flynn’s original lawyer.

Yes. That Robert Kehlner.

The same man tied to Covington.
The same firm tied to the Swiss accounts.

Kehlner filed the FARA paperwork that became part of the trap used against Flynn.

Flynn eventually realized he was being set up.
He fired Kehlner.
He hired Sidney Powell.

The machine panicked.

This isn’t random.
This isn’t isolated.

This is a network.

Swiss accounts.
State sponsors of terror.
DOJ insiders.
Lawfare against a sitting National Security Advisor.

#EpsteinBoomerang
#ItAllConnected
 

Here it is:

The United States government, under the single greatest criminal organization in American history:

Over $100 billion in taxpayer money was extorted and funneled to left-wing corporations to build bridges to nowhere during the last 76 days of the Biden–Harris terrorist administration, while the same program allocated only $40 million over the previous 15 years.

Every single member of Biden’s Cabinet, including his White House staff, should be investigated and taken into custody to face charges of bribery, fraud, abuse of power, extortion, racketeering, money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States government and the American people.
 
The problem won't be solved, because the Political Elite Class doesn't WANT it solved.

And WE know why...

So the rot will continue; until the rot takes the system to where rotten systems go. Into dust.

This is WHY having oversight, an investigatory procedure, having consequences, is so important. It's pruning the Tree of Liberty.

Well the diseased limbs of that tree, which are most of them, are killing the organism.
 
YMMV here so dyodd.

DOGE bros depositions reveal ChatGPT process for gutting 'DEI' grants​

Elon Musk’s disciples in his so-called Department of Government Efficiency were embedded across federal agencies with a mandate to fire thousands of public employees and radically cut federal spending.

When Musk deployed DOGE into the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides vital financial support to research and arts programs, Musk’s staff abruptly choked off more than 1,400 grants, eliminating tens of millions of dollars in public funding within less than a month.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...tting-dei-grants/ar-AA1Yy7DA?ocid=socialshare
 
Once again, ymmv so take this fwiw and dyodd here.

 
Once again, ymmv so take this fwiw and dyodd here.

 
Different DOGE dude, same answers. Kinda makes him look bad but then again, ymmv so think or yourself here.

 

MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution

This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.

Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn't new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.

But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."

They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, "international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces," and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.

At what point does this become treason?

As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
 
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