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Posted - February 1, 2021 at 3:37 PM

Saved - January 10, 2024 at 7:11 PM

@MaxStier - Max Stier

Our government has suffered literally decades of rust, and then President Trump came in with a sledgehammer.

@publicservice - The Partnership

Under constant barrage from President Trump, the federal government got smaller and unhappier over the last four years. It was also less able to fulfill its mission. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/upshot/trump-effect-government-agencies.html?referringSource=articleShare

The Government Agencies That Became Smaller, and Unhappier, Under Trump (Published 2021) The total federal civilian work force is slightly larger than four years ago, as a few agencies grew even as others shrank. In some places, morale also took a hit. nytimes.com

@wallstreetcrtl — Wall Street Cartel

Posted - October 29, 2023 at 11:08 PM

Saved - October 30, 2023 at 12:58 AM

@wallstreetcrtl - Wall Street Cartel

Trump: “As president, I will be creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to shed sunlight on every dark and rotten corner of Washington, DC.” https://t.co/P2XAti0VrR

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As president, I will establish a truth and reconciliation commission to expose the corruption in Washington DC, beginning with Joe Biden. Their actions have paved the way for this necessary investigation.

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Speaker 0: As president, I will be creating a truth and reconciliation commission to shed sunlight on every dark and rotten corner of Washington DC, starting with brookie joe Biden. And now we can really do that because they've led the path. What they're doing is so bad to this

@intheMatrixxx — intheMatrixxx

Posted - December 14, 2023 at 3:29 PM

Saved - December 15, 2023 at 2:26 PM

@intheMatrixxx - intheMatrixxx

Like almost everything, time will show that Trump was right. The fix was, in fact, in. Here is just one instance. https://t.co/18uUBu62tS

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The speaker discusses a discrepancy in the vote count between Biden and Trump, stating that the actual results showed Trump with a significant lead. They explain that the voting machine is designed to generate errors, which then go to adjudication where thousands of ballots can be bulk adjudicated with one click. A high rate of 68% of the ballots needed adjudication, compared to the federal allowable rate of 1 in 125,000. The program is intentionally designed to generate errors and move votes from one candidate to another. However, on November 4, all system files, adjudication files, and internet files were deleted, which is significant.

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Speaker 0: Let's take a look at it, please. We have 7,769 votes for Biden, and then for Trump, 4,000 509 votes, but that was wrong. And here are the actual results. Trump, significant margin over Joe Biden. First, they said, I believe this is a human error, then they said it was a mechanical error, then they said it was a human error. What happened? Speaker 1: Well, what happened was the the machine is Designed to, generate huge numbers of, errors when you run ballots through the tabulator, and then those ballots, those errors go to adjudication where someone's sitting somewhere we don't know where, can simply click on 1 button and bulk adjudicate thousands of ballots at once. So in this case, They were able to adjudicate, someone was, 12,000 ballots roughly, with one click of the button. Speaker 0: Okay, and that's not good, adjudication and the rate of ballots that were being adjudicated, I e, it goes to the machine, something doesn't look right. A human being has to take it and do something with it. What was the rate of ballots that needed to be adjudicated? Speaker 1: 68% of the ballots run through the machine order had to be adjudicated. Speaker 0: And tell us just how crazy off the wall that number is or isn't? It seems kinda high. Speaker 1: It's very high because the the federal allowable rate is 1 in 125,000 ballots. That's the error rate, and this program is designed specifically To generate these types of errors, and that's how they move votes, from 1 candidate to another. They put them in these folders for mass adjudication, and they are shipped somewhere. In our case, specifically as you see in the report, we can't tell that right now because on November four. All of those system files, adjudication files, and Internet files were deleted, so that's pretty significant

@robertdunlap947 — Bobby D🎙

Posted - February 29, 2024 at 10:31 PM

Saved - March 1, 2024 at 5:53 AM

@robertdunlap947 - Bobby D🎙

All I can say is, sit down because your blood pressure may spike after hearing what YOUR’S AND MINE TAX DOLLARS GO TO🤬! Seriously, we need to FIRE 99.999% of the Federal Government😡 https://t.co/7Pvkk6gTe1

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Congress is rushing to pass a $1.7 trillion spending package without balancing the budget. Examples of wasteful spending include $2.3 million on injecting beagles with cocaine, $700,000 studying how male parrots attract mates, $187,000 on studying if dogs help kids cope, and $118,000 on studying if a robot of Marvel's Thanos can snap its fingers.

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Speaker 0: You would think that a looming recession spurred largely by exorbitant government spending would give this congress pause. But instead of taking a minute to consider what a responsible federal government budget looks like, we are instead placed behind the barrel of a gun, forcing us to choose between letting government expire or blindly passing a $1,700,000,000,000 spending package that not only does not balance, but in fact spends over 10% more than last year. How does congress spend taxpayers money? Well, here's just a few examples of how your government currently spends money. We found that they spent last year, $2,300,000 injecting beagles with cocaine. It seems that they were curious. Their researchers were curious. Despite the pain they inflicted on these dogs, they were curious to know if cocaine causes adverse effects. Guess what? Read the newspaper. Read the news. Look at the addicts across our country. You think you need to inject beagles with cocaine to know that cocaine's a bad deal. $700,000 was spent to study how male parents attract their mate. Really? We've got people who go hungry in our country. We got people that are trying to get out from behind poverty and we're spending $700,000 studying how male parrots attract a female. We spend a $187,000 to study whether or not dogs help kids cope. Of course, they do. Ask any pet owner. Any pet owner could have told you and we would have saved the taxpayer a $187,000. We spent a $118,000 to study if a metal replica, a robot of Marvel Comics evil warlord Thanos could snap his fingers. A $118,000 really? They apparently hired some

@RepMTG — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

Posted - November 21, 2024 at 10:00 PM

Saved - November 21, 2024 at 11:11 PM

@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

It’s time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!!! ▶️ WATCH coverage on the new @GOPoversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency. https://t.co/okQfFUyqCc

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is forming a new subcommittee to collaborate with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami at the Department of Government Efficiency. Marjorie Taylor Greene will chair the panel, focusing on eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Comer has already met with Ramaswami's team, and they are working together to align with President Trump's priorities to reduce red tape. Greene expressed enthusiasm about collaborating with Trump, Musk, and Ramaswami, stating that no topic will be off the table and that she plans to identify individuals who need to be fired. Trump noted that Republican politicians have long aspired to achieve the goals of the Department of Government Efficiency.

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Speaker 0: House oversight committee chairman James Comer tells me he's creating a new subcommittee to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami at the new department of government efficiency. So I'm told the panel will be chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene who will focus on eliminating government waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. A source familiar tells me Comer already met with Vivek Ramaswami and his incoming team at Doge. The source tells me that the teams are already working together and Comer told me that this panel will align with president Trump's priorities to cut red tape. Greene tells me that she is excited to work with president Trump, Elon Musk, and Ramaswami, and she plans to hold hearings. She told me quote, no topic will be left off the table. Greene said she also plans to expose the people who quote need to be fired. As for president Trump, he says republican politicians have dreamed about the objective of Doge for a very long time.

@PirateWires — Pirate Wires

Posted - January 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM

Saved - January 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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A piece by Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar critiques government inefficiency, highlighting the contrast between SpaceX's cost-effective rocket launches and California's expensive rail projects. It notes the slow progress on electric vehicle charging stations and rural broadband connections, as well as failures in emergency response during recent fires. The argument calls for a leader willing to embrace change and unlock America's potential, suggesting that Trump could shift the country from a "manager mode" to a more dynamic approach. A response emphasizes government inefficiency.

@PirateWires - Pirate Wires

NEW PIECE from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Pirate Wires: Trump will get America out of “manager mode” • While SpaceX put more than 300 rockets into orbit for less than $10 billion, California has built 1,600 feet of elevated rail for $11 billion, and now projects its high speed rail project will cost a total of $128 billion. • Congress earmarked $7.5 billion in 2021 for a half-million electric-vehicle charging stations. By May 2024, only eight had been built. Not 8,000. Not 800. Eight. • The federal government allocated $42.5 billion on rural broadband and has connected zero homes after three years. • Unimaginably large parts of Los Angeles were just destroyed by a devastating fire while its fire hydrants didn’t work, and while fire department leadership seemed more focused on DEI than saving lives. Something has to change. Our politicians can no longer remain fixated on steady, predictable preservation of the status quo. Instead, we need a leader who will fight for the country, is willing to risk change, and who realizes America’s exceptional potential. Link is threaded to @ssankar's full piece on why Trump will pivot the country back to founder mode — and usher in a golden age for America and its people.👇

@HugoVale_ - Hugo Vale

@PirateWires Government is highly inefficient at doing anything. https://t.co/AoccVExcpV

@elonmusk — Elon Musk

Posted - February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Saved - February 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

Your tax dollars should be spent on America or the government should just tax you less

@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst

🧵From funneling tax dollars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week, USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington… all around the world. 🌎 This is why @POTUS, @DOGE, and @elonmusk are ending the nonsense. 👇

@JimFergusonUK — Jim Ferguson

Posted - February 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM

Saved - February 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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I just shared that Trump is demanding investigations into corruption within USAID, questioning who has profited from the billions allocated. He suggests that USAID has been misused as a slush fund, raising concerns about where the money has actually gone and who benefited while taxpayers were left in the dark. There's a sense of urgency as Democrats seem anxious about the potential fallout. This effort is positioned as a broader initiative to unveil globalist corruption, signaling that a reckoning is on the horizon.

@JimFergusonUK - Jim Ferguson

🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP DEMANDS INVESTIGATIONS INTO USAID CORRUPTION – WHO'S GETTING KICKBACKS? 🚨 🇺🇸 Trump just called for full investigations into who has been profiting from the billions funneled through USAID. 🔴 For years, USAID has been a Deep State slush fund—where did all that money REALLY go? 🔴 Who got rich while American taxpayers were robbed blind? 🔴 Democrats are sweating because they KNOW the Hammer of Justice is coming. 🔥 This isn’t just about USAID—this is about exposing the globalist corruption machine. The cover-up is crumbling. The reckoning is here. 🔥

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在这里，每个人都在这里。每个人都是这里的一部分。我们都是在这个地方的个体，彼此相连。 Everyone is here. Each person is part of this place. We are all individuals connected in this space.

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Speaker 0: 的一个人在这里 Speaker 1: 的一个人在这里的一个人都是在这里的一个人都是在这里的一 Speaker 0: 个人的一个 Speaker 1: 人都是在这里的一 Speaker 2: 个人的一个人 Speaker 0: 的人都 Speaker 2: 是在这里的一

@elonmusk — Elon Musk

Posted - February 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Saved - February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

Billions of taxpayer dollars to known FRAUDULENT entities are STILL being APPROVED by Treasury. This needs to STOP NOW!

@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal

🚨🇺🇸TREASURY OFFICIAL ALLOWED FRAUDULENT PAYMENTS WORTH BILLIONS TO CONTINUE—TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REMOVES HIM David Lebryk, a career Treasury Department official, was pushed out by the Trump administration. Lebryk oversaw over $1 billion in federal payments but allowed fraudulent transactions to proceed hundreds, if not thousands, of times—a blatant violation of the law. This is exactly the problem with the federal government: unelected bureaucrats making policy decisions against the will of the elected president. Lebryk didn’t just obstruct Trump’s executive order—he actively enabled financial misconduct. The Trump administration has made it clear: there will be no tolerance for insubordination, corruption, or rogue officials who undermine the law. Agencies need to be slashed and held accountable—80% of this bureaucracy has no oversight, no transparency, and no legitimacy. Source: Black Enterprise, @DefiyantlyFree , @DOGE

@elonmusk — Elon Musk

Posted - February 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Saved - February 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

This is what we’re dealing with everywhere in government https://t.co/ObsfvINEQ2

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Failing to account for $850 billion in the DOD budget is concerning. While a failed audit doesn't automatically mean waste, fraud, or abuse, it raises questions about accountability and responsible spending. The inability to track how this money was spent leads to justifiable concerns, especially when considering issues like food insecurity on military bases. The contrast between a massive military budget and struggles to provide basic services highlights a disconnect for many. Seeing a $50 billion increase in the Pentagon budget after twenty years of war, while service members rely on food stamps, fuels perceptions of corruption. This isn't about personal attacks, but about the disconnect between massive spending and the realities faced by those in the military.

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Speaker 0: To be doing. Like, there is a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse within a system. Speaker 1: Audits and waste, fraud, and abuse are not the same thing. So let's, decompose these things. Speaker 0: Please educate me on on what Speaker 1: the is exactly what you just described, Speaker 0: which Speaker 1: is, do I know what was delivered to which place? Speaker 0: Right. Speaker 1: The ability to pass an audit or in a the fact that the DOD has not passed an audit is not suggestive of waste, fraud, and abuse. That is completely false right there. So Speaker 0: So what is Now Speaker 1: is a question of it's suggestive that we can't we don't have an accurate inventory that we can pull up of what we have where. That is not the same as saying we can't do that because waste, fraud, and abuse has occurred. Speaker 0: So in my world Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: That's waste. Speaker 1: How is that waste? Speaker 0: If I give you a billion dollars and you can't tell me what happened to it, that to me is wasteful. That that means you are Speaker 1: not responsible. Speaker 0: But if you can't tell me where it went, then what am I supposed to think? And when there has been reporting I mean, this is not look. I'm not I'm not saying this is on you and that you caused this, but I think it's it's a tough argument to make that Speaker 1: cause it. Speaker 0: An an $850,000,000,000 budget to an organization that can't pass an audit and tell you where that money went, like, I think most people would consider that somewhere in the realm of waste, fraud, or abuse because they would wonder why that money isn't well accounted for. And especially when they see food insecurity on military bases and they see Speaker 1: Wanna talk about that? Because that's a good we should be talking. I mean, I'm trying to understand where where where you're trying to go other than the dollars, which really bother Speaker 0: you. I think it doesn't really bother me. I think it's all connected. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 0: I think when I Tell me Speaker 1: that story. Tell tell me how you're thinking Speaker 0: about that. When I see, a state department get a certain amount of money and a military budget be 10 times that, and I see a struggle within government to get people, like, more basic services, and then that, department that got that I mean, we got out of twenty years of war, and the Pentagon got a $50,000,000,000 raise. Like, that's shocking to me. Now I may not understand exactly the ins and outs and and the incredible, magic of an audit, but I'm a human being who lives on the Earth and can't figure out how $850,000,000,000 to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. Like, to me, that's fucking corruption. I'm sorry. And if, like, if that blows your mind and if you think, like, that's, like, a crazy agenda for me to have, I really think that that's institutional thinking and that it's not looking at the day to day reality of the people that you call the greatest fighting force in the world. So I just again, I get back to this idea of, like, I'm not looking to pick a fight with you, but I am surprised at that the reaction to these questions are, you don't know what an audit is, bucko. Like, that's just weird to me. Speaker 1: Okay.

@RupertLowe10 — Rupert Lowe MP

Posted - February 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Saved - February 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM

@RupertLowe10 - Rupert Lowe MP

We must watch what Musk and Trump are doing, and follow their lead - that means brutally slashing back waste, fraud, and bureaucracy. How to release the private sector? Take a chainsaw to big Government, again and again and again. https://t.co/v8dmTq1K5x

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The West's only hope lies in observing the actions of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and their associates. Keir Starmer's preference for a struggling Europe over a dynamic, deregulated America is concerning. Musk's actions are revealing widespread fraud within Western governments, a consequence of excessive central planning and quantitative easing. This central planning breeds fraud. By exposing and eliminating this fraud, Musk aims to unleash private enterprise, sparking innovation and growth, allowing the West to return to its strengths. We will innovate and grow again once we get rid of the fraud.

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Speaker 0: Thanks. Well, the only hope we've got, I think, Alan, is watch what Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the team are doing out there. It's quite extraordinary that Keir Starmer seems to want to cuddle up to a failing Europe rather than a vibrant, deregulating in America. And if you look at what Elon Musk's doing, he is exposing the fact that at the center of the Western government now, there's huge amounts of fraud because we've become too centrally planned. That's what happens when you get central planning, you get fraud. It's what happens when you get quantitative easing, you get fraud. And what he's doing is he's going to ultimately expose it, get rid of it, and that will release private sector enterprise, and then we will start to do what we the West is good at. We will start to innovate and grow.

@SecretaryTurner — Scott Turner

Posted - February 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Saved - February 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM

@SecretaryTurner - Scott Turner

Working with @DOGE, we have identified $260 million in savings at @HUDgov. The American taxpayer is no longer writing a blank check for federal contracts and programs. Americans voted for reform and we’re delivering it for @POTUS. https://t.co/jXtG33599h

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Working with our team, we've identified $260 million in savings on contracts alone. Under President Trump's leadership, we're committed to eliminating fraud, abuse, and streamlining processes. I'm pleased to announce these significant savings and our ongoing efforts to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars. We anticipate finding even more savings in the future.

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Speaker 0: Working with those and the team at Hub, we have found $260,000,000 in savings on contracts alone. You know? So, with president Trump's leadership and finding all the ways fraud and abuse and streamlining our processes, you know, I'm happy to announce, you know, that we have found $260,000,000 in savings already and and and and to soon find more so that we're good stewards over taxpayer dollars.

@EndWokeness — End Wokeness

Posted - February 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM

Saved - February 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM

@EndWokeness - End Wokeness

Director Of Government Oversight says he does not see widespread malicious waste from gov spending 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/ZdxlGGkl61

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Waste, fraud, and abuse are distinct concepts. Improper payments are related to all three, but are not the same thing. Improper payments can result from bad record keeping, outdated IT, human error, or negligence. It is wrong to assume that improper payments are always the result of bad actors with malicious intent.

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Speaker 0: Waste is different from fraud. Fraud is different from abuse, and abuse is different from both. When we talk about improper payments, they are a subset of those other three categories, but that doesn't tell us the whole picture either. Sometimes improper payments are a function of bad record keeping. Sometimes they are a function of outdated information technology systems. Sometimes they come about through human error and sometimes they come about through negligence. There are a variety of reasons why improper payments happen. It just simply is not the case that improper payments are only a function of bad people doing bad things with bad intent.

@elonmusk — Elon Musk

Posted - February 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM

Saved - February 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

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@RapidResponse47 - Rapid Response 47

.@StephenM: "I will be as excited as I want to be about the fact that we are saving Americans billions of dollars, that we are ending the theft and waste and grift and corruption ... You may not care about this issue, your colleagues may not care about this issue, but WE care." https://t.co/FVLTmjS5ZX

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The American people are tired of their tax dollars being wasted. For the first time, this president is committed to restoring accountability at every level of the federal government. If you agree there is waste, abuse, and corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts and reforms that are being instituted? We are saving Americans billions of dollars and ending the theft, waste, grift, and corruption. We are stopping American taxpayer dollars from subsidizing a rogue federal bureaucracy that has been relentlessly weaponized against the American people. We care about this issue. The American public overwhelmingly supports what President Trump is doing.

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Speaker 0: The American people are exhausted and tired of watching their tax dollars be corruptly spent, abused, wasted, and in every sense, robbed and stolen from them. This president, for the first time in history, is committed to restoring accountability at every level of the federal government. You may assert there's no waste in the Pentagon. You may assert there's no waste in treasure. Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not Speaker 0: You may assert there's no waste in The United States. Speaker 1: That, Steven. Steven, I don't think anyone Speaker 0: Then why are you not celebrating these cuts? If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted every day that no action is taken? The entire salaries of American workers that are taxed disappear forever. Speaker 1: Steven, let's calm down. We're not this is we're not having a debate about whether there are places could Speaker 0: be trying to debate me, and I I will be as excited as I want to be about the fact that we are saving Americans billions of dollars, that we are ending the theft and waste and grift and corruption, that we are stopping American taxpayer dollars from subsidizing a rogue federal bureaucracy that has been relentlessly weaponized against the American people. Speaker 1: Okay. So I'm not talking about Your colleagues may not care about this issue. Area. Speaker 0: But we care about this issue. I understand that too. Care about this issue. Speaker 1: They also care about privacy. The Speaker 0: American public overwhelmingly supports what president Trump is doing.

@nataliegwinters — Natalie Winters

Posted - February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM

Saved - February 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM

@nataliegwinters - Natalie Winters

MORE waist, fraud, & abuse!! https://t.co/4fo6BrF8ZQ

@CrazyVibes_1 — Crazy Vibes

Posted - February 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM

Saved - February 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM

@CrazyVibes_1 - Crazy Vibes

@MattWalshBlog Former federal employee spills all the secrets about the incompetence and waste in the federal government https://t.co/itEJdBFXkB

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I used to work for the Army Corps of Engineers, and the abuse I witnessed was shocking. My boss even bragged about how hard it was to get fired. People would take advantage of the lax environment. One employee ran his farm during remote work, another bragged about drunk driving during work hours. Some wouldn't even log in, and no one checked. The 80/20 rule was in full effect, with 80% of the work done by 20% of the employees. One guy slept at his desk every morning, while another napped in his government truck at a park. I spent three months cleaning up their disaster of a file room. Our government is full of lazy, incompetent people, and the hard workers are punished for outshining their colleagues. Our government organizations are so outdated, they basically need to be rebuilt from scratch. That's why I don't feel bad for federal employees being forced back into the office.

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Speaker 0: I used to be a federal employee, and I'm gonna tell you why I don't feel bad for federal employees being forced to come back into the workplace. I I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for almost a year, and the abuses that I saw by government employees was astounding and shocking. I worked as a realty specialist, and that is someone who manages government owned lands. So when farmers and ranchers lease land to, graze cattle, we would manage that. When I was hired, my boss bragged that it was basically impossible to get fired from the federal government, and that in her entire time working for the government, she'd only seen one person fired, and that person assaulted a fellow employee, and she wasn't even fired for assaulting the employee at work. She was fired for lying about it because they caught it on camera. When I worked for the government, we were allowed to work 50% in the office and 50% from home for the most part. In some cases, if you'd worked there, like, I think over ten years or something, you could actually work from home three days a week and work from the office two days a week. I use the word work very loosely. One employee spent his time remote working running his own farm. Another employee bragged about drunk driving and going out to lunch with her friends for margaritas when she was supposed to be remote working. No one would log in to their computers, and you can see it because they're not on Teams, and no one ever checked ever. There's something called the eighty twenty rule where 80% of the work in government is done by 20% of the people, and this is very, very true. People who get a job in the government a lot of times find out that it's very difficult to fire them, and they take advantage of this. One employee would come into the office. His start time would be 06:30, and he knew nobody would be there. And when I came in at 07:30 and I was the next person to come in, he was snoring at his desk every single morning. Another employee would, take the government truck on an almost daily basis so that he could go out to lunch and then go and take a nap in his favorite park under a shady tree in the government truck. One of the very first things I did when I started working for the court, I spent three months cleaning up their real estate files room, which was a disaster. The government is using an antiquated system that was developed sometime in the nineties and using regulations that haven't been updated since the nineties to manage our dams and our government lands. Our government is filled with the most incompetent and most lazy people and an occasional hard worker. And those hard workers are severely punished every time they outwork their colleagues because then the colleagues realize people will see that they're lazy, and they don't wanna have to work more. They're just buying time until they retire in almost every case. My point is some of our government organizations haven't been maintained or updated in so long that you basically need to create a new organization and start from scratch. Because there's almost no way to transfer it over, and there's so much red tape in between, it'll never get done. But I know that our government is inefficient because the people working for it are not doing what they need to do to take care of the rest of us. So, no, I don't think government employees should get the benefit of working from home. If our government is not working for us, we shouldn't have to take years to do anything in a technological age. They choose to take that long. That's a choice. So they can choose to do things faster and more efficiently, and then they can choose to get remote work back. I don't feel bad for them at all.

@CrazyVibes_1 — Crazy Vibes

Posted - February 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM

Saved - February 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM

@CrazyVibes_1 - Crazy Vibes

@DefiyantlyFree Former federal employee spills all the secrets about the incompetence and waste in the federal government https://t.co/RwbEoE8KoC

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I used to work for the Army Corps of Engineers, and the abuse by government employees was astounding. My boss said it was nearly impossible to get fired. People were taking advantage of the work from home situation. One employee ran his own farm. Another bragged about drunk driving during remote work. No one checked if people were even logged in. The 80/20 rule is true. 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people, because it's so hard to fire people. One guy napped at his desk every morning. Another took the government truck to nap in the park. I spent three months cleaning up their real estate files. The government uses an antiquated system and regulations from the nineties. Our government is full of incompetent, lazy people, and hard workers are punished for outperforming. I don't think government employees should get to work from home until they start doing their jobs.

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Speaker 0: I used to be a federal employee, and I'm gonna tell you why I don't feel bad for federal employees being forced to come back into the workplace. I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for almost a year, and the abuses that I saw by government employees was astounding and shocking. I worked as a realty specialist, and that is someone who manages government owned lands. So when farmers and ranchers lease land to, graze cattle, we would manage that. When I was hired, my boss bragged that it was basically impossible to get fired from the federal government, and that in her entire time working for the government, she'd only seen one person fired, and that person assaulted a fellow employee, and she wasn't even fired for assaulting the employee at work. She was fired for lying about it because they caught it on camera. When I worked for the government, we were allowed to work 50% in the office and 50% from home for the most part. In some cases, if you'd worked there, like, I think over ten years or something, you could actually work from home three days a week and work from the office two days a week. I use the word work very loosely. One employee spent his time remote working running his own farm. Another employee bragged about drunk driving and going out to lunch with her friends for margaritas when she was supposed to be remote working. No one would log in to their computers, and you can see it because they're not on Teams, and no one ever checked ever. There's something called the eighty twenty rule where 80% of the work in government is done by 20% of the people, and this is very, very true. People who get a job in the government a lot of times find out that it's very difficult to fire them, and they take advantage of this. One employee would come into the office. His start time would be 06:30, and he knew nobody would be there. And when I came in at 07:30 and I was the next person to come in, he was snoring at his desk every single morning. Another employee would, take the government truck on an almost daily basis so that he could go out to lunch and then go and take a nap in his favorite park under a shady tree in the government truck. One of the very first things I did when I started working for the court, I spent three months cleaning up their real estate files room, which was a disaster. The government is using an antiquated system that was developed sometime in the nineties and using regulations that haven't been updated since the nineties to manage our dams and our government lands. Our government is filled with the most incompetent and most lazy people and an occasional hard worker. And those hard workers are severely punished every time they outwork their colleagues because then the colleagues realize people will see that they're lazy, and they don't wanna have to work more. They're just buying time until they retire in almost every case. My point is some of our government organizations haven't been maintained or updated in so long that you basically need to create a new organization and start from scratch. Because there's almost no way to transfer it over, and there's so much red tape in between, it'll never get done. But I know that our government is inefficient because the people working for it are not doing what they need to do to take care of the rest of us. So, no, I don't think government employees should get the benefit of working from home. If our government is not working for us, we shouldn't have to take years to do anything in a technological age. They choose to take that long. That's a choice. So they can choose to do things faster and more efficiently, and then they can choose to get remote work back. I don't feel bad for them at all.

@elonmusk — Elon Musk

Posted - February 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM

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@JamesOKeefeIII — James O'Keefe

Posted - March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Saved - March 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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I just read that the White House Press Office announced President Trump's push for federal government modernization. They've established the Department of Government Efficiency to update technology and software, aiming to enhance efficiency and productivity.

@JamesOKeefeIII - James O'Keefe

JUST IN: The White House Press Office has provided the following statement to the Citizen Journalism Foundation: “President Trump has repeatedly called for the modernization of the federal government, which is why he established the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE is working quickly to update federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

@JamesOKeefeIII - James O'Keefe

IRS Tax Examiner GOES ON RECORD AND BLOWS WHISTLE ON AGENCY: “I'm Going to Bull Ahead and Do the Right Thing,” Reveals Congress Prioritizes “Band-Aid Issues” Over Systemic Problems: ‘We’re Handcuffed by Antiquated Systems’ “We also have very antiquated software. We use a software called Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS)." “We can’t do anywhere close to what the American people think we can.”

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I'm David Nelson, a tax examining technician at the IRS. I'm speaking out because our systems are antiquated, specifically the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS) from the 1960s. It drastically hurts our efficiency. The entire US tax system relies on this outdated, command-code driven program, similar to an older version of MS-DOS. I even created a solution in my free time to address this, but can't use it without permission. Congress has been aware of these issues for years, but the funding provided is just a band-aid, not a real fix. I'm risking my career because I want to help the American people and my colleagues at the IRS. I want to set an example for my kids. I'm doing what I can to protect others and do the right thing.

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Speaker 0: My name is David Nelson. And where do you work? I work for the Internal Revenue Service. The technical position is called a tax examining technician. Speaker 1: What do you want the American people to know? Speaker 0: We have very antiquated systems. They aren't integrated. We're basically handcuffed. One of the reasons I I'm coming out is I'm not afraid of losing a career. I'll I'll fall on the sword if it means I can help the American people and and help everyone else at the IRS who are are doing their jobs. I I wanna set an example for my kids. I if I I get too emotional, it leaves something that they can aspire to. Your kids? My kids. That they can they know my dad did that, and I'm I'm going to bull ahead and and do the right thing. Speaker 1: Do the do the right thing. Speaker 0: Oh, it's a scary thing for for people. You can lose your career over doing the right thing. Speaker 1: David Nelson is blowing the whistle on the IRS. He is a tax examining technician at the IRS out of the Covington, Kentucky office, a position that reviews and corrects tax returns. He is concerned about the inefficiencies plaguing the agency and the use of highly outdated technologies which are not integrated. At a time when there are discussions to reform and revamp the IRS, we met David at his home alongside his family and he took the extraordinary step of going public, going on the record, and blowing the whistle on the outdated system called IDRS and what he would do to reform it. What do you want the American people to know? Speaker 0: We have very antiquated software. We use a software called integrated data retrieval system. IDRS. IDRS. Speaker 1: And dates back to when? Speaker 0: Late nineteen sixties. This tells you about IDRS, when it was first implemented, when it was implemented throughout all the service sites. Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty nine. That's when they put the man on the moon. And how do you think this system affects the IRS's efficiency? Speaker 0: A ton. We we can't do anywhere close to what the American people think. The whole US tax system being built on a program that was created in the late nineteen sixties. That's absurd. It's command code driven. Speaker 1: Command code consists of low leveled instructions for operating computers and it is deemed outdated because of the emergence of higher level programming languages that improve productivity and usability. It is similar to MS DOS which is so antiquated that it hasn't been widely utilized in our education system for decades. You can think of like MS DOS, but older. Speaker 0: That that is probably the most relevant thing that people could think of. We could probably reduce the size of the IRS substantially with changes, programs, a centralized inventory system replacing an IDRS. This is your suggestion. In Speaker 1: light of the IRS drafting plans to cut its workforce by as much as half through a mix of layoffs, attrition, and incentivized buyouts, David has solutions on how to reform the IRS. Speaker 0: This is something I made kinda as a hobby on weekends. Speaker 1: You basically created a solution to reform the IRS as a hobby. Speaker 0: For my my small unit. Other I'm Speaker 1: a huge You're you're a patriot as far as I'm concerned. The IDRS system is a system which enables IRS employees to have instantaneous visual access to certain taxpayer accounts. The problem is the system is so antiquated, it takes an unusually long time to get basic tasks accomplished. Mailing a letter to a taxpayer, copying and pasting addresses and transferring information from one to the other, David says this is all hurting the American people through extreme inefficiencies. And he walked us through the Kafkaesque process IRS employees have to deal with. Speaker 0: Six one one two letter. To complete the letter, we have to copy from IDRS the taxpayer's name and address into that letter, manually copy it into there, and then we save that to a case file. It also fills in information from mail out dates where we have the date the letter is sent out. We have a purge due date that gets copied and printed into the the letter. We have to basically just copy and paste. Speaker 1: So this is IDRS right here? Speaker 0: This is IDRS. This is a disclosure tool we use during calls. We put the reason of contact. We enter the taxpayer information, and then there's a drop down and it'll pull up the business information. We ask questions to verify who the taxpayer is. We could do a lot to improve things for the American taxpayer. This tells you about IDRS when it was first implemented, when it was implemented throughout all the service sites, and then all the service sites in 1973. And then congress has been notified of this. They it's been reported to them for years. And there's some money that was provided as part in the Biden administration under the, inflation reduction act to improve things, but it was more of a Band Aid instead of an actual fix. It it kept IDRS, but it funded small programs to make things a little more efficient in other areas, but it it didn't fix the actual problem. Speaker 1: Everyone knows about it. Speaker 0: Everyone at the IRS. And we I'm speaking about it, but in general, we're we're told not to. I can automate a lot of the things that I have to manually do, and I can put it on a second screen that I don't have to look at. It can fill in the information, and then I can do a quick review to make certain everything's accurate. Then click the next button, fill up it'll fill out the next PDF. And then once it's done, I can do a quick check, and I could be more efficient if I I had permission to to use it. It's not even that it would have taxpayer information. It's for anything. To get approved as a a tool, there's a ton of people it has to go through for approval. This is Speaker 1: a fifty year old system, and it needs to be updated. Yeah. Political solutions are slow to come. Speaker 0: What is incredibly frustrating to me, congress has been notified of this. It's been reported to them for years, and there's some money that was provided as part in the Biden administration under the, it was the inflation reduction act to improve things, but it was more of a band aid instead of an actual fix. It it kept IDRS, but it funded small programs to make things a little more efficient in other areas, but it it didn't fix the actual problem. Speaker 1: You encountered any issues when trying to report system errors or deficiencies? Speaker 0: I'm speaking about it, but in general, we're we're told not to. Told not to. What do you mean? It it's instruction from treasury. Speaker 1: David describes his motivation on why he's doing this. Speaker 0: One of the reasons I I'm coming out is I'm not afraid of losing a career. I'll I'll fall on the sword if it means I can help the American people and and help everyone else at the IRS who are are doing their jobs. I I wanna set an example for my kids. I if I I get too emotional, it leaves something that they can aspire to. Your kids? My kids. That they can they know my dad did that, and I'm I'm going to follow in his footsteps. I'm gonna do the right thing. I'm going to do what I can to to ensure that other people aren't harmed, to to protect others, to protect family, to protect strangers. Just do the right thing. Speaker 1: And do the right thing. Speaker 0: Oh, it's a scary thing for for people. You can lose your career over doing the right thing. I'm I'm going to bull ahead and and do the right thing. Speaker 1: David's commitment to doing what's right goes beyond his professional life. It's deeply personal. His desire to set an example for his children and leave behind a legacy that represents honesty, integrity, and the importance of fighting for change is what seems to drive him. In his own words, he wants to make a difference, not just in his workplace, but in the world. But what do you think about your father? He says he wants to set an example for all of you. He's better than other fathers. Better than other fathers. I think I agree with that. He's an example of what a father should be. David's words may sound like whistleblowing to some, but for him, he says it's simply sharing the truth about the inefficiencies. You think that you're whistleblowing? Speaker 0: For this, a little, I'm not sharing anything that is that is unknown. The the problem is that everyone knows this but the American people. Speaker 1: What made you this way? You're a very unique individual. Most people don't most people don't work for the IRS and blow the whistle, so to speak, on the inefficiencies. And was it your upbringing? Is it God? Is it circumstance? What do you think made you the way that Speaker 0: you are? Helping others. I'm a civil servant. My job is to ensure a fair and just tax system for the American people. I love helping others. David showed us his home office and describes his disability that he's faced with. This is my office area. I I I built and did all this myself. I have all this an insulation on the walls to try to keep it warmer because I I'm very temperature sensitive. I'm I'm limited with my my disability. I I can only handle so many certain positions. I have a lot of limitations, and I it's made me feel more free in in taking actions and doing things because I I don't I I maybe have a few more years, I think, at at best. Speaker 1: One thing that struck me in the household was the children's admiration. It was palpable. They looked up to him, and they helped him with his disability. They seemed to be willing to have his back. There wasn't any sign of fear in their home despite the enormity of what their father had chosen to do. When they were standing around they held on to him and they looked after him. In all of my journey I had never seen such a loving household as this man.

@KanekoaTheGreat — KanekoaTheGreat

Posted - March 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM

Saved - March 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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In 2011, I signed an Executive Order aimed at cutting waste and promoting efficiency, emphasizing that we shouldn't wait for Congress to address wasteful spending. We've identified numerous unnecessary government buildings, which have been empty for years, and we're eliminating them to save billions for taxpayers. This initiative is crucial given the deficits we've inherited. Unlike some leaders, my administration faced less divisive propaganda, allowing us to focus on these important steps for the American people.

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

In 2011, Obama signed an Executive Order to Cut Waste and Promote Efficiency. You know, like @DOGE. 😂 "We don't need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending." "We haven't seen as much action out of Congress as we'd like, and that's why we launched our own initiative to cut waste." "For example, we've identified thousands of government buildings that we don't need. Some have sat empty for years. So we are getting rid of those properties, saving the American people billions of dollars." "Obviously, this is even more important given the deficits that we have inherited." "These are important steps that can save taxpayers billions of dollars." Fortunately for @BarackObama, unlike @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk, fake news propaganda didn't fabricate controversies and divide the nation over every decision he made.

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The speaker states a commitment to root out wasteful spending in government, given that families have had to cut back. This is important due to inherited deficits that have grown due to the recession. While cutting some worthy programs, the administration is launching its own initiative to cut waste and improve government, citing a lack of Congressional action. Thousands of unneeded government buildings are being eliminated, saving billions. Roger Rhodes at the Department of Commerce found a way to save almost $2,000,000 a year on cellphone bills. Celeste Steele at Homeland Security is saving tens of millions by changing how the department buys goods and services. The Vice President is working with agency secretaries to improve travel, transportation, and IT services, potentially saving billions. An executive order will direct agencies to slash spending in these areas by 20%, saving taxpayers billions over the next several years. The speaker is signing the bill and thanks officials for taking the project seriously.

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Speaker 0: One of the commitments that I made to the American people was that we would do a better job here in Washington in rooting out wasteful spending at a time when families have had to cut back, have had to make some tough decisions about getting rid of things that they don't need in order to make the investments that they do, we thought that it was entirely appropriate for our governments and our agencies try to root out waste, large and small, in a systematic way. Obviously, this is even more important given the deficits that we've inherited and that have grown as a consequence of this recession. This makes these efforts even more imperative. Now, does mean making some tough choices. It means cutting some programs that I think are worthy but we may not be able to afford right now. We don't need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending that's out there. Cutting waste, making government more efficient is something that leaders in both parties have worked on, from Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican, to Democrat Claire McCaskill. We haven't seen as much action out of Congress as we'd like, and that's why we launched on our own initiative the campaign to cut waste, not just to cut spending but to make government work better for the American people. For example, we've identified thousands of government buildings that we don't need. Some of them sat empty for years. So we're getting rid of those properties, and that's going to save the American people billions of dollars. Roger Rhodes works at the Department of Commerce. Raise your hand, Roger. There's Roger. He found a way to save the department almost $2,000,000 a year on its cellphone bills. And I'm sure that there are probably some consumers out there that would like to talk to them and find out what they could save on their cellphone bills. Celeste Steele is here. Celeste, raise your hand. Celeste works at the Department of Homeland Security, and she's helping to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars by changing the way the department buys goods and services. I've also tasked Vice President Biden to work with the secretaries of all our agencies to identify some systemic areas of potential improvement travel, transportation, IT services, all of which we know can save us potentially billions of dollars. And in September, Joe convened the Cabinet and has really pushed them hard in finding savings across all our agencies. So today, I'm signing an executive order that builds on their good work. It directs agencies to slash spending in each of these areas travel, printing, IT because we believe that we can get better results for less using technology. And overall, spending in the areas covered by this executive order will shrink by 20%. These are important steps that can save taxpayers billions of dollars over the next several years. There are things that we can do right now that will actually deliver better government, more efficiently, more consumer friendly, for less money. And we're going to keep on finding every possible way that we can do that even if Congress is not active. So with that, I'm going to sign the bill, but I want to thank all the officials who are behind me here today for taking this project so seriously. There you go.

@RodDMartin — Rod D. Martin

Posted - March 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM

Saved - March 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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Trump has signed an unprecedented order to eliminate eight federal agencies, targeting what he calls the Deep State. Agency heads have just seven days to justify their existence. Notable targets include the US Agency for Global Media and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The Voice of America, once a beacon of hope during the Cold War, is now criticized as a propaganda tool. With significant job cuts and program terminations already underway, Trump aims to eliminate $2 trillion in waste by 2026, claiming strong public support for these reforms.

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

🚨 INCREDIBLE: Trump just signed an order to ELIMINATE EIGHT federal agencies! Have you ever seen ANYTHING like this??? This is a MASSIVE and UNPRECEDENTED move. Let me break it down for you... 🧵

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

1/ The order is Trump's latest attack on the Deep State, the unconstitutional array of unaccountable "independent" agencies. He's giving agency heads 7 DAYS to justify their existence or face the chopping block. HINT: They can't. https://www.rodmartin.org/p/elections-have-to-matter-independent

Elections Have to Matter: "Independent" Agencies Are Grossly Unconstitutional If Presidents can't control the Executive Branch, elections don't really matter. The Administrative State exists to perpetuate unelected Democrat control, no matter who wins or loses. It has to end. rodmartin.org

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

2/ The targets? EIGHT agencies: - Voice of America's corrupt Marxist parent (USAGM) - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Arctic Research Commission And more. The question: why is any of this part of government...

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

3/ HUGE: Last night, VOA nominee @KariLake told staff to check emails "IMMEDIATELY." Multiple employees already placed on administrative leave. The $900M agency that Trump's been gunning for since Term 1 is finally on the block 🎯

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@KariLake 4/ Why this matters: USAGM reaches 100+ countries in 60+ languages. During the Cold War it was a voice of hope to millions enslaved by Communism. No longer. Now it is irredeemably Communist itself!

@XVanFleet - Xi Van Fleet

It’s official. Voice of America VOA is finally shut down!!! Under Mao, listening to Voice of America (VOA) was a crime punishable by death. Yet, many people still risked their lives to tune in, seeking real information from America—the land of freedom. When the ban was finally lifted, VOA became a vital part of my college life. But over the decades, VOA, like all other American institutions, has been heavily infiltrated by American Marxists, transforming it into a propaganda machine against America. This shift is particularly evident in its Mandarin service, which has become a tool of the Chinese Communist Party. One down and more to go! NPR and PBS should be next!

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

@KariLake 5/ Now conservative icon @BrentBozell -- nephew of William F. Buckley and founder of the Media Research Center (conservative watchdog) -- is nominated to lead what's left of it. Brent will take a blowtorch to it. And he should.

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

@KariLake @BrentBozell 6/ The mastermind behind this? None other than @ElonMusk, heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Of course.

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

@KariLake @BrentBozell @elonmusk 7/ 🔥 DOGE's impact so far: - 100,000+ job cuts coming - Foreign aid frozen & 83% of programs ENDED - $115B in taxpayer savings - Thousands of wasteful and fraudulent contracts canceled

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

8/ But that's just the warm-up. Trump wants to identify and eliminate $2 TRILLION in waste by July 4, 2026. That's not a typo. Two. Trillion. Dollars. 🤯

@RodDMartin - Rod D. Martin

9/ Don't let the Enemedia lie to you: Americans are LOVING this. Latest Epoch Times poll shows overwhelming support for these cuts. https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/doge-wins-approval-but-many-seek-greater-access-to-findings-epoch-readers-poll-5809682

DOGE Wins Approval but Many Seek Greater Access to Findings: Epoch Readers Poll The most common demand among survey respondents was for greater public visibility into DOGE’s findings. theepochtimes.com

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10/10 Trump promised "historic" government reform, and he's delivering. The swamp creatures are running scared. If you enjoyed this content, please like and share; and also, sign up for your FREE subscription to my newsletter at http://RodMartin.org.

The Rod Martin Report | Rod D. Martin | Substack Tech Entrepreneur. Futurist. Christian. "Philosopher Capitalist". Click to read The Rod Martin Report, by Rod D. Martin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. rodmartin.org

@SecScottBessent — Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent

Posted - March 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM

Saved - March 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM

@SecScottBessent - Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent

IRS modernization is 30 years behind schedule, $15 billion over budget, and is relying on outdated technology. We are working hard to make it more efficient. https://t.co/DVszLIIrAU

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Sam Korkos, a special advisor within the US Treasury, and Secretary Scott Bessent discuss modernizing the IRS. Korkos, also CEO of a software company, was brought in to review the IRS's modernization program, which is 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget. The goal is to migrate the IRS's legacy infrastructure, similar to old banking systems, to a modern system. Bessent says entrenched interests are constricting the system, costing taxpayers. Korkos notes the IRS processes data equivalent to a mid-sized bank but with far more IT staff and a larger budget, with 80% going to contractors and licenses. Bessent wants to improve collections, privacy, and customer service. Korkos says he's cutting wasteful projects and has stopped $1.5 billion in spending. He says career staff have been cooperative. Bessent says the goal is government efficiency, not elimination, and wants the IRS to work better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy. Korkos is committed to the project for six months.

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Speaker 0: Tonight, we sit down exclusively with one of the men responsible for turning Elon Musk's Doge plans into reality. Joining me now is Sam Korkos, who's a special adviser within the US treasury department. He's also CEO and cofounder of Levels, which is a really cool health and wellness software company. Also joining me, he's getting second billing tonight. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. We'll get back to you, mister secretary, in a moment. But, Sam, let's start with you. Like, no one knows much about all of you guys who are working together, and I know you you you you work at treasury now. Tell us what brought you here into Washington and what your top priority is. Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been brought in to look at the IRS's modernization program in particular as well as the operations and maintenance budget. I I really care a lot about this country, and this is a huge program that's currently thirty years behind schedule, and it's already $15,000,000,000 over budget. Speaker 0: Wait. Wait. Wait a second. Wait a second. Explain to our viewers what the program is in layman's terms. Speaker 1: Yeah. So the goal is to take the IRS has some pretty legacy infrastructure. It's actually very similar to what banks have been using. It's old mainframes running COBOL and assembly. And the challenge has been how do we migrate that to a modern system. Virtually, every bank has already done this, but we're still using a lot of those same systems. And typically, in industry, this takes a few years, maybe a few hundred million dollars, and we're we're now thirty five years into this program. We've actually been if you ask them now, it's five years away, and it's been five years away since 1990. Supposed to be delivered in 1996, and it's still five years away. Speaker 0: In your area of expertise that informs your ability to do this review is what? Speaker 1: I'm a software developer by background, and I'm a CEO of a software technology company. Speaker 0: So when you came into the department, the first thing you do is just get into the guts of the system and see how it operates? Speaker 1: Yeah. Really talk to the software developers. Talk to the people on the ground and what they're seeing. I think one encouraging thing is we actually have quite a lot of software talent on the ground, the people writing code. We actually have quite a lot of good people. Is almost always the case when I ask them what the correct answer is. How do we solve these problems? They're almost always right, which is good. They just haven't been in a position to be empowered to make those decisions. So I'm actually pretty optimistic that we can solve this. Speaker 0: Secretary Bessen, why has this taken so long? I mean, Sam seems, you know, obviously very, very successful, extremely intelligent. But I assume we have other Sams in The United States. We could have had a Sam fifteen years ago come in and fix this. What is going on? Speaker 2: Well, Laura, you've you've been in DC a long time. I've been here eight weeks, but one of the things, one of the biggest surprises for me is just seeing how these entrenched interest, they just keep constricting themselves around the power, around the money, around the systems, and nobody cares. I mean, the you know, I I said to Sam today, said, the the IRS system was the, supposed to be delivered in 1996. And he said, no. But it was started in 1990. So that's how far behind they are, and nobody cares. And the the other thing we're seeing too is, as Sam said, some of the employees, many of the employees are fantastic. It's this consultant group who has just they're like a bow constrictor. They're like a python. They've got themselves Speaker 0: No pun intended. Yeah. Python language. All your coders have them. Speaker 2: It it was intended. So Yeah. Okay. Speaker 0: Okay. Party pants. Thanks. Speaker 2: But they've constricted themselves around our government, and, you know, the the the cost are unbelievable that are being passed on to the American taxpayer. Speaker 0: Okay. So, Sam, again, you come in from this this tech company. You've been in directing engineering teams. You've been doing your own coding and software engineering for so many years. But you come in here and you see this is one of the most important departments in in the world, not just in our government, in the world. And you see how this has been organized and and run for so many years. What as as a human being, forget as a what is your reaction to that? Speaker 2: It's a Speaker 0: Were you stunned as I am just hearing about this? Speaker 1: Yeah. It's it's hard to really grasp the scale of this because we we process at the IRS about the same amount of data as a mid sized bank. And a typical mid sized bank will have somewhere between one and two hundred people in IT, and they'll have an operations and maintenance budget in, like, the $20,000,000 a year range. We have 8,000 people in IT and our operations and maintenance budget is 3 and a half billion dollars a year. I don't really know why yet, but I will tell you that 80% of that budget goes to contractors and licenses. Speaker 0: So contractors and putting them out putting these projects out to bid, mister secretary, how big a problem has that been? Speaker 2: Well, clearly, it's a problem, and that's why when you you and I were talking the other night, that's why I wanted to bring Sam in because I just gotten a briefing from him, and my jaw hit the ground when he was talking about the cost, the the timeline. As you know, we've talked about it before. I have three priorities with the IRS, collections, privacy, customer service, and none of those are being well served. Look look at the scale of this. Speaker 0: And, Sam, for Americans watching this tonight who've heard all these stories about the people brought in to dismantle the government and rip it apart and destroy people's lives. You didn't have to do this. You have a lot of priorities in the business world. But again, like Musk and like people even younger than you who came in, they got the world on a string. So what do you say to those people who are hearing all these frightening stories about what you and the doge bros as they're called, are doing? Speaker 1: Yeah. This is definitely not on my bingo card for this year. I was very much planning to continue to focus on my company. We have a 15 old boy. It's been really fun, but we're I I got a lot of friends of mine in administration telling me how serious the situation is, and so I'm taking some time to really focus on this. I think it is it is a a huge part of our government is collecting taxes. We we cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these contractors. We really have to figure out how to get out of this hole. We're in a really deep hole right now. Speaker 0: IRS employees according to CNN claim that you you were basically ignorant about how the agency works. Like I said, you were supposed to know everything before you got there, but that's what they're saying, your response to that. Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that I don't know that I'm learning now. I think I know a lot about software systems. That's why I was brought in. So that's the main focus is how do we how do we turn this around? We have we have a 3 and a half billion dollar operations and maintenance budget. We have a $3,700,000,000 modernization effort within IT. That's a lot of budget, and we are way beyond any reasonable cost for what you would expect at a private company for this. Speaker 0: What has been the biggest surprise? You, again, secretary Bessence, you know, been in the business world as well, he heard it from me. But when you first saw this, what was the biggest surprise that you found at that Department of Treasury? Speaker 1: I would say it's the disconnect between leadership and the people actually doing the work is a big one. I would say that there are it doesn't take a lot, just somebody who cares to solve these problems. You find contracts that are $10.20, $3,050,000,000 dollars, and you just ask, like, why are we doing this? And then was just like, I don't know. And then you cancel it, and then nothing happens. It's just inertia has just taken over. Speaker 0: What what I mean? Okay. Okay. I'm I'm so frustrated to hearing this, but I'm so you're getting your hands dirty by getting it getting in there. Mister secretary, Sam comes from the outside world. He he's very keen. I'm reading his bio and what he's done on time management. That's how he's been so successful managing fifteen minute increments of his time, analyzing it. So he's data driven. This should be a data driven agency. You're a money guy. You've made billions of dollars in the business world because you're data driven. So why is this controversial to make the IRS data driven? Speaker 2: Well, because it's like I I told Elon. I said, you know, Elon, you're you're under fire because you've moved people's cheese. And he said, well, it's the American people's cheese. And Yeah. The it doesn't belong to these people. And, again, that's why I wanted the American people to meet Sam. We're gonna bring some more Doge people forward to actually hear their stories, see what's being done because the consult the the entrenched interest, the consultants, the Democrats, mainstream media, they just wanna blow this project out of the water. And it's important because, I keep saying, this is the office of government efficiency, not elimination, not extinction. Sam and his crew are making it more efficient to work for the American people. So what's wrong with it working better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy? Speaker 0: The president essentially said he wants efficiency across the federal government. He brought in Elon to do that. You're a big part of this. Is it possible given what you've seen as far as the resistance both in the courts and in among mostly Democrats? Speaker 1: Honestly, I haven't really had much of an issue. The career staff has been super cooperative. I think we've so far stopped work and cut about 1 and a half billion from the modernization budget, mostly projects that we're going to continue to put us down this death spiral of complexity in our code base. I think most people that I've interacted with are really excited that somebody actually cares now. They've been in a situation where their hands are tied and they can't solve the things that they know need to be solved. My experience has honestly been very positive working with them. Speaker 0: Is it I mean, this is back to the messaging point. And and again, going back to his his history in business, communication is key from staff to to leadership leadership to staff. And also here, the consumers, the American people, the taxpayer, those are the ultimate consumers here. It's very important that you had this idea to bring Sam in, but people need to understand what this is. Speaker 2: Yeah. But look, it's that it's all hands on deck because we got this massive the government debt. We're gonna pay that down, but we're also gonna make government work better. You know, again, if you were to ask Sam about the customer support, it's unbelievable. The the system, the customer support, they have exact the same number of people working on Christmas Eve as they do on April 14 at the IRS. Why? Speaker 0: So efficiency across the board must be implemented. It's unfair to the taxpayer who foots the bill for all of us. Unfair. Speaker 2: Well, I I don't A rip off. Yeah. And look. We want people to like the government. We want Speaker 0: the government No one's gonna like the IRS. Sorry. Well, Speaker 2: we we we want people to feel satisfied Yeah. That they are getting the service they deserve, that they're paying their fair share and not more, not less. Yeah. And that it's done, you know, quickly, smartly, and privately. Speaker 0: Sam, how long are you gonna stay stay Speaker 1: in Washington? Committed to six months. Speaker 0: Okay. Alright. Sam and mister secretary, thank you both for joining us. Really appreciate it. Speaker 2: Good to see you. Speaker 0: Sam, keep working.

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"We've got a gigantic government bureaucracy. We've got overregulation. We've got agencies that have overlapping responsibilities." https://t.co/Ju4GtBzhM3

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The speaker claims there is a gigantic government bureaucracy with overregulation and overlapping agency responsibilities. There are approximately 450 federal government agencies, with new agencies constantly being created. The speaker suggests that this overregulation makes it difficult to get anything done and everything is basically illegal. These regulations create hidden but substantial costs for people. The speaker states that excessive requirements drive up housing costs and slow down new housing starts. The speaker concludes by saying that the builders of America need to be allowed to build.

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Speaker 0: We've got a gigantic government bureaucracy. We've got overregulation. You've got agencies that have overlapping responsibilities. There's something like 450 government federal government agencies. Almost two per year that company since America was founded. So, mean, we're just creating new agencies all the time. It's getting to the point where basically everything's illegal. You just can't get anything done. I've noticed. These become real costs to to people. They're they're hidden costs but they're very substantial. You know, it's very hard to build, new housing if if if, you're burdened with massive requirements that don't make any sense. It drives up the housing cost, it slows down new housing starts. We need to let the builders of America build. Amen. Yeah.

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The Trump administration has launched an audit of all SBA contracts dating back 15 years following a massive fraud scandal at USAID, which was revealed to be a hub for bribery and corruption. The DOJ uncovered a $550 million bribery scheme involving USAID officials who accepted cash and gifts to manipulate contracts for favored vendors. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler is overseeing a comprehensive audit to address systemic failures and ensure accountability. The administration is committed to dismantling these corrupt practices.

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🚨 Trump Admin Takes Action After Massive Fraud Uncovered at Agency Dems Tried to Protect from DOGE 🚨 Democrats SCREAMED when DOGE auditors came to USAID. It didn't take long to figure out why. Now the SBA is auditing ALL contracts going back 15 YEARS. THREAD🧵

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2/ USAID turned out to be a giant global Democrat slush fund. And they couldn't even be honest with each other! DOJ just exposed a $550 MILLION bribery scandal there! Four USAID officers took BRIBES for 10 YEARS to rig foreign aid contracts worth more than half a billion.

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Four people are pleading guilty in a half-billion-dollar bribery scandal involving USAID. According to the Justice Department, USAID official Roderick Watson sold his influence starting in 2013. Contractors Walter Barnes and Daryl Britt funneled payoffs through subcontractor Paul Young. Barnes' company kept receiving federal funds, including $5,000 for human resources consulting and a contract worth up to $800,000,000 after suing the government. The Justice Department's Matthew r Gagliotti stated that the scheme violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government's procurement process. Some suggest USAID funneled taxpayer dollars into ideological projects and that the agency needs to be redone. The Justice Department says this kind of fraud erodes public trust.

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Speaker 0: Well, four people are pleading guilty, all part of a half billion dollar bribery scandal involving USAID. Mike Emanuel has the story from Washington. Speaker 1: Bill, good morning. The scheme involving cash, NBA tickets, and a country club wedding. According to the justice department, USAID official Roderick Watson sold his influence starting back in 2013. Contractors Walter Barnes and Daryl Britt funneled payoffs through subcontractor Paul Young to hide their tracks. It doesn't end there. Barnes' company working in conjunction with another firm kept receiving federal funds, $5,000 for human resources consulting late last year, and then later after suing the government, a contract worth up to $800,000,000. Matthew r Gagliotti, head of the justice department's criminal division, saying, quote, their scheme violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government's procurement process. Anybody who cares about good and effective government should be concerned about the waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies, including USAID. Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse has been a big focus on Capitol Hill across government, a major priority for house speaker Mike Johnson. The US agency for international development has been a target for those looking to trim government spending with some suggesting the agency funneled taxpayer dollars into ideological projects. USAID blew it. They show themselves to be completely irresponsible. It needs to be redone, and and the funds need to be directed properly. Back to the scheme, the justice department says this kind of fraud erodes public trust. Bill? Speaker 0: Wild story, Mike. Half a billion dollars. Remarkable. Mike Emanuel, live in DC for us. Thank you, Mike. Speaker 1: I'm Steve Ducey. I'm Brian Kilmeade. And I'm Ainsley Earhart. And click here to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page to catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis.

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3/ The scheme: 🔹 Cash bribes 🔹 Country club weddings 🔹 Fake jobs for family 🔹 Mortgage down payments 🔹 NBA luxury suite tickets 🔹 Laptops, burner phones, shell companies All to funnel contracts to preferred DEMOCRAT vendors—on YOUR dime.

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4/ One of those contractors? Vistant, awarded an $800M USAID deal in 2023 to address “root causes of migration” in Central America. Translation: they got paid to fail at the border crisis Democrats created.

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5/ Vistant’s CEO and a 2d contractor funneled bribes through a third party to hide the scheme. The DOJ says USAID’s own official received more than $1 MILLION in bribes. Your government has operated this way for YEARS without oversight. No WONDER Democrats freaked about DOGE!

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6/ Now SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler is ordering a full-scale audit of every SBA contract officer since 2010. She’s calling this what it is: 👉 “Systemic failure” 👉 “Collapse in safeguards” 👉 “Breakdown in federal integrity” But turn on the light & the rats & roaches run

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7/ Loeffler’s audit begins immediately with all high-dollar and limited-competition contracts in SBA’s 8(a) program. Violators will be referred to the DOJ. Funds will be recovered. No more free passes for corrupt bureaucrats and fake small businesses.

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8/ The same people who claimed cutting USAID would “hurt the poor” were protecting bribery rackets and slush funds. President Trump and his team are dismantling it, root and branch. And not a moment too soon. 🔥 https://www.rodmartin.org/p/usaids-shutdown-trump-and-musks-nuclear

USAID’s Shutdown: Trump and Musk’s Nuclear Strike on the Deep State The main foreign aid agency, whose budget is bigger than the CIA and the State Department combined, has served for decades as a global Democrat slush fund. rodmartin.org

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Donald Trump cleaned up D.C. The results are undeniable and voters are noticing. https://t.co/SlP6eNupXb

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Donald Trump decided to take over Washington DC, clean it up, and the results are presented as: "Robbery is down by 46%. Carjackings are down by 83%." The speaker asserts these results are undeniable and questions how the left can ignore them, suggesting Trump should apply the same approach to Seattle and San Francisco: "start with Seattle and San Francisco. Clean them up." In DC, the streets are described as safe, with "People in the streets are like, yo, this is fantastic. I can walk around now," and "Black people in the street like, yo, this is the safest I've ever seen DC." The speaker proclaims, "This is incredible. President Trump should remain president," notes that Biden and Harris administration "didn't give a damn about DC," and concludes the nation’s capital should always be clean and safe. "God bless America."

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Speaker 0: So Donald Trump, he decided to take over the nation's capital. He decided to take over Washington DC, clean it up. And ever since he did, you know, you have the left, you know, they're always complaining about something. There's nothing new there. But what is new is the actual results. Take a look at this. Robbery is down by 46%. Carjackings are down by 83%. Are you serious right now? Here's what I wanna know. It absolutely blows my mind. How can you be on the left? Right? As crazy as y'all are, how can you be over there though? See these results. Alright? They're undeniable. They're in your face. See these results and go, I don't like that. How can you do that? Instead, you should see these results and go, you know what? I wonder if Donald Trump can apply that to every city in The United States. And if you ask me, I think you should start with Seattle and San Francisco. Clean them up. This is absolutely phenomenal work. If you think the people in DC are upset about it, they're not. People in the streets are like, yo, this is fantastic. I can walk around now. It's safe. Black people in the street like, yo, this is the safest I've ever seen DC. This is incredible. President Trump should remain president. They're saying all kinds of wild shit. Was like, president Trump, y'all vote for him three times and all come on, man. But it's incredible work. Donald Trump cleaned up DC. And that just lets you know, like, could this have been done with Biden? Yeah. But they don't care. Biden and Harris administration didn't give a damn about DC. The nation's capital should always be clean. It should be the safest. But here we are, Donald Trump, he just went and cleaned it up. He said, don't worry about it. I'm gonna show you how the nation capital should look. God bless America.