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@TuckerCarlson - Tucker Carlson
You can say you care about America, but if you’re sending $100 billion to foreign countries right now, you’re lying. https://t.co/jFmBlAW3qG
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In early 2016, I recognized the need to address the concerns of everyday Americans, believing that if ignored, it could lead to unrest. Despite my expectations for political change, the situation worsened, with many dismissing legitimate grievances about economic struggles and rising costs. People feel disconnected from their government, which seems more focused on foreign issues than domestic needs. The media often fails to address the consequences of proposed actions, such as potential conflicts, leaving citizens anxious about the future. There's a growing resentment toward leaders who prioritize external matters over the well-being of Americans. This disconnect is palpable, and it’s crucial for leaders to acknowledge and address the real concerns of the populace.
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Speaker 0: I thought early, and I actually wrote a piece not for the early caller I'm embarrassed, but for political because I wanted to sort of drop a bomb into my neighbor's laps. And said, look, you may think that Trump is a ludicrous figure, and, you know, he may be on to something. But fundamentally, what he's saying is not crazy at all. And in fact, it's necessary. And if you don't want to have another revolution in the country, you should probably start paying a little bit of attention to what the people beyond Washington think.
And and I thought then that was January of 2016. I thought that that message was so rooted in common sense and also in observed reality that he would probably win and and he did. So I got a lot out of making that one call correctly in my life. And I really did think that we would see, say, 5 or 6, 7 years hence, a political system that more closely matched that idea. You know, that the work product coming out of Washington would bear a little closer resemblance to what people wanted.
And of course, the opposite happened. It's crazy how that idea just went away, and no one actually believed in it, which that blew my mind most of all, including a lot of people I thought were on my side. A lot putting a lot of people who paid a lot of lip service to, you know, put the country first. I personally don't like the term America first because I think it is loaded, but just like just common sense stuff. Like, if something really dramatic in your country happens, like, young people can't, I don't know, get married, you know, or buy houses or have any hope for a future that approaches, you know, the middle class upbringing they had, then you've got a huge problem.
Someone should be responding to that. And if your economy is like on the brink of collapse, you know, if your country is literally bankrupt, someone would say that. And if food inflation gets so crazy that, you know, people are actually complaining about it, at least where I live. Spend a lot of the urine remain. It doesn't make me an expert on the people or anything.
I'm fundamentally rich kid, obviously. But I do live among people who aren't rich, and they're like legit upset about what groceries cost, like for real and what gas costs. And now that we've drained the strategic petroleum reserve, they're about to find out that it could get way higher than it is. So these are just real concerns. It doesn't mean they're the only concerns, but they can't be completely ignored, or or you're going to have a volatile situation on your hands, and why wouldn't you?
You know, angry people who feel like they have no recourse, who don't think elections are real, and they're totally right, obviously. Let's stop lying. There's a lot of truth in that. And those people are you know, they have real grievances, legit grievances. And the only way to temp those grievances down is not by creating some East German surveillance state, comma, which we have done, comma, or throwing people in prison for loitering outside the capital, which is their house after all.
That doesn't work long term. It didn't work in Eastern Europe. It won't work here. The only thing that does work is kind of giving them not all they want, but some or how about this? Let's just start with pretending you care.
But you know what doesn't work? Saying, we're going to spend a $100,000,000,000 in other countries. And I don't care how virtuous the case those countries make is, and I don't care how much I personally may agree or disagree with what those countries are doing. That is immaterial. The job, the moral duty of the people running a country is to look out for the people in that country.
Period. That's always true. And it doesn't mean they can't help other people or whatever, but if they pay no attention whatsoever, and in a moment when every person, 350,000,000 Americans, everyone regardless of political affiliation can feel that something bad is coming. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows that.
I mean, if you've been to church once in the last year, have you thought about the end times recently? Yes, you have. Whether I'm serious because you can feel that abrupt change is coming, and that's very disconcerting. And so rather than reassure people that, you know, we kind of got your back a little bit. By the way, we're going to spend a $100,000,000,000 on other people.
Only the border security part is purely designed to make it easier for more people to come here illegitimately. That's freaking scary. Okay? So I don't have TV at home, and I don't watch TV. We haven't in years because my wife is fiercely opposed to television.
But obviously, I have some familiar with the genre. So I'm thinking to myself the other day, I was like, I wonder what they're saying about this on TV, but I'm speaking with, I have no way really of knowing. So today, I'm today, this afternoon, 2 o'clock this afternoon in the hospital visiting a very sick relative. And in the room, and I'm very focused on this and it's, you know, a drama familiar to everyone who has a family. And these are the saddest moments in your life, but I'm sitting there.
And the TV is cranked way up because it's a facility for older people and no one can hear well. So when they watch TV, it's like, bam, it's loud. And it's a channel that I'm familiar with. I guess I'm familiar with all of them. Having worked at all of them, and I've been fired from all of them.
But, but this is what I know well. And and I'm thinking, well, I wonder what they're saying about all this. You know, because their job is to be, you know, opposed to this. And they take the White House briefing. And the White House briefing is just humiliation exercise because it's administered by the dumbest person in public life.
Like, so dumb, it's unbelievable. I'm not being mean. I feel sorry for her. By the way, intelligence is not a moral category. My dogs are dumb and I love them.
So I'm not sort of judging her, but I'm just saying is, you know, this is like a mouth breather. Okay? And her, the whole point of her being the White House Spokes moron is to tell you that the people in charge have no respect for you, so we're gonna put the dumbest possible person we can up there. And she's prattling on about Iran, and I'm just waiting for her. Like, she doesn't know Iran from Innsbruck.
Okay? She has no idea what she's talking about. Right? And I'm literally waiting for her to say you know, to attack Saddam Hussein, the president of Iran. Okay?
Because literally her shallowness has no bottom. It's like a Zen cone that's almost like a Kamala Harris line actually. Anyway and then they come back, and they're totally taking her seriously. And then the oiliest fakes admiral spokesman who've ever commanded a ship can't run literally can't run a Boston Whaler. He's been a flack his whole life.
Admiral. He's a liar, and I know him personally. He's a liar, and everybody who dealt with him knows he's a liar. And they're like, well, he says this. And the upshot is, we gotta attack Iran.
Now I'm thinking to myself, I think, you know, I have no love for Iran, and I can certainly see why people wanna attack Iran. All I'm asking is just to put one person on TV to point out that there are consequences to the United States that may not be entirely positive to doing this. That maybe another moral victory, and we've won a lot of those recently. I don't know. Are you guys sick of winning moral victories?
We've won a lot of important moral victories. I interviewed someone the other day, a major political figure from the UK, and he's like, well, we've let all these refugees in, and and it's really been a great moral victory. And I was like, I was just in your country. That's garbage. I mean, it smells and it's pathetic.
And, like, do you think that I know you're psyched about your moral you're good people. You trust me. You're good Anglicans. I'm really so impressed by you morally, but, like, has there been a downside in real terms? And he's like, oh, I can't answer that question.
Not allowed. So anyway, I just wanted someone to stand up and ask the obvious question. I'm not even arguing against a war with Iran. I'm merely saying there are consequences to doing that. One is we can't win it probably with the with the defense that we have currently.
I think that's fair. But even if we could, I mean, what would happen if they mind the straight of our moves? I mean, I'm no energy expert, but I think that we would have an immediate energy shock that would send our country into an economic spiral within like hours. Okay? And we don't have any cushion because we burned it all.
Because the senile guy is running for president again. Okay? And we sort of let that happen. So some of it's China. We sort of let it happen.
So that's not a small thing. One thing Americans are not used to is being poor. In the rest of the world, people really worry about the economic effects of everything. Why wouldn't they? Because they're not generationally rich like us.
But what if we ran out of money? At the very same moment that American society is more fractured or social fabric is in tatters, and we've let in millions upon millions of people who have no affinity for the United States, who are merely here for the economic benefits, which by the way is not all bad. And I think a lot of them are good people. I'm not attacking them. I'm merely saying their addition does not make this a more cohesive country.
It makes it a far less cohesive country. Okay? No matter how admirable they may be, and I know some of them, and I really like them. Okay? I've I've even met a legal alien.
I really like them. Just being honest. But if you have millions upon millions of people with no loyalty to the United States, we're all in public benefits and the country goes bankrupt. What happens? You know, last time we had a depression, the country held together because Americans had a lot in common with each other.
But what happens next time? Honestly. Moreover, when your country's at war, civil liberties disappear. And we saw this in the last 20 year war on terror. And I supported all that stuff, and I I have egg on my face.
I'm worse than that. I'm ashamed of the measures that I supported, which were, of course, turned against me. And the NSA got busted reading my text messages on signal, which is supposedly secure. Spoiler, it is not. Keep the naughty pictures off signal.
Okay? Because they're looking at them. But they did that. They got caught doing it. No one resigned or even apologized, and that was all legal because of the measures we put in place the last time we were fighting the bad guys over a 20 year period that measurably weakened the country, and from which we derive nothing in the end.
So I'm merely saying, maybe we should just pause for one second to ask, could we be doing that again, but at scale? Not one person. You're not allowed. Because everything is some moral argument. Well, are you on the side of the bad guys?
No. And so I look at how this is rated, and again, I can't tell you how disgusted I am, but the behavior of people who said they were conservative and cared about the country. I clearly don't. Because no one asked that question. They're all too afraid.
And then the other side, the wackos running around calling for, you know, the pro Hamas people decolonize. You know, they're mad at Israel for being white. They wanna kill everybody. Obviously, if if forced to choose, I go with Ben Shapiro. Okay?
But I shouldn't have to choose. Like, there should be the America guy in the middle who's like, I have strong sympathies here and, you know, morally, I'm on one side, but I'm an American and I've got a ton of kids. I'll speak for myself. I am an American. I was born here.
I will die here. I have a ton of kids, and I kinda want them to be able to live here in a country that resembles the one in which I grew up. And what about them? Shut up. Oh, shut up is not good enough, actually.
And I just the spirit of fear, and I hate to use the term of group think that is descended upon lawmakers, and I would say movement leaders in Washington where no one can say something that's completely obvious. Because when you're anti Israel, no one's gonna call me anti Israel. I like Israel. And one of the things I love about Israel, in addition to the fact it's beautiful and great food, took my kids there on vacation, is I like the Israelis. What I like about the Israelis, they they're proud of themselves in their country.
I like that. I like secure people. But I don't know I don't know a single Israeli, and I say this as a compliment from my heart. I don't know a single Israeli who would jeopardize his own country's economy or safety for another nation. Because they care about their nation.
Like, what the hell? I'm saying this as a compliment, but why would we do that? And when I see leaders on the left and right call for refugees from Gaza to be imported here, they're too dangerous for other countries, but we should take them. What are you saying? What are you saying about how you feel about my country?
You're saying you consider it a trash bin. Throw the refuse there. No one else wants to deal with it. America will deal with it. Well, how about no?
How about anyone who even suggest something like that? Speaking I mean, speaking of a betrayal of your country, that's just telling me everything I need to know about how you feel about the United States of America, and I'm disgusted by it. Did you even think something like that? Really? And yet that is considered, like, kind of within bounds.
I know there's a few Republicans who are like, well, that could happen. And we're gonna pass legislation preemptively to make sure it doesn't. It's like, why would we even have that conversation? That is truly nuts. It's nuts.
And more than anything, it's revealing of an attitude that is poisonous and that everyone else in the country can feel. They know it. And again, don't look to me because I live in my family summer house. I'm not pretending to be, you know, what JD Vance actually is, which is a son of middle America, of working America. I'm not.
But I try to observe, and I try to talk to people. I like people. And I can tell you, I can promise you that the level of resentment toward those attitudes is extremely high. It's extremely high, and it absolutely should be.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Do these expenditures seem like a good use of your taxes? https://t.co/itgI9Np2m1
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Trump's team, led by Elon Musk and Vivek, is tackling government waste and fraud through a new initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency. They aim to address significant spending issues, such as half a billion dollars lost to fraud annually and questionable federal expenditures on studies and programs. Many federal employees remain unproductive, with many still working from home post-COVID. The goal is to create a more efficient government, reducing bureaucratic waste and ensuring accountability. Critics argue that the Democrats oppose these efforts simply because they align with Trump. The hope is that business-minded leaders can bring effective cost-cutting measures to the government.
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Speaker 0: But the real progress starts once Trump's team starts getting its hands dirty. Elon Musk and Vivek are running the Department of Government Efficiency. They're calling it Doge, and they'll have plenty to do. Starting with the pork. The feds spent half a1000000 on a study to see if selfies make you happy.
A1000000 went to study if Japanese quail were more frisky if you gave them cocaine. The feds spent $20 on drag shows in Ecuador. 80,000 in Ghana asking taxi drivers if climate change makes it harder for them to drive, and a half a 1000000 was spent so Fauci could create transgender monkeys. But it's not just waste. There's 3,000,000 federal employees, and a lot of them don't even do much more than collect a paycheck.
Most government workers in DC are still working from home. COVID's been over for 3 years. But worst of all, half a $1,000,000,000,000 a year stolen by fraudsters. We lose $500,000,000,000 of your money to fraud each year. We're getting ripped off like a Walgreens in San Francisco, and no one cares.
We're not even locking up our toothpaste. Trump's about to put armed security guards, Musk and Vivek in the aisles and catch the shoplifters. But Democrats, no. No. No.
Don't like that. They want the fraud pork and work from home.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is going to fail miserably at the homework assignment Donald Trump has given him.
Speaker 2: At SpaceX, you know, they've they've blown up a lot of rockets to get to where they are. I'm not so sure you can blow up things in the federal government quite as easily.
Speaker 3: It's the Department of Government Efficiency, and they've got 2 guys running it, Vivek and Elon. That doesn't sound so efficient.
Speaker 0: Mhmm. Elon and Vivek are fighting fraud and cutting waste, and the Democrats are against it because why? They work for Trump because they're Democrats and they have to be against everything Republicans do? So stupid. Democrats used to be for this stuff.
Speaker 1: We know big government does not have all the answers. We know and we have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington, and we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over.
Speaker 0: The era of big government was just getting started. In 96, Fed spent $1,500,000,000,000. This year, about 7,000,000,000,000. More bureaucrats, more spending, more debt, and less power for you, and that all changes on January 20th. Maria Bartirotto is the host of Mornings with Maria on FBN.
So what do you think Elon Musk and Vivek are gonna do on day 1?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you've got this list. They're gonna go through this list, and they're gonna start chopping things right away. I mean, I think what's even more egregious than seeing the stuff that you just mentioned, that incredible list, is the fact that most people don't even realize how much their money is being wasted. And every year, they're paying taxes, and they don't really know where that money is going. Now we know how it's being wasted.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 0: Could you imagine what a more efficient, better government we would have if people didn't steal a half a $1,000,000,000,000? If the budget's 7 and they're stealing a half of a trillion, we wouldn't even be in debt if we could clean that up in a couple decades.
Speaker 3: And who's accountable? I mean, why is it that we are watching this fraud and this stolen money every year? Who's accountable? Is there it's like Is there is there a
Speaker 0: is there a is this a cop? Is there, like, a cop in charge of the spending? Wasn't treasure I guess now we have 2 cops, Vivek and Musk. So the Democrats are gonna fight this, Maria. The Democrats are gonna be against reducing the debt.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Apparently, because it's Trump. I think if anybody could get this done, it's a business person. Mhmm. Because that is the bottom line for business.
They are watching costs like hawks, and they are cutting out cost. And that is what the point is. So it's good to get some business, you know, business sense in government to try to cut out that waste.
Speaker 0: They say they're gonna use AI to get out of that. How are they gonna I don't even know how that works.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how they'll do it, but I have confidence that 2 businessmen are gonna come in and they're gonna actually see where the money is going, what's coming in, what's going out, and they're going to actually fix it. So What
Speaker 0: do you think?
@Breaking911 - Breaking911
Biden just gave Africa $1B in U.S. taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile in North Carolina... https://t.co/1dghBsJsRZ
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Renting a bathroom costs $130 a month. Sarah hoped for a US Small Business Administration disaster loan but received a voicemail stating new loan offers are delayed due to a lack of congressional funding. This adds to the struggles of those living in tents and RVs as winter approaches, with temperatures dropping into the thirties. Many face challenges like keeping food fresh without power. Locals are frustrated with the disparity between their living conditions and a secure FEMA compound nearby. Volunteers highlight the lack of communication between FEMA, the county, and the state, complicating housing solutions. With colder temperatures approaching, there are concerns about hypothermia and the urgent need for assistance for those still in tents and RVs.
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Speaker 0: Be even be able to use the bathroom.
Speaker 1: So you have to pay for that yourself?
Speaker 0: Yes. Yeah. It's a $130 a month to to rent 1.
Speaker 1: Sarah's one hope was US Small Business Administration disaster loan, But then she got this voice mail.
Speaker 2: This is a call from the US Small Business Administration about your SBA disaster loan application. Due to a lapse in congressional funds, new loan offers will be delayed until congress provides additional funding for the disaster loan program. We understand how frustrating this delay is.
Speaker 1: What did you think when you heard that?
Speaker 0: You know, I it it's been we we already have it so rough, and to not be able to get the financial and, you know, help that we need is it's really awful.
Speaker 1: Some just down the road have it even more awful, living in tents and small RVs with no power as winter approaches and temperatures now dip into the thirties.
Speaker 3: There's times we don't get fresh meat because there's no way to keep it cold. Because you gotta choose between heat in the house with the generator, especially the ones who have kids, and keeping the food cold.
Speaker 4: Wintertime's coming. These folks cannot be forgot about this because you don't see this on TV. Don't let it don't just go away. This is not gonna go away for a long time. We gotta get those folks out of those tents and then those FEMA campers.
How's it gonna happen?
Speaker 1: A lot of the locals I've spoken to are particularly upset about a FEMA compound. They say it's much nicer than the donated trailers, that they are staying in. It's hard to see, but but this right here, I'm gonna slow down, is the entrance to the compound. There's a lot of security. The public can't go in.
We drove up onto a hill behind the compound for a better view, and you see how massive it is. A sea of government trailers. It's so organized and secure, so different from how the people we met are living here.
Speaker 5: FEMA's not connecting with the county. The county's not connecting with the state, and you got this big rat race.
Speaker 1: Volunteers like combat veteran Robbie Ammons say housing is the biggest issue and red tape. Families left in tents in RVs because of the permitting process, he says.
Speaker 5: Next week, temperature is gonna start getting in the thirties at night. We're afraid of more hypothermia, folks that are living in the mountains, and there's probably gonna be more bodies laying around if we don't start getting
@DOGE - Department of Government Efficiency
The United States gives more in aid to foreign countries than the next 9 countries combined. Where exactly is that money going and how is it being spent? https://t.co/bNG0tGd8jc
@JohnStrandUSA - John Strand
BREAKING: President Trump addresses Congress and says American decline is over—the “Golden Age has officially begun” He’s putting a freeze on Foreign Aid—because “we’re tired of giving money to nations that hate us” Wow, can we get an AMEN? https://t.co/05zua56oSx
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In just one week, over 350 executive actions were taken, including signing 300. The era of American decline is over, and a new golden age has begun. On day one, every cabinet member was directed to use their powers to combat inflation and reduce living costs. A federal hiring freeze, regulation freeze, and foreign aid freeze were imposed, reflecting a shift in priorities. The creation of a new department focused on Government Efficiency aims to enhance effectiveness. Additionally, the termination of the costly Green New Deal was announced, highlighting a commitment to eliminate wasteful spending.
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Speaker 0: In a single week, I've taken over 350 executive actions. We've signed 300 and whoever heard of that 1. And as I said in my inaugural address, the American decline is over. It's over. The golden age of America has officially begun.
And I think that's a good thing for us to talk about. The golden age and the American dream. I think it's a good thing because people haven't been talking that way for a long period of time. On day 1, I directed every member of my cabinet to marshal all powers at their disposal to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life. And we're gonna do that.
You're gonna see it starting to happen brought everything up. It's gonna bring everything down. I imposed a federal hiring freeze, a federal regulation freeze, a foreign aid freeze, a foreign aid freeze. A foreign aid freeze. Isn't that nice?
We get tired of giving massive amounts of money to countries that hate us, don't we? And I created the new department of Government Efficiency, and I think it's gonna be very meaningful. I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful green new scam. Great 1 of the great scams in history.
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I shared that President Trump has halted several expenditures approved by Democrats, including $45M for diversity scholarships in Burma, $50M for condoms in Gaza, and $181M for DEI training contracts. I believe many of these programs are essentially money laundering schemes benefiting Democrats. The numbers don't add up; spending $45M on diversity scholarships in Burma seems absurd. I commend @DOGE and @elonmusk for highlighting this waste.
@robbystarbuck - Robby Starbuck
President Trump says he stopped the following expenditures approved by Democrats: • $45M for "diversity scholarships" in Burma • $50M for condoms to be sent to Gaza • $181M in DEI training contracts (now you know why these people hate me so much) • $1.7B in payments to foreign orgs including $40M going to the corrupt @WHO I’m convinced that many of these programs are just money laundering and that America has been running the largest scale money laundering scheme in modern history to benefit Democrats. The math is not mathing for me. There’s no way they really planned to spend $45M on diversity scholarships in Burma. If they did then they’re criminally stupid. Great work by @DOGE @elonmusk identifying all of this waste.
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We identified and stopped $50 million intended for Gaza, which was meant to purchase condoms for Hamas but was instead used to create bombs. Additionally, we halted an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement and canceled $181 million in DEI training contracts. We paused $1.7 billion in unauthorized payments to foreign organizations, including over $40 million to the World Health Organization, which has failed in its duties. Furthermore, we blocked $45 million allocated for diversity scholarships in Burma. These actions reflect our commitment to redirect funds to appropriate uses.
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Speaker 0: We identified and stopped $50,000,000 being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. 50,000,000. And you know what's happened to them? They've used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?
We stopped an attempt to make an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement. We canceled $181,000,000 in DEI training contracts. This is just for the training of people in DEI, which has been terminated and completely terminated. And we paused $1,700,000,000 in unauthorized payments to foreign organizations, including stopping more than $40,000,000 that was on its way out the door to the very corrupt World Health Organization, which has not done its job and not done it properly. We also thank you.
We also blocked $45,000,000 for our diversity scholarships in Burma. 45. That's a lot of money for diversity scholarships in Burma. You can imagine where that money went. These were the types of payments.
And many others, I could stand here all day and tell you things that we found, and we have to find them quickly because we want the money to flow to proper places.
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USAID seems to spend our money like a child with a credit card. We funded $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq, $56 million for tourism in Egypt and Tunisia, $40 million for schools in Jordan, $11 million to advise Vietnam on trash burning, and $27 million for reintegration gift bags for deported Central Americans, all while American families struggle.
@WesleyHuntTX - Wesley Hunt
USAID… Like a child with YOUR credit card. Here’s what YOU funded: 🚨 $20 MILLION for a Sesame Street in Iraq 🚨 $56 MILLION to boost tourism in Egypt & Tunisia 🚨 $40 MILLION to build schools in Jordan 🚨 $11 MILLION to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash 🚨$27 MILLION FOR REINTEGRATION GIFT BAGS FOR DEPORTED CENTRAL AMERICANS All while, our borders were open and American families are hurting. Stories - @BreitbartNews.
@nicksortor - Nick Sortor
🚨 Karoline Leavitt just RIPPED USAID for wasting taxpayer dollars ➡️ $2.5M to promote DEI in Serbia ➡️ $70K for a DEI musical in Ireland ➡️ $47K for a transgender opera in Columbia ➡️ $32K for a trans comic book in Peru WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR THIS CRAP? https://t.co/0fYUE6HvRn
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USAID has allocated significant funds for various projects, including $1.5 million for DEI initiatives in Serbia, $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, and $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. Many American taxpayers are concerned about these expenditures, believing they do not reflect their priorities. President Trump has tasked Elon Musk with addressing issues of fraud, waste, and abuse within the federal government.
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Speaker 0: You're watching live coverage. Through USAID over the past several years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1,500,000 to advance d I DEI in Serbia's workplaces, 70,000 for a production of a DEI musical and I'm DEI musical in Ireland. 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
I don't know about you, but as an American tax payer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by president Trump to do. To get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government. I don't have a tax
Speaker 1: and and and the public audience, but it was important to the folks in the media to understand why, say, Hennepin County, which is our biggest county in Minnesota, that's
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Your tax dollars should be spent on America or the government should just tax you less
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
BREAKING: Trump just called for investigations to find out who's getting kickbacks from all the ludicrous money spent at USAID. Now you know why Democrats are sweating. They know the Hammer of Justice is coming. CC: @DOGE https://t.co/nKeih6m6Cq
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每个人都在这里，大家都是彼此的一部分。我们生活在这个共同的环境中，互相影响和支持。人与人之间的关系是重要的，我们的生活与他人息息相关。无论我们是谁，大家都在这个地方共同生活，分享彼此的经历和感受。我们都是这个社会的一部分，彼此连接，构成了我们共同的生活。
Everyone is here, and we are all part of each other. We live in this shared environment, influencing and supporting one another. Relationships between people are important, and our lives are interconnected. No matter who we are, we all live together in this place, sharing experiences and feelings. We are all part of this society, connected to one another, forming our shared life.
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@RealAmVoice - Real America's Voice (RAV)
PRESIDENT TRUMP ON USAID: "I WANT TO SEE WHERE THE KICKBACKS ARE" "The people that got all that money are they kicking it back to the people that gave it from government?" @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/cnv64scb3b
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There's significant fraud in USAID, with radical groups receiving funds they don't deserve. A staggering amount, like a hundred million, is being misallocated. It's crucial to investigate the kickbacks associated with this spending. Who would invest such sums in questionable projects? It's likely that those who received the funds are not returning any to the government, indicating a high level of corruption. The key issue is understanding the extent of these kickbacks.
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Speaker 0: Look at all the fraud that he's found in this, USAID. It's a disaster what the people, radical left lunatics. They have things that nobody would have even believed. The whole thing with a hundred million spent on you know what? With money going to all sorts of groups that shouldn't deserve to get any money with the money.
I'd like to see what the kickbacks are. How much money has been kicked back? Who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about and I read about, and I see every night on the news and every morning when I read the papers? Who would spend money for that? I would say this, the people that got all that money, are they kicking it back to the people that gave it from government?
No. That's to me, very, very corrupt. The real question is how much of a kickback has
@bennyjohnson - Benny Johnson
🚨President Trump on corruption and fraud in USAID: "Elon Musk has done a great job. Look at all the fraud he has found in this USAID. It is a disaster, radical left lunatics. The whole thing with 100 million spent on you know what.. I’d like to see what the kickbacks are." https://t.co/ob2S4NrMbg
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I'm Elon Musk. There have been many ideas discussed, but some are too extreme. The fraud found in USAID is shocking, with over a hundred million spent on questionable groups. It's concerning how much money is being kicked back to those in government.
The train project between Los Angeles and San Francisco is poorly managed, with massive budget overruns. It would have been cheaper to provide limousine services for all passengers. Now, the project is not even reaching the main cities but instead stops far away.
We're launching an investigation into this because the scale of mismanagement is unprecedented. This is the worst cost overrun in U.S. history, and it was unnecessary. There are better alternatives like flying or driving. We need to scrutinize this further.
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Speaker 0: It doesn't seem to work. I'm Elon Musk. Thank you, sir. I'm Elon Musk. How often are you talking to him?
And have there been ideas that he's brought to you that you said, oh, no. Wait a minute. This is going a little too far. Well, many ideas, but look, he's done a great job. Look at all the fraud that he's found in this, USAID.
It's a disaster what the people, radical left lunatics. They have things that nobody would have even believed. The whole thing with a hundred million spent on, you know what? With money going to all sorts of groups that shouldn't deserve to get any money with the money. I'd like to see what the kickbacks are.
How much money has been kicked back? Who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about and I read about and I see every night on the news and every morning when I read the papers? Who would spend money for that? I would say this, the the people that got all that money, are they kicking it back to the people that gave it from government? No.
That's to me, very, very corrupt. The real question is how much of a kickback has there been? And one of the things I want to investigate, rapidly because I've never seen anything to this extent. The train that's being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed project I think I've ever seen, and I've seen some of the worst. Billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars over budget.
In fact, I read where you could take every single person that was gonna go on the train and get the finest limousine service in the world and take them back and forth with limousines, and you'd have hundreds of millions of dollars left over. It is the worst thing, and we're gonna start an investigation in that because it's not possible. I built for a living, and I built on time, on budget. It's impossible that something could cost that much. And now it's not even going to San Francisco, and it's not going to Los Angeles.
It's they made it much shorter. So now it's at little places way away from San Francisco and way away from Los Angeles. No. We're gonna start a big investigation on that because it's I've never seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.
The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country, And it wasn't even necessary. I would have said, you don't buy it. You take an airplane. Of course, you $2. Of course, you're nothing.
You take an airplane. But this got started. And if you have to, you drive. You can drive. And there are other agents?
They have hundreds of billions of dollars of cost overruns, and it's not even the same project. It's much shorter. It's way outside of San Francisco and way outside of Los Angeles. So we're gonna be looking
@RealAlexJones - Alex Jones
Learn the Dark Truth About USAID Tax Dollar Waste - It's NOT What You Think! Tune in for more breaking news here: https://t.co/UmBYj7eHGc https://t.co/mToO6qdIwi
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To understand Elon Musk's impact on the federal government, look at his actions at Twitter. He reduced expenses, leading to lower tax revenue needs. Increased profitability at Twitter suggests similar potential for the government, allowing for debt reduction and increased service provision. However, this isn't just about money; it's about the direction of funds. Government spending allegedly fuels discord and supports destructive activities, funding organizations that promote censorship and unrest. Infowars claims to offer truthful reporting, contrasting with other media outlets. They emphasize the importance of supporting independent media to counter globalist influence, urging viewers to purchase products and become VIP members to help sustain their broadcasts.
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Speaker 0: If you wanna understand what Elon Musk is doing now to the federal government, all you have to do is look at what he did at
Speaker 1: So now let's think about it. He cut the expenses at Twitter, which would mean he would cut the expenses for the federal government, meaning they would require less tax revenue from you and I. He then made Twitter much more profitable. If he makes the federal government much more profitable, that means more access to pay off our debts and then more access to provide services for the American people. Twitter has greatly benefited from Elon Musk, and our federal government will do the same.
The less expenses our government has, the less tax revenue they need to collect from you and I. The less tax revenue you and I pay, the more money we get to keep in our pockets. And the more profitable the government is, the more they can reinvest back into the American people rather than just paying debts. Do not listen to these news outlets. Elon and Doge are doing exactly what we need.
Speaker 2: That's all very true, but I I do wanna remind you that this conspiracy is a lot bigger than money. If it was just about the money, then you'd see all sorts of different activities being funded and and, you know, charities being created to exploit the American people and and capture American tax dollars. All of the money always goes strictly towards deconstructionist activity, activity sowing discord and discontent. USAID helped the Dems steal the twenty twenty election by funding the Wuhan lab that created COVID, the ultimate excuse for illegal election tampering. They paid for the gain of function research in the Wuhan lab.
They paid for or they they, you know, were one of the main catalysts for in funding the organizations that promoted censorship based in part on COVID nineteen, wanting to stop misinformation because it's not just about information. It's a health issue. And what if they stop people from taking the vaccine? People could die. So, you know, words are violence in this case.
They funded Black Lives Matter, which destroyed the country over 2020. It's like everything in our country that all of these problems fabricated from thin air, they all seem to spawn from the government and are funded in one way or another by USAID or any of the other massive slush funds illegally tapped on a continual basis for our destruction. It's not about the money. It's never about the money. Never has been about the money.
It's about what the money is going towards and how it's being used.
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@SenRandPaul - Senator Rand Paul
The Democrats were invited to bring a witness—they chose not to. Maybe because USAID’s spending is so embarrassing. Thanks to the courageous president @realDonaldTrump (and advice from @elonmusk & others), we’re finally exposing it. https://t.co/oUgmTZ0aiB
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Democrats were invited to participate and bring witnesses, but they chose not to, likely because USAID's spending is indefensible, like $2 million for sex change surgeries in Guatemala and $3 million for girl-centric climate change initiatives. If USAID has unspent funds, can the President impound them?
Auditing spending is essential oversight. We're uncovering waste, like $4.8 million for social media influencers in Ukraine. Forcing a social agenda, like LGBT issues, on conservative countries harms diplomacy. We're finding this waste because we have a president with the courage to oversee USAID.
The CFO of FEMA was fired for spending $54 million on luxury hotels for illegal aliens. The Lincoln Riley's killer was put up in a luxury hotel in New York. Can the President impound funds, or should we rescind them through Congress? A pause in funding for an audit is just good government.
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Speaker 0: Thank you. The accusation or criticism has been made that this is an unserious hearing full of conspiracy theorists. Well, you know, the Democrats were asked to participate like they always are the same way we were when we were in the minority. They could have brought a witness. They chose not to even bring a witness.
I can't conjecture as to why, but maybe it's because it's so embarrassing, the stuff that USAID is spending their money on. Who could possibly be against ending $2,000,000 for sex chain surgeries in Guatemala? I mean, who wants to defend that? I haven't heard anybody yet defend the the waste and malfeasance that's going over there. $3,000,000 for girl centric climate change.
Maybe there's not a witness here. Maybe it's not serious, but I don't hear anybody explaining why we should continue to do that. Now there is a legal question. There is a legal question. If there's $40,000,000,000 in USAID and they don't spend it at all and it just sits there, can the president impound it?
This is a real question and it may come to that. But I don't think any court is going to find that the executive branch cannot pause in audit spending. I mean, to crassly say and just to jump this, it's illegal, it's unlawful, it's a tragedy, it's constitutional chaos. Well, auditing spending is what government should do. It's it's the traditional oversight that hasn't been done in a generation.
That's why we're finding this stuff. It's been creeping up for a generation. Dollars 4,800,000.0 for social media influencers in Ukraine. I mean, if people want to defend that, step forward and defend it. We are finding waste and malfeasance.
You also have to realize that when you have a social agenda and your social agenda is, you know, LGBT, well, when you take that to a conservative country that has religious problems with that and you want to foist it on them and fly flags, what ends up happening is that doesn't increase diplomacy, that actually goes against diplomacy. I don't care what people's views are on any of these subjects. You can have any view on LGBT, but it shouldn't be part of foreign policy to force this on everybody around the world. It just isn't part of government and should never be part of government. But we're only finding this out because we have a president with the courage, including the advice of Elon Musk, including the advice of a lot of us who have been saying for years, we need to look at USAID and make sure that they aren't committing fraud.
Look, this morning, the CFO of FEMA was fired because she's spending $54,000,000 on luxury hotels for illegal aliens. My goodness. There's a lot of Americans struggling to find work. Lincoln Riley's killer, we flew him and put him up in a luxury hotel in New York. He was there for a few months.
We spent all of our money on his meals, and then we flew him to Atlanta. And then he drifted over to Athens and then he killed Blake and Riley. Most Americans think that that's crazy and we shouldn't be doing it, but we are only finding it out because for once, we have a president with the courage to say no to go over there and put a padlock on the door and take the name down. But ultimately, there will be a legal question. Can he impound it or will he have to come back to congress?
I actually frankly think the better way is spend about 30,000,000,000 and send 10,000,000,000 back, and we do a rescission. There is a method for doing that, and I hope that is what is done. But even on the impoundment question, there are questions exactly, and I don't think it's ever made it all the way to the Supreme Court. There is court precedent on it, but we haven't gotten to that. A pause in funding is an impoundment.
A pause in funding to do an audit is just good government, frankly. The question I have for the panel is this, though.
Speaker 1: Mr. Chairman, may I just inquire?
Speaker 0: Sure.
Speaker 1: Because the Chairman mentioned that we don't have a minority witness, I would suggest, and speaking out of turn here, because the ranking member isn't here and I don't purport to speak for it.
Speaker 0: We're docking your time for next week. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: But, I would respectfully suggest that we have Paul Martin, who was fired as inspector general, come before us.
Speaker 0: We didn't deny any witnesses. We you your your side did not put forward a witness. We did not deny any witnesses. You you didn't put forward a witness. So but I just think it's disingenuous to
Speaker 1: Well, Brad, this is a
Speaker 0: personal attack on me to call this unserious and a conspiracy a bunch of conspiracy. It's an attack on our witnesses as well. That is a pejorative, and that's name calling. Alright? You can you're welcome to object to things they say and have facts to counter them.
But to call this, an unserious hearing of conspiracy
Speaker 1: I never used that term, mister chairman.
Speaker 0: Well, you said it wasn't serious. You said the hearing wasn't serious.
Speaker 1: I I
Speaker 0: But the thing is y'all chose not to participate in it, so that's on you.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can maybe we can have a second hearing because this is such an important
Speaker 0: We could have a dozen on this. There's so much to talk about. But anyway, I think we ought to be, you know, I'm not criticizing your ranking member for being unserious or conspiracy theory. He has his opinions. We make our arguments both sides.
But if we call names and say, oh, well, your ideas are conspiracy theory, that's a pejorative and that doesn't get us anywhere, frankly. And, because it's also dangerous in the sense that many people who are then saying, oh, it's a conspiracy theory. Well, government should suppress that. This is what went on. We had 23 scientists come forward in Lancet and say that the possibility that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan was a conspiracy theory.
And then government promoted back to Twitter and others and met with them on a weekly basis trying to suppress. Facebook for a year and a half said that ideas like mine that it could have come from the lab were to be suppressed. Michael Shellenberger, why don't you, if you wouldn't mind, responding to how the government was involved with trying to suppress speech that you found out through Twitter files?
Speaker 2: Well, sure. And, also, I I would think whenever you hear somebody accuse somebody of a conspiracy theory, I think you should you should consider that they are themselves spreading disinformation.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
USAID was funding DEI abroad while America goes broke at home …
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🇺🇸THE CRAZIEST THINGS USAID SPENT YOUR TAX DOLLARS ON—A THREAD USAID was supposed to fund development and humanitarian aid. Instead, millions of your tax dollars went to some of the most bizarre, wasteful, and outright questionable projects imaginable. From foreign DEI programs to taxpayer-funded operas, here’s where your money really went🧵👇
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
Trump just went through line by line about money that America has been shoveling out to other countries: "THIS IS ALL FRAUD" The news will never show this stuff, make it viral! Americans have got to know this stuff! https://t.co/cVxnMWzd29
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We're spending massive amounts of money in other countries on things nobody's ever heard of. $520 million for environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa. $25 million to promote biodiversity in Colombia. $42 million for Johns Hopkins to research social change in Uganda. $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique. $9.7 million to UC Berkeley for enterprise skills in Cambodia. $32 million to the Prague Civil Society Center, and $14 million for public procurement in Serbia. We're giving $21 million for voter turnout in India, while Nepal gets $20 million for fiscal federalism. Millions more are going to biodiversity in Nepal, voter confidence in Liberia, social cohesion in Mali, and learning outcomes in Asia. It's fraud, and I could go on all day.
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Speaker 0: That's just that. And then where's the money being spent? Right? Let's go into that for just a second. Five hundred and twenty million dollars for a consultant on the environment.
It's called environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa and mobilize private sector resources. $520,000,000 Somebody got $520,000,000 for an environmental sounds like an environmental study. Most I've always been one that paid a lot of money for my environmental studies, but they you know, I paid, like, $50,000, not $520,000,000 5 hundred and 20 million dollars for ESG. Twenty five million dollars to promote biodiversity, conservation, and promote licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in the country of Colombia. Well, it's nice, $25,000,000 to Colombia for something that nobody ever heard of.
$40,000,000 to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. 40,000,000. 40 2 million dollars for Johns Hopkins, great place to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda. Forty Two Million. What about us?
What about social change in our country? $70,000,000 for a center at Purdue to research university sourced evidence based solutions to developmental challenges. I mean, these are massive numbers on things that nobody ever heard about. $10,000,000 for Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcisions. Ten million dollars for circumcisions in another country.
$9,700,000 for UC Berkeley to develop a co a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills. In other words, let's teach them something about enterprise. What about our people? Can we teach them about enterprise? $2,300,000 for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia.
Thirty Two Million Dollars to the Prague Civil Society Center, which is a very liberal group of people. Wonder how much of that money came back to the people that approved it. $14,000,000 for improving public procurement in Serbia. Four Hundred And Eighty Six Million Dollars to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including 22,000,000 for inclusive and participatory political process in Moldova, and $21,000,000 for voter turnout in India. Well, why are we giving $21,000,000 to India?
They got a lot of money. They're the one of the highest taxing countries in the world in terms of us. We can hardly get in there because their tariffs are so high. I have a lot of respect for India. I have a lot of respect for the prime minister.
He just left, as you know, two days ago. But we're giving $21,000,000 for voter turnout. It's voter turnout in India. What about, like, voter turnout here? Oh, we've done that, I guess.
We did 500,000,000, didn't we? It's called the lock boxes. $20,000,000 for fiscal federalism in Nepal. Listen to these numbers. These are this is all fraud.
$19,000,000 for biodiversity conservation in Nepal, One Point Five Million Dollars for voter confidence. We wanna give them confidence in Liberia, Fourteen Million Dollars for social cohesion in Mali, Two Point Five Million Dollars for inclusive democracies in South Africa, Forty Seven Million Dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia's doing very well. They're doing a lot better than we do in the schools, aren't they? $2,000,000 to develop sustainable recycling models to increase socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in Kosovo and, Eskali And in Egypt, we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.
I could I could by the way, I could read this all day long. I could go on all day long, and you'll see
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During a recent press conference, I pulled out notes to highlight some astonishing government spending. I questioned allocations like $10 million for circumcisions abroad, $520 million for environmental consulting, and $25 million aimed at promoting biodiversity in Colombia. I also pointed out $40 million for the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants, $42 million for social behavior research in Uganda, and $21 million dedicated to increasing voter turnout in India.
@CollinRugg - Collin Rugg
NEW: President Trump pulls out a list of notes during the middle of his press conferences, starts listing off the most insane uses of government spending. "$10 million for circumcisions in other countries?" "$520 million for consulting on the environment." "25 million promote biodiversity... in Colombia for something that nobody ever heard of." "$40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants." "$42 million to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda." "$21 million for voter turnout in India."
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Here's where some of our money is going: $520 million to consultants for environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa, and another $25 million to promote biodiversity in Colombia. We're also giving $42 million to Johns Hopkins for social and behavioral research in Uganda. Then there's $70 million for Purdue to research solutions to global developmental challenges.
Other expenditures include $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique, $9.7 million for enterprise skills training for Cambodian youth, and $32 million to the Prague Civil Society Center. We've also allocated $14 million to improve public procurement in Serbia, $21 million for voter turnout in India, and $20 million for fiscal federalism in Nepal. Millions more are going to biodiversity in Nepal, voter confidence in Liberia, and learning outcomes in Asia.
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Speaker 0: That's just that. And then where's the money being spent? Right? Let's go into that for just a second. Five hundred and twenty million dollars for a consultant on the environment.
It's called environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa and mobilize private sector resources. $520,000,000 Somebody got $520,000,000 for an environmental sounds like an environmental study. Most I've always been one that paid a lot of money for my environmental studies, but they you know, I paid, like, $50,000, not $520,000,000 5 hundred and 20 million dollars for ESG. Twenty five million dollars to promote biodiversity, conservation, and promote licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in the country of Colombia. Well, it's nice, $25,000,000 to Colombia for something that nobody ever heard of.
$40,000,000 to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. 40,000,000. 40 2 million dollars for Johns Hopkins, great place to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda. Forty Two Million. What about us?
What about social change in our country? $70,000,000 for a center at Purdue to research university sourced evidence based solutions to developmental challenges. I mean, these are massive numbers on things that nobody ever heard about. $10,000,000 for Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcisions. Ten million dollars for circumcisions in another country.
$9,700,000 for UC Berkeley to develop a co a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills. In other words, let's teach them something about enterprise. What about our people? Can we teach them about enterprise? $2,300,000 for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia.
Thirty Two Million Dollars to the Prague Civil Society Center, which is a very liberal group of people. Wonder how much of that money came back to the people that approved it. $14,000,000 for improving public procurement in Serbia. Four Hundred And Eighty Six Million Dollars to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including 22,000,000 for inclusive and participatory political process in Moldova, and $21,000,000 for voter turnout in India. Well, why are we giving $21,000,000 to India?
They got a lot of money. They're the one of the highest taxing countries in the world in terms of us. We can hardly get in there because their tariffs are so high. I have a lot of respect for India. I have a lot of respect for the prime minister.
He just left, as you know, two days ago. But we're giving $21,000,000 for voter turnout. It's voter turnout in India. What about, like, voter turnout here? Oh, we've done that, I guess.
We did 500,000,000, didn't we? It's called the lock boxes. $20,000,000 for fiscal federalism in Nepal. Listen to these numbers. These are this is all fraud.
$19,000,000 for biodiversity conservation in Nepal, One Point Five Million Dollars for voter confidence. We wanna give them confidence in Liberia, Fourteen Million Dollars for social cohesion in Mali, Two Point Five Million Dollars for inclusive democracies in South Africa, Forty Seven Million Dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia's doing very well. They're doing a lot better than we do in the schools, aren't they? $2,000,000 to develop sustainable recycling models to increase socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in Kosovo and, Eskali And in Egypt, we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.
I could I could by the way, I could read this all day long. I could go on all day long.
@charliekirk11 - Charlie Kirk
President Trump spends four minutes listing different ways American taxpayers' money was being wasted on ridiculous pet projects in foreign countries: "I could go on all day long. Hundreds of billions of dollars." Why are Democrats fighting this? https://t.co/m4vR5odivV
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Where's the money going? $520 million for environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa. $25 million to promote biodiversity in Colombia. $40 million to include sedentary migrants. $42 million for Johns Hopkins to research social change in Uganda. What about us? $70 million for Purdue to research solutions to developmental challenges.
Then, $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique, $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop Cambodian youth enterprise skills. $2.3 million to strengthen independent voices in Cambodia, $32 million to the Prague Civil Society Center, $14 million to improve public procurement in Serbia, $486 million to strengthen elections, including $21 million for voter turnout in India.
It continues: $20 million for fiscal federalism in Nepal, $19 million for biodiversity in Nepal, $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia, and $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia. This involves hundreds of billions of dollars, and I could continue reading examples all day.
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Speaker 0: Where's the money being spent? Right? Let's go into that for just a second. Five hundred and twenty million dollars for a consultant on the environment. It's called environmental, social and governance investments in Africa and mobilize private sector resources, $520,000,000 Somebody got $520,000,000 for an environmental sounds like an environmental study.
Most I've always been one that paid a lot of money for my environmental studies, but they, you know, I paid like $50,000 not $520,000,000 5 20 million dollars for ESG. Twenty five million dollars to promote biodiversity, conservation, and promote licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in the country of Colombia. Well, it's nice. 25,000,000 to go into Colombia for something that nobody ever heard of. $40,000,000 to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
40,000,000. 40 2 million dollars for Johns Hopkins, great place to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda, Forty Two Million. What about us? What about social change in our country? $70,000,000 for a center at Purdue to research university sourced evidence based solutions to developmental challenges.
I mean, these are massive numbers on things that nobody ever heard about. $10,000,000 for Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcisions. Ten million dollars for circumcisions in another country. $9,700,000 for UC Berkeley to develop a co a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills. In other words, let's teach them something about enterprise.
What about our people? Can we teach them about enterprise? $2,300,000 for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia. Thirty Two Million Dollars to the Prague Civil Society Center, which is a very liberal group of people. Wonder how much of that money came back to the people that approved it.
$14,000,000 for improving public procurement in Serbia. Four Hundred And Eighty Six Million Dollars to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening, including $22,000,000 for inclusive and participatory political process in Moldova, and $21,000,000 for voter turnout in India. But why are we giving $21,000,000 to India? They got a lot of money. They're the one of the highest taxing countries in the world in terms of us.
We can hardly get in there because their tariffs are so high. I have a lot of respect for India. I have a lot of respect for the prime minister. He just left, as you know, two days ago. But we're giving $21,000,000 for voter turnout.
It's voter turnout in India. What about, like, voter turnout here? Oh, we've done that, I guess. We did 500,000,000, didn't we? It's called the lock boxes.
$20,000,000 for fiscal federalism in Nepal. Listen to these numbers. These are this is all fraud. $19,000,000 for biodiversity conservation in Nepal. One Point Five Million Dollars for voter confidence.
We wanna give them confidence in Liberia. Fourteen Million Dollars for social cohesion in Mali, Two Point Five Million Dollars for inclusive democracies in South Africa, Forty Seven Million Dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia's doing very well. They're doing a lot better than we do in the schools, aren't they? $2,000,000 to develop sustainable recycling models to increase socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in Kosovo and, Eskalie and in Egypt.
We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. I could I could by the way, I could read this all day long. I could go on all day long, and you'll see hundreds of billions of dollars.
reSee.it AI Summary
I want to highlight some surprising expenditures that we, as American taxpayers, have funded. These include $500,000 for Ethiopia's social media, $330,000 for censoring conservative media, and $345,000 to use soccer in fighting terrorism. We allocated $12 million for a pickleball complex in Las Vegas and $2 million to study kids' reactions to food ads on Facebook. Other notable expenses include $15.5 billion promoting electric cars, $4.8 million for Ukrainian influencers, and $385,000 for a giant pigeon statue in NYC. The list goes on, showcasing a range of unusual allocations.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
ATTENTION American Taxpayers “These are actual items that we as taxpayers have already obligated ourselves for because that money is spent: - $500,000 to Ethiopia so they could expand their social media presence - The State Department spent $330,000 censoring conservative media - $345,000 to fight terrorism with soccer - We gave the city of Las Vegas a $12 million grant to build a pickleball complex - Health and Human Services gave $2 million for a study to see how kids reacted to food advertisements on Facebook - We've been spending $10 billion a year on maintaining empty federal office buildings - $8 million in stolen COVID relief funds which used by a Florida man to buy an island, a private island - Cocaine and lonely rats - The National Institutes of Health spent $419,470 to see if lonely rats were more likely to use cocaine than social rats. (The lonely rats used more drugs than the social rats) - $15.5 billion was spent by the Department of Energy trying to convince us to buy electric cars we don't want - $4.8 million for Ukrainian influencers - The National Endowment for the Arts spent $365,000 promoting circuses in public parks - $3 million for girl-centered climate action in Brazil - $873,000 to fund films in the country of Jordan - $700 million to a failed trucking company - $288,000 for diversity in bird watching. The National Science Foundation spent $288,563 to try and make bird watching groups more diverse - $892 billion in interest payments on our national debt - $7 million for magic related projects seven million dollars was spent on various magic related projects including a podcast about American magical belief - $2.1 million dollars for border security in the country of Paraguay - $385,000 was spent for a giant 16 foot pigeon statue in New York City - $20 million for fertilizer research abroad, meaning we did fertilizer research in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil - $2.2 million on COVID experiments on cats. - $123,000 to teach viral videos in the country of Kyrgyzstan - $1.5 million to spin kittens for science ($1.5 million was spent on spinning kittens to study motion sickness) - $720,479 for Mexican duck conservation - $20 million dollars for Sesame Street in Iraq
Video Transcript AI Summary
Hello, fellow citizens and taxpayers. Today, I'm sharing highlights from Senator Rand Paul's annual Festivus report, exposing wasteful government spending.
We've spent billions on empty federal buildings, millions on pickleball complexes in Las Vegas, and even funded Ukrainian influencers. Absurdly, money went to girl-centered climate action in Brazil, fighting terrorism with soccer, and diversity in bird watching.
We're also burning cash on interest payments for our massive national debt, funding social media expansion in Ethiopia, and backing magic-related projects. Border security in Paraguay got millions, while our own border remains vulnerable. There was money spent on COVID experiments on cats and spinning kittens for science. Unbelievably, $20 million went to Sesame Street in Iraq. This is a fraction of the billions wasted last year alone. Check the 2024 Rand Paul Festivus report and see how your tax dollars are being squandered.
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Speaker 0: Hello, fellow citizens and taxpayers. Today's Doge report comes to you courtesy of senator Rand Paul's annual Festivus report. Now I want you to understand this video is not satire. I repeat, this is not a joke. These are actual items that we as taxpayers have already obligated ourselves for because that money is spent.
Okay? And this is just a small fraction of those items that are there. And if you want to fact check me, just Google twenty twenty four Rand report, and you can find these for yourself as well. So I'm gonna go through these rather quickly. Please watch until the end because numb number 25, it's just stupid.
Alright. Number one, we've been spending 10,000,000,000 a year on maintaining empty federal office buildings. Number two, we gave the city of Las Vegas a $12,000,000 grant to build a pickleball complex. Number three, the state department spent $330,000 censoring conservative media. Number four, health and human services gave $2,000,000 for a study to see how kids reacted to food advertisements on Facebook.
Number five, $8,000,000 in stolen COVID relief funds, which used by a Florida man to buy an island, a private island. Number six, cocaine and lonely rats. The National Institutes of Health spent $419,470 to see if lonely rats were more likely to use cocaine than social rats. News flash, the lonely rats used more drugs than the social rats. Number seven, $15,500,000,000 was spent by the Department of Energy trying to convince us to buy electric cars we don't want.
Number eight, $4,800,000 for Ukrainian influencers. Don't know what the hell we're doing that for. Number nine, $365,000 for a circus. The National Endowment for the Arts spent $365,000 promoting circuses in public parks. Alright.
Number ten, $3,000,000 for girl centered climate action in Brazil. The government spent $3,000,000 trying to promote climate activism by women in Brazil or girls in Brazil. How stupid can we be? Alright. 873,000 to fund films in the country of Jordan.
Why would we do such a thing? Alright. We're about halfway done. Number twelve, hundred and $45,000 to fight terrorism with soccer. I guess we're gonna teach terrorists to play soccer instead of being terrorists.
That's just a bad idea, and a huge waste of money. Number 13, we gave $700,000,000 to a failed trucking company. You know, those funds should have went to disaster relief for those impacted by the hurricanes and the wildfires this year. Instead, that money was given to a trucking company that failed, and it's never to be returned. Number 14, two hundred and 80 eight thousand for diversity in bird watching.
The National Science Foundation spent $288,563 to try and make bird watching groups more diverse. Well, what are we gonna do next? Equity and stamp collecting? Now number 15 is absolutely ridiculous. $892,000,000,000 in interest payments on our national debt.
That's just interest payments. We're not paying anything off. We've all of a sudden became the uncle with 27 maxed out credit cards and bad credit. Number 16, we gave $500,000 to Ethiopia so they could expand their social media presence. Number seventeen, $7,000,000 for magic related projects.
$7,000,000 was spent on various magic related projects, including a podcast about American magical belief. So what are we gonna do next? Are we gonna fund Hogwarts as well? Number 18, we spent $2,100,000 for border security in the country of Paraguay. Meanwhile, we can't secure our own border.
Number $19,385,000 dollars was spent for a giant 16 foot pigeon statue in New York City. I cannot imagine why somebody would wanna put up a statue of a pigeon. We all know what pigeons do. They make a mess, and now we're putting up statues to those birds who make messes. What a huge waste of money.
We also spent $20,000,000 for fertilizer research abroad, meaning we did fertilizer research in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil. How about we keep that money for our American farmers? Alright. Number 21, we did spend $2,200,000 on COVID experiments on cats. Number 22, we spent 123,000 to teach viral videos in the country of Kyrgyzstan.
I think I got that right. $123,066 spent teaching Kyrgyzstan kids how to make viral videos. I'm sure that's exactly what their country needs or a bunch of kids running around staring at their smartphones. Alright. Here's number 23.
One point five million dollars to spin kittens for science. One and a half million dollars was spent on spinning kittens to study motion sickness. Please make me understand how there is any scientific value to that at all. What a huge waste of money. Number 24, $720,479 from Mexican duck conservation.
Meanwhile, our American ducks, they didn't get a dime. Alright. Number 25, the last one, $20,000,000 for Sesame Street in Iraq. USAID spent $20,000,000 on a Sesame Street reboot in Iraq. Now these things that I've just listed off here are a fraction of the $1,000,000,000,000 in wasted money last year alone.
And as I said, this is not satire. So if you wanna go ahead and see if these are real, in fact, check me, feel free. Just go ahead and Google Rand Paul Festivus report 2024, and you can dive into this as much as you want and see how bad your government has been wasting your money. So thanks for following. We hope DOGE does a great job of getting rid of this wasteful spending so we as taxpayers can reduce what we have to pay to the federal government.
We can take care of ourselves and our family.
reSee.it AI Summary
I'm hearing that President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are looking into cutting the U.S. Africa Command to save around $500 million and pull out troops. Honestly, I'm still shocked by how much money is wasted on unnecessary things.
@BehizyTweets - George
JUST IN: President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are now considering eliminating the U.S. Africa Command to reduce DOD costs. Doing so would instantly save approximately $500,000,000 and allow the withdrawal of U.S. troops. https://t.co/m3fgDBHDDA
@BehizyTweets - George
I continue to be shocked by just how much money we are wasting on BS. https://t.co/K4Ua4tkJRf
@EndWokeness - End Wokeness
This is a must watch. Trump lists off a bunch of insane scams that US taxpayers were funding before DOGE: https://t.co/8CfrKboiQl
Video Transcript AI Summary
Here's a glimpse at some wasteful spending I've uncovered. We're talking $22 billion from HHS for housing and cars for illegal immigrants, and $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma. Millions more are going towards initiatives like sedentary migrant inclusion, LGBTQI+ promotion in Lesotho, and indigenous empowerment in Central America.
I've also found $8 million allocated to making mice transgender, $32 million for a left-wing propaganda effort in Moldova, and $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique. There's nearly $2 billion tied to a decarbonization committee, plus millions more for fish monitoring, voter confidence in Liberia, and illegal alien hotel rooms in NYC.
Other questionable expenditures include vegan climate action in Zambia, social change in Uganda, public procurement in Serbia, learning outcomes in Asia, and a record-breaking $101 million in DEI contracts at the Department of Education.
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Speaker 0: Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified. $22,000,000,000 from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens. $45,000,000 for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma. Forty Million Dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is.
$8,000,000 to promote LGBTQI plus in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. $60,000,000 for indigenous peoples and Afro Colombian empowerment in Central America. 60 Million Dollars. 8 Million Dollars for making mice transgender. This is real.
$32,000,000 for a left wing propaganda operation in Moldova. Ten Million Dollars for male circumcision in Mozambique, Twenty Million Dollars for the Arab Sesame Street in The Middle East. It's a program. $20,000,000 for a program. $1,900,000,000 to recently created decarbonization of homes committee headed up, and we know she's involved.
Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her? A $3,500,000 consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring. $1,500,000 for voter confidence in Liberia. Fourteen Million Dollars for social cohesion in Mali.
Fifty Nine Million Dollars for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City. He's a real estate developer. He's done very well. $250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia. Two Million for social and behavior change in Uganda.
Fourteen Million Dollars for improving public procurement in Serbia. Forty Seven Million Dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing very well with learning. You know what we're doing. We should use it ourselves.
And $101,000,000 for DEI contracts at the Department of Education. The most ever paid, nothing even like it. Under the Trump administration, all of these scams, and they are far worse, but I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about
reSee.it AI Summary
I highlighted several canceled expenditures that were deemed wasteful, including $6 million for promoting wine tourism in Moldova, $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street, and $52 million for the World Economic Forum. Other cancellations included funds for electric buses in Rwanda, initiatives in Mexico, and even feeding insect powder to children in Madagascar. Overall, these cuts aim to prioritize American tax dollars and reduce unnecessary spending at the State Department.
@StateDept - Department of State
Fraud. Waste. Abuse. Let's take a look at where some of the tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars were going before they were canceled by @POTUS and @SecRubio. 🧵
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $6 million for promoting wine and tourism industries in Moldova: CANCELED https://t.co/23Jx8OIFIB
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street: CANCELED https://t.co/8Rtk8VNEOc
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda: CANCELED https://t.co/0yGj6YZHXG
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $6 million for "net zero cities" in Mexico: CANCELED https://t.co/qcABy1UfQw
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $52 million for the World Economic Forum: CANCELED https://t.co/AwTYc4bCAX
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $67,000 for feeding insect powder to children in Madagascar: CANCELED https://t.co/6i79HezE9x
@StateDept - Department of State
👉 $8,000 for promoting vegan food in Zambia https://t.co/CS3ZrsJwjQ
@StateDept - Department of State
And much much more! @POTUS and @SecRubio are cutting the wasteful spending at @StateDept to ensure American tax dollars are used to put America First.
reSee.it AI Summary
I can't believe the demands being made for funding. Some of the items include $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia, $833k for transgender initiatives in Nepal, and $4.2 million for LGBTQ support in the Western Balkans and Uganda. There's also $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti, $500k for electric buses in Rwanda, $6 million for media organizations for Palestinians, $300k for a pride parade in Lesotho, and $882k for social media and mentorship in Serbia.
@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok
OMG.. you cannot make this up.. These are some of the things the Democrats are demanding we fund: - $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia - $833k for transgender people in Nepal - $4.2 million for lgbtq people in the Western Balkans and Uganda - $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti - $500k for electric buses in Rwanda - $6 million for media organizations for the Palestinians - $300k for a pride parade in Lesotho - $882k for social media and mentorship in Serbia
Video Transcript AI Summary
Trump says the administration removed wasteful items from the budget, which upset Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez and the socialist wing of the Democratic Party. They took out items that existed under President Biden and are demanding they be put back in. Examples cited include: $3,000,000 for circumcision and vasectomies in Zambia; $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric buses in Rwanda; $3,600,000 for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti. I kid you not. $6,000,000 for media organizations for the Palestinians; $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal; $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho; $882,000 for social media and mentorship in Serbia; $4,200,000; $4,200,000 for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people in the Western Balkans and Uganda. The congresswoman and the socialist wing threaten to shut down the government till we get this back in. The fight is about putting this back in the bill.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: Basically, president Trump just said, we want you to take some stuff out of the out of the budget that we think is wasteful, and we did. And that upset the congresswoman. She's entitled to be upset if she wants to, but that really upset the socialist wing of the party. And so we took out, and here's what they want us to put back in. We found that under president Biden, they were spending $3,000,000 for circumcision and vasectomies in Zambia.
We put that took that out. The congresswoman says, we're gonna shut down government till you put that back in. We found $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric buses in Rwanda. We found $3,600,000 for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti. I kid you not.
I'm not making this up. It was in in the budget under president Biden. We took it out. Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez in the socialist wing, the loon wing of the Democratic Party says we're gonna shut down government till you put it back in. I'll just read you a few more that we took out.
They are demanding we put back in. $6,000,000 for media organizations for the Palestinians, $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal. $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho. $882,000 for social media and mentorship in Serbia. $4,200,000.
We took it out. The congresswoman and the socialist wing of their party says we gotta put that back in for them open government. $4,200,000 for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people in the Western Balkans and Uganda. I could spend the rest of the afternoon here. We took all that out.
It upset congresswoman Ocasio Cortez. It upset the socialist wing of her party. And now they though that wing of her party and the congresswoman are threatening all other Democrats and saying, you gotta shut that government down till we get what we want. And part of what they want is to add this kind of stuff back into the bill. And that's what this fight is all about.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
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reSee.it AI Summary
I’m noting that the post claims in 2025 Congress approved millions for studies defying President Trump’s mandates: $250,000,000 for transgender animal experiments; $150,000 to study Covid & climate impacts on Alaska; $124,000 on beagle experiments.
@ThePatriotOasis - The Patriot Oasis™
🔥🚨 BREAKING: It's now been revealed that in 2025, Congress approved MILLIONS for wild and ridiculous "studies" defying President Trump's mandates - $250,000,000 for Transgender Animal Experiments. - $150,000 to study Covid & Climate Impacts on Alaska - $124,000 on Beagle Experiments
Video Transcript AI Summary
Speaker 0 highlights that the report indicates the federal government wasted millions in the past year on transgender animal experiments and lab testing beagles in China, noting a contrast with funds used for voting identification. He frames the issue as a question of priorities: we don’t want to pay for people to have an ID to vote, but we’ll pay for lab testing beagles in China.
Speaker 1 responds by acknowledging the presence of extensive federal spending and the need for greater oversight. He says this is the ninth year they have worked through this, and that there is always a need for more eyes on it and greater transparency. He emphasizes that the problem is not confined to a single administration or Congress, but rather that there is broad complexity requiring scrutiny and sunshine.
Speaker 1 identifies the shutdown as the largest area of waste in the prior year, stating that $85,000,000,000 was lost during that period. He argues that shutdowns do have real fiscal impacts, countering a common belief that they do not affect outcomes. He then points to a specific critique: a quarter of a billion dollars was spent on transitioning mice and monkeys by NIH. He claims that American taxpayers do not want their dollars spent on such activities, and reiterates that taxpayers are more supportive of spending on national defense, education, and infrastructure, but not on what he describes as wasteful or inappropriate expenditures.
Across the exchange, the speakers stress the overarching theme of government spending that does not align with the public’s perceived priorities. They emphasize the need for oversight and accountability, highlighting large-scale waste associated with shutdowns and specific research expenditures. The dialogue centers on contrasting perceived essential investments with expenditures they describe as wasteful or misaligned with taxpayer priorities, especially in the context of animal research and international laboratory activities.
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Speaker 0: Federal spending broadly speaking. The report says that the federal government wasted millions in the past year on transgender animal experiments and lab testing beagles in China. So in other words, we don't wanna pay for people to have an ID to go vote, but we're gonna pay for lab testing beagles in China?
Speaker 1: Oh, yes. That that is there. It was a very, very large federal government. There is always need for more oversight in this. This is the ninth year that we work through this.
Doesn't matter who's in the administration or who's in congress. There's a lot of complexity. There should be a lot of eyes on it and provide some sunshine. The biggest waste area we had was actually last year in the in the shutdown. We lost $85,000,000,000 during that time period.
A lot of people say shutdowns don't affect anything. Yes. They do. We lose a significant amount of federal tax dollars during that kind of, experience. You identified one of the things that I actually brought out, and that is we talk a lot about Minnesota and the fraud, but we also need to be able to talk about a quarter billion dollars that was spent on transitioning mice and transitioning, monkeys by NIH.
Those are things the American taxpayer dollar doesn't wanna spend their money on. They don't mind spending money on national defense, on education, on roads. They don't mind spending money on core things, but they don't want their money wasted.