More Waste and Corruption Revealed

 Jeff Childer's recent "SWAMP APOCALYPSE" column at his substack has collected quite a bit of the ongoing revolution against the Deep State. The most significant aspect is that because of DOGE's initial reconnaissance, the Republican Congress can now get involved. 

    In that regard, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-La.), "told reporters he agreed that the President could unilaterally withhold congressionally authorized payments, if they are wasteful, fraudulent, or abusive." That could be mere lip service, but:

    Then Johnson delivered the coup de grâce, the single sentence revealing a ghastly Sword of Damocles dangling on a gossamer thread right above the Deep State’s masked head, and a critical puzzle piece dropped into what we perceive in the strategic brilliance of Trump’s de-Swamping order of operations. Johnson said:

    We have a $36 trillion dollar federal debt. We have got to get ahold of these things. You’re going to see it reflected in the reconciliation package that comes forward, you’re going to see it reflected in the appropriations as we go forward, and you’re going to see it in these efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.

    And we think the final number on that is going to be substantial and a game changer in Washington.

The clear threat was in Johnson’s final sentence. A game-changer in Washington. DOGE isn’t the weapon, it’s just the canary in the limestone mine. Now that Congress knows where the waste is —like USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Department of Education, DEI spending, the Treasury, Social Security, and the rest— legislators are working up a budget bill to nuke the Deep State from orbit.

    It’s wonky, but this is very important. The fact Johnson announced a budget bill is critical. Bills related to reconciling the budget can be passed using a process called ‘budget reconciliation,’ which avoids the Senate filibuster and can be approved with a simple majority. In other words, it’s the Deep State’s worst nightmare: first, DOGE identified the bureaucratic bloat, and so now Republicans in Congress have a viable legislative path to cut the guts out of the bloated, mutant Swamp whale.

    Now we see that the DOGE data dumps have always been paving the way for this— the Congressional reconciliation bill. If Congress does the cutting, it will instantly cure all the alleged ills the Democrats and their captive judges have been complaining about. They howled that Trump was “overriding Congress” by stopping payments and so forth. But Congress is about to stop them.

     Other developments mentioned in the article:

• "DOGE found some people over 150 years old who are still collecting Social Security." That's amazing--apparently we've cracked the secret to immortality.
  
•  "DOGE plans to investigate public officials who somehow got rich in office despite their nominal salaries."

More there, so be sure to reach the whole thing.

    And some other evidence of fraud, corruption and waste:

• "Congress Discovers $2.7 Trillion in Fraudulent Government Payments — Why Is This Not a Bigger Story?"--PJ Media. Makes you wonder if we would have a deficit if the corruption was rooted out.

On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) held her DOGE subcommittee hearing and announced that the subcommittee has discovered that over the past 20 years, the U.S. government has squandered $2.7 trillion on improper payments. Just last year alone, the government handed out $170 billion to individuals who were deceased, criminals, or otherwise ineligible for government programs.

• "Justice Department spent $100 million pushing DEI in schools, watchdog finds"--The College Fix.
• "Stunning Evidence of FBI Weaponization Undermines Dem Narrative of Trump 'Retribution' in Firings"--Benjamin Weingarten. 
• "Lee Zeldin Just Discovered $20 Billion Laundered by the Biden Admin"--PJ Media.
• "Donald Trump demands Reuters return $9 MILLION payment from the Pentagon for 'social deception' study"--Daily Mail.  
• "HHS splurged more than $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups"--New York Post.
  
• "Staggering number of federal workers accepting buyouts revealed amid DOGE's mass purge of bloated bureaucracies"--Daily Mail. 75,000 according to the article.

 At some point, the Deep State empire will try and strike back. The mistake they made was that they were prepared to fight the last war (similar to when Trump took office in 2017). But a lot of wealthy people are having their incomes disappear or shrink as the federal gravy train is shut down; and an even larger number of people who feel entitled to jobs with the government and NGOs are going to be out of work. At this point, the Democrats are working through the courts to try and stop Trump, but we have to anticipate that they are working up alternative methods to stop the revolution.