“Deep State”

Foreign Aid Reform: USAID Has a History of Funding Terrorists and Anti-American Organizations

The Biden administration created intentional loopholes that allowed foreign aid to ultimately end up in the hands of terrorist organizations.

A flurry of executive orders and the specter of a reorganization of USAID have focused attention on a sphere of policy in need of reform. In addition to the often-cited issue of wasted tax dollars, serious matters such as terror financing and support for violence and incitement are deeply embedded in the debate over aid reform.

The Jan. 20 executive order, establishing the current “90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy,” emphasizes the urgency of tackling this issue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump World

Are the Protests in Slovakia Due to NGO and USAID Interference?

Newly minted Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been saying all the right things. His immediate maneuvers on DEI and deportations have set a promising tone.

However, his department warrants more tempered optimism than most. For one, his 99-0 Senate confirmation indicates U.S. foreign policy might not have major shakeups in store. More importantly,

Rubio’s hawkish track record suggests regime-change adventurism is firmly on the table.

The analysis thus far has focused on Latin America, where Secretary Rubio has deep personal and political ties, as well as Iran and China. The new Trump administration is maneuvering to end the war in Eastern Europe though, while unrest is simmering nearby in Serbia and Slovakia. The latter especially presents a policy-defining scenario, as it is an EU and NATO member and a direct neighbor of Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Slovakia, USA

FCC Opens Probe Into Soros-Funded Radio Station for Exposing Undercover ICE Operations

Audacy may have a real problem on its hands, and so may minority shareholder George Soros. The FCC has begun an investigation into the license of KCBS in San Francisco after one of its hosts began broadcasting the locations and descriptions of undercover ICE agents looking for violent illegal aliens.

Is this a First Amendment issue? Or is it an obstruction of federal law enforcement?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", George Soros

How the Catholic Church Became a Champion of Biden’s Open Borders

Church groups grew massively with government funding for the controversial immigrant and refugee programs that Trump is now cutting.

Vice President J. D. Vance has emerged as one of the Trump administration’s unwavering defenders on many issues. One of his most widely quoted retorts to critics occurred on the January 26 edition of CBS’s Face the Nation. Vance was responding to statements by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning as “deeply troubling” the administration’s enforcement actions against illegal aliens and its pause of government-funded refugee-resettlement programs. As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church for its role in garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to serve immigrants over the last several years. “I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Catholic Church

USAID Checkbook Snaps Shut, Politico misses payroll

The USAID scandal just keeps rolling.

It appears that Politico couldn’t meet payroll thanks to DOGE.

An update to the story indicates Politico was on the public teat for about 34 million in total.

The NYTimes’ primary function isn’t journalism. It’s narrative coordination

I opened my NYTimes app today. They’re trying, but they can’t keep up. News that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage.

THIS IS CRUCIAL

The entire liberal deep state command and control system is broken. Let me explain.

Canada needs a DOGE.

h/t XC, PA Cat, testsubjectx1 and DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump World

Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — how elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms

Philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote, “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.”

As President Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency get on with their business of trimming waste, fraud, abuse and graft from the federal budget — a business that is vitally important, given the government’s parlous financial outlook — they need to keep this in mind.

Less than two weeks in, DOGE teams poring over federal spending records are discovering all sorts of problems.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", President Trump

More than 1,000 EPA employees are told they could be dismissed immediately

The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency that they could be dismissed immediately.

Workers who’ve been at the agency less than one year received an email last week notifying them that they had been identified as employees that were likely on a “probationary/ trial period,” according to an email reviewed by NBC News.

H/T DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump World

USAID’s Long Track Record of Wasteful, Left-Wing Spending Made It an Obvious First Target for Musk

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has come under scrutiny after tech billionaire Elon Musk chose the agency as the first target in his campaign to reduce ballooning government costs and root out progressive ideology from within the executive branch.

Musk’s decision to first declare war on USAID in his role as head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency should come as no surprise, given the agency’s long history of wasteful, ideologically driven spending.

Established in 1961 under the Kennedy administration, USAID is meant to oversee humanitarian, development, and security programs, doing so in over 100 foreign countries. As originally conceived, the agency was meant to distribute aid in a way that advances U.S. interests, ideally without antagonizing the local population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA

U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for Agency’s Dismantling

Uncertainty and turmoil gripped the U.S. Agency for International Development for a second day, as employees locked out of their offices braced for potential cuts to the work force, while Democrats denounced the Trump administration for what they said was an illegal power grab.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who took control of U.S.A.I.D. as its acting administrator on Monday, insisted during a Fox News interview that night that the takeover was “not about getting rid of foreign aid,” and that the goal had been to reform the agency.

“But now we have rank insubordination,” he said, adding that U.S.A.I.D. employees had been “completely uncooperative, so we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.”

(more…)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA

All the shocking ways USAID spent your money

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on some shocking expenditures.

USAID was established in 1961 to provide money made by Americans to help countries develop abroad.

However, the agency has been shuttered because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have found that the aid being doled out overseas often does not accomplish core U.S. missions, like expanding education and improving infrastructure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA

USAID staffers told to stay out of DC headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to shut it down

WASHINGTON — Staffers of the US Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, after billionaire Elon Musk announced that President Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.

USAID staffers said they also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership,” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump World

Trump Bans Intel Officials Who Pushed Russian Disinfo Hoax From Federal Buildings

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is taking further action against the 50 former intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” instructing agencies to also ban those individuals from stepping foot in secure U.S. government facilities, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.

h/t RM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", President Trump

Brennan Backlash

Return of the Russia Hoax and the battle for the CIA.

President Trump revoked the security clearances of the 51 intel officials who signed the letter linking the Hunter Biden laptop with “Russian disinformation.” That brought a response from Obama CIA director John Brennan, who charged that Trump’s “bizarre” order misrepresented the letter. It didn’t, and there’s more to Brennan’s backlash that the people should know.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome