Current, former USAID employees sue Musk,
arguing Senate should’ve confirmed him
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 2/13/2025 12:42:40 PM
Current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sued Elon Musk and his cost-cutting operation, levying the novel argument that the world’s richest man should have been confirmed by the Senate before wielding such enormous power. The Trump administration, Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have moved in recent weeks to stanch the flow of foreign aid, dismantle the agency responsible for administering it and dismiss thousands of people working for the agency at home and abroad.
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins confirmed that the Biden administration’s VA diverted “manpower” away from Veteran Care (VC) to help illegal migrants obtain health care.
In an interview with Andrew Wilkow of the Wilkow Majority on SiriusXM Patriot, the new VA secretary revealed that after stepping into the role earlier this month he found instances of time being used to “process health applications and stuff” for illegals:
“Did the VA, under the previous administration, move resources away from Veteran Care into benefits for illegals… Did it happen, or are we going to look into it?” Wilkow asked Collins,
Frequent Trump critic Jim Acosta faced backlash after he blasted Karoline Leavitt – comparing the youngest-ever White House press secretary to a “kid” who is “telling you a tall tale.”
On Wednesday, during an interview with left-leaning podcast Meidas Touch, the former CNN anchor torched the newest press secretary.
“She [Leavitt] might just get on Trump’s all-star team of liars,” Acosta said. “She might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, she does her homework, she just might make it onto the team.”
Brigitte Gabriel, a survivor of terrorism and a legal immigrant to America, wants the Trump administration to shut down the corrupt Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
Gabriel, founder and chair of ACT for America, emphasized that the ORR was transformed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden into federal assistance for illegal aliens to game our system to their benefit. As long as you claimed to be a “refugee,” you could be sure of plenty of assistance in obtaining significant amounts of American taxpayer money. That, Gabriel emphasized, needs to end immediately.
The ORR’s government website provides the following word salad, saying it “promotes the health, well-being, and stability of refugees, unaccompanied
Earlier this month, after meeting with President Nayib Bukele, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that El Salvador had offered to help the United States with its plans to deport dangerous illegal migrants by housing them in the country's jails, no matter their country of citizenship. Last week, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama announced that his country was accepting illegal migrants — originally from places like China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan — from the U.S. and housing them until they could be returned to their home countries.
On Monday, Costa Rica announced that it would also play a role in U.S. deportation plans.
Congestion pricing, we hardly knew ye.
New York City’s spectacularly unpopular congestion pricing scheme is on death row as the Trump administration announced Wednesday it is pulling its approval of the toll — slamming it as “backwards and unfair” — in a major blow to Gov. Kathy Hochul, The Post has learned.
The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration terminated the approval of the controversial program, according to a letter Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent to Hochul on Wednesday afternoon.
The Department of Government Efficiency has yet to begin its most important task: fulfilling President Trump’s promise to move 100,000 federal employees out of Washington, DC.
This would build on the president’s first-term efforts to relocate agencies. While the savings could be enormous, the biggest benefit would be restoring much-needed ideological balance to the vast federal bureaucracy.
It’s further to the left than the most liberal parts of the country and hostile to policies that don’t reflect its bias.
Making the administrative state more representative of America would make it more accountable to the American people and the president we elect.
Virtually everyone knows the federal government leans left,
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg bit off far more than he could chew after trying to troll the Trump Administration on airline safety when his successor dropped the hammer on him in response.
As TGP readers know, the corporate media and Democrats have sought to blame recent plane crashes on President Trump and Elon Musk after conveniently giving Joe Biden a complete pass on the numerous aviation disasters that happened under his watch. The same thing happened regarding the latest plane crash in Toronto.
Leftists have also conveniently ignored how DEI initiatives going back to the Obama regime have led to a massive air traffic control shortage
When authorities found Stephen Marroquin-Mendez, the Salvadoran illegal immigrant was stuffed inside a cabinet in the cab of a semi truck, latched from the outside so he couldn’t have freed himself.
He told Homeland Security agents last week he’d already paid $8,500 to be floated across the Rio Grande and into Texas, owed $8,500 more once he reached Houston and would then head to Virginia, where he was to meet up with an aunt already living there.
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The watchdog found that in FY 2021, it distributed $2.4 billion in grants to nonprofits. In FY 2022, it distributed $3.4 billion, then that number skyrocketed up to $10 billion in FY 2023
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday he’s leaving his post and urged the Postal Service Board of Governors to start the search for a replacement.
Mr. DeJoy didn’t say when he’s stepping down from the position that he’s held since 2020.
“While there remains much critical work to be done to ensure that the Postal Service can be financially viable as we continue to serve the nation in our essential public service mission, I have decided it is time to start the process of identifying my successor and of preparing the Postal Service for this change,” Mr. DeJoy said in a statement.
President of NYU College Republicans Gets
Into Hot Water With What She Said About
Barron Trump 13 replies
Into Hot Water With What She Said About
Barron Trump 13 replies
According to his father, Barron Trump had a big part in encouraging him to go on podcasts that helped to win him the election in November. Having proven his electoral chops in helping get his father elected, 18-year-old Barron is now attending NYU, a hop, skip and a jump away from his home in Trump Tower in NYC.
He's likely going to be a force to be reckoned with in the future.
But Kaya Walker, the president of NYU’s College Republicans of America chapter, got into trouble for a comment that she made about Barron. Walker told Vanity Fair, which was doing a piece on Barron at college,
The latest liberal outrage over President Trump’s border policies is the fact that some migrant criminals have been handcuffed and shackled for their flights back home.
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“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity every human being is worthy of,” an indignant Petro posted on social media. “We will welcome back our fellow countrymen on civilian planes, without a criminal’s treatment.”
Missing from this outcry is any explanation of why
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Cynthia Erivo is taking on another musical for her next role. On Tuesday, it was announced that the "Wicked" star and three-time Oscar nominee will play Jesus in the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar."
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its decision to suspend federal funding for refugee resettlement.
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Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg unleashed a foul-mouthed rant against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) late Tuesday after his grandfather’s namesake JFK Presidential Library and Museum temporarily closed due to layoffs of taxpayer-funded staff.
The 32-year-old grandson of President John F, Kennedy told the cost-cutting DOGE initiative to “eat s–t” after the Boston-based library shut its doors Tuesday afternoon because of staffing cuts.
The library blamed the closure on President Trump’s recent executive order overhauling the federal workforce.
“Hey, it’s Jack,” Schlossberg said in the clip posted online — just two weeks after he dramatically claimed he was quitting social media. “I’m OK, but our country is not.
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Elon Musk Open to ‘DOGE Dividend’
Payments That Could Send $5,000 Checks
to Every American Taxpayer 23 replies
Payments That Could Send $5,000 Checks
to Every American Taxpayer 23 replies
Elon Musk showed interest in an innovative way of showing the country the savings his Department of Government Efficiency is making.
Musk posted on the X platform on Tuesday, saying he would “check with the president” about a proposal to send $5,000 checks to every American using money saved by DOGE’s cost-cutting operations.
The idea was initially proposed by James Fishback, a partner at the investment firm Azoria.
He explained the idea as follows:
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pledged to “simplify” the federal government’s credit card program on Tuesday which cost taxpayers nearly $40 billion last year.
“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24,” read an X post from the cost-cutting initiative’s official account.
“DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs,” the group added. (Photo) DOGE said it “will report back in 1 week” with its plan to disentangle the system.
Far-Left Dem Cooks Up Baseless Explanation
To Make Libs Feel Better About Trump’s Popularity 19 replies
To Make Libs Feel Better About Trump’s Popularity 19 replies
Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett baselessly told “The View” co-hosts Wednesday that President Donald Trump has record-high approval ratings because Americans just are not educated enough to dislike him. Trump currently holds a record-high approval rating of 53%, as a high number of Americans believe he is fulfilling his campaign promises, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll from Feb. 9. Crockett, who is known for loudly screaming at her colleagues on the House floor, said with a straight face that there should not be a “loud” and so-called “ridiculous” person sitting in the Oval Office.
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“My Administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans,” read the text of Trump’s order.
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On Wednesday, during an interview with left-leaning podcast Meidas Touch, the former CNN anchor torched the newest press secretary.
“She [Leavitt] might just get on Trump’s all-star team of liars,” Acosta said. “She might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, she does her homework, she just might make it onto the team.”
Dr. Deborah Birx is trying to save herself, isn’t she? She told Piers Morgan everything our lovely Leslie Eastman said from the beginning of COVID and about the vaccine:
Meant for the immunocompromised and elderly
Nothing like childhood vaccines
Young and healthy people didn’t need it
Wasn’t designed to prevent infection.
I’m immunocompromised with rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren’s syndrome. I refuse to get the COVID vaccine. I still get the flu and pneumonia vaccine, though. The one time I forgot to update my pneumonia shot I got it. I had pneumonia in December 2019, and I wanted to die. COVID? I just slept a lot.
I felt worse with the flu and, of course, pneumonia…
President Donald Trump revealed that he had instructed “all remaining” U.S. attorneys who had been appointed under former President Joe Biden to be terminated.
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The people of Los Angeles really need to fire Mayor Karen Bass.
As it is now widely known, Mayor Bass was traveling in Africa when the incredibly destructive fires broke out in the city weeks ago. When she finally made it back to LA, she was questioned by a reporter and stood there silently, unable or unwilling to explain herself.
Now, weeks later, she has done a TV interview where she explained that she is launching an investigation into why she was allowed to go on her Africa trip when people knew there was a possibility of fires.
Is this the most absurd thing you have ever heard? Is it close?