Dems far outnumber conservatives in government
— here’s what department is the worst
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 2/18/2025 4:36:51 PM
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,
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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.
His eye-popping $17,000 price tag has become standard under President Trump, as smuggling cartels adapt to the border shutdown by raising the prices they charge illegal immigrants.
The Biden administration spent tens of billions of dollars on grants to migrants and refugees through one of its government agencies, including over $10 billion in just one year, according to a new watchdog report.
The watchdog group Open the Books looked at grants to nonprofits awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. Its responsibilities include caring for unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the southern border illegally and refugees entering legally.
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.
India objected when a C-17 arrived in New Delhi with 104 restrained deportees. And Colombian President Gustavo Petro set off a brief diplomatic row by turning back the first US planeload of deportees because many wore leg restraints.
“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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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that some $4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department were missing a critical tracking code which made tracing the transactions “almost impossible.”
The transactions were reportedly missing the Treasury Account Symbol, or TAS, an identification code which links a Treasury payment to a budget line item, according to DOGE, which described the use of such code as a “standard financial process.”
“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,” read an X post from DOGE.
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."
Actor Robert Picardo, who played The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager, said that America should cancel Presidents Day due to Trump allegedly canceling “our justice system” and other causes.
Picardo issued his decree on the social media platform Blue Sky.“Being that papers straws, The Gulf of Mexico and our justice system have been recently cancelled, let’s cancel Presidents’ Day,” he said.
Being that papers straws, The Gulf of Mexico and our justice system have been recently cancelled, let’s cancel Presidents’ Day.
— Robert Picardo (@robertpicardo.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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.
The move comes as part of President Donald Trump’s broader effort to realign American priorities—protecting the homeland first, rather than funding programs that facilitate unchecked migration.
To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, there are two ways to descend into autocracy: gradually and then suddenly. Right now, we are on the bullet train.
With President Trump in office only a month, many say his “shock and awe” campaign — issuing executive orders to abolish birthright citizenship, defund national health, invade sensitive Treasury payment systems, shutter USAID, impound funds allocated by Congress, fire civil servants and the like — puts us well on the road to autocracy. And the presence of his satrap, billionaire Elon Musk, makes even Republicans nervous and underscores the anxiety over where we are headed.
The Democrats are stunned, wringing their hands.
Kamala Harris Signs With CAA
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has signed with CAA for representation in all areas, with a focus on speaking engagements and publishing. CAA will work closely with Harris on her post-White House initiatives, creating strategic opportunities that expand her platform in support of the issues she has championed throughout decades-long career in public service.
This marks a return to the agency for Harris, which previously represented the then-U.S. Senator prior to her being sworn in as the 49th Vice President
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok has abruptly wiped his X account clean just as Kash Patel awaits confirmation as the new FBI Director. Strzok, whose name has become synonymous with controversy following his involvement in anti-Trump text messages and the Russia investigation, made the decision to erase his online presence amid growing anticipation of Patel’s confirmation. The move raises questions about Strzok’s intentions and whether it is linked to Patel’s expected leadership at the FBI. Strzok, who was dismissed from the FBI in 2018 for breaching bureau policies, played a key role in initiating the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to have uncovered “the biggest fraud in history” when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over 100 years old.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!” Musk posted on X late Sunday, showing a chart of ages ranging from zero to 369 years old.
“Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” he joked, adding that “there are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security [sic] numbers than there are citizens in the USA.
Acting head of Social Security Administration
resigns after dispute with Elon Musk’s
DOGE: report 25 replies
resigns after dispute with Elon Musk’s
DOGE: report 25 replies
The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner reportedly resigned over the weekend after a dispute with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the Elon Musk-headed group’s efforts to access sensitive government records.
Michelle King, a career federal worker who had been with SSA since 1994, quit over the DOGE disagreement Saturday and was replaced by Leland Dudek, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Dudek, who has been supportive of DOGE’s efforts to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, will serve as acting commissioner of SSA until President Trump’s pick to lead the agency, Frank Bisignano, is confirmed by the Senate, according to the outlet.
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.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has sued the Trump administration, asserting that President Trump's order suspending refugee grants was illegal and demanding millions in what it claims is owed to Catholic charities for work performed under the grant. The USCCB represents the leadership of the Catholic Church in the United States,
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, names as defendants the State Department, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the Department of Health and Human Services. It says the bishops have partnered with the U.S. government
ROME — Pope Francis is seriously worried about his health after being hospitalized with severe bronchitis, and is rushing to tie up loose ends ahead of the battle to succeed him. The pope was admitted to a special ward earlier this month in Gemelli Hospital in Rome with a respiratory infection, and he has since been forced to cancel a number of public appearances. (Snip) As his health has deteriorated over the last month, Francis has also moved to complete key initiatives and appoint sympathetic figures to key posts, following a progressive-tinted papacy marked by bitter ideological divisions. Since he became