No wonder we are in such a huge national debt..

[ironglowz]

   Here's some of what DOGE has cut according to;   https://www.clintonfoundationtimeline.com/february-23-2025-billions-of-us-tax-dollars-are-missing-from-the-clinton-bush-haiti-relief-projects/

   
YOU PAID FOR IT BUT NOT ANYMORE! Partial list of Projects USAID, the wasteful unaccountable government agency ended by DOGE and Elon Musk!
– $10 million of meals going to an al Qaeda-linked TERRORIST GROUP
$5 million to one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab (EcoHealth Alliance)
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
$43 million for a gas station in Afghanistan with no customers
– $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax
$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”
– $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”
– $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
– $4.5 million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan
– $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”
– $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”
– $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”
– $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
– $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” and $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam
– $5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab
– $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”
– $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
– $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America
– $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)
– $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon
– $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans
– $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda
– $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”
– $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa
– $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”

   Thanks DOGE, but don't stop there..

[gypsyman]

 Well, when R. Ron Johnson just stated, the government can't afford to give the taxpayers a check for $2,000, after all they claimed to have saved, hmm, makes me wonder how much smoke and mirrors their putting in front of us?

[ironglowz]

Well, when R. Ron Johnson just stated, the government can't afford to give the taxpayers a check for $2,000, after all they claimed to have saved, hmm, makes me wonder how much smoke and mirrors their putting in front of us?

   I saw Johnson in that interview, and he suggested that money be put against our $38 Trillion debt. I can't argue with that, providing every cent goes to pay off debt,
    and not splurged on crap.

  That's how i have always run my own finances..so i have to concur with him....so long as the above proviso is upheld..

[NWBear]

And yet spending goes up each year… We spent more in 2025 than 2024???

[gypsyman]

Well, when R. Ron Johnson just stated, the government can't afford to give the taxpayers a check for $2,000, after all they claimed to have saved, hmm, makes me wonder how much smoke and mirrors their putting in front of us?

   I saw Johnson in that interview, and he suggested that money be put against our $38 Trillion debt. I can't argue with that, providing every cent goes to pay off debt,
    and not splurged on crap.

  That's how i have always run my own finances..so i have to concur with him....so long as the above proviso is upheld..

  I guess they way I look at it, the people that created the debt, don't want to help the people their depending on that actually will ''pay'' off the debt. And, as NW Bear pointed out, if they really wanted to lower the debt, shouldn't they quit spending so much? They keep the $2,000, and the debt keeps going up, thanks for nothing.

[Land_Owner]

Eliminate the pay for congress. Stop the insider trading in its tracks. Take away Nancy's investments that led to her $100M bank roll on a $250K (whatever) salary. Shut down welfare for illegal immigration.

[DDZ]

Yeah, well now DOGE is shut down. No wasteful spending has been stopped, No swamp creatures were drug out of their cubicles, and thrown in jail. What happened to saving money? What happened to the $5000 checks tax payers were going to get from all the money that was supposedly saved?  DOGE vanished like a failed tech start up. Its back to business as usual in DC.

[moamonkey]

Nancy’s $100 million bankroll? I’d read somewhere it’s more like $415 million.

[Goldie]

The rhino are as worthless as the liberals. I'm sick and tired of hearing what they're doing for us.a bunch of worthless people, all of them.

[AtlLaw]

No politician is ever trustworthy.  Like I always told my "baby lawyers," Never involve the elected official!  The only thing they are really concerned with is getting reelected!"

[ironglowz]

No politician is ever trustworthy.  Like I always told my "baby lawyers," Never involve the elected official!  The only thing they are really concerned with is getting reelected!"

  Exactly..   ..And it seems almost every politician running for a federal office over the last few decades, has vowed that lobbyists should be kicked out of Washington,
   
  but nobody manages to do it !

[Land_Owner]

Nancy’s $100 million bankroll? I’d read somewhere it’s more like $415 million.

I did not look anything up prior to that post. I already knew her haul from what has been reported about her insider trading for that one deal.

Systemically, DC is the Swamp and nearly all the political participants there (both sides) are working for themselves. It is human nature. Make hay whille the sun shines.

[gypsyman]

Nancy’s $100 million bankroll? I’d read somewhere it’s more like $415 million.

I did not look anything up prior to that post. I already knew her haul from what has been reported about her insider trading for that one deal.

Systemically, DC is the Swamp and nearly all the political participants there (both sides) are working for themselves. It is human nature. Make hay whille the sun shines.

  Sad part, we know they'll never change. They might go in and have good intentions, but by the second term, their voting for their biggest donors, and not the people they represent. And for the foreseeable future, that will not change. Only way out that I can see, is a Convention of States. Get enough responsible people to vote, and put a limit on what they can, or cannot do. And how long they stay in. Otherwise, it'll keep happening.