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https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/07/16/the-extent-to-which-the-state-department-wasted-your-money-was-truly-shocking-n4941819

To the rage of the establishment left, the Donald Trump State Department has been trimming the fat. Large numbers of people who weren’t doing much of anything more than collecting taxpayer-funded paychecks are being let go. The leftist establishment, as predictable as usual, is howling, but the cuts are going ahead and so far have survived court challenges. When you lift up a rock, however, you get to see all the strange and often revolting things that were underneath it, and the State Department is no different.

Fox News reported Wednesday that the Trump administration found every step of the streamlining and reorganization process to be difficult. Even something as simple as getting a list of the people who actually worked for the State Department turned out to require major effort. “It took us three months,” recounted one Trump State Department official, “to get a list of the people that actually work in the building.” 

That’s your taxpayer dollars at work. “They couldn’t tell you how many people worked here. It’s sort of scary as a taxpayer and as a public servant to think that we don’t even know how many employees we have. This is a national security agency, you know. Who are these people?” Yeah, good point. Not only were unknown amounts of money being wasted, but the State Department could have been the place of employ of any number of people whose loyalties lay elsewhere, or who were even at place in Foggy Bottom in order to gather information for hostile entities. 

Inconceivable? If only it were. With the establishment left being so deeply anti-American today, we can have no certainty that every last State Department employee was properly vetted. After all, back in 2023, even the far-left, thoroughly compromised Biden regime suspended the security clearance of longtime foreign policy analyst Robert Malley, who was serving at the time as the U.S. special envoy to Iran, over concerns about his handling of classified information. Ariane Tabatabai had a top State Department job despite serious concerns over her ties to Iran’s Islamic regime; she is still an adviser to the Defense Department. And so we are to believe that everyone else at State is a true-blue patriot?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/16/no_kings_in_america__unless_they_answer_to_your_honor_153051.html

“In America, we don’t do kings.”

That was the message of the leftist protesters who swarmed the streets nationwide on June 14 in opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda.

“Trump must go now!” they chanted, waving signs that likened the president to a dictator and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to his Gestapo.

Their complaint was alleged despotism. But if Democrats really opposed authoritarianism, they wouldn’t be celebrating its emergence in the courts.

When U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani brazenly overstepped her authority on July 7 to block Congress from stripping Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding through the budget reconciliation bill – a clear usurpation of the legislative branch’s power of the purse – the response from the Left wasn’t outrage but praise.

“Good,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote on X. “Democrats will never stop fighting this backdoor abortion ban from the Republicans.”

Schumer’s apparent admission that Medicaid funds abortions aside, his comments also belie his party’s disingenuous indignation over supposed federal overreach.

That selective outrage was on full display in April amid the arrest of a Wisconsin judge for allegedly escorting Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant who had previously been deported, out the back jury door of her courtroom to help him evade federal immigration authorities.

https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/28711/child-sex-traffickers-and-non-governmental

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Let’s be clear about the term non-governmental organization. According to Wikipedia:

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a typically nonprofit organization that operates partially independent of government control, though an NGO may get a significant percentage, or even all of its funding from government sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them.

The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations Charter in 1945. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of government management or direction—although they may receive government funding.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established in 1961 by executive order of President John F. Kennedy. Its mission was defined as a global program of technical and financial development assistance to low-income countries to be administered under the direction of the Secretary of State. Between 1961 and 2025, USAID morphed into a political arm of the increasingly radical leftist Democrat party that funded anti-American policies and programs both internationally and domestically.

USAID was involved in the funding and fomenting of anti-American policies through educational indoctrination and the culturally abhorrent practice of intentionally sexualizing children to destroy families and collapse America from within. But there is more. USAID was also actively involved in child sex trafficking and exploitation through its payments to NGOs.

On April 26, 2023, Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. The hearing titled, “‘The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children’ will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and how open-border policies enable the exploitation of children.” Excerpts from Tara Lee Rodas’ chilling testimony:

Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report the[y] are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/16/exclusive_secret_meeting_opens_document_floodgates_on_trumprussia_hoax_1123108.html

The floodgates holding back long-buried classified documents exposing government efforts to claim Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election might finally be opening. 

Trump administration officials held an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss “new information on Russiagate,” which they might use to build a criminal conspiracy case against Obama and Biden administration political appointees who allegedly weaponized the government against Trump, two Trump administration officials told RealClearInvestigations.

The documents are said to contain long-classified information, including a secret 200-page congressional audit that reveals details about how an intelligence community assessment on Russia ordered by President Obama after the 2016 election was framed in a way that portrayed Trump as being beholden to the  Kremlin.

Sources told RCI that emails and other records tying the CIA’s controversial drafting of the Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] to the FBI’s discredited “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation targeting Trump could be released as part of an Office of the Director of National Intelligence report as early as Thursday. The White House was briefed on the development Tuesday, the sources said.

Participants in the Sunday meeting involving intelligence officials and their Department of Justice counterparts also discussed declassifying investigative notes and depositions taken by Special Counsel John Durham during his probe of the CIA’s and FBI’s handling of the ICA, which relied in part on an anti-Trump dossier financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Strengthening Case for Conspiracy 

The information could strengthen a criminal case against Obama’s top intelligence officers, including former CIA Director John Brennan, who allegedly gave false testimony to Congress about their role in using the dossier in the ICA, according to the officials who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information. Although the five-year statute of limitations on perjury means much of the testimony given about the ICA cannot be prosecuted, officials could still be charged with a conspiracy to commit perjury.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/17/can-trump-fire-fed-chairman-powell-yes-he-can-and-should/

Will President Donald Trump soon fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, as is now hotly rumored? And do you care? If not, maybe you should. Because at this moment, the Fed chief seems to think he has to re-fight the inflation battle he lost three years ago. And his refusal to cut rates is starting to choke our economy.

Make no mistake: Having lost the confidence of the president who appointed him, Powell should resign. As a matter of practical stewardship of the nation’s central bank, Powell’s effectiveness as a financial leader has been called into question. Time to go.

But Powell’s defenders bizarrely argue that Fed chairmen can’t be fired. In fact, they can be fired “for cause,” which is vague enough to cover a whole host of sins, major and minor.

His backers also argue that Fed chiefs have independence, and that Trump letting him go would shatter that.

But that’s also not true.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/will-any-russia-hoaxers-go-to-jail/

The CIA recently revealed that former director John Brennan wanted to include the discredited Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of the 2016 election. As the people might recall, in his 2020 Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad, Brennan repeatedly claims “Vladimir Putin personally ordered the influence campaign to boost Donald Trump’s election prospects.”

The Russia hoax bullhorns never explained how, exactly, Putin influenced the election. It now emerges that in 2020 China’s Communist Party manufactured thousands of fake American driver’s licenses, which could help stateside Chinese nationals to vote illegally through mail ballots. The FBI knew about China’s campaign but held off because it would contradict the testimony of then-FBI director Christopher Wray.

“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Wray told Congress in September 2020.

News of the fake licenses first emerged in June, when FBI Director Kash Patel declassified a document revealing China’s fraud campaign. The allegations “while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.” The report was recalled on the instruction of Nikki Floris, the FBI’s Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, who served as the FBI’s “election security lead” in 2020. Sen. Charles Grassley is calling for an investigation, and while the probe proceeds, Wray’s FBI record deserves a second look.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/democracys-perennial-weakness/

The Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill managed to squeak by the typical legislative partisan road-blocks and sand traps. Like all legislation in democracies, the bill is not perfect, nor does it satisfy everyone. But just extending Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reform no doubt pleases most voters and taxpayers who dodged a $4 trillion tax increase next year. The Dems, of course, have been flogging their usual suspect clichés about “gutting Medicaid” and other social welfare programs just to keep the “rich” from “paying their fair share,” even though the U.S. already has the most progressive income tax among developed economies.

This doesn’t mean, however, that many problems–– for example, with our metastasizing debt, deficits, and expansionary Rube Goldberg redistribution machines––don’t exist. On all counts we are facing, sooner than most voters realize, a reckoning that economist Veronique de Rugy recently catalogued, and which will require painful sacrifices. Unfortunately, as The Wall Street Journal describes this “crisis of the welfare state,” is “fiscally unaffordable but politically unreformable.”

But these problems are not just caused by office-seekers doling out goodies to voters in exchange for their votes or campaign donations. Rather, ever since democracy was born 2500 years ago, it has reflected the novel but problematic structures necessary for empowering the ordinary, free citizens to participate in holding offices and speaking publicly. Both freedoms are hostage to the eternal, tragic flaws of human nature and its passions and interests.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/killing_with_kindness_the_dangers_of_moral_hazards.html

Moral hazards are easy to understand on a personal level but, when it comes to encouraging “the government” to give “free” money to an erstwhile “good cause,” virtue signaling easily trumps a cost/benefit analysis.

It has not been easy to rein in federal government spending. Lurid tales of federal government collapse fall on deaf ears. Ditto for pleas that “while it might be a good idea, we just cannot afford it.” As with drug addicts, appetites overwhelm reason.

This aversion to restraint is particularly notable in the liberal reaction to President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that cut tens of billions in “safety net” programs. Critics portrayed the bill as a death sentence for America’s poor and desperate people overseas. For these free-spenders, surely Uncle Sam can come to the rescue, print more money and save the world.

Fortunately, a compelling argument against overspending exists, albeit one seldom heard in today’s debate: moral hazard According to one definition: ‘a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs associated with that risk, should things go wrong.” Moral hazards encourage excessive risk-taking.

Consider the “Trump will Kill People” panic surrounding the bill’s reducing funding for the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (SNAP) or, colloquially, Food Stamps. SNAP is designed to help poor people supplement their diets, and while administered by individual states, it is largely Washington financed. Purchases were initially limited, but it now permits recipients to buy nearly everything except alcohol and tobacco products, pet food, prepared meals, cleaning supplies, cosmetics, paper products, and food containing marijuana. SNAP guidelines do not exclude soft drinks, snacks and “junk food.” There are currently 42 million SNAP participants, with 62% of them families with children.