Trumpwatch 2.0

[Hugh Jorgan]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

DEI

$45 million to diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma. The DOGE reported that seven "DEI-related" USAID contracts valued at $375 million were canceled.
$1.5 million "to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people." The program aimed to "expand opportunities" and "reduce[] workplace discrimination."
$1.5 million to "art for inclusion of people with disabilities."
$19 million for two separate "inclusion" programs in Vietnam.
$1.3 million to "provide Arab and Jewish [Israeli] residents … with a collaborative platform, photography skills." The program offered participants "mixed identity photography workshops."

LGBT

$2 million for "activity to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming health care" in Guatemala.
$37.7 million to study HIV among "sex workers (SWS), their clients, and transgender (TG) people" in South Africa.
$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists about "gender-sensitive reporting."
$1.1 million to "empower the LGBTI community" and "protect them from violence and discrimination" in Armenia.
$1.5 million to "upscale LGBT rights advocacy" in Jamaica.


Climate hysteria

$520 million for consultant-driven environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa, according to the DOGE.
$2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations and other related infrastructure in Vietnam. Through the USAID Vietnam Urban Energy Security project, the agency has "provide[d] funding and technical assistance for innovative solutions that address urban energy and environment issues."
$1 million to assist disabled people in Tajikistan to become "climate leaders."
$24 million for a "green transportation and logistics program" in the country of Georgia.

Cultural & educational propaganda

$20 million on "Ahlan Simsim," a new "Sesame Street" show in Iraq. According to a now-archived version of USAID's website, the children's series was "designed to promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups."
$6 million for tourism in Egypt, according to the White House. Corporate media outlets were quick to "fact-check" a press release linked by the Trump administration, arguing that it did not mention that the funds would be used for tourism purposes. However, USAID has invested $100 million in taxpayer dollars that have either directly or indirectly boosted Egypt's tourism, including an $8.6 million campaign in 2022.
$1.2 million to construct a "state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium" for the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C.
$31.5 million on "counseling, organizational resilience, wellness, and work-life support" for USAID employees, Fox News reported.
$29 million to "improve the skills of young and female Egyptians in the manufacturing and service sectors," Fox News reported.
$4.5 million to "advance integrity and accountability in the information space, and build societal resilience in the face of disinformation" in Kazakhstan.
$6 million to "transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles."
Foreign policy & security risks
$160 million to update payment systems in Afghanistan.
$1 million to a Hamas-linked charity in Gaza.
$15 million for condoms and oral contraceptives in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
$4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization that funded the Wuhan lab linked to the COVID-19 virus.
$330 million to fund alternative development projects that failed to "deter farmers and [drug] traffickers from cultivating" poppy plants, thereby "inadvertently" fueling heroin production and trafficking in Afghanistan

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Mark Fogel, an American Teacher, was freed by Russia according to the White House. The U.S. Envoy to Russia went to Moscow to personally secure his release.

[teetoppz28]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

<snips bullshit list>

Before I even bother with this, care to point to where this has been OFFICIALLY released by an official government agency?

Instead, you just do a massive copy-paste (ala bmw style) from a MAGAt website: https://truthpress.com/news/unraveling- ... our-money/

Media Bias: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-press-bias/

Peer-reviewed sources matter, folks!

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$900 Million in research contracts at the Education department were cancelled by DOGE on Monday… via the education focused website Chalkbeat:

The Trump administration has terminated dozens of contracts worth nearly $900 million at the U.S. Department of Education, halting crucial education research and data-gathering efforts.

The canceled contracts are part of an ongoing effort led by the U.S. DOGE Service, a cost-cutting initiative headed by billionaire Elon Musk.

The contract terminations come as the Trump administration looks to significantly scale back the size and scope of the Department of Education, with an executive order to that effect reportedly coming soon.
On Monday night, DOGE announced on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, that it had terminated 89 Education Department contracts totaling $881 million.
Many of those were for education research and program evaluation work done by the Institute of Education Sciences, or IES, the research arm of the Department of Education. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat who sits on the Senate education committee, said in a statement the cuts amounted to a “gutting” of IES.

When asked for comment, Alberto Bentacourt, a spokesperson for the Department of Education told Chalkbeat: “We kindly point you to the X post from DOGE.”

Madi Biedermann, another Education Department spokesperson, told ProPublica that 90 contracts had been identified as “waste, fraud, and abuse” and that canceling them was “in line with the department’s goal of making sure it is focused on meaningful learning.” Biedermann would not provide specifics about which contracts were cut short.

Several contractors for the Education Department told Chalkbeat they got notices on Monday saying that their contracts had been terminated and that work must stop immediately.

Dana Tofig, a spokesperson for the American Institutes for Research, said the nonprofit research organization had received termination notices for several IES contracts related to education statistics and evaluation work. The terminations were “for convenience,” he said, a clause that allows the federal government to end contracts without cause regardless of the contractor’s performance.

“If the purpose of such cuts is to make sure taxpayer dollars are not wasted and used well, the evaluation and data work that has been terminated is exactly the work that determines which programs are effective uses of federal dollars, and which are not,” Tofig wrote, noting several contracts were nearing their completion.
John Hutchins, a spokesperson for MDRC, which also conducts education research, said the nonprofit had two IES contracts canceled as of Tuesday.

The first was to conduct the ReSolve Math Study, a sweeping effort to help kids who are struggling in math following the pandemic. The second was to assist external evaluators who conduct research for the What Works Clearinghouse, a federal repository of best practices and education research that schools and lawmakers often rely on.

It’s unclear exactly how many of the Education Department’s hundreds of active contracts were terminated. In a statement, Felice Levine, who directs the American Educational Research Association, said 169 IES contracts had been terminated, including some for the National Center for Education Statistics, a part of IES that publishes key reports, some of which are mandated by Congress.

EdTrust, a prominent civil rights organization that relies on disaggregated education data by race, income, and other demographics to help identify disparities and inequities in schools, condemned the contract cuts.
“The sudden halting of these contracts jeopardizes our collective responsibility to identify and address the inequities that affect a variety of student populations, including students from low-income families, students of color, English language learners, students with disabilities, student parents, and students from rural communities,” the organization said in a statement.

Some programs were spared. ProPublica reported that the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a key test often called the nation’s report card, would not be affected by the cuts. The Trump administration pointed to disappointing NAEP scores, released earlier this month, as a rationale to invest more in private school vouchers and other school choice programs.

The College Scorecard, which helps high schoolers compare college offerings and cost, is also unaffected.
The cuts also will not affect contractors working in IES’s Small Business Innovation Research Program, which helps develop and evaluate new ed tech products, Education Week reported, or the Regional Education Laboratory Program, which has 10 outposts that help school districts, state education departments, and others gather data and make decisions about education policies and programs.
On Monday, DOGE announced the Education Department had also canceled 29 training grants related to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. It singled out a grant that trained teachers to “help students understand / interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis.”

Trump has issued executive orders seeking to prevent federal agencies from carrying out work related to DEI initiatives, and to stop K-12 schools from teaching students about concepts like white privilege and unconscious bias.

Already, the Education Department has scrubbed hundreds of documents from its website and put at least 50 staffers on leave.

[Hugh Jorgan]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

<snips bullshit list>

Before I even bother with this, care to point to where this has been OFFICIALLY released by an official government agency?

Instead, you just do a massive copy-paste (ala bmw style) from a MAGAt website: https://truthpress.com/news/unraveling- ... our-money/

Media Bias: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-press-bias/

Peer-reviewed sources matter, folks!

Typical. Attack the messenger, avoid the substance when said substance is inconvenient.

You want it sourced by a vaunted organization like the one that sold us the Russian hoax and buried and lied about the laptop story?

[teetoppz28]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

<snips bullshit list>

Before I even bother with this, care to point to where this has been OFFICIALLY released by an official government agency?

Instead, you just do a massive copy-paste (ala bmw style) from a MAGAt website: https://truthpress.com/news/unraveling- ... our-money/

Media Bias: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-press-bias/

Peer-reviewed sources matter, folks!

Typical. Attack the messenger, avoid the substance when said substance is inconvenient.

You want it sourced by a vaunted organization like the one that sold us the Russian hoax and buried and lied about the laptop story?

No, I avoid substance when the substance is from a bullshit source. You can't supply peer-reviewed substance, so I ignore it.

[Hugh Jorgan]

No, I avoid substance when the substance is from a bullshit source. You can't supply peer-reviewed substance, so I ignore it.

The problem is, all of YOUR peers suck too.

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No, I avoid substance when the substance is from a bullshit source. You can't supply peer-reviewed substance, so I ignore it.

The problem is, all of YOUR peers suck too.

Not like the heaping pile of trash you used for a source there buddy.

[teetoppz28]

No, I avoid substance when the substance is from a bullshit source. You can't supply peer-reviewed substance, so I ignore it.

The problem is, all of YOUR peers suck too.

I will let all my colleagues know that some random MAGAt online said they suck. I'm sure they'll all give a shit.

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AP:
Appeals court refuses to halt an order requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze all federal funding.

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AP:
The White House fires USAID Inspector General a day after a warning about oversight of humanitarian aid, an official says.

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Politico:
Treasury Department officials say the agency “mistakenly” gave a member of Elon Musk’s team the power to alter a federal payments database.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

DEI

$45 million to diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma. The DOGE reported that seven "DEI-related" USAID contracts valued at $375 million were canceled.
$1.5 million "to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people." The program aimed to "expand opportunities" and "reduce[] workplace discrimination."
$1.5 million to "art for inclusion of people with disabilities."
$19 million for two separate "inclusion" programs in Vietnam.
$1.3 million to "provide Arab and Jewish [Israeli] residents … with a collaborative platform, photography skills." The program offered participants "mixed identity photography workshops."

LGBT

$2 million for "activity to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming health care" in Guatemala.
$37.7 million to study HIV among "sex workers (SWS), their clients, and transgender (TG) people" in South Africa.
$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists about "gender-sensitive reporting."
$1.1 million to "empower the LGBTI community" and "protect them from violence and discrimination" in Armenia.
$1.5 million to "upscale LGBT rights advocacy" in Jamaica.


Climate hysteria

$520 million for consultant-driven environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa, according to the DOGE.
$2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations and other related infrastructure in Vietnam. Through the USAID Vietnam Urban Energy Security project, the agency has "provide[d] funding and technical assistance for innovative solutions that address urban energy and environment issues."
$1 million to assist disabled people in Tajikistan to become "climate leaders."
$24 million for a "green transportation and logistics program" in the country of Georgia.

Cultural & educational propaganda

$20 million on "Ahlan Simsim," a new "Sesame Street" show in Iraq. According to a now-archived version of USAID's website, the children's series was "designed to promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups."
$6 million for tourism in Egypt, according to the White House. Corporate media outlets were quick to "fact-check" a press release linked by the Trump administration, arguing that it did not mention that the funds would be used for tourism purposes. However, USAID has invested $100 million in taxpayer dollars that have either directly or indirectly boosted Egypt's tourism, including an $8.6 million campaign in 2022.
$1.2 million to construct a "state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium" for the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C.
$31.5 million on "counseling, organizational resilience, wellness, and work-life support" for USAID employees, Fox News reported.
$29 million to "improve the skills of young and female Egyptians in the manufacturing and service sectors," Fox News reported.
$4.5 million to "advance integrity and accountability in the information space, and build societal resilience in the face of disinformation" in Kazakhstan.
$6 million to "transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles."
Foreign policy & security risks
$160 million to update payment systems in Afghanistan.
$1 million to a Hamas-linked charity in Gaza.
$15 million for condoms and oral contraceptives in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
$4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization that funded the Wuhan lab linked to the COVID-19 virus.
$330 million to fund alternative development projects that failed to "deter farmers and [drug] traffickers from cultivating" poppy plants, thereby "inadvertently" fueling heroin production and trafficking in Afghanistan

These are all right wing fables.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

<snips bullshit list>

Before I even bother with this, care to point to where this has been OFFICIALLY released by an official government agency?

Instead, you just do a massive copy-paste (ala bmw style) from a MAGAt website: https://truthpress.com/news/unraveling- ... our-money/

Media Bias: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-press-bias/

Peer-reviewed sources matter, folks!

How long do we give this account? I am not going to say the ides of March.

[Matt]

The Trump/Musk combo is taking steps to somewhat reign in wasteful government spending. The left is vilifying him because of it.

Here's a list of taxpayer funds spent by USAID. With 27 Trillion of on the books debt, as well as a whole bunch that's off the books, would any of you care to defend any of this spending?

<snips bullshit list>

Before I even bother with this, care to point to where this has been OFFICIALLY released by an official government agency?

Instead, you just do a massive copy-paste (ala bmw style) from a MAGAt website: https://truthpress.com/news/unraveling- ... our-money/

Media Bias: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-press-bias/

Peer-reviewed sources matter, folks!

How long do we give this account? I am not going to say the ides of March.

He won't get booted, but he will become a DU.