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Promise Kept: Trump Administration Orders Halt to NYC Congestion Tolls

President Donald Trump’s administration moved Wednesday to halt congestion pricing tolls in Democrat-run New York City, a move designed to spare small business owners, commuters and workers the burden of paying to access Manhattan.

As Breitbart News reported, the punitive tolling system was launched on Jan. 5. It uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most vehicles entering Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central Park.

The federal government has rescinded its approval of the program, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy confirmed, calling the toll’s financial burden “a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners.”

The Federal Highway Administration will work with the state on an “orderly termination of the tolls,” according to the statement.

The president vowed to kill the plan as soon as he took office.

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Undercover Video: Department of Education Operating Rogue ‘Sanctuary Program’ For Illegal Aliens, Hiding Secrets from DOGE on Encrypted App

Project Veritas released undercover video of Travis Combs, Branch Chief for Applied Innovation and Improvement at the US Department of Education, describing how the agency is hiding secrets from Congress and DOGE by communicating on encrypted app, Signal.

“It’s insanity. ‘Democracy Falling’ should be the title of the movie,” Travis Combs, a 5-year veteran at the department said.

Travis Combs told the undercover PV reporter that federal employees in the DOE are evading Congress and oversight.

“The one nice thing about the program that I work in is that we don’t ask [citizenship] status, and we’ve been able to keep that out of our federal statute. So, we don’t ask them when they enroll what their status is,” Combs told the PV reporter.

“If Congress actually knew that we don’t have [citizenship requirements] … there would be a lot of uproar…” Travis Combs told the undercover PV journalist.

Combs told the undercover journalist that Department of Education employees are purposely chatting on encrypted app Signal to hide their conversations from any oversight.

“If you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not supposed to. So, everybody uses… an app called Signal now,” he said.

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Trump’s energy department cancels more than $124 million in wasteful spending

America’s refreshed Department of Energy under President Donald Trump has allegedly found more wasteful spending, as other budget-cutting actions have taken place in various federal agencies.

Department of Energy press secretary and chief spokesperson Ben Dietderich exclusively told Fox News Digital that they have identified and canceled more than $124 million, “from millions of dollars of DEI contracts to ridiculously expensive multi-million-dollar Politico news subscriptions” and other nonessential line items.

“And we are just getting started,” Dietderich said in a statement. “While some of the funds have already been obligated, we expect immediate savings of at least $65 million and more to come in the coming months and years. President Trump and Secretary Wright are fully committed to making government more accountable, efficient, and restoring proper stewardship of the American taxpayer’s dollars.”

“This [is] simply adding nothing of value to the American people,” Secretary Chris Wright said in a Wednesday interview on “Varney & Co.”

“So we’ve cut out some needless expenditures, and we’re doing everything we can to become better stewards of American taxpayer moneys without sacrificing the DOE mission,” he continued. “In fact, we want to expand the DOE mission, but do it all at [a] lower cost and more efficiently. That’s how businesses run.”

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House Oversight Committee reveals $241 million in taxpayer funds spent on transgender research using animals

Millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on studying transgender surgeries and treatments using animals, the House Oversight Committee revealed.

In a hearing, the committee found that $241 million in taxpayer dollars had been spent on transgender animal experiments. The findings emerged after Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, testified at an oversight hearing earlier this month. Goodman testified that the amount of money spent was just the “floor” of this research.

“In a lot of these cases — they involve mice, rats, monkeys, who are being surgically mutilated and subjected to hormone therapies to mimic female to male or male to female gender transitions, gender-affirming hormone therapies, and then looking at the biological, psychological and physiological effects of the gender transitions, looking at the effects of taking vaccines after you’ve transitioned these animals from male to female or female to male, looking at the size of their genitals changing after you’ve put them on estrogen or testosterone therapies to transition them,” Goodman testified.

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REVEALED: The eye-popping total estimated taxpayer savings after one month of DOGE

Elon Musk’s DOGE revealed Tuesday that President Donald Trump has saved taxpayers a staggering $55 billion in less than a month. 

It said the savings were found through a combination of detecting and deleting fraud, canceling contracts and leases, and selling assets.

The group – nicknamed the ‘nerd army’ – also ended grants, fired federal employees, changed some programs, and saved money with regulatory reforms.

‘DOGE’s total estimated savings are $55 billion,’ read a message on the official doge.gov website, citing data since February 17. 

It said users of the website could expect updates twice a week, promising additional information and improvements with time.

The savings were mostly made in the US Agency For International Development (USAID), the Department of Education, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Agriculture. 

Savings listed on the website features millions of dollars in canceled contracts for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training as well as ending subscriptions for Politico and other news organizations.

Elon Musk and DOGE’s efforts to reduce government waste continue to capture the headlines as Democrats and government workers are protesting in the streets about the cuts.

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Trump makes bombshell decision on ‘DOGE dividend’ – here’s how much every taxpayer could receive

Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has taken an ax to government departments with an edict to do whatever it takes to root out waste and fraud.

On Tuesday, the billionaire Tesla founder and ‘First Buddy’ vowed to ‘check with the president’ after investment firm CEO James Fishback suggested giving taxpayers a slice of the savings in the form of a tax refund.

Trump responded on Wednesday to confirm he was weighing its benefits, which Fishback had calculated could result in every taxpayer receiving $5,000.

Speaking from Miami Beach, Trump said: ‘There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20 per cent of the DOGE savings to American citizens.’

He said another 20 percent would go toward ‘paying down debt.’

‘The numbers are incredible, Elon, so many billions – hundreds of billions – and we’re thinking about giving 20 per cent back to the American citizens,’ he added.

If it goes ahead, the policy has the potential to put thousands of dollars back into the pockets of taxpayers at a time when rising costs are making it increasingly difficult for middle Americans to stay afloat.

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Trump signs most explosive executive order yet as he pulls all federal funding to illegal migrants

Donald Trump made his strongest move against illegal immigration yet on Wednesday, signing an executive order that stops taxpayer money from going to undocumented migrants. 

The White House stated that Trump is ‘committed to safeguarding Federal public benefits for American citizens who are truly in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.’ 

Trump is demanding ‘corrective action’ to stop ‘all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens‘.

Currently, children are entitled to a free K-12 public education regardless of immigration status under a 1982 Supreme Court ruling.

Trump’s order says a 1996 welfare law is supposed to deny public benefits to most illegal migrants, but points out that overhaul was ‘repeatedly undercut’ under Biden.  

He claims the Biden administration’s border crisis resulted ‘in the improper expenditure of significant taxpayer resources.’

The president also immediately ended his predecessor’s use of parole to allow people into America temporarily, including via the controversial CBP One app that allowed in 900,000 migrants at the Mexican border. 

More than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who flew to the US at their own expense with a financial sponsor took advantage of the program. 

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Almost Fired For Working With DOGE, Social Security Fraud Expert Now Leads The Agency

Leland Dudek was an obscure bureaucrat at the Social Security Administration who dedicated his career to stopping fraud. But when he worked with the Department of Government Efficiency to do just that, he came close to being fired.

“At 4:30pm EST, my boss called me to tell me I had been placed on administrative leave pending an Investigation,” Dudek wrote on LinkedIn. “They want to fire me for cooperating with DOGE,” he wrote in a now-deleted post obtained by The Daily Wire.

Then, a stunning reversal occurred. It was Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King who was out of a job. And Dudek was reinstated with a big promotion — taking her job leading the massive agency on an interim basis.

The Washington Post reported that King exited the agency after refusing to let DOGE access agency data and was replaced by Dudek. But it has not been reported that managers at the agency had moved to punish Dudek as he cooperated with the efficiency czars.

The LinkedIn post said “I confess. I helped DOGE understand SSA. I mailed myself publicly accessible documents and explained them to DOGE. I confess. I moved contractor money around to add data science resources to my anti-fraud team. I confess. I asked where the fat was and is in our contracts so we can make the right tough choices.”

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SHOCKING: DOGE Uncovers Over 4 Million Government Credit Cards Linked to 90 Million Unique Transactions

In a bombshell revelation, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed a shocking level of federal spending abuse, revealing that the U.S. government has over 4.6 million active credit cards in circulation, processing a staggering 90 million transactions worth nearly $40 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 alone.

DOGE, the new federal watchdog agency established under President Donald Trump, posted its findings on X on Tuesday, accompanied by a breakdown of federal agency expenditures.

“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24. DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs – we will report back in 1 week,” the account wrote.

Leading the charge in spending? None other than the Department of Defense (DOD), which boasts roughly 2.4 million individual accounts and a jaw-dropping 27.2 million transactions in just one fiscal year.

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How USAID Funded Hamas

The most striking aspect of President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) isn’t that unsavory aid recipients have misused taxpayer dollars. It’s that anyone is shocked by the revelations of waste, fraud, and abuse. After all, watchdog groups have sounded the alarm for years about misuse of USAID funds.

People shouldn’t just be enraged by USAID’s wasteful spending. They should also focus on what that spending supported—particularly when it promoted terror or aligned with Hamas’s interests.

Rather than being used to provide humanitarian aid and stabilize conflict-ridden regions—in accordance with USAID’s stated goal—American funds have often been funneled into corrupt, Hamas-tied institutions, with minimal oversight. A new multiyear study of USAID by the Middle East Forum identified $164 million in grants to radical organizations, including $122 million to those “aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.” The MEF also found that “millions of federal dollars have been handed by USAID to organizations directly in Gaza controlled by Hamas, with government officials even visiting Gaza terror proxies’ offices and launching joint programs.”

The money has kept flowing, as the U.S. has distributed $2.1 billion in Gaza since Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages on October 7, 2023. But the warning signs predate October 7. The USAID’s Inspector General—now raising the alarm about Trump’s shutdown of the agency—has consistently voiced concern over lax vetting mechanisms and inadvertent terror funding in the region.

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