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DOGE About To Hit DOD

Having the biggest and best military ever to ensure we don’t get into a War and at the same time cutting funding is not incompatible. It is actually very wise and do-able.

The reality is, we’re spending more on defense than we ever have (as a percentage of GDP Defense spending is slipping down from 3.5% of GDP). The reality is that we are getting less available aircraft, ships, missiles, and service members for that increase in spending.

That is wrong.

To rectify this mess, it first starts with re-setting or “plucking” military leadership. That means firing Uniformed Generals and Admirals and also career civilian senior executives.

As far as military leadership, Chairman of the Joint Staff, CQ Brown certainly has to go. It’s very likely he is on the list to be fired. Admiral Franchetti, the Chief of Naval Operations is also likely to be sacked.

P.S. one of the first things one does when they are promoted to General or Flag Officer is that they sign a letter of resignation, it’s kept on file and then dated when they are asked for their resignation.

The next thing is cutting costs. Research and Development is very important and we have lost the art of R&D. Around $146 Billion a year goes to R&D of which about $6-10 Billion goes to what are known as Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) as part of Research and Development. The big three are the Mitre Corporation, Rand, and The Aerospace Corporation. I worked at one of those for six years after leaving Government.

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TRUMP BLOWS UP THE IRS: GOODBYE BLOODSUCKING TAXES!

Hold on, patriots! Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dropped the bombshell today: the Trump administration plans to abolish the IRS , that nest of leftist bureaucrats squeezing decent Americans dry.

Yes, you read that right: Donald Trump, the champion of freedom, wants to rip out the Internal Revenue Service and replace it with a tariff-based system that makes foreigners pay for our greatness.

This is not a drill—this is the conservative revolution in action!

The announcement, confirmed by Lutnick just hours after his Senate confirmation (51-45, take that, progressives!), comes as a thunderbolt of hope for hardworking Americans.

Trump is pushing to create an “External Revenue Service” to collect funds from foreign competitors while firing thousands of IRS leeches.

The plan is brilliantly simple: lower taxes for Americans, more pressure on outsiders.

Lutnick, a Wall Street titan and Trump ally, stated: “The goal is to abolish the IRS and make foreigners pay.” The result? More money in your pockets and zero tax tyranny. This smells like pure America First.ADVERTISEMENT

The Trump base is ecstatic, and rightfully so—the IRS has long been a leftist tool of oppression, shielding elites while crushing everyday citizens.

Democrats, of course, are already whining. “This is madness!” they shriek from their progressive caves.

But Trump, with Lutnick and Elon Musk (the DOGE genius who will slash trillions in wasteful spending), is unstoppable.

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US switches stance on Ukraine war, seeking $500bn in payback

Ukraine’s diplomatic situation was upended during the past week, as its main ally, the United States, reversed several positions.

US President Donald Trump announced on February 12 that he was beginning direct talks with Russia to end the war, overturning his predecessor’s promise that there would be “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”.

On the same day, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed Russian diplomatic language invoking “realism”, when he told Ukraine Defence Contact Group partners in Brussels that “returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,” and that “the United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.”

Eventual NATO membership has been a US promise to Ukraine since 2008, and the US has, throughout the war, supported a restoration of the border Russia recognised with Ukraine in 1991.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius called the one-sided concessions “clumsy” and “a mistake”.

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Trump Should Cut Off Europe’s Defense Welfare Queens

The new administration isn’t even a month old, but already hysteria has swept Europe. After visits by Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, top European officials threw “a temper tantrum” in the words of one observer, which featured wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments on a Biblical scale. On Monday French President Emmanuel Macron hosted an emergency summit of selected continental leaders, which generated abundant kvetching but little more.

Ukraine and its European advocates warn of a new Dark Age if the U.S. makes peace with Russia, as President Donald Trump is trying to do. Even worse, NATO members fear the loss of their heretofore presumed birthright to defense by America. Governments which have repeatedly claimed that Kiev’s defeat would invite a reformed Red Army to march to the Atlantic are preparing new excuses for failing to spend more on defense. The spectacle resembles a theatrical farce.

Americans have subsidized the continent’s defense for eight decades. Despite complaints from Washington, Europeans have consistently minimized military expenditures, convinced that the U.S. would continue to do whatever was necessary to protect them. There were occasional American outbursts, such as by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates more than a decade ago. However, this political theater changed nothing—Gates retired three weeks after his famous speech—and the Pentagon continued to provide defense welfare for prosperous and populous nations across the pond and beyond.

Indeed, top U.S. officials, including Joe Biden as both vice president and president, repeatedly told the Europeans “never mind,” visiting the continent to assure listeners that no matter how little they did, they could count on America to bail them out. The Europeans understandably left the heavy lifting to Washington while concentrating on funding generous welfare states at U.S. expense. (The same Europeans often pilloried Americans for their “Anglo-Saxon model” of capitalism.)

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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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