Trump Freezes All Federal Boondoggles Until They Can be Analyzed for Waste, Fraud, and Graft

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Matthew Daly @MatthewDalyWDC

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House budget office rescinds order on federal grant freeze that sparked widespread confusion

Yeah, I don't really think much of this. I think it's being rescinded so that he can issue another executive order that avoids the fake "confusion" better.

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The media went berserk over this.

The Talking Points they had been fed by their Democrat allies was that Trump was freezing Social Security and Medicare payments. No matter how clear the answer that these payments were unaffected -- they're not federal grants, they're entitlements -- the media kept badgering.

The stupid, ignorant, fact-free media kept insisting that this simple, clear situation was full of "confusion:"

The other Talking Point they kept insisting on was that all the dozens of Transgender Equity Justice Studies that are getting their grift cut off should have been given a half year grace period so they can secure other funding without disruption of their Very Important Work.

David Strom:

It's a long overdue measure that is, unfortunately, absolutely necessary because the federal government not only wastes billions or even trillions of dollars funding shady NGOs and consultants, but these NGOs often use this money in ways that harm America. The border crisis was largely funded through federal grants to NGOs that trafficked illegal aliens to the US border, and NGOs within the United States used federal funds to disperse those aliens around the country and provide services to them.

Federal monies were also dispersed to all sorts of alphabet programs, DEI advocates, CRT, and God knows what else. Which is the point.

Not to mention that these grants, indirectly, fund the radical activist groups that have been undermining our culture and our politics, and are often landing places for political operatives in between campaigns. Democrats have been brilliant about using the taxpayers' money to subsidize their campaign organizations, and to use well-paid spots for political operatives they want to reward.

Yesterday, Karoline Leavitt revealed that Biden had ordered, on his own kingly authority, fifty million dollars to be given to the terrorists of Gaza for... condoms.

You know what causes me "confusion"? Why the fuck we're paying terrorists $50 million in slush fund monies supposedly for The Biggest Palette of Condoms In the World when we know that's going straight to digging tunnels and building IEDs.

Strom notes the evil that NGOs do:

NGOs are the preferred way that leftists get the government to fund things that would be difficult or impossible to do through the normal budget process. The censorship complex was largely funded through grants both here and abroad, getting around First Amendment protections by exporting the worst of the dirty work to "nonprofits" that essentially act as government agents.

See the link for more.

Nate Hochman @njhochman

This is arguably the single most important aspect of Trump's funding freeze.

The immigration crisis isn't an accident. It's a well-oiled system, facilitated by powerful NGOs--and funded by your tax dollars.

By defunding the NGOs, Trump is crippling the entire system.

Here's what just happened: Last week, President Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions into the U.S.

Then, the State Department went a step further--they issued a "stop-work" order to their NGO "partners," suspending all funding for refugee resettlement.

The NGOs were beside themselves. And for good reason--very few of these groups are self-sufficient. Most of them are sustained by the federal tax-dollar gravy train. The immigration crisis is being financed by your government--with your money.

Hence, their outraged statements...

To be clear, these NGOs exist to subvert U.S. immigration law at every step of the process--actively transporting migrants into the country, fighting enforcement efforts at the border, resettling migrants in American towns and cities, and lobbying for open border policies in D.C.

And again, they've been doing it on your dime. For the past four years, The Biden State Department has been mainlining taxpayer funds to groups that run an end-to-end mass migration network, beginning deep in South America and finishing with resettlement in American communities.

They provide "humanitarian transportation" to ferry immigrants up to our border, waypoints with shelter and medical services along the way, Spanish-language maps showing the best route to the U.S., and legal services for immigrants to beat our immigration laws once they get here.

Oh, and money. They just give them cash cards, vouchers, and often even just stacks of cash in envelopes.

Tough to think of a more direct 1:1 redistribution: You pay your taxes. Your government sends that money to the NGOs. The NGOs hand it to immigrants. You work, they benefit.

Ten of these major immigration NGOs--known as VOLAGS ("Voluntary Agencies")--have contracts with the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), which provides them with the funding to resettle migrants in the U.S.

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Most of these groups are only able to operate because of the federal government.

Take the USCCB: In 2023, they received $129.6M in federal grants for migration services. They spent $130.5M on migration services.

Their immigration activities are almost 100% taxpayer-funded.

Or take the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. (Which, unlike the USCCB as an overall organization, is exclusively focused on immigration).

In FY 2023, 96.65% of their revenue came from federal grants and contracts, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Or take the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society--a group that we made an entire video about last year. (See below).

If you're looking for the villain at the center of the immigration crisis, it's these guys. The refugee NGOs are a fifth column in American politics. And they've essentially been acting as an extension of the federal government.

But not anymore. This is a big, big win.

Thread here.

He previously wrote about this corruption here.

posted by Ace at 01:13 PM

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