DOGE Findings

[essentialsaltes]

Yes i believe real aid will be given in the future.

The peanut butter for starving children was cancelled.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Feeding malnourished children is illegitimate? Supporting American business is illegitimate?

And you are absolutely certain that is what all this money goes for? Then you really HAVEN'T been bothering to read or listen to what is being posted.

Feeding malnourished children is illegitimate? Supporting American business is illegitimate?

I could take your posts more seriously if you could start using something other than leftist propaganda sheets. You should at least make an effort at it.

 

[rjs330]

Feeding malnourished children is illegitimate?

Is that happening? Or is it being stolen by corrupt organizations and governments? Is that all that is happening with the money? How do we know it's going just for that and being distributed properly?

Supporting American business is illegitimate?

Is that the purpose of it all? Is it governemnt job to use taxpayer money and waste it just because it may support a business?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Is that happening? Or is it being stolen by corrupt organizations and governments?

MANA Nutrition puts peanut butter on pallets at the Georgia Port Authority's Garden City Terminal, as contracted by the government.

 

[wing2000]

Last night...

The Trump administration is terminating thousands of USAID foreign assistance grants and awards, according to the State Department. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency.

The announcement came just hours before a federal district court deadline for the Trump administration to restart payments on those grants.
....

In his statement to the lower court, Pete Marocco, who is performing the duties of the deputy administrator of USAID, said each of USAID's grants had been reviewed and Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to eliminate about 92% worth of the agency's grants. The State department also cut around 4,100 grants. The government claimed a total savings of nearly $60 billion dollars.

Contractors were notified of the termination in a memo sent from USAID's office of Acquisition and Assistance, according to one such letter obtained by NPR. The memo stated that Secretary Rubio and Pete Marocco "have determined your award is not aligned with Agency priorities and made a determination that continuing this program is not in the national interest."

Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, president and CEO of the Global Health Council, said the situation is "horrible." She said that even some of the programs that had received waivers for being "life saving humanitarian assistance" – including ones that provided HIV medications – have now received termination notices.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310673/usaid-trump-administration-global-health?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

[wing2000]

Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, who receive their funds through the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, woke up to letters that were sent overnight telling them their grants have been ended — permanently.

Pepfar, the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids, is an Aids fund that was launched in 2003 to help fight Aids in countries with high HIV infection rates such as South Africa. The country has since received around $8-billion (about R145-billion) of which $439 537 828 (about R8.1-billion) was for the current US financial year, which stretches from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025.

BREAKING: Trump orders USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down - Bhekisisa

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. THIS IS A BREAKING, DEVELOPING STORY. IT WAS LAST UPDATED AT 14.25PM. Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, who receive...

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Pepfar was President George W Bush's initiative.....IMO, President Bush should make a statement....

 

[essentialsaltes]

DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show​

Records show the 875 contracts included support for medical and burial services, cancer programs and efforts to recruit doctors for critical vacancies

Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins took to social media on Tuesday to tout sweeping cuts to contracts that he said would save the department nearly $2 billion without touching core services.

To the Beclown Car!

Under pressure, VA halts contract cancellations in major reversal​

Records show the 875 contracts at issue included support for medical and burial services, cancer programs, and efforts to recruit doctors for critical vacancies.

Department of Veterans Affairs leaders on Wednesday directed staff to halt a sweeping round of contract terminations in a major reversal less than a day after the VA secretary publicly celebrated the cuts, which he estimated would save the department nearly $2 billion.

An agency spokesperson initially said that no cancellations would affect services to veterans;

[VA Sec Collins'] video address to the public was reposted by Musk, who added: “More tax dollars saved!”

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Congressional funding for expired programs​

The Congressional Budget Office recently found that Congress provided $516 billion in appropriations this fiscal year to programs that had expired under federal law.

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I don't believe a word coming from DOGE

 

[Vambram]

https://link.theblaze.com/view/52d019380f365bf272f071e4n3bgj.c1a/8891655a

 

[Vambram]

Mark Levin finds the PERFECT quote to capture the swamp | Blaze Media

The left, crying about democracy being at stake, is doing whatever it can to thwart Donald Trump’s agenda by attacking Elon Musk and the DOGE. Liberals may say that what Trump is doing is unconstitutional, but Mark Levin knows the truth: Donald Trump “has a right to run the executive branch,”...

www.theblaze.com

 

[rambot]

From #152: "Because that's not what the Sec of State said."
Or did you not just bother to listen to it?

Do you mean to ask if I bothered to go find it?

Because no I didn't. Was it in the thread somewhere?

 

[civilwarbuff]

MANA Nutrition puts peanut butter on pallets at the Georgia Port Authority's Garden City Terminal, as contracted by the government.

How much is the contract worth and how much 'peanut butter' per recipient are they supposed to provide?....and are they meeting the standard? I would think that is important information, wouldn't you? How else to judge a contract?

 

[civilwarbuff]

To the Beclown Car!

Under pressure, VA halts contract cancellations in major reversal​

Records show the 875 contracts at issue included support for medical and burial services, cancer programs, and efforts to recruit doctors for critical vacancies.

Department of Veterans Affairs leaders on Wednesday directed staff to halt a sweeping round of contract terminations in a major reversal less than a day after the VA secretary publicly celebrated the cuts, which he estimated would save the department nearly $2 billion.

An agency spokesperson initially said that no cancellations would affect services to veterans;

[VA Sec Collins'] video address to the public was reposted by Musk, who added: “More tax dollars saved!”

New Mexico Political Report is part of Media Citizen Group. Here is what the wiki page says about MCG:

Criticism​

Media produced by private citizens may be as factual, satirical, neutral or biased as any other form of media but has no political, social or corporate affiliation. There is often no training or understanding of professional concepts – such as off-record, objectivity, and balance – amongst those who produce their own media. Some argue that ordinary citizens may do more harm than good if they are able to publish their personal thoughts and opinions and pass them off as legitimate journalism.[4]

The following are ways that citizen media negatively differentiates from traditional journalism, according to critics:[citation needed]

Bias can be a problem in citizen media because there are multiple steps traditional journalists must undergo before publishing, such as waiting for confirmation before reporting a story. These steps do not always carry over to citizen media publication because they are not affiliated with any entity that would have additional editors. This can result in a lack of accountability and a strong presence of personal bias.[citation needed]

Transparency is another point of criticism. In citizen media, the user generating the content is often anonymous, hidden by a username. In traditional media, the reporter or editor's identity is known and can be identified by their byline. Conversely, there are some forms of citizen media, in which the author is known; this is most often in blogs.[citation needed]

Citizen media - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Translation: Not up to journalistic standards

But that's OK, keep using these types of 'sources'; eventually someone will take you seriously.......

 

[Pommer]

Mark Levin finds the PERFECT quote to capture the swamp | Blaze Media

The left, crying about democracy being at stake, is doing whatever it can to thwart Donald Trump’s agenda by attacking Elon Musk and the DOGE. Liberals may say that what Trump is doing is unconstitutional, but Mark Levin knows the truth: Donald Trump “has a right to run the executive branch,”...

www.theblaze.com

I can’t turn off the blaze’s use of cookies. Shan’t click.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Do you mean to ask if I bothered to go find it?

Because no I didn't. Was it in the thread somewhere?

Like I said you didn't bother to listen to it.....'nuff said.

 

[rambot]

Like I said you didn't bother to listen to it.....'nuff said.

Well as far as I know it doesn't exist. Been misrepresented to me before.

 

[essentialsaltes]

But that's OK, keep using these types of 'sources'; eventually someone will take you seriously.......

Are you asserting the VA has not paused its cuts in another clownish display of ineptitude by DOGE?

https://apnews.com/article/doge-veterans-affairs-cuts-health-services-contracts-9a726b744e402da01d711023b0fc49a1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans’ health services, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.

 

[Vambram]

I can’t turn off the blaze’s use of cookies. Shan’t click.

hmmm, I wish that your computer or smartphone would allow you to turn off the Blaze's use of cookies. I am able to do so with my browser.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Well as far as I know it doesn't exist. Been misrepresented to me before.

They say 'ignorance is bliss' so suit yourself.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Are you asserting the VA has not paused its cuts in another clownish display of ineptitude by DOGE?

https://apnews.com/article/doge-veterans-affairs-cuts-health-services-contracts-9a726b744e402da01d711023b0fc49a1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans’ health services, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.

From your article: “No more paying consultants to do things like make Power Point slides and write meeting minutes!” Collins posted to X Tuesday, in a post that was then lauded by Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
So I guess you support such 'labors'?

From your article: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans’ health services, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.
So, who are these 'lawmakers and veterans service organizations? They dont' list them.....but they could if they REALLY cared about what they claim.

From your article: The Associated Press has obtained the full list of 875 affected contracts, which shows the cuts would affect everything from cancer care to the ability to assess toxic exposure. The list underscores how the Trump administration’s approach to broad spending reductions has immediate and potentially unintended consequences, generating significant concern not just among Democrats but also Republican lawmakers.

Oops, I guess they forgot about that minor detail.....