For the past two weeks,
@SocialSecurity has begun a major cleanup of their records. Approximately 3.2 million numberholders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done.
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Through 1/29/2025, 85 DEIA related contracts totaling ~$1B have been terminated within the Dept. of Ed, GSA, OPM, EPA, DoL, Treasury, DoD, USDA, Commerce, DHS, VA, HHS, State, NSF, NRC, NLRB, PBGC, USAID, RRB, SSA, SBA, BLM, CFPB, NPS, and NOAA.
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The Executive Order establishing DOGE
The last time a comprehensive review of the federal government was completed in 1984, the budget was $848 billion, national debt was $1.6 trillion & debt to GDP ratio was 38%. The budget is now $7 trillion, the national debt is $35.3 trillion & the debt to GDP ratio is 121.6%.
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The Department of Education spent over $1 Billion promoting DEI in America’s schools
-$489,883,797 for race-based hiring
-$343,337,286 for DEI programming
-$169,301,221 for DEI mental health initiatives
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The Federal government spends 80% of its annual $100 billion IT budget on maintaining outdated systems.
Not only are older systems more expensive to maintain, but they are also more vulnerable to hackers.
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In 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent:
-$759 Million on Workforce Diversity and Outreach
-$611,203 “Evaluating Microaggressions among Latinx Individuals with Obesity”
-$87,944 on the “Role of the estrous cycle and nucleus accumbens signaling on incubation of oxycodone craving in female rats”
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In 2023 alone, illegal immigration cost taxpayers $150.7 billion. To put this in context with other costs (adjusted for inflation):
-World War I: $334 billion
-Apollo Space Program: $257 billion
-Manhattan Project: $30 billion
-Panama Canal: $15.2 billion
-Hoover Dam: $1 billion
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How the Government Spends your Tax Dollars:
-$28 million on licensing fees for a green “camouflage” pattern on Afghan National Army uniforms
-$2.5 million on a Super Bowl Ad for the Census
-$1.7 million for holograms of dead comedians -$500,000 to build an IHOP in Washington, DC
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In FY2023, the U.S. Government spent $6.16. trillion while only bringing in $4.47 trillion.
The last budget surplus was in 2001.
This trend must be reversed, and we must balance the budget.
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