Is this the equivalent of 50 former intelligence officers?

In that stupid piles of s&^% like you will completely distort the point? Yes.

Which funds are being withheld?

Just a reminder, this is how slippery slopes work.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut

What slippery slope? And nice disingenuous question, wonton.

Sounds to me that someone is afraid of being held accountable to where all the $$$ is going.

Why do people think this simpleton take is even worth voicing? It says more about the inherent dishonesty and untrustworthiness of the speaker than anything else.

Because government fraud and corruption are real except in the milquetoast mind of a Pollyanna.

#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent

Very few are naive enough to say they're not.

But being a faux jaded simpleton who thinks it's more prevalent than it is is either stupidity or lazy thinking.

Thinking that 5 former officials making an extremely obvious point are only doing it because ddduuuuhhhhhh HeLdZ aCcOunYabLesXZZ!!! is both.

Lee is anything other than a simpleton.

#11 | Posted by Corky

Maybe not.

But regurgitating simpleton nonsense isn't suggesting otherwise.

And here I thought the P was for -----.

Also, that's beyond rich coming from someone who gets super butthurt anytime anyone points out obvious absurdities in his favorite bronze age goat herder myth safety blanket he tries to spin as being super intellectual.

Butthurt from another thread is always SO embarrassing!

Sooo...you're always in a state of embarrassment?

Sure, Liberals who don't want to expose fraud and waste really have no credibility.

You're framing the argument in a bulls*&^ manner you pathetic, sycophantic hack. Being against the illegal DOGE actions doesn't mean one is against exposing fraud or waste.

Mechanisms, LEGAL mechanisms, existed to do exactly that. Those were gutted and killed by Trump to install his entirely non-transparent, unqualified turd who lacks the legal authority to do what he's doing.

Why wouldn't they want it cleaned up?

We do. We're just not stupid enough to believe that that's what is going on here.

Small scale but why would it cost $170,000 for a Fauci exhibit at NIH? Answer, kick backs. And it's prevalent all over government.

#19 | Posted by fishpaw

When all else fails, make s*&^ up! You probably can't even name what the money was going to actually build. You just hear they cut something, anything, and automatically label it "fraud and waste" because that's what you good little trained monkeys do.

It was patriotic.

Oh STFU you f*&^ing idiot. That jackass wasting money to go to a sports game was anything but patriotic. You're too f*&^ing stupid to even see what a racket this is already turning out to be because you can't take trump's balls out of your mouth long enough to breath.

The world according to fistedpu*&y.

$170,000 for a permanent museum exhibit he knows nothing about - FrUaDx AnD AbUSeI nDazZ KicKbAkcAZ!Q!!

Several million for Trump to force a photo op and leave a sports game early - DUhhhhhhhh WhATS a PtIrOtZZ!!!

F*&^ing idiot.

JPW. Is very angry today. Not sure why.

#28 | Posted by BellRinger

It's not anger to rub someone's idiot nose in their own moronic piles.

Pointing out $170K while ignoring or excusing several million as "patriotic" is stupid as hell.

#35 | Posted by oneironaut

He did it by actually having DoE live up to its forgiveness obligations that it agreed to when it recruited participants in public service for forgiveness programs.

In case you weren't aware of basic civics because you're not an American, faithfully executing the laws of the United States is a primary duty of the executive.

If seeing him made you crap your panties......again, it was worth it.

#38 | Posted by fishpaw

Every day MAGA proves what childish, stupid piles of s*&^ they are.

You don't give a s*&^ about government expenditures. Never have. You just want the money to flow to preferred recipients, yourself likely included.

Again another highly intelligent response to eliminating government fraud and waste. No wonder you think Kamala is brilliant.

#48 | Posted by fishpaw

Except they're not you stupid f*&^. That's just the line they're using to make sure their trained monkeys (you) repeat it.

I thought Harris was awful. Try again, dips*&^.

Wow, did you get hit in the head with an anvil? You didn't agree with that for the last 4 years!

#49 | Posted by fishpaw

What are you talking about? There wasn't an issue with it over the last four years.

There's only an issue now because Trump is making a massive power grab and morons like you cheer while still acting as if you're a "small government conservative."

He is simply presenting evidence and making recommendations.

Maybe you could actually provide some of this elusive "evidence" I keep hearing so much about.

I keep hearing it's cutting fraud and corruption, but not a single one of you mouthing those words can provide the actual evidence of fraud. It seems that the real sin is it's funding of things you don't like...

But....I'll bet that, by accident, some actual government waste is discovered and thrown out. And won't get put back when democrats are in a position to do so.

That's not a defense of any of this....but it's a prediction of at least some eventual outcome from it.

#55 | Posted by eberly

If it's boiling down to a blind squirrel type argument, then it's not really a good way to go about it.

Fact is, there were already mechanisms in place to deal with investigating, mitigating and eliminating fraud and waste. Legal mechanisms. Those were gutted and discarded by Trump so that Musk and his high school buddies could do whatever it is they're doing with zero oversight.

That is why Trump is trying to fast track it in case he loses the house in 2 years.

#60 | Posted by fishpaw

How come you idiots never stop and think why you have to constantly ascribe motive and thought to someone who never expresses it?

That's not why he's doing it at all. He's doing it because the goal is to break it, burn it and extract as much wealth as they can as quickly as they can from the ashes we're left to choke on.

Is there any actual evidence of something of substance that's been eliminated?

#70 | Posted by eberly

USAID. Critical to soft power projection and sudden shutdown will affect suppliers here at home of the materials used in the program.

Massive cut to indirect costs in NIH grants. Will gut domestic R&D at the basic science level and cause significant financial distress for universities that have research programs. Both of those will have ripple effects in the years to come for health and economic reasons.

BTW that's not to say that there isn't or wasn't stuff that should be reviewed and likely cut. It's not a zero sum game and the whole sale shuttering and smashing of programs by someone who is not only unelected but doesn't even have the legal authority to do what he's doing is the exact way I'd go about it if I wanted to inflict as much pain and damage as possible with as much plausible deniability possible.

But Elon will get to keep his tax cuts.

It's about a whole lot more than tax cuts.

Fascists don' need no stinkin' law.

#81 | Posted by Corky

Not when you terards like fistedp*&^y who'll believe, without question, that that termination is justified and legal. Because even if there's a small part of the voice in their tiny brains that has reservations, it evaporates once they realize it's upsetting the LiBrUlZ!!!