Who would have guessed that stopping the blatant misuse of tax dollars for reasons that will never benefit the American people would be deeply popular? CNN’s Harry Enten could not, as he claims to be flabbergasted by the massive public support polls.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has uncovered and cancelled a $56,000 contract it was paying to a “plant contractor” to water eight decorative potted plants — with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) promising to water them “free of charge” from now on.
“The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year,” DOGE, led by Elon Musk, said in a Thursday night X post:
“The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge,” the department added, along with photos of a pair of the VA’s potted plants next to a sign reading “Please do not water these plants. These plants are serviced by a plant contractor.”
The latest, smaller cut comes after new VA Secretary Doug Collins announced bigger slashes to wasteful spending, including $2 billion in contracts last week, Breitbart News reported.
According to the secretary, who was confirmed by the Senate in early February after being nominated by President Donald Trump, millions of dollars were being paid to consultants to create PowerPoint presentations and take meeting minutes.
“Folks, if you don’t know how to run PowerPoint slides, learn, it’s a tutorial on your computer! Go learn for free, it’s okay! Take your own notes — wow, I’ll send you one of my pencils if you need one,” he exclaimed in a video announcement:
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Collins asserted that the saved money will be “put back into healthcare, benefits, and making sure we’re doing what the VA is supposed to do.”
1820 - The U.S. Congress passed the Land Act that paved the way for westward expansion of North America.
1832 - Abraham Lincoln announced that he would run for a political office for the first time. He was unsuccessful in his run for a seat in the Illinois state legislature.
1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (built from the remnants of the USS Merrimack fought to a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1916 - Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico. 17 people were killed by the 1,500 horsemen.
1959 - Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.
1964 - Production began on the first Ford Mustang.
1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1983 - The official Soviet news agency TASS says that U.S. President Reagan is full of "bellicose lunatic anti-communism."
However, when President Trump brought up solutions, including eliminating taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security, all of which would help American populations struggling the most to make ends meet, the Democrats, who claim to champion the least of us, sat in stony silence.
Pat can’t understand how they can be opposed to eliminating something like taxes on Social Security when it’s a double tax.
That he doesn’t have the slightest clue about engineering, tech development, satellite communications, rocket propulsion, that he’s not an inventor, not an engineer, not a tech developer, is as clueless as I am when it comes to technology.
They genuinely think he had zero input and zero knowledge of all the things his companies were doing, and just handed huge bundles of cash to others and said ‘you figure it out’...
Do these people have any idea how much this makes them sound like morons, rather than Elon?
...just look at the New York Times, the WaPo, the Dispatch, or any NeverTrump group for proof - but simply continuing to operate doesn't mean they are efficient, effective, or even sustainable.
That is true for government as well.
We are getting a look behind the curtain at how and why government continues to function, and it is because it sets fire to trillions of dollars of taxpayer and borrowed cash every single year.
That is why the Democrats are freaking out at the mention of any action to reduce the size and scope of government - they are cold blooded reptilians and the only way they stave off hibernation is through the warmth that radiates from burning cash.
If it weren't for the greenback bonfires, the Democrats would go into stasis and fall out of the trees like Iguanas during a Florida cold snap...
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer continued her unbroken streak as one of the worst governors in America when an electric-vehicle battery manufacturer announced plans to abandon Michigan for red state South Carolina — after pocketing $900,000 in tax subsidies and laying off 188 workers.
“It’s the latest example of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s flawed attempt to force Michigan residents into transitioning from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric-battery operated cars and trucks in which billions of taxpayer dollars have been used to subsidize a nascent industry,” The Midwesterner reported.
I was speaking to a non-US non-climate beat reporter yesterday about undeniable issues of scientific integrity in climate science and he asked a question about the climate science community that got my attention [emphasis, links added]:
“And no one cares? Aren’t scientists supposed to care about such things?”
Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized. I no longer expect the community to care about obvious and egregious problems in climate science, even when documented in the peer-reviewed literature.
For one member of the Democrat party in the U.S. House, which already has been condemned as "pathetic" and "petty" for members' outrageous actions during President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress this week, it's getting worse.
With a 224-198 vote on Thursday, the House censured Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for his outlandish stunt in which he stood up while Trump was speaking and badgered him.
Vaccine Company has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds, which the Biden administration doled out to a seemingly random post office box in Bethesda, Maryland.
Ernst urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a letter late Tuesday to investigate why the Biden administration awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to the mysterious firm and to consider clawing back any portion of the reward that remains unspent...
The mural will be replaced with a design created by schoolchildren and artists that has yet to be determined.
The change will be a part of a celebration of the national semiquincentennial, which is the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress voting for the colonies' independence from Britain in 1776.
Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal?
Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated NATO members to meet their military investment promises made following the 2014 invasion of Ukraine?
In contrast, who originally conceived a Russian "reset" in 2009? Who publicly virtue-signaled pushing the red "reset" button in Geneva with the current Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov?
Which ex-European leader got a million euros a year working for Russian energy companies?
Of the last four presidents, under whose watch did Putin not invade another country?
Which American president, in hot-mic style, offered to (and did) dismantle U.S.-Eastern Europe missile defense plans in exchange for temporary Putin quietude ("space") to aid his 2012 reelection?
...just look at the New York Times, the WaPo, the Dispatch, or any NeverTrump group for proof - but simply continuing to operate doesn't mean they are efficient, effective, or even sustainable. 
According to Bernard Sheridan, a school superintendent in Massachusetts in 1917, these basics included:
Fable one: Trump is appeasing Russia?