Department of Government Efficiency on X

"The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).  - Department of Government Efficiency@DOGE 

In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. 

• As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. 

Thanks to@USTreasury for the great work. https://tfx.treasury.gov/taxonomy/term/

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History for May 4

History for May 4 - On-This-Day.com 

Horace Mann 1796 - Educator, father of public education in the U.S., author

• 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
• 1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.
• 1904 - The U.S. formally took control of the property for construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1970 - The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
• 1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
• 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Trump's DOJ files lawsuit against Illinois for restricting program meant to bar illegal alien workers | Blaze Media

Trump's DOJ files lawsuit against Illinois for restricting program meant to bar illegal alien workers | Blaze Media: 

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois over state efforts against businesses using a federal program meant to weed out illegal aliens from being hired and competing with U.S. citizens for jobs.

The way we were-----13 Things from the 1950s, Kids Today Will Never Understand!

Expert sounds alarm on China's distressed economy

Where's the lib-media now??!!

 

Education Secretary Linda McMahon reveals greedy truth behind student loan forgiveness

President Trump’s education boss Linda McMahon has defended the administration’s decision to resume student loan debt collections — insisting that greedy colleges have “profited massively” from Biden-era forgiveness measures. 

In a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed addressing the move, the education secretary blamed the Biden administration and universities for making “empty promises to students while pocketing their loan dollars.”

• “Colleges and universities call themselves nonprofits, but for years they have profited massively off the federal subsidy of loans, hiking tuition and piling up multibillion-dollar endowments while students graduate six figures in the red,” McMahon wrote.
• “A widely cited 2015 study found that for every dollar of increased federal caps on subsidized loans, colleges raised tuition by 60 cents,” she continued.
• “Many of the degree-granting programs that qualify for student loans are worthless on the job market, but colleges continue to accept students to these programs and encourage them to borrow to pay for them...

California gas car ban blocked by 35 House Democrats, all Republicans | Fox News

California gas car ban blocked by 35 House Democrats, all Republicans | Fox News: 

Thirty-five House Democrats are rebuking the Biden administration's 11th-hour waiver that cleared a path for California to enact a full ban on gas cars by 2035. A Republican resolution aimed at repealing the Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) move passed by a 246 to 164 vote on Thursday morning.

Can Someone Please Tell Me WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!

Having abandoned objective reporting...

...the mainstream media’s refusal to adopt a neutral stance on climate change has transformed a complex scientific debate into a monolithic narrative of impending catastrophe. - Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming - John Whitefisk 

Far from being impartial arbiters, media outlets are enthusiastic propagandists recycling doomsday predictions that consistently fail to materialize while ignoring a wealth of scientific research that challenges the narrative of disastrous warming.
This isn’t journalism; it is activism disguised as truth-telling. 

The result? 

A global populace misled, policymakers swayed by fiction, and developing nations shackled by energy policies that prioritize “green” ideology over human well-being.
climatechangedispatch.com
How Media Push Climate Catastrophism, Ignore Science, And Harm The Poor
Mainstream media hype fuel fear, silence dissent, and pressure developing nations into costly clima

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump Brought a Plan. The Left Brought Hysteria

Noon-toon

 

Fourth round of US-Iran talks in Rome were never confirmed, State Department says | Fox News

Fourth round of US-Iran talks in Rome were never confirmed, State Department says | Fox News: 

The U.S. has not committed to participating in a fourth round of denuclearization talks with Iran this weekend despite reports to the contrary, according to the State Department. 

"The United States was never confirmed to be participating in a fourth round of talks with Iran, which people had believed were Saturday in Rome," spokesperson Tammy Bruce said at a news conference Thursday. "We expect another round of talks will take place in the near future."

The U.S. participated in talks with Iranian officials once in Rome and twice in Oman. Envoy Steve Witkoff is the lead negotiator for President Donald Trump’s desired deal that stops Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. 

It's not just Trump-hate! They hate all of us!!

 

What's Normal, Exactly? - by James Howard Kunstler

“The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.” — Harmeet Dhillon, US Assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division - James Howard Kunstler

What's Normal, Exactly?

• When a claque of deep state shills such as Norm Eisen, Chuck Schumer, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Larry Summers holler about Mr. Trump’s attempt to reform a depraved political culture as “an assault on norms,” are you not prompted to wonder what, exactly, those norms might be?

Looks like they are describing a 

• colossal matrix of racketeering operations 
• in concert with an epic program of crypto-Marxist mind-fuckery, 
• mountains of money purloined under color-of-law, 
• swindles galore of practically every public enterprise, 
• the capital city of a so-called republic fogged in gaslight to conceal a Satyricon of pedophilia, sodomy, and sado-masochism in every closet, cabinet, and pigeon-hole of the political class.

So, along comes Mr. Trump for the second round, with a supernaturally able clean-up crew this time, and the monsters feeding off that depraved normality commence to shriek in mortal panic as the scaffold of their crimes gets methodically disassembled and secrets are revealed...

Worth remembering!

 

Reports: Unsafe Foreign Truckers Selling Their Rigs After Trump’s ‘Speak English’ Order

Some foreign truckers are reportedly quitting the industry because President Donald Trump directed deputies Monday to restart the English-language proficiency tests for foreign drivers. - Neil Munro

#1 This day 1970-----The Guess Who - American Woman (Official Audio)

Don’t Believe the Anti-Hype - Kurt Schlichter

You have undoubtedly heard the propaganda—apparently, Donald Trump’s in trouble in the polls.

• Apparently, Trump’s supporters are wracked by regret at having voted for him instead of for the half-wit who replaced the quarter-wit on the Democrat ticket. 
• Apparently, Trump, who is doing absolutely nothing that he didn’t promise to do, has completely undermined his own popularity by doing what he promised to do.

If you believe that, after all that has happened since Donald Trump rode down that escalator almost a decade ago, your fellow American First patriots need to stage an intervention over your addiction to black pills.
It’s all a nonsense narrative. 

• You know the Democrats have an agenda. 
• You know the regime media has an agenda. 
• And you know sissy Republican Fredocons, well, they have one hell of an agenda.

 The Democrats want power. 

Your media all over this??!!

 

More Voter Fraud: 2 Non-Citizens Illegally Voted in Presidential Election

More Voter Fraud: 2 Non-Citizens Illegally Voted in Presidential Election: 

News of the Ukrainian nationals’ unlawful participation in the 2024 election came just a day after federal prosecutors revealed that an Iraqi man, Akeel Abdul Jamiel, allegedly voted illegally in the 2020 U.S. election.

Jamiel — a 45-year-old Iraqi national who is not an American citizen — knowingly voted on or around Nov. 3, 2020, in the presidential elections held that year in Saratoga County, New York, according to federal court documents. He is not currently living in the U.S. any longer, and federal prosecutors have yet to take him into custody.

Billionaire Blimp J.B. Pritzker: Taxpayers Must Repay the Student Loans of 1.6 Million Illinoisans Grateful Calvin Grateful Calvin

When last we checked in on human weather balloon J.B. Pritzker, he was calling for violence in the streets and comparing America in the Trump era to Nazi Germany.

So, you know, he's totally running for President in 2028...
A couple of days ago, Pritzker posted on X that it is not only a good thing for Americans who either didn't go to college or paid off their college loans to foot the bill for freeloaders in his state, it is actually our obligation to do so...

• Who is this 'we' you're talking about?
• No. 
• We didn't tell 1.6 million Illinoisans to take on huge debt while not pursuing a remotely employable degree. 
• You told them that...

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