Chris Ruffo, the man who helped Florida legally remove DEI and wokeness from its public institutions, is claiming on Steve Bannon’s show The War Room that the Small Business Administration has a $26 billion slush fund they use to fund dubious businesses so long as those businesses aren’t owned by white men.
Ruffo claimed, “Yeah. So this is at the Small Business Administration. It’s a $26 billion slush fund that is dedicated to providing government contracts, including many no-bid government contracts, exclusively to firms that are owned by racial minorities and women. In many cases, these are shell companies where they have a token minority and then a private firm behind them. But in all cases, for this entire $26 billion slush fund, there’s only one identity group that is prohibited from accessing these funds or bidding for these contracts, white men.
And so this is like the epitome of DEI. It’s billions of dollars. There’s all sorts of fraud and corruption. In the program’s 45-year history, there’s never been a single audit done. And the question is simply this. It’s now one year into the Trump administration. The president came out strong on day one, said no more DEI. Why are we still administering billions of dollars for every group except for one? It seems totally unfair, totally unconstitutional. And yet it’s still something that, until now, has been surviving in the Trump administration.”
Christopher Rufo Exposes $26 Billion SBA Slush Fund – warroom.org
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Chris Rufo, the great Chris Rufo, is joining us. And Chris, look, naturally I would want you on here in Davos, because Larry Fink, you’ve so broken Fink on DEI. Larry Fink, who was kind of the financial guy of enforcing all the companies to do it because of his immense power on Wall Street.
And he’s over at Davos kind of denying, you know, no ESG, no DEI. We don’t need to do that. We don’t need a Green New Deal because intermittent power won’t work for the data centers, AI. He’s throwing over all of his beliefs.
And you were the leader in the effort to break the DEI, but you came up with something, I think, two days ago that I think may be the biggest story in the country and people need to focus on it.
It was this, is it 26, we talk about Somalis in Minneapolis and the ripoff of the learning centers and all this is getting deeper and everybody’s telling me this. But you’re identifying, in the Trump administration, there’s still Congress approving, I guess there’s $26 billion being spent on this type of scams by the Small Business Administration.
The ongoing scandal regarding Minnesota’s welfare-industrial complex demonstrates the extent to which government-created graft has “hidden” in front of the nation’s noses for not just years but decades. Another report released just before Christmas illustrates the depths of those fraudulent payments.
Last summer, I wrote here about a report by Louisiana’s legislative auditor highlighting nearly $10 million in Medicaid payments that state made on behalf of deceased beneficiaries between February 2019 and last March. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most recent report shows that this type of government waste and abuse — or, depending on one’s perspective, fraud by insurance companies, who receive payments for “covering” dead people — occurs with regularity nationwide.
You can begin to understand why the swamp fought Musk and DOGE so hard.
HUD officials say the majority of some $5 billion in fraudulent rental aid in 2024 went to New York, California and DC — though dead people from all 50 states got paid.
HUD just found $5 BILLION+ in FRAUDULENT payments in 2024 alone, under Biden.
Payment error of over 11% PERCENT.
Thirteen House Republicans broke ranks Wednesday night, siding with Democrats to move ahead on a bill aimed at gutting President Donald Trump’s executive order clamping down on federal worker unions.
The push came from Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, who used a procedural weapon known as a discharge petition to force the issue onto the floor. The maneuver lets a majority of lawmakers drag a bill forward even if leadership wants it buried.
The House voted 222-200 to start debate and set up a final vote. All 209 Democrats joined 13 Republicans to advance the measure, which faces another procedural test Thursday.
The GOP defectors were Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, Nick LaLota of New York, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Mike Lawler of New York, Tom Kean of New Jersey, Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania, Zach Nunn of Iowa, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Pete Stauber of Minnesota, and Mike Turner of Ohio.
Your taxpayer dollars and mine were paying for a special makeup artist at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) — that is, until DOGE got involved.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut contracts with a ceiling value of around $17 billion altogether over the last three weeks. It seems as if the waste and fraud in our federal government is endless, and DOGE has to wade through an absolute mountain of corrupt insanity as it tries to restore fiscal responsibility to the government.
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The DOGE revolution has identified federal waste, forced Washington politicians to rethink their spending habits, and exposed the decades-long crusade by Democrats to funnel taxpayer money into activism. In a state like North Dakota — a deep-red stronghold — you’d expect Republicans to seize November’s America First mandate and gut bloated budgets.
Think again. Too many unprincipled legislators are choking on the swamp’s fumes, betraying the voters who rejected the status quo. It’s time to call them out.
Politicians care more about re-election and climbing the ladder than they do about your wallet. They’ll dodge tough cuts to keep their seats, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill.
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is still hard at work cutting billions of taxpayer dollars’ worth of outrageous federal contracts and grants.
In less than a week, DOGE was able to end over 120 federal contracts worth billions of dollars in savings, including a contract to provide Nigeria with a technical advisor. And last week, the agency terminated nearly 500 contracts. This is what we voted for in 2024.
DOGE posted, “Contracts Update! In the last 5 days, agencies terminated 123 wasteful contacts with a ceiling value of $5.3B and savings of $4.2B, including an $857k DOI contract for a ‘technical advisor, Lagos Nigeria’, a $1.5M Dept. of Treasury contract for ‘Word Processing and Document Formatting Services Examination Training’ for the IRS, SBSE and HCO, and a $785k State Dept. consulting contract for ‘staffing.’”
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Judge Kendra Davis Briggs, a Biden-nominated associate judge for the D.C. Superior Court, denied the two Maryland juveniles’ requests for less restrictive detention conditions, according to the Washington Post.
The hearing follows the attack and carjacking targeting Coristine, 19, who goes by “Big Balls”, and Emily Bryant, his “significant other,” according to the filed police report of the incident. The carjacking occurred at 3:01 a.m. on Aug. 3 on the 1400 block of Swann Street NW.
Briggs presided over Monday’s hearing following President Donald Trump’s press conference in which he declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, federalized the Metropolitan Police Department, and mobilized the D.C. National Guard. Trump, who has repeatedly floated threats of federalizing the capital city, amped up his rhetoric against D.C. home rule after the attack against Coristine.
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House Republicans defied many of the White House’s requests for cuts to programs that don’t align with the president’s America First agenda.
In May, the Office of Management and Budget submitted its fiscal year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request asking Congress to cut funding to programs accused of wasting taxpayer dollars pushing left-wing ideology abroad. While the House Appropriations Committee reduced or eliminated funding for some of the requests, many remain untouched or barely adjusted.
For instance, OMB requested the elimination of funding to the Asia Foundation and East-West Center, which previous administrations have used for advice on how to deal with China.
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A pocket rescission is a rarely used but fully legal tool that lets the President kill funding without Congress.
This little known tool could let DOGE cuts bypass uniparty quislings and weak, spineless GOP senators, freezing funds without Congressional approval.
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Earlier this year, The Federalist highlighted a Wall Street Journal investigation that found taxpayers had spent billions paying for individuals who had enrolled in Medicaid in multiple states simultaneously. The kicker is not surprising but still shocking: As bad as the Journal exposé seemed, the reality is worse.
A new investigation increased both the number of enrollees with duplicate forms of taxpayer-funded coverage and the amount taxpayers are paying for such unnecessary double-dipping. It provides an example — one of many — to rebut leftist claims that the recently passed budget reconciliation bill will somehow destroy the safety net.
The Journal analysis of Medicaid data from 2019 to 2021 found taxpayers spent $4.3 billion over three years, providing duplicate coverage to an average of 660,000 people per year. The Trump administration recently examined what happened after four years of Biden administration policies, designed to promote enrollment in taxpayer-funded coverage at all costs.
The analysis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of 2024 enrollment data concluded that, last year, “an average of 1.2 million Americans each month were enrolled” in Medicaid in multiple states — nearly double the level of duplicate enrollment cited by the Journal in the opening years of the Biden presidency. Moreover, CMS also noted that another “1.6 million Americans each month were enrolled in both Medicaid” and taxpayer-subsidized coverage on the insurance Exchange plans.
HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Trump Signs Bill Slashing $9 Billion from Foreign Aid, Public Broadcasting– conservativeroof.com
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President Donald Trump signed a bill on July 24 to claw back $9 billion in federal spending.
Ahead of the signing, Trump said on Truth Social that the House’s approval of the bill was “BIG.”
It rescinds $7.9 billion in spending under the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International Development, whose responsibilities have been folded into the State Department.
The bill was initially set to rescind $9.4 billion, but $400 million was stripped out. That cut would have removed funding for PEPFAR, a State Department initiative that combats HIV and AIDS abroad.
The bill also eliminates $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), both of which have been accused by conservative critics and the Trump administration of liberal bias.
This does not mean it is the end of either NPR or PBS, however.
“The biggest impact will be that the shows with low-audience ratings will get cut,” conservative pundit Jake Novak said.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of major layoffs at the Department of Education Monday. It’s a huge win for those who believe the department was a failure and in need of a huge reduction in size.
McMahon v. State of New York was a 6-3 decision, with the liberal justices dissenting. The case had been brought against Education Secretary Linda McMahon by a variety of lawsuits after she removed 1,400 employees from the Department of Education’s staff.
Specifically, the Supreme Court ruled that a lower-level federal court could not block the firing of Department of Education employees while the case was ongoing.
“Today, the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious: the President of the United States, as the head of the Executive Branch, has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of federal agencies,” McMahon said in a statement.
President Donald Trump, who signed the executive order that led to the Department of Education layoffs, also celebrated the decision.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed in late March that it was downsizing its workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 employees as part of a broader overhaul intended to maximize efficiency, save taxpayers money, and help make America healthy again.
The agency sent notices of reduction in force to 10,000 employees. Another 10,000 workers apparently left voluntarily, accepting early retirement and buyout offers.
The threat of a proper housecleaning enraged Democrats and, of course, pink-slip recipients, who filed legal challenges. Democrat-appointed U.S. district judges proved more than willing to hold up the terminations, prompting the government to appeal and the Supreme Court to weigh in.
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President Donald Trump wants to give back $9.4 billion in federal spending to Congress that it has already approved. But it’s proving to be an uphill battle with Senate Republicans.
Some GOP senators don’t want to claw back funds for certain programs, including $1.1 billion to public broadcasting and $900 million in foreign aid for global health, despite a party-wide search for cost-cutting measures across the federal government.
The DOGE-inspired $9.4 billion rescissions legislation that House Republicans passed last week accounts for but a sliver of Trump’s $4 trillion “big, beautiful” tax and spending proposal to advance his domestic agenda. But the desire for Congress to sign off on budget cuts that he’s made by executive orders is compounding what are already fraught policy negotiations among both GOP-led chambers and the White House.
“We’ll all make up our own minds,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said recently, reflecting on those urging the Senate to rubberstamp the House. “There’s a reason why these things are in the law in the first place. It’s because we believe that a lot of this stuff is good and it’s good public policy, so it’s OK for them to suggest that they have a different point of view.”
House Plans to Tee Up First DOGE Cuts Bill Targeting Foreign Aid, NPR, CPB on Monday › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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House Republicans plan to tee up its first Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut bill next week targeting foreign aid, National Public Radio (NPR) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) revealed on Wednesday.
Greene, chair of the DOGE Subcommittee on Oversight, posted the news on X, Wednesday, amid a tsunami of criticism from conservative influencers and constituents who have in recent days been pounding the GOP over their lack of action on cutting the government waste fraud and abuse identified by DOGE.
According to its website, DOGE has cut at least $175 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government during President Trump’s first few months in office, with a savings of $1,086.96 per taxpayer. DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk, was established with the goal of cutting $2 trillion in wasteful spending from the federal budget.
“I was just told that we are going to see the first DOGE cuts bill on Monday,” Greene posted on X. “Foreign aid and NPR/CPB on the chopping block. I have not seen the bill yet, but I’m just passing on what they told me,” the Georgia congresswoman added. “Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in.”
Greene contended that passing the cuts are paramount for the survival of the nation and should be a top priority of Congress.
“As a country, we cannot survive our national debt and honestly, we may be past the point of return,” she wrote. “We should be aggressively attacking our debt and aggressively, cutting all waste fraud, and abuse and unnecessary programs. Our future literally is in peril.”
Congress frustrated many of its conservative constituents in March when it passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which maintained funding for USAID at the FY 2024 level, effectively extending existing funding for the purportedly “rogue agency” through September 30, 2025.
In addition to Greene, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday used his bully pulpit to blast the GOP’s glacially slow movement on codifying the DOGE cuts. And in a morose post on X, DOGE Chief Elon Musk wrote: “I did my best.”
MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman posted on X Tuesday that according to his Congressional sources, committee chairmen are claiming to be “too busy” to push bills that would codify the DOGE cuts.
Several bills that would lock in the DOGE cuts are currently sitting in committees waiting to be voted on, Eagleman pointed out, including H.R. 1847, H.R. 2006, and H.R. 199.
H.R. 1847, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), would codify Executive Order 14158, which is related to establishing and implementing the Department of Government Efficiency.
H.R. 2006, “the DOGE Act,” sponsored by Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), would lock in $32 billion in savings from cutting 9,200 grants deemed to be useless.
According to DOGE AI, the legislation:
– Prevents future presidents from bringing back wasteful Peru climate deals
– Stops bureaucrats from restoring their $577M gender programs abroad
– Ensures agencies can’t restart their spending addiction
– Puts America First, not globalist pet projectsH.R. 199, the “Implementing DOGE Act,” sponsored by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), aims to “provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending, and for other purposes.”
On the Senate side, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in February introduced the DOGE Acts to “Make Federal Government More Efficient and Slash Wasteful Spending.”
In an interview last week, Conservative economist Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, promised that “way more spending cuts” will come after the Big and Beautiful Bill passes the Senate.
“There are way more spending cuts to come this year because of all the savings that we’re finding both with OMB [the Office of Management and Budget] and with DOGE,” Hassett told Fox News host Laura Ingraham last Wednesday.
DOGE Uncovers $14 BILLION in Medicaid Fraud and Waste– lidblog.com
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is reporting that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified a massive amount of fraud, waste, and abuse in the nation’s Medicaid system.
“There’s about $14 billion we’ve identified with DOGE, of folks who are duly enrolled wrongly in multiple states for Medicaid,” Oz told Fox News.
“You live in New Jersey, but you move to Pennsylvania, and which state gets your Medicaid? Turns out both states collect money from the federal government,” Oz continued.
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A federal judge has sided with the Trump administration, resolving a dispute with New York Attorney General Letitia James about the expansive scope of cost-cutters to examine U.S. Treasury payments that they claim are laden with wasteful spending.
James was among 18 Democratic attorneys general who filed suit to block an investigation by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency into the Treasury payment system. The coterie was dealt a severe setback on Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, for the Southern District of New York, lifted the last legal hurdle for the four DOGE employees tasked with carrying out the investigation.
An earlier order was also relaxed after the Trump administration showed evidence that it appropriately trained the four employees to safeguard sensitive taxpayer information during the probe. In April, Vargas granted access to one DOGE employee after they completed a similar training program.
Prior to those decisions, the judge, a Biden appointee, was mostly siding with the state prosecutors who argued that Treasury’s processes for granting access were poorly established, a likely violation of law.
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The billionaires who control the left decided to make Elon Musk the boogeyman at the start of the Trump Administration. Anything that went wrong anywhere was the fault of Cousin Elon and DOGE. Low-information voters think Elon is stealing their health care, social security and personal information because that’s what Democrats lied about, knowing the media would swear by it. Nevertheless, he persisted because he felt the work DOGE was doing was important. His reward for taking on all the attacks and working twenty-hour days?
Republicans not doing anything to codify DOGE cuts into law, and then passing a big, beautiful bill that increased the deficit.
Welcome to the Tea Party circa 2010, Elon. We coined a phrase for this. “Failure Theater.”
I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing. I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.
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On Tuesday, CBS released a preview of an interview that will air on “Sunday Morning” in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he was disappointed in Republican’s so-called “big beautiful bill,” heralded by President Donald Trump.
Musk said, “So, you know, I was like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not decrease it and undermines the work the DOGE team is doing.”
Correspondent David Pogue said, “I actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along, I mean, like, everything he’s done on DOGE gets wiped out in the first year.”
Musk said, “I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful. But I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.”
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The White House plans to send a small package of spending cuts to Congress next week, senior GOP officials told several House Republicans Wednesday.
The planned transmission of the “rescissions” bill, confirmed by two Republicans granted anonymity to describe the plans, comes after a long internal battle over how to formalize the cuts that have been made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative.
The package set to land on Capitol Hill is expected to reflect only a fraction of the DOGE cuts, which have already fallen far short of Musk’s multi-trillion-dollar aspirations. The two Republicans said it will target NPR and PBS, as well as foreign aid agencies that have already been gutted by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Speaker Mike Johnson said on X Wednesday that the House “is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand.” He said the House “will act quickly” on a package without saying when it might be submitted or what it might contain.
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Washington — NPR on Tuesday sued President Trump and administration officials over an executive order signed earlier this month that seeks to cut federal funding to the news organization and PBS.
Filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the suit was brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations. It argues that Mr. Trump’s executive order violates the First Amendment and provisions of the Public Broadcasting Act, which was passed by Congress in 1967. The plaintiffs also assert that Mr. Trump did not have the authority to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS, and his order should be invalidated as unconstitutional.
The order, NPR and the three stations said in their complaint, is “textbook retaliation” and discriminates based on viewpoint, which is a violation of the First Amendment.
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After 11 weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has hit a milestone in its major cleanup initiative to remove more than 12.3 million names of Social Security number holders whose dates of birth make them over 120 years old.
DOGE team members continue to deal with what they call “complex cases” that remain, including investigating instances where an individual has two or more different birth dates on file.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) touted the efforts of DOGE to root out fraud, calling the cleanup of Social Security rolls “remarkable.”
This is remarkable.
12.3 million people over the age of 120 are now finally marked deceased.
This will drastically reduce fraud.
Thank you @DOGE!! https://t.co/nF7Wxni9xI— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 23, 2025
