President Donald Trump is proving once again why he’s the king of slashing government waste and draining the swamp.

In a blockbuster report from Bloomberg, the Trump administration has unveiled plans to unload a massive portfolio of 443 federal properties across 47 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico—properties bloated with bureaucracy, including the headquarters of the DOJ, FBI, and even the General Services Administration (GSA) itself.

The General Services Administration (GSA) disclosed a list of 443 “non-core” assets, encompassing a mix of prime commercial spaces that currently serve as regional hubs for various federal agencies.

“We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal. Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces,” GSA wrote on its website.

“Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions.”

These properties span nearly 80 million rentable square feet—equivalent to twelve Pentagons. The potential sale of these assets could lead to more than $430 million in annual savings on operating costs, aligning with President Trump’s commitment to trim government expenditure.

Among the high-profile properties listed are the headquarters of several major departments such as Justice, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, primarily located in the Washington, D.C. area. Also, the Nancy building in San Francisco and the Dick Cheney Federal Building in Wyoming. The GSA even suggested selling its own headquarters as part of this plan.

Below is the list of buildings in Washington, D.C.:

DOGE Is in the Constitution

By Ted Noel

On January 30, Pocahontas shouted into a microphone that “There is nothing in the Constitution that says ordinary citizens have a right to see what we spend our tax dollars on.” Aside from the frightening implications of such a statement, Senator Warren is so far off base that she’s not even on the field. As an attorney, she should know better.

Article I, § 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution says:

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Questioning Grok AI yields an answer that the highest broad brush level of disclosure, limited to gross receipts and Department level funding, satisfies this provision. This may have been adequate at the Founding, but with the proliferation of departments, bureaus, and agencies, it is no longer a “Statement [of]… Expenditures of all public Money.” A proper description of the present state of affairs is, frankly, NSFW.

Enter DOGE.

Using computerized tools that operate many multiples of the speed of any human, DOGE has been able to create forensic maps of where all the money has gone. In short, it’s an automated method of observing Sutton’s Law: Follow the Money.

Like most working stiffs, I thought USAID was a way that “aid” money got to foreign governments and organizations. Boy was I wrong! Yes, the “AID” part was “Agency for International Development,” but that didn’t seem to make much difference. Big Balls Coristine and his band of merry men let the cat out of the bag. Large chunks of that money were being laundered into the pockets of Democrat organizations and operatives.

Politico has been widely reported to be a prime recipient of federal dollars. While the details are unclear, the $8.2 million in cancelled government subscriptions is a not-inconsequential hit to its $100 million total budget. Other left wing entities such as ActBlue, the Tides Foundation, and various Soros affiliates are also implicated in misappropriated funds.

Detailed amounts for specific beneficiaries aren’t known yet, since DOGE hasn’t published its reports. Multiple lawsuits are throwing mud in the gears. But the screaming by leftists cannot be ignored. They are being exposed. There can be no doubt that government corruption has financed many things that will almost certainly result in personal address changes and loss of WiFi privileges. But more important is the fact that, when all is said and done, a major portion of the federal fisc isn’t being spent on those things that the Constitution allows.

One has to wonder, with all this money sloshing around the pool, just how much of it has ended up in the play pens of various Democrat legislators? How is it that Chuckie Schumer has become a multimillionaire on a salary of a couple hundred grand? Or how did our favorite New York bartender get to be worth millions? It couldn’t be her economics degree or a trade in cattle futures, could it?

The real problem here is the word “expenditures.” When Congress appropriates a few paltry billions for USAID, it hasn’t spent a dime. It has authorized the president to spend through USAID. The money that USAID sends out are its expenditures, and those are the largest part of what was appropriated. Keeping the lights on and paying the help are small potatoes. The federal government hasn’t told us very much about where it is actually sending the money. For example, when we ship rockets and bombs to Ukraine, that’s not technically an expenditure. They are pulled from stockpiles and loaded on ships. The actual expenditure is to Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, or some other defense contractor. And that information is buried under multiple layers of paper.

The Constitution obligates the Feds to tell us where the money went. Those expenditures have been concealed from us for decades. It is very likely that most of the last century has been devoted to creating these money laundering networks with the goal of financing every “election” campaign with taxpayer money. In close races, it probably paid for stuffing ballot boxes (see “2,000 Mules”). It definitely paid for propaganda via outlets such as Politico and the Huffington Post. Big Tech got richer from toeing the Left’s line. And Democrat campaigns harvested this laundered money through ActBlue, where retirees on small fixed incomes “gave” massive amounts via thousands of tiny donations. When contacted, the “donors” pointed out that not only did they not give the money, they didn’t have it to give. There’s a short word that describes this: fraud.

Senator Warren isn’t just wrong on the Constitution. She has taken a position completely opposed to the exact requirement spelled out in it. We have every right to know what our government spends our money on. Because no agency of the Executive Branch willingly gives up its ledger, DOGE is the essential crowbar to break open the stone wall. Thus we may properly understand that DOGE is the reporting agency envisioned by Article I, § 9, Clause 7.

Further affiant sayeth naught.

 Courageous Stand Against EU Hypocrisy

Latinopoulou spoke bluntly, calling out the arrogance of European leftists who now attempt to shift blame onto conservatives.

“You, the destroyers of Europe, have the audacity to point the finger at us and claim that we conservatives are a threat to Europe?” she said.

The Thatcher Quote That Left Parliament Silent

At a striking moment in her speech, she quoted Margaret Thatcher: “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” The brutal truth hung in the air.

Then, she laid out her demands:

• Cut taxes
• Increase competitiveness
• Bring back plastic straws
• Stop attacking brown coal
• Invest in industry
• Most importantly, admit that socialist policies have failed

A Rallying Cry for Europe’s Future

Latinopoulou’s speech has gone viral, striking a chord with Europeans tired of bureaucratic overreach and economic destruction. Her defiance signals a growing conservative pushback against the EU’s failing socialist agenda.

The European Parliament may not like what she said, but the message was clear: the left has run Europe into the ground, and it’s time for a course correction.

A cursory review of Social Security records by Musk’s department has revealed that the social security safety net program is paying benefits to 150-year-olds. The businessman noted that many of those entries listed for Social Security recipients had no identifying information.

“This might be the biggest fraud in history,” Musk stated, according to a report by RT.  

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, the United States-based billionaire noted that “there are far more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA.” Musk also shared a post by an X user suggesting that 394,943,364 people are currently receiving social security payments. That is more than the total U.S. population, which amounts to 334 million.

Gov’t Data: Reuters Collected More Than $1B From Taxpayers in 15 Years

The Associated Press (AP), The New York Times, and other far-left, mainstream media outlets have collected millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars from multiple government agencies.

But a search of USASpending.gov reveals that Reuters News & Media has collected more than $1 billion through the years.

Yet another contract to Thomson Reuters Special Services, an affiliate under the Thomson empire, is also under scrutiny. It came from the Defense Department (DoD) to combat cyberattacks, although the wording of the contract led Elon Musk, chieftain of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to mischaracterize it on X.

Reuters Gets Rich on Taxpayers’ Dime

The federal government’s out-of-control spending has been the focus of DOGE since President Donald Trump created it by executive order on Inauguration Day.

Since Trump took office, more and more evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse has surfaced on social media, much of it from USAspending.gov. Although the scandalous data have always been available, only when Musk began looking into spending did the material go viral.

As The New American reported last week, AP and the Times have raked in millions of taxpayer dollars, as has the hate-Trump Politico. The total for the three is upwards of $100 million.

But Reuters has been an especially favored beneficiary of taxpayer money. Of course, 99 percent of taxpayers knew it.

The spending website shows that Reuters News & Media Inc. has pocketed $1.2 billion since 2008 from numerous agencies, including the departments of Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services.

It also pulled in big bucks from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Another Reuters affiliate, Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC, has snared $120 million since 2010.

Musk’s DoD Post

Also going viral thanks to Musk is the Thomson Reuters Special Services contract with the Department of Defense.

Musk retweeted a post about the contract that claimed DoD had paid Reuters — meaning the media outlet — for “social engineering” and “large scale social deception.”

“I can’t believe how good this timeline is!” Topher Field wrote:

Follow this chain of events:

1. Reuters writes hit piece against DOGE.

2. Musk tweets, ‘I wonder what Reuters are being paid?

3. DOGE uncovers Department of Defence contract paying Reuters for ‘Large Scale Social Deception.

It’s crazy that this is happening.

It’s INSANE that it’s playing out in the public square!

If you thought that the LA wildfires exposed just how mismanaged California is, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Russia. China. Venezuela. Iran. More than a dozen countries make gasoline at state-owned refineries.

Could California be next on the list?

Let’s see what do all of those places have in common? Tyrannical regimes. Miserable lives for much of the population. High levels of migration. Radical politics. Sure, California belongs on that list.

California policymakers are considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries, one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the refinery business in the state.

Have a state that hates oil and couldn’t make money selling drugs (literally) run oil refineries. What could go wrong?

Already, two California refineries have ceased producing gasoline to make biodiesel fuel for use in heavy-duty trucks, a cleaner-fuel alternative that enjoys rich state subsidies. More worrisome, the Phillips 66 refinery complex in Wilmington, just outside Los Angeles, plans to close down permanently by year’s end.

That leaves eight major refineries in California capable of producing gasoline. The closure of any one would create serious gasoline supply issues, industry analysts say. But both Chevron and Valero are contemplating permanent refinery closures…

California is known as a “gasoline island” lacking the kind of multistate logistics network through most of the continental U.S. that can help alleviate supply shocks. No pipelines exist to feed gasoline in from other states. Ocean shipments from the refinery-rich Gulf States are restricted by an antiquated federal law known as the Jones Act…

Further complicating matters: the special blends of gasoline required in California. Those required formulations have gone a long way toward reducing air pollution. But they also drive up gasoline prices and raise the risk of shortages, because little such gasoline is produced outside California.

Insurance companies are fleeing California. Refineries are fleeing California. Californians are fleeing California. But there’s enough people in the state that a major energy crisis is entirely plausible.

It’s not hard to find $6 a gallon gas in the state, but that could just be the beginning.

And the Democrat super-majority has lots of plans for getting all the remaining refineries to flee California.

The options list is disparate: Ship in more gasoline from Asia; regulate refineries on the order of electric utilities; cap profit margins; and many more.

The list was due to be transformed into a formal transition plan by Dec. 31, 2024, but six weeks later no plan has been issued. Therefore, it’s not yet clear what the state response will be if another refinery announces a shutdown this year or next.

Tell everyone to buy Teslas. Take over the refineries. It worked so well in Venezuela that what used to be a petro-power can’t even run refineries. But that’s okay. California will hire only transgender ex-cons of color, tax the product as much as possible and then blame the subsequent disaster on global warming.

(Daily Signal)—The U.S. Agency for International Development wasn’t just spending your hard-earned tax dollars on transgender operas overseas—USAID also has troubling connections with the leftist pressure groups that infiltrated and advised the Biden administration.

The book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” exposes the woke activist groups that fed staff into the administrative state and pushed woke policies on the bureaucracy.

As President Donald Trump released information about USAID’s corruption, I started to notice a few familiar names from my research.

The American people should understand just how connected the woke enterprise is to the federal bureaucracy, and USAID provides a powerful example of those ties.

What Is USAID?

While the acronym suggests USAID is about aid, it’s really about soft power. President John F. Kennedy established USAID as a tool to fight Soviet Communism abroad, but in recent years, the agency has promoted the classic woke causes: critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist against blacks and favors whites and requires fundamental reform), climate alarmism, gender ideology, and a preference for technocratic government.

The Trump administration has highlighted USAID waste, particularly $1.5 million to advance “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in Serbia’s workplaces; $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia; and more. Others have highlighted grants such as $20 million for an Arabic translation of Sesame Street and $2 million for promoting sex changes in Guatemala.

USAID has also spent $250 million on a Climate Finance for Development Accelerator, aiming to “mobilize $2.5 billion in public and private climate investments by 2030.” The accelerator seeks to help countries meet their commitments in the Paris Climate Agreement, which the Trump administration rejected on the president’s first day in office.

These initiatives echo the spending of Hungarian American billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and that is no accident.

The Soros Connection

The Open Society Foundations has bankrolled many of the leftist groups in the Woketopus, which staffed and advised the Biden administration.

While Open Society Foundations has claimed that it does not receive funding from USAID or direct the funding of USAID, its ties to USAID are undeniable. Not only has Open Society funded the same projects as USAID, but its leaders met with former USAID Administrator Samantha Power at least twice, the Soros foundations network listed USAID among its “donor partners” in 2001, and an Open Society nonprofit actually sued USAID twice, with the cases reaching the Supreme Court both times.

USAID and Open Society Foundations jointly funded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project—an organization that attacked conservatives for criticizing Soros and that published the report that sparked the first Trump impeachment. USAID’s connections to the project raise uncomfortable questions about whether the agency was trying to oust Trump.

The Organized Crime Corruption and Reporting Project also attacked Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.; Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. These conservatives made the mistake of noticing that the U.S. Embassy to Macedonia had selected Soros’ Open Society Foundations as the main implementer for USAID projects in the Eastern European country.

According to Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., USAID awarded a $2.54 million contract to Open Society for training in “civic activism,” “mobilization,” and “civic engagement” in Macedonia in February 2017.

The East West Management Institute—which has long listed Open Society Foundations as a donor and implementing partner and which received $31.2 million from USAID in the last full fiscal year ending on Sept. 30—launched court changes in Albania that critics allege resulted in the prosecution of Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha, silencing the opponent of the country’s socialist prime minister.

As for its role in the Woketopus, Open Society Foundations or its partners, the Open Society Policy Center, the Open Society Institute, or the Foundation to Promote Open Society have funded:

• the American Civil Liberties Union (which pushed open borders in the Biden administration)
• the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Southern Poverty Law Center (which pushed the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies against conservatives)
• the Human Rights Campaign (which pushed gender ideology)
• the Sierra Club (which pushed climate alarmism)

USAID has awarded more than $27 million in grants to the Tides Center, which forms part of the Left’s dark money network I expose in “The Woketopus” along with its sister groups the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy.

USAID awarded the Tides Center four grants: a $24.7 million grant in 2016, of which $20 million has been spent; a $1.5 million grant in 2016, of which $147,000 has been spent; a $700,000 grant in 2014 that appears not to have been fulfilled; and another $150,000 grant that appears not to have been fulfilled.

The largest grants came from USAID’s Foreign Assistance Program, which “works to support long-term and equitable economic growth and advance U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting economic growth, agriculture, and trade; global health; and democracy, conflict prevention, and humanitarian assistance.”

Tides, like Open Society, has funded many of the leftist groups that called the shots under Biden. The Tides Foundation, Tides Advocacy, or the Tides Center have funded:

• the Center for American Progress (which fed more than 60 officials into the Biden administration, pushing both open borders and climate funding)
• the Natural Resources Defense Fund and the Sierra Club (which pushed a crackdown on oil and gas)
• the Southern Poverty Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• the ACLU

The Tides Center launched an organization, Palestine Legal, that represents anti-Israel rioters in court and gives them legal advice. A Palestine Legal senior attorney told a leftist magazine in January that the group has “represented or advised hundreds of students” since Oct. 7, 2023.

A Revolving Door

Former USAID staff have gone to work at groups in the Woketopus.

Olivia Callahan, for example, served as a law clerk at USAID before taking roles at the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Ann Van Dusen, who spent 25 years at USAID, now serves as a senior associate at Arabella Advisors, a for-profit company that launched nonprofit entities that funnel money to the Woketopus.

Anne-Marea (Tangee) Griffin, who worked for one year at USAID, now works as a senior fellow for Africa at the Center for American Progress.

Miriam Rashid, an associate director of racial equity and justice at the Center for American Progress, worked as a graduate research fellow at USAID.

Brandon Hooks, deputy director of creator and partnership strategy at the Human Rights Campaign, served as an LGBTI office intern at USAID.

Jay Gilliam, who served as an LGBTQI+ coordinator at USAID until January, previously worked as director of global programs at the Human Rights Campaign. Before joining HRC, he spent four years at USAID.

Chika Nwankwo, who worked as a research assistant for USAID, now works on vaccines via a contract with New Venture Fund, one of the Arabella Advisors-established nonprofits. New Venture Fund sponsored Governing for Impact, a shadowy nonprofit that enjoyed tremendous access in the early Biden administration.

Cuthbert Tinavapi, who served as a USAID regional auditor, now works with the Open Society Foundations as a finance consultant.

Tinatin Tsertsvadze, an advocacy adviser at Open Society Foundations, previously worked as a USAID assistant in the nation of Georgia.

Beth Dunlap, a director at the Open Society Foundations, served as a “senior transition adviser” at USAID. In this role, she “provided strategic guidance, facilitation, and operational support to programs funding political transition in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East,” according to her LinkedIn profile. Her profile lists countries served: Myanmar, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Colombia, Yemen, Somalia, Ukraine, and North Macedonia.

Andrea Guardo, a former “human rights specialist” at USAID, now works in Democracy Protection for Latin American and the Caribbean at the Open Society Foundations.

Diego Garcia Devis, drug policy team manager at the Open Society Foundations, previously worked at USAID for nearly five years.

Rajiv J. Shah, president at the Rockefeller Foundation, part of the Left’s dark money network that funded climate activist groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund, previously headed USAID under President Barack Obama.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s chief of staff, Mike Muldoon, and its vice president for innovation, Andrew Sweet, also had elevated roles at USAID—as senior investment officer and senior adviser to the administrator, respectively.

Over the past four years, USAID has given more than $4.2 billion in grants to “miscellaneous foreign awardees,” which—as the Capital Research Center’s Parker Thayer explained—is code for “we don’t want to say who got the money.”

There are perfectly legitimate reasons to hide some of this money—perhaps USAID wants to withhold the identity of recipients in order to protect them from terrorist cells or foreign adversaries. Yet the idea that any federal agency would direct $4.2 billion of taxpayers’ money without disclosing the recipients is shocking.

It also raises the question of whether that money is supporting the woke activist groups that enjoy close ties to USAID.

A Snapshot of the Left’s Woke Bureaucracy

USAID’s connections to the Open Society Foundations, Tides, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, the ACLU, and Arabella Advisors confirm the basic premise of “The Woketopus:” that the Left’s massive dark money influence campaign has immense power, regardless of who’s in the White House.

USAID provides a snapshot of the Left’s massive infrastructure, and combating its influence is no easy feat.

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