Removing Trump is the only way to get rid of real ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’
I re-posted a few examples. There are SO MANY more! Read the article!!!
Donald Trump and his minions endlessly rail about “waste, fraud, and abuse” in the federal government. Meanwhile, he and his regime are the most prodigious generators of “waste, fraud, and abuse” in American history.
- First and foremost, no president has ever used his office to rack up anything close to the estimated $5B Trump has hauled in for himself, selling everything from tacky gold sneakers to crypto.
- He has mastered the art of trading on access and enticing foreigners to pony up big bucks (and even an airplane).
- The most pro-corruption president in history also has stopped enforcement of foreign corruption, crypto fraud and other white collar crimes.
Beyond all that, in just over nine months the MAGA regime has been more egregious in its misuse of taxpayers’ money than any administration in memory.
- Flying top brass into Quantico, Va., to hear an obnoxiously partisan pep talk from Defense Secretary (and wrinkle warrior) Pete Hegseth and Trump: $6M. That qualifies as both waste and abuse (i.e., politicizing the military).
- Multiple unnecessary and unconstitutional deployments of national guard around the country (which have triggered adverse court rulings, costing a fortune in taxpayer-funded legal fees): 2/3 of a billion dollars.
- The Atlantic reports that the D.C. deployment will cost more than $200M while the Los Angeles invasion as of early September cost $118M. If you throw in tens of millions for deployments to other cities, the unconstitutional invasions “could wind up costing Americans roughly two-thirds of a billion dollars.”
It is hard not to wonder how many NIH science grants or new air traffic controllers or SNAP meals $750M dollars would fund.
Aside from the waste and abuse, the rationale for the deployments, which courts increasingly find specious, surely constitutes “fraud” as well.
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