Congress spent at least $516 billion in 2024 on programs for which there was no authorization. Yes, billion, with a “b.” AND “no authorization” means the spending was ILLEGAL.
A stunning report by the Congressional Budget Office underscores the reason for the assault upon President Trump’s right to audit payments by the Treasury Department.
This from redstate.com.
In a report titled Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024, the CBO has observed:
Historically, House and Senate rules restrict lawmakers from considering an appropriation if it lacks a current authorization.
Nevertheless:
That $516 billion in illegal payments cover:
1,264 authorizations of appropriations that expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2024 and 251 authorizations of appropriations that were set to expire by the end of fiscal year 2024.
The legal authority for some of these payments expired 40—that is not a typo—years ago.
This data reveals scandalous behaviors:
– Congress has established a shadow funding stream for pet projects of either the institution or of senior members that allows money to be shoveled into a porkulus spending bill under the guise of preventing a government shutdown,
– The money is paid even though there is no legal authority for the disbursement. This is what, among lesser beings, would be called embezzlement, but no word exists to describe the activity on this scale. Where embezzlement gets the plebians a stiff jail term, it gets members of Congress reelected and seats on corporate boards, and
– Making this all the more intriguing is it would seem the President could stop those payments without worrying about violating the Impoundment Control Act as they are not legal appropriations by Congress’s rules.
Those who wielded authority in Washington for the last four years—and perhaps for decades—are quaking at the discoveries being made by the people Musk has manning the keyboards.
And these communists/globalists’ fears of being discovered for who they are and what they have been doing has them posting such things as ‘DOGE employees wanted dead or alive.’
Musk’s “cavalry of computer geniuses” logged in, sat down in front of their desktops, and:
[S]tartling revelations about censorship and the misuse of taxpayer funds are being unearthed.
Mike Benz over at the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) has connected some crucial dots in sifting through USAID internal documents, which illustrate “a concerted effort to censor the right and shell out cash for the left.”
FFO has revealed:
[Documents propose] censorship action items for virtually every governmental, non-governmental and private sector commercial actor across society to both individually and collectively take action against disfavored speech online.
This included the methodologies of:
– strategic silence,
– debunking sources,
– interrupting what they considered ‘fabricated content,’ and
– more.
In other words, the censorship is intended to strangle and throttle back anything and everything with which the power brokers disagree.
How does this happen? This is where shelling out cash comes into the picture. In a Feb. 5 article, Robert McGreevy of the Daily Caller exposed the money/censorship trail.
No doubt when DOGE digs deeper into this, they are going to find other ongoing illegal payments on a Biblical scale.
Final thought: Politically, the summer of 2025 is going to be an excruciatingly hot one.
Let us segregate and isolate for our own safety and enjoy the show.
