“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).
For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.
The American people have only just begun to discover what the USAID operation was all about. Many people thought it was a charitable enterprise and are only just now realizing it was something else entirely.
Historically we discussed how USAID was actually the front group for CIA influence operations globally. The intelligence community aspect is only just beginning to be discovered by the American people. However, in keeping with the theme, multiple U.S. leftist media outlets were also funded by USAID as part of their information control mission.
Posted originally on Feb 5, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Why did the Democrats fail to right the 2024 election?
Jed
ANSWER: They did not have Pelosi. The person overseeing the vote is the Speaker of the House, who, this time, was a Republican. The rigging did come at the state level, but that was not the real coup. The real corruption came on January 6th when those behind the curtain instigated the January 6th “Insurrection” that allowed Pelosi to impose (1) emergency rules and (2) her COVID rules to limit the number of people on the floor to 53 when any challenge is to be debated before the entire Congress. Some states were to be challenged, and even if one were reversed, as they just did in Romania, then Biden would have lost.
Biden’s popular vote total 81,283,501 was even larger in 2020 than Obama’s. Nobody believes he inspired more people to vote than Obama. Biden’s vote in 2020 was even larger than Trump’s in 2024 of 77,303,573. Nobody I know of believes Biden had such a vote in 2020.
Therefore, I warned ahead of the election on various interviews that our computer was showing this would be “too big to rig.” Indeed, Trump won the popular vote, but also all seven swing states. First, there was no state that the Democrats could have challenged. But more importantly, the current Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, prevented them from playing games with rules as Pelosi did to make sure Biden won.
As Joseph Stalin pointed out, people can vote for whoever or whatever they want. The person who decides the vote is the person who counts the votes – that was Pelosi in 2020. She should be indicted for her actions on January 6th, put on trial, and let the jury decide her guilt. I am shocked that Warren Buffet has not tapped her on the shoulder to replace him since her track record in trading and investing beat Buffet – Pelosi the Investor of the Century!
Posted originally on Feb 5, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is tracing the long, complex trail of government spending. US taxpayers deserve to know where their money is spent. The US Treasury Department should be able to provide a clear account of government spending as it is responsible for processing trillions in government payments per year. It has been revealed that the US Treasury has not been doing its part.
Americans provide the US Treasury Department with their hard-earned dollars every tax season, and throughout the year for that matter. The agency is tasked with managing the government’s finances, paying all government bills, and collecting taxes and duties. It supervises national banks and thrift institutions. The agency is supposed to aid in guiding international policy and maintaining relationships with foreign institutions and governments to maintain economic stability globally.
Who is in charge? Top civil servant at the Treasury, David Lebryk, unexpectedly left his office as soon as the DOGE investigation began. Lebryk forfeited his government pension and career instead of complying. He has since been replaced by Scott Bessent who has provided DOGE with access to the federal payments system.
As it turns out, the Treasury Department has not denied a request for payment in 22 years. So whenever a bureaucrat or government official wanted the Treasury Department to pay for something, the answer was always YES. Musk recently accused Treasury officials of “breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress.”
The establishment does not want transparency. Senator Elizabeth Warren penned a letter to Bessent to express her concern over the investigation. “It is extraordinarily dangerous to meddle with the critical systems that process trillions of dollars of transactions each year, are essential to preventing a default on federal debt, and ensure that tens of millions of Americans receive their Social Security checks, tax refunds and Medicare benefits,” wrote Ms. Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.
What are they hiding? Every search result will provide you with reasons why DOGE should not investigate the Treasury. Yet, funding revealed by independent watchdog agencies already provides us some insight.
RealClear Investigations found that the department paid out $1.3 billion in federal benefits to deceased individuals. FEMA has been granted $70 billion to pay for COVID-19 costs through 2026, but there is no current pandemic. Open the Books found that $38.7 million was spent on DEI hires. It has been revealed that IRS employees are above the law and owed a collective $50 million in unpaid taxes in 2023. Then we have asinine spending on programs like the dangerous National Institutes of Health. The US Treasury sent the NIH $33 million to operate a small island to study monkey behavior, and provided them an additional $3.7 million to research gambling behavior in monkeys. The University of Michigan received $12 million to test methamphetamine on monkeys, and a lab in Florida was awarded $477,000 to toy with hormones and create transgender monkeys.
People are outraged that Musk and his team have access to the US financial system, but what on Earth were the people with prior access permitting? Everyone with access has passed the same clearances and background checks. Amid America’s debt crisis it is paramount to provide transparency to the people. This search is trickling into other agencies as we are seeing with the likes of USAID. Perhaps this will be the term that Trump actually drains the swamp.
Posted originally on Feb 5, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Canada has followed Mexico in a recent move to expand border security to temporarily delay tariffs. Justin Trudeau announced that $1.3 billion will go into a border plan, including new technology, equipment, and personnel. Trudeau said he will be appointing a Fentanyl Czar to oversee drug enforcement and will spend C$200 million on a new intelligence directive to handle drug-related crimes.
“Canada is investing $1.3 billion to bolster security at the border and strengthen the immigration system, all while keeping Canadians safe. This includes $667.5M for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, $355.4M for the Canada Border Services Agency, $180M over 6 years for the Communications Security Establishment, $77.7M for Health Canada, and $20M over five years for Public Safety Canada.”
The initial proposal did not include a specified Fentanyl Czar but Canada had agreed to increase border security significantly. Days ago, Canada was planning to implement retaliatory tariffs specifically against Republican-led states. The press is cheering this news as a victory for Trump, but I fail to see what measures have changed aside from Canada expediting its border security pl21,889 pounds of fentanyl an.
The fentanyl crisis with Canada has been overstated. America seized 43 pounds of fentanyl last year, amounting to 0.2% of all fentanyl seized last year. Mexico, on the other hand, was responsible for 96.6% of fentanyl seized at the border or 21,158 pounds. The amount of fentanyl seized at the Canadian border did increase from 2023, but only by 2 lbs.
Were the tariffs a bluff? The markets do not like this volatility. The central banks will not appreciate this confusion as they have no way of knowing how to move forward with these tariffs up in the air. The central banks are always attempting to interpret future geopolitical events, and it is nearly impossible for them to do so when massive plans change at the eleventh hour. And what about the companies who need to price in these tariffs? Will they be forced to do so preemptively?
If Trump’s concern is genuinely about securing the border, then Trump has won. Mexico and Canada are working to secure the border as promised immediately. If his concern is to bring manufacturing back to America, then we have a bigger problem on our hands. Canada is simply making good on their promise from last year, but this is not a new development. Trade between the former alliance will become clearer once the USMCA deal is renegotiated.
Posted originally on Feb 5, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Trump’s DOGE is having a very positive impact. The U.S. Agency for International Development website went dark Saturday afternoon as lawmakers and aid workers were already upset over the recent freezes to foreign assistance and the suspension of senior officials who attempted to block access. Their arrogance of covert braced for the possibility that the agency might be shut down – thank God!!!!!!
Elon Musk recently declared USAID a criminal organization. President Donald Trump has said it is run by “radical left lunatics” and needs to be shuttered. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established by John F. Kennedy in 1961, independent of the US government, intended to deliver foreign aid and assistance. The Treasury Department under the Bureau of the Fiscal Service allocates funds to USAID. USAID spent $72 billion in FY23, with $16 billion going directly to Ukraine. Congress must approve of all USAID spending.
Politicians like RFK Jr. and Ron Paul have long called for dissolving USAID. But everyone has labeled them as conspiracy theorists and ignored their warnings. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently revealed a short list of woke agenda spending shelled out by USAID. Remember, the new administration is first going after DEI programs that are blatantly unnecessary before digging deeper into where the big money is going. Leavitt revealed that the organization spent $1.5 million to promote DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 on a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia, and $32,000 on transgender comic books in Peru.
Considering what the organization funds, it is of no surprise that 97% of political contributions from USAID went to the Democrats. USAID paid out $406,790 during the 2024 election cycle, according to Open Secrets. Around $241,079 was sent to Kamala’s campaign, while Trump received a mere $999. About $377,000 was paid to Democratic candidates, with Republicans receiving $12,704.
Those in Washington are aware that you cannot question the USAID. “We would ask them questions — ‘Who does this program fund? Who gets the money?’” and we get no responses, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “These are taxpayer dollars,” he added, saying, “We owe the American people assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interest.”
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) recently declared that she has received threats for questioning the agency. “I wanted to know exactly how those dollars were being spent,” Ernst said. “We got all kinds of threats from USAID,” she continued. “Because I was trying to exercise my oversight capacity in Congress.” The media is portraying DOGE and any inquiring minds as the bad guys who want to shut down a humanitarian organization. USAID seems to be funneling US funds into globalist programs to shape international policies, societies, and of course, fill the pockets of the corrupted elite.
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said that most are already aware of the corruption. “Most governments don’t want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up,” he stated. “While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements. At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.”
This AID Agency is nothing more than a slush fund for NEOCONS. Your taxpayer dollars became “private” funds via Rockefeller that then went into a whole host of progressive causes via groups like Hopewell, which Wikipedia says are “seemingly independent Facebook pages disguised as news outlets” to support leftist agendas.
Then there is Defending Democracy’s president, Bill Kristol, and its directors are Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, and Sarah Longwell. Defending Democracy is essentially the nonprofit arm of Kristol’s post-Weekly Standard/anti-Trump project, The Bulwark. Bill’s father started the Neocon Movement. They hate Trump because they want an all-out war with Russia.
Kristol posted a pair of boxing gloves to his X account linked to a list of action items for Congress on his blog. Kristol wants Congress to stall and attack Trump from every angle. He wants the media to focus on items that will rise regardless, like autos and food, to claim Trump is hurting the economy. He believes that there should be another mass wave of litigations against Trump. “Our message should be that we relish the opportunity to sue or be sued by this president so that WE CAN MAKE HIM LOSE LIKE NO ONE HAS NEVER LOST BEFORE.”
I know Bill Kristol. I was probably his first advertiser in the Weekly Standard, taking the bank cover every week, which Murdock funded. I even attended a White House Press dinner with Bill. I took the back cover of his magazine primarily because I thought at the time that he was an economic conservative. Only with time did I get to understand that he was a NEOCON and that it was his father who even started the Neocon movement. So when I say I have had dinner with these Neocons, I am not exaggerating. It was his hatred of Trump because he was against war that destroyed his publication and credibility.
Neocon Nepo baby Bill Kristol wrote on 2/2 that the Deep State is preferable to Democracy under Trump. As mentioned, Kristol is the President of Defending Democracy (EIN 831567380), which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received $38 million in grants last year that they evenly divided between the state department and USAID. This fund has donated to the likes of the Hopefull Fund, which provides “management for nearly a dozen contracts and grants management for community-based organizations, think tanks, advocacy organizations, and NGOs in the United States.” This means that public funds are funneled through these fraudulent philanthropy giants and suddenly become private funds often allocated to neocon and globalist agendas.
As the Russia-Ukraine war approaches three years, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has clarified that Kyiv has only received $75 billion out of the $177 billion military aid approved by the United States under the Biden administration.
The revelation came after US President Donald Trump’s administration froze virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt. However, Zelenskyy said the US had not “stopped” military assistance for Ukraine.
It is clear that money from the U.S. Agency for International Development has not only promoted war but was being used to promote an anti-Trump agenda. Zelensky claims nearly $100 billion never made it to Ukraine. Someone is lying somewhere. All these people want is war, war, and more war. They do not care about the people who die on the battlefield, the economy, or the future of our nation. More often than not, war fails to benefit society in the long run.
Rumsfeld promised an investigation into finding trillions of dollars missing from the Pentagon. The next day, the plane crashed into the Pentagon as part of the 9/11 attack, and miraculously, it hit the very room in the Pentagon that stored all the records.
The Pentagonfailed its seventh audit in a row, and it, too, could not account for its more than $824 billion budget. If you were a small business and could not account for missing money from your company, the IRS would come in with handcuffs and arrest you on the spot. Maybe if we start pulling out the people who handled this money and threaten to throw them in prison, we just might learn that they have been operating on orders from about.
More information is coming out by the hour. The agency may have funded programs that contributed to the open border policy. The USAID funded corrupt health organizations at the helm of the pandemic. Some, like RFK Jr, believe the agency was used to create the war in Ukraine back in 2014 when the coup occurred, which led to the installed puppet government. USAID is merely the beginning of the coming elimination of government waste. As Senator Kennedy said, “To my friends who are upset, call somebody who cares. You better get used to this. It’s USAID today, it’s gonna be Department of Education tomorrow.”
It is alleged that George Soros’ global influence is being funded by USAID, which is why they have refused to answer questions. It has been a slush-fund for the LEFT and it explains why Biden handed the Medal of Honor to George Soros. The Heritage Foundation back in 2017 alleged that George Soros’ Open Society Foundations was this charity that had been made an “implementer” of USAID’s aid since at least 2009. This explains a lot, for it has been the Soros-USAID collaboration, which some claim has been linked since 1993. Soros was never that great of a trader, in my opinion, and he simply became famous for the ERM Crisis that broke the British pound after they staged the coup to push out Maggie and replace her with John Major, all to take Britain into this fairyland of the euro.
A 1993 USAID document does exist that appears to confirm that USAID signed an agreement with the Soros Foundations’ Management Training Program that was supposed to then train 30 professionals from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia on this one world government agenda. Any Democrat that defends USAID should be criminally charged with conspiracy against the United States. This is going to get much darker than people realize.
George Soros’ network of NGOs has been funding revolutions around the globe to implement his ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT idea. USAID has indeed been acting against the national security of the United States. Let’s pull the curtain back here. It was Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation, according to reliable sources, which teamed up with USAID to support Ukraine’s ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2003–2004. Before that, the US spent almost $100 million on these so-called “democracy programs” in Ukraine alone through various agencies, including USAID. All of this was to instigate the war. We now have to bring freedom by killing 1 million Ukrainians who are now at last free of taxation and dictators like Zelensky who use martial law to deny the people any right to vote. Here, Lyndsey Grachm is saying it’s the best money they have ever spent to kill Russians. In many jurisdictions, that would be hate speech subject to prison time.
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