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CIA MQ-9 Reapers Are Covertly Spying On Mexican Drug Cartels https://www.twz.com/air/cia-mq-9-reaper-drones-are-covertly-spying-on-mexican-drug-cartels-reports

GM Defense partners with Edge Group to build a production plant in the Middle East. https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/02/19/gm-defense-boosts-mideast-footprint-with-edge-military-vehicle-tie-up/

Nikola files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy https://www.autonews.com/news/an-nikola-bankruptcy-0219/

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, which would have transferred student loan debt from borrowers to taxpayers. The decision by the appeals court came after seven Republican-led states filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education’s SAVE plan and argued that Biden had no authority to establish the SAVE plan, and that he had been trying to find a roundabout way to forgive student debt after the Supreme Court blocked his sweeping debt cancellation plane in June 2023 ending a $430 billion debt writeoff. “The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan is the newest income-driven repayment (IDR) plan,” the Federal Student Aid website says. “Like other IDR plans, the SAVE Plan calculates your monthly payment amount based on your income and family size. In addition, the SAVE Plan has unique benefits that will lower payments for many borrowers.” The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton budget model estimated that the SAVE Plan would incur a net cost of $475 billion over the 10-year budget window, $200 billion of that cost will come from payment reduction for the $1.64 trillion in loans already outstanding in 2023, and 53 percent of the current loan volume will move to SAVE after it goes active in July 2024, implying that about $869 billion will be subject to enhanced subsidies under SAVE. In February 2024, while over 150,000 people who had taken out student loans were informed that all or part of their student loans would be forgiven, the SAVE Plan was really a transfer of the debt to the American taxpayer.

President Trump has ordered that all remaining U.S. attorneys who were appointed under Biden be terminated. “Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining Biden era U.S. attorneys. We must clean house immediately, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System — That begins today!”

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says President Trump is exploring ways for the federal government to stop China from purchasing American farmland.

President Trump is ramping up secret CIA drone flights deep into Mexico to gather intelligence on cartel operations. The existence of the drone program has never been disclosed before, although it began under the Biden administration, U.S. officials told the New York Times. In the first days of his second term, President Trump designated the cartels a foreign terrorist threat. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump are both open to using military force within Mexico. “All options will be on the table if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border,” says Secretary Hegseth. CIA Director John Ratcliffe has shifted more resources towards counter-narcotics missions to disrupt cartel operations.

DOGE announced today that President Trump has saved American taxpayers $55 billion in less than a month. https://www.doge.gov/savings The savings were found through a combination of detecting and deleting fraud, canceling contracts and leases, selling assets, canceling grants, firing federal employees, changing programs, and saving money with regulatory reforms. Americans can expect DOGE website updates twice a week, with additional updates and improvements over time. The listed savings were primarily found within the US Agency For International Development (USAID), the Department of Education, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Agriculture.

It appears to me the pilot put the plane down extremely hard, and almost entirely on the right landing gear, which then collapsed, causing the unlevel aircraft's right wing to rip off, which then allowed the aircraft to roll over onto its back after which the left wing ripped off.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the outgoing Biden administration weaponized the IRS and targeted his family with a “rushed” tax audit. Hegseth posted a set of documents on the social media platform X alleging that he owed the IRS over $33,000 in taxes that needed to be paid immediately or else incur further penalties. “Of course the outgoing Biden IRS rushed an ‘audit’ of the incoming SecDef. Total sham. The party of ‘norms’ and ‘decency’ strikes again. We will never back down.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has picked a group of investigators who will look into the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. “We’ve already identified folks that’ll be in charge of that full investigation inside the Pentagon.” “I don’t have a time frame on it. Sadly, we’ve already waited two-and-a-half years, three years since what occurred. I don’t want to wait longer, but I always want to get it right,” “The way you establish real accountability is by establishing real fact chains — chains of events, information, what happened. Why did it happen? Who made the decision? What was the reason they made that decision? Why did they give advice or not give advice? Why did they execute an order a certain way? Did they speak up when they were supposed to or not? I don’t think there’s anybody that feels like there’s been an honest accounting of what happened in Afghanistan. That’s our job.” “So, we’re going to drive that full investigation and get a sense of what happened. And as I stated to the workforce on Friday, I guess less than a week ago, accountability will be coming for what happened in Afghanistan, and that’s important to reestablishing trust at the Defense Department.”

"To all of the Democrats who are planning to protest this week, here’s an explanation on DOGE, from your party’s own beloved leaders!" Karoline Leavitt - White House Press Secretary (She posted the video below on X showing Obama and Biden lauding the same efforts DOGE is now undertaking.) .

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has discovered $4.7 trillion in United States Treasury payments on an untraceable budget line. The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS), used to describe the account the money is linked to, was missing on a number of payments the Treasury Department has made. In the federal government, the TAS field was optional for about $4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, DOGE has now made TAS a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going.

Breaking News The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, has apparently been fired over her refusal to allow Elon Musk and DOGE broader access to government records. "What I know is that DOGE wanted access to SSA’s sensitive files — the same way they’re trying to do at Labor and Treasury — and the acting commissioner wouldn’t give it, and she was replaced." Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works President Trump has already nominated Frank Bisgnano to takeover permanently but he has not yet been confirmed by the senate. Leland Dudek, who runs the SSA's anti-fraud division, has been appointed acting commissioner. "President Trump has nominated the highly qualified and talented Frank Bisignano to lead the Social Security Administration, and we expect him to be swiftly confirmed in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner." The White House

According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE! Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security. Yes, there are FAR more eligible social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history." Elon Musk And yet the Democrats fume "constitutional crisis!" as they demand that DOGE stop their investigation. Hmm. Do dead people have the constitutional right to continue collecting social security and bankrupt the program for us still living? Note there are 20 million Americans listed over age 100, including 3.9 million age 130 to 139, 3.5 million age 140 to 149, and some 1.3 million age 150 to 159. Plus one citizen age 360

Mayor Eric Adams's administration's four deputy mayors are resigning Monday in protest over his nowfound willingness to enforce federall immigration laws. First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, who runs the government Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker Maria Torres-Springer said, "I have often said the phrase ‘public service is an act of love over the course of the last several months. I have tried to live every day in my long career as a public servant showing that love.” Apparently, Maria doesn't grasp the reality that illegal aliens are NOT members of the American public, hence her job role is NOT to serve them in any way. Rather, her responsibility as a "public servant" is to have NYPD arrest any and all illegal aliens and have them turned over to ICE.