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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.

That one doesn't count, not after Nissan and the Japanese government railroaded and locked up Carlos Ghosn, the Brazilian/Lebanese head of Renault who saved Nissan from certain bankruptcy in 1999 by creating the Renault/Nissan Alliance and reinflating Nissan with European money. They wanted to make Nissan a "Japanese" company once more without paying for it by creating false accusations against Ghosn. Thank goodness two brave Americans outsmarted the Japanese and smuggled him out of prison and out of the country in 2019. It proved the rule of law doesn't exist there.

The President's threatened 25 percent import tariffs on products from Mexico would effective destroy the new Volvo truck plant in Monterrey, Mexico that is supposed to open in 2026 and produce both Volvo and Mack-branded trucks. Couldn't happen to a more arrogant company. The new Mack on-highway model uses the Volvo cab. At this juncture, why even bother with a Mack nameplate?

Based on the Trump Administration’s official policy of the U.S. government was that “there are only two genders: male and female,” the government is removing the T from all print that formerly stated LGBT. Now, you will only see LGB. One step at a time.

More in-depth on the Army's missing $151 million. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/16/report-151m-food-money-collected-u-s-army-soldiers-spent-elsewhere/

Clearly, AOC doesn't grasp the reality that illegal aliens are NOT "everyday Americans". .

Senator Rand Paul: "It would be great if Elon Musk could take a look inside Fort Knox just to make sure the 4,580 tons of US gold is there. Last time anyone looked was 50 years ago in 1974." Elon Musk: "Surely it's reviewed at least every year?" Senator Rand Paul: "Nope." Allegedly in August 2017, Mitch McConnell brought a small group to Fort Knox including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. However, it was not an audit.

On Friday, the Trump administration fired 20 Biden administration appointed immigration judges,13 judges who had yet to be sworn in and five assistant chief immigration judges. Two other judges were fired under similar circumstances in the last week. The Trump administration had already replaced five top court officials, including Mary Cheng, the acting director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. Sirce Owen, the current director and previously an appellate immigration judge, has issued a long list of new instructions aimed at reversing policies of the Biden administration.

The issue is not new. In 2020, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) pressed then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on the food money matter during a budget hearing, saying the Army is either "wasting half the food, or the money is not being spent on the soldiers' food and it's being spent on something it's not appropriated for." However, there was no follow-up to that inquiry,

"Stealing food money from our soldiers is not how we achieve military readiness. The fact that at least $151 million was collected from soldiers and not spent on food as required demands not just an immediate investigation, but swift accountability." Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii (A Democrat demanding "swift accountability". And yet they complain about DOGE)

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has recovered $1.9 billion of misplaced funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD, adding that former President Biden’s administration was to blame. “These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. The funds were lost in the first place due to a broken process. Newly confirmed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner and DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury. Turner plans to work with DOGE in setting up a task force within the agency, saying the collaboration will be very detailed and deliberate about every dollar spent in serving tribal, rural and urban communities across America. The task force, comprised of HUD employees, will examine how to best maximize the agency’s budget and ensure all programs, processes and personnel are working together to advance the purpose of the department. In Turner's video message on Thursday, he said that the task force recovered an additional $260 million in savings.