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The Office of Personnel Management (~2500 employees) budgeted $370M for IT spending in FY2025.

They believe this value can be reduced by ~80% while maintaining equivalent levels of service. Initial reductions include:
-$1.9M for studies on quantum cryptography and quantum response readiness

- $1.5M for support on a "large number of OPM-wide AI proof-of-concepts and pilots"

- $364k for 1,000 unused cybersecurity software licenses

-$121k in unused Zoom licenses

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Humm, where is the unused funds? (year after year) Safe in a vault? :rolleyes:
 

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The Small Business Admin. completed the software audit.

Initial findings:
-10 software products with 10,000+ licenses. SBA has ~8,000 employees/contractors

- 17,580 unused ServiceNow licenses costing over $2 million annually
- Second year in a row spending $1.2 million on 7,000 unused Okta licenses

- Paying for 1000 Slack licenses; only using 10

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DOGE updates Feb 20 2025

  • Initiatives eliminated: 1,203
  • Total savings: $55 billion
  • Savings per federal taxpayer: $359.48
  • Progress towards minimum goal of $500 billion in savings: 11%
  • Progress towards best case savings scenario ($2 trillion): 2.75%
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Kepp this bus rolling full speed! I have a feeling we will see either an assassination attempt or coup attempt by the left. They are sold out ot the NWO, they have lost their own common sense!

I will tonight watch the democrat reesponse ( I usually do not). It ought to be very entertaining as well as sad.
 
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Kepp this bus rolling full speed! I have a feeling we will see either an assassination attempt or coup attempt by the left. They are sold out ot the NWO, they have lost their own common sense!

I will tonight watch the democrat reesponse ( I usually do not). It ought to be very entertaining as well as sad.
They are weeds, the disease, the cancer that multiples like crazy.
It is the Curse “OF this world”.

Trump has them in FEAR, and most assuredly they are plotting Another Assassination Attempt.

Pray for Trumps safety.

Glory to God,
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Weekly Credit Card Update!

Pilot program has been expanded to16 agencies to auditunused/unneeded credit cards. After2 weeks, ~146,000 cards have beende-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit,there were ~4.6M activecards/accounts, so still more work todo.

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Pilot program across 14 civilian agencies to audit unused/unneeded “P-cards” (~700K accounts with ~$30B of spend in FY24). After 8 days, ~24,000 cards have been de-activated, which will likely double by end of week.

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Yesterday, @NIH cancelled sevengrants for transgender experimentson animals including:
- $532K to “use a mouse model toinvestigate the effects of cross-sextestosterone treatment”
- $33K to test “feminizing hormonetherapy in the male rat”

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In 2020-2021,
issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over

115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.!!

In one case, a 157 years old individual received $36k in loans!!!

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The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee).

Examples of grants that were cancelled in the process:
- $903,811 for alpaca farming in Peru
- $364,500 to reduce social discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia
-$813,210 for vegetable gardens in El Salvador
-$323,633 to promote cultural understanding of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil
-$731,105 to improve marketability of mushrooms and peas in Guatemala
- $677,342 to expand fruit and jam sales in Honduras
-$483,345 to improve artisanal salt production in Ecuador
- $39,250 for beekeeping in Brazil

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DOGE and Interior worked together to cancel a wasteful $10M/year contract for an outsourced research project on the eating habits of SNAP recipients.
$17M has been spent in the last 17 months for *2 consultants.

**No actual field research on eating habits was conducted.

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Examples of observed improper payments below. This is likely being done at scale. After an order for expedited deportation was issued in 2017, a migrant from Honduras used three different SSNs to submit 73 medicare claims totaling $48k.
-Medicare paid $49k for a Rehab Center for a person recorded dead for over a year.
- Medicare paid $57k in 2020 for a person recorded to have died in 2006.
- After a warrant for her arrest was issued in 2019, a migrant from Colombia received 3 SBA loans for $100k (over $99k was forgiven).
- Migrant from Peru received social security payments since at least 2007, with all benefit checks being mailed directly to Peru.

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Get this ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY…

Twenty-two BILLION….

Yes … 22 BILLON $$$

For …(hold down your stomach Contents)…

ILLEGAL ALIENS…housing and cars!!!

Ok, now you can thank the Dems and puke!!!

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Get this ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY…

Twenty-two BILLION….

Yes … 22 BILLON $$$

For …(hold down your stomach Contents)…

ILLEGAL ALIENS…housing and cars!!!

Ok, now you can thank the Dems and puke!!!

Credit DOGE (govt)
Dems HATE America!
 
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Some of what DOGE is doing is going through outdated systems to update them with software, security checks, oversight reports, and stop duplicating accounts. Dashboards for how to evaluate various accounts.
Nobody in the government knew or could talk to anyone else inside of the government and many tasks were duplicated as a result.

In some situations creating software for systems that are still using paper.

And what's really crazy....
Congress has been given a pass on knowing or doing anything. Really....

They have not read a spending bill in 40 years.
They haven't read any legislation in so long I'm about sure they don't know how to read. They certainly are not drafting the legislation anymore....those $500-$900/hr attorneys in DC do that. (NGO)

Who can draft a 15,000 page budget bill, edit it, and then claim its perfect? I can't even read that sort of thing in a month....and I'm a fast reader. But the congress gets three days? DOGE has noticed out of date projects being funded by congress that don't exist anymore....like betamax VCRs and 8-track tapes. Sure there's a few running around from antiquity....but DVDs and digital files on flash drives or downloaded music are the norm these days. They are allocated the money but it doesn't actually get spent because the situations or things simply don't exist anymore like Blockbuster video stores.

Ain't nothing like transparency and light into the murky corners of government.
 
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They LOVE Power and Underhandedly gaining their Wealth from other peoples efforts!
Dems and RINO's have been robbing hard working Americans for decades! They live in mansions while those who pay them struggle to live.
 

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Some of what DOGE is doing is going through outdated systems to update them with software, security checks, oversight reports, and stop duplicating accounts. Dashboards for how to evaluate various accounts.
Nobody in the government knew or could talk to anyone else inside of the government and many tasks were duplicated as a result.

In some situations creating software for systems that are still using paper.

And what's really crazy....
Congress has been given a pass on knowing or doing anything. Really....

They have not read a spending bill in 40 years.
They haven't read any legislation in so long I'm about sure they don't know how to read. They certainly are not drafting the legislation anymore....those $500-$900/hr attorneys in DC do that. (NGO)

Who can draft a 15,000 page budget bill, edit it, and then claim its perfect? I can't even read that sort of thing in a month....and I'm a fast reader. But the congress gets three days? DOGE has noticed out of date projects being funded by congress that don't exist anymore....like betamax VCRs and 8-track tapes. Sure there's a few running around from antiquity....but DVDs and digital files on flash drives or downloaded music are the norm these days. They are allocated the money but it doesn't actually get spent because the situations or things simply don't exist anymore like Blockbuster video stores.

Ain't nothing like transparency and light into the murky corners of government.
Spot on. Bills stuffed with garbage, the Reps do not Read, but in their back room caucuses, are Told, what to vote on, Even what to wear, stand applaud, sit be silent, walk out. Pelosi should have been expelled for “in the House” telling Dems, vote Yes, (on what she wanted) that they can find out later, what the Bill says.
And true, they do not actually write the Legislation.

Fact is, the Elected Reps have A Very FEW Constitutional Duties, and spending the Day Phone begging Money from Deep pockets for their Whims and Promise of Favors to “donors” is NOT one of their Constitutional Duties!

It is as well, an interesting note, Dems, live in Secluded Gated communities, Walls around their homes, Arm guarded Barricaded Offices…YET… Do not want the Nations Borders Secure for the Peoples Protection, and Want the Peoples Armed personal Protection illegal.

Hypocrites, Cheats, Liars, Thieves and Proud of their hard work to accomplish those things with a legislative pen oozing with poison ink.

God is Watching and has Himself a Blotting Pen of Justice.

Glory to God,
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Dems and RINO's have been robbing hard working Americans for decades! They live in mansions while those who pay them struggle to live.
That is True!
Work hard, Build / Buy a home, maintain and upkeep daily, and PAY forever for that “Privilege”!! WHY? So Schools can have elaborate programs outside of Academics…and “secretly”…harbor illegal aliens ( which they do not report, but rather recruit with a promise to Not report), and teach twisted, ungodly behaviors are how to win “their” approval, passing grades and accolades!
Utterly disgusting and wrong on every level.
 

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That is True!
Work hard, Build / Buy a home, maintain and upkeep daily, and PAY forever for that “Privilege”!! WHY? So Schools can have elaborate programs outside of Academics…and “secretly”…harbor illegal aliens ( which they do not report, but rather recruit with a promise to Not report), and teach twisted, ungodly behaviors are how to win “their” approval, passing grades and accolades!
Utterly disgusting and wrong on every level.
And when you get your home paid for they tax the HELL out of you! You can never own 'your' home.
 
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And when you get your home paid for they tax the HELL out of you! You can never own 'your' home.
That’s the superficious “invisible Privilege clause”.

It is also, why some neighborhoods are Slumy. IF…they did clean it up, slap a coat of paint on their house, their Tax would increase.

And the other BS, is some yahoo, sitting in an Office, never stepping foot on my property, determining its “worth”… in a real time figure, and thereafter another yahoo, determining My tax on my property that some yahoo determined it’s worth….a Racket!

If “sales tax” and “licensing fees” are not enough to operate a State Govt., the Govt is to too big beyond the size of their britches.

If “parents” want to send their children to Public School, THEY should pay for it, Feed their own kids, volunteer their time and skills and effort, to transport their kids, buy books, clean and maintain the buildings, stick to academics, and extras on their own time and efforts and $$. Utter mismanagement with yahoo’s determining year after year how deep thay can get into an others wallet.

Once beautiful cities and quaint neighborhoods look like embarrassing and disgusting S- holes.