Issues need to get attention-grabbing right this moment as President Trump vows to select up Washington by the collar and shake them round a little bit bit.
The President is about to publicly disclose the names of people and organizations he alleges have benefited from huge authorities waste and fraud, as uncovered by DOGE.
The President contends that Elon Musk and his Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) have already found “large fraud” simply weeks into his administration. We’ve seen several examples already.
And he’s about to again that up with receipts. Trump additionally took a hilarious jab at a reporter who questioned his claims.
“What we’re going to do is tomorrow [Thursday], I’m having a information convention,” stated Trump.
“I’m going to learn to you a number of the names that a whole lot of hundreds of thousands and even billions of {dollars} have been given to, and for those who inform me that we ought to be giving cash to these issues, these entities, I feel you’ll most likely have to go away as a reporter since you’re not very gifted.”
🚨‼️JUST IN: President Trump commends Elon, publicizes a information convention set for TOMORROW —
— will learn record of names of recipients of waste, fraud and abuse.
“I’ll learn to you a number of the names that a whole lot of hundreds of thousands and even billions of {dollars} have been given to.”… pic.twitter.com/6QzXTAPFtA
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 12, 2025
Trump About To Unleash Checklist Of Fraud
President Trump delivering the fraud receipts to a media that usually fails to ship their very own is a factor of magnificence. The forthcoming press convention goals to name out what he describes as billions of {dollars} in questionable federal spending, spotlighting the recipients of this largesse.
Nonetheless, in actuality, fraud and waste are extra doubtless within the trillions at this level. Contemplate the federal authorities spent $6.75 trillion final yr.
“If you take a look at the type of cash, billions and billions of {dollars} being thrown away illegally, and there’s no there’s no probability, I imply I say in entrance of our lawyer normal [Pam Bondi], there’s no probability that there’s not kickbacks or one thing occurring,” Trump stated.
“The largest factor is what they do to our nation, they’re taking huge quantities of cash and spending it on gadgets. I went via an inventory of 200 expenditures that have been made, and I discovered three that regarded like they have been affordable,” he added. “Okay, three.”
“And we’ll be speaking about that tomorrow.”
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Praises Elon’s Efforts
Throughout the identical interplay with a reporter, President Trump praised Elon Musk’s efforts even because the media tried—ineffectively—to drive a wedge between them.
Musk’s objectives for the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) have been fairly simple. He goals to deal with wasteful spending and remove pointless laws.
Trump is on board with that, irrespective of what number of occasions the left calls him “President Musk” in an try to rock the boat.
🚨President Trump on Elon Musk:
“I wish to commend Elon Musk as a result of he is performed a incredible job. He discovered extra issues than anyone may discover. He is acquired the credibility to do it. It is his group of individuals, they began off with 12, went to 20-25 and now nearly 100 folks.” pic.twitter.com/yF9cakJytN
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 12, 2025
“Now we have a whole lot of stuff, and I wish to commend Elon as a result of he’s performed a incredible job,” the President stated.
“He doesn’t want this, you recognize. He’s abused by you folks every single day. He’s discovered extra issues than anyone may discover. I feel he’s acquired the credibility to do it. I do know he does.”
Trump and Musk teaming as much as identify names are obligatory for accountability, particularly in mild of the administration’s latest successes in figuring out wasteful spending throughout varied departments like USAID, the Schooling Division, and FEMA.