Damn, throw a REV in front of his name.
That would mean they are not telling the truth on exactly how much the national debt actually is.
Look at all the other expenditure that has been going on as well, USAID, other programs.
Trump Administration Is Flouting an Order to Temporarily Lift a Freeze on Foreign Aid, Judge Says
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-freeze-judge/2025/02/20/id/1199901/
Thursday, 20 February 2025 07:00 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide, a federal judge said Thursday.
Judge Amir H. Ali declined a request by nonprofit groups doing business with the U.S. Agency for International Development to find Trump administration officials in contempt of his order, however.
The Washington, D.C., district court judge said administration officials had used his Feb. 13 order to temporarily lift the freeze on foreign aid to instead “come up with a new, post-hoc rationalization for the en masse suspension” of funding.
Despite the judge's order to the contrary, USAID Deputy Secretary Pete Marocco, a Trump appointee, and other top officials had “continued their blanket suspension of funds,” Ali said.
The ruling comes in a lawsuit by the nonprofit groups challenging the Trump administration's month-old cutoff of foreign assistance through USAID and the State Department, which shut down $60 billion in annual aid and development programs overseas almost overnight.
Even after Ali's order, USAID staffers and contractors say the State Department and USAID still have not restored payments even on hundreds of millions of dollars already owed by the government.
Marocco and other administration officials defended the nonpayment in written arguments to the judge this week. They contended that they could lawfully stop or terminate payments under thousands of contracts without violating the judge’s order.
The Trump administration says it is now doing a program-by-program review of all State Department and USAID foreign assistance programs to see which ones meet the Trump administration’s agenda.
Aid organizations, and current and former USAID staffers in interviews and court affidavits, say the funding freeze and deep Trump administration purges of USAID staffers have brought U.S. foreign assistance globally to a halt, forced thousands of layoffs and is driving government partners to financial collapse.
FTC Chairman Asks Public to Expose Big Tech Censorship
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ftc-andrew-ferguson-censorship/2025/02/20/id/1199890/
Thursday, 20 February 2025 06:04 PM EST
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced Thursday that the agency is soliciting public input on the content moderation policies of major technology platforms and is questioning whether such practices may be unlawful, CPI reported.
Ferguson urged people who have experienced tech censorship to submit comments by May 21.
"Big Tech censorship is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal," Ferguson posted on X.
"The FTC wants your help to investigate these potential violations of the law. We are asking for public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship (banning, demonetization, shadow banning, etc.), from employees of tech platforms, or from anyone else who can shed light on these practices and the ways in which they may violate the law."
According to Reuters, Ferguson said "Big Tech censorship" may suppress speech and breach consumer protection laws by misleading users about platform policies.
The agency's request for public comment applies to social media companies, video and photo-sharing services, ride-sharing apps, and other digital communication tools.
The move follows long-standing Republican concerns that major social media companies have unfairly targeted conservative viewpoints.
House Republicans previously investigated allegations that the Biden administration pressured platforms to remove content related to COVID-19 and Hunter Biden's laptop, Reuters reported.
Some Republican-led states have also passed laws restricting tech companies from moderating specific types of speech.
The issue of content moderation has remained highly divisive, particularly in the wake of former President Donald Trump's bans from Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook following the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
While Trump has since been reinstated on these platforms, debates over free speech, misinformation, and platform accountability continue to shape regulatory discussions.
Beyond speech restrictions, the FTC is also investigating potential anti-competitive behavior related to advertising boycotts on certain platforms, such as Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, Reuters reported. The agency has signaled that inconsistent content moderation policies may violate laws against deceptive business practices.
Here is the link to report being banned on any social media platform due to censorship.
https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
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