>>22624967, >>22625244 Kash Patel: “Adam Schiff is the worst criminal in Congress in the last 250PN

If I were Schitt, I’d dissappear and stfu because he no longer has Congress Immunity off of the grounds of Senate and Congress. And him lying in front of the FBI building doesn’t provide immunity for him. And the idiot is now attacking the leader of the FBI. Now Kash can ask for all the files on Schitt and the blackmail that FBI had on him. Sure the FBI tried to destroy the records before Kash got there, but I imagine there was a daily backup off site of all their documents.

Also if I was an embedded traitor in FBI thinking they will fly below the radar, they should think again.

Good luck Schitt you need it, but you won’t get it!

>>22625063 Elon Musk Delivers His 'DOGE Update' One Month Since Trump Retook The White HousePN

Musk was asked what is it like inside your head/brain, his answer was:

My mind is like a Storm

Anons is this the answer to: “Fellow Citizens the Storm is Upon us”

Senate adopts $340 billion budget blueprint for Trump's agenda after marathon 'vote-a-rama'

The 52-48 overnight vote puts pressure on the GOP-controlled House, which plans to take up its own competing budget resolution next week.1/2

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate on Friday morning adopted a $340 billion budget blueprint designed to boost funding for President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts, energy production and the military.

The mostly partly-line vote came just before 5 a.m. ET following an all-night “vote-a-rama,” in which senators cast votes on 33 amendments over the course of a 10-hour span. The final vote was 52-48, with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as the lone Republican to join all 47 Democrats in voting against the budget resolution.

“Without this bill passing,” said Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., “there is no hope of getting money for the border.”

Passage of the Senate plan now puts pressure on the GOP-controlled House, which plans to take up its own competing budget resolution next week. In addition to money for the border, defense and energy, that version also includes a $4.5 trillion tax cut and a $4 trillion debt limit hike.

Trump has endorsed the House version — what he calls "one big, beautiful bill" — but GOP senators have indicated that their version could be a fallback plan if the House blueprint fails.

“To my House colleagues: We will all get there together. If you can pass the one big, beautiful bill that makes the tax cuts permanent — not four or five years — then we’ll all cheer over here. Nothing would please me more than Speaker [Mike] Johnson being able to put together the bill that President Trump wants," Graham said on the Senate floor Thursday, before voting began.

"I want that to happen, but I cannot sit on the sidelines and not have a plan B."

Paul, a fiscal hawk, said the budget contradicts GOP rhetoric about reducing spending.

“If we were fiscally conservative, why wouldn’t we take the savings from Elon Musk and DOGE and move it over here and help with the border?” Paul said on the Senate floor before voting began. “Why would we be doing a brand new bill to increase spending by $340 billion?”

Under the process, Senate rules allow for members to propose an unlimited number of amendments.

Democrats sought to force Republicans to take difficult votes through amendments, which the majority party voted down one by one. Many were aimed at protecting benefits and programs they say the GOP is targeting for cuts. One amendment proposed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would have prohibited the bill from cutting taxes for the wealthy if even $1 is cut from Medicaid, a health care program for low-income Americans.

It was rejected 49-51, with just two Republicans joining Democrats in favor of it: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo.

Just two amendments passed. One of them, offered by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, would create "a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting Medicare and Medicaid." But Democrats balked at the proposal, saying it was designed to give political cover to Republicans on the issue and that millions of Americans would lose their coverage.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-a-rama-advance-budget-trump-agenda-rcna192893

(The Picture of Graham tells you how excited they are to do their job)

>>22626193

2/2

"The language in this amendment is code for kicking Americans with Medicaid coverage off their health insurance if they’re not sick enough, not poor enough, or not disabled enough," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who spoke in opposition.

The budget resolution instructs Senate committees to craft legislation that satisfies its goals, which can be fast-tracked to the floor and passed by a simple majority.

The measure seeks $175 billion for immigration and border enforcement, on the request of the Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan. And it calls for expanding the military by $150 billion, even as Trump and Elon Musk say they want to cut costs at the Pentagon. It also directs committees to find spending cuts to pay for it all.

The “budget reconciliation” process allows members to bypass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, but it limits provisions to spending and taxes. Democrats can challenge policies that run afoul of the “Byrd rule” constraints and call on the Senate parliamentarian to strip them out.

For months, Republicans in the House and the Senate have clashed over whether the party should try to pass Trump’s legislative priorities in one reconciliation bill or two.

But Wednesday, Trump gave a full-throated endorsement to the House's strategy, taking to Truth Social to say he wanted “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL” and urging the Senate to pump the brakes on their two-bill reconciliation push. The House plan calls for a sweeping package that includes border enforcement, expanding energy production and renewing the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts.

The Senate plan would be narrower and would not include renewing the tax cuts that were a signature accomplishment of Trump's first term. Instead, those tax cuts would come in a second reconciliation package later this year, senators have said.

If the House and the Senate can get on the same page and pass an identical budget resolution, that would only be the start of a very long and complicated legislative process. In the House, conservatives are demanding steep spending cuts, while more moderate Republicans are getting skittish due to potential cuts to Medicaid.

“The budget resolution is just patty cake. The real work begins when you start putting together the bill and the pay-fors,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., a member of both the budget and the appropriations committees. “The only prediction I’ll make is that a reconciliation bill will not pass either the House or the Senate without substantial spending reductions.”

Vice President JD Vance, who met with senators this week, said he believed Congress is “on track” to pass a reconciliation package in May or June, while acknowledging that was an ambitious timeline.

“I think the president has learned a lot about how D.C. works. And I actually talked to the president about this yesterday, and he said to me, ‘Look, it’s very rare that you can get two reconciliation bills done in one Congress,’ which is why he thinks we’ve got to do a lot with that one big beautiful bill,” Vance said during an appearance Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“It’s early, right? This stuff takes time to put together,” he continued. “I think if you had a record-pace reconciliation bill, we would get this thing done in May or in June. I think we’re on track to do that.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-a-rama-advance-budget-trump-agenda-rcna192893

Trump Is Planning to Take Control of the Postal Service, Officials Say President seeks to disband governing board and put Postal Service under the Commerce DepartmentBy Esther Fung and Josh Dawsey Feb. 20, 2025 10:03 pm ET

A Postal Service employee at a processing and distribution center in Fairburn, Ga.

President Trump is making plans to disband the governing board that oversees the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the agency into his administration, throwing the future of the mail provider’s quasigovernmental status into doubt.

Trump is preparing to issue an executive order, possibly this week, to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and to put the agency under the direct control of the Commerce Department, according to two government officials. The plan was earlier reported by the Washington Post late Thursday.

The Postal Service board is expected to fight the move and is exploring legal action, one official said. It is uncertain whether they would be able to stop the order though since its members are appointed by the U.S. president and confirmed by the Senate.

The plans renew questions over the future of the 250-year-old Postal Service. In December, then-President-elect Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida that he was considering privatizing the agency, which he frequently pushed for during his first term.

This week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he would step down after five years into a 10-year term. According to two officials, the Trump White House had been considering replacing DeJoy, whom Trump had appointed in 2020.

The Postal Service and the White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The Postal Service has been hemorrhaging money for years because of declining mail volumes, limits on what it can charge customers and a costly mandate to deliver to 168 million delivery addresses six days a week. Until 2022, it was also required to pre-fund its retiree health benefits.

The mail provider is a critical service that employs more than 600,000 people to staff post offices in every zip code, delivering medications, parcels and letters, as well as millions of e-commerce packages every day.

In 2024, the agency reported a net loss of $9.5 billion, which, after adjusting for workers’ compensation and retirement liabilities, resulted in a controllable loss of $1.8 billion. With almost no funding from the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and other services to fund its operations.

https://archive.is/hBKan

“This is a somewhat regal approach that says the king knows better than his subjects and he will do his best for them. But it also removes any sense that there’s oversight, impartiality and fairness and that some states wouldn’t be treated better than other states or cities better than other cities,” said James O’Rourke, who studies the Postal Service at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. “The anxiety over the Postal Service is not only three-quarters of a million workers. It’s that this is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.”

After this story was published, a White House spokesperson said no such executive order was planned. A representative for Postal Service did not respond to a request for comment.

Kek the say the USPS is the most beloved agency in America, yeah that poll was taken in the 70s

Georgia Republican faces town hall backlash over DOGE's 'chainsaw approach' to government cuts

Rep. Rich McCormick, who represents a safe GOP district, came under harsh criticism that focused on the Trump administration’s moves to slash federal jobs and budgets. (BooHoo Asshole Activists Obviously Tookover)

2/20/25

Rep. Rich McCormick faced an angry crowd Thursday during a town hall in his Georgia district, where many constituents lashed out at the Republican lawmaker over his support for massive federal layoffs and budget cuts by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency.

In video of the event taken by Greg Bluestein, a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and an NBC News contributor, attendees clashed with McCormick, bashing both President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk who is helping lead DOGE's efforts to drastically reduce government spending.

In one instance, an attendee referred to recent cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by asking, “Why is the supposedly conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach to this?”

McCormick respondedthat “a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI.”

Almost 1,300 probationary CDC employees were removed from their postsas the Trump administration makes efforts to terminate all probationary workers — typically employees who are recent hires.

“If we continue to grow the size of government and we can’t afford it, it’s going to have shortfalls in your Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security,” McCormick added at the event in Roswell, about 20 miles from the CDC headquarters.

The attendee shot back that the administration was taking a “chainsaw approach” to dismissing its employees and the layoff effort was being “jammed down the pipe, so rushed and sloppily.”

After McCormick said that a department or agency makes its own decisions about whom to cut from its workforcewhen given a directive about head count, people in the audience could be heard saying, “No!” with one person saying, “Elon Musk is deciding.”

The town hall was also punctuated by constituents saying, “we’re pissed,” and “don’t bend over,” as well as chants of “shame!”

As McCormick struggled to respond to the interruptions from the crowd and suggested he was offering solutions and people didn’t “want to hear,” one person can be heard shouting, “We want to work with someone better.”

McCormick handily won re-election last year, winning 64.9% of the vote in a state that Trump flipped after narrowly losing the battleground to Joe Biden in 2020.

One person who raised budget concerns Thursday could be heard telling McCormick that he had done a “disservice” and had failed to “stand up for us.”

In another instance, an attendee asked McCormick how he plans to “rein in the megalomaniac in the White House” following Trump’s “LONG LIVE THE KING” post on Truth Social, a question that was met by cheers and some people rising to their feet.

“When you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with Republicans when Biden was elected,” McCormick said, to boos from the attendees.

“I don’t want to see any president be too powerful,” McCormick added.

At different points during the town hall, McCormick made attempts to quiet the crowd, saying at one point, “If you’re gonna yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall," and later telling attendees, "Nobody can hear when you’re yelling."

A spokesperson for McCormick did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night on the town hall.

(God Bless my rep, it’s the first courageous thing I’ve seen him do.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/georgia-republican-rich-mccormick-town-hall-doge-trump-federal-cuts-rcna193095

21 Feb, 2025 13:55

Rubio explains purpose of Russia-US talks

The meeting in Saudi Arabia aimed to revive diplomacy between nuclear superpowers, according to the US secretary of state

The US and Russia sought to restore normal diplomatic relations during this week's talks in Saudi Arabia because global nuclear powers must communicate to resolve conflicts such as the one in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.

Senior officials from both countries met in Riyadh on Tuesday in what Moscow and Washington both described as a productive dialogue. According to Rubio, who led the US delegation,the primary objective was to restore normal communication channels, which were almost completely severed under the previous administration of President Joe Biden.

”Even in the worst days of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained communication,” Rubio said in an interview with journalist Catherine Herridge on Thursday. Heunderscored that political disagreements should not impede statecraft, asserting that mature leaders must engage with nuclear-armed nations.

”Whether we like it or not, Russia is a power, a global power,”Rubio added. “We’re going to disagree on a lot, but we can’t work on the things we might potentially agree on or deconflict on things that could lead to dangerous confrontations as long as this Ukraine impediment stands in the way.”

According to Rubio, Washington remains cautious about Moscow's stated intentions to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict, but that future discussions would bring more clarity. No details about potential territorial concessions by Ukraine or the lifting of sanctions against Russia were debated in Riyadh, the US official added.

Rubio rebuffed claims that the US was sidelining Kiev and its European allies, stressing that their involvement would be essential in any agreement with Russia.He characterized such suggestions as exaggerated, driven by “hyperbole” and “hysteria,” and urged a recognition of US President Donald Trump’s peacemaking efforts, noting that previous Western strategies had not been successful.

”There was an effort in Istanbul a couple years ago, and it involved a number of European countries, and it failed,” he noted. (That’s why Z and EU wanted to be involved)

In 2022, Türkiye facilitated Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, resulting in a preliminary agreement for a treaty that would have seen Ukraine become a neutral nation with a limited military, backed by security guarantees from major world powers, including Russia. However, Kiev later withdrew from the deal after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged it to continue fighting.

https://www.rt.com/news/613109-rubio-russia-talks-purpose/

>>22626319

Another reason Zelenskyy and EU leaders wanted to be there is to prevent Rubio, Waltz and Lipnick finding out all the evil things they’ve done to Ukraine citizensand the crimes against Russia and the propaganda the media was reported daily by the spy agency of Ukraine.

Russia has reports of all the International War Crimes Ukraine and others, with its leaders, have done even long before the war to ethic Russians that are citizens of Ukraine.

This outrage is not about negotiating, it’s about how the EU let and ignored war crimes, and they all along US politicians made billions off the money the US sent.

This was the first time any American leader under Trump heard the truth.

The torture and killing of their own people has been happening since the 2014 coup and even before.

The only reason Russia went in 2022in is the Russians went everywhere to get help to stop this, UN,EU, many other countries and according to Lavrov even the US ignored it and wouldn’t do anything about Ukraine killing their own people, they tried for many years at every country and agency, they all denied or refused to hear about the crimes.

When the horrid truth comes out there will be hell to pay.

21 Feb, 2025 14:50

Trump allies believe Zelensky should leave Ukraine ‘immediately’ – media

There is widespread opposition to the Ukrainian leader within the White House, according to the New York Post

Vladimir Zelensky should leave Ukraine “immediately” and move to France so as not to impede peace talks with Russia, a source close to US President Donald Trump has said, according to the New York Post. The outlet reported that frustration with Zelensky is growing in the White House.

Tensions between Washington and Kiev escalated this week after Zelensky criticized Trump for ending the period of diplomatic non-engagement with Russia. On Tuesday, US and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia for high-level talks aimed at restoring ties and addressing the Ukraine conflict.

Zelensky has demanded a seat at the negotiating table, although Trump has said he and other Ukrainian officials are in no position to complain. He further blamed Zelensky for failing to resolve the conflict with Russia despite having years to do so.

A source familiar with White House discussions told the New York Post thatthe developments are “nothing new,” adding “I heard months ago it’s time for an election [in Ukraine] and new leadership.”

The source emphasized that opposition to Zelensky is widespread within the West Wing.

According to another person close to Trump, “the best case for [Zelensky] and the world is that he leaves to France immediately.”

Zelensky, whose presidential term expired in May 2024, has refused to hold a new election, citing martial law due to the ongoing conflict.

On Tuesday, Trump suggested that Zelensky’s leadership lacks legitimacy and that “he’s down at a 4% approval rating.” Trump later posted on his Truth Social platform that Zelensky “refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls,”saying he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

Zelensky responded by accusing Trump of repeating “Russian disinformation” and citing a presidential poll that has him at 57%. “If somebody wants to replace me right now, it will not happen,” he said.

An internal poll cited by The Economist on Wednesday suggested that Zelensky would lose to his former commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, by a large margin if elections were held in Ukraine today. According to data cited in the report, Zelensky “would lose a future election by 30% to 65% to Valery Zaluzhny,” if the latter ran for office. Zaluzhny currently serves as Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK.

Zelensky’s popularity skyrocketed to 90% during the first months of the conflict with Russia in 2022, but has since decreased due to mounting losses on the battlefield and problems with the economy.

Russia has also said it considers Zelensky “illegitimate” and recognizes the Ukrainian parliament and its speaker as the only legitimate authority in the country.

https://www.rt.com/news/613107-us-frustration-ukraine-zelensky/

(Seems like the CIA in Ukraine have been giving orders to send him to France. He should have left a year ago)

>>22626440

I know but it will be blamed on Russia, his time will come. The international Criminal Court knows about all their war crimes, that would be a better solution

>>22626421

Wait till Doge reveals what they’ve found including kickbacks to all Western and US leaders, along with all the multi national organizations. Ukraine barely owns any of their land he sold a ton to Blackrock and others

>>22626483

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