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Thursday, February 13th, 2025
CASH FOR MIGRANTS: FEMA NOT THE ONLY AGENCY SPENDING BIG
The Office of Refugee Resettlement has faced questions over transparency, conflict of interest.
OpenTheBooks February 13, 2025
Elon Musk reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spent $59 million last week alone – all on immigrants in New York City. Part of that was for housing, including luxury properties like The Row and The Watson, meant for tourists headed to see the marquees of Broadway. (Later the feds clawed back $80M from the city).
Open the Books previously reported that FEMA had an enormous $8 billion shortfall in its Disaster Relief Fund following the catastrophic damage of Hurricane Helene.
Well, FEMA is not the only agency that’s been spending gobs of taxpayer dollars on the immigration crisis. Programs span various agencies.
Included is the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), housed inside the Department of Health and Human Services subagency called the Administration for Children and Families.
ORR has spent over $22.6 BILLION since 2020 on grants to nonprofits providing everything from help accessing Medicaid to help building credit, help with home and auto loans, and cash assistance. Yes, cold hard cash!
While Department of Homeland Security is often thought of as the main agency in charge of migration policy and spending in the United States, ORR spends tens of billions a year setting up refugees in the United States. Programmatic activities had a focus on, but were not exclusive to, unaccompanied children.
As Open the Books previously reported, one ORR program helped participants save for car and home purchases, another gave out business and personal loans to help them build credit. Another program helped with “legal assistance,” “cultural orientation,” and “emergency housing support.”
These acted as giant magnets for those seeking to cross the border and claim asylum.
As spending from ORR exploded, Open the Books also identified instances where the agency was expanding the scope of criteria for individuals eligible for its funding. For example, in its 2023 Congressional Budget Justification, the agency suggested the following changes to expand its mandate:
- Advocating that “Special Immigrant Juvenile Minors” within the “Unaccompanied Refugee Minor” (URM) program access the same benefits as refugees, which include access to Medicaid and the same foster care services as American children.
- Expanding legal assistance to Ukrainian and Afghan children and other URM-designated youth to legal assistance ensuring permanent residency.
- Giving cash assistance to full-time college or technical school student refugees.
- Removing the need for refugees to obtain economic self-sufficiency “as quickly as possible.”
Total amount of new grants awarded by ORR, from FY 2020-2024
2020: $2,682,493,224.22
2021: $2,352,120,351.54
2022: $3,378,055,499.50
2023: $10,035,487,466.68
2024: $4,207,541,746.00
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Tags: Cash For Migrants
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Why Liberals Shouldn’t Mourn USAID
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 by Walter Samuel

The demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been swift and total. But while liberals have devolved into literal tears over the dissolution of the once-obscure foreign aid agency, they should not mourn its passing if they are truly concerned about America’s “standing” in the world.
USAID, for all practical purposes, was running its own foreign policy. Through strategic grants, it bred dependency that allowed it to in effect take over large segments of the charity/NGO (non-governmental organization) sector around the world. To say it bestrode the world stage like a giant would not be unfair. The Pentagon’s procurement office could learn something from the manner in which USAID utilized everything from newspapers to theaters and even vaccination campaigns to advance its agenda.
Whether that agenda was in the best interests of the United States is, to say the least, doubtful.
The original mission of USAID, which President Kennedy established in 1961, was to advance American influence by advancing American values around the world. During the Cold War, when there was something of a common American culture, socially “progressive” within a civically Judeo-Christian, pro-free market mindset, there was little contradiction between advancing America’s perceived values and boosting American influence.
In a conflict against an atheistic, socialist Soviet Union, the idea that humans should be free to believe what they wished was at once both conservative and “progressive.” When the status quo across much of the world was feudalism or central planning, the idea that anyone, regardless of religion, race, or gender should be able to own property or start a business was both “progressive” and capitalist.
What changed after the 1990s was the values that USAID sought to advance.
Equality is universal. Everyone should be treated the same regardless of background. Equity and DEI, on the other hand, are divisive. These concepts define people based on immutable characteristics like race and sex. By embracing DEI, USAID ceased advancing the shared interests of the United States and the people of the world, and instead chose specific individuals and groups to favor, most notably those dedicated to LGBT or feminist causes and religious or ethnic minorities.
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
HOW THE TRUMP TEAM BROKE THROUGH AND IDENTIFIED BILLIONS OF WASTED TAXPAYER MONEY
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:
While media allies prepared hit pieces, DOGE’s algorithms exposed decades of questionable transactions.
The scale was breathtaking:
EPA climate initiatives? Not just mapped—found unauthorized programs in 47 states. Education’s DEI maze? Not just exposed—revealed coordination across 1,200 programs. Intelligence community black budgets? Not just traced—uncovered patterns hidden for 30 years.
“The administrative state runs on two things,” a senior advisor explained, watching patterns emerge across DOGE’s screens. “Control of information and money flows.” His eyes tracked new connections forming in real-time. “We’re not just exposing their networks—we’re rewriting their DNA.”
The cracks began showing in unexpected places. A career EPA director, tears streaming: “Everything we built…” A USAID veteran, hands shaking: “They’re inside all of it…” A Treasury lifer, closing his office: “They move faster than we can think.”
Across Washington, officials who had weathered every reform since Reagan began quietly updating LinkedIn profiles. A Deputy Director: “Open to opportunities.” An Agency Chief: “Exploring new challenges.” A Bureau Head: “Time for change.”
DOGE’s algorithms weren’t just programs—they were archaeology tools, excavating decades of buried networks. Each data point connected to another. Each discovery revealed new targets. Each pattern exposed larger systems.
“It’s beautiful,” one of the coders whispered, watching connections form across his screen. “Like watching a galaxy map itself.”
For the permanent bureaucracy, this wasn’t just change. It was an extinction-level event. Their power came from controlling who got paid, when they got paid, and what they got paid for. Now those controls were evaporating like dawn burning away darkness.
The pattern was devastating in its simplicity:
- Map the money flows
- Deploy aligned personnel
- Expose the networks
- Restructure the systems
By the time bureaucrats drafted objections to one breach, three more had already occurred.
OVERRIDE
INSIDE THE REVOLUTION REWIRING AMERICAN POWER
The clock struck 2 AM on Jan 21, 2025.
In Treasury’s basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.
“We’re in,” Akash Bobba messaged the team. “All of it.”
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Tags: Inside The Trump Revolution
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The
@DOGE
team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.
That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!
A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.
Tags: Elon Musk and FEMA
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Saturday, January 11th, 2025
VIDEOS AND ARTICLE
Tornadoes Of Fire In Los Angeles – The Monsters Are Coming For Encino Next
By Sam Faddis January 11, 2025
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: We have never seen anything like this on our shores. The complete breakdown of municipal and state government in California brought on by the mad policies of the radical left has taken us into uncharted territory. The monster fires that are consuming Los Angeles are not controlled. They are not about to be controlled. They are intensifying, and the monsters are coming for Encino next.
Tags: Tornadoes of Fire in Los Angeles
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Tags: DOGE Days Parody
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Saturday, November 9th, 2024
VIDEO
A new video has appeared online featuring President-elect Donald Trump and his new plan to attack and end Washington “corruption” by dismantling the “Deep State.”
Tags: Trump Deep State
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
House Speaker lays out massive deportation plan: moving bureaucrats from DC to reshape government
Mike Johnson says forcing government workers to leave the Washington “swamp” will lead to resignations and retirements that will quickly shrink costs to taxpayers.
Tags: MOVING BUREAUCRATS FROM DC
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
Thanks to one of our conservative ladies for sharing this information with us. Nancy
I went to Harris Teeter today and while they are asking customers if they want to round up to support Hurricane Helen victims, the money goes to the Red Cross. I did a bit of research, knowing what I do about the Red Cross. The irony is Red Cross is a FEMA partner and partially responsible for FEMA not having funds to support Hurricane Helen relief.
The House Oversight Committee opened a probe in May to look into FEMA’s misuse of funds to “incentivize illegal immigration. The Red Cross is identified as a facilitator. Other sources show Red Cross takes the FEMA money and distributes it to NGO’s that support illegal migration to/in the US.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK FOR INFORMATION RE THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT PROBE
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Comer, Grothman & LaTurner Open Probe into FEMA Providing Taxpayer Dollars to NGOs That Incentivize Illegal Immigration – United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
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In the above report: A recent media report outlines how the American Red Cross is contributing to—not helping to alleviate—illegal immigration. In addition to the American Red Cross working to facilitate migrants’ journeys to the southwest border, a DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report questions FEMA’s oversight of EFSP reimbursements in general.
Tags: Red Cross FEMA
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Sunday, October 6th, 2024
“My Blood is Boiling”: Furious Elon Musk Goes Off on FEMA for Blocking SpaceX Engineers from Assisting — FEMA Actively Seizing Shipments and Blocking Critical Goods and Services
Elon Musk is calling out Biden-Harris’ FEMA in a fiery rant, accusing the federal agency of actively obstructing humanitarian efforts in the wake of widespread devastation in North Carolina.
In a series of explosive posts on X, the furious billionaire CEO revealed that his SpaceX engineers, who are on the ground providing vital communications and supplies via Starlink technology, are being blocked by FEMA from delivering lifesaving resources to victims in Asheville and surrounding areas.
According to Musk, SpaceX has already powered up two large operating bases for helicopters to deliver goods into the hands of those in desperate need.
They’ve deployed more than 300 Starlink terminals, which have been critical in restoring communication for disaster-stricken communities. But instead of support, Musk claims FEMA has been nothing but a roadblock.
PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
Tags: FEMA AID TO NC ELON MUSK
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