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Biden spent $10mn in taxpayer funds on ‘transgender mice’ – U.S. lawmaker | 7 Feb 2025 | Around 10 million in American taxpayer funds was spent last year on experiments using “transgender lab rats,” Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace has said. She claimed the sum was an example of massive misuse of taxpayers’ m-ney by Joe Biden’s administration. Speaking on Thursday at a House Oversight Committee hearing titled “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,” Mace criticized the allocation of taxpayer funds for “gender-affirming care” in animal research. The hearing featured testimony from a representative of the White Coat Waste Project, which exposes animal testing projects. “Why is the federal government spending taxpayer d-llars to create transgender animals?” Mace demanded.

‘Sesame Street in Iraq’: USAID’s ‘wasteful and dangerous’ spending exposed by senator | 5 Feb 2025 | Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, published a list of projects and programs she says the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped fund across the years, highlighting it as “wasteful and dangerous” spending that has gripped taxpayers until the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stepped in. “From funneling tax d-llars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week, USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington…all around the world,” Ernst posted to X on Monday before rattling off a handful of examples. Ernst highlighted that the agency “authorized a whopping 20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq.”

LGBTQ group’s drag show video to promote diversity in Ecuador funded by 25K State Department grant | 5 Feb 2025 | An LGBTQ group in Ecuador tapped into a 25,000 grant from the Biden State Department to produce a two-day drag workshop intended to promote diversity and inclusion abroad. Footage obtained by The Post showed drag queens donning makeup, strutting around topless wearing nothing but pasties and crowing about how the displays could be used as a “political tool.” Fundacion Dialogo Diverso, a nongovernmental organization that aims to promote democracy and the “LGBTIQ+ population” of the South American country, organized the drag show and published footage of it last July. The State Department footed some of the bill for the show through its Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration, for which the nonprofit thanked the department. “Funds provided by the U.S. government,” a disclaimer at the end of the video read near an American flag, per a translation.

Trump Takes the Gloves Off, Orders GSA to Cancel ‘Every Single Media Contract’ | 6 Feb 2025 | President Trump on Thursday ordered the General Services Administration (GSA) to cancel “every single media contract” funded by the agency. Contracts for Politico, BBC, Bloomberg and Politico Pro were canceled. Politico Pro [a deep-state cesspool] costs 10,000 per year. Axios reported: “The White House has directed the General Services Administration to terminate ‘every single media contract’ expensed by the agency, according to an email obtained by Axios. ‘GSA team, please do two things,’ a Trump administration official wrote: Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg. Pull all media contracts for just GSA – cancel every single media contract today for GSA only.”

Boston University staff member made social media post saying DOGE employees are wanted ‘dead or alive’ | 6 Feb 2025 | An employee of Boston University said that staff working for the Department of Government Efficiency are “wanted for treason, dead or alive.” Jared May, who was listed online as an assistant media technician at Boston University, posted to the social media site Bluesky, a graphic that included pictures of several young men who allegedly work for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The graphic includes the text, “WANTED FOR TREASON, DEAD OR ALIVE.” DOGE, headed by Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla Inc, seeks to streamline government efficiency and cut waste, a campaign promise that President Donald Trump ran on in the 2024 presidential election.

Trump suspends ‘Russian oligarch’ hunt –New U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has disbanded a task force targeting Russian elites and redirected its resources to fight drug cartels | 7 Feb 2025 | The U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi has disbanded Task Force KleptoCapture, a unit created in 2022 to enforce sanctions against Russian oligarchs, The Guardian reported on Thursday citing an internal memo. Task Force KleptoCapture was launched during the Biden regime following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. It was tasked with tracking and confiscating assets belonging to Russian businessmen and officials targeted by Western sanctions. Bondi announced the decision to shut down the task force and reallocate its funding to combat drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations in a memo issued on Wednesday, according to The Guardian.

Jared Kushner behind Trump’s plan to take over Gaza – Report | 5 Feb 2025 | Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner was reportedly behind his father-in-law U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan, announced yesterday, for the U.S. to take over Gaza and clear it of Palestinians. Kushner was involved in crafting Trump’s prepared remarks that he made alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Puck news reports, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter. Netanyahu had not requested that Trump pursue such a plan ahead of time, Puck adds. Kushner appeared to hint at the entire idea in a speech he gave last year. “Gaza’s waterfront property — it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said during an event at Harvard.

United States Spending on Israel’s Military Operations and Related U.S. Operations in the Region, October 7, 2023 -September 30, 2024 | 7 Oct 2024 | U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least 22.76 billion and counting. This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for regional operations, and an estimated additional cost of operations, it does not include any other economic costs. This figure includes the 17.9 billion the U.S. government has approved in security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since October 7 — substantially more than in any other year since the U.S. began granting military aid to Israel in 1959.

Argentina’s Milei follows Trump and withdraws his country from the World Health Organization | 6 Feb 2025 | Argentine President Javier Milei, a close ally of President Donald Trump, on Wednesday announced his intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), echoing steps taken by the U.S. Commander-in-Chief last month. A spokesman for Milei announced the order and said the withdrawal from the world’s top health and safety [sic] agency was due to “profound differences” with the United Nations organization due to its advice during the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the largest shutdowns “in the history of mankind.” Milei’s decision came just two weeks after Trump, for the second time, issued an executive order to pull the U.S. out of WHO, again citing its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. doctors told to start looking out for EBOLA in patients amid fears deadly disease is here | 6 Feb 2025 | The CDC has asked doctors to begin evaluating Americans for Ebola out of fear the disease has made its way into the country. The Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory was issued after an Ebola outbreak was confirmed in Uganda on January 30. On January 29, a 32-year-old nurse working at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital city Kampala died from Ebola. Forty-four people have been identified as close contacts, including 30 healthcare workers and patients at the hospital where he worked. The CDC confirmed there have been no cases of Ebola detected in the U.S.

Army Black Hawk in DC plane crash had turned off electronic location system – Senator Cruz | 7 Feb 2025 | The Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in the fatal midair collision near Reagan National Airport last week had an advanced tracking system turned off at the time of the incident, according to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. The Texas Republican on Thursday told reporters that the Black Hawk helicopter’s automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), which is permitted for military aircraft, was not active when it collided with an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in the Washington, D.C., area, killing 67. “This was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ADS-B to be turned off,” Cruz said after sitting in on a briefing by the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Trump DOJ sues Dem-led Chicago, Illinois over alleged immigration enforcement interference | 6 Feb 2025 | The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago for allegedly interfering with federal immigration enforcement — the latest escalation in the battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities and states over the administration’s mass deportation operation. The lawsuit filed in Illinois, against Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and others, claimed that several state and local laws are “designed to and in fact interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.”

Second group of migrant criminals, including one Tren de Aragua killer, sent to Guantanamo Bay | 6 Feb 2025 | A second deportation flight carrying 13 Venezuelan gang members wanted for a range of violent crimes departed El Paso, Texas, for Guantanamo Bay in Cuba Thursday. The flight roster includes a Tren de Aragua gang member who committed a homicide and another who admitted he is wanted in Venezuela for escaping from jail, aggravated robbery with a weapon and intent to commit homicide, according to a Homeland Security official. Other offenses the migrants are accused of include possession of dangerous drugs, robbery, assault, fraud and entering the U.S. illegally, the official said.

Dems delay Patel committee vote, deride Trump FBI pick as danger to U.S. security | 6 Feb 2025 | Democrats succeeded Thursday in delaying a committee vote to advance the confirmation of FBI director nominee Kash Patel until next week at least. The vote, which was slated to happen at 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, was pushed to next week after Senate Democrats demanded a second hearing from the Trump-aligned former Defense Department official, citing concerns about his previous remarks and candor. In a statement Tuesday night, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., said attempts by top Judiciary Democrat Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and others to force Patel to testify again were “baseless” as he already sat before the committee for more than five hours and disclosed “thousands of pages” of records to the panel, as well as nearly 150 pages of responses to lawmakers’ written questions.

NY Dems working to keep Stefanik’s House seat vacant for months in latest scheme against Trump – assemblyman| 2 Feb 2025 | New York Democratic lawmakers are working to keep Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat vacant until the summer in an unprecedented move hashed out during late-night discussions last week, a Republican Empire State assemblyman told Fox Digital. “We still haven’t seen the final proposal from the Democrats in Albany, but there’s no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and well in the state capital,” Republican New York Assemblyman Matt Slater, who represents the state’s 94th district in areas of Putnam and Westchester counties, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview on Sunday morning. “It is just blatantly corrupt for the New York State Democrats to keep changing the rules of engagement simply out of self-interest,” Slater continued.

75% of Dems believe NYC is in crisis – and nearly half are ready to leave if things get worse – new poll | 2 Feb 2025 | Likely Dem primary voters in the upcoming mayoral election overwhelmingly say New York City is in crisis — with nearly half saying that if things get any worse, they may leave, a dismal new survey shows. The pessimism is broad and deep. Eighty percent of the respondents say they are worried about the current level of crime, while 75% believe their city is in a state of crisis, and 70% are “fearful and anxious” about its future, according to the poll by Democratic strategists with the Honan Strategy Group. Nearly half, or 45%, of respondents say that if things get any worse, they “may be forced to move out” of Gotham.

Lia Thomas’s former teammates sue UPenn, Harvard and NCAA in lawsuit to scrub her records | 5 Feb 2025 | Three former members of the University of Pennsylvania swimming team have taken action to expunge the women’s swimming records set by transgender former collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas. Grace Estabrook, Ellen Holmquist and Margot Kaczorowski, sued the university, Harvard University, the NCAA and the Ivy League Council of Presidents over their “traumatizing” experience sharing a team with Thomas. They accuse the institutions of violating federal law by allowing Thomas to swim against women and share their locker room facilities during the 2021-22 season.

Pro-Trump influencer will take legal action against New York magazine over ‘despicable’ cover story | 5 Feb 2025 | CJ Pearson is taking legal action against New York Magazine after its “despicable” cover story that he feels falsely painted pro-Trump conservatives as racist. New York Magazine writer Brock Colyar warned that a new generation of “casually cruel Trumpers” are “conquering Washington” in a cover story headlined, “The Cruel Kids’ Table.” The glossy feature has since come under fire for cropping Black attendees out of the cover image while quoting an attendee who complained “the entire room is White.” Pearson has not yet filed a lawsuit but provided a formal notice to the magazine that he plans to sue. “They don’t get to slander us as racist. They don’t get to libel us in print. We need to fight back and hold their feet to the fire,” Pearson told Fox News Digital.