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NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Admin Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Guant%C3%A1namo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guantánamo</a>The disclosure of the tab so far came after a visit by 5 senators to the offshore operation, who condemned it as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#waste</a> of resources.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hypocrisy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/migrants-guantanamo-costs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=10599E2C-BA8F-4BB4-B587-AD29355EFCA4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/migrants-guantanamo-costs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=10599E2C-BA8F-4BB4-B587-AD29355EFCA4</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/GovernmentFinance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentFinance</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparency</a> "The White House budget office has taken down its website where approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws are statutorily required to be posted for public viewing, a move likely to face major blowback from members of Congress and government watchdogs."<a href="https://rollcall.com/2025/03/24/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rollcall.com/2025/03/24/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/</a>

BerlinFokus" The <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debt</a> is growing because the country keeps <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Borrowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Borrowing</a> to finance an increasingly large gap between <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> and <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Revenue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revenue</a>. (..) What’s the Solution? "🤔 Judging by their actions, the solution of the <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> - <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Junta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Junta</a> is to slash revenue drastically while raising expenditure to unprecedented levels.(While their other "solution" is to declare bancruptcy [<a href="https://berlin.social/tags/MarAlLagoAccord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarAlLagoAccord</a>] - because the daddy of the United States will of course bail the country out as he always did in the past. 🙄)

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1890933/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1890933/</a> DOGE Shuts Down 146,000 Government Credit Cards in 2 Weeks <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CreditCards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CreditCards</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doge</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> White House & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> did not return multiple requests for comment.In a statement to NPR on Monday, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#State</a> Dept spox said the $400M figure was "an estimate," pointing out that it was in the early stages & was not yet a full contract, but rather a proposal "strictly to gather information."The dept spox added: "the Department of State has no intention to move forward with the solicitation." [wink wink]<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactCheck</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#broligarchy</a>

Johnny Demonic<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@luckytran</a> If American people could make the national budget together, hands-on, without conniving politicians to distract us and siphon money, would we still choose to send money abroad? To play goody two shoes? When we are not all fed, housed, educated? When healthcare is too expensive?Charity begins at home. Sending aid abroad is a view held by the privileged class, who have no idea what hunger and poverty in America is like. They just like the glow of largesse and magnanimity from giving away "Other People's Money" ( to quote Margaret Thatcher *cringe* ) while ignoring homeless people here in America.No. You want the slick bullshit of "foreign" people, acting all happy for the camera.Warms your heart, makes you feel all superior, like YOU had anything to do with it. Hey, it's the American people's money. You are either astro-turfing for some party that siphons USAID money, or belong to a privileged class.I am homeless. How about some aid for me?I am a former Democrat voter, who was made homeless by the Biden administration in 2023, as a VA programmer with Federal clearance, who turned whistle-blower and called out egregious government waste.This is my first-hand experience, not some slick commercial I saw in the media.Your ad is pure propaganda! Like Musk, or hate him, he is right on this one.<a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/CancelUSAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CancelUSAID</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/JailForBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JailForBiden</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAID</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/USVeteran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USVeteran</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/astroturf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astroturf</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/astroturfing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astroturfing</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lies</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/GovernmentWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentWaste</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/Accenture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accenture</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/AccentureFederalServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AccentureFederalServices</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/AFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFS</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/VA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VA</a> <a href="https://chaotic.fun/tags/Veterans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Veterans</a>

Toni Aittoniemi<a href="https://bird.makeup/users/profstevekeen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@profstevekeen</a> explains how the model Elon Musk and other <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/governmentspending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#governmentspending</a> cutters use to inflict <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> on us is wrong.It’s based on false ideas about economy from the middle ages.For us living in the 21st century, government borrowing to finance the deficit is a sustainable system because of central banks and private banks are constantly creating money.Boom! Abundance, not scarcity! Fiat money rocks 🙂 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/deficit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deficit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/moneycreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moneycreation</a> <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=pGAhw6j2yis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=pGAhw6j2yis</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseLoudwire: Alice in Chains, Shinedown & More Face Scrutiny in Report on Pandemic Relief Payouts. “In some of the other cases highlighted in the report, there were clear misuse of pandemic funds for personal benefit. For instance, the investigation uncovered that rapper Lil’ Wayne spent $1.3 million of his $8.9 million grant to cover private jet flights, while spending another $460,000 on […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/20/loudwire-alice-in-chains-shinedown-more-face-scrutiny-in-report-on-pandemic-relief-payouts/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/20/loudwire-alice-in-chains-shinedown-more-face-scrutiny-in-report-on-pandemic-relief-payouts/</a>

StanceOfMindPaul Krugman: Health Insurance is a Racket. What value do these companies add, really?<a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-insurance-is-a-racket" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-insurance-is-a-racket</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HealthInsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthInsurance</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economics</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/PaulKrugman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulKrugman</a>

Peter ButlerThe average US taxpayer spends $1,748 per year for Pentagon contractors and $346 for K-12 educationHappy Tax Day! 😭 <a href="https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taxes</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TaxDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxDay</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Military</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a>

Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀<a href="https://union.place/@ashwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ashwin</a> Want to see real violence? Just defund our military and watch bad actors such as Russia and China goosestep over the world.Don't be a tankie!<a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#video</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/VideoEssay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VideoEssay</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/governmentspending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#governmentspending</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/audit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#audit</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defense</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transparency</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accountability</a>

U.S. Politics in Real TimeAlabama Officials Trash $16,500 in Teacher Manuals Because They Were too 'Woke'<a href="https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-waste-taxpayers-woke-books" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-waste-taxpayers-woke-books</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AlabamaWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlabamaWaste</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TaxpayerMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxpayerMoney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WokeBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WokeBooks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TeacherManuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeacherManuals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/EducationSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EducationSystem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a>

U.S. Politics in Real TimeA $19,000 lectern for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparks call for legislative audit<a href="https://apnews.com/article/huckabee-sanders-arkansas-lectern-audit-97d4173d485dd00291b1853ab339cf8a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/huckabee-sanders-arkansas-lectern-audit-97d4173d485dd00291b1853ab339cf8a</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SarahHuckabeeSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SarahHuckabeeSanders</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ArkansasGovernor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArkansasGovernor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LegislativeAudit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegislativeAudit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LecternPurchase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LecternPurchase</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transparency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a>

U.S. Politics in Real TimeOcasio-Cortez says she’s voting against debt limit bill<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4027503-ocasio-cortez-says-shes-voting-against-debt-limit-bill/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4027503-ocasio-cortez-says-shes-voting-against-debt-limit-bill/</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TheHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheHill</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OcasioCortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OcasioCortez</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/DebtLimit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DebtLimit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/USCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USCongress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Voting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GovernmentSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GovernmentSpending</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NationalDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalDebt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/EconomicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EconomicPolicy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FiscalResponsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FiscalResponsibility</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a>

Dave JohnsonIf Republicans succeed in "cutting spending" they'll be able to campaign on the huge downturn in the economy under Biden's last 2 years. Also on how under Biden government hasn't been making people's lives better.<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/debtceiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debtceiling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/governmentspending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#governmentspending</a>

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