We’ve been reading so much about all the rampant waste in the federal government, from USAID to the Education Department to FEMA, that Elon Musk and DOGE continue to uncover at a staggering pace.
But sometimes you wonder, who are the beneficiaries of all this fraud and waste—where’s the money going? I mean, besides to terrorists, social justice warriors and the like.
Your questions may soon be answered. Grab the popcorn and fluff the couch pillows because Donald Trump told reporters at a briefing in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon that he plans to name names at a press conference scheduled for Thursday. Responding to a reporter’s question, he charged:
Tremendous fraud—there’s tremendous fraud. And it’s hard to believe that you can have that kind of fraud.
What we’re going to do is tomorrow [Thursday], I’m having a news conference. I’m going to read to you some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to, and if you tell me that we should be giving money to those things, those entities, I think you’ll probably have to leave as a reporter because you’re not very talented.
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The president said when you see the kind of money being thrown around, you can only conclude there’s rampant corruption:
When you look at the kind of money, billions and billions of dollars being thrown away illegally, and there’s no there’s no chance, I mean I say in front of our attorney general [Pam Bondi], there’s no chance that there’s not kickbacks or something going on.
When you give millions and millions of dollars to somebody that stands to look at something for 15 minutes and walks away with millions of dollars, that money’s coming back in some form—and that’s only one form of corruption. […]
— Read More: redstate.com