Trump wanted pro-Trump ads, paid for by taxpayers, to continue to be shown but "a federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to cancel the remainder of the $20 million ad buy — including those slated to run Sunday night — and barred the White House and other Trump administration agencies from resuming the campaign":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/11/judge-order-immediate-halt-taxpayer-funded-pro-trump-ads-01116062
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #FraudWasteAndAbuse #progress #justice #politics
#fraudwasteandabuse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fraudwasteandabuse, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/29852/ House Dems: Trump is starving inspectors generals of resources, blocking investigations #CivilService #EducationDepartment #FraudWasteAndAbuse #HouseOversightAndGovernmentReform #InspectorGeneral #InspectorsGeneral #oig #PoliticalInvestigations #TrumpAdministration
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"Records show Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business":
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-travel-security-costs
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"How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of #Israel. A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The New York Times":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/middleeast/israel-embassy-milstein-huckabee.html
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth criticized Pres. Trump's proposed memorial arch: "How dare this coward erect a monument to his own vanity, his own ego, covered in the same fake gold he's plastered all over the Oval Office and potential Marie Antoinette ballroom, we are not going to let him get away with it":
https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/sen-duckworth-criticizes-trumps-proposed-arch-near-arlington-national-cemetery/5207718
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"In unveiling a panel to study the future of warfare this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, back into the Trump administration fold. With him came a raft of potential new #ConflictsOfInterest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/elon-musk-pentagon-returns-to-washington.html
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is making a series of stupid mistakes. For example, his pet project is high speed rail, which is known in California for its reckless wasting of money:
"its consultants flew first class, took luxury rides, and visited a nightclub on taxpayer dollars":
https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/newsom-veto-high-speed-rail-oversight/
"Newsom vetoed a bill that aimed to boost oversight of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority." This puts Newsom on the side of corruption and reckless spending.
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Terry Moran: "There is no precedent for the federal government taking an incumbent president’s actual campaign material, purchasing national television airtime for it during a campaign, and putting 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' at the end. It’s wrong. It’s theft. It’s un-American."
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Joe Scarborough: "It’s important we now have documentation showing that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run political ads for their political party."
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"Eric Trump spoke on #FoxNews about his new $24 million #Pentagon contract for robots. Eric was never involved in this kind of business before he father became president.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said: 'Eric Trump went on #FoxNews to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump Administration. I’ve been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers. Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now? This looks like #corruption in plain sight'.” #FraudWasteAndAbuse
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Trump acted illegally but the majority on the Supreme Court did not care:
"Construction of Pres. Trump’s enormous ballroom at the White House can continue, the Supreme Court ruled. The ruling did not address whether the president had exceeded his authority by acting without congressional approval but in practical terms means the president seems likely to be able to complete the project":
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/31/us/trump-news
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"Chief Justice Lets #Ballroom Construction Go Forward While Court Considers Issue":
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/21/us/trump-newsJesse Lee: "The Trump-Roberts #corruption tag team strikes again."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117107566225160562
Here are four problems with Trump pushing to get his expensive White House #ballroom built.
Amanda Carpenter also wrote: "This is much worse than a home renovation gone wrong. It is a massive separation of powers issue, and Congress ought to make clear: NO FUNDING means NO FUNDING."
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"Pres. Trump cannot continue building the ballroom he planned as a replacement to the East Wing of the White House without explicit approval from Congress, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday":
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/07/us/trump-news
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Trump wastes taxpayers money in many ways, including his unnecessary #IranWar and his unnecessary ballroom. Now there is this:
"Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases. It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects, a source of renewable energy":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/climate/rwe-trump-offshore-wind-canceled.html "The government spent $3.9 billion to get companies to terminate 12 offshore wind leases."
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The Trump Administration engaged in murder and terrorism in an attempt to stop illegal drugs, but "the United States' military’s deadly strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels have done little to curb the supply of cocaine in the United States":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates_n_6a6713c7e4b047853043da09/liveblog_6a68005de4b02c67a5adaa0f?origin=home-latest-news-unit
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s told Senators that the "$1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is needed and the Trump Administration not receiving that entire amount is "the greatest threat our nation faces.”
Hegseth was lying because Pres. Donald Trump is the greatest threat our nation faces.”
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #FundingFutureWars #FraudWasteAndAbuse #AbuseOfPower -
Donald Trump spent almost one million dollars of taxpayers' money to promote himself:
"The Justice Department spent nearly a million dollars to spruce up the exterior of its Washington headquarters, including controversial banners putting Washingtonians under the watchful eye of Pres. Donald Trump":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/24/trump-banners-doj-cost-01009924 #FraudWasteAndAbuse -
Another waste of taxpayers dollars: "Vice Pres. JD Vance sought last week to use a military helicopter to ferry himself and his son across Washington for a golf lesson":
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-helicopter-son-golf-lesson-secret-service-b3015807.html
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"A federal judge cast serious doubts on the Justice Department’s efforts to reinvestigate Pres. Trump’s false claims that he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election, saying that the five-year statute of limitations for any possible crimes arising from the race had long expired”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/politics/2020-election-inquiry-trump-georgia.html
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Joyce Carol Oates: "What a time for white-collar criminals in the US! 260 FBI officials have been given the task to search files in Georgia looking (after 6 years) for non-existent proof that the 2020 election was rigged; other agents are assigned to similar tasks benefiting Trump. no one at the FBI much cares about good, solid, old-fashioned criminal work any longer, in the service of the president's venal retribution."
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One more way that Donald Trump is wasting our money and decreasing our safety: FBI agents were diverted to investigate votes cast for president in Georgia in 2000. They are even being paid to work overtime and on weekends for this complete waste of time.
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Here is a recent outrage: "The Board of Peace announced by Donald Trump earlier this year to rule Gaza is planning a sweeping grant of legal immunity for itself, according to a draft of the resolution obtained by the Guardian. The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza free of charge”:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/27/board-of-peace-legal-immunity-un
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"Money for the Secret Service and the 'East Wing Modernization Project' (the #ballroom) was omitted from a new version of Republicans’ bill Republicans announced Wednesday to fund immigration enforcement operations at the Department of Homeland Security. Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested there’s not much appetite for bringing the ballroom funding back":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ballroom-congress-court_n_6a20805de4b0ba317305a413
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"Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request. Multiple Republican senators objected to sending taxpayer dollars to the president’s East Wing revamp":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/ballroom-security-funding-reconciliation-00930193
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Rep. Brendan Boyle: "Republicans always say America can't afford child care or affordable housing. But they always find the cash for whatever Trump wants — like the #IranWar or a vanity ballroom. Let's call this Republican spending package what it is: The Billion Dollar Ballroom Act."
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"The political risk of spending taxpayer dollars on parts of a new White House ballroom has unsettled congressional Republicans who are questioning whether they can approve $1 billion:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/white-house-ballroom-blitz-00922587?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
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"A key moderate Republican lawmaker said Tuesday he would not support a White House security funding request that could pour as much as $220 million into Pres. Donald Trump’s controversial ballroom project":
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/12/congress/brian-fitzpatrick-ballroom-funding-00917848
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"Would You Trust Pete Hegseth With $1.5 Trillion of Your Money?"
This article describes how Trump's budget request wastes money, how it pays off companies owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk, how it spends billions for a missile system that would shooting $4,000,000 interceptors at $35,000 Iranian drones, and how a quarter of it is a slush fund that could be spent for anything:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/opinion/hegseth-pentagon-military-budget.html#FraudWasteAndAbuse #corruption #RecklessSpending copy: @renewedresistance #politics
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"Democrats may shape a midterm message around the GOP plan to spend $1 billion on security for the White House renovation that will build Pres. Donald Trump’s ballroom. It would start with Annie Andrews. This South Carolina Democrat is running against Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Congress’ top proponents of Trump’s #ballroom:
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/07/2026/grahams-democratic-opponent-hits-him-on-ballroom-funding
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"If you think that asking struggling Americans to fork over $1 billion to help fund a gaudy taxpayer-funded ballroom is outrageous, even that figure pales in comparison to the $70 billion that Republicans are also demanding to continue aiding Trump and Stephen Miller’s unfettered mass deportation obsessions. This would be in addition to the $190 billion in funding spent last year":
https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/dhs-already-got-190-billion-last
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