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  Boomerang Coming: Anti-Trump Federal Judge Rules FBI Must Provide Mar-a-Lago “Classified Documents” Material to FOIA Lawsuit

  February 10, 2025 | Sundance | 92 Comments

  Leftist journalist Jason Leopold filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ/FBI a few years ago, seeking the documents and background material assembled by the DOJ, FBI and Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.  With the Mar-a-Lago case against Trump dismissed by a Florida judge, and effectively dropped by Special Counsel Jack Smith.  The justification for withholding the responsive material is no longer valid.

  This has resulted in anti-Trump U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, now ruling that anti-Trump journalist Jason Leopold should be given the FOIA documents by the FBI and DOJ. [Ruling pdf here].  Essentially, Howell is saying, angrily, that with President Trump immune from criminal liability (SCOTUS immunity decision), the only public recourse for accountability is sunlight from within the evidence the FBI assembled.

  Here is where it gets interesting.

  The DOJ/FBI Special Counsel, previously said to the Florida court they would not reveal the content of the information because it was “classified” under “national security” grounds.  You might remember President Trump’s legal position was to make the content public because Trump said there was no classified material.

  To reconcile the issue, during discovery phase Florida Judge Cannon appointed a Special Master to review the “classified” documents.  The FBI and Jack Smith balked at the demand and filed an appeal with the 11th Circuit to keep the Trump defense from reviewing what Jack Smith said were “documents marked classified.”  Smith didn’t want the documents made public or revealed to President Trump, so the DOJ/FBI position was that the documents were too sensitive (TSCI) with “national security” implications.

  The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the government position that any documents defined as “classified” by the executive branch (now Biden) that claimed, “national security,” should not be disclosed to the defendant, Trump.  The court of appeals essentially determined that all definitions by the executive branch, are not questionable by the judicial branch.

  The bottom line was that President Trump’s legal team were never able to ascertain exactly what the “documents marked classified” actually were.  That aspect of the case was pure Lawfare, and actually quite silly.

  

  The DOJ was saying Trump had “documents with classification markings.”  Trump saying, “no I didn’t have classified documents, but if true what where they?”  And the DOJ saying, “we can’t tell you, that’s classified.”  It was silly and never reconciled in part because the case was dismissed.

  Well…. now Judge Beryl Howell is telling the DOJ/FBI to produce the “documents with classification markings,” and all surrounding information therein, to Jason Leopold, because Trump bad and the information will make the public hate him, or something [SEE Court Order].  But again, no-one knows what these “documents with classification markings” actually were…. Except, well, maybe us.  We have well-based circumstantially supported suspicions. {see here}

  Will the Trump DOJ (now Pam Bondi) and the Trump FBI (likely Kash Patel) release the files and material to Jason Leopold, as demanded by Judge Howell?

  I think there’s a strong possibility they will, which then begs the question:

  ….If the documents were of such critical national security value, then why would the “documents with classification markings” be released under the auspices of a simple FOIA claim?

  lolol…  See the stupidity of it?

  The “Documents with classification markings” were of such devastating content, such that the DOJ protected them from visibility even by a security cleared special master; and then fought the release of the documents to the Trump defense – who was charged with defending Trump against the accusation that surrounded them; where the DOJ even fought the release of the “documents with classification markings” all the way to the 11th CCA to keep them hidden; well, then how the heck do those documents get released by a simple Freedom of Information Act request by a journalist?

  Judge Beryl Howell never attempts to reconcile that issue in her order.

  Sometimes Lawfare can be a little funny when it is argued by leftists, in courts controlled by leftists, with leftist judges, with inherent hypocrisy that surrounds the concept of leftist Lawfare.  I would love to see Eric A Dubelier Esq write about this (lol).

  Bottom line, I have a strong suspicion this order, intended to create an anti-Trump narrative, is going to boomerang once the public see the “Documents with classification markings.”

  Let’s see what happens.

  [Politico Story Here]

  

  Posted in Big Government, Big Stupid Government, Decepticons, Deep State, Dept Of Justice, DHS, Donald Trump, Lawfare, media bias, President Trump, THE BIG UGLY

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"As a solution to the problem, instead of admitting that the vendor with personal friendships with Obama had created a billion dollar website that did not work, the solution was to create the “United States Digital Service.” The USDS was given the authority to fix the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov."

"The USDS was formally created on August 11, 2014 and its first head was a former Google engineer Mikey Dickerson. Dickerson is now a professor of Computer Science at Pomona College. Dickerson was succeeded by Matt Cutts, another engineering veteran from Google. Cutts was replaced by Mina Hsiang who served as the Administrator during the Biden administration."

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  Budget Boss Russ Vought Tells all CFPB Staff to “Stop Work”

  February 10, 2025 | Sundance | 9 Comments

  Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought is also the interim Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is under review by DOGE and on Monday morning Russ Vought told CFPB staff not to come to work. {Background Here}

  Vought sent an email to employees this morning saying they should “not perform any work tasks.” They were directed to contact the top lawyer for the Office of Management and Budget “to get approval in writing before performing any work task.”

  Vought is also serving as the bureau’s acting director. The previous director, Rohit Chopra, was fired by Trump, a Republican, on Feb. 1. Vought’s message followed one on Saturday evening that ordered the bureau to “cease all supervision and examination activity.”

  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s newly installed chief of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told all of the agency’s staff on Monday to stay away from the office and do no work, according to an email reviewed by Reuters.

  The move followed a weekend decision to shutter the CFPB’s Washington headquarters, idling a federal agency of nearly 2,000 workers tasked with enforcing consumer financial laws.

  “Employees should not come into the office,” acting CFPB Director Russell Vought said in an email to all staff. “Please do not perform any work tasks.”

  Vought, a longtime budget hawk, took control of the agency on Friday. He is architect of the right-wing policy manifesto known as Project 2025, which called for the CFPB’s abolition.

  Efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to neutralize the agency escalated over the weekend as billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gained full access to CFPB computer systems. Vought ordered a stop to all oversight of consumer financial companies. (read more)

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) was originally created by congress (Elizabeth Warren lead) as a quasi-constitutional watchdog agency to reach into the banking and financial system, under the guise of oversight, and extract money by fining entities for CFPB defined regulatory and/or compliance violations

  Essentially, the CFPB is a congressionally authorized far-left extortion scheme in the banking sector.  The CFPB levies fines; the fines generate income; however, unlike traditional fines that go to the U.S. treasury, the CFBP fines are then redistributed to left-wing organizations to help fund their political activism. {GO DEEP}

  “Elon Musk and Russ Vought aren’t just testing the limits of the law — they’re shattering them, daring anyone to stop them,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the activist group Indivisible. “This attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is illegal, unconstitutional, and a blatant power grab by billionaires who want to rig the system even further in their favor.” (link)

  

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  President Trump Files Urgent Motion to Nullify “Impermissible” Court Order Blocking Treasury Officials from Access to Systems

  February 10, 2025 | Sundance | 141 Comments

  Lawyers representing President Trump and the office of the presidency have filed an urgent response motion to remove a court order by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer that blocked the Treasury Secretary and “political appointees” from accessing Treasury Department systems. [SEE ADMINISTRATION FILING HERE]

  The filing is in response to District Judge Engelmayer’s blatant effort to engage in judicial activism and violate the Article II separation of power.  The Chief executive cannot be limited in scope or activity by the judicial branch, let alone a single circuit court judge within the regional judicial branch who is attempting to block the executive branch nationally.

  

  [Source pdf]

  “Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the president,” Justice Department attorneys wrote in the 11-page filing, calling the order “impermissible” and “anti-constitutional.”

  WASHINGTON DC – […] The attorneys are asking Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas to quickly end or modify the order to ensure Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his top leadership can be briefed on the payment system and perform their legally required roles. (more)

  

  From The Twitter – “Donald Trump’s actions since his inauguration have caused public discussion of some questions in Constitutional law.

  I’m not a lawyer. But I have more than a passing acquaintance with Constitutional law – I’ve been studying it ever since I was an individual amicus in the Supreme Court case that struck down the Communications Decency Act back in the 1990s.

  After 30 years of studying issues around the First and Second amendment and the doctrine of judicial review, I have some thoughts.

  There are several intermingled issues here.

  First: when JD Vance says that the courts do not have the authority to intervene in the administration of the executive branch, he is probably correct.

  The judicial review power is generally considered to extend modifying or striking down laws, not to allowing any judge to interfere in the president’s administrative authority over the executive branch.

  Second, any judge that rules that the Treasury of the Secretary may not have unlimited access to Treasury department data is setting himself up for reversal. This has never been litigated because it’s a ridiculous overreach that has never been attempted before.

  Third, there are serious questions about the authority of federal judges below the level of the Supreme Court (what the Constitution explicitly calls “inferior” courts) that may now be forced to a resolution.

  For purposes of separation of powers, only the Supreme Court itself is considered co-equal to the executive and legislative branches. Inferior judges are not.

  One question, therefore, is whether the President may assert separation of powers as a defense against rulings of an inferior judge. Certainly, invoking separation of powers against a ruling of the Supreme Court itself would trigger a constitutional crisis, but that’s not the situation we’re talking about here.

  This has not been litigated, but I think the President is likely to prevail on the question.

  The fourth question is about the authority of federal circuit court judges to issue injunctions with nationwide effects outside the circuit where they have formal authority.

  Until very recently, federal judges were so reluctant to raise this Constitutional issue that they almost never issued such injunctions. They issued injunctions only for their own circuits and left it to the Supreme Court to resolve questions about nationwide application.

  But nationwide injunctions in contentious cases have become more common recently, and it is likely that the Supreme Court will be forced to address whether inferior-court federal judges do in fact have nationwide authority.

  I think it is quite unlikely that the Supreme Court will affirm this.

  I am not addressing here the question of whether I think Trump and DOGE’s authority to block Treasury payments should prevail. I am predicting that it almost certainly will prevail.” ~Eric S Raymond

  

  Posted in Activist Judges, Big Government, Big Stupid Government, DOGE, Donald Trump, Lawfare, media bias, President Trump, THE BIG UGLY, US Treasury

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  Leftist Lawfare – Manhattan Judge Issues Emergency Order Removing Secretary of Treasury, All Political Appointees and DOGE Personnel from Federal Govt., Only Bureaucrats Allowed in DC

  February 8, 2025 | Sundance | 328 Comments

  In a stunning and sweeping emergency injunction that has even stunned the people who demanded it, a Manhattan-based District Judge has just removed Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent from his authority over the Treasury Department; blocked any political appointee from accessing records within the Treasury Department; blocked any “special appointee” of President Trump from records within Treasury; and demanded that all information previously extracted be destroyed.

  The emergency injunction was signed by District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan, {Ruling pdf Here} determined without any input from the Trump administration and applies until Friday, February 14, 2025, when U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas will hear the full arguments of the lawsuit.

  The emergency ruling comes as a result of 15 (Soros installed) attorneys general from New Jersey, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont, all filed suit in New York seeking to block Elon Musk and DOGE from access to information that would reveal how activist groups in their states have been funded by the U.S. government. [Link to Press Release Here]

  WASHINGTON – […] The lawsuit said Musk and his team could disrupt federal funding for health clinics, preschools, climate initiatives, and other programs, and that Republican President Donald Trump could use the information to further his political agenda.

  DOGE’s access to the system also “poses huge cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril,” the state attorneys general said. They sought a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access.

  The judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, said the states’ claims were “particularly strong” and warranted him acting on their request for emergency relief pending a further hearing before another judge on February 14.

  “That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Engelmayer wrote.

  New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat whose office is leading the case, welcomed the ruling, saying nobody was above the law and that Americans across the country had been horrified by the DOGE team’s unfettered access to their data.

  “We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed,” James said in a statement.

  “Now, Americans can trust that Musk – the world’s richest man – and his friends will not have free rein over their personal information while our lawsuit proceeds.”

  Engelmayer’s order bars access from being granted to Treasury Department payment and data systems by political appointees, special government employees and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department.

  The judge also directed that anyone prohibited under his order from accessing those systems to immediately destroy anything they copied or downloaded. (read more)

  The order by the judge is transparent judicial activism; it will almost certainly be overturned and nullified by later rulings.  However, it creates blocks and slows down the goal of the Dept of Government Efficiency and the objective of the Trump administration.

  On what basis do states think they can sue the federal government to stop the federal government from auditing federal spending?  How can a judge block the executive branch from executing the functions of the executive branch?  This Lawfare activism is ridiculous.

  Within the ruling:

  …”restrained from granting access to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees, other than to civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations.” {source}

  So, the unelected bureaucracy is in charge and not the Secretary of the Treasury?

   

  Posted in Activist Judges, Big Stupid Government, Dept Of Justice, Donald Trump, Lawfare, media bias, President Trump, States, Typical Prog Behavior, US Treasury

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  A Brief Note About the USAID Larger Issues – Humanitarian Aid and National Security

  February 8, 2025 | Sundance | 35 Comments

  CTH readers are several years ahead of the current news cycle, and I doubt any of the recent revelations about USAID spending and objectives are surprising to most readers here.  What we are now seeing are the receipts proving a conversation we have outlined exhaustively on these pages.

  There are many ‘revelations’ certain to surface, including how the USAID priorities included the control of information on the internet through their partnerships in the private sector.  The larger objective was always information control and manipulating political outcomes both domestically and abroad. That is the impetus for the USAID spending.

  The ‘humanitarian’ angle was always a cover, a ruse, tradecraft to hide how taxpayer money was gained and being distributed. That’s why none of their humanitarian endeavors ever solved anything.

  Food, clean water, medicine and global aid was the visible claim by the USAID administrators; however, as you see from the surfacing receipts, that was always just a cover for their activity in political influence operations.

  Do not think the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee was blind to this operation, they were not.  The Senate held oversight, and they knew exactly what was going on, who was doing the orchestration of the agenda, and what the priorities of the USAID operation was all about.

  Senator Marco Rubio sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio advanced with a confirmation vote of 99-0.  Secretary Rubio now controls USAID.

  To understand the issues as they are now surfacing it is very important to retain clear context.

  USAID was a sub-silo, a child of the parent organization, the CIA.  The CIA controlled the Big Picture, and USAID was the institution to carry out the objective.

  When you see a controversial issue within the USAID operation reaching sunlight, always remember it is the CIA behind it.  When USAID targeted a foreign government for removal, it was the CIA behind it.  When USAID engaged with domestic and foreign media to control mis-dis-malinformation, it is the CIA behind it.  The CIA is defining the information.

  When USAID pressured various global news agencies and organized advertiser boycotts against information sources averse to the interests of USAID, it is the CIA behind it.  When USAID funds the Clinton Foundation, or McCain Institute, or any of the cause celebre’ NGOs you now see in the headlines, it is factually the CIA behind them.  When USAID funds media for influence control, it is the CIA behind it.

  This is also the context for the envelopes at the George H.W. Bush funeral.  An argument can be made that GHW Bush as CIA Director was the originator and architect of the CIA/USAID business model we are now discussing.  Bush knew the politicians would have to benefit from the business, in order to advance the operation.

  When Chuck Schumer says, “the Intelligence Community has “six ways from Sunday to get you,” he is referencing this matrix of Intelligence Community control, that also includes the use of USAID to fund the systems that target the opposition as defined by the CIA.

  Yes, in many ways real and yet to be revealed, all roads lead to Langley.

  When you see media outlets, or NGOs on the left and right side of the information system being given funds (directly or indirectly) though the USAID funding silo, keep in mind this it is essentially the CIA behind it.

  The Central Intelligence Agency is the only silo within Washington DC, specifically empowered to operate in complete darkness.  There is zero CIA oversight, and the mission mandate as authorized by congress permits the CIA to remain entirely closed from any oversight or scrutiny.  The CIA is also authorized to lie about anything as part of their “national security” mission.

  It is through that larger IC prism that all information about USAID operations should be evaluated.

  This is also the context to remember and perhaps reevaluate the attack on the ‘secret’ U.S. embassy consulate in Benghazi Libya (9/11/12).  This is the context that explains why it took the FBI 19 days to arrive in Benghazi and why the U.S. government allowed the CIA operatives in the Annex a few miles away to remain under attack without aid.  If an event threatens to reveal the IC, CIA, State Dept activity, they throw a bag over it – sacrificing anyone in/around the event.

  Many years ago, when we began our discussion on this matrix of domestic manipulations and political outcomes, we presented an image.

  This was not an accidental meme.

  Evaluate it closely.

  

  Posted in Big Government, CIA, Decepticons, Deep State, Dem Hypocrisy, DHS, Donald Trump, President Trump, THE BIG UGLY

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Obama Judge Temporarily Blocks Musk’s DOGE Access to Important Treasury Dept. Payment System – Orders IMMEDIATE Destruction of ALL Data Obtained Since Trump’s Inauguration – Musk Responds to Ruling with Fire

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/obama-judge-temporarily-blocks-musks-doge-access-important/

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Washington Apoplexy Hits Fevered Pitch – DC Operatives Beg Lawfare Allies to Intervene

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  Oh Boy – DOGE Team Now Reviewing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Elizabeth Warren Shakedown Racket

  February 7, 2025 | Sundance | 4 Comments

  If you thought the USAID revelations were alarming sunlight, just wait until you see the apoplectic fits of rage about to come out from the Democrats, the DNC affiliated community activist groups, and the professional leftists who all rely upon the financial mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

  According to a Politico article (also funded by USAID money), written with stunning amount of anger and apoplexy itself, Elon Musk’s DOGE team has just entered the CFPB to do a review and audit.  This one is going to be beyond bananas.

  Jumpin’ ju-ju bones, tell Ma, to fire up the coffee pot, we are in for a delicious treat.  There’s no way for the DC outrage machine to handle this dose of Trumpian nitrous oxide directly into the intake manifold.  The machine will explode.

  

  BACKGROUND FIRST – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) was originally created by congress (Elizabeth Warren lead) as a quasi-constitutional watchdog agency to reach into the banking and financial system, under the guise of oversight, and extract money by fining entities for CFPB defined regulatory and/or compliance violations

  Essentially, the CFPB is a congressionally authorized far-left extortion scheme in the banking sector.  The CFPB levies fines; the fines generate income; however, unlike traditional fines that go to the U.S. treasury, the CFBP fines are then redistributed to left-wing organizations to help fund their political activism.

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was the brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren as an outcome of the Dodd-Frank legislation. Within the CFPB Warren tried to set up the head of the agency, the Director, in a manner that that he/she would operate without oversight. Unfortunately, her dictatorial-fiat-design collapsed when challenged in court.  Backstory #1 – Backstory #2

  A federal court found the CFPB Director position held too much power and deemed it unconstitutional. The court decision noted that giving the President power to fire the Director would fix the constitutional problem.  This issue was argued extensively after President Trump appointed Mick Mulvaney as interim Director.  Elizabeth Warren declaring the CFPB Director could not be fired by the executive.  The legal battle worked its way to the Supreme Court.

  In June 2020, the Supreme Court ruled (full pdf here) the structure of the CFPB Director position is unconstitutional and the President can fire the head of the agency.  However, SCOTUS kept the CFPB agency in place by severing the part of the law that created the agency head from the rest of the law.

  The CFPB remains as a quasi-constitutional agency; the CFPB remains an extortion racket to target any organization within the banking and finance sector; however, the president can fire and appoint the Director of the CFPB.

  That’s the background.  Now, DOGE is looking at the books, and the DC system is going bananas.

  WASHINGTON DC – Elon Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that the billionaire Trump adviser has personally targeted, according to three people familiar with their actions.

  Three Musk allies, some of whom are tied to his Department of Government Efficiency, have also embedded with the consumer bureau, according to the CFPB’s employees union, NTEU 335, in a sign that cuts could be coming to the agency, which Republicans have long opposed.

  Chris Young, Nikhil Rajpal and Gavin Kliger’s names were added to the agency’s internal staff directory on Thursday night, the union said. They are listed as “senior advisers,” according to a person in the bureau who asked not to be named.

  “CFPB Union members welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators,” the union said in a scathing statement on Friday.

  “While Acting Director [Scott] Bessent allows Musk’s operatives to bypass cybersecurity policies and wreak havoc with their amateur code skills inside CFPB’s once-secure systems, CFPB Union members fight to protect our jobs so we can continue protecting Americans from scammers with conflicts of interest like Musk,” the union said.

  The CFPB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for DOGE also did not immediately respond. (read more)

  The CFPB racket is also how the DNC and Clyburn network get paid.

  This is the core funding for the activist groups who the Democrats rely upon to manipulate election outcomes.  If they get cut off from both USAID funds and CFPB funds, they lose about 75% of all their election engineering funding.

  The Act Blue money laundering operation took the hundreds of millions in funds from sketchy network sources attached to the CFPB/USAID, then assigned those funds to random names in the donor files of the Act Blue system; essentially washing away the fingerprints so the FEC could not identify the larger funding mechanism behind the fraudulently assigned individual donors.  This is the trail that James O’Keefe was following.

  Liawatha is going to be Big Mad.

  

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  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Sets the Record Straight on DOGE Work Within the Treasury Dept

  February 6, 2025 | Sundance | 35 Comments

  U.S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears for an interview with Bloomberg, to set the record straight.  Bessent says Elon Musk and his DOGE government efficiency team are not “tinkering” with any federal payment data. He says the group does important work, and two of the DOGE analysts are Treasury Dept employees.

  Secretary Bessent also talks about the strength of the US dollar, President Donald Trump’s agenda and meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and more.  The remarks about DOGE are at the front of the interview. WATCH:

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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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BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi Orders DOJ to Stop ALL FEDERAL FUNDING to Sanctuary Cities — Vows Prosecution of Officials Obstructing Immigration Enforcement