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Wake Up Right - February 18, 2025
Wake Up Right
February 18, 2025
Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! Elon Musk and GOP Senators are asking: When was the last time Fort Knox was audited?
According to the US Mint, Fort Knox contains 147.3 million ounces of the United States' gold reserves.
But how do we know it’s all there? Do you trust the government’s word without publicly available audits? Personally, I don’t even trust the government’s word on how many orange parking cones it has in reserve.
I’m on board — audit Fort Knox!
📦️ 60% support deporting aliens here illegally
🚻 63% support Trump recognizing only two sexes
🤝 42% of Black men support Donald Trump
📈 53% expect economic growth in next 6 months, up from 36% in 2023
DOGE finds up to $4.7 trillion in unmarked spending
The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered a major oversight in federal spending — trillions in federal payments lacking proper tracking codes.
Glossary section: The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is a code linking payments made by the Department of Treasury to specific budget items allocated by Congress.
Back up: Previously, the TAS codes were optional, making it difficult to go back and track where federal funds actually end up.
The details: The official X account for DOGE revealed: "In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going."
Zoom out: To date, DOGE has saved U.S. taxpayers an estimated $55 billion by identifying and canceling fraud and wasteful spending within the federal budget.
Lawfare: DOGE is facing several legal challenges brought by Democrat-run states, but a federal judge ruled Friday that Musk and DOGE do have the authority to access sensitive data from at least three federal agencies.
Big picture: Everyone should wonder why Democrats are kicking and screaming so loudly about discovering the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars. What do they have to hide?
[Source: Fox News]
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Audit reveals Biden gave illegals $22 billion to buy homes and start businesses
A new audit reveals the Biden regime spent over $20 billion on grants for illegal aliens, including funds to buy homes, while American homes were in short supply.
The details: According to the government watchdog group, OpenTheBooks, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR,) handed out $22.6 billion from 2020 to 2024 on programs that gave illegal aliens grants to:
🏠️ buying homes
🚗 buying cars
💳️ paying off credit debt
🏪 start small business
📚️ college education
By the year: ORR significantly increased its spending over the years:
2020: $2.6 billion
2021: $2.3 billion
2022: $3.3 billion
2023: $10 billion
2024: $4.2 billion
…2024 only decreased because Biden tried to slow down the border crisis for the upcoming election.
Zoom out: This is the same ORR that came under fire last year for losing track of 32,000 illegal alien children it had released into the country.
Unaccompanied minors: The largest portion of funding — $12.4 billion — went towards unaccompanied minors, who were often placed with unvetted or abusive sponsors within the country.
Housing crisis: Throughout Joe Biden’s tenure, home ownership was harder for American citizens to achieve due to rising interest rates and rising home prices — all while the number of homes on the market was incredibly low. Now, we learn Biden was using American tax dollars to incentivize illegal aliens to compete with American citizens for those few remaining homes on the market. Truly despicable.
[Source: OpenTheBooks]
Who is your favorite President?
Yesterday was President’s Day, so I asked for your favorite President not named Trump. The Gipper ran away with 1st place!
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ George Washington (179)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Abraham Lincoln (133)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ronald Reagan (697)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Teddy Roosevelt (77)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Dwight D. Eisenhower (20)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ One of the other 40 Presidents... (72)
Ronald Reagan: “His humor, wit, and overall likability make him my favorite. Even his political adversaries liked him. Very few things expand party lines, but humor does.”
Teddy Roosevelt: “‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ That’s also how I roll. In today’s terms, we’d call that FAFO. 😎🇺🇸”
George Washington: “George Washington knelt and prayed for God's help to prevail before battles. I picture him as a man who stood strong in his quiet power, carrying the mission of freedom without wavering in his faith.”
Abraham Lincoln: “His courage to go against the easier political decisions at the time our country was at the precipice of failure was amazing. All the while his personal turmoils were unfolding.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Ike built the interstate system and warned us of the military-industrial complex, not to mention he led us out of WWII.”
Other: “James Polk, who oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history.”
✈️ A Delta Air Lines regional plane crashed and flipped upside down while landing Monday afternoon at Toronto Pearson International Airport, resulting in the evacuation of 80 passengers and crew. Miraculously, no one died. Read more.
🤝 Top U.S. and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia today to discuss improving relations and ending the war in Ukraine. Notably, Ukraine is not part of the meetings. Read more.
🪪 Elon Musk shed light on 20 million people in the Social Security database over age 100 despite only 86,000 people living as centenarians. Read more.
✅ Judge Tanya Chutkan appeared poised to reject an effort to bar Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing data or causing firings across the federal government, citing a lack of evidence to justify the extraordinary restriction. Read more.
🌊 A massive severe winter storm that slammed the Northeast with heavy snow this weekend triggered flash flood warnings in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, where at least 11 died. Read more.
👏 The Trump administration secured the release of American citizen Kalob Byers, who was detained in Russia on drug charges earlier this month. Read more.
🏈 The NFL regrets picking Kendrick Lamar over Lil Wayne for last week’s Super Bowl halftime show, a league employee reportedly admits. Read more.
🥡 Eating from plastic takeout containers may raise your risk of congenital heart failure, according to a peer-reviewed study, that says the plastic triggers inflammation in the gut biome and harms circulation. Read more.
💸 Influential Democratic donors have paused donations to left-wing activist groups, citing the party’s failure to regroup after losing in November. Read more.
🤡 The Biden regime spent $22.6 billion on grants for illegal aliens between 2020 and 2024, including cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses. Read more.
💣️ President Trump congratulated U.S. forces following an airstrike over the weekend that targeted an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. Read more.
🎥 Hollywood actor Tom Hanks mocks Trump supporters on SNL. Watch.
🎥 Looks like the Nazis are still in power in Germany. Watch.
🎥 Kamala is back! Sharing word-salad "inspiration" with Broadway actors. Watch.
🎥 Here's one of the ways USAID was funneling your money to international bureaucrats. Watch.
🎥 Insane... CBS's Margaret Brennan thinks free speech led to Hitler. Marco Rubio educates her. Watch.
🎥 ANTIFA incel gets arrested for spray-painting a guy in a MAGA hat. Watch.
🎥 A "presidential historian" says we should stop celebrating President's Day because of Trump. Watch.
🎥 Trump reminds a biased reporter that he inherited inflation from Joe Biden, and it will not be turned back overnight. Watch.
🎥 TikToker goes viral for saying what we're all thinking about why Democrats are scared of DOGE. Watch.
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