President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 23

February 13, 2025 12:36 pm EST Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 23
President Trump...in a cave.

It’s Thursday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Thursday, February 13 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
1:00 PM
The President signs Executive Orders
Oval Office 
Closed Press
4:00 PM
The President greets the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi
Open Press
4:05 PM
The President hosts a Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi
Oval Office 
In-House Pool
5:10 PM
The President hosts a Press Conference with the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi
East Room 
Pre-Credentialed Media
5:40 PM
The President has Dinner with the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi
State Dining Room 
Closed Press

I’m assuming that today’s closed door EO bullshit is related to this post on Lies Social…

It’s just an assumption because the White House hasn’t given any guidance on what President Shitshow will be signing today…

My assumption seems to be correct…

This should finish up the House Cleaning…

01/22/2025:

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Delivers Emergency Price Relief for American Families to Defeat the Cost-of-Living Crisis:

DELIVERING EMERGENCY PRICE RELIEF: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to deliver emergency price relief for American families and defeat the cost-of-living crisis.

  • The Presidential Memorandum recognizes a critical component of the crushing cost of everyday living. The Biden Administration imposed complex regulatory burdens and radical policies designed to weaken American production. 
  • President Trump is ordering all Federal agencies to untangle the American economy from Biden constraints and improve affordability of necessary goods and services and increase the prosperity of the American workers.
  • This includes action to:
    • Drastically lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply;
    • Eliminate unnecessary administrative expenses and rent-seeking practices that drive up healthcare costs;
    • Eliminate counterproductive requirements raising the costs of home appliances;
    • Create employment opportunities for American workers including drawing discouraged workers into the labor force; and
    • Eliminate harmful, coercive “climate” policies driving up the costs of food and fuel.

ENDING BIDEN’S WAR ON AFFORDABILITY: The Biden Administration’s destructive policies inflicted an historic inflation crisis on the American people. 

  • Hardworking families are overwhelmed today by the cost of fuel, food, housing, automobiles, medical care, utilities, and insurance.
  • Unprecedented regulatory oppression from the Biden Administration has imposed almost $50,000 in costs on the average American household, whereas President Trump’s first-term agenda reduced regulatory costs by almost $11,000 per household.
  • Americans are unable to purchase homes at historic rates, in part due to regulatory requirements that alone account for 25 percent of the cost of constructing a new home.
  • Biden’s assault on plentiful and reliable American energy through impossible, unnecessary, and illegal regulatory demands have driven up the cost of transportation and manufacturing.
    • Biden’s war on energy has been a war on American consumers. American households are paying an average of $1,200 more per year in energy costs under President Biden’s policies. Since he took office, total energy costs rose by 36%, gasoline rose 41%, home energy costs rose 30%, electricity bills rose 29%, and gas bills rose 34%.
    • After averaging just $2.77 per gallon under President Trump, and a price of $2.33 upon leaving office, the price of gasoline skyrocketed under President Biden, reaching $3.33 a year later. It went on to reach a peak at $5.00 per gallon and remains elevated today.  
  • The unlawful regulatory mandate on companies to eliminate gas-powered vehicles has resulted in artificial price increases in order to subsidize electric vehicles, largely disfavored by consumers.

Yesterday:

President Shitshow reacted to the news…

01/21/2025:

01/20/2025:

I had to mash 01/20/2025 together, because that was a massive posting day for White House.gov.

Other Posts from Lies Social…

*Flashback*

*End Flashback*

Deadline reported (02/12/2025): Even thought CNN says according to sources that the vote wasn’t unanimous, they wouldn’t be surprised if it was given the body that elected him was filled with President Shitshow’s appointees.

CNN later reported that the vote was not unanimous, although would not be a surprise: With Trump’s purge of Biden’s board members, the body that elected Trump is filled with his appointees. They include his chief of staff Susie Wiles, longtime aide Dan Scavino and Second Lady Usha Vance, joining some of those picked in the president’s first term. Those include Lee Greenwood and lobbyist Brian Ballard.

Deadline reported (02/12/2025).

USA Spending.gov (using Thomson Reuters Special Services) says:

The contact started 09/28/2018; ending on 11/29/2022:

This is the details listed:

I found this after, I just looked it up…

POLITICO was paid for services through a subscription service. This service was a huge source of data, legal proceedings, research data for science, and one other one, I can’t remember off the top of my head.

This was posted today by the White House…

Memo to Press: Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are Fraudulently Spent Every Year:

The New York Times erroneously wrote that there is no “proof” for “sweeping claims” of “fraud” in federal government spending.
 
Apparently, the Times and other like-minded outlets lack access to a newfangled research tool called Google.
 
The Government Accountability Office released a report just last year finding “No area of the federal government is immune to fraud. We estimated that the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.”
 
President Donald J. Trump is determined to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars and put an end to fraudulent and wasteful spending.

Memo to Press: Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are Fraudulently Spent Every Year. 02/12/2025.

The New York Times link shared: At Oval Office, Musk Makes Broad Claims of Federal Fraud Without Proof (gift link); Among Mr. Musk’s claims, which he offered without providing evidence, was that some officials at the now-gutted U.S. Agency for International Development had been taking “kickbacks.” He said that “quite a few people” in the bureaucracy somehow had “managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” without explaining how he had made that assessment. He later claimed that some recipients of Social Security checks were as old as 150.

GAO link shared: Fraud Risk Management:2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments (04/16/2024):

GAO estimated total direct annual financial losses to the government from fraud to be between $233 billion and $521 billion, based on data from fiscal years 2018 through 2022. The range reflects the different risk environments during this period. Ninety percent of the estimated fraud losses fell in this range.

GAO collected data from three key sources to develop the estimate: investigative data, such as the number of cases sent for prosecution and the dollar value of closed cases; Office of Inspector General (OIG) semiannual report information; and confirmed fraud data reported to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by agencies. GAO organized these data around three fraud categories—adjudicated, detected potential, and undetected potential. Model design and validation were also informed by 46 fraud studies. OIG and other knowledgeable officials agreed with these categories and subcategories.

GAO’s approach is sensitive to the assumptions made about fraud and accounts for data uncertainty and limitations. GAO used a well-established probabilistic method for estimating a range of outcomes under different assumptions and scenarios where there is uncertainty. The estimate does not include fraud loss associated with federal revenue or fraud against federal programs that occurs at the state, local, or tribal level unless federal authorities investigated and reported it. GAO’s estimate is in line with other estimates of fraud losses from the United Kingdom and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, among others.

As a first of its kind government-wide estimate of federal dollars lost to fraud, there are known uncertainties associated with the model and underlying data important to interpreting the results. These include caveats related to

Fraud Risk Management:2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments.
  • applying the estimate to agencies or programs. GAO’s model was developed to estimate government-wide federal fraud. The fraud estimate’s range represents 3 to 7 percent of average federal obligations. These percentages should not be applied at the agency or program level. While every federal program and operation is at risk of fraud, the level of risk can vary substantially. Controls, growth or shrinkage of budget, and the emergence of new fraud schemes are some reasons the risk level can vary;
  • drawing conclusions about pandemic fraud. GAO’s estimate is based on data from fiscal years 2018 through 2022. The data include time periods and programs with and without pandemic-related spending. Therefore, the estimate includes, but is not limited to, pandemic-related spending fraud. While the upper range of the estimate is associated with higher-risk environments, it is not possible to break out a subset of our government-wide estimate to describe pandemic program fraud;
  • comparing with improper payment estimates. GAO’s estimate is not comparable to improper payment estimates. Improper payment estimates are based on a subset of federal programs, using a methodology not designed to identify fraud. GAO has also consistently reported that the federal government does not know the full extent of improper payments and has long recommended that agencies improve their improper payment reporting. In contrast, GAO’s fraud estimate includes all federal programs and operations and is based on fraud-related data. With these differences in scope and data, the upper end of GAO’s estimated fraud range exceeded annual improper payment estimates; and
  • assuming the estimate is predictive. GAO’s estimate is not based on a predictive model. Factors such as the amount of emergency spending, the effectiveness of federal fraud risk management, and the nature of new fraud threats could substantially impact the scale of future fraud.

GAO has previously issued Matters for Congressional Consideration and recommendations to improve agencies’ program integrity, including fraud risk management. Fraud estimation provides opportunities to improve fraud risk management, according to OIG and agency officials. For example, estimates can demonstrate the scope of the problem, improve oversight prioritization, and help determine the return on investment from fraud risk management activities. While it is not possible to eliminate fraud, with a better understanding of the costs, agencies will be better positioned to manage the risk.

OIG and agency officials noted challenges in producing fraud estimates, such as limited available fraud-related data and use of varying terms and definitions of fraud for recording data. These data gaps and variability result in information that cannot be readily compared or consolidated to determine the extent of fraud across the federal government. Guidance for collecting and reporting fraud-related data is currently limited to OIG semiannual reports and confirmed fraud reported by agencies to OMB, which are not designed to support fraud estimation. With guidance targeted to the purpose of fraud estimation, agencies and OIGs would be better positioned to collect and report data on potential and adjudicated fraud in support of estimation efforts.

OIG and agency officials also noted the utility of agency or program-level estimates compared with government-wide estimates. They further noted the need for expertise and data-analytics capacity to produce estimates. GAO previously reported that agencies identified limitations in expertise, data, and tools as a significant challenge for their fraud risk management efforts. These challenges could also impact agencies’ ability to develop effective fraud estimates at a program or agency level. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Payment Integrity (OPI) supports agencies facing such challenges. OPI’s resources are dedicated to preventing and detecting improper payments through a variety of data-matching and data-analytics services. Therefore, OPI is well positioned—with the expertise, data, and analytic tools—to evaluate and advance methods that the federal government can take to estimate fraud in support of fraud risk management.

Fraud Risk Management:2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. 04/16/2024.

Why GAO Did This Study

All federal programs and operations are at risk of fraud. Therefore, agencies need robust processes in place to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud. While the government obligated almost $40 trillion from fiscal years 2018 through 2022, no reliable estimates of fraud losses affecting the federal government previously existed.

As part of GAO’s work on managing fraud risks, this report (1) estimates the range of total direct annual financial losses from fraud based on 2018-2022 data and (2) identifies opportunities and challenges in fraud estimation to support fraud risk management.

GAO estimated the range of total direct annual financial losses from fraud based on 2018-2022 data using a Monte Carlo simulation model. GAO identified opportunities and challenges through interviews and data collection focused on 12 agencies representing about 90 percent of federal obligations.

Fraud Risk Management:2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. 04/16/2024.

Recommendations

GAO is making two recommendations to OMB—one in collaboration with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) and the other with agency input to improve the availability of fraud-related data. GAO is also making a recommendation to the Department of the Treasury to expand government-wide fraud estimation, in consultation with OMB. OMB generally agreed with the recommendations but disagreed with the estimate. GAO believes the estimate is sound, as discussed in the report. CIGIE stated it would work with OMB to consider how OIGs might improve fraud-related data. Treasury agreed with the recommendation.

Fraud Risk Management:2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. 04/16/2024.

In Last Bit of News I Can Stand News…

Our inexperienced “merit” based Secretary of Defense has walked back comments he made *checks notes* yesterday…

Show more =’s Everything is on the table. In his conversations with Vladimir Putin and Zelensky, what he decides to allow or not allow, is at the purview of the leader of the free world–President Trump. So I’m not going to stand at this podium and declare what President Trump will do or won’t do, what will be in or what will be out, what concessions will be made or what concessions are not made.”

RFK has been confirmed…

If healthy =’s uninformed tin foil hat wearing people, sure RFK is gonna make us “healthy again”…

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