🔵 DOGE Audits IRS

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Citizen Frank
February 14, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, February 13.

 

President Donald Trump on Thursday threw his support behind the Department of Government Efficiency investigation into alleged fraud and waste at the Internal Revenue Service.

Trump has long railed against the IRS, repeatedly claiming on the 2024 campaign trail that the office improperly targets conservatives for political reasons. After entering office in January, the president proposed closing down the IRS and replacing it with a new External Revenue Office. The president and his allies claim that revenue coming in from new Trump-era tariffs would sufficiently offset the loss of federal income taxes.

Gavin Kliger and other DOGE officials reportedly arrived at IRS headquarters Thursday afternoon, just before Trump’s Oval Office signing ceremony for his new reciprocal tariff agenda.

The Trump administration has directed agency heads to fire most trial period and probationary staff within two days, taking aim at many of the roughly 200,000 people hired by the federal government within the last two years, according to four people familiar with internal conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

It was not immediately clear precisely how many employees would be affected. One person familiar with the matter said some employees, such as those working on public safety and law enforcement issues, would be exempted, and agency heads could carve out others based on particular needs.

But agencies appeared to move quickly on Thursday to carry out the directive, according to interviews with dozens of federal employees and records obtained by The Washington Post. Thousands of workers were laid off in messages delivered through prerecorded videos and on group calls. Some were ordered to leave the building within 30 minutes. Others were told they would be formally fired by email, which never arrived.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he wanted the federal Education Department to be closed immediately.

Trump had said last week he would like to close the Department of Education using an executive order but acknowledged he would need buy-ins from Congress and teachers’ unions to fulfill his campaign pledge to do so.

An immediate closure of the Education Department could disrupt tens of billions of dollars in aid to K-12 schools and tuition assistance for college students.

Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and telling people to lie to the FBI, a letter obtained by The Post reveals.

The letter sent by Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her post Thursday rather than obey an order from President Trump’s Justice Department to kill the case, also blasts the “rushed and superficial” reasoning she says was behind Washington, D.C., demand.

“Because the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged, I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations,” Sassoon, a Republican, wrote.

Cops in Indiana say they thwarted a Valentine’s Day mass shooting that a teen girl was allegedly plotting at her high school.

Trinity Shockley, 18, was arrested this week within days of police uncovering a plot to shoot up the Mooresville High School, located southwest of Indianapolis, authorities said.

Shockley was previously the center of a Mooresville community fundraiser after she was hit by a drunk driver on her way to school in 2022.

On Wednesday, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, met with employees in Columbus, Ohio, and celebrated a newly opened bank branch there. Dimon held an internal town-hall meeting where employees asked him about workplace issues, Barron’s earlier reported.

Dimon’s focus of two lengthy answers was remote work, hiring, and efficiencies he wants to see at the company he has led for two decades.

Employees in recent weeks have expressed frustration with the bank’s five-day in-office requirement, effective in March, as well as smaller raises and bonuses than they expected after a year of record-high revenue and profits.

Former State Department official-turned-truthsayer Mike Benz sat down with Joe Rogan for three hours this week, where the two went down the USAID rabbit hole.

To review – over the past several weeks, Elon Musk’s team at DOGE have descended on several key levers of power within the US government – including the US Treasury, the Office of Personnel Management, and of course, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Rogan and Benz

“It must have been very exciting to have the vault opened and to get a peek into the machine, because you’ve been describing this,” Rogan told Benz – who’s spent the last several years dispensing redpills. “The last time you were on the podcast, you went into depth about usaid, and it’s very curious why they chose USAID as the first organization for DOGE to investigate.”

On Tuesday evening, school board members representing Penfield Central School District in Rochester, New York, walked out on a packed house of parents who were upset about an inappropriate book on display at the elementary school library called “The Rainbow Parade,” authored by Emily Neilson.

The book in question is about a young girl attending a pride parade with her lesbian parents. The illustrations show men in sexual BDSM gear holding hands, drag queens, and naked people.

Instead of taking on comments from concerned parents, the board’s president called a motion to adjourn and ended the meeting abruptly. Kimberly DeRosa, who attended the meeting, told The Daily Wire that it ended after “more than an hour of presentations celebrating Black History Month and the superintendent detailing the process of submitting objections to books in the school.”

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