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It's true that Joe Biden created a border crisis for America, with impacts that will ripple for years as millions of illegal aliens now are in the country, while in office.
He turned health care on its head by demanding absolute pursuit of abortion and transgender ideologies.
The economy: Inflation was as high as 9.1% under his leadership.
Besides the damage inflicted on America as a whole, he left his own Democrat party in a shambles.
But one member of Congress is liking the idea that he took 40% of his presidency as vacation, wondering just what damage would have happened had he worked those days.
It is the New York Post that reported, "Joe Biden's time as president was truly a sleeper."
The report notes Biden, 82, "took more time off than any other U.S. president in modern history, spending 577 of his 1,463 days in office – or 39% of his presidency — on vacation."
The numbers for Biden, and other presidents, were from the Republican National Committee.
"The average American — who gets 11 paid vacation days a year — would have to work 52 years to rack up as much down time as Biden scored in his four years," the report said.
George H.W. Bush took off 543 days for 37% of his presidency, and George W. Bush took off 1,020 days during two terms, for 35% of his presidency. Donald Trump took off 381 days during his first term, for 26%. Bill Clinton took 345 days for 12% and Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan each took 11%. Jimmy Carter took 5%.
"Considering how awful his misguided policies were and the various crises they created, from the border to inflation, imagine the damage he would have done if he worked every day?" charged Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., "I'm not sure if we should be mad or thankful he worked so little."
While Biden took a jaw-dropping 23 straight days off, Aug. 8, to Sept. 2, he was busy during the last few weeks of his presidency, issuing pardons to thousands, including convicted murderers and rapists and a long list of his own family members.
RNC spokesman Zach Parkinson pointed out that now, Biden is "on a permanent vacation."
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Delta Air Lines is coming under severe criticism for doubling down on its push for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, just days before Monday's spectacular crash involving a Minneapolis-to-Toronto flight that flipped one of its planes upside down during landing.
On Feb. 6, Peter Carter, chief external affairs officer at Delta, said: "We are steadfast in our commitments because we think that they are actually critical to our business."
"Sustainability is about being more efficient in our operations and really DE&I is about talent and that's been our focus."
"The key differentiator at Delta is our people," Carter added, according to Fox5Atlanta.
Among those slamming the airline in harsh terms is comedian Tyler Fischer, a frequent face on the Fox News Channel, who said on X:
"This is from Delta's DEI website. An airline OBSESSED with the race and sexual preferences of their workers. Think the passengers who almost died in Toronto give a flying F*** about if the pilot [has sex with] dudes or the flight attendant's great grandma was a nonbinary Native American?"
"Just land the damn plane right side up. Look at their site it's insane:"
Another commenter noted: "Delta, the epitome of DEI zealotry, now faces the stark reality of their folly. A crash, not of mechanical failure, but of judgment, where diversity trumped skill. The wreckage serves as a stark reminder: competence, not checkboxes, should dictate roles. The cost? People's lives!"
On Tuesday, a day after the crash, Delta's own website continues to champion DEI, with a variety of company statements and personal testimonials from minorities and homosexuals.
"We actively seek diversity, boldly pursue equity, and consciously promote inclusion to create a sense of belonging for all people," its diversity page proudly declares.
It quotes Delta CEO Ed Bastian saying: "Thoughtful action combined with a focus on championing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and within our personal lives will play a healing role to help us keep climbing. The Delta family will use whatever means we have to move the world toward a better, more just tomorrow."
Julie T., a Delta customer solution supervisor in Atlanta, is featured in one diversity video, saying:
"A waitress came over and said that we couldn't hold hands in a restaurant. And I was really just kind of heartbroken that somebody would feel tat way just because I'm holding hands with a woman."
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A new ad is delivering a message to the world about America's new border security measures under President Donald Trump.
Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security gets blunt, charging that, "If you come to our country and you break our laws we will hunt you down. … If you try to enter illegally you will be caught. You will be removed, and you will never return."
Noem's message:
I'm Kristi Noem. United States secretary of Homeland Security. Thank you, President. Donald J. Trump for securing our border and putting America first.
Let me deliver a message from President Trump to the world. If you are considering entering America illegally, don't even think about it. Let me be clear. If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome in the United States.
For too long weak leadership has left our borders wide open, flooding our communities with drugs, human trafficking and violent criminals. Well, those days are over.
Under President Trump we are defending American families and restoring their safety. If you try to enter illegally you will be caught. You will be removed, and you will never return. Follow the law, and you'll find opportunity, if you break it you'll find consequences. Strong borders mean a stronger America.
In fact, Trump's orders to secure the border already have resulted in daily encounters of illegal aliens that numbered in the thousands and tens of thousands during Joe Biden's occupancy of the White House to a few hundred now. Some patrols along the border happen without officers encountering a single alien breaking into the country.
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Voters already have settled on Joe Biden's legacy for his time in the White House.
Nothing.
The results of a survey, reported by Daily Mail, made it clear; "It is the one question that unites Americans when it comes to President Joe Biden."
The report continues, "Ask Democrats, Republicans or independents for their one-word summary of his legacy and they put aside their differences to answer almost unanimously: Nothing."
The results are from a poll by J.L. Partners, done for the Daily Mail, which quizzed 1,009 registered voters about their thoughts regarding Biden's legacy.
The poll, taken just as Biden was leaving the White House, also found people responding with comments such as "economy," "inflation," and such. Democrats claimed their other memories included "good" and "stability."
But "Nothing" dominated among all political subdivisions.
"When voters were asked whether they can remember a single Biden achievement, more than half say they cannot. Some 37 percent say they 'strongly' agree with the statement that they cannot name a single one," the report continued. "Even Democrats struggle. More than a third said they could not name a single achievement."
Pollster James Johnson said, "As far as public opinion is concerned, you have to squint to see even the echoes of a legacy—and even then people are more likely to remember it negatively. Biden's biggest achievements in office—such as legislation in Congress – are crowded out by the overriding view: That he was responsible for inflation, and that he was a mentally unwell commander-in-chief."
He suggested the history books may come up with a legacy, "but in the minds of the public there's no legacy to be seen."
Democratic strategist Brad Bannon told the publication that history will view Biden favorably. "I think he's going to be regarded in the future as a prophet, because I think we'll look back at the inflation Reduction Act and his other environmental activism, and say: 'Boy, I wish we had paid more attention then to what he did.'"
Elon Musk said that his Department of Government Efficiency audit found millions of people in the Social Security system who would be over 100 years old, Fox News reported. As of the 2020 census, only about 80,000 centenarians exist in America.
The Telsa billionaire shared a table showing the distribution of Social Security payments for each age bracket. "According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!" Musk explained in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," he joked. The table showed 20 million people listed with ages above 100, including more than 1.3 million people aged 150-159.
The Outrage
Besides the troubling data, Musk has also uncovered that the program is more of an unruly beast than a well-oiled machine. "The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE," Musk said in another post to X.
"No one person actually knows how it works. The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. It’s wild," he added.
Musk further charged that "there are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history."
Unfortunately, Democrats are losing their minds over the DOGE review of Social Security rather than what the audit uncovered. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned an "unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government" after Musk's task force found massive waste and abuse at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"Republicans in Congress must join us to take action to restore the rule of law and stop any potential lawbreaking by DOGE. DOGE is spreading across the federal government like a virus, and it’s American people who will pay the price when their benefits and payments are illegally taken away," Schumer breathlessly warned in a statement from his office.
The Hysteria
The hysteria continued as Michelle King recently resigned as acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration over the weekend in response to the DOGE investigation, the Washington Post reported. According to three sources close to the matter, King was worried about the task force accessing government data.
Despite the optics, this move is positive for Musk's effort overall. President Donald Trump has appointed Leland Dudek, who is already experienced in the fraud office of Social Security and is supportive of DOGE's mission. Trump's nominee for the permanent position, Frank Bisignano, awaits Senate confirmation.
However, panic has already set in after Trump chose Dudek over other senior leaders in the agency. "At this rate, they will break it," Martin O’Malley, former President Joe Biden's Social Security commissioner, said.
"And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits," O'Malley ominously warned. "To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency," he later added.
It's telling that people from these agencies are panicked over any sort of scrutiny of their dealings. The American people are ready for real change to cut the fat, fraud, and waste from these agencies, and that's exactly what Musk has been empowered to do.
Acting Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Michelle King quit her position over the weekend after she disagreed with giving Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers access to taxpayers' private data.
Three sources close to King confirmed her departure, and Trump appointed Leland Dudek to take her place on Monday while his nominee for the position, Frank Bisignano, undergoes the confirmation process.
The White House expects Bisignano to be confirmed within the next few weeks.
"In the meantime, the agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner," Principal Deputy Press Secretary at the White House, Harrison Fields said about Bisignano. "President Trump is committed to appointing the best and most qualified individuals who are dedicated to working on behalf of the American people, not to appease the bureaucracy that has failed them for far too long."
Massive fraud
Bisignano reportedly has posted positive comments about the efforts of DOGE to find and cut federal fraud and waste.
DOGE reported over the weekend that it found more than 20 million people in the Social Security database that were 100 years old or older, despite census data putting that number at more like 80,000.
DOGE wants to find out how many are collecting benefits fraudulently so it can correct the situation and save taxpayers billions more dollars.
According to SSA's numbers, the average Social Security check in January 2025 was $1,976.
If 19,920,000 people are getting fraudulent checks every month, that's a potential fraud of over $39 billion per month or $472 billion per year, which is almost half a trillion dollars.
Biggest scam ever
It stands to reason that a career SSA employee like King might not want that level of fraud to be known, or may not want to be blamed for it.
Musk said that it's probably magnitudes larger than the largest private scam ever.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, commented on Musk's X post that "this problem has been known for at least a decade and now @realDonaldTrump, through @DOGE and @ElonMusk's team, wants to finally do something about it!"
Half a trillion dollars is about a quarter of the amount DOGE aims to find in yearly savings to balance the U.S. budget and reverse the decades-long trend of deficit spending.
How many more secrets are hiding in our government agencies that have contributed to the more than $36 trillion in debt our nation now carries?
A recent discovery by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has unearthed $1.9 billion in federal funds that had been misplaced by the Biden administration, Breitbart reported.The funds, initially set for financial services, are now repurposed following successful efforts by DOGE and Secretary Scott Turner, highlighting a shift toward eliminating inefficiencies.The funds in question were allocated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) but had gone astray due to a previously malfunctioning protocol. These funds were aimed at financial services but were no longer deemed necessary, prompting a reassessment.
HUD Task Force Announced By Secretary Turner
Secretary Turner, who was confirmed by the Senate earlier this month, swiftly moved to address this issue. The newly established DOGE task force under her guidance aims to maximize the fiscal responsibility of federal funds in various communities.
In a video released on social media, Secretary Turner articulated her commitment to the judicious use of taxpayer dollars. Her task force will examine expenditures closely to ensure spending benefits tribal, rural, and urban areas alike.
Under Turner's leadership, the current administration is looking to correct past inefficiencies inspired by guiding principles from former President Trump. This marks a distinct pivot from prior procedures, according to her statements.
Huge Savings Achieved By Eliminating Unnecessary Contracts
DOGE has not solely focused on retrieving lost funds. They have also embarked on a mission to cut down on wastage throughout government departments. As revealed on Valentine's Day, the agency confirmed the termination of numerous non-essential contracts.
This effort led to the cancellation of 586 contracts that collectively represented approximately $2.1 billion. The organization reported savings of around $445 million from these initiatives and shared a playful poem to commemorate the savings announcement.
Among the canceled agreements was a high-value USDA contract worth $8.2 million intended for environmental oversight related to pilot climate-smart projects.
Focus Shifts To Educational Programming
Beyond financial recovery and savings, DOGE has broadened its purview into education policy. It recently issued directives to educational institutions across the nation concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
The agency sent communications to the state education departments across all 50 states, issuing an ultimatum: eradicate DEI programming from public school curriculums within two weeks or potentially forfeit federal funding.
This mandate reflects an overarching strategy to align educational priorities with the current administration's policies, though it has raised some concerns about its implications for school curricula.
Continued Collaboration For Federal Accountability
Secretary Turner once again affirmed DOGE’s role in revolutionizing fiscal operations within federal departments. The department's revelations regarding the recovered HUD funds underscore the importance of inter-departmental cooperation.
This fresh perspective aims to ensure that taxpayer money is used to its fullest potential, as Turner expresses optimism in continuing to identify savings opportunities across governmental agencies. The $1.9 billion rediscovered in HUD funds highlights the ongoing challenge and necessity of safeguarding against future financial mismanagement, a task Turner and DOGE appear determined to tackle head-on.
Democrats are making their anger known after the Justice Department dismissed corruption charges against Democratic New York mayor Eric Adams, in what critics are calling a "quid pro quo" to help the Trump administration.
Adams was indicted under the Biden administration for allegedly accepting foreign bribes. The DOJ moved to drop the case last week, sparking backlash from Democrats nationwide and local career prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
Some have argued Adams was originally charged for political reasons - namely, his criticism of the Biden administration's immigration policy, which led to an influx of illegal aliens that overwhelmed New York City.
Dems fume over dropped charges
The DOJ's decision to drop charges led to the resignation of multiple prosecutors, including the Trump-appointed interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Democrats have alleged that Adams reached an arrangement to clear himself of legal jeopardy and that this supposed deal violates norms of impartial justice.
New York congressman Dan Goldman, who repeatedly defended Hunter Biden even after he received a 10-year retroactive pardon from his father, called the DOJ's dismissal of the Adams case troubling.
“It is an outright extortion,” he said. “This is way, way, way outside the bounds of the Department of Justice.”
Of course, the DOJ has taken a very different position. The Department's No.2 official, Emil Bove, said the charges against Adams were an example of "weaponization" that improperly interfered with New York's 2025 mayoral election and the Justice Department's goals of fighting violent crime and illegal immigration.
DOJ rips "witch hunt"
Attorney general Pam Bondi said the DOJ's move shows the Department "will return to its core function of prosecuting dangerous criminals, not pursuing politically motivated witch hunts."
Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke echoed the DOJ's argument, saying there is nothing untoward about the Department pursuing its policy goals.
“Obviously, the Trump administration looked at it and said, ‘You know what? What’s more important right now is getting New York back to safety and getting the illegal immigration problem out of New York,'” Zinke told NewsNation's The Hill Sunday.
Trump said he knows nothing about the case when asked about it on Friday.
"They were all going to be gone or dismissed … because what you do is you come in and you put new people in," he said of the prosecutors who resigned.
“So when you say resigned, they were gonna be gone anyway,” Trump continued. “But I know nothing about the individual case. I know that they didn’t feel it was much of a case. They also felt that it was unfair with the election.”
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Maybe there are vampires after all.
And they're collecting Social Security.
That stunning conclusion comes from Elon Musk, chief of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, and is a result of DOGE's initial review of the nation's Social Security, its payouts, and more specifically, those getting the benefits.
Musk posted on social media the comment, "According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!"
He continued, "Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security."
The chart, for example, lists one person each in the age range 360-369 and 240-249.
That would make those beneficiaries older than the Civil War, older than the Revolutionary War, older than the Constitution, older than … the United States, which is coming up on its 250th next year.
Musk noted that, "This might be the biggest fraud in history."
Some 20 million are beyond the age 100, including about 2,700 who, purportedly, already have celebrated their 200th birthdays.
Social media commenters suggested the impossible age scenarios have come about because illegal aliens have been using the numbers of deceased Americans.
And a comment at the Gateway Pundit explained Musk unearthed a "jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database."
"The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself."
That report pointed, out, "As of 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that approximately 101,000 Americans are aged 100 and older, representing about 0.03% of the total U.S. population. This group, known as centenarians, is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades, reaching around 422,000 by 2054, according to the Pew Research Center."
The report noted there are 136 Americans considered "supercentenarians," who are 110 or more.
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Despite the purported end-of-an-era for vaccine mandates, the COVID-19 shot requirement is still enforced at the Veterans Health Administration.
On May 9, 2023, former president Joe Biden issued Executive Order 14099 – "Moving Beyond COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Workers." His order revoked a previous executive order dated Sept. 9, 2021, which once required COVID-19 injections for federal employees.
However, months before Biden's 2021 federal worker mandate, the Department of Veterans Affairs had already instituted its own COVID-19 vaccine requirement for frontline healthcare workers. On July 26, 2021, VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced that all Veterans Health Administration employees providing direct patient care – such as physicians, nurses, and dentists – would be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This was formalized in VHA Directive 1193 on Aug. 13, 2021, and made the VA the first federal agency to mandate COVID-19 vaccination. This mandate for healthcare workers operated independently from Biden's later federal employee order.
Following the federal mandate, on Oct. 4, 2021, the Department of Veterans Affairs issued VA Notice 22-01 "to inform employees of the recent requirement to certify COVID-19 vaccination status and provide proof of vaccination or request an exception within the established timeframes or face disciplinary action, up to and including removal from the Department."
Despite Biden's 2023 rescission of the requirement, VA Notice 24-11 reveals the COVID-19 shot requirement "remains in effect" for the Veterans Health Administration or VHA.
The notice references VHA Directive 1193.01, which took effect on Jan. 27, 2022, and continues to require COVID-19 vaccination for all VHA healthcare personnel. This directive is not a holdover from Biden's federal worker mandate, but rather a continuation of the VA's independent healthcare worker requirement that began in July 2021.
The VA's lack of initiative to rescind the requirement appears to fly in the face of today's presidential agenda. On more than one occasion in recent years, President Donald Trump has signaled opposition to vaccine mandates. Most recently, Trump signed an executive order to block federal money for schools with COVID-19 shot mandates. Newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in agreement.
WorldNetDaily spoke to combat vet and federal whistleblower Sonny Fleeman, who emphasized that his views are solely his own and do not reflect the official policies or positions of the VA, the government or any organization with which he has been affiliated.
If a person works in a VA medical center or any VHA facility, Fleeman explained, he or she is still required to be "vaccinated" against COVID-19 unless the individual has provided an approved exemption.
"This policy remains in effect nationally at all VA healthcare facilities unless it is officially rescinded or replaced," Fleeman disclosed. It is his hope that VA Secretary Doug Collins will take appropriate action and revoke the "COMMIE mandate" to get the shot.
"As long as vaccine mandates remain in place in healthcare," Fleeman argued, "they normalize medical coercion and create the false appearance that the shots must be safe." He adds, "The public looks at healthcare workers being forced to comply and thinks, 'If the people who know medicine best are still required to take it, it must be fine.'" And to this, he says, "That illusion blinds people to the growing evidence of harm and makes it nearly impossible for the injured to be believed."
"But what the public doesn't see is that last time I checked, around 40,000 VA employees – many of them medical professionals – requested exemptions from the COVID-19 shot," Fleeman told WND. "These are the very people on the frontlines, seeing the reality up close."
"Their objections are being buried under the weight of the mandate," he asserted. "Worse, these mandates don't just hide the harm – they keep the system in place so the government can roll them out on the entire public again, whenever they choose. Healthcare is the beachhead, [and] if we don't defeat mandates there, we leave the door open for mandates to sweep through our country again."
Fleeman explained further, "The fact that the VA's healthcare-specific mandate was crafted months before Biden's broader federal worker mandate – and has survived long after other agencies abandoned such requirements – exposes a deeper problem." It reveals, he said, that the VA, particularly within its healthcare system, has become "institutionalized with a dangerous and irrational vaccine advocacy bias." And this bias has "embedded a culture of medical mandates that operates independently of shifting national policy or mounting evidence of harm."
The VA's stubborn insistence on keeping the mandate, even as other federal agencies have stepped back, suggests that the VA is not merely enforcing policy – it is zealously protecting "the pseudo vaccine" itself, elevating its defense of the shot above the well-being of both veterans and healthcare workers, Fleeman suggested. "This raises urgent questions about whether the VA is safeguarding health, or serving as an ideological stronghold for pharmaceutical interests and government control."
