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It is Saturday, March 29th, and President Trump has just signed the single most important EO of his presidency, hands down. This ORD gotten no press; nobody's reporting on it, but it is the start to stopping the massive waste and fraud that plagues the federal government. Also, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zalinski has gone full-blown insane. Trump's had enough; Putin's now definitely had enough. Something is about to change in Ukraine; we're going to show you.
And Tuesday, April 1st, a huge election is taking place in Wisconsin, something that could fundamentally change Trump's trajectory for the next four years—make or break his presidency. And more stories as well from around the country. But before we get started, thank you for liking and sharing these videos; it really helps out the channel. And consider subscribing so you don't miss these regular updates.
So last week, three days ago, Donald Trump signed the single most important EO of his presidency thus far: the Modernizing Payments to and from America's Bank Account Executive Order. That's the name of it, signed on March 28th, along with a dozen other presidential directives. But this one, for whatever reason, slipped under the radar. There's been no press coverage; no one reporting on just how significant this is and why he did it. This has been 45 days in the pipeline; it took them 45 days to make this even possible. Last week—or two weeks ago—when Congress passed Trump's budget, his CR that funded the government until the end of the fiscal year, in it was a clause that gave Trump the executive—the president—the defense to decide what should and shouldn't be paid for, even for congressionally appropriated funds. The president can now decide legally if that money should be spent or not; if it's worth spending all that money. This was a big reason why Dems freaked out over this CR and were shocked that Schumer didn't demand this specific clause at least be removed.
Watch: "So I want to tell you why I'm voting against the Republican funding bill when it comes up for a vote tomorrow. Um, you deserve to know the stakes here. First of all, you get this: Trump has a plan, and he's implementing it. It gives Trump brand new, unending powers; for instance, the ability to start new military programs that haven't even been authorized by Congress. At this moment of crisis, that sounds like a really dangerous idea. And it takes key guardrails off of presidential spending authority that allows Trump and Musk to more easily move money from one account to the other. Listen, I understand that had we gone into a shutdown, even for a handful of days, it would have been difficult, but it would have sent a message that the Democratic party is not going to be bullied by Donald Trump. We are not going to let them write spending bills unilaterally that cut programs for people we care about that give the president new and extraordinary power." That clause was added in part for this very EO, so Trump would be legally allowed to order all 58 federal agencies to earmark all invoices, payment requests with an ID number, categorize the payment, and include a description of what the payment is for and a point of contact for said payment. Currently, the treasury has no clue what they're paying out; every payment these agencies request gets automatically approved. Zero payments have been rejected in like 40 years. Elon tried mandating this himself back in February; how he sent a memo to all agency heads to start doing this. He instructed Treasury not to approve any payment without this criteria, but it didn't happen; everyone just ignored the request. Treasury Secretary Bennett—Scott Bennett—couldn't do anything about it; he couldn't just stop making the payments. To do this correctly, they needed an executive order by the president requiring it, mandating it. Well, that's what this is.
Watch Elon and one of his Doge employees explain what a game changer this EO is. Roll the tape: "And it is alarming how the financial operations and financial management is set up today. There is actually really only one bank account that's used to disperse all monies that go out of the federal government. Talk about one bank account—it's a big one; it's a big one; it's a big one; it's a big one. Um, a couple of weeks ago it had $800 billion in it, but it's the Treasury General Account. So when you hear, you know, some of my colleagues here what they're talking about in terms of the fraud, you have to ask, well, why is this allowed to happen at a financial level? Well, it's it's actually quite simple, but alarming. The Treasury, up until now, and thanks to President Trump, uh, we're fixing this. In fact, there's an executive order that he just signed uh the other day which is protecting America's bank account because it really is the taxpayer's money. You know, one, we're changing the culture; the culture has been not a lot of caring and not a lot of commitment to doing what's right relative to financial operations. There's a $500 billion-dollar fraud every year; there's hundreds of billions of dollars of improper payments, and we can't pass an audit. The Consolidated Financial Report is produced by Treasury, and we cannot pass an A; we have material weaknesses. What that means is that if I was a public company CFO, I would effectively be removed; I couldn't file financial statements; I couldn't issue securities. Of course, we depend on—can't pass an A, right? The federal government cannot pass an AIT; it's impossible. In fact, um, um, the, the, in order to pass an audit, you need the information necessary to pass an audit; um, you need to have the payment codes; you need to have the payment explanation; and you need to have a person you can contact to understand why that payment was made. None of those things were mandatory until until just recently, just a few weeks ago, in fact maybe last week. Yeah, we're serving 580-plus agencies, and up until very recently, effectively they could say, 'make the payment,' and Treasury just sent it out as fast as possible—no verification. And so what we're doing is what any household would do, but imagine you're a household; you have a bank account; everyone has then ATM card connected to that account; everyone has a checkbook connected to that account; it's not just your children; it's not just your parents; it's your in-laws; it's your extended family, and they all can go to the account and disperse funds—no questions asked, no justification, no verification. Going forward, all these payments will have that criteria now attached, which means the $500 billion in fraud the IG identified can now be stopped going forward; we can now identify it, track it, and eliminate it. And you got to wonder why we're am so opposed to implementing this system; they fought like hell to prevent this; I wonder why."
In another story, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zalinski has lost his freaking mind—gone completely off the deep end. Zalinski rejecting Trump's new mineral agreement that recognizes US support as loans, saying in a press conference yesterday that he won't recognize past US military aid as debt, saying, "Ukraine will not recognize US military aid as debt. We're grateful for the support, but this is not a credit, and we don't owe you anything; we will not allow it." Zinski also saying that they're unwilling to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin or with someone who would represent Russia, saying instead he'll only negotiate with the businesses of Russia—whatever that means. Well, on March 26th, get this: Zalinski goes on a Ukrainian news show and declares Putin will not be alive much longer; that once this happens, it will be all over. Yes, he really said that. Watch: "But it's also—it also depends on his age; he will die soon, and that's a fact, and it will come to an end, and it could come to an end even before—ends his absolutely safe uh, losing historically losing life historically lost life." Then late last night, guess what happens? One of Putin's limos in his motorcade explodes. All of this just happened last night; one of Putin's limousines exploded and caught on fire in Moscow. It's pretty hush-hush at the moment, but you don't got to be a genius to connect the dots here. This was an assassination attempt by the Ukrainians; that's what it looks like, which means Zalinski's lost his mind. Political assassinations are outlawed by the Geneva Convention for a reason, and you got to think any covert action like this against Russia, of all countries—a nuclear superpower—would have to be green-lit by the US or NATO, which it wasn't. So Zelinski's gone rogue; he's the single greatest detriment to peace, and yeah, if I were a betting man, I'd wager his lifespan just got incredibly shorter.
In another story, Donald Trump has just revoked Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman's security clearance. Vindman was the man at the center of Trump's first impeachment, testifying to Congress about that infamous call Trump had with Zalinski. For whatever dumb reason, Trump had that guy on his National Security account, so—how—why that happened, we'll never know, but he was, and was working behind the scenes with Democrats to set Trump up as much as possible. Watch the moment Devin Nunes caught Vindman allegedly perjuring himself under oath—something that Biden's DOJ never looked into. That's about to change. Watch: "Mr. Vindman, you testified in your deposition that you did not know the whistleblower. Rank member: Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please… Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, you testified in the deposition that you did not know who the whistleblower was or is. I do not know who the whistleblower…" "That—how is it possible for you to name these people and then out the whistleblower?" "Per the advice of my counsel, I—I've been advised not to answer specific questions about members of the intelligence community." Now, since that happened and him leaving government, he's used this security clearance to book interviews, do consults, consultations, security consultations; that's what these people do. It's why keeping their clearance matters so much to them; it's how they make a living after they leave government; they get booked on shows like MSNBC and CNN. It should have happened months ago—two months ago when Trump first got into office; he should have done this. Here he was in February claiming that Elon Musk is a threat to National Security, speaking with a level of certainty and authority because, again, he had a security clearance—not anymore. Roll the tape: "Russia has been using different levers, whether that's corruption networks in this case uh, its uh, influencers like Donald Trump, like Elon Musk, to uh, really kind of sow discord. And it's particularly troubling with Elon Musk in this case because Elon Musk has access to state secrets; he has top-secret security clearance. It's possible that some of that is seeping through. Putin has been very effective in playing both Trump and Elon, and he's been using the richest man in the world to uh, do his bidding. In some cases, that's encouraging him probably to uh, support Donald Trump." And watch how quickly we never see this guy on any of these networks again because he lost his clearance. And about time.
And that wasn't the only person who had their security clearance revoked yesterday. DNI Tulsi Gabbard announcing, per poit directive: "I have revoked former President Joe Biden's security clearance and revoked clearances and access to classified info for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman." Good riddance.
In other story, April 1st is the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Wisconsin voters will need to vote for either Brad Schimel, the conservative, or Susan Crawford, the Democratic candidate. This is a big swing state altering election; it will determine the Court's ideological balance, swinging it one side or the other, impacting an upcoming decision, by the way, on Congressional redistricting—redistricting where Democrats plan to redraw Wisconsin's Congressional districts. Today, right now, there are eight Congressional districts; six of the eight are held by Republicans; two are held by Democrats. They want to redraw these existing district boundaries to favor their party, increasing the number of districts they can win. Watch Hakeem Jeffries explain this. Watch: "In Wisconsin, that's a 50-50 race because we know Wisconsin's a 50-50 state, yeah, and we have a strong Democratic candidate. Whoever wins—wins—is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Uh, because there are gerrymandered congressional—that's right—lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin's a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation because the lines are broken right. And as soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that uh, and have fair lines. The only way for that to be even a significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court. And so, you know, I think that's an incredibly important race. The only way that's even a possibility is if we have an enlightened Supreme Court," he says. Yeah, we all know what Democrats find to be enlightening.
Additionally, Wisconsin voters will decide on a constitutional amendment regarding voter ID. A constitutional amendment is a big deal, meaning no more games, folks. If this passes, voter ID will now be required via their state constitution; that would be huge. So if you live in Wisconsin, get out and vote Tuesday.
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