All Episodes
Previous Next
May 10, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
01:03:37
Audit of Deception: Unmasking the $3 Billion Scandal Behind Veterans
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Last year before the election, the VA had asked the House Armed Services Committee in Congress for $3 billion.
They asked them for $3 billion to ensure that benefits for veterans did not get interrupted.
Our government couldn't decide or figure out how to reappropriate funds or spend money wisely for that matter.
And so Secretary McDonough, our former VA secretary, had came out publicly and said, we need $3 billion or all of these benefits to veterans may be interrupted.
And some of them may not show up.
Some disability benefits may not show up for quite some time.
Would you now be also surprised to hear that there are folks in the halls of Congress and in the committee and also at the VA that don't quite have All the answers about where this $3 billion ended up.
Seems peculiar?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But today we're going to dig into that a little bit.
So stick with us.
Don't go away.
We start now.
Hey everybody and welcome here to another installment of the Richard Leonard Show.
I'd like to thank you as always for joining us.
If you're a returning viewer, thanks for being here.
We appreciate you coming back and hanging out with us and participating in the discussion or just listening, whatever it is that you choose to do.
If you are new here, thanks for stopping by.
All of us here at the studio, we really appreciate all of you returning and new listeners.
So thanks for being here.
Furthermore, before we get started, I know that you won't mind me telling you about how this show is made possible.
And that is Cortez Wealth Management.
Get yourselves on over to AmericaFirstRetirementPlan.com.
Go through a webinar.
They happen on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Let Carlos Cortez Jr. and his staff help you to plan and put together and execute a tax-free retirement plan.
Folks, when you get done working your ass off, And you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor for the rest of your days.
You deserve to be able to do it with as little tax liability as possible.
So get on over to AmericaFirstRetirementPlan.com.
Check out the information.
Gather it.
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, make sure that you get with Carlos and or his staff to ensure that the hurdles you see in front of you are easy to navigate.
One more time, AmericaFirstRetirementPlan.com.
Get on over there.
Check it out.
You won't regret it.
Okay, so $3 billion in totality apparently has not 100% been accounted for.
As I said in the intro, Mr. McDonough, our former VA secretary, before the election last year, had asked the Veterans Affairs Committee, The VA has asked them if they can please award the VA $3 billion so that benefits for veterans don't get cut.
Disability benefits may not show up, if at all, for quite some time.
We don't know if we're going to be able to pay for all the staffing needs that we have.
So in those cases, veterans going to these facilities with staff cut are going to miss out on care.
They're going to have to push their appointments out longer.
And so, for all these reasons, and a litany of other reasons, I'm sure, we need $3 billion to ensure that these things don't happen.
And now that we have seen, fast forward to the beginning of May 2025, now that Doge has ran through many places in the government and found all kinds of...
Corruption and waste and fraud.
All kinds of stuff.
Missing money or overspending.
Whatever the case may be.
There's now members of the Committee on Veterans Affairs in Congress that are calling for investigations on former VA leadership to see where did all this money go?
What happened to it?
And of course, the other side of the aisle, the left, the Democrats, are saying this is atrocious.
These allegations are atrocious.
Why would we attack veterans?
Why does the American right hate veterans?
Why do our politicians on the right side of the aisle Hate veterans so much.
These are the questions that the Democrats are asking.
Now, what's interesting to me is I don't know that there's any problem with checking in to where our money went.
If you ask me, maybe it's a bigger disservice to veterans to have a whole bunch of money missing.
And apparently nobody knows where it went.
It seems to me that an investigation into where all these taxpayer dollars went to seems quite appropriate.
It would seem to me that veterans deserve to know where the money that their communities are paying in taxes that was meant for their care, as promised by the United States government, where did it go?
Because at the end of the day, once it's awarded, once it's put out, once it's appropriated to the proper place, that money's meant for veterans.
So in essence, it's veterans' money for care, for disability benefits, for facilities to better care for veterans, to have more options for vets to go so the wait times aren't so long, whatever the question is, whatever the case may be.
Why would...
Anybody in a position of power in our government have the view that, hey, we want to know where the money went.
The former secretary asked us for $3 billion.
They ended up giving it to him.
And now some months later, when there's questions asked about where the money went, what it was spent on, What are the successes that we're having with that money being spent?
Is there any change?
Are things better?
Are things worse?
Did we give too much money?
Was it not enough money?
All these questions are being asked.
And then it comes out, we're not quite sure where it all is.
We're not quite sure where all that money is at.
And then, of course, nobody has any answers.
Nobody has any idea.
It's just gone.
And so, correct me if I'm wrong in the comments below, but doesn't an investigation seem appropriate?
Doesn't it seem to be appropriate for us to look for lost stuff that doesn't necessarily belong to the people who are charged with the task of spending it or putting it in a place where it would be most useful?
Seems to me investigation is completely appropriate.
I'd like to know.
I think many of you would like to know.
I think there's many people around this country that would like to know.
And if you remember, if you're a returning viewer, back around election time, we had a conversation on this show about how it was quite peculiar that veterans were very, very prominent in the news cycle.
All these things started coming up about veterans and whether or not we're doing right by them.
And whether or not Pete Hegseth was the right guy.
And whether or not Donald Trump gives a shit about veterans.
And then, of course, after the election, Doe starts going through the government.
They hit the VA.
And all of a sudden, anybody in government that's Republican just hates...
It hates veterans.
It hates them.
Again, I ask the question that I've asked so many times on various different shows on this platform, on this network.
Why is it a problem for people to ask questions about where the money's going?
Why is that such a damning issue for so many people?
Well, let's dig into this one a little bit.
I found the article where the Veterans Affairs Committee is asking for Attorney General Pam Bondi and her office to conduct these investigations.
We'd like to find out where the money went, who spent it, and who spent it on what, and did it even go to veterans?
And furthermore, if it wasn't all accounted for, And isn't still all accounted for.
Where did it go?
So, let's dig into this real quick.
Here we go.
House Chairman asked Attorney General to investigate former VA leaders.
House Republican lawmakers are asking Attorney General Bondi to investigate whether former veteran affairs leaders violated federal laws with their budgetary mistakes last year, potentially shifting The ongoing political dispute into the courts.
If any criminal or civil violations occur, those responsible must be held accountable.
And that comes from Mike Bost, who is the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
He wrote a letter to Pam Bondi just Tuesday of this last week and asked for her office to look into the submission of false statements to Congress, obstruction of oversight, fraud, or misappropriation of federal funds.
Top Democrat leaders decreed that the move is a desperate political stunt by Republican leaders attempting to distract from the current administration's planned cuts to VA staff and services.
Here's Mark Tacano, who is the ranking member of this committee.
Here's what he said.
I am appalled by his recommendation and blatant weaponization of the judicial system.
It's unprecedented, and the American people, especially our veterans, deserve better than sham investigations and political theater becoming the new normal.
Okay, so let's just stop right here, Mr. Takano.
I don't know that a sham investigation is what it is that we're looking into here.
I don't know if this is political theater.
Maybe some of it.
Maybe the approach.
Maybe the delivery.
Maybe the interactions in the committee hearings.
Maybe they're a little bit of political theater.
I think that our politicians are guilty of political theater all the time.
But if you're going to stand up and say that our veterans deserve better than some investigation, I would say that you're full of shit.
Humor me here for a second.
Tell me how stupid this might sound.
If Mark Tucano stands up and says, well, okay, a large part of $3 billion is missing.
My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are hoping to put on some political theater.
They're hoping to...
Have these, conduct these sham investigations about where all this money that Congress gave to the VA, where it went.
Veterans deserve better than to know where their money went.
So that when they don't have the proper care, when they can't get the proper medication, when they can't get...
There are disability benefit payments on time.
All of these benefits, benefits, that all of our politicians, no matter what side of the aisle claim, veterans deserve.
Okay, so when any of these things that we deserve so much are lacking, or are going missing, or are about to go away, Doesn't it seem appropriate for an investigation?
And why would anybody want to push a narrative that this is some kind of political theater?
If anything, if it is some kind of sham investigation, it should be short, right?
If there's nothing to hide, and it's all bullshit, This investigation should be pretty short, right?
It would take anybody conducting said investigation to dig into the financials and just account for the money.
Okay, this much went there, this much went here, we got this much in the bank, this much is here, and this is here.
Okay, cool, it's all there.
So I guess anybody who was saying that this money's missing and there might be treachery afoot is full of shit.
Because we now have the proof, we conducted the investigation.
It all goes along with this whole idea that Trump put Doge in place, put Elon in charge of it, for his own personal gain.
To disrupt whatever it is that the American people find comfort in.
These are the narratives that are being pushed in the mainstream media.
But I believe that anybody who has any kind of common sense or any kind of critical thinking skills would think that, well, if there's a large part of $3 billion missing, which is millions of dollars, we should probably figure it out.
If one side says it's missing and the other side said it's accounted for, well, clearly the truth is in there somewhere.
So let's just find it out.
And to be quite honest, it might be a whole lot cheaper to the taxpayer to just conduct a quick investigation in the event that everything's on the up and up, and then we'll be done with it.
We can move on to the next thing.
But I have the feeling that now we're going to fight about this.
We're going to fight about this for a while.
A whole bunch of other works never going to get completed on time because we're fighting about this.
When in my opinion, maybe we just conduct the investigation.
And then move on to real business.
I don't know.
Maybe that's stupid.
Maybe I'm stupid for thinking that way.
Anyway, let's continue.
The conflict dates back to last summer when VA Secretary Dennis McDonough and other senior department leaders told lawmakers that funding for benefits and medical care could run out in October because of increased programmatic usage earlier in 2024.
I wonder if this is referring to things like the PACT Act and any other kind of newer VA benefits.
And if that's the case, then to me that's another red flag, because if we remember properly, when, what's the guy's name, Jonathan Stewart, the comedian from The Daily Show, when he was running around Capitol Hill,
All over social media about this PACT Act and how we're killing veterans, and they deserve to have this care and these benefits, and they deserve to be taken care of for things that were not their fault, like burn pits.
What are we waiting for?
Let's pass this.
Okay, that was a couple years ago.
And so if we're going to say that in October of 2024, After the PACT Act has been rolled out, there's been hundreds of thousands of applications put in by veterans to receive benefits at this point already.
Isn't that something that we accounted for?
I recall.
I recall watching the committee hearings.
I recall watching Sleepy Joe talking about the PACT Act.
I recall a lot of people.
On many different platforms talking about how this is going to be great.
We can certainly afford it.
It's going to be a massive undertaking because it's going to bring a lot of veterans into the VA system.
But we can do it.
What other programmatic things could have really went on to that level that we're missing?
A large chunk of 3 billion bucks.
That wasn't already accounted for.
Or at least the American people were told.
Don't worry.
We already got it.
We got it figured out.
Don't worry.
It's going to be great.
We're going to take care of veterans.
We're going to get them care.
We're going to get them disability payments.
We're going to get them paychecks.
We're going to get them this.
We're going to get them that.
We got it all figured out.
Now Dennis McDonough is asking for money.
Hmm.
Interesting, right?
Congress approved $3 billion in emergency funding in September amid pressure from veterans groups and the White House, staving off any potential fiscal shortfall.
But in late October, VA officials acknowledged their budget estimates were flawed and that more than $5 billion in funding was available for the start of the new fiscal year.
Oh.
So, what this means here, folks, is last summer, the VA asked for $3 billion.
We're not sure that we're going to be able to care for veterans like we said we were.
We need more money.
Congress said, okay, here's $3 billion in emergency funding.
And then, all of a sudden, and that was in September.
Mind you, they got $3 billion in September.
If you don't know, the United States military, their fiscal year starts October 1st.
So let's just say for conversation's sake that the $3 billion came on September 3rd.
By October 1st, all of a sudden, I'm sorry, late October.
By Halloween, less than two months after, The VA comes out and says, well, we found $5 billion that we have available.
We're starting the fiscal year off great.
We got $8 billion.
Let's treat veterans.
So here's my question at this point.
We're at a place where we know that we're running out of money.
We put out statements to tell veterans, Hey, just so you know, your benefits may come late.
They may come super late, depending on who you are and where you're at.
However they figure out who gets paid first or last, depending on availability, I don't know how they do that.
So they tell us that in the summer.
They get veterans all spun up.
They get older guys and maybe even younger guys all worried.
Because remember, folks, that Men and women who receive these benefits and this money, they depend on it.
They depend on it for rent, for groceries, maybe for a car payment.
They depend on it.
However you want to spin it.
And maybe for some, they should try to work into a situation where they don't have to depend on that VA disability payment and that's going to be like a savings account.
But not everybody has that luxury.
For some people, this is part of their monthly paycheck to help them live and get by.
And so in the summer, we're going to spin everyone up and get them all worried.
And then we're going to deal out some relief.
In September, we're getting $3 billion.
Don't worry, folks.
Tragedy has been avoided.
Crisis averted.
And then, just a month and a half or two months later, oh!
Hey, check this out, guys.
We did.
We had $5 billion in the bank.
Looks like we're starting this fiscal year out pretty good.
And then for them to expect that nobody's going to go, well, wait a minute.
We just got $3 billion.
Why did we ask for that?
And now we already have five.
And what's really happening?
What's going on here?
And many people, I'm sure, were like, well, hey, great.
Yeah, the VA finally wins one.
The VA finally will have money to give us the shit that we need.
The real question, in my opinion, is what's really happening?
Five billion dollars just doesn't get misplaced or forgot about.
That's not.
It's not something that really happens, is it?
Five billion bucks?
Shit, man.
If I have $5,000 laying around in a reserve somewhere in a drawer buried in my backyard or in some bank or whatever, I know it's there.
So if you expect me to believe that the people who are responsible for keeping track of and spending five billion dollars, Just forgot?
I don't buy that.
I don't buy that for one second.
So, let's see how more interesting this gets.
At the time, Secretary McDonough and other VA leaders said the moves were made out of an abundance of caution and warned that any shortfall could have disrupted veterans' payouts.
And other Republicans disputed that assertion and accused White House officials of manufacturing panic about veterans' benefits just weeks ahead of the November presidential election.
1,000%.
1,000%.
That's what I believe.
It was a money grab of some sort for whatever reason.
And we were going to get everyone all spun up on veterans' issues.
If you really want to cause upheaval.
For people in this country, not only the ones that are or have served it, but the people in this country who are staunch supporters of our military, which I would like to believe is a lot larger number than the people that don't support our soldiers.
You want to get people spun up in this country?
Tell them that veterans aren't going to get paid.
Tell them that veterans aren't going to get the things that were promised to them, that are owed to them.
And not because we as veterans believe that it's owed to us for what we did.
We believe it's owed to us because that's what we were told by our government.
Who, when we joined on our own free will, were told, don't worry, we got your back.
So, I believe this.
I believe if you're going to spin up the country, you start telling the country that veterans are going to get fucked.
And that's what they did.
Let's keep going.
In this letter to the Attorney General's office, Mr. Bost said that VA leaders knew of their budgetary errors even before the emergency congressional vote, but did not share that information until after extra money was approved.
Well, well, well.
This delayed disclosure...
And the omission of available resources in key budget documents call into question the accuracy and integrity of the Department's budget justification process.
The suggestion that senior VA officials submitted materially inaccurate funding requests and failed to disclose critical budget information warrant immediate and independent review by your office.
These failures undermined the appropriations process, misled lawmakers, and most importantly, put the benefits and services America's veterans rely on at risk.
I think.
I agree a thousand percent.
If these members of Congress have proof, they have evidence that Secretary McDonough and his people Knew of this budgetary errors.
Knew that they had $5 billion in the bank even before Congress voted to give them $3 billion more.
I agree, it calls for an immediate investigation.
Bring all of these people in and get their statements.
And I'm going to tell you what.
Well, I shouldn't say I'll tell you what.
Because maybe they're good at...
Getting all their shit together and getting their stories the same.
But I believe if you interview enough of them and segregate them all, you're going to find little loopholes.
You're going to find little tiny white lies or just little differences in the truth.
Which then you can construct a bigger narrative.
But...
I agree a thousand percent.
Immediate and independent.
Immediate investigation and done by an independent source, independent agency, whatever that means.
I'm sure that somebody would love to have it as, hey, another government contract.
Because we like to do government contracts around this country.
Mr. Bost specifically singled out Secretary McDonough.
Secretary McDonough and former Undersecretary of Benefits Josh Jacobs, also former Undersecretary of Health Dr. Sharif Anahal, for potential charges.
An Inspector General review of the budget issues released last month found significant problems with VA's budgetary projections and accounting practices, but did not recommend criminal or civil actions against former department leaders.
Democratic leaders have accused President Trump of abusing his executive power to attack and harass political opponents.
Mr. Takano called Boast's investigation request an extension of those same abusive practices.
Former Secretary McDonough and his team led the VA through one of the most successful eras in history, he said in a statement.
They deserve to be honored, not smeared by partisan attacks.
In addition to whatever actions the Attorney General's Office pursues, Bo's promise continued investigation from his committee.
So, whether or not Pam Bondi and her people dig into this, I guess remains to be seen.
But Congressman Bost has said, publicly, here and in the committee, that he's going to continue investigating.
Whatever that means.
But I believe that they're right.
I believe they're right.
If this stuff has been lied about and stolen and misappropriated and however you want to spin it, I agree.
They should be brought up on charges and they should be investigated and they should be called out publicly.
And trust me, I'm sure that if they do figure it out, and it's true, they will be called out publicly.
The article ends with a small paragraph here.
Relationships between Republicans and Democrats on the committee, which typically has fewer partisan fights than other congressional panels, have grown increasingly tense over the last few years.
With each side accusing the other of showing division and panic among veterans.
Well, I'll tell you what, folks.
I mean, I've always said that I believe that veterans' issues should be the most nonpartisan issue in all of our government, in all of politics in America.
And I gotta say...
In the past two and a half to three years I've been doing this show, maybe it's more like two and a half years I've been doing this show on the Stu Peters Network, it's become increasingly more apparent to me that there isn't any place, there isn't any committee, there isn't any meeting room, there isn't anything, any event, nothing that happens in our political system, in our political structure these days.
That is nonpartisan.
In fact, what I think is the most apparent is that it's hard to see on a regular basis that our elected officials are acting in good faith and doing the best that they can do for the people that voted them into that office.
All of this bullshit going on in the halls of our government is all about money, votes, power, who's right, who's wrong.
And meanwhile, the American people, the American people who are voting, are voting for it.
We're all voting for this shit.
The American people are the ones suffering.
None of these assholes are homeless.
None of them are broke.
None of them have to worry about whether or not they've got to choose between a full tank of gas or a half tank of gas and some ramen to feed the kids tonight.
None of them are worried about that.
And they just keep running up and down Capitol Hill playing with our stuff.
And at times, it's becoming even more foggy and harder to tell who's actually on the right side of issues and who's on the side that's not for the American people of all of these issues.
Who actually gives a shit about the little guy?
Who actually cares about the American people?
Who in the halls of our government really care about us?
And as time goes by, it becomes less and less clear.
But what they're doing a really good job at is also getting all of us, the American people, to fight with each other.
Pick a side.
Which, as voters, is probably okay.
We don't have to agree with each other.
We can argue.
I think when we get to the point of violence and ostracizing each other all over the place, publicly or not publicly, it's gone too far.
But we can have political discourse, civil political discourse.
But our elected officials are the ones that are supposed to be listening to the things that we say are important to us and then acting on those things.
And to be quite honest, I think that's why a lot of people are latching on to President Trump right now, who maybe didn't at the time of the election or before the election.
Because whether you hate him or not, whether you agree with him or not, or the things that he's doing, you have to admit, he is making steps toward doing the things he said he was going to do.
Which I think is refreshing for a lot of people because it's been a long time, in my opinion, since we've had politicians in power in bigger offices like the presidency or cabinet positions or even Congress or Senate that are actually working to make the lives of the constituents that put them in that chair better.
And I think clearly what we see, and I think most of you would agree, Is we see a lot of jockeying for our next election, our next campaign.
We see a lot of taking sides to further some narrative that clearly, if you look hard enough and you read enough and you dig a little bit, clearly is really money grabs for a lot of these people.
It wasn't long ago that we saw in the media that the government, whoever in the government, Doge or President Trump or Pam Bondi or the FBI or whoever it was, was going to start digging into all of these politicians to figure out how they gained their massive, massive amounts of wealth when they're on a fixed salary for being a politician.
We also hear about how members of government, politicians in our government, Have an upper track on trading?
Stock market stuff?
I don't understand the stock market very well.
So I'm not very versed in it.
But what I did read is that people like Nancy Pelosi and other politicians are able to trade with a whole lot more information than you're able to trade with and that I'm able to trade with.
And all of a sudden, this lonely civil servant Has massive houses in multiple locations with fences and security personnel and this and that and the other thing.
All on a little $180,000 a year salary.
Which to me is a lot of money.
But for somebody who's got mansions with gated electrified fences and...
Big tall fences all the way around their properties and security personnel and shit like that.
$180,000 ain't nothing.
It's like $180 to you and I. But where did we get off track?
Was it when Obama was around?
Was it Bush?
Was it Clinton?
Was it Obama?
Was it Donald Trump?
I seem to think that it was the second Donald Trump came down that escalator.
A lot of people got really scared and really pissed off.
So, I don't know.
I don't know what the answer is, but my hope is that these types of things spark discussion and get people to dig and think and talk.
Because without that, we're just going to sit and watch it all happen to us.
So I encourage you, if these are things that you're passionate about, dig into it a little bit.
Sometimes it's pretty entertaining reading while you're sitting on the shitter or something like that.
Anyway, folks, we've got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
*Music*
Hey folks, real quick before we get back to the show.
It's no secret that we have been experiencing a loss of sponsorships.
Sponsors have been leaving the network or the network leaving sponsors due to our convictions.
And so we have recently began to ask you, the viewer, for help.
We need your help.
You are the most important thing when it comes to this network.
You are the lifeblood.
Of the Stu Peters Network.
And so we are asking for your help once again.
And in doing so, the way that you can help is to go down below on this video.
Right here you'll see the red button that's titled Stu Crew.
You see it blinking there.
You can click on there and it'll take you to the Stu Peters Network Locals page.
You can sign up for a membership.
It is $90 for one year or $9 a month.
If you do the $90, you'll get two months for free.
Also, when you go to checkout, if you use keyword StuCrew1, you'll get the first month for $1.
So these things are extremely important.
Keeping the network funded and bringing you content and information that you're not going to find on the mainstream media.
The truth bombs that you're not going to get from the mainstream media.
This is where you get them.
The new age of information is not the mainstream media.
It is platforms like this one.
And we bend over backwards and break our backs to try to find you the content and the topics that are going to really affect you.
So, for $9 a month, you can join the Stu Crew, get exclusive access to behind-the-scenes footage, all kinds of extra content that will be available to you.
Also, monthly giveaways.
This month, Curable.
Which is a local CBD company has a huge basket of body creams and lotions and bath bombs and Epsom salts and booty scrub Not quite sure what that is, but it sounds interesting They are going to give this basket away to one StuCrew member So if you join the StuCrew or if you are a person that just wants to give a one-time donation That's great.
We will accept that too and you will also be entered into a drawing So get on over to the Stu Peters Locals page.
You can also go to StuPeters.com and sign up there as well.
But it is easier to just go down and hit the red button there that says StuCrew and sign up that way.
Again, it's $9 a month or $90 a year.
You get two months for free.
And when you check out, if you use StuCrew1 as a keyword, you should get one month for free.
We really do appreciate your support.
And as I said, you are the lifeblood of this network.
We can't do this work without you.
We can't continue to bring you all of this amazing content without your support.
So thank you once again for being here.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for supporting us.
We really do appreciate it.
We really do love you.
Thank you.
*Music*
Hey folks, welcome back here from the break.
I wanted to play you a couple short video clips that I found.
One of these was off of TikTok.
It came earlier this week about a VA contractor.
And the amount of money he or they were paid to do the job.
And I think that probably many of you have seen this or at least heard about it.
But I wanted to play it here because I think it's interesting and it plays into what we've been talking about today.
But there's also some more to go along with it.
So let's start with this.
Here we go.
Check this out.
Hey, does anybody want a job paying $8,700 an hour?
Yes.
And the job only requires probably about 10 hours of work per week.
I'm in.
Because Doge just went into the VA and found that...
Somebody was making that.
They found that there was a software engineer who was paid to do light modifications on the website, which takes about 10 hours per week, and they were paying him $380,000 a month to do that, which comes out to roughly about $4.5 million a year.
And if you break that down into 10 hours a week of work, that's roughly $8,700 an hour.
Yeah, that's not okay.
That's my tax dollars.
Unless you're that guy.
Being paid to someone to do very light modifications to a website for 10 hours a fucking week.
There's dudes working on oil rigs, working like fucking 18 hour days that don't even make a fucking fraction of that.
Good point.
And there's somebody being paid to just click.
Click.
Type, type, type.
Click.
Boom.
Done.
Okay, so...
I don't know, folks.
That seems like a pretty extraordinary accusation.
$8,700 an hour.
To do anything, anything at all, is quite extraordinary.
But if we're talking about...
Some basement dweller, sitting at a computer, and my guess is this, if this is 100% true, or if there's any truth to this, my guess is that this person was sitting at, well not even going into the office, right?
They were at home, sitting in their chonies, making $8,700 an hour, and I'm sure chuckling his ass off all the way to the bank.
And so I find it interesting because this video, this particular TikTok came out, I don't know, a month, maybe two ago or something like that.
But it's interesting that it surfaced on social media this last week.
I mean, this thing was posted quite some time ago, but it started surfacing quite a bit this last week.
And then, interestingly enough, now we've seen that the Veterans Affairs Committee is calling on the Attorney General to investigate the VA for this massive money grab that wasn't necessarily needed.
And so it makes me think about...
Was Secretary McDonough concerned about not having enough money for veterans to receive their benefits, or was he concerned more about not having enough money to pay these contracts because they were promised, or he's getting some kickback, or somebody's getting some kickback, or maybe he's not complicit, and he was just ordered to do this by somebody above him.
And the person above him was the president.
So either way that you slice it, it's pretty interesting, right?
I also found this that came out on April 3rd, but surfaced, kind of on an algorithm or whatever you want to call it.
So check this one out.
We won't watch this whole thing, just the beginning.
Check this guy out.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA, paid huge amounts for minor website changes, Doge has found.
Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency discovered a previous contract by the department for maintaining its website before an internal staffer took on the role.
Appreciating the department, Doge posted the contract has not been renewed, and one software engineer is working on it.
Spending less than 10 hours per week.
There it is.
The VA was previously paying $380,000 a month for minor website modifications.
Doge reported that the contract had not been renewed and the same work is being done by one person spending less than 10 hours a week doing it.
And so, some folks are saying, well, you know, This was an agency that was being paid to do this.
Not one person.
But it's some company, right?
And so this is the cost of doing business.
This is what it costs for them to do whatever it is they say they're doing.
But still, $380,000 a month for less than 10 hours of work a week?
And yet we still have people who are homeless and sick and all these things that we've been talking about for a long time.
And Donald Trump's naysayers, his haters, well, they all say he's out for his own good, his own wealth, his own power, his own whatever, his own satisfaction.
It seems to me that there are or were a lot of people who were out for their own satisfaction.
I don't know where anybody gets off charging that kind of money for one month of website repair.
And I guess I don't know what the difference between minor website modifications and major or normal website modifications.
I don't know what that is.
So let's just assume that if it was major website modifications, would it have been $3.8 million a month?
I mean, what is the going rate for minor website modifications?
Now, keep in mind, the VA website is pretty large, and so maybe minor modifications is a large undertaking.
But we were just told it was less than 10 hours of work a week.
So, who's really the bad guy here?
Who's really trying to pull one over on the American people and the taxpayers?
And see, where all this becomes frustrating is that we continue to hear from lawmakers, we continue to hear from people in power how so important, so important our veterans are to us.
And yet, the VA and just the overall Topic of veterans' issues has become a multi-billion dollar a year industry.
Not as lucrative as porn or sex trafficking or drug dealing or whatever else, selling weapons.
Who knows what else people make money off of out there.
Maybe this particular thing.
Website modifications are not as lucrative as those other things, but this one kind of probably rubs some people a lot more in the wrong way than some other stuff.
Because things like minor website modifications are something that a lot of people who are broke can do.
And so when you have American people who are struggling doing the same or similar jobs for peanuts, but yet our government officials get off on spending $380,000 a month for less than 10 hours of work a week doing a job or an activity that millions of Americans probably know how to do.
I bet there's a lot of young folks.
In our communities that know how to make minor website modifications because they grew up in that era.
They grew up on the internet.
Those are things that are self-taught, that are taught in a lot of classrooms, or at least we're told they're taught in a classroom.
And you got these people struggling just to eat, doing the same thing, the same job, just for a different place, a different organization maybe.
I think that that's a lot harder for the American people to stomach.
Because there's probably a lot of folks that would say, well, you know what?
Fuck, man, I could do that job.
And I would do it for $80,000 a year.
Let alone $380,000 a month.
Or I would do it for $180,000 a year.
Let alone $380,000 a month.
And be completely happy and content with that.
But we're no stranger.
We're no stranger on this platform, on this network, especially on this show, about finding where all of these people that like to take from the little guy.
And then seemingly, in small doses, rub it in your face.
We see that.
We've called it out before.
Shit, for seven or eight weeks, we went in on the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, who, if, by the way, by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these contracts that were cut are going to affect their bullshit, their debauchery.
The point is that all this money that's being spent on all this work, and there are still places within the VA system that veterans cannot get ahead.
They cannot get what they need.
Another classic example, as always, is the VA caregiver program.
These poor folks have just been having their dick stomped in the dirt.
Over and over and over and over again.
With no real relief in sight, it seems.
And so my hope is that things like Doge, like these findings and making them public, and maybe it's naive of me to think this, but hopefully it deters the rest of the turds.
In the turd bowl, that is Capitol Hill, from doing shit like this.
I guess my question is, why is it so hard?
Why is it so hard for people in power to just do the right thing?
What is it about getting a little bit of power or authority, making a little bit more money?
What is it about those things that causes people to just completely abandon and lose their moral compass?
And just do wild shit?
I mean, is it really?
I mean, you hear people talk about like this God complex, right?
Like they get money, power, control, and all the things that they ever dreamed of, they have access to.
And so now they want more.
And more and more and more.
And all these things that are more and more and more always equate to just madness.
It equates to screwing people over.
It equates to people losing their lives or their livelihood.
It equates to destruction.
And here...
Here we find ourselves, the little guys, the regular guys, and regular gals, and regular kids in this country, just trying to do the right thing to get a little bit further ahead.
People my age are trying to do the right thing so that they can leave something for their kids to be proud of.
My parents, same thing.
They worked their whole lives.
To leave a legacy that they could be proud of.
To leave a legacy that we, their family, could be proud of.
And so I wonder why politicians, for the most part, it seems, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but it seems they're not really concerned about the legacy they leave behind when their time as a leader in this country is over.
Maybe people who sit in the Oval Office are concerned about that.
They build themselves libraries and all this other shit.
But our smaller politicians, our congressmen, our senators, our state politicians, and even our county representatives and city political figures.
It seems like a large number of them just don't give a shit about the legacy that they're going to leave behind and what history will say about the things that they did for the people that trusted them to help.
But they're going to walk away from their office with a lot more money.
They're going to walk away with their comfort.
They're going to walk away with their families being taken care of.
But yet we voted for them to do those things to help us do the same.
We voted for them to do things that are going to put us, the constituency, in a position for success.
The position to have a meaningful legacy for the people that we leave behind or the things that we leave behind.
And yet here we all are, working to build said legacy.
And then we watch our politicians piss it all away.
They don't give a shit about what you're doing, what I'm doing, what anybody's doing to just try to be comfortable and live out their days in peace.
And bring light and goodness into the world.
Thank you.
I guess some people would say, That the whole political structure is of the devil.
I'm sure there's a lot of people that think that.
And I think that as time goes by, we see more of it.
And I think that also as time goes by, there's a whole lot more people that are subscribing to that idea, to that narrative.
And I think it's fucked up.
So anyway...
That's all the time that we have for today.
I hope that you guys have had an amazing week, and I hope you have a great rest of your evening.
We'll see you next week.
Have a great night.
Goodbye.
*Music*
There's nothing we wouldn't do for our pets.
They're like our children.
Our friends at Pet Club 24 /7 have developed natural products that contain the most potent strain of a mushroom that's been used for thousands of years to help support the immune system.
So visit their website today to discover how they're changing the way that pets and their parents are being treated for the better.
Thank you.
As Christians, in a Christian country, we have a right to be, at minimum, agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over, and instead we're just sending them money, and it's fucking craziness.
Look at the state of Israel, look at the state of Tel Aviv, and look at the state of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going, you tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle.
Fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property And if you've got a foreign state, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the line and say, we stand with them.
You can look at Trump's cabinet.
You can look at Biden's cabinet.
It's for Jews.
I'm a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I'd just like to say that, you know, in our Bible it says that you're like animals.
▲
Export Selection