Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Steve Miran: “I don’t think that they were right about tariffs in President Trump’s first term in which the tariffs left no lasting mark on the economy but generated tons of revenue… And I think they’re wrong against now. Today’s data prove it because today’s data reflect the period after the President’s announcement.”
This is insanity. The Postal Service hasn’t had a balanced budget since – 2007. 18 years. It’s time to privatize the USPS.
“We actually went into the [United States Institute of Peace] and found they had loaded guns inside their headquarters… Additionally, we found they were spending money on things like private jets, and they even had a $130K contract with a former member of the Taliban.”
$50M Inter-America Foundation farming in Peru, only 58% not 90%; most money never made it out of DC
Only a fraction of taxpayer funds reach their designated recipients, to the Inter-America Foundation, which DOGE left with only one employee. ‘They get $50 million a year, congressional money, for things like farming in Peru’ Musk: ‘That’s a real example,’ he said before sharing others: ‘improving the marketability of peas in Guatemala, fruit jam.
‘You might expect in the private sector, nonprofit 80 or 90 percent of their money to grantees. In the case of IAF, that was 58 percent. So the other half goes towards management, travel.
Musk: ‘An example is that even if you agree with supporting alpaca farmers in Peru, actually most of the money never made it out of DC. It’s going to the pockets of people in the neighborhood.’
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Econ Advisors Chairman Steve Miran: Today’s data prove tariffs; DOGE: 18 years Postal Service no balanced budget