More than $30 billion in taxpayer-funded welfare money intended to help America’s poorest families has instead beeen used as a ‘slush fund’ – diverted into programs ranging from college scholarships to government budget backfills.
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, known as TANF, was created nearly three decades ago to provide direct financial support and services to struggling families.
Today, the program distributes about $16.5 billion annually in federal funds, supplemented by roughly $15 billion in state contributions.
But federal auditors and analysts say the program’s structure, which gives states broad control over spending with limited reporting requirements, has made it difficult to track how billions of dollars are ultimately used.
States often use TANF money to finance programs with only indirect connections to helping poor families, said Hayden Dublois of the Foundation for Government Accountability. He described the system’s lack of oversight as ‘fraud by design.’
A federal statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein‘s death has surfaced in newly released Justice Department files but it carries a date that appears to precede the moment he was officially found dead inside his New York prison cell.
The document, issued by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and dated Friday, August 9, 2019, states that Epstein had already been found unresponsive and pronounced dead.
But prison records and official accounts show Epstein was not discovered unresponsive until the morning of August 10, 2019, when a corrections officer delivering breakfast found him in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
In the statement, then–Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: ‘Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
A man and woman have appeared in court accused of assaulting two girls in Dundee.
Prosecutors allege Ilia Belov, 22, approached and followed four girls, who were aged between 12 and 14, and made sexual remarks to them before seizing one of the girls and pushing her to the ground.
His co-accused Nadjedzha Belova, 20, is accused of repeatedly seizing and pulling another of the girls by the hair, dragging her to the ground, and punching her on the head to her injury.
The case was continued without plea to a case management hearing on 6 March at Dundee Sheriff Court.
The offences are alleged to have taken place in St Ann Lane, Lochee last August.
Chinese used to be called ‘the Jews of Asia’ because in many respects the two cultures resemble each other — clannish, proud of their histories, look down on others, form ethnic business cartels, good with money, which they both value very highly, good at lying and do it often with outsiders. Ofc, both cultures have many exceptions to these crude observations but, generally, there is truth to them. The Western elite was skinned alive by the Chinese CCP when China opened their doors circa 2000. A dim awareness of what happened has only recently dawned. Trump was the first to speak loudly about it. As for Jewish Supremists, sort of the CCP of Jews, Trump seems to be wholly ensnared. Maybe he sees it and has a plan. Maybe he sees it and knows he is powerless. Maybe he sees it and is part of it, but with more compassion for the West, which is fast descending into oblivion. ABN
As my code advances there will be no doubt left. They should have never gave me access to AI… a hyper focused mind with a powerful tool set is the most dangerous combination to conspirators. You can’t explain these peaks with the official narrative.
So far, Bray seems to have the best explanation for precisely how Kirk was killed. His description covers everything we can see and hear and leaves no loose ends. A small shaped-charge in Kirk’s mic battery pack shot a directed stream of gas into Charlie’s chest. We can see his body curl forward and into itself as the charge strikes; then his head and hair straighten as the charge propagates. The wound in his neck was caused by an unplanned ejection of shrapnel from the battery pack. This also explains why the wound and how it bleeds is anomalous, and does not resemble a bullet entry or exit wound. Also, congratulations, Jon, for not using a music overlay. For a deeper dive into Jon Bray’s work on Kirk’s assassination, see this. ABN
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has made a massive ruling in favor of President Trump and the ICE removal process [pdf Ruling Here]. In short, throughout the nation 360 immigration judges had previously ruled that illegal aliens (applicants for admission) should be granted bond and released during the removal proceedings.
The Fifth CCA has now ruled the aliens can be detained as they go through the removal process. This means ICE captures the illegal, holds them in detention and then rapidly deports them. The ruling, which will likely be appealed to the supreme court, fast-tracks the removal.
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