{"id":60655,"date":"2025-08-26T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60655"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:37:58","slug":"getting-to-the-root-of-the-problem-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60655","title":{"rendered":"Getting To The Root Of The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat party has turned non-profits and <span class=\"kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah\">non-governmental organizations (NGOs) into cash cows. That is one of the reasons Democrats were so upset about defunding the <span class=\"_97w2Z3njlMm7Og_zyqu4\">United States Agency for International Development<\/span> (USAID). Even if the Democrats (and some Republicans) were not skimming money directly, the boards of many of these organizations included their relatives who were paid exorbitant sums of many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/25\/opinion\/non-profit-groups-bank-billions-from-political-insiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> posted an editorial explaining how some of this works and what can be done to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Starting to lift the lid off a far, far larger scam, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/25\/us-news\/commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-voids-illegal-7-4b-agreement-to-pay-biden-staffed-nonprofit-for-semiconductor-research\/\">Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just nixed $7 billion in \u201cadvance payments\u201d <\/a>that Biden administration staffers aimed to divert to a \u201cnonprofit\u201d controlled by <em>other <\/em>Democratic insiders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The bigger scam being, of course, how the left (and lots of plain-old Dem machines) feeds off government-funded \u201ccharities.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s a huge part of the \u201cswamp,\u201d though of course its denizens pretend their motives don\u2019t reek.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In this case, the Bidenites were in too much of a hurry to make the theft fully legal: After President Donald Trump\u2019s victory last November, high-level staff all across the executive branch rushed to corral cash that hadn\u2019t yet gone out the door, lest the MAGA crew actually vet where it was going.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>So some plugged-in Dems quickly created Natcast, a public-private not-for-profit \u2014 which the Bidenites immediately chose to direct tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to tech firms under the CHIPS Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Except that law never allowed for such a cut-out to handle the outlays \u2014 which made the diversion plainly illegal: Even if nobody ever goes to jail for it, Lutnick can at least claw back the funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>That was just part of the looting frenzy; another scheme <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/12\/us-news\/trump-administration-asks-citibank-to-freeze-20b-for-biden-era-climate-slush-fund\/\">parked $20 billion at CitiBank<\/a> with an eye on ensuring the \u201cenvironmental justice\u201d grants went to Democratic allies, such as one <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/27\/us-news\/stacey-abrams-linked-groups-insane-2b-grant-terminated-by-lee-zeldins-epa-the-doj-fbi-are-investigating\/\">linked to Stacey Abrams<\/a>, the failed Georgia gov candidate and election-denier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/06\/opinion\/biden-administration-gave-taxpayer-money-to-leftist-climate-nonprofits\/\">EPA chief Lee Zeldin moved to rescind<\/a> that insider dealing after getting wind of Bidenites at his agency \u201cthrowing gold bars\u201d away before the Trumpies could take over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire article. This is information voters need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat party has turned non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) into cash cows. That is one of the reasons Democrats were so upset about defunding the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 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