Dozens of registered federal agencies don't even exist
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Deputy Public Policy Editor at Open the Books Rachel O’Brien says the Federal Register lists 451 agencies, 75 of which are defunct and obsolete.
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Money laundering at it's finest!
We knew ot was happening all along. Good to see it come to the public eye.
HUNDRED MILLIONS still deposit direct to their acc
Bernie Sanders needed the money for another J
Here's what I wonder.......When politicians trade stock that they know will go up or down based on their voting, or when they accept it"rewards" from our enemies because they helped to move things in their favor, or when they insist on passing bills that they know are BS, or when they get government jobs for unqualified people.....Does it ever occur to them that they are ruining the very people who trust them to protect them? Do they have any feelings of conscience? Or are they just predators with no sense of right and wrong.
Who trump
We need to get rid of most federal agencies
It's in progress now.
@@carebear4554 Thank you, Elon!
At least re-make them for their intended purposes!
@@davidlemons5650 NOT needed.
@@dennisg4053In most cases, I agree. Nursing homes are needed.
Follow the money. Who's getting the money? Unreal
dollars, are not "money"
@@canigetachannelholy shit you are stupid
JOE BIDEN
Here's a clue..... a three letter agency beginning with C
@@canigetachannel Who said dollar?
Support MAGA and DOGE 👍
I'm not at all surprised by these findings! DOGE is long overdue for us! Go Trump!
Except they are going after organizations that not only exist but have an actual critical function.
@@Debra-oz4zs this looks less like a clean up and more like arson
@ I'm sure there are some parts of USAID that aren't democrat controlled that are legitimate. But it seems there are more bogus ones than good ones! I would like to know which good parts are being shutdown though?
@@screenmonkey .. IF there is a "critical Function" a vote by the citizens is in order to pass or not ..
@@screenmonkey, I don't see how foreign aid is a "critical function." The billions sent to media companies for propaganda doesn't seem "critical" to me, Fed.
The swamp is deeper than I ever imagined.
.. Bottomless pit ...
Hold on to your hat then. This isn't the tip of the iceberg, this is a light dusting of snow on the top of the tip of the iceberg...
Where do the funds go when allocated to a defunct agency... Who was pocketing the money?
I think a bunch of them just got p@rdoned......
afuera,
That would be my first question!!!
They might actually still have one or two "employees" if they are still being funded.
Appoint a Citizens Council for Government Spending. Put it under military law with the President as commander in chief. Publish its findings on the net.
PLEASE READ IT ALL BEFORE YOU TELL ME HOW STUPID I AM and HOW THIS WON’T WORK
ADD AND POST WHAT ELSE YOU LIKE TO SEE
DETERMINE:
How much money was each department allocated?
How much did they spend?
How many employees do they have?
How much money was paid to contractors?
Use a rolling 10 year history.
Create a sub-department of forensic accountants who will do a deep dive into each gov’t department, starting with the largest first.
Don’t publish black budgets that are of national security concern. But, make them fully accountable to the President and Congress.
Audit the Federal Reserve Bank. It isn’t a Federal department, but should be audited and held accountable.
Audit the gold reserves of America.
The citizens of America have little idea of how the government spends our money. Don’t you think it’s about time we did?
Billions upon trillions of waste and theft
Thanks to ways and means and OMB they should have a record
How much money was being funneled through those nonexistent agencies?
I’ll wait for the receipts 🤨😡🤬
Look at the national debt LMAO
Pilosi has $200 million.😮
Let’s ask Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill.
And, To whom did the MONEY go?
There should be 100 percent support for this effort.
if someone fights this , then they should be looked at
why.
Especially Al Green and Maxine Waters!
How do you think all these politicians are multi millionaires
these democrat ( )
Insider trading, that's how.
@@michaelpowell7120unfortunately its Republicans too. Both parties have gotten very rich off the American people. If only we could look behind the curtain, I think most of us would get sick to our stomachs. Covid really revealed a lot. Greed vs the value of a human soul. War is a money making machine for politicians. We spend almost a trillion on our military each year, but nobody knows where that money goes. Not even the Pentagon knows. The billions we sent to Ukraine same thing. The swamp monsters are not going down without a fight. God help us.
@@michaelpowell7120 Sadly, it aint just democrats.
Lobbyist funds for politicians.
Thank you President Trump and people like this fine lady for stopping the laundering of taxpayer money and the grift.
Thank you, as a taxpayer , I appreciated your help today Make America Great Again
They are not saving you any money
Hopefully soon, 'taxpayer' will become an obsolete term.
Lizards gunna lizard Andre
@@andreirachko where do you think the money for government comes from! 🙄
@@andreirachko
This is WHY DOGE was created. Get rid of all these useless, non-existent "agencies' And someone find out what happens to all the social security that doesn't get claimed by the people who have passed before they were able to collect?!?!?! (If the other spouse is no longer living) Where are THOSE funds?!?!?!? 🤔
It's obviously Dem money laundering by the fit they are throwing..
They should be arrested and return the money. They can't say "I didn't know that my workplace did not exist."
You really think someone is getting arrested 😂 ?
Their bank and credit union accounts should be shut down immediately BY THE PEOPLE
Who tho? All of this fluff is exactly that. Fluff. There isn’t going to be billions upon billions that falls out of the sky because an auditor was laundering it all 🤙🏽
Start reading RealRawNews. It's info by way of Mar a Lago.
Everybody has got to wake up, now! The brainwashing coma has to end. Turn off all TV s!
@@D22cccghjjii So Don't Even Try?
That's A Real Recipe For Success.
You should go into "Motivational Speaking"
Yup this is what we've suspected all this time. Robbing us blind.
I haven’t seen a poor politician yet!
I live in Roseville California. And each city Council member only makes $2600 per month. While the average income in Roseville is $5200 per month.
And they do an incredible job.
@@brionbee that’s what they make “on the books” now go look at their houses and the cars they drive! Then decide if they are making money some other way or not!
@@brionbee You are confused about how much money they actually get each month. My hometown paid the policemen very little, but some of them could afford to drive new Lincolns and Cadillacs. We knew they had to be on the take.
@@brionbee how much does the poorest WORKING person make? less probably... No politician should make more than the poorest worker (who shouldn't even have to pay taxes on their income)!!!
Incredible! Very good, Open the Books!
Enough of this open checkbook wasting taxpayers money
400+ agencies..............to do what?!?!?!??
Typical government incompetence! Good job DOGE!!
It's obviously not incompetence it's money laundering.
It’s naive to think it’s incompetence. It’s quite purposeful, it’s called money laundering.
If you follow the money you would see that's it's very easy to cut out $ 2 trillion in government waste. This government needs a physical head count. It's needs a roll call.
how many federal employees exist with no job to perform.
Depends on how you define job.
Two just left on January 20th..?
Yes.
Define by: (1) an assigned position description, (2)physical attendance, (3) performance report, (4) training attendance rister, (5) what has thT position generated in terms of expected outcome refarding the position description?......
Use these parameters, and I can safely tell you, there must be thousands getting paid without doing 1 single parameter stated above... that is what is called THE DEEP STATE. THE BLACK HOLE.
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887no it doesn’t
So grateful for this private groups doing the work the feds should do, also thanks to TND for finding this honest group!!
Thank you.
May the light of truth expose all the corruption.
As an American citizen, this is infuriating.
Please do follow up. We would like to know all about this.
Why don't YOU do the research and share it with us, slacker.
I'd say this is an example of government recordkeeping at its finest.
Why can't they clean up the books? Private companies have to.
yes, because "they" are not going to police themselves; "they" are NOT going stop receiving funds for themselves...
Exactly, it’s a normal practice that has been long overdue for our federal government. There shouldn’t be any complaints.
Disgusting. Please expose these wretched politicians.
🤮😡I want my back tax refund back 2.0 this is insane. Unbelievable.
Its like going in to work one day and the boss sends you home and tells you we will mail your check to your house and call you when we need you and the checks keep coming but the boss never calls..
Thats great! All our money going to pay for some one's condo somewhere! Trace the money! Who cashed the checks? Whose account, is it?
Incredible ,the waste money is blatant.
Obviously we need DOGE.
we have needed it for a long time.
Why do you think we need an agency that is redundant to the GAO? Creating more agencies is not how to shrink the size of the government.
No we don’t we need a government agency not a independent agency with Tech lobbyists money
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887literally they are a talking hypocrisy
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887If you don’t like it then we definitely need it.
These two rock. Thank you for reporting and adding value.
So who's cashing the government check ????
Not at all surprised. The mismanagement & deliberate wastage by government is just astounding. Finally some long overdue auditing and accountability. 🙏🏻
Just who are they funneling money to.
Not us !
Biden, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi...just pick a name.
10 percent to biden for 40 years
Politicians fathers brothers cousins former roommates.
Blackrock
How the American people just sat back and allowed this, I'll never understand.
Politico (news) was on the payroll. They told us nothing, and now you know why.
Well, in the 1970’s the subject of American Civics (rights and responsibilities of each citizen of the USA) was REMOVED from school curriculums. This was to ensure that the next generations would have no idea how to be a responsible citizen who was aware of their rights, and along with college and university teachers telling them that the government would take care of them. This produced ignorant people that the media outlets spent decades telling them what to think about current events, and when Obama amended the Smith-Mundt Act (which previously PROHIBITED the use of propaganda and lies upon the American public) to ALLOW the media to lie wholesale to Americans, then the rot really set in, and political CRIMINALS started funneling taxpayer money into their own pockets. This proved to be SO profitable, that these criminals then had to ensure that they could stay in office, and massive voter fraud via electronic voting made sure that their Land of Scam remained unmolested by those pesky citizens who were aware of the criminal activity. Over the years, the criminals became bolder, and if someone was about to publish evidence of their thefts and abuses, then that person would die by “suicide” (shooting themselves in the back of the head, or multiple self-inflicted stab wounds in their back, or fatal car accidents with ligature marks on their neck…you know, the usual suicide. 🙄) Now DOGE is following the money, and old/cold cases are about to be reopened. Prepare yourselves for the mother of all WAKE UP calls-the water is cold and deep, as is the evil these criminals have done (child trafficking, medical “experiments” on citizens, “natural” disasters). Y’all are gonna go ballistic.
You make it sound like we knew this was going on the whole time. Most of us are just learning about this, and those who suspected but couldn't prove it were silenced as "nutjobs".
Are you American ?
@Dargonhuman we did all know this was going on the whole time. The government laundering and stealing all our money wasn't exactly a secret
If they were receiving funding, where did that funding go and into whose pockets ? Rule number 1 follow the money.
Always a Paper Trail 🤑
Refund American taxpayers!
10% to the Big Guy
Not only do those “agencies” need to be defunded, but we need to charge whomever is receiving funds, if that’s the case.
Nancy comes to mind
Chuckie seams mighty butt hurt.
Wow, thank God for organizations like this along with DOGE. Maybe this mess of a federal government can actually be straightened out.
Political money laundering!!
This here!
All the people associated with collecting the budget allocation for these non existent agencies must be locked up in jail.
Imagine that! More hands in the cookie jar than expected! LoL!
Its called money laundering, if we did this we would be in jail
Great job, thank you so much for doing this open the books we, the public certainly appreciate all your efforts time to clean up our government our mess
Open the Books, along with Judicial Watch, are amazing, critical, orgs.
Sharing this everyone needs to know
This video should be mandatory viewing for every high school and college students. A graded quiz to be given after.
But someone was getting those ghost employees checks.....
36 trillion dollar debt
career politicians "seving" in the government for decades
and empty agencies still having funding funneled into them
one would almost think that america was being used as a cashcow
I am familiar with a consultant that works exclusively with the military services. They have yet to come across any organization or sub-unit that has a complete list of everything the organization is working on. Think about that.
Justify your job or your job serves no purpose.
WTF! Outrageous
It’s time to clean house.
🔵 Madness DEI is DEAD
Lot of departments rebranded their staff names after that memo. This will take a long time to work out and isn't over.
that explains why airline plane wheel falling off.
Make America Great Again!
@@ThomasNguyen-qw6ro Poor training of mechanics obviously. DEI at its finest. Sad all those people died.
@@matthewrose8002Right, maybe every 23 years as in JEEPERS CREEPERS!😮
And yet funding still goes to these agencies? Who’s collecting the money is the major question.
Politicians, their friends and families . DC insiders. Many hold more than one “job” on paper.
This is just another case of poor leadership in American and why our country is in the state that it is in. It is truly pathetic.
Yes! Where's the money going????
So basically DOGE doesn’t even have to work hard at all on most of the waste. This is ludicrous.
keep it UP, thanks
This is so sick.
This has been evil straight from hell have you nog seen the zombie drugged in the streets tent cities destroyed all our systems and even went after our children ????? ANC they still fighting us for the money they have become filthy rich for their crimes as the people can’t afford food and utilities at the same time ! Then they invaded our country so they could keep stealing !!!! Treason !!!
That has be some kind of crime ,treason???
TRUTH! A concept foreign to many today!
They are gonna find so many people excepting erroneous money. There’s gonna be a lot of people getting busted over this.
$21 Trillion " missing" from the federal government. ( Univ. of Michigan study).
🤔🤨🤬
Catherine Austin Fitts been saying it for many years, now.
Are these non agencies recieving funds? Someone has to be handling the money. Someone has to sign for it? Who is someone?
Light shines threw the dark
"through"..........? 😇
@ lol ya between autism and dyslexia I gave up the shame of spelling a while ago.. thanks for the spell check with the angel .. it is kind of you
@ I taught myself to read when I was ten.. this autistic brain! I’m 50 now.. I gave up spelling.. your kindness in the correction fixed that word for me! Value and appreciation to you.. i may never misspell through again!! 😇
Excellent reporting!
Thank you Open the Books!
Draining the swamp and saving tax payers dollars.
Audit the CIA
Thank you for publicizing this information. Funneling money for something they don’t want known…. May DOGE delete these and more.
Wow! Kick backs galore!
Who's surprised??
Anyone??
No one
GREAT WORK ... !
Find and retrieve all of the money.
So, non-existent federal agencies are still receiving funding? Where does that money go? Is this a slush fund or money laundering?
So where was all the money going?And who was accepting all the money for these places of the government that don't even exist there has to be a money trail
Things like this are a congressional slush fund. CIA, backroom dealing, money laundering, etc…
NASA black ops, etc etc etc.
This is so crazy!
Excellent reporting. Thank you for the facts.
"The Department of Fresh Water Basket Weaving" (Established FY 1983) (Defunct: FY 2021) is something you want to see on an official and publicly available register. You don't want that to simply be deleted after it's been made defunct because there are an insane amount of ties that agencies have to one another. Leaving it up and publicly listed makes it harder to keep funding it "by accident", which is not an uncommon occurrence in large gov't bureaucracies.
I want to know if any of the defunct agencies were still collecting money and if so then the DOJ needs to investigate and track down who received the money and where did it go.
Are those sham agencies still receiving money? That's the question that needs to be asked and answered.
NEWSFLASH: Waters wet, grass is green. Full Report at 11
Do those agencies still have budgets? If so, where is that money going? That's robbery.
And you wonder why we have little faith in our government any more and see how their is massive waste going on.
Follow the money. Who got paid??? That's what we want to know.
Thank you..
Thank you for the direct, concise information. It is difficult to find these days. Subscribed👍
Sounds like prison time for everyone at those agencies if they are still there and getting paid.
how about every 3 years each agency must justify their existence. same for all laws and regulations.
Hell, most of us working stiffs have to justify our jobs on an annual basis...
This must be another way politicians get rich
Good luck. Thank you, and keep working.
And their still getting paid 😮
Very good reporting and explanation. Thank you.
Cool 😎 👍
And thank you 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏