State Dept. to cancel 83 percent of USAID programs

State Dept. to cancel 83 percent of USAID programs

by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2025 Real World News Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday that 5,200 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts were canceled, amounting to 83% of the agency’s programs. The contracts would have cost American taxpayers “tens of billions” of dollars, Rubio said, adding that the contracts were not […]

Last audit of Fort Knox was in 1974? Are U.S. gold reserves still there?

Last audit of Fort Knox was in 1974? Are U.S. gold reserves still there?

by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2025 Real World News Is all the gold in Fort Knox really there? The gold stash at the Kentucky base was last audited on Sept. 23, 1974. Whether you can actually call it an “audit” is another story. At the time, the U.S. Treasury opened one of its 15 vaults […]

Victor Davis Hanson fact checks Musk mythologies

Victor Davis Hanson fact checks Musk mythologies

by WorldTribune Staff, February 14, 2025 Real World News With every dollar of waste Elon Musk and DOGE uncover, the rage meter goes up for Democrats and their major media allies. Maryland Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin has introduced the “Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act” which decries what he says is Musk’s expanding influence within the […]

Musk: Retirement paperwork for feds is done by hand 230 feet under Iron Mt., PA

Musk: Retirement paperwork for feds is done by hand 230 feet under Iron Mt., PA

by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2025 Real World News Elon Musk said his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found that the maximum number of federal employees that can retire in one month is 10,000. Why? Because the paperwork is processed by hand and stored in an old limestone mine at the Iron Mountain facility […]

‘Spitting mad’: Unelected federal bureaucracy left reeling by Trump’s first 100 hours

‘Spitting mad’: Unelected federal bureaucracy left reeling by Trump’s first 100 hours

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 10, 2025 Real World News The clock for presidential terms getting off to a good start has in the past been set at 100 days. President Donald Trump set off the alarm in just 100 hours. And in the process he has upended the real power in the “Swamp” which […]

Draining the swamp is fun: ‘We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper’

Draining the swamp is fun: ‘We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2025 Real World News When some Democrat members of Congress reportedly tried to enter the USAID building in DC on Monday, they were shut out by security guards. “Is DOGE in there?” one of the lawmakers asked. That would be a yes. Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump […]

The Musk ‘salute’: Major media, having lost audience and election, are back with new strategy

The Musk ‘salute’: Major media, having lost audience and election, are back with new strategy

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 21, 2025 Real World News The major media and the Democrat Party have completed their post-mortem on what went wrong with their disastrous 9-year strategy to call Donald Trump and his supporters Nazis. They have come out swinging with a brand new playbook. Okay, we lied. Hours after Donald Trump […]

George Soros of the right? ‘That’s me’ Elon Musk confirms

George Soros of the right? ‘That’s me’ Elon Musk confirms

by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2024 Real World News The 94-year-old George Soros has pretty much handed over his leftist empire, and the unenviable task of rebuilding a devastated Democrat Party, to his son Alexander. Riding in on the MAGA wave, Elon Musk appears quite content with taking on the role of the George Soros […]

Sen. Paul: To really disrupt the Swamp, make Elon Musk Speaker of the House

Sen. Paul: To really disrupt the Swamp, make Elon Musk Speaker of the House

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2024 Real World News The spending bill, or continuing resolution, put forward by Speaker Mike Johnson this week shows that the Swamp did not go into hibernation as many had hoped after President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive election victory last month. The bill, loaded with pork, a pay raise for […]

Report: Regulations ‘dead tape’ requires 14,983 human lifetimes annually, mainly for paperwork

Report: Regulations ‘dead tape’ requires 14,983 human lifetimes annually, mainly for paperwork

by WorldTribune Staff, November 21, 2024 Real World News As part of his effort to “drain the Swamp,” President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to drastically cut back regulations, appointing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. According […]