It is Super Bowl Sunday and
what is the NIH interested in?
It is almost impossible to keep up with the flurry of executive orders coming from President Trump’s desk. This evening President Trump signed a proclamation as he flew over the former Gulf of Mexico on the way to the Super Bowl declaring today National Gulf of America Day. It says in part:
“Today, I am very honored to recognize February 9, 2025, as the first ever Gulf of America Day.
On January 20, 2025, I signed Executive Order 14172 (“Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness”). Among other actions, that Executive Order required the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, to “take all appropriate actions to rename as the ‘Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, I am making my first visit to the Gulf of America since its renaming. As my Administration restores American pride in the history of American greatness, it is fitting and appropriate for our great Nation to come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the renaming of the Gulf of America.”
To top everything else off, according to the US Debt Clock, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has saved American taxpayers over $76 billion so far!! The Democrats are having a fit! I wonder why. What is it they don’t want the American people to know??
One of the areas of mismanagement that DOGE has discovered is within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). You know – Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency. Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) uncovered a link between the NIH and the Super Bowl!!
"We've been focusing on the Super Bowl, and what we have seen is about $1.2 million spent by the National Institutes of Health on a pair of studies to figure out if there is more binge drinking on Super Bowl Sunday, and then if there is a baby boom nine months later in the winning team city," Senator Ernst told the Guardian.
According to the Post Millennial: “One study, conducted in 2017 and titled "Super Bowl Babies': Do Counties with Super Bowl Winning Teams Experience Increases in Births Nine Months Later?" received $710,000 in funding. A second study published in 2014 and titled "Super Bowl Sunday: Risky Business for At-Risk (Male) Drinkers" was given $563,800. “
Senator Ernst concluded, "The NIH, maybe they just think, well, we've got the money, so we're going to spend it. Well, what I would be saying right now is, I'm sorry you're not going to get that money anymore because you've wasted it."
Apparently, the NIH has nothing better to do than waste taxpayer dollars on useless studies. Perhaps the money would be better spent on stopping sex trafficking, which happens during the Super Bowl as it does everyday across America.
According to the National Center to End Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE): “Sex trafficking, a subcategory of human trafficking, involves the exploitation of people in the commercial sex industry (i.e., prostitution marketplaces) where victims are expected to provide commercial sex acts on demand. Commercial sex acts are any sex acts on account of which anything of value (e.g., money, clothes, shelter, food, drugs, etc.) is given to or received by any person. Because a person has no meaningful right to refuse sex in the context of sex trafficking, the principle nature of their exploitation is that of rape and the abrogation of their individual autonomy.”
Also from the Center, “. . . sex trafficking is happening to U.S. born citizens within our own borders. In fact, sex trafficking is mostly likely happening in your community. For instance, fronts for prostitution like strip clubs and illicit massage parlors exist in many communities in the U.S. and are known hotspots for sex trafficking. Additionally, the Internet has made it possible to advertise prostitution anywhere there is an Internet connection. . . . . sex traffickers and child predators appear to be using popular social media apps such as Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok to identify, groom, and exploit children in the online space. Sex trafficking can happen in any community or neighborhood. As one researcher put it, ‘All children are potentially at risk from being groomed online because all children regularly use the internet.’”
Too many politicians in both parties view $1.2 million as pocket change when it comes to the overall budget. From DOGE’s February 7th post on X, “Great coordination across 35 agencies over the last two days to terminate 199 wasteful contracts saving ~$250 mm, including: -Contract for “Asia Pacific - Sri Lanka climate change mitigation adaption and resilience coordinator services for forest service” -Workshop for “Intercultural communication diversity dialogue circle communicating across differences”
But the greatest scandal, thus far, has been USAID:
· $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia.
$70,000 for the production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland.
$1.5 million for DEI programs in Serbia.
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.
$2 million for Moroccan pottery classes.
$3 million to an arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
$8 million for the left-wing media outlet Politico.
$20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq.
$32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru
USAID funded Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that put Hunter Biden on its payroll.
USAID funded Metabiota another company with links to Hunter Biden, that worked on “pandemic prediction and mitigation.”
USAID funded the Wuhan Lab that created COVID-19.
The truth is being exposed to American taxpayers, who suspected the mismanagement of their hard earned tax dollars, and there’s no turning back! Ten thousand dollars here, a million or two there all add up – something, hopefully, more politicians will finally acknowledge and do something about! President Trump’s executive orders need to be made into law or they will be rescinded by the next Democrat administration.
In the past some in Congress attempted to get some transparency from USAID, but were threatened and stonewalled.
“Scrutinizing the dollars that are flowing through that agency is very important, because, yes, I would rather see immunizations go to children in Africa. I would rather see us feeding impoverished nations. But we need to know that those dollars are doing it and not going to fund terrorist organizations, not going to support a gender ideology in certain regions. We have to know that it’s going for a specific goal that is approved by Congress and, unfortunately, USAID has abused this system,” Senator Joni Ernst said during a recent appearance on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren.”
She also said during the interview, “We know in the example of Ukraine — and this is what I was very focused on — is the humanitarian aid wasn’t getting distributed to humanitarian aid contractors. Instead, it was being sent to the United Nations, where we have absolutely no idea where that money is going from that point forward. So, we tried to call the question on USAID, and, again, they threatened us, they stonewalled us, until I was able to join forces with Congressman Mike McCaul and announce a formal investigation of the agency. And then, even they slow walked providing any data to us.”
This just in: President Donald Trump has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the cost of producing the one-cent coin.
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”
So . . . all those pennies you have in the bottom of your desk drawer may be worth a LOT of money in the future!