Congress has passed a bill that would stop payments from going to deceased people, said a celebrating Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). “I have been working for years, literally years, to target welfare fraud — especially the fraudsters who conduct fraud in the name of deceased Americans,” Kennedy said. “In 2023 alone, for example, the federal government sent $1.3 billion — not million, billion. The federal government sent $1.3 billion to dead people.” “It’s so pervasive that the Social Security Administration — which maintains a list of dead Americans, known as the Death Master File,” Kennedy added. “If someone dies, the state sends the name of the deceased person to the Social Security Administration, and that person’s name is listed on what’s called the Death Master File.” We found that Social Security was not sharing this information — the names of the folks on the Death Master File, with the rest of the federal government. One branch of government wasn’t talking to another branch of government. The Social Security Administration told me — when I confronted them about this, and I asked them, ‘Why don’t you talk to your colleagues and other colleagues in the federal government so we can stop paying dead people?’ Social Security told me it needed Congress’s permission to share this information... I didn’t argue with them, I said, ‘I’m just going to pass a bill.’ Well, a few years ago I did. And, that bill allowed the Social Security Administration to temporarily share it’s Death Master File with the Department of Treasury. Since December of 2023, this bill has saved the federal government at least $330 million in improper payments. We’re no longer paying dead people, and having their friends, or relatives, or whomever cash the checks. It was obvious that Congress needed to make this data sharing arrangement permanent, so I had to introduce — and was happy to do it, I introduced a second bill to do just that. President Donald Trump on Thursday greeted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House where she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal, which he accepted. Machado, leader of the Venezuela’s center-right Vente Venezuela party, was awarded the medal, which Trump heavily campaigned for, last year for her work to promote democratic rights in her South American nation. “It was a Great Honor to meet Maria Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.” "It is also a profound expression of gratitude for the invaluable support of President Trump and the United States for the Venezuelan people in this decisive struggle for our independence and the restoration of popular sovereignty,” she said, according to a statement from her Vente Venezuela party. The Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute responded to the situation with a statement that “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time” — a statement it reiterated on Thursday. Such a grateful country! The United States ended taxpayer-funded food aid to Somalia after local officials torched and looted the stockpiles of food stored in a local warehouse. This is the same country that is shipped suitcases of US dollars each week. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/us-ends-aid-somalia-after-locals-torch-loot/ Thousands of people demonstrated in the capital of Greenland on Saturday against President Donald Trump’s plans for the US to annex the Danish autonomous territory. The protesters, including the territory’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, waving a Greenlandic flag, chanted slogans and traditional Inuit songs under light rain. Many wore caps with the words “Make America Go Away” — a riff on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. The Nuuk demonstration coordinated with others across Denmark on Saturday that were joined by thousands. Trump warned on Friday that he could put tariffs on countries that oppose his plans to take over mineral-rich Greenland. ...Greenlanders, 85 percent of whom — according to the latest poll published in January 2025 — oppose the territory joining the United States. Only six percent were in favour. Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States “needs” Greenland — a vast, mineral-rich territory at the gateway to the Arctic with a population of 57,000 — for US “national security”. He also claims that Denmark — a NATO ally — is incapable of ensuring Greenland’s security. European NATO members have responded by deploying troops in Greenland in recent days for a military exercise that France said was designed to show the world that they will defend the territory. The impending charges stem from Lemon’s involvement when a group of anti-ICE activists stormed a church in Minneapolis, disrupting a religious service and intimidating worshippers, on Sunday. According to reports, Lemon not only accompanied the protesters but had prior knowledge of their plans to target the church, which was hosting a service at the time.
Congress Blocks Dead People from Getting Social Security:
Venezuela Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado Presents Trump with Her Nobel Peace Prize:
US Ends Aid to Somalia After Locals Torch and Loot Warehouse Filled with 76 Tons of US-Donated Food:
They really appreciate all of the US taxpayer donated food sent their way.
Thousands Protest in Greenland and Denmark over Trump Plans to Acquire Island:
BREAKING: DOJ to Charge Don Lemon Under the ‘KKK Act’ for Inciting Church Raid (VIDEO):
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, has announced that they plan to charge disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era law enacted to combat terrorist activities by groups like the KKK.