DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay
Source: POLITICO
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s “DOGE” outfit puts “everyone with a Social Security number at risk of their information being misused, ripped off, or manipulated for political gain.”

Under the “DOGE" outfit, “the SSA erroneously declared 82-year-old Seattle resident Ned Johnson dead. Before Johnson was even aware of or could remedy the mistake, the agency cut off his retirement benefits, took thousands of dollars out of his bank account, and cut off his Medicare.”
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/doges-data-digging-at-the-social-security-administration-puts-millions-of-americans-at-risk/ #AtWhatCost

“The detention of three children and their mother shocked the town. It also highlighted just how much the region’s key industries depend on immigrant workers.”

“More than half of the workers on New York’s dairies are foreign-born, some experts estimate.

The dairy industry is responsible for about half of the state’s agricultural output. Nearly 3,000 farms produce more than 16 billion pounds of milk a year — more than most other states.”

https://nysfocus.com/2025/04/09/sackets-harbor-ice-raid-dairy-farm-homan #AtWhatCost

How exactly is the Trump admin going to figure out which taxpayers have legal immigration status and which ones don’t? Probably through racial profiling, which would then put non-white U.S. citizens and green card-holders in the crosshairs: https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/in-seeking-to-turn-the-irs-into-ice #AtWhatCost

“Federal law under 26 U.S.C. § 6103 is unambiguous: Tax returns and related information must remain confidential. These privacy protections weren’t created arbitrarily—they were enacted in 1976 as a direct response to the Nixon administration’s abuse of IRS records to target political opponents.” https://unidosus.org/blog/2025/03/24/when-dhs-requests-itin-tax-data-why-every-american-should-be-concerned/ #AtWhatCost

It’s official—and so self-destructive. Undocumented workers are trying to follow the rules by dutifully paying their taxes (nearly $100 billion annually).

The government will now be violating the privacy of all by sharing personal data to target these workers and their vast contributions: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-59056/irs-dhs-information-sharing-deal-immigrants-tax-records #AtWhatCost

“Millions of undocumented immigrants file taxes. Now their data could be used to deport them.”

“It’s a puzzling move considering the fiscal implications, according to the Cato Institute’s vice president for economic and social policy studies, Alex Nowrasteh

'Reducing the amount of taxpayers paying into those programs who are not going to receive benefits is a really foolish thing to do.’”

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/04/03/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-irs-data-deportat #AtWhatCost

“’They're lying': Despite claims, Social Security office closures—which mean cuts—are coming.

A new analysis shows that already, in 35 states, more than 10% of seniors must travel over 45 miles to their closest field office.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-office #AtWhatCost

This unprecedented demand for personal IRS information would also have repercussions that go far beyond undocumented communities. For example, how exactly is the Trump administration going to figure out which taxpayers have legal immigration status and which ones don’t? Probably through racial profiling 👇🏽 https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/in-seeking-to-turn-the-irs-into-ice?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios #AtWhatCost

In 2022, undocumented workers paid $25.7 billion into Social Security, $6.4 billion into Medicare, and nearly $2 billion into unemployment (again, ineligible for all three unless they can ever adjust their status).

Undocumented workers have been helping subsidize critical federal programs for Americans—and the thanks they’ll get is mass abduction and deportation. #AtWhatCost

The Washington Post: “DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants.”

So I guess Trump is finally admitting that undocumented workers actually do pay taxes. Nearly $100 billion annually, to be exact.

They help fund Social Security and Medicare (which undocumented immigrants can’t apply for). Trump’s anti-immigrant obsession will cost us all:

https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/in-seeking-to-turn-the-irs-into-ice?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios #AtWhatCost

“They are diverting money and manpower away from federal investigations into child abuse, drug trafficking, tax fraud and money laundering and redirecting them to indiscriminate immigration arrests and even to snoop through the private tax returns of every American.” https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/at-what-cost-trumps-mass-deportation-obsessions-take-priority-over-billions-in-tax-paying-and-federal-crime-fighting/ #AtWhatCost

"The Trump admin’s end goal here is not to protect children and our communities. If that were the case, it would not be diverting critical resources that have been combating human and drug trafficking here at home, or freezing funds for programs supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world ..." https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/trump-resurrects-his-cruel-war-on #AtWhatCost

"... thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas—from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/ #AtWhatCost

"Homeland Security investigators who specialize in money laundering are raiding restaurants and other small businesses looking for immigrants who aren’t authorized to work.

Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law." #AtWhatCost

"Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/ #AtWhatCost

“… an analysis released late Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) makes clear that deep cuts to Medicaid would be required under the House GOP resolution, which President Donald Trump has endorsed.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-lying-medicaid-cuts #AtWhatCost

“Programs are going to have deep cuts to be able to give [Trump] the money that he wants to expand detention camps, to expand the detentions and deportations, and that is a cost that’s going to affect all families, not just immigrant families,” Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America’s Voice, told NOTUS. “The money has to come from somewhere.”

https://www.notus.org/immigration/americas-voice-ads-immigration-spending #AtWhatCost

The Trump administration’s weird and destructive obsession with immigrants is costly, dangerous, cruel, and chaotic with no regard to our values, public safety or economic concerns. #AtWhatCost