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BREAKING: Arab nations just shut down Trump’s proposal to take over and control Gaza—and instead, they’ve unveiled a $53 BILLION plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip.

During a summit in Cairo, Arab leaders made it clear: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

Egypt’s reconstruction plan includes clearing debris, rebuilding homes, and establishing industrial zones and ports—a direct rejection of Trump’s fantasy of depopulating Gaza and turning it into beachfront real estate.

Meanwhile, Israel backs Trump’s relocation plan, but Arab leaders aren’t budging. The message? They won’t let Gaza be erased.

So now the real question: What’s Trump’s next move after being completely sidelined?
 
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BREAKING: Doug Ford just went nuclear on Trump’s tariffs—threatening to slap a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to New York, Michigan, and Minnesota.

And if things escalate? Ontario is ready to cut the power off completely.

Ford isn’t playing around. Canada has already hit the U.S. with $30 billion in retaliatory tariffs and is prepping another $125 billion.

Ontario just banned U.S. companies from bidding on $30 billion in government contracts and pulled $1 billion worth of American alcohol from its shelves.

The message? Trump picked this fight. Now U.S. consumers, businesses, and workers are about to pay the price.

MAGA wanted a trade war? Well, they just got one.
 
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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries​

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.
Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling USAID, who has also played a role in DOGE’s incursions into the National Institutes of Health and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is listed as making just over $167,000 annually, WIRED has confirmed. Lewin is assigned to the Office of the Administrator within the General Services Administration.



Kyle Schutt, a software engineer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is listed as drawing a salary of $195,200 through GSA, where he is assigned to the Office of the Deputy Administrator. That is the maximum amount that any “General Schedule” federal employee can make annually, including bonuses. “You cannot be offered more under any circumstances,” the GSA compensation and benefits website reads.
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Nate Cavanaugh, a 28-year-old tech entrepreneur who has taken a visible internal role interviewing GSA employees as part of DOGE’s work at the agency, is listed as being paid just over $120,500 per year. According to DOGE’s official website, the average GSA employee makes $128,565 and has worked at the agency for 13 years.
When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” WIRED previously reported that the DOGE recruitment effort relied in part on a team of engineers associated with Peter Thiel and was carried out on platforms like Discord.

Since Trump took office in January, DOGE has overseen aggressive layoffs within the GSA, including the recent elimination of 18F, the agency’s unit dedicated to technology efficiency. It also developed a plan to sell off more than 500 government buildings.


Although Musk has described DOGE as “maximum transparent,” it has not made its spending or salary ranges publicly available. Funding for DOGE had grown to around $40 million as of February 20, according to a recent ProPublica report. The White House did not respond to questions about the salary ranges for DOGE employees or how the budget is allocated to pay them.
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Some DOGE team members, including Musk, are designated as “Special Government Employees,” an advisory role limited to a 130-day work period. These positions can be paid or unpaid; SGEs drawing salaries above a certain grade have to file financial disclosure forms, but the volunteer workers do not. This type of employee is not beholden to the same rules as typical federal workers; they are allowed to keep drawing outside salaries and in some cases do not need to disclose conflicts of interest. Other prominent SGE staffers associated with DOGE include top aide Katie Miller, who continued her prior public relations work through the transition and more than a month into the current administration. Her firm’s clients had included Apple and a Saudi-funded golf league, according to The Wall Street Journal.



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Other prominent DOGE staffers appear to be unpaid volunteers. Edward Coristine, Ethan Shaotran, Luke Farritor, Derek Geissler, and Nicole Hollander draw no salary through their assignments at the General Services Administration. (It is not currently known whether they are drawing salaries elsewhere within the government.) The agency now openly discusses the idea of compensation on its recruitment page, which describes “full-time, salaried positions for software engineers, InfoSec engineers, and other technology professionals.”
In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News last month, Musk claimed that "the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year and instead of earning a small fraction of that as federal employees." In Silicon Valley, the median salary for a software engineer hovers around $184,000, with workers a decade into their careers earning over $220,000, according to Glassdoor.
DOGE honcho Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of over $350 billion. Although Musk does not draw a salary for his work with DOGE, his business ventures often enjoy government support. The Washington Post recently reported that his companies have received more than $38 billion in government funding over the past two decades.
“It does seem worth understanding what these employees are being paid,” says Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan. “Especially if they are being paid significantly more than technologists who have been fired, given that many of the DOGE staff have less relevant experience.”
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BREAKING: Florida Attorney General just executed search warrants against Andrew and Tristan Tate after launching a criminal investigation into them. The Tates, who fled Romania’s human trafficking case, thought Florida would be a safe haven—but Ron DeSantis’ administration isn’t having it. The Attorney General is now actively investigating their activities, with search warrants already in play. So now the question is—will Tate’s “alpha male” bravado hold up, or are we about to see the victim act kick in?
 
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This kind of chaos can't last 4 years, not even 2 years...repubs gonna have to pick a side soon as the heat gets turned up more. Hiding from town halls ain't gonna cut it. If folks want to find you, they can find you. I'm sitting back waiting for the cracks to appear then things get interesting.
 

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