THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH WANTING TO KNOW HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SPENDS TAXPAYERS' MONEY

In Senate floor remarks, Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana defended D.O.G.E. by calling out several governmental programs and slammed a not-for-profit organization employing Stacey Abrams, a well- known Democrat of Georgia. In 2022 President Biden passed Inflation Reduction Act, which in reality had nothing to do with reduction of inflation. The case of a $2 billion grant to Stacey Abrams not-for-profit organization is one of the most telling examples of where the money went from the funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act. Ms, Abrams went to work, in March, 2023, as senior counsel, for Rewiring America, a not-for-profit organization. In that year, in a form filed with the IRS, she told the IRS that Rewiring America was just started in that year. The only accomplishment listed in the form was joining the coalition of organizations seeking grants from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. All those organizations were to form Power Forward Communities, another not-for-profit organization. According to its filing, Power Forward had only $100 of revenues in 2023. Yet, it had the audacity to ask the U.S. government for $2 billion grant "to expand access to clean energy by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience". It wanted to help people install energy efficient upgrades in people's houses. How did they qualify to receive the $2billion grant with no experience and $100 of revenues? Yet, in 2024, President Biden and his EPA announced the $2billion grant to Power Forward, of which Abrams'  Rewiring America was to receive a check for $49O million. President Biden and his EPA directed Power Forward to distribute the money within 21 days, but it directed them also to take a course (how to develop a budget) in 90 days. Go and figure it all ...The current EPA, under Lee Zeldin, has announced that he will attempt to call back the money, or whatever was left of it. Let us hope, that the circumstances of this $2billion grant will be investigated and explained fully to the taxpayers. In the meantime, how dare you, Democrats, to oppose D.O.G.E.?

Janusz Andrzejewski, is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

JAMES CARVILLE IN NEW YORK TIMES: DEMOCRATS, ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD

 Exciting times we have now, with Trump disrupting the established order. The Democrats, in their inability to catch up with the Trump's runaway train, are hilarious. Here is James Carville's quote from yesterday's opinion piece published by The New York Times: "With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government it's time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead."

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

IN DANIEL PENNY TRIAL DEFEAT, D.A. BRAGG OVERPLAYED HIS HAND

Daniel Penny's trial threw New Yorkers back into the era of Ed Koch's unsafe subways, epitomized by Bernard Getz's trial and his acquittal, except for the illegal possession of a weapon charge. It was a time of subways not only covered with graffiti but ridden with crime. Daniel Penny trial was started before the last presidential elections, precisely on October 21, 2024, when Donald J. Trump and the republicans were busy in exposing the crimes and violent attacks in the New York City subway system, whereas the democrats were responding with claims of violent treatment of African-Americans by the police officers. When the trial ended on December 9, 2024, with jury acquittal of Daniel Penny of the remaining charge of negligent homicide, Donald J. Trump was already elected to his second term of the U.S. presidency. I have watched pretty much the whole trial in Judge Maxwell's courtroom on 15th Floor at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, starting from the selection of the jury until the closing statements. It is obvious that the trial never should have been brought and that it was initiated by Manhattan D.A. Bragg for political reasons. When the jury got hanged on the reckless homicide charge, the more serious one of the two charges, Dafna Yoran, the lead prosecutor, apparently with approval of her boss, D.A. Bragg, overplayed her hand by withdrawing it, to let the jury proceed with deliberations on the remaining charge of negligent homicide. Surprisingly to her, and to almost all the pundits, the jury acquitted Daniel Penny of the remaining lesser charge. Now, Bragg was precluded from retrying the reckless homicide charge. Although the family and BLM holdouts were shocked, the majority of the courtroom as well as the public greeted the acquittal with relief, for they were afraid that guilty verdict would pour cold water on any people trying to act as Good Samaritan to straphangers attacked in the subways. Whereas Daniel Penny legal team was professional throughout the trial, the D.A. team attempted to play racist card with the jury, however, to no avail. Ultimately D.A. Bragg was punished by the jury for proceeding against Good Samaritan protecting the fellow straphangers. It was obviously a tragedy, the death of Jordan Neely, but the guilty is the City and the State of New York in not being able to protect mentally ill people.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993, You can reach him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

I SAY YES TO SECURED BORDER AND DEPORTATIONS OF CRIMINALS AND UNVETTED IMMIGRANTS

 No nation can afford to allow masses of unvetted immigrants to cross their borders unchecked. Trump has succeeded in securing the borders already, without necessity of any new legislation from the U.S. Congress, and he has shown that the democrats' claims, during the last election campaign - that the border cannot be secured, without passing the Lankford Bill - were false, made just for political reasons. However, let us hope, that after the initial period of Trump's presidency, reason would guide the immigration policy and that the U.S. Congress would consider the fate of those who entered the United States legally more than 5 or10 years ago, work here and pay their taxes, while staying away from vice and crime. I predict that the U.S. economy under Trump would surge and that eventually many new jobs would be created, and in order to sustain the economic growth, immigrants, who perform jobs unwanted by the Americans would be needed in order to sustain the economic growth.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

MERIT IS BACK, D.E.I. TAKES A SABBATICAL

 When the Solidarity movement in Poland won the first free elections behind the Iron Curtain, and then the Berlin Wall collapsed, it felt so unreal. The same feeling I have now when Trump's crew started to remove the ridiculous and artificial D.E.I. rules from the public space. Going a year or two back, I doubted that I ever see the common sense and merit would make a way back to hiring processes for the positions in government. Yet, the D.E.I.'s racist rules are being decisively crushed and removed from public space, and the merit and common sense finds a way back. D.E.I is dead, long live merit and common sense!

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com  

NOWADAYS, DEMOCRATS ARE A FODDER FOR THE COMEDIANS

 It is so hilarious, I mean watching the democrats engaged in fighting themselves. James Carville, the Texas man behind Bill Clinton's successful election campaigns, a common-sense guy, continues to curse and otherwise apply colorful, yet foul language, commenting on fellow democrats' statements and ideas. Chuck Schumer is getting more chucky with each day; I enjoy his public chanting immensely, he seems to be so phony at it, while Jamie Raskin seems to be lost in singing and dancing, imagining himself that he was transported back in time to civil rights war era. AOC went truly low, in trying to demean a brilliant mind of Elon Musk with a statement that he is the most unintelligent guy among the billionaires she met. And yes, she drives Tesla electric car. More and more liberal comedians are having fun addressing the state of collective mind of democrats.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

MISGUIDED DEMOCRATS

 The democrats and progressive media are incapable of regrouping and clearly are losing the war for the heart of the Americans. They are stuck on WHO (Trump, Musk, Hegseth, Patel, RFK, Jr., etc.) and HOW (unconstitutionally, illegally, without approval of Congress), however, the thing is that only WHAT counts (waste, fraud, debt). What President Trump is doing at the outset of his second presidency, leaves them in shock and awe of Trump's speed in delivering on all fronts as per his election promises.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993.You can reach him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

IS TALIBAN STILL BENEFITTING FROM THE U.S. TAXPAYERS MONEY?

 While Democrats scream, dance and sing in protest to D.O.G.E. and its head Elon Musk, new facts of waste of U.S. taxpayers' dollars come to light. Tim Burchett, a republican congressman of Tennessee says that Afghanistan is still receiving $40 million in cash weakly from the U.S. government, as part of the United Nations humanitarian aid. Mr. Burchett claims that ultimately, the money must benefit the Taliban, despite restrictions on direct foreign aid to that organization. After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Biden Administration continued to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, claiming that it was necessary to support Afghan civilians. However, oversight agencies and lawmakers always claimed that the humanitarian aid was misused under the Taliban rule. When Mr. Burchett introduced NO TAX DOLLARS FOR TERRORISTS ACT in December, 2023, the bill was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, but it stalled in the Senate, controlled then by the Democrats. On January 10, 2025, Mr. Burchett has reintroduced the bill again. Let's hope that this time it will pass both chambers of the U.S. Congress. In the meantime, the D.O.G.E. continues on its path of getting rid of waste and fraud from the U.S. government and its agencies.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250or by e-mail at: janusz@janusz andrzejewski.com

"FIRST TEST OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POWER REACHES SUPREME COURT"

That is the title of New York Times article. In fact, the New York Times is afraid that "the court's conservative majority may be receptive to the arguments that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies". The whole thing was started by firing of Hempton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel. Delinger responded by suing Trump administration. As a result, a U.S. federal judge issued a temporary order on last Wednesday, allowing Mr. Dellinger to keep his job until adjudication of the lawsuit. On Saturday, divided U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., rejected the Trump administration's request to overrule the lower court. The President's lawyers responded with an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the latter to rule on the question whether the President can fire the leader of an independent whistleblowing agency.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney admitted in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

THE SPECTER OF ELON MUSK'S AXE

 Sour losers are never rational in their response to a defeat. They look for scapegoats and then attempt to distract the public with a new boogeyman. Democrats, after losing the presidency and the U.S. Senate, in addition to Supreme Court and the House of Representatives remaining in the hands of GOP, started the blame game within their ranks. Without wrapping it up, they proceeded to engage themselves in doing everything to derail President Trump reforms by irrational attacks on his appointees to the cabinet, hoping that some of the mud will stick, and they will get enough republican senators to vote against the candidates. None of it worked, as the most fervently attacked candidates, such as Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard, got their approvals and were sworn in. Now, all the attacks are concentrated on Kash Patel, nominated to the seat of the FBI director, however, the democrats were unable to stop or pause his candidacy, and it is going to be voted on by the full U.S. Senate, and in all probability is set on course to be approved. Another defeat? Let's try to give the public a boogeyman, then, in the person of Elon Musk, the head of hated D.O.G.E., created by President Trump to root out waste and fraud from the federal government. The "memo has been sent" to every democratic politician and to progressive media, and all the sympathizers, and the hate campaign against Elon Musk started. It is not important to the democrats that the United States accumulated humongous debt, and that nothing is being done to have it reduced, and that government spending is rife with waste and corruption, as per the last year report of The Government Accountability Office which claims that federal government loses between 233 to 521 billion dollars per year due to fraud. Yet, this week New York Times claimed that Elon Musk says without proof that federal bureaucracy is rife with fraud, even though the New York Times is aware of the above-mentioned report. And the examples of ridiculous spending by the USAID - like $3 million to a rap artist in Gaza producing anti-Israeli songs, $2 million for a sex change in Guatemala, etc, - only support the need for a need to have a broom sweeping all the waste and corruption in the federal bureaucracy. Let's go, Brandon! Pardon me, I meant Elon...

Janusz W. Andrzejewski, is a New York Attorney, with 31 years of experience and he can be reached by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

DONALD J. TRUMP, DELEGATOR IN CHIEF

The media can't keep up with the president of the United States. He is not only a disruptor in chief, but foremost, a man of action and delegator in chief. Since the time of Ronald Reagan, there was no president who was so true to following his agenda and promises made to the voters during the election campaign. Over the years, we heard that this and that cannot be done, because of lack of funds, lack of majority in the house or senate, in order to proceed with reforms, etc. Yet, nothing seems to be impossible to Trump's crew, even if they have to be constantly dragged to courts, in order to slow down the Trump's reforms. The latest example is the release of Marc Fogel by the Russians. Steven Witkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy, went to Russia and succeeded where Biden administration refused even to try to do anything. Now, Trump is turning his attention to stopping the war between Russia and Ukraine. In the meantime, the democrats and progressive media concentrate on fighting DOGE and Elon Musk whom they consider the biggest danger to democracy. Yet they do not care at all about the uncovered waste and/or fraud, and the $1 trillion of savings in the national debt the Musk crew expects to make, apparently on a yearly basis. Musk is a danger only to those who waste or steal the taxpayers' money, or otherwise profit themselves, and who promote inertia of the government. Democrats' panic is so overwhelming and deep that they will attack anything connected to the brilliant business entrepreneur known as Elon Musk. His DOGE is doing great job in exposing waste and/or corruption exemplified by such waste as i.e. $2 million allocated by the USAID for transgender operations in Guatemala, various sums allocated to other 3rd world countries promotion of "wokism", and other examples of the USAID allocations of money I have quoted in one of my previous articles. Trump and Musk responded to Democrats' attacks with a press conference in the oval office on Tuesday, during which Musk eloquently answered the reporters' questions. Yet, we all know that Democrats and the progressive media are only at the beginning of their concerted efforts directed to stopping of Trump's reforms, and that they will not only protest and sing and dance in the streets, while chanting "fight, fight, fight!"

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

IT'S KIND OF COOL TO HAVE A PRESIDENT AGAIN, AMERICANS SAY NOWADAYS

 Donald J, Trump is a disruptor in chief. He and civil servants following his lead  swept through govermental agencies like a hurricane. What a contrast to the previous president, sleeping on the job he was elected to do in 2020. It's only two weeks of Trump 2.0, but it feels like he has done more than Joe Biden in a year. Yet we all remember how the Democrats attempted to paint Trump as too old for the job, when they substituted Kamala Harris for Joe Biden as their presidential candidate, after Biden's disastrous debate against Trump in 2024.

By issuing various executive orders in first two weaks, president Trump already caused decreasing of the traffick of illegal immigrants entering the country and forced Mexico. through the threat of applying 25% tariffs on their goods exported to the U.S., to send 10,000 of Mexican soldiers to protect the U.S/Mexico border. He also forced Canada to take care of their border with the U.S. under the threat of applying the same tariffs on their goods as to Mexico, stopped the U.S.A.I.D. from wasting money on various woke and other  programs all over the world, started the clean up of D.O.J and F.B.I. of agents engaged in carrying out the unconstitutional policies and being responsible for carrying out the weaponizing of those departments against U.S. citizens by the previous presidency. Much more is coming, particularly in the area of making the goverment smaller yet more efficient and making savings in spending of the txpayers money. Even though Democrats are doing their best to slow down president Trump, by causing delays in the approval of the cabinet appointees by the U.S. Senate. it seems the so called deep state is an endangered specie under the Trump administration.

Last Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, republican congressman Brian Mast, who happens to be the Chairman of House Foreign Affiars Committee, in answer to Margaret Brennan's questioning the rationale for scrutiny of the USAID, gave to her examples of the misuse of the US taxpayers funds by the USAID: $500,000 for expansion of atheism in the country of Nepal; $50.000 to assist with transgender operations in the country of Colombia; $47,000 to do LGBTQ transgender comic book in the country of Peru; $20,000 for drag show in the country of Ecuador. Is this really the way to carry out the international developpment of the 3rd wold countries? Are these the democratic values and ideas that the United States wants to be known for spreading throughout the world? Democrats, get some common sense...

So, 'it's kind of cool to have a president again', as summed up by senator John Kennedy of Louisiana in one oh his tv interviews yesterday.

Janusz W. Andrzejewski is a New York City attorney with 31 years of experience, and you can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or through e-mail (janusz@januszandrzejewski.com)