Dear Reader,

$2.7 TRILLION. That is the number Congress admitted last Friday.

Not the national debt. Not the deficit.

That is how much the federal government has paid out to the wrong people, in the wrong amounts, or to outright fraudsters since 2003.

They call it "improper payments."

I call it theft.

Inside today's issue:

• The Government's Favorite Euphemism: $186 billion gone in fiscal year 2025 alone. Up $24 billion from the year before. They have a nice name for it. You have a real number.
• 23 Years of Hearings: Congress has been "investigating" this since 2003. This week they held their first DOGE hearing on it. The problem grew $10 billion a year while they talked.
• The Escape Hatch: When the government cannot account for its own money, your money loses value too. There is a reason I have never trusted paper.
• 49 drone companies entered the Pentagon's trials this year. 19 are still standing at Fort Carson, Colorado. One of them is at the center of my new briefing, and one defense stock is named free inside. >> Watch it here.

Last Friday, September 26, the DOGE Subcommittee held its first official hearing.

They called it "The War on Waste."

Sounds serious, right?

Here is what the GAO told Congress under oath:

The federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion every single year to outright fraud.

Not waste. Not mismanagement.

Fraud.

In fiscal year 2025 alone, 64 federal programs across 15 agencies paid out $186 billion incorrectly.

That is up $24 billion from the year before.

Since 2003, the running total is $2.7 trillion.

To put that in context: that is more than the entire GDP of France.

"For years, Republicans and Democrats on the Oversight Committee have condemned this waste. But now that DOGE is taking real action, Democrats are..."

The word they use is "improper payments."

Here is what that word is doing: it is making theft sound like a paperwork error.

When your bank sends your rent to someone else, they call it a wire error.

When the government sends your tax dollars to fraudsters for 23 years straight, they call it an improper payment.

I call it the same thing I called it when the Fed printed money out of thin air.

They are taking your purchasing power. One way or another.

My poor dad believed in the system. He trusted the government with his pension.

He died broke.

My rich dad said: never trust any institution that can print money or lose $236 billion a year and face no consequences.

THERE IS A NUMBER buried in that GAO report that almost no one is talking about.

It is the number that tells you exactly where your money is actually going.

And it explains why your grocery bill has not gone down despite everything the Fed is promising you.

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Every dollar that goes to a fraudster is a dollar not earning a return.

Every dollar the government cannot account for is a dollar that adds to the deficit.

And every dollar added to the deficit is a dollar of inflation tax levied on you.

That is the link the mainstream press does not draw.

I have been drawing it for 30 years.

The Romans debased the denarius for 200 years before people noticed.

They clipped a little silver off each coin.

They called it monetary management.

In the end, bread cost 50 times what it did at the start.

America is not Rome. But $2.7 trillion in disappearing dollars since 2003 is not an accident either.

You cannot fix what you cannot control.

But you can own what they cannot print.

Gold. Silver. Bitcoin. Real estate. The assets that exist outside the system.

That is not a conspiracy theory. That is a balance sheet decision.

The government just proved, under oath, that it cannot be trusted with a checkbook.

Act accordingly.

To your freedom,

Robert Kiyosaki
Author, Rich Dad Poor Dad

P.S. Why would a member of Congress put their own money into defense stocks six weeks before a $54.6 billion drone request? Not campaign money. Their own. They don't need it, and they know the scrutiny that comes with it. They did it because they know how Pentagon money moves, and it moves before the announcement, not after. That used to be an edge nobody outside Washington could see. Now it's in a public filing almost nobody reads, and my research team knows how to read it. Washington has to act by September 30th. Six days. After that, this story goes on the front page and the price of admission goes up with every headline. See what they bought here.