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Treasury cuts ties with Booz Allen over tax records breach
The hits keep coming for federal consulting contractors.
First, the Trump administration questioned the value of these types of contracts, leading to a significant reduction in existing deals and the slow down of awards for new solicitations.
Now the Treasury Department is taking aim specifically at one of the biggest vendors. Treasury cancelled all 31 of its contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton. The department said these contracts total $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations. Booz Allen Hamilton won $7.5 billion in total obligations from agencies in fiscal 2025.
Treasury says the reason for cancelling these contracts is directly related to a former Booz Allen employee, Charles Littlejohn, who is serving five years in prison for disclosing thousands of tax returns without authorization.
“President [Donald] Trump has entrusted his cabinet to root out waste, fraud and abuse, and canceling these contracts is an essential step to increasing Americans’ trust in government,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a statement. “Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, including the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.”
An email to Treasury seeking more information, including whether it was planning on suspending or proposing Booz Allen for debarment was not returned.
Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October 2023 to stealing and leaking confidential tax returns and return information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.
To date, the IRS determined that the data breach affected approximately 406,000 taxpayers.
“We have consistently condemned in the strongest possible terms the actions of Charles Littlejohn, who was active with the company years ago. Booz Allen has zero tolerance for violations of the law and operates under the highest ethical and professional guidelines. When Littlejohn’s criminal conduct occurred more than five years ago, it was on government systems, not Booz Allen systems. Booz Allen stores no taxpayer data on its systems and has no ability to monitor activity on government networks,” a Booz Allen spokesperson said in a statement. “Booz Allen fully supported the U.S. government in its investigation, and the government expressed gratitude for our assistance, which led to Littlejohn’s prosecution. We look forward to discussing this matter with Treasury.”
Treasury’s decision is unusual
In January 2025, Plaintiff Alarm Concepts filed a class action lawsuit because of Littlejohn’s actions against the IRS, Treasury and Booz Allen Hamilton, seeking “redress for the unlawful inspections and disclosures of their confidential tax returns and return information.”
“For over a decade, the IRS and Treasury Department have known that their cybersecurity safeguards for protecting confidential taxpayer information are woefully inadequate. Federal auditors repeatedly flagged the weaknesses and recommended stronger safeguards. Yet time and again, they failed to act, leaving taxpayers’ sensitive information vulnerable to unauthorized access and disclosure,” the plaintiffs wrote in their filing in the district court of Maryland. “Compounding these failures, Booz Allen, a consulting firm with billions in federal contracts, repeatedly failed to implement adequate safeguards of its own to protect the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the IRS and Treasury Department.”
The case hasn’t moved in the court since April.
Treasury’s decision to cancel all of its contracts with any one company is highly unusual, procurement experts said.
“It’s an overreaction. Even if Booz Allen did something that was subject to suspension or debarment, no one ever gets 100% wiped out from an agency,” said a former federal acquisition executive, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. “You’ve seen agencies put a hold on new awards, but it’s unusual to do this with a broad brush stroke. I think Treasury will come back and rescind themselves.”
The former official said typically if an agency found evidence of a problem with a contract, they can issue a stop work order and investigate the issue before taking such dramatic action.
For example, back in 2012, the Air Force suspended Booz Allen’s San Antonio office after allegations emerged that it violated acquisition regulations by sharing sensitive procurement data. The Air Force conducted an investigation and lifted its suspension by April.
But the former executive said the Trump administration is much more reactive when it comes to taking significant actions.
“The administration has a tendency to take dramatic action. It’s all or none. You’ve seen that with many other examples like when they went after Raytheon for Defense Department profits,” the source said. “I do wonder what other agencies will do next and whether they will follow Treasury’s lead.”
Source: Deltek
Treasury isn’t a big customer for Booz Allen. Data from USASepending.gov shows civilian agencies go through the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to contract with the company.
For example, Booz Allen won three task orders worth a total of $20.6 million in fiscal 2025 under the OASIS+ professional services contract. Treasury, through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, made one award last year, worth $3.5 million.
Under the Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract, Booz Allen won 10 task orders worth $1.9 billion in 2025. Treasury made one award to Booz last year through Alliant 2 worth $24.3 million.
The Defense Department remains Booz Allen’s biggest federal customer.
Booz Allen brough in $2.6 billion in total revenue in its third quarter of 2026.
Heat turned up on consultants
Treasury’s decision to cancel its contracts with Booz adds to an already tumultuous year for the company. At its most recent earnings call in Jan. 23 for the third quarter of 2026, Booz Allen said its revenue was down 10.2% year-over-year.
It attributed a 15% reduction because of the 43-day government shutdown, and it said the federal government’s slower funding environment reduced its revenue by 35%.
“These factors drove a decrease in headcount, as well as a decline in billable expenses,” Booz Allen stated.
Booz Allen also was one of the first 10 consulting companies to come under scrutiny by GSA in February.
GSA said in May this approach has led to more than 2,800 consulting contract terminations valued at $23.2 billion in ceiling value and $10 billion in savings.
Additionally, both the Defense Department and the federal chief information officer have publicly warned agencies against depending too much on consulting contractors.
Greg Barbaccia, the federal CIO, said in June that his office would no longer meet with research, advisory and strategy consulting firms, and encouraged other agency CIOs to take the same approach.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in May told DoD leadership not to execute new IT consulting or management services contracts or task orders with integrators or consultants unless they first justify that the work cannot be performed in-house or acquired directly from a service provider.
The former executive said they would expect Booz Allen leadership and its lawyers already to be meeting with Treasury officials to resolve the situation.
“I suspect they will have to help the government save face and give something up, but they probably are trying to negotiate a deal. If they can’t, I would expect Booz Allen to take Treasury to court,” the executive said. “Treasury is a big agency and reputational losing them hurts.”
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‘Pamphlets About Sharia Law and Other Islamic Things’ in Texas High School
Image: Wikimedia Commons (Deceased Chief Commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and Others)
High school students in Wylie, Texas, were recently provided with Muslim religious materials by representatives of an Islamic organization called Why Islam.
On February 2, in a video shared on X by Sara Gonzales, the president of the High School Republicans at Wiley East High School disclosed that members of Why Islam were providing hijabs to certain female students, along with Qurans and pamphlets about Sharia law to the student body—over their lunch hour “on public school taxpayer-funded time.”
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Wylie, TX High School Republican Club says Islam group gave hijabs to females during lunch.
They gave SHARIA LAW pamphlets.
On public school taxpayer funded time.
We’re doing it to ourselves. It has to stop. pic.twitter.com/l1yBX36nfZ
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) February 3, 2026
In the follow-up reports regarding this incident, media outlets failed to mention Why Islam’s ties to groups that have long been scrutinized for their anti-Semitic views, sympathies toward terrorism, and other concerning affiliations.
Image: Screenshot by J.M. Phelps: Ties to ICNA visible on Why Islam’s website
Interestingly, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) serves as the “chief representative body” in the U.S. for Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), a South Asian Islamist movement. JeI’s militant wing, Hizbul Mujahideen, has been classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. since 2017.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism also reported that ICNA’s websites once featured links to groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and militant factions active in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Furthermore, ICNA has supported the Islamic Society in Gaza, a group that has been known to radicalize children to support Hamas.
Why should this be a concern for the Texas school district, or any school district for that matter? Because, as stated by Focus on Western Islamism, “ICNA runs…a number of da’wah [proselytization] campaigns—the most active of which is called Why Islam.”
The Gateway Pundit interviewed Melanie Kurdys, a board member of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE). When the author of this article pointed out the connections between Why Islam and ICNA, as well as ICNA’s links to JeI, she was appalled.
She likened the discovery to that of the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in America’s school systems through initiatives like Confucius Classrooms in K-12 schools and Confucius Institutes at universities.
“I think people have opened their eyes to this,” Kurdys said. “We went through a period of not caring, and now we realize that this was the way the communists managed to infiltrate our country and attempt to seize control. Why would you think this is any different?”
She extended the benefit of the doubt to those handing out the Muslim materials to students at the high school, suggesting they might be unaware of Why Islam’s connections to antisemitic, terror sympathizing groups. However, she also cautioned, “you always have the canary in the coal mine.”
With regard to Why Islam advocating for their Islamic beliefs in the public school, she said other groups in the community should have been afforded the same opportunity, having “a seat at the table.” To the contrary, the student featured in the video claimed that no other faith groups had ever been invited, asserting, “we’ve never had a faith group to my understanding.”
Given that Sharia law is often viewed as incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, American laws, and ” the American way of life,” Kurdys asked why the distribution of pamphlets on this subject was permitted. “Would Americans be granted the same interfaith respect and mutual survival [in a Muslim-majority nation]?”
While she encourages interfaith dialogue for students to gain knowledge, she also fears what could happen if it’s left unbridled and unchecked. After all, there’s already this example in Texas public schools with ties to a few controversial, perhaps dangerous, players.
Whether it’s related to the infiltration of Islamist groups or the CCP, or pornography in libraries, Kurdys said, “You can protect your kids by keeping them out of the government schools and opting for homeschooling or private education.”
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Trump Admin to Repeal Obama-Era Climate Rule in ‘Largest Act of Deregulation in the History of the US’

The Trump administration is planning to wipe away the foundation that supported Obama-era regulations on greenhouse gasses, according to a new report.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the so-called “endangerment finding” of 2009 that labeled six greenhouse gasses as a threat to public health and welfare will be overturned.
The finding gave the Environmental Protection Agency legal authority to limit emissions from power plants and vehicles.
“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said.
Trump admin to repeal Obama-era greenhouse gas finding in large-scale deregulationhttps://t.co/Ci46PRtHKH
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 10, 2026
The final rule is expected to be made public this week, the Journal wrote.
The Journal said the rule “removes the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse-gas emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions and reporting obligations for industries,” citing administration officials it did not name as the source of the report.
The new rule will not directly overturn regulations on power plant emissions but could be a first step in that direction, The Journal report said.
Trump began the process on the day he became president by directing the EPA to determine if the finding should remain in place. In July, the EPA first proposed rescinding the finding.
The report said the officials it did not name estimated removing the finding would reduce costs of compliance by about $1 trillion.
“More energy drives human flourishing,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. “Energy abundance is the thing that we have to focus on, not regulating certain forms of energy out.”
On Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to announce an executive order directing the War Department to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants.
Trump has made no secret of his support for wiping away regulations that constrict America’s energy supplying.
“My Administration is committed to unleashing American energy, especially through the removal of all illegitimate impediments to the identification, development, siting, production, investment in, or use of domestic energy resources — particularly oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, geothermal, biofuel, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources,” Trump wrote in a 2025 fact sheet,
“An affordable and reliable domestic energy supply is essential to the national and economic security of the United States, as well as our foreign policy. Simply put, Americans are better off when the United States is energy dominant.”
Last month, Trump tweaked the climate change crowd over the extreme cold that hit the U.S.
“Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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WAYNE ROOT: President Trump, Take the Offensive. The Moment to Strike is Now. Prove You’re the Greatest Dealmaker in History- Pass the SAVE Act. As a Bonus, Create “Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” Tie it all to Epstein.

By Wayne Allyn Root
I can feel it. The momentum has shifted. This is the moment to take action, to be aggressive, to go for broke.
This is the moment to put the radical left losers on their heels.
This is the moment to win the midterms.
This is the moment to stop voter fraud forever. Which means we stop Democrats from winning elections forever. Because without fraud…and rigged elections…they’ve got nothing. They can’t win without fraud.
This is the moment to use the shocking Epstein scandal to educate the American people.
But most of all, this is the moment to prove Mr. President that you’re the greatest dealmaker in history!
Let’s start with the “Art of the Deal.”
The SAVE Act is the whole enchilada. The whole kit and caboodle. The whole kitchen sink.
Pass it by hook or crook, by any and all means necessary…and the GOP wins the midterms…wins the presidency in 2028…and then with the help of a new Census that bans the counting of illegal aliens, the GOP gains enough electoral votes and new seats in Congress to win for decades to come.
We will control the electoral map!
But we have to get to 2030 first. We can’t get there if we lose the midterms, and lose the presidency in 2028. Then it’s all over. All our plans are dead. If we lose because we didn’t pass the SAVE Act, then the mass deportation is stopped. And election integrity is dead on arrival. Then after 2028 the borders will be open again.And then illegal aliens will vote by the millions to elect Democrats forever more.
It all begins and ends with the SAVE Act.
Here’s how to get it done…
Do you remember Obamacare? Does anyone remember how it passed? It passed only with the most disgusting, disgraceful, blatant, out-in-the-open bribery in America’s history.
Obama twisted the arms of Democrat Congressmen and Senators until they broke. He bribed the last remaining holdouts with anything and everything they wanted to change their final votes to a “YES.” He opened the vault and gave away the kitchen sink (with taxpayer money, of course). He made their dreams come true. He offered them so many goodies that no one could say no.
This was legal bribery- obviously. Because no one in the GOP said a word. The Supreme Court never said a word. Obama used taxpayer money and the most obscne giveawa in history to pass Obamacare by one vote in the US Senate (exactly the 60 he needed to defeat the Filibuster)- and therefore change the entire US economy and healthcare system forever. Trillions of dollars changed hands because of that one vote.
Obama changed the course of history by one vote. And he got the final few votes necessary by any means possible, by hook or crook. He gave away the store- with your money!
Obama gave away billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to benefit his biggest Democrat donors with trillions of dollars of healthcare spending.
That’s the way the game is played in DC, President Trump.
Now it’s your turn President Trump to get the deal done…to change the course of history…to prove the “Art of the Deal”…to twist arms until they break…to play Santa and dole out to the holdouts whatever it takes to get the deciding votes. Obama proved it’s all legal.
I don’t care how you get it done. Bend the rules. Give away the store. Legally bribe the holdouts. Legal Senate maneuvering. Kill the Filibuster. Whatever you have to do- DO IT.
This is your legacy, President Trump.
Prove you’re the greatest dealmaker in history. This is your “Art of the Deal” moment.
The SAVE Act means Democrats can’t rig and steal elections anymore. They’ll have to win with ideas- and they don’t have any ideas that appeal to the majority of American voters.
Install Photo Voter ID to vote in federal elections. Install proof of citizenship to vote. End mail-in ballots. Do all of that and Democrats can’t win elections.
Game, set, match.
But this is the last chance EVER to pass it. Fail to pass it and we lose the midterms. With a Democrat majority the chance for election integrity is gone forever. So is the chance to change the Census to ban the counting of illegals. So is mass deportation.
So is your presidency. The whole MAGA agenda is over and you’re a lame duck president.
We become a one-party state. Then comes the censorship and weaponization all over again. Then they send you to prison after your presidency is over.
Pass the damn SAVE Act- by any means necessary.
Now to part 2. “The Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” America is shocked, outraged and disgusted by Epstein. Rightfully so. Here’s how to tie that outrage to mass deportation.
It’s time to win the PR offensive. It’s time to show the American people why mass deportation is the only way to protect their children. Tie it all to Epstein.
Illegal immigration is Epstein times millions.
America sees one 9-year-old child abused and sexually assaulted by Epstein- and they freak out (as well they should). They see hundreds of underage girls pimped out by Epstein to the most powerful people in the world- and the nation freaks out (as well they should).
But every hour of every day, thousands of young children are assaulted, abused, raped and murdered. All because of open borders, illegal immigration, transnational gangs and Drug Cartels. That’s their business- the Cartels make billions of dollars per week on sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, pedophilia, and the drug trafficking that is killing our children- by the hundreds of thousands.
It’s time for “Show and Tell.”
Create “The Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” Pay for hundreds of millions of dollars of TV ads between now and the midterms showing the mug shots of illegal aliens who trafficked, abused, assaulted, raped and murdered little girls and boys. Show the parents of children who were murdered, assaulted or abused telling their tragic stories…and thanking President Trump and ICE for arresting these monsters.
This is Epstein times millions.
Prove it with “Show and Tell.” Show the monsters. Show the parents of rape and murder victims. Call it “The Illegal Alien Hall of Shame.” Put the stories front and center, 24/7 from now until the midterms, in front of the American people.
Make the case that we are deporting millions of Epsteins who want to abuse, assault, rape, murder and destroy your children with drugs.
Be aggressive. Take the offensive. Create the momentum- while you work on exploding the economy and making our jobs, GDP and retirement accounts great again. This is what American voters care about. The economy and the crimes of illegals. Tie it all to Epstein.
And pass that damn SAVE Act this week- by any and all means necessary.
Prove you’re the greatest dealmaker in history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “WAR Zone presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!
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