Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/228590 (060108ZMAY25) Notable: Former Bush Housing Official Claims Government Has Spent $21 Trillion Building an Underground Doomsday āBaseā(Realtor.com)
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Former Bush Housing Official Claims Government Has Spent $21 Trillion Building an Underground Doomsday āBaseā(Realtor.com)
BY CHARLIE LANKSTON
MAY 3, 2025
The shocking claims were made months after a company unveiled plans to build a $300 million luxury, members-only doomsday bunker in Virginia.
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A former housing official who worked under President George H. W. Bush has made an astonishing claim that the U.S. government spent years funneling money into the creation of a secret underground "city" where the rich and powerful can shelter in the event of a "near-extinction event."
Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing between 1989 and 1990, made the shocking allegations during an appearance on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's podcast, although there is no concrete evidence to support her claims.
Fitts, 74, who is originally from Philadelphia, cited research by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore, who released a report in 2017 stating that he and a team of scholars had uncovered $21 trillion in "unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015."
At the time, Skidmore noted that he first began investigating the unreported spending after he heard Fitts "refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015."
"Given the Armyās $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending," the report noted.
Former Bush Housing Official Claims Government Has Spent $21 Trillion Building an Underground Doomsday 'Base'
A former housing official, who worked in George H. W. Bush's administration, has made a shocking allegation that the U.S. government has secretly spent $21 trillion building an underground "city" in preparation for a "catastrophe."YOUTUBE/TUCKER CARLSON
Former Bush Housing Official Claims Government Has Spent $21 Trillion Building an Underground Doomsday 'Base'
Fitts served as Bush's assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development between 1989 and 1990.DAVID RUBINGER/CORBIS
Initially, Skidmore said he thought Fitts had made a mistake, stating that he assumed she had meant to say $6.5 billion, not trillion.
āSo I found the report myself and sure enough it was $6.5 trillion," he said.
According to Fitts, who worked as an investment banker before joining Bush's administration, that money was used to fund the development of what she described as an "underground base, city infrastructure and transportation system" that has been kept hidden from the public.
"One of the things I've looked at in the process of looking at where all this money is going is the underground base, city infrastructure, and transportation system that's been built," she said.
"We have built an extraordinary number of underground bases and, supposedly, transportation systems."
She told Carlson that she spent two years researching where the $21 trillion had gone, alleging that she uncovered evidence that there are 170 secret facilities in the U.S. alone, explaining that she and a team of investigators combed through "all the data and all the allegations on underground bases" in order to make a "guess" as to how many might exist.
Additionally, Fitts alleged that several of these bases are located beneath oceansānot just underground.
"We systematically went through and tried to guess estimate our guessāthis is totally a guessāof how many underground bases [there are], both underground in the United States, but also underground under the ocean around the United States.
"And our estimate was 170 with a transportation network connecting them," she said.
When Carlson asked what the "purpose" of these underground bases is, Fitts responded that they would be used if a "near-extinction event" was believed to be on the horizon.
Former Bush Housing Official Claims Government Has Spent $21 Trillion Building an Underground Doomsday 'Base'
Tucker Carlson alleged to Fitts that he knew a contractor who worked on one of the underground facilities. YOUTUBE/TUCKER CARLSON
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The shocking claims were made months after a company unveiled plans to build a $300 million luxury, members-only doomsday bunker in Virginia.SAFE
However, she added that she believes these so-called bases could also be used by the government to carry out "secret" projects, such as a "secret space program."
Carlson responded by claiming that he actually knew "a contractor who worked on one in Washington, D.C.," stating: "I remember him telling me about a power box, like a transformer box, on Constitution Avenue. ... He told me [that] was actually the exit, the egress from the White House.
"And I thought, that's kind of crazy in the middle of this big city where I live ... you could build something like that without me knowing it."
Carlson said he had always assumed that those kinds of bases were only located in D.C.āand that they were meant specifically for some kind of "nuclear war," to which Fitts responded: "Some of it is. It's preparation for catastrophe."
As for how these alleged cities and facilities are powered, Fitts said she believes the government has found a way to generate breakthrough energy that she believes is being used to keep them going.
"I'm convinced that this energy exists. If you look at a lot of the really fast ships, flying around the planet, they're not using classical electricity," she claimed.
Fitts' controversial claims come just a few months after a Virginia-based company called SAFE (Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments), unveiled plans for a $300 million luxury, members-only doomsday bunker called "Aerie."
The company says the facility will offer "AI-powered" medical care, "wellness programs," and the ability to "blend protection and luxury" in a way that has never been done before.
SAFE says it planned to build the bunkersāwhich will cost each entrant a $20 million membership feeāin all 50 states, but was going to construct the first in Virginia because of its proximity to D.C.
"It's the wealthiest state per capita," a company spokesperson previously told Realtor.comĀ®. "It's ground zero for the finest demographic for something like this in the world."