Bush Official Claims Trillions Spent on ‘Near-Extinction’ Bunkers for the Rich
A former housing official who served under President George H. W. Bush has claimed that the U.S. government has spent years funding a secret underground “city” for the wealthy and powerful to seek shelter during a “near-extinction event.”
Catherine Austin Fitts made these claims on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast. There is no concrete evidence to support her allegations.
Fitts, 74, cited research by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore. In 2017, Skidmore released a report 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.”
Skidmore noted he began his investigation after hearing Fitts “refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”
He added, “Given the Army’s $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.”
Skidmore initially thought Fitts had made a mistake, assuming she meant $6.5 billion. “So I found the report myself and sure enough it was $6.5 trillion,” he said.
According to Fitts, an investment banker before joining the Bush administration, this money was used to develop what she called an “underground base, city infrastructure and transportation system” hidden from the public.
She stated, “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.”
Fitts also claimed, “We have built an extraordinary number of underground bases and, supposedly, transportation systems.” She told Carlson she researched the $21 trillion for two years and estimated the existence of 170 secret facilities in the U.S. alone, including some under the oceans.
She explained, “We systematically went through and tried to guess estimate our guess—this is totally a guess—of 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.”
When Carlson asked about the “purpose” of these underground bases, Fitts responded they would be used during a “near-extinction event.” She also suggested they could be used for “secret” projects like a “secret space program.”
Carlson claimed he knew “a contractor who worked on one in Washington, D.C.,” adding, “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 assumed such bases were only in D.C. for “nuclear war.” Fitts responded, “Some of it is. It’s preparation for catastrophe.”
Fitts also claimed the government has a way to generate breakthrough energy to power these facilities. She stated, “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.”
