A former White House official has suggested that approximately 170 underground bunkers exist around the US.
Catherine Fitts, who served as the United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing, recently joined Tucker Carlson for an interview on The Tucker Carlson Show.
In their nearly two-hour discussion, they covered a range of topics, from inflation and the housing market to global money laundering and the potential threat of extinction. They left no topic unexplored.
A significant point of discussion was the vast amount of money that is reportedly ‘missing’ from government expenditures. Fitts claims that between 1997 and 2015, there were ’21 trillion [dollars] of undocumentable adjustments in the US government.’
Given this colossal figure of missing funds, Fitts took a closer look at government financial records.
“One thing I’ve looked at is the underground base, city infrastructure and transportation system that’s been built,” she stated.
“I’m sorry?” Tucker responded to Fitts’ surprising revelation.
Fitts elaborated, “We have built an extraordinary number of underground bases and, supposedly, transportation systems. Some of these are documented as part of the national security infrastructure. I think there are many more.”
She believes that these bunkers are scattered across the US and its surrounding areas.
Between 2021 and 2023, Fitts enlisted help to examine data and claims about underground bases. Their research led them to estimate the presence of 170 underground bases in the US and nearby ocean areas, connected by a transportation network.
Tucker expressed concern, noting it’s not ‘a good sign’ if so many bunkers are indeed being constructed.
Fitts proposed that these bases might be intended for use during a ‘near-extinction event’ or for ‘secret’ government projects.
“For example, if you’re doing a secret space program, you need to platform it from things that can’t be seen,” she explained. “But I think if you’re worried about a near extinction event, you know.”
Fitts’ remarks about the $21 trillion in unauthorized government spending can be traced back to a 2017 report by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore, who worked with Fitts on the findings.
A news release at the time stated: “Skidmore got involved last spring when he heard Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”
The release continued, “Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress.”
Economist Laurence Kotlikoff commented in a Forbes column at the time: “The ongoing occurrence and gargantuan nature of unsupported, i.e., undocumented, U.S. federal government expenditures as well as sources of funding for these expenditures should be a great concern to all taxpayers.”
“Taken together these reports point to a failure to comply with basic Constitutional and legislative requirements for spending and disclosure,” Kotlikoff added.