Overview

• Catherine Austin Fitts, a former HUD assistant secretary, alleges that $21 trillion in taxpayer funds were secretly diverted to construct underground bunkers for elites over 17 years.
• She claims the network includes 170 facilities across the U.S., some beneath oceans, connected by covert transportation and powered by secret energy systems.
• Fitts cites a 2017 report by economist Mark Skidmore, which flagged unauthorized spending in the Departments of Defense and HUD, as partial basis for her claims.
• The existence of Cold War-era government bunkers like Cheyenne Mountain and Greenbrier is well-documented, but no evidence supports the scale of Fitts’s allegations.
• Her statements, made during a May 5 appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, have reignited discussions on government transparency and unaccounted federal spending.