Posts on Tuesday, February 11, 2025
In a continuation of the shake-up of financial leadership amid federal investigations, government efficiency audits, and adherence to accountability standards by the Department of Government Efficiency, FEMA CFO Mary Comans has been fired by the Department of Homeland Security for authorizing $59 million in payments to New York City that were used to house illegal migrants.
For decades, car-making has been the jewel in Germany's industrial crown, a powerful symbol of the country's famous post-war economic miracle. Its "Big Three" brands, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, have long been praised for their performance, innovation and precision engineering. But today, the German motor industry is struggling. How can it get back on the road to recovery? When you arrive by train in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, the first thing you see is the Volkswagen factory. Its huge facade, emblazoned with a giant VW logo and flanked by four tall chimneys, dominates one bank of the canal that runs through the city.
he Yellow Berets, also known as Public Health Service trainees, were a group of physicians who participated in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Associate Training Program during the Vietnam War era. They were often derogatorily referred to as "Yellow Berets" by supporters of the war who viewed them as avoiding military service. However, this term eventually became a badge of honor among the participants, many of whom formed a network of influential scientists and medical leaders that continue to dominate the public health enterprise, particularly at NIH. (snip) they have fostered a culture and mentored others that continue to enforce that culture and support the informal networks, alliances
The Department of Education on Tuesday urged the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a counterpart organization overseeing high school sports to restore to female athletes various records, titles, awards, and recognitions that were stolen by men during the Biden administration.
The Education Department’s general counsel sent a letter to the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations asking them to “strip” the accolades “wrongfully credited to the biological males who unfairly competed against girls and women in The department said the request is “entirely consistent” with the NCAA’s policy change barring men from competing in women’s sports.athletics,” according to a press release.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State leaders gathered Tuesday afternoon to push for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island.
Gun violence advocates highlighted tragedies like Parkland and Sandy Hook in their push for the ban.
Governor Dan McKee said he was trying to push it through as part of the state budget this time, even as legislators bring it up the traditional way again in the General Assembly.
“We were all elected to govern, and the number one job of elected officials in the United States of America is to provide for public safety,” Rep. Jason Knight (D-Dist. 67 Barrington, Warren) said.
“Whatever else we’re here to do, that’s job one, we’re here to protect,”
North Carolina residents are slamming FEMA after DOGE lead Elon Musk claimed the agency recently spent nearly $60 million on illegal immigrants in New York City, despite reportedly running on empty when it comes to helping American citizens affected by Hurricane Helene.
"It is absolutely infuriating to see millions and millions of dollars going to someone that doesn't have a Social Security number, did not pay taxes, is not an American citizen getting all of this money to go live in a luxury hotel in New York when people we're working with can't even get the bare minimum from FEMA. It's crazy," Weaverville, North Carolina resident
For a solid week, blue states, labor unions, and non-profit organizations have descended on federal courts up and down the East Coast seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s agenda. And they have found receptive partners in a handful of federal judges willing to enter temporary restraining orders, or TROs, to immediately — and sometimes without any notice — prohibit the normal functioning of the executive branch.
To be clear, the TROs entered are not addressing specific disputes between Trump and the litigants, where the plaintiffs allege a particular action injures them in some concrete way. Rather, the country is seeing large coalitions of plaintiffs who oppose the president’s agenda filing lawsuits
Impeach Elon Musk?
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DOGE has Democrats absolutely terrified, as well it should, for reasons enumerated many times on this website. DOGE has uncovered the biggest money laundering operation in human history, and he is just getting started. Aside from filing lawsuits and restraining orders, most of which will be delaying tactics instead of killer shots, the best they can do is throw as much * against the wall and hope some of it sticks. That, and call for violence, as many of the more radical Democrats have done. Most of the * that has been thrown has been aimed at Elon Musk and Big Balls, and since nobody cares about
Vice President JD Vance will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, a source familiar with the matter confirms to National Review.
The high-profile meeting comes amid the White House’s continuing efforts to negotiate an end to the country’s three-year war with Russia and will take place days after Vance made his international debut in a speech Tuesday before the Global AI Action Summit in Paris, co-hosted by France and India.
“The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep that,” Vance said in his remarks, which also urged world leaders against overregulation and political bias
Say, remember when people kept telling conservatives that the culture war had already been lost? Good times, good times.
In yet another advance for equality over "equity," another corporate giant has hit reverse on so-called "Diversity Equity Inclusion" policies. Goldman Sachs, perhaps one of the most politically connected firms in the US, told Bloomberg News that it would abandon its previous policy demanding "board diversity" for initial public offerings (IPOs):
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is abandoning a significant pledge it made to refuse initial public offering business with companies that had all White, male boards.
Wall Street’s leading investment bank had a policy that it would only take a company public
Last Monday, I published “D.C. Federal Judges Join the Resistance.” It focused on one D.C. federal district judge, Beryl Howell, who let her emotions get the better of any prudent legal judgment when she refused to implement the president’s direction to the attorney general to dismiss all pending indictments against Jan. 6 defendants “with prejudice.”
She first vented her spleen against the defendants and President Donald Trump (whom she accused of perpetrating a “revisionist myth”) in a wholly gratuitous screed about why the prosecutions were necessary and proper.(snip) But to show the president who was boss, she refused to dismiss the case with prejudice.
Three weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term and the Democrat Party is rudderless.
They lack compelling, charismatic leadership. They are rapidly losing ground in the culture war that they dominated for so long. They don’t have any favorable issues or narratives that are breaking out into the broader cultural consciousness. Their tried-and-true tactic of public shaming and cancelation couldn’t even keep the young DOGE employee known as “Big Balls” out of a job. However, there is one element of the activist left that still poses a significant threat to the Donald Trump and his agenda, and that is lawfare.
Was Michelle Obama a DEI bride?
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I have nothing against Michelle. The media tells us that she’s pretty, she’s smart, she’s accomplished, and I’m sure she’s charming. As her husband said about Hillary Clinton, she’s “likable enough.”
OK, I’ll admit that I didn’t particularly like her comment that the first time she was proud of America was the night Barack was elected. Surely there was a time in her first 45 years before then that she felt some pride in America. How about when the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team beat the Russians? How about when we put a man on the Moon? How about when we passed the Civil Rights Acts?
Elon Musk and his adorable son, X, traveled to the White House on Tuesday to meet with President Trump in the Oval Office.
President Trump signed a new executive order mandating federal agencies work with DOGE.
Elon Musk said DOGE will begin investigating federal government workers who have managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars.
“We do find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who who have essentially a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars,
Former CBS News anchor Katie Couric decried the Pentagon’s decision to give office space to conservative outlets, saying the move will lead to “propaganda.” Her assertion ignores her own checkered history with the truth. Responding to a report that the Pentagon would be rotating out legacy media from building offices in favor of conservative outlets, Couric said “Wow. This is how news becomes propaganda. It’s begun.
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President Trump has made a bold move by firing the head of the Office of Government Ethics, a decision that many conservatives view as a necessary corrective against an entrenched liberal bias in Washington.
David Huitema, who was appointed by Joe Biden in December 2024 for a five-year term and confirmed by the Senate, had been in office for just over two months before his removal.
Trump’s decision to remove him as director was announced in a brief statement on the OGE website, noting that the office had been informed of his dismissal.
“OGE has been notified that the President is removing David Huitema as the Director of OGE.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is set to sign an order Tuesday instructing the Department of Government Efficiency to potentially toss entire federal agencies — and hire only one federal worker to replace every four who leave.
DOGE will ask agency heads to coordinate with the team being lead by Elon Musk and “shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions,” according to a fact sheet on the executive order obtained by The Post. (Photos) Entire agencies and part of agencies may be eliminated because their functions aren’t required by law, says the readout, first obtained by Semafor.
The Trump administration resumed deportation flights to Venezuela on Monday, sending two planeloads of illegal migrants and gangbangers back for the first time in nearly a year — but there’s plenty more to go.
“Repatriation flights to Venezuela have resumed, with Ambassador @RichardGrenell overseeing the first two flights. MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN,” the Trump White House tweeted.
Roughly 200 Venezuelans were sent home on the flights.
But the one-way tickets back are just a drop in the bucket in terms of what could come — given that the Biden administration ushered in more than 1 million Venezuelan migrants, including Tren de Aragua gang members, across the southern border.
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Elon Musk decided to grow a pair to mess with the media, and they took the bait. The man helming the Department of Government Efficiency at the behest of President Donald J. Trump changed his Twitter handle to “Harry Bolz,” and CNN’s segment on it was pure gold. It’s comedy: (X Videos) Musk and others were commenting on a series of district court rulings aiming for the DOGE cuts and the general audit of Washington, which President Trump should ignore. But CNN actually said it on-air, which makes it more satisfying. The media should be mocked
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous government reports into its spending.
The government agency’s response to COVID, hurricanes, floods and housing migrants have all come under fire for being wasteful and going largely unchecked — as the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been sent in to analyze its spending.
The most recent audit of the embattled disaster response agency claimed it mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023.
FEMA even approved a grant of $1.1 billion despite it only being supported by only a single piece of paper with no itemized costs,
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There’s a famous quote on the subject of judicial power — that is, real judicial power, and not just the imagined kind that we’ve grown accustomed to accepting in a legalistic society.
It comes courtesy — though we’re told it’s an apocryphal quotation — of Andrew Jackson, our 7th president.
Jackson was informed of the Supreme Court’s decision in an 1832 case, Worcester v. Georgia, which involved a complicated set of circumstances by which a missionary to the Cherokee Nation was imprisoned for violating a state law that he claimed was non-binding on sovereign Indian territory.
Executives at the Walt Disney Company are reportedly worried that soaring prices are alienating families from its theme parks, with internal surveys showing a decline in guests who are planning return visits to Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The price of attending a Disney park has skyrocketed in recent years, with the typical price of a four-day stay inside the park rising by $1000 between 2019 and 2024, a new study conducted by The Wall Street Journal showed. The vast majority of that increase — nearly 80 percent — comes from new charges for services that were once free.
President Donald Trump and King Abdullah II of Jordan are having bilateral meetings today on the Israel v Hamas war and the subsequent issue with displaced Palestinians.
During the first press availability (snip) President Trump and King Abdullah delivered remarks about the regional challenges, approaches and overall perspectives on the issues. (snip) both noted they await the plan from Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi who has been tasked with taking the lead on developing a peaceful solution and broader long-term plan for regional stability.Jordan doesn’t want to take more Palestinian refugees,(snip) Abdullah did say he was going to take 2,000 sick children for care in the kingdom of Jordan.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to restore the gender ideology webpages it deleted.
US District Judge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered Trump to restore the pages by midnight tonight.
Last month, President Trump scrubbed public health websites of all things related to “gender ideology.”
A group dubbed Doctors For America sued the Office of Personal Management and numerous government agencies, claiming the removal could prevent doctors from helping patients.
Will it help stave off a potential Armageddon?
NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace for deep impact.
Dubbed 2024 YR4, the building-sized space rock reportedly has a 1-in-43 chance of slamming into Earth in 2032 — up from about 1%, the Independent reported.
The asteroid was discovered by NASA in December and is reportedly at the top of NASA’s watch list when it comes to hazards from beyond. (Photo) With this “time-critical” threat potentially on our doorstep, the space agency has enlisted the aid of the James Webb telescope to study 2024 YR4 and gauge how much
Bibi on Board: Israeli Cabinet Backs Trump
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As the first incredible month of Trump 2.0 continues, the Israeli cabinet announced on Tuesday its full support of President Donald Trump's ultimatum to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas to release all its remaining hostages by noon on Saturday or, in the president's words, "all hell is going to break out." An Israeli official told Fox News on Tuesday that the cabinet's declaration came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet after Hamas announced it would delay the next release of Israeli hostages. Netanyahu said in a statement:
The decision I passed in the Cabinet unanimously is this: If Hamas does not
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly suggested for the first time that Kyiv will give up its battlefield gains in Russia’s Kursk region in exchange for concessions from the Kremlin.
“We will swap one territory for another,” the 47-year-old told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday.
“I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority.” The Ukrainian president has previously suggested that the “hot stage” of the almost three-year-old war could end if Ukraine becomes a NATO member or regains nuclear arms — even if Kyiv doesn’t regain all of its territories.
Ukraine caught Russia off-guard this past August
President Donald Trump’s second term is off to a thunderous start. Wasting no time, the president signed a flurry of executive orders on day one, initiating crackdowns on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) and illegal immigration. DOGE, the new agency spearheaded by Elon Musk, got to work immediately as well, cutting $1 billion a day in federal spending, a figure it aims to triple.
The tempo set by this administration has proven shocking. After all, Trump’s first term left much to be desired. However, people shouldn’t be too surprised. There are several noteworthy factors that explain why the second Trump administration is outshining the first.
"Democrats in Disarray" has the sound of a handy media meme, somewhat akin to "Republicans in Retreat," and perhaps just as reliable. Mainstream media outlets used the latter quite a bit in 2009 and 2010, just before Republicans scored their biggest midterm win in a century and reset state-level legislatures for a generation. Beware the meme, dudes.
In this case, though, the Wall Street Journal could be on more solid ground with the former. Today, the WSJ argues that not only are Democrats clearly not connecting with voters, they aren't even connecting much with each other. Failure in this case has a thousand fathers, contra to conventional
Following Democratic talking points going out is like cleaning a grease splatter off the stove. There's always a single origin and then an inevitable, clearly defined spread pattern that tells you you have identified their weekly chosen term for demonization.
It has to be snappy and short. Much like the children with their drums, chants, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debts do every time they highlight their first-class university educations by banging away and following their designated super genius, leading them in some version of:
MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump’s actions have not caused a “constitutional crisis.”
Cevallos said, “I think we need to be careful with the term constitutional crisis because, as I define it, that would be a situation where the constitution doesn’t have an answer and there is a pressing conflict. The flurry of executive orders, the chaos, that I think doesn’t get us to crisis yet. It is irritating for the courts, it is challenging. It could lead to a serious problem if, as you said, they become too congested with dealing with these orders.”
He continued, “The crisis occurs
A group is planning a nationwide economic blackout as a response to the rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives sparked by the federal government. Why It Matters When President Donald Trump reentered office last month, one of his first calls to action was to end several of the DEI initiatives in the federal government. He mandated in an executive order that funds could be frozen for companies that do not comply. He also outlawed any messaging that promotes inclusion-based language. The orders have caused PBS to close its DEI office, while major companies like Amazon, Target and Google
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.
The Republican president called the Democratic former governor, who once appeared on Trump’s reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice,” “a very fine person” and said the conviction and prison sentence “shouldn’t have happened.”
“I’ve watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people, some of the same people I had to deal with,” Trump said at the White House as he signed the pardon.
Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat
Democrats are prepared to shut down the federal government during next month’s spending fight after becoming enraged over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) financial audit of government spending.
The Democrats’ tactic puts them into a precarious position of supporting waste, fraud, and abuse, three items DOGE is tasked with cutting.
“I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And for us to be able to support government funding in that way only for them to turn it around, to dismantle the government.
The Walt Disney Company will be reportedly dropping two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs due to pressure from investors.
According to the conglomerate’s latest SEC filing, Disney will be dropping its “Reimagine Tomorrow” program from its 2024 SEC 10-K report’s DEI section.
“The program was mentioned in the 2023 report, which defines the program as ‘the Company’s digital destination for amplifying underrepresented voices and features some of Disney’s DE&I commitments and actions,'” noted Fox Business.
FIRST ON FOX: More than 680,000 law enforcement personnel have urged the Senate to confirm President Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, as quickly as possible – a show of support that comes as Democrats on the panel have moved to delay his confirmation ahead of a planned vote this Thursday. The total number of supporters from law enforcement agencies was shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, and includes state, local and federal backers from groups including the National Sheriffs’ Association, the National Police Association and more than 370,00 members of the national Fraternal Order of Police, which announced their support for Patel Monday
During the Biden-Harris administration, Americans were gaslit and lied to by the White House on a regular basis, including and especially by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Perhaps the most noteworthy and recent examples came at the end of the administration, when Hurricane Helene ravaged states like North Carolina and Florida. There were concerns about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the lack of a proper response, especially when funds had gone to services for illegal immigrants. While Jean-Pierre insisted that was not true, such a lie on her part is once more resurfacing.
An American teacher detained by Russia is heading back to American soil, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.
"Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia," National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said in a statement. (Photo) This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
The Chinese balloon that sparked panic when it flew over the US two years ago was, as long suspected, set up to spy on Americans — but surprisingly with US-made technology, according to a new report. The 200-foot-tall balloon was loaded with a satellite communication module, sensors and other technology from at least five American firms, two sources with direct knowledge of a classified US military report told Newsweek. The craft — which floated from Alaska over Canada and into the US Midwest before it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2023 — could have collected detailed data on oblivious Americans, the sources said
WASHINGTON — Two top leaders of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were removed from their roles Tuesday — in the first staffing cuts as President Trump’s team begins an ambitious effort to gut the 1,700-person agency, The Post has learned.
Enforcement director Eric Halperin and supervision director Lorelei Salas were placed on administrative leave by Mark Paoletta, the top lawyer at both the CFPB and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Halperin, who made remarks seen as defying orders from Trump’s aides to pause all work, resigned six minutes after receiving an email informing him that he was being placed on leave “effective immediately.”
President Donald Trump is waging war against former President Joe Biden’s green energy regulations on Americans’ household appliances.
Trump made the announcement in a social media post at 5:57 a.m. on Tuesday and said he was instructing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to oversee the matter, Fox News reported. The president wrote in his post:
I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS,
Donald Trump has dramatically fired officials in charge of finances at the government's disaster relief agency FEMA after they put up migrants in 5-star hotels.
FEMA's Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans lost her job after it was revealed the agency paid an 'egregious' sum of $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants.
Three others involved in dishing out the shocking payments also lost their jobs, a Department of Homeland Security official disclosed to DailyMail.com.
'Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,' Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
The Spectator, whose headlines are lazy and terrible and an embarrassment to a once great publication, had a particularly bad example the other day:
How many more knife attacks can France take?
Well, as noted in the very first sentence of the article, there are currently 120 "knife attacks" every day in France. A generation ago it would have been inconceivable that the French would accept with a collective Gallic shrug 850 "knife attacks" per week.
Yet they do. So would they be able to "take" a thousand per week? Check back with me later this year. Fifteen hundred? Two thousand? That's the way to bet.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faced widespread mockery after launching a tipline to "expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety." On Monday, Schumer shared a link calling on "whistleblowers" to report violations, arguing they "are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable." The categories whistleblowers can report include "retaliation," "wasteful spending," "fraud," "criminal activity," and "other."
"Today, I’m calling on our brave public servants," the Senate Minority Leader wrote as he shared the tipline form on X.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, visiting an American military base in Germany, decided to emphasize the kind of fitness demanded by the military under President Donald Trump by working out with the elite Special Forces Group of the Green Berets. Hegseth, 44, is in Germany as part of his trip to Europe, which also includes stops in Belgium and Poland to discuss military operations with America’s military leaders abroad. In Germany, Hegseth had plans to visit U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) headquarters, also meeting with U.S. service members stationed there to “reaffirm the administration’s commitment to their mission and readiness,” the U.S. Embassy in Poland reported,
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony fraud for helping to defraud donors who were giving money to build a wall at the southern U.S. border.
In exchange for the guilty plea in New York criminal court, Bannon, 71, agreed to a conditional discharge and waived his right to appeal. Bannon was sentenced to three years conditional discharge. He will not be allowed to serve as an officer or director of a charity or any charitable organization in New York state, or any fundraising or not-for-profit organization in New York state. He will not be allowed to receive or hold assets
I wrote here about the absurd order issued by a Democratic Party judge that purports to bar the Secretary of the Treasury, along with many others, from accessing the Treasury Department’s data. The judge who issued that ex parte order–that means he issued it without even waiting to hear from the government–was Paul Engelmayer. Engelmayer sits in the Southern District of New York, a venue that has no apparent connection to the Treasury Department’s operations.
The Trump administration has now moved urgently to correct Engelmayer’s error. The linked document is a Memorandum in support of a Motion to Dissolve, Clarify or Modify Engelmayer’s improvidently granted temporary restraining order.
Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch. [Snip] Under the false pretext that the lower federal courts are part of a “coequal branch of government” with the executive, they’re aiming to shut down Trump’s reform efforts with a fusillade of preliminary injunctions.
“Border czar” Tom Homan, who oversees President Trump’s mass deportation program, shot back at Pope Francis after he chastised the administration’s approach to immigration enforcement.
“I’ve got harsh words for the Pope,” Homan told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “Pope ought to fix the Catholic Church.”
“I’m saying this as a lifelong Catholic — I was baptized Catholic, my first Communion as a Catholic, confirmation as a Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us,” he continued.
Homan noted the Vatican, where the pope resides, is walled in.
“He wants to attack us securing our border?
President Trump on Monday named Richard Grenell, his envoy for special missions, the interim executive director of the Kennedy Center days after he named himself chair of a new board.
“I am pleased to announce that Ric Grenell will serve as the Interim Executive Director of The Kennedy Center. Ric shares my Vision for a Golden Age of American Arts and Culture, and will be overseeing the daily operations of the Center. No more drag shows, or other anti-American propaganda - only the best. Ric, welcome to show business!” the president said on Truth Social on Monday.
Interference in another country's internal affairs?
Sure, if you're the Vatican, or more specifically, the Vatican's big umbrella NGO of NGOs known as Caritas, whose U.S. arms include Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services.
According to the Associated Press:
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican's charity said Monday that U.S. plans to gut USAID were “reckless” and could kill millions, while Pope Francis’ point man on development urged the Trump administration to remember Christian principles about caring for others.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit, is one of the cardinals most closely associated with Francis’ pontificate and heads the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment, the church’s Caritas Internationalis charity and development.
The federal judge who suggested Trump administration officials could face criminal contempt over the spending freeze on Monday is a Democrat donor.
John J. McConnell, Jr., chief judge of the U.S. district court in Rhode Island, ordered the Trump administration to “immediately restore frozen funding” after determining officials violated his prior restraining order and suggesting further opposition could result in criminal charges.
McConnell cited a 1975 case that states, “Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect.”
While he was in private practice as an attorney until 2009, McConnell donated hundreds of thousands
The media’s demonization of a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team has backfired with the attention to his skills instead landing the young man a new job at the State Department.
With the corrupt Democrats desperate to prevent their money laundering rackets through agencies like USAID from being uncovered, there is an all-out propaganda war on the Tesla/SpaceX CEO which includes the young geniuses tapped by Musk to audit the federal government who have been doxed and exposed to threats from the media hit squad.
One of them is Edward Coristine whose nickname “Big Balls” has been an obsession with CNN and other outlets,
A former executive inside the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) warns of corruption in the agency that is currently being reviewed and purged by the Trump administration, alleging that among politicians, it is mostly Democrats who benefited from its funding.
Mark Moyar, former director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation at USAID in the first Trump administration, explains the corruption he saw within the agency and the lack of transparency, as he looks forward to its reduction. He also claims that Democrats have benefited more from the agency’s funding than Republicans, based on his own personal experience.
During the first few weeks of the second Trump administration,
President Trump rolled back into the DC Swamp like a BOSS on a mission. Sure, in 2016, he took DC by storm—but not like this. This time around, it’s different. Everyone sees it and feels it, too. Even some experts, like Mark Halperin, who are left speechless watching Trump steamroll not just the fake news media, but the entire Dem Party.
Mark says he’s never seen anything like this. Once again, President Trump is changing the game. He’s a man who has learned from the past—and now, he knows exactly how to play these bad guys like a fiddle. (Snip) But the shock and awe doesn’t stop there.
CNN's Jim Sciutto, sitting in for Kasie Hunt on CNN This Morning, teed up a Palestinian to repeatedly accuse Trump of "ethnic cleansing" in Gaza, and Israel of "genocide."
Words that never passed the ex-Obama diplomat's lips: October 7th, Hamas, or hostages. Instead, Sciutto created a free-fire zone for the Palestinian to attack Trump and Israel.
Much of what you need to know about the Palestinian in question, Yawa Hawari, co-director of the Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, can be gleaned from these words in a recent article she wrote [emphasis added]:
USAID is a rabbit hole subsidizing everything from Islamic terrorists to leftist activist groups.
Freezing the outlay has sent them scurrying and demanding more money or everyone will die.
Nonprofits sue Trump administration for freezing foreign aid: The groups said the freeze violates Congress’ wishes and is endangering lives in developing countries. – Politico
A liberal-leaning advocacy group filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday seeking to halt the freeze on foreign aid the administration has imposed.
The group, Public Citizen, argues the freeze on funds appropriated by Congress is unlawful and is endangering lives abroad.
“When programs like the ones run by our clients are abruptly shuttered, the impacts are felt throughout
Four Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees will be fired Tuesday for sending $59 million to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“Four employees are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City,” DHS officials told Fox News in a statement.
The massive payment was blasted by Elon Musk, whose new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) highlighted the transaction on Monday.
The PBS office solely dedicated to embracing the disputed ethos of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) – and its associated diversity officers – is no more.
The closure is in direct response to President Donald Trump executive orders signed last week targeting wasteful DEI programs across a host of government sectors. n a confirmation statement sent to Fox News Digital, PBS confirmed the move Monday. In order to best ensure we are in compliance with the President’s executive order around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion we have closed our DEI office. The staff members who served in that office are leaving PBS.
Tom Homan confirmed that a series of leaks related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations may have originated within the FBI.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation set to take place in Los Angeles, targeting thousands of illegal immigrants with criminal records, was leaked to the far-left press.
According to the leaked documents, the raid—dubbed Operation Compliance—was designed to be one of the largest immigration enforcement efforts in recent years, targeting primarily individuals with outstanding deportation orders, criminal convictions, and known gang affiliations.
Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would protect Medicaid to ensure that the entitlement program can only be used by Americans, not illegal aliens.
“Providing taxpayer-funded Medicaid to illegal immigrants is against the law and further incentivizes more illegal crossings at our border. Worse, it hurts elderly, disabled, and vulnerable Americans who depend on the program,” Hudson, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Breitbart News in a written statement.
Here in the year of our Lord 2025, it is virtually impossible to be too absurd when mocking the American Left. Yes, it has been that way for a while, but it really went off the deep end when the lefties had to pretend that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had brains. That kind of forced delusion will break anybody.
This is particularly rough on me. Ever since I first stepped on a stage to tell a joke almost 43 years ago, absurdism has been the favored weapon in my comedic arsenal with which to lampoon anyone or anything. For most of my career it wasn't difficult for me
We shouldn’t be shocked that Democrats plotted to declare war on Donald Trump. They were going to use their elected lawmakers, the media, the intelligence community, and the army of unhinged government workers to lead a prolonged campaign of sabotage to hamstring the Trump administration. They were trying to use the same playbook, which was regrettably impactful with the endless leaks and the Russian collusion hoax. Things aren’t the same with the second Trump presidency as things are off and running. Trump has a better grasp on the town and has picked people who aren’t going to go limp or stab him in the back.
Chelsea Clinton claims that 'misinformation' has been weaponized against her after claims she was gifted $84million from the under fire United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have attempted to shut down the embattled government agency tasked with humanitarian relief overseas after they agreed the organization was 'beyond repair' and wasting billions. The billionaire 'first buddy' led a civilian review of the federal government with Trump's go-ahead and decided this week to shut down the agency.
Former Democratic donor-tuned-MAGA supporter Lindy Li dropped more details about Joe Biden and her former party’s shenanigans during the 2024 election. Li has been eager to spill all the things about the delusions that engulfed the Democrats, to the point where some thought they could win Iowa. Over $2 billion was raised and blown on Kamala Harris’ shambolic campaign for the White House. After some expenditures were made public, some megadonors warned they’d never write a check again.
Ms. Li said that after Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate that June, Hunter Biden commandeered the White House and sat in on sensitive meetings without a security clearance.
We shouldn’t be shocked that Democrats plotted to declare war on Donald Trump. They were going to use their elected lawmakers, the media, the intelligence community, and the army of unhinged government workers to lead a prolonged campaign of sabotage to hamstring the Trump administration. They were trying to use the same playbook, which was regrettably impactful with the endless leaks and the Russian collusion hoax. Things aren’t the same with the second Trump presidency as things are off and running. Trump has a better grasp on the town and has picked people who aren’t going to go limp or stab him in the back.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly provided “full funding” for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado, unearthed documents apparently show.
Al-Awlaki was an American-born jihadist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011, during the Obama administration.
He was a central figure of al Qaeda, including having direct contact with Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan before he opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, killing 13 people, US officials reported at the time.
Amid the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) investigations of federal government agencies in search of overspending, corruption and fraud, political eyes have been locked on USAID funding.
Class is in session!
Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative scholar and historian, has put together a lesson for Democrats and members of the media who are outraged and confused about what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE and how it fits into our current politics and government.
Of course, if Democrats or members of the media actually listen to what Hanson has to say, they might be angry to find out that the precedent for all of this has been set multiple times over the years, but particularly by their old pal Joe Biden.
As usual, Hanson is eloquent in his delivery.
Did you notice something in the last week? Our liberal friends perked up and found themselves a new enemy. Previously, every card-carrying liberal knew that Donald Trump was the enemy. But that was before the midnight raid on USAID under Commando Bro Musk. How dare, how dare Elon Musk send his racist sexist tech kids to bomb the sacred groves of USAID!
I have to admit: I had no idea about USAID. It took Musk and his tech kids to wake me up to the fact that USAID is a slush fund -- the slush fund -- for our educated ruling class. And all the best people have served their
The Resistance, in Court
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Yesterday, federal judge Paul Engelmayer, a Democrat, issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from getting access to its own Treasury Department’s documents. The injunction applies to all political appointees, which includes the Secretary of the Treasury. It was issued ex parte, which means the government was not even heard in opposition.
Judge-shopping is pretty much universal in politically-charged cases. We can expect much more of this: Democrats will bring lawsuits in front of friendly judges, seeking to enjoin various actions by the nascent Trump administration. In most cases, those orders (like the one just issued by Engelmayer) will be reversed on appeal, but that is acceptable
President Trump has issued an executive order that, in various ways, seeks to prevent men from competing on women’s sports teams. The state of California has announced that it will not abide by Trump’s executive order, and will continue to allow men in women’s sports. That has gotten quite a bit of publicity; what is less well known is that the Minnesota State High School League has said the same thing.
MSHSL says that the state’s human rights law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of “gender identity,” governs, and it requires “trans” women (i.e., men) to be allowed into women’s sports. Of course, that doesn’t follow from the anti-discrimination
Of all the things I loathe about the Democrat party, its celebration of victimhood takes the cake. As is true of all political parties infected with virulent Marxism, it does not seek to help those truly in need. It does the opposite. It seeks out people who might never have seen themselves as victims and convinces them otherwise. It is a party whose growth in membership is directly proportional to Democrats’ capacity to convert Americans into victims.
Once a person understands Democrats’ pathological need to harvest new victims, it becomes obvious that they are not in the business of solving problems.
The Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7, 2023 could have been released a long time ago had the Biden administration exerted pressure on Qatar to use its good relations with the Islamist group to force it to do so.
All Qatar had to do was to summon the Hamas leaders in Doha and give them an ultimatum to release all the hostages immediately or face deportation from the Gulf state. It is hard to see how the Hamas leaders would have been able to say no to their major political and financial patrons and backers.... The Qataris were never under the slightest pressure.
Tom Homan Confirms FBI Likely Tipped-Off
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Yesterday, Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pointed a finger at the FBI for leaking the details of an ICE deportation sweep to the Los Angeles Times in order to tip-off criminal illegal aliens. Today, Tom Homan says, “Kristi Noem was correct, some of the information they are receiving leads to the FBI.”
During an interview tonight with Sean Hannity, Border Czar Homan also said the Acting Deputy AG is going to pursue criminal charges against the FBI leaker.
Pundits, pollsters, politicians, presidents, and prime ministers are still trying to make heads or tails of Trump’s groundbreaking proposal to turn the Gaza Strip into the French Riviera. The idea was so bold — so dramatically different — that the mind-hive had yet to reach a consensus: Was Trump actually, really serious about an American takeover of the Gaza Strip?!See, that’s the basic design flaw of mind-hives: If you catch ‘em at just the right moment, they’re like a deer in headlights. The body cannot move until the brain is reassembled.
So now, they’re politically paralyzed
A White County Illinois judge has found the state’s Firearms Owner’s ID card unconstitutional when enforced against someone possessing their firearms in their home. The case Illinois vs. Vivian Brown stems from a 2017 case where Brown separated from her husband. She possessed a single-shot .22 rifle in her home. Her husband filed a complaint against her alleging she fired the rifle inside the home. Police found the rifle had not been fired, but the state’s attorney charged her with possessing a firearm without a FOID card. The judge further said in his ruling, “the Court finds that any fee associated with exercising the core fundamental Constitutional right...violates”
$50 to $100 billion a year, that is how much has already been identified by the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency through a review of Treasury payments as likely fraud. This amount is nothing more than identifying how much is paid monthly to recipients who don’t have a Social Security number or other government identification attached to their files.[Snip] It is surprising that the various systems that are in place to ostensibly prevent fraud failed so spectacularly, and it is fair to wonder if some of those in charge of them were part of the steal?
The Justice Department ordered Manhattan prosecutors Monday to dismiss the historic bribery case against Mayor Eric Adams — siding with Hizzoner that the charges under the Biden administration were politically motivated and hampered his ability to combat the migrant crisis in New York City, The Post has confirmed.
The new DOJ under President Donald Trump instructed the Southern District of New York to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning charges could be re-filed in the future, sources said.
“You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges” against Adams, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove wrote in a letter obtained by The Post.
“GMA” host George Stephanopoulos has been “miserable” after being forced to apologize following the President Trump fiasco — and staffers are already speculating about who might replace him, The Post has learned
Stephanopoulos has been rumored to be on his way out, according to multiple network sources, since ABC News parent Disney agreed to settle a defamation suit in December over the anchor insisting on-air that Trump was “found liable for rape” — instead of sexual abuse — in a lawsuit by journalist E. Jean Carroll.
As part of Disney’s deal with Trump, the former Democratic operative — who co-hosts “GMA” with Roberts and Michael Strahan —
Democrats have their panties in a wad over the work that Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to control government spending.
But despite all the hoopla, what’s actually going on is straightforward stuff that most people probably — but wrongly — assumed the government was doing all along. Musk wrote on X Saturday that DOGE and the Treasury Department have agreed to take the following steps:
All outgoing payments must have a categorization code in order to be paid. That’s supposed to already happen, but Musk has found the code is often left blank, making audits nearly impossible.
All payments must have an explanation attached
It’s a Croc block!
Dozens of schools in at least 20 states across the U.S. have banned students from wearing Crocs to class.
School administrators claim students are more likely to struggle to walk when wearing the shoes — which could be deadly in an emergency. (Photo) “It’s actually a safety hazard,” Stoney Pritchett, principal of Bessemer City High School in Alabama, told TODAY. “Man, they can twist the knees, twist the ankles, things like that.”
White House: Trump-Appointed Envoy Richard
Grenell to Oversee Deportation Flights
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The Trump administration announced that deportation flights of illegal aliens from the United States to Venezuela would be resuming, with Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s Envoy for Special Missions, overseeing the first two flights.
“Repatriation flights to Venezuela have resumed, with Ambassador @RichardGrenell overseeing the first two flights,” White House account on X wrote in a post. (X) As Breitbart News has previously reported, the Venezuelan government has agreed to accept its deported Venezuelan nationals who have been living in the U.S. illegally.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump revealed that the Venezuelan government had also “agreed to supply the transportation back.”
I'd bet you could guess the identity of the liberal analyst within three guesses, even before I mention the name. Why? Because at the moment, the number of liberal commentators with any sense of the moment at all can be counted on one hand, with a finger or two left over.
These days, the best of the potential guesses would be Bill Maher, James Carville, and Ruy Teixeira, all of whom tried to warn Democrats to get out of the Academia faculty lounge for the past several months. This time it's Teixeira, writing at the always-interesting Free Press, warning his allies that they are marching themselves off a political cliff