Posts on Wednesday, February 19, 2025
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday eliminating federal taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants.
The order will direct all federal agencies to identify all federally funded programs currently providing any financial benefits to illegal immigrants and "take corrective action." The order is intended to ensure that any federal funds to states and localities "will not be used to support sanctuary policies or assist illegal immigration."
It will also mandate improvements in eligibility verification to prevent federal benefits from going to anyone in the U.S. illegally. The order will show that Trump is "committed to safeguarding federal public health benefits for American citizens
Democrats in Congress, led in large part by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have been throwing all kinds of bizarre tantrums over President Donald Trump and Elon Musk looking to get to the bottom of government waste and fraud. It's no wonder that poll after poll, including today's latest Quinnipiac University poll, shows Democrats are facing record lows in their favorable/approval ratings. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats spoke to the press, where the minority leader was fittingly confronted about what Musk is finding, and what Democrats are crying about.
Want to know how DEI proliferated in corporate America, especially with federal contractors? Just follow the money ... while you still can.
Over the last several months, major American corporations have retreated rapidly from the progressive quota system in hiring and promotions, in virtue signaling as well. Earlier, I wrote about the financial industry hitting reverse on policies they adopted just a few years ago, presumably after discovering just how unpopular those turned out to be with Americans. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump administration has ordered executive-branch agencies to no longer consider DEI compliance in contracting, removing the financial incentives from the rotten progressive structure:
Trump Brings the Receipts...
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Donald Trump has never been able to keep his mouth shut, and in the past, that has been a liability.
So far, in his second term, his ability to speak for hours has been a huge asset. Nature abhors a vacuum, and Donald Trump's willingness to explain in exhaustive detail what he and his team are doing has drowned out all the criticisms and attacks being aimed at him and his. Trump's remarkable success this term compared to his last isn't accidental or simply due to a vibe shift. It's not just that Americans are much more willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt and less willing
Europe has been warned, and warned again.
Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough words about its deficient military spending and its moves to begin negotiating on its own with Russia over the Ukraine war.
In response, French President Emanuel Macron called an emergency summit of European leaders, which his advisers insisted wasn’t an emergency summit at all, but merely a rapidly assembled informal meeting Whatever the nomenclature, there are signs that Europe is beginning to get the memo — or, more precisely, beginning to read a memo
In a bombshell revelation, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed a shocking level of federal spending abuse, revealing that the U.S. government has over 4.6 million active credit cards in circulation, processing a staggering 90 million transactions worth nearly $40 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 alone.
DOGE, the new federal watchdog agency established under President Donald Trump, posted its findings on X on Tuesday, accompanied by a breakdown of federal agency expenditures.
“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24. DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs –
NASA is on high alert for a “city-killer” asteroid that’s headed toward Earth — cuz they don’t wanna miss a thing.
The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, now has a 1.5% probability of hitting earth in 2032, according to NASA — and international agencies are feverishly working together to track the space rock and looking at how to blow it to smithereens if necessary.
“No one is panicking, but it’s definitely what we’re talking about in the hallways of NASA,” says a project manager at Kennedy Space Center.
“We know we have enough time to act, but now’s the time to start planning. You can’t half-*** this at the last minute.”
On Wednesday, Quinnipiac University released a new poll, with this one coming less than a month after their late January poll. That poll, as Matt covered, showed the Democratic Party at an all-time unfavorable rating, 57-31 percent. Another poll, conducted February 13-17 with 1,039 registered voters, found more bad news, given how poorly congressional Democrats are perceived.According to the latest poll, Democrats in Congress have just a 22 percent approval rating, while 68 percent disapprove. Not only is that a record low, with Quinnipiac having asked such a question among registered voters since March 2009, but they're also facing heat form their own voters.
Elon Musk’s DOGE discovered that Joe Biden’s EPA awarded $2 billion to a firm linked to failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Even worse, the firm only reported $100 in revenue in its first three months in business in 2023.
How did a brand new firm that only reported $100 in revenue get awarded $2 billion??
Earlier this month Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provided an update to the money wasted on Biden’s watch in response to undercover video posted by Project Veritas in December.
The United States was born not just in rebellion against a distant monarch, but in revolt against tyranny itself. The Founding Fathers put their lives, property, wealth, and honor on the line to establish a great nation based on freedom, liberty, and self-governance. They faced impossible odds: the might of the British Empire, divisions among the colonies, and the entrenched moral and political questions raised by slavery — a practice that was already embedded in the economies of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Centuries later, many identify echoes of their struggles in Donald Trump’s battle against what he calls the “Deep State” and established global elites.
On multiple days this week, staunchly racist Sunny Hostin put herself on a pedestal above all Americans and proclaimed to be part of the superior racial demographic: black woman. During the Tuesday and Wednesday episodes of ABC’s The View, Hostin repeatedly praised herself and other black woman for how they “voted to save the country” by supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s backup bid for president.
While co-host Joy Behar was falsely whining about Elon Musk personally going through her Social Security records and IRS filings, during Tuesday’s show, Hostin bloviated about how she was “resting” and letting others deal with politics
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly asked Pentagon officials Tuesday to draw up plans to slash defense spending for each of the next five years — as the department became the latest target of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting mission.
Hegseth, 44, demanded a proposal that would include annual 8% cuts to the Pentagon’s roughly $850 billion budget, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post.
The defense secretary ordered senior Pentagon officials, top military commanders, and the directors of several defense agencies to draft plans for the proposed cuts by Feb. 24.
(Photo) Hegseth’s memo contained a list of 17 categories of spending
Acting US Attorney for DC Ed Martin launched an investigation into threats against DOGE workers on Wednesday and revealed Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer as the target.
Earlier this month Ed Martin announced his office would be charging and arresting individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team.
“Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees,” Ed Martin said.
“We are in contact with the FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly.
In possibly one of the funniest moments yet in the very short—yet fruitful—history of DOGE, CNN got an epic response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about Elon Musk's government security clearance: "Good luck with that."
CNN staffers submitted the request to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) asking "for records related to the security clearances of Musk and anyone from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who has been granted access to sensitive or classified government networks." In return, they got an email telling them: “Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team."
Microsoft believes it has made a key breakthrough in quantum computing, unlocking the potential for quantum computers to solve industrial-scale problems. The software giant has spent 17 years working on a research project to create a new material and architecture for quantum computing, and it’s unveiling the Majorana 1 processor, Microsoft’s first quantum processor based on this new architecture.
At the core of a quantum computer are qubits, a unit of information in quantum computing much like the binary bits that computers use today. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Google have all been trying to make qubits as reliable as binary bits for years now because
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Tuesday that the Kingdom of Denmark will “massively” increase its military spending as European nations grapple with the reality that they can no longer merely rely on the American taxpayer to subsidise their defence.
Copenhagen will set out this week plans to “increase the fighting power of Danish defence”, Prime Minister Frederiksen said on Tuesday in what may be seen as the first major domino to fall in U.S. President Donald Trump’s goal of transforming the security architecture of the Western NATO military alliance.
“We have to rearm massively to look after Denmark.
Last weekend French President Emmanual Macron organized an emergency meeting in Paris with leaders from the European Union to address the unfolding crisis of President Trump organizing a ceasefire and peace in the war between Ukraine and Russia.
The outcome of the meeting was what would be expected. Each member of the EU said they would not put their military forces into a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if the United States were not leading the effort. Having previously warned the NATO alliance to step-up their military spending, President Trump has no intention of putting U.S. troops into a regional conflict that affects Europe.
I can’t imagine why anyone would be upset over this news: according to a report from the New York Times, sources say that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s push to downsize the federal work force.”
The report says the layoffs “will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize with a surge of funding and new staff, the people said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.”
The Trump administration has begun laying off probationary employees — who do not enjoy as much job protection
“No problem. Game on,” border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax in response to Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker’s vow to stand in the way of law enforcement attempting to arrest illegal aliens, specifically Pritzker’s statement of “you come for my people, you come through me.”Homan then detailed what his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation forces have accomplished in Chicago so far regarding removing violent criminals.
“I was in Chicago in the first operation; we arrested, if I remember right, we arrested like, nine Tren de Aragua members; we arrested two illegal aliens convicted of murder that his state prison released rather than calling ICE.
In this episode of "CNN... The Most Trusted Name in News™"...
It never gets old on CNN. Even as the left-wing news outlet's ratings continue to swirl down the toilet, its on-air "talent" continues beclown themselves, daily. Such was the case on Wednesday's episode of "CNN This Morning" when New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro joined the panel for a rousing round of idiocy, as those assembled hyperventilated over President Donald Trump's Tuesday comments about wanting Europe to fund more of its defense.
Not to nitpick, but that's exactly what Trump demanded during his first term.
In addition, there was zero support for Trump's Tuesday comments on Ukraine,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he postponed a visit to Saudi Arabia to express his disapproval of the United States and Russia beginning bilateral negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
“We were not invited to this Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia. It was a surprise for us. I don’t want any coincidences, so I’m not going to Saudi Arabia,” Zelensky said after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. By “coincidences,” Zelensky evidently meant that he did not want his planned visit to Saudi Arabia to be mistaken as an endorsement of the meetings held between U.S. and Russian diplomats in Riyadh this week.
Democratic strategist James Carville criticized ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith in a Wednesday video for floating a presidential run as a Democrat due to the party’s lack of strong candidates. During a Monday episode of “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” Smith said that while he currently has no desire to run for president, he would do so as a Democrat if he ever chose to enter politics. Carville, in a YouTube video, said Smith is uninformed on the topic of politics and that he should stick to sports.
Israel has confirmed that Hamas’ youngest hostages, Kfira and Ariel Bibas, and their mother have been killed in Gaza — and their bodies will be returned to the Jewish state.
The news is the final agonizing blow for a family that never gave up hope of bringing the boys and their mother home alive until the very end — even after Hamas declared that they were dead.
On Tuesday — hours after Hamas said it would send the family’s bodies back to Israel — Shiri’s cousin Yosi Shnaider — told The Post he was “staying optimistic” when asked if he believed the terror group’s ghoulish report
The top U.S. prosecutor in Washington launched an investigation on Wednesday into threats against federal workers--and named Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer as a target of the probe--after people working in Elon Musk's drive to downsize and overhaul the government said they had been threatened. [Snip] "Late last night I took a call from a senior DOGE staffer. We spoke about some pressing tech issues and then he told me about threats against DOGE workers. It is despicable that these men and women are being threatened," [Snip] Martin named the initiative "Operation Whirlwind," saying that Schumer,...is the subject of a threats investigation.
President Donald Trump, frustrated with Boeing's slow pace at finishing two new 747s to serve as Air Force One, has ordered Elon Musk to find a way to speed up their delivery. The options include relaxing security clearance standards for those who work on building the presidential planes...scale back military communications and defenses on the aircraft...buy a luxury jet and outfit it as a presidential airplane... 'We've been engaged with Elon on how to deliver the aircraft earlier, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg told CNBC... [Snip] The president has dispatched Musk to solve the delay problem, telling associates if Musk can fly a rocket than he can build an airplane.
Far-Left Dem Cooks Up Baseless Explanation
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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett baselessly told “The View” co-hosts Wednesday that President Donald Trump has record-high approval ratings because Americans just are not educated enough to dislike him. Trump currently holds a record-high approval rating of 53%, as a high number of Americans believe he is fulfilling his campaign promises, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll from Feb. 9. Crockett, who is known for loudly screaming at her colleagues on the House floor, said with a straight face that there should not be a “loud” and so-called “ridiculous” person sitting in the Oval Office.
A month into his second administration, President Donald Trump has signed dozens of executive actions and advanced key policies reshaping both Washington and the office of the presidency.
Trump has instituted a broad mandate to curb illegal immigration, overhauled multiple federal agencies, threatened and imposed tariffs on trading partners, and drawn the ire of Democrats who are expressing concern that the executive branch is bypassing the legislature.
Here are 30 takeaways from Trump’s first 30 days back in office.
Experts from Yale University have discovered an alarming syndrome linked to the mRNA Covid vaccines. The previously-unknown condition--which has been dubbed 'post-vaccination syndrome'-- appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance. Some sufferers also show distinct biological changes, including differences in immune cells and the presence of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot. But the decentralized nature of the US' healthcare system makes it challenging to identify rare side effects and larger studies have failed to separate the symptoms suffered after Covid vaccination and background illnesses that would have occurred regardless.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins confirmed that the Biden administration’s VA diverted “manpower” away from Veteran Care (VC) to help illegal migrants obtain health care.
In an interview with Andrew Wilkow of the Wilkow Majority on SiriusXM Patriot, the new VA secretary revealed that after stepping into the role earlier this month he found instances of time being used to “process health applications and stuff” for illegals:
“Did the VA, under the previous administration, move resources away from Veteran Care into benefits for illegals… Did it happen, or are we going to look into it?” Wilkow asked Collins,
Frequent Trump critic Jim Acosta faced backlash after he blasted Karoline Leavitt – comparing the youngest-ever White House press secretary to a “kid” who is “telling you a tall tale.”
On Wednesday, during an interview with left-leaning podcast Meidas Touch, the former CNN anchor torched the newest press secretary.
“She [Leavitt] might just get on Trump’s all-star team of liars,” Acosta said. “She might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, she does her homework, she just might make it onto the team.”
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance alternated scathing criticisms of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, signaling a shifting, albeit unified, front in relations between the administration and officials in Kyiv.
Things have been growing somewhat contentious between Zelensky and President Trump, with the latter having insisted on a rapid and reasonable end to the ongoing war with Russia.
A leaked document from earlier this week reportedly outlines Trump’s demand for a $500 billion “payback” from Ukraine in any negotiated peace deal to end the war with Russia. According to the Telegraph, which viewed the confidential document,
Brigitte Gabriel, a survivor of terrorism and a legal immigrant to America, wants the Trump administration to shut down the corrupt Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
Gabriel, founder and chair of ACT for America, emphasized that the ORR was transformed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden into federal assistance for illegal aliens to game our system to their benefit. As long as you claimed to be a “refugee,” you could be sure of plenty of assistance in obtaining significant amounts of American taxpayer money. That, Gabriel emphasized, needs to end immediately.
The ORR’s government website provides the following word salad, saying it “promotes the health, well-being, and stability of refugees, unaccompanied
A worried NATO holds large-scale combat
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SMARDAN, Romania—NATO members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 on Wednesday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy large-scale forces on the 32-nation alliance’s eastern border as worries grow over its most powerful member, the United States.
The drills in Romania, which borders Ukraine, come as a shaken Europe grapples with a new U.S. course under President Donald Trump. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has demanded that allies dramatically ramp up military spending and said U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere — casting doubts on Washington’s longstanding security guarantees provided to Europe.
Days before the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Steadfast Dart 2025 drills comprise
President Donald Trump is well known for his America First agenda. Some have interpreted this as an isolationist stance of retreat from the world stage. If anything, the first few weeks have shown an energetic engagement on foreign policy. America First hasn’t meant disengagement with the world. Rather, it has meant taking seriously American foundational principles and believing those are core values that other nations will look up to when demonstrated proudly.
One of those fundamental American principles is free speech, and the Trump administration is making sure that the world sees America vigorously fighting for it.
Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg unleashed a foul-mouthed rant against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) late Tuesday after his grandfather’s namesake JFK Presidential Library and Museum temporarily closed due to layoffs of taxpayer-funded staff.
The 32-year-old grandson of President John F, Kennedy told the cost-cutting DOGE initiative to “eat s–t” after the Boston-based library shut its doors Tuesday afternoon because of staffing cuts.
The library blamed the closure on President Trump’s recent executive order overhauling the federal workforce.
“Hey, it’s Jack,” Schlossberg said in the clip posted online — just two weeks after he dramatically claimed he was quitting social media. “I’m OK, but our country is not.
Elon Musk Open to ‘DOGE Dividend’
Payments That Could Send $5,000 Checks
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Elon Musk showed interest in an innovative way of showing the country the savings his Department of Government Efficiency is making.
Musk posted on the X platform on Tuesday, saying he would “check with the president” about a proposal to send $5,000 checks to every American using money saved by DOGE’s cost-cutting operations.
The idea was initially proposed by James Fishback, a partner at the investment firm Azoria.
He explained the idea as follows:
Earlier this month, after meeting with President Nayib Bukele, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that El Salvador had offered to help the United States with its plans to deport dangerous illegal migrants by housing them in the country's jails, no matter their country of citizenship. Last week, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama announced that his country was accepting illegal migrants — originally from places like China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan — from the U.S. and housing them until they could be returned to their home countries.
On Monday, Costa Rica announced that it would also play a role in U.S. deportation plans.
President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “Dictator without Elections” a day after Zelensky complained about Ukraine not having a seat at diplomatic talks Tuesday between the United States and Russia.
Trump ripped into Zelensky in a lengthy Truth Social post, first addressing him as “a modestly successful comedian” rather than president. (TRUTH) The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us —
WASHINGTON — Arkansas Senator John Boozman has joined Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) in introducing a bipartisan resolution to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. This significant World War II battle between U.S. and Japanese forces in the Pacific theater began on February 19, 1945, and concluded on March 26, 1945.
"The 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima is a solemn yet important reminder of the sacrifice of the Greatest Generation," said Boozman. "The resilience and courage of our U.S. Marines was famously characterized as a display of uncommon valor. Decades later, we continue to remember and honor our servicemembers’ heroism.
Congestion pricing, we hardly knew ye.
New York City’s spectacularly unpopular congestion pricing scheme is on death row as the Trump administration announced Wednesday it is pulling its approval of the toll — slamming it as “backwards and unfair” — in a major blow to Gov. Kathy Hochul, The Post has learned.
The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration terminated the approval of the controversial program, according to a letter Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent to Hochul on Wednesday afternoon.
Cynthia Erivo is taking on another musical for her next role. On Tuesday, it was announced that the "Wicked" star and three-time Oscar nominee will play Jesus in the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar."
What constitutes a Nazi, today? If you ask modern liberals and mainstream media, Elon Musk is Dr. Goebbels redivivus.
When the pro-Trump billionaire extended his right arm waving to the crowd at a Trump inauguration event, mainstream media went ballistic. Speculation was rampant: Had Elon Musk actually given a “Heil Hitler” salute? In Germany, the government and media are equally paranoid of Musk. His support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party makes him a candidate for the “He must be a Nazi” grist mill. What is not spoken of (but definitely recognized by the government and media) is that AfD is now the second-biggest party in Germany.
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This past Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment promoting German censorship as a model of good governance was easily the worst of this particular show. However, its segment on the Trump treatment of USAID shows 60 Minutes in its partisan propaganda mode. John Nolte’s Breitbart column lays out the propagandistic deceptions of the segment in “Disgraced ’60 Minutes’ Misleads Viewers on USAID Staff Reductions” (links omitted). Here is the segment. (X) Nolte writes:
The entire angle of the 60 Minutes clip below is a laughable attempt to turn public opinion against Trump and DOGE because those poor bureaucrats at USAID lost their oh-so-vital jobs.
Except.
Poor Kristina Drye and poor Adam Dubard are not
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its decision to suspend federal funding for refugee resettlement.
The move comes as part of President Donald Trump’s broader effort to realign American priorities—protecting the homeland first, rather than funding programs that facilitate unchecked migration.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has sued the Trump administration, asserting that President Trump's order suspending refugee grants was illegal and demanding millions in what it claims is owed to Catholic charities for work performed under the grant. The USCCB represents the leadership of the Catholic Church in the United States,
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, names as defendants the State Department, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the Department of Health and Human Services. It says the bishops have partnered with the U.S. government
NY Times’ token ‘conservative’ dumps
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Vice President JD Vance rattled a lot of cages with his speech to Eurocrats at the Munich Security Conference, scolding the leaders of allied countries for their crackdown on free speech and abandonment of bedrock Western values.
Vance also met with the leader of the German opposition AfD party which has been labeled as “far right” by the authoritarian left-wing extremists who have a political stranglehold on the continent, and the American stooges of the warmongering unelected EU bureaucrats are attacking the vice president for daring to speak the truth.
One of those dumping his diaper was New York Times token “conservative” columnist Bret Stephens whose employer has been
They updated their story, but the tweet says it all: the Associated Press, now banned from Air Force One and the Oval Office, tried to manufacture a narrative of chaos and incompetence regarding the Trump administration’s popular initiative to whittle down the federal bureaucracy through targeted spending cuts. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been the point of the lance in exposing waste and potential fraud.
So, the Associated Press decided to hurl this out on social media, which got slapped down by the Trump White House:
FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others.
Trump Executive Order Wipes Out 90 Years
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President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday affirmatively pulled all the "independent" boards, commissions, and agencies that have proliferated since the Roosevelt administration under the management of the White House. The order, titled Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies – The White House, states, "For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President."
In an informational document about the executive order, shared with The Washington Post, White House officials referred to “so called independent agencies,” citing the FTC, FCC and SEC as examples
Over the last year, I have been surprised to learn that in some quarters I am considered a “Never Trumper.” That is ridiculous: I have voted for Trump three times, and through the fall of 2024 I had a Trump sign in my front yard. I have commented on Trump’s actions many times, probably in the hundreds, and I would guess my assessments have been 85% positive. And I am wildly enthusiastic about the early days of Trump’s current administration, as Power Line readers know.
But: Trump’s recent actions with regard to Ukraine are hard to explain. They have caused great consternation in Europe (not, I know, the acid test).
A senior prosecutor at the Department of Justice quit rather than force a major bank to stop disbursing $20 billion in “climate change” funding to an array of left-wing groups flagged by new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin.
As Breitbart News reported last week, Zeldin discovered that the outgoing Biden administration had rushed $20 billion to the left-wing groups, via Citibank, last year before leaving office. Zeldin promised to recover the funds. But Denise Cheung, criminal division chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, refused to order Citibank to stop disbursing the funds, saying that they had been legally allocated
In late January, the Idaho House of Representatives passed a memorandum calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to “reverse” its 2015 gay marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, “and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman.” The memo passed 46 to 24 in the House and is heading to the Idaho Senate. If it passes the senate, it will be sent on to the Supreme Court as one more formal encouragement that it take up a case that might overturn Obergefell.[Snip] Back in 2020, sitting justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito argued that the Obergefell decision should be overturned — or at least fixed.
In one fell swoop, the liberal-led Wisconsin Supreme Court shredded long-established principles of legal standing while showing voters what leftist control of the Badger State’s highest court would look like for the foreseeable future.[Snip] “The court effectively closed the courthouse doors to many Wisconsinites who are seeking to hold government officials accountable,” Vebber said, adding that the ruling will have significant ramifications beyond the Brown case.
Judge Anthony J. Trenga, an appointee of George W. Bush, has temporarily blocked President Trump’s move to clean house in the intelligence community—specifically targeting agents involved in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives that have compromised national security in favor of leftist ideology. This ruling comes after a group of anonymous intelligence officers, who had been temporarily reassigned to roles implementing controversial Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) programs, have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been repeatedly photographed this month sharing a stage with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official who has publicly denied China’s alleged genocide against the Uyghur population.
Chinese Consul General in New York Chen Li has posted multiple photos of him posing with Schumer on his X profile this month, including attending at least two Chinese parades.
"Thrilled to join thousands at the [Brooklyn] Lantern Festival Parade!" Chen recently posted on X along with a photo standing with Schumer at the annual Lantern Festival parade in New York City.
On Friday, Vice President JD Vance gave a historic defense of free speech at the Munich Security Conference. In front of a clearly hostile assemblage of European diplomats, Vance confronted our allies with their systemic censorship as they demanded more support to “defend democracy.”
For the free speech community, it was akin to Ronald Reagan’s call: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Vance questioned how our allies could claim to be the bastions of freedom while denying free expression to their citizens. He then delivered this haymaker: “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.
After President Donald Trump was elected, we published a semi-whimsical list of what would be “out” and “in” after his victory as the left instantly switched gears (“What’s In And What’s Out After Trump’s Stunning Victory”). On that list:
Out: The economy is doing great!
In: Why hasn’t Trump fixed the economy yet??
Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries proved us right.
“Donald Trump and Republicans consistently promised that they were going to lower the high cost of living, and they’ve done the exact opposite,” Jeffries said. “They’ve shown no interest in lowering costs in the United States
Left-wing billionaires are dumping large sums of cash into the highly consequential Wisconsin Supreme Court race ahead of election day on April 1, according to recent campaign finance reports.[Snip] “It could literally mean the success of President Trump’s term. It could literally mean them having the votes to bring impeachment articles against him,” Wisconsin GOP Chairman Brian Schimming told Breitbart News in an exclusive phone interview. “The implications of what happens in Wisconsin would be a political earthquake for the House of Representatives.”
President Donald Trump has deported 14,470 migrants via Mexico, the country’s president confirmed Monday.
“Since January 20, 14,470 people have returned; 11,379 Mexicans and 3,091 [non-Mexican] foreigners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters, according to local media reports. The non-Mexican migrants are likely from Central American countries, such as Honduras or Guatemala. Some of those migrants are flown back to Mexico, but almost 500 a day are being returned across the border by the U.S. Border Patrol agency.
Donald Trump Brought the Receipts to Obliterate
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a Journalist's Question About Elon Musk
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At Mar-a-Lago, President Donald J. Trump signed three executive orders, but his presser with the media was popcorn-worthy. The president promised last week to go through a slew of wasteful projects. It didn’t necessarily happen within his original timeframe. Still, Trump brought the receipts since Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have been the source of ire, inquiry, and anxiety for the media, the political class, and the DC elite.
A federal judge ordered a fired Merit Systems Protection Board member reinstated Tuesday, teeing up a Supreme Court fight over the existence of independent agencies. Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, ordered President Trump to temporarily reinstate a Biden appointee to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that adjudicates employment disputes involving civil service employees. “The Court concludes that Harris has established a strong likelihood of success on the merits, that irreparable harm is likely to occur in the absence of injunctive relief and that the public interest weighs in favor of enjoining Defendants’ actions,”
Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You To Know
His Foundation Gave Millions To Anti-Trump
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His Foundation Gave Millions To Anti-Trump
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation hid past grants to leftist causes after its funding of lawfare groups opposing President Donald Trump surfaced.
When Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room, posted that Zuckerberg gave nearly $2 billion to the leftist Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) — which bankrolls the anti-Trump legal group Protect Democracy — the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative’s website listed more than 5,000 grants, many to leftist groups, from 2018 to June 2024. Soon after — on Feb. 14 — Zuckerberg’s foundation scrubbed its website, only listing 680 grants “from January 2024.”
Last Vestiges of Biden Agenda Canceled,
As Court Rules Student Loan Forgiveness
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As Court Rules Student Loan Forgiveness
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The last bits of Joe Biden's legacy have met their unpleasant though well-deserved end on Tuesday, as a United States appeals court struck down the latest iteration of the Biden administration's ridiculous student load forgiveness scheme.
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration lacked authority to pursue a student debt relief program designed to lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers and speed up loan forgiveness for some.
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with seven Republican-led states that sued to block the U.S. Education Department's program,
Education Department Slashes $600 Million
In Funding For ‘Social Justice Activism’
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In Funding For ‘Social Justice Activism’
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The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it cut over $600 million in grants spent on training teachers in “social justice activism,” critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology.
The grants were used to fund institutions and nonprofits involved in training teachers on concepts like “anti-racism” and claims about white privilege and white supremacy. The grants also helped fund discriminatory staff recruiting strategies that targeted candidates based on their race.
“It’s hard to overstate how radical these teacher trainings are — we are talking about forcing teachers to talk about their race at work, asking educators to ‘take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities,’ promoting abolitionist
A federal judge on Feb. 18 turned down a request from a group of state attorneys general to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing data at seven government agencies, finding the states had not met the bar for relief.
“The court is aware that DOGE’s unpredictable actions have resulted in considerable uncertainty and confusion for Plaintiffs and many of their agencies and residents,” U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in a 10-page decision. “But the ‘possibility’ that defendants may take actions that irreparably harm plaintiffs ‘is not enough.’”
As reported earlier, President Donald Trump attended the “Celebrate American Exceptionalism 2025” gala tonight at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The event is hosted by America’s Future, a conservative organization chaired by former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
The gala aims to honor American exceptionalism and will feature a lineup of notable guests, including former boxer Mike Tyson, musician Ted Nugent, comedian Russell Brand, former professional wrestler Tyrus Murdoch, and comedian Eddie Griffin.
Kari Lake was also one of the special guests.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pledged to “simplify” the federal government’s credit card program on Tuesday which cost taxpayers nearly $40 billion last year.
“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24,” read an X post from the cost-cutting initiative’s official account.
“DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs,” the group added. (Photo) DOGE said it “will report back in 1 week” with its plan to disentangle the system.
Gov. Hochul’s cowardice
is on full display as she surrenders to
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is on full display as she surrenders to
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Gov. Hochul falls short on governing skills, but there is one area where she’s the absolute top of the heap: No politician shrinks faster in the face of big problems than she does.
Exhibit A is her sudden decision to hold showy meetings Tuesday about whether to remove Mayor Adams.
It was a strange move to start with, topped only by her belatedly punting the decision to another dayIt ranks as one of the most bizarre political stunts New York has ever seen.She injects herself into a no-win volatile situation yet offers no solutions.Her unsteady hand in a moment of crisis adds to the swirling doubts about the city’s immediate future.
The final swing state had come in for Kamala Harris in the early morning of Nov. 6. With Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, along with victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, the country’s first female president-elect pulled off an improbable victory over Donald Trump, winning the Electoral College 271-267.
“With this mandate, I’m here to ensure the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of the American people!” the president-elect ensured during her victory speech. For many pundits and pollsters, this hypothetical was a very real possibility going into Election Day. Forecasters from Nate Silver to Larry Sabato to FiveThirtyEight and pundits from Bill Kristol to James Carville to Joe Scarborough all had Harris winning.
President Donald Trump revealed that he had instructed “all remaining” U.S. attorneys who had been appointed under former President Joe Biden to be terminated.
“Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System — THAT BEGINS TODAY!” (TRUTH) The Wall Street Journal, citing a Justice Department official, said Acting Attorney General James McHenry took the drastic action because “he did not believe these officials could be trusted
We reported on a preview clip that was dropped from the interview that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk did with Fox's Sean Hannity. In that clip, the two made clear they spoke about the leftist tactic to try to separate them and break up the power team they've formed. Both Trump and Musk said they were aware of it, and the left would not succeed. They spoke about their relationship, which was clearly a mutual admiration society. Trump explained how impressed he was with what Musk did to save lives in North Carolina with Starlink, and the amazing things he's done, such as the ability SpaceX
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It is often said that the future belongs to those who show up. And the most relevant way of showing up, is having children.
Anecdotally, it has been obvious for a long time that conservatives are more likely to have children than liberals, and apt to have more children. But the data are clear, and getting clearer: I think it is totally rational for liberals to respond to President Trump’s election by not having children. I encourage them to stand firm in that decision. And never forget global warming! Who can contemplate bringing into being a new generation, when the Earth might get warmer? (Or colder, since it’s “climate change.”)
While Donald Trump has made multiple excellent choices for his cabinet and agency heads, his choice for Labor secretary is opposed to a key part of his platform (making America prosperous) and is endorsed by the most woke, dictatorial, and radical of teacher union heads.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer's Senate confirmation hearings begin on Wednesday. The former Planned Parenthood employee and loyal union stooge needs to be replaced — Trump should never have chosen her. In fact, she’s an absolute gift to the most leftist and most corrupt unions. It is one thing to appeal to union membership, as Trump undoubtedly did in the last election, and another thing