4 Things to Expect From the Trump Administration in 2026

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After the Trump administration wrapped up its first news-packed year of the president’s second term, the White House will gear up for a year of addressing health care costs and other affordability concerns, saving the Republican majority in Congress, and more.

Here are four things to expect from year two of Trump 47:

1. Saving the Republican House Majority

President Donald Trump is ramping up domestic travel ahead of midterms as he sells voters on his affordability accomplishments.

The party of the president in power historically loses midterms, but Trump is fighting hard to keep the Republican majority.

At the end of 2025, he held two rallies in North Carolina where he pitched his efforts to lower prices for Americans. He is expected to hold many more of such rallies in 2026.

Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, said Trump will be a constant presence on the campaign trail, saying he will “campaign like it’s 2024 again.”

“Typically in the midterms it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House,” Wiles said. “You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it. We’re actually going to turn that on its head and put him on the ballot because so many of those low propensity voters are Trump voters.”

After Republicans’ poor performance in the 2025 off-year elections, deputy chief of staff James Blair said Americans should expect to see the president put a great emphasis on affordability.

“The president is very keyed into what’s going on, and he recognizes, like anybody, that it takes time to do an economic turnaround, but all the fundamentals are there, and I think you’ll see him be very, very focused on prices and cost of living,” Blair told Politico.

Vice President JD Vance is hitting the campaign trail as well, starting with a trip to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, where he related his own low-income childhood to the affordability concerns plaguing Americans.

In addition to campaigning to win seats, Trump has pressured state legislatures to redistrict in order to create more seats for Republicans. Indiana GOP state senators resisted the push, but other states, like Florida, plan to revisit their Congressional maps in 2026.

2. Nominating a Fed Chair

Trump has said he will likely pick the person to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors early in 2026.

Trump recently told The Wall Street Journal he is favoring selecting either National Economic Council head Kevin Hassett or former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh.

Trump has said he expects the next Fed chair to cut interest rates. On Dec. 17, the president said he will name someone “who believes in lower interest rates by a lot.”

Previously, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the short list also includes Fed Governor Christopher Waller and Fed Vice Chair of Supervision Michelle Bowman.

3. Ramping Up Deportations

The Department of Homeland Security has hired 11,751 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after receiving over 220,000 applications. These agents are expected to ramp up deportations in 2026.

The administration has deported over 600,000 illegal aliens since Trump returned to the White House in January, according to the Department of Homeland Security. An additional 1.9 million have self-deported, but the White House is not satisfied, sources familiar with the situation told The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen.

“ICE is under major pressure from the White House,” a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Signal, adding, “That’s public information. A bunch of people got transferred and fired … in ICE because they’re not hitting the numbers that they want them to hit.”

The Trump administration is remaining highly focused on deportations headed into 2026 and deportation numbers are expected to grow higher. To this end, a senior Trump administration official says, the media should not be surprised when illegal aliens without a criminal record are also arrested and deported.

The Trump administration “said the ‘worst first,’ not only the worst of the worst,” the senior official noted, adding, “obviously, there’s some other category that’s going to be second and third.”

4. Addressing Health Care Prices

The House and Senate adjourned for the holidays without reaching a consensus on what to do about COVID-19-era Obamacare subsidies expiring on Dec. 31. Congress now has until Jan. 30 to pass an appropriations bill before the government shuts down again.

The House is expected to vote on Jan. 5 after Democrats passed a “discharge petition” to force a vote on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. The House passed Republicans’ health care proposal on Dec. 17, which does not extend ACA subsidies, but the bill is expected to be dead on arrival in the Senate.

Republicans are divided about if, and how, to extend expiring subsidies. Most conservative members have also said they will not vote for a health care deal unless it includes a provision prohibiting Obamacare from continuing funding abortions, an issue which will be a nonstarter for Democrats.

The White House has been letting Congress lead on landing on a health care deal, but if members are unable to come to an agreement, the president will likely have to step in.

So far, he has repeatedly said that he wants to see a plan that puts money in the wallets of Americans, not insurance companies.

“What we do wanna see is the money go to the people, not the insurance companies,” Trump told The Daily Signal.

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‘THEY WERE HIRING IDIOTS’: FBI Agent Explains How DEI Split The Agency and Led to Disaster

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Leftist rule hollowed out once-great institutions and turned them against the American people.

Former FBI special agent Nicole Parker says the bureau was torn apart by DEI ideology, creating what she calls “two FBIs”: one focused on merit, integrity, and protecting the public, and another consumed by identity politics, quotas, and performative priorities.

In her new book, The Two FBIs, Parker describes how, beginning under Barack Obama and accelerating under Joe Biden, hiring standards deteriorated as diversity targets overtook competence and mission readiness. Under FBI Director Christopher Wray, she says morale collapsed and unqualified recruits were brought in to satisfy DEI quotas.

Parker—who worked major violent crime, human trafficking, and active shooter cases—links this cultural shift directly to operational failure. She recounts how, in the lead-up to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, leadership attention was focused on diversity events rather than acting on credible tips. She believes lives may have been lost because competence and training were subordinated to DEI priorities.

After 12 years with the bureau, Parker left in 2022, concluding that the FBI she joined no longer existed. Her account portrays an agency hollowed out by ideology—less capable, more politicized, and increasingly unable to fulfill its core mission of protecting the American people.

Former FBI agent Nicole Parker explains how DEI split the agency and led to disaster: ‘They were hiring idiots’

By Doree Lewak, NY Post, Dec. 31, 2025:

President Trump’s heralded decision to make DEI DOA couldn’t come a moment too soon for Nicole Parker.

The so-called diversity, equity and inclusion initiative was a boondoggle that wrought incalculable damage across every sphere of employment in the country.

No one knows that better than Parker, a former FBI special agent of 12 years who described how a civil war brewed inside the once-venerable agency, with “lines drawn” between two clashing factions she termed “FBI 1 versus FBI 2.”

One side represents “integrity, meritocracy and protecting the American people” while the other force pushes “personal agendas and identity politics, DEI and politically motivated cases” in lieu of serious crime investigations and “the upholding of law and order replaced by performative posturing.”

By the time she left Wall Street to join the FBI in 2010 at age 32, Parker writes in her new book, “The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw In My Time At the Bureau,” that she saw segments of the bureau “becoming increasingly obsessed with diversity,” with breathless announcements about new clubs, meetings and “other diversity events.”

A mere three years later, Parker described the newly formed “Office of Diversity and Inclusion” and “Diversity Advisory Committee” and by 2015, “diversity” was added as a core value of the bureau — which she claimed had nothing to do with “protecting the US from terrorist attacks” and combating threats that should have been priorities at the heart of the agency.

While standards “deteriorated” during the era of President Barack Obama and bureau Director James Comey, Parker claimed, under President Joe Biden and Director Christopher Wray “it really amped it up” and “morale took a serious hit.”

“Under the Biden administration, they were hiring idiots,” Parker bluntly claimed to The Post. “Hiring standards dropped and it was noticeable, lowering the standards to meet quotas.”

It was all part of an insidious apparatus that degraded the agency to which she devoted more than a decade of her life.

In addition to being the agent in charge of the Parkland school shooting for the bureau, doing the death notifications, Parker worked high-profile investigations, specializing in human trafficking, violent crimes, active shooting situations and manhunts — until, after much soul-searching, she ultimately walked away in October 2022.

Days before the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre that saw 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parker described a diversity event at the bureau — and how Wray’s priority seemed to be on that, rather than taking tips.

“I had to tell shattered parents that their child was dead when it could have been stopped,” she told The Post.

“My blood was boiling. What if instead of focusing so much time and energy on diversity, such as the Diversity Agent Recruitment (DAR) event that Director Wray had attended nine days before, only twenty-seven miles south of the Parkland killing spree location, he had prioritized hiring the best and brightest and making sure that they were properly trained to know how to document a tip that might have saved seventeen lives?

“In my mind, the improper prioritization of diversity might have cost those lives,” she writes.

For Parker — a Texas native and former hedge fund exec who was traumatized by witnessing 9/11 from the World Financial Center (Brookfield Place) — it was a tale of two FBIs, essentially one good, one sinister.

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, D.C., with two American flags flying on its facade.

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DOGE WAS RIGHT: HUD Finds $5+ Billion in Fraud in One Year Under Biden—Dead Tenants, Fake IDs, Inactive Accounts Paid

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You can begin to understand why the swamp fought Elon Musk and DOGE so hard.

HUD officials say the majority of some $5 billion in fraudulent rental aid in 2024 went to New York, California and D.C. — though dead people from all 50 states got paid.

HUD just found $5 BILLION+ in FRAUDULENT payments in 2024 alone, under Biden.

Payment error of over 11% PERCENT.

  • $5.2 BILLION to inactive accounts
  • $77M to deceased tenants
  • $150M to nonexistent Social Security numbers
  • $288M to excessively high rent

A new HUD Agency Financial Report reveals more than $5 billion in potential fraudulent and improper rental-assistance payments in 2024 alone, underscoring why entrenched bureaucracies fought oversight efforts like DOGE so aggressively.

According to HUD, payment errors exceeded 11% across federal housing programs under  Joe Biden’s administration. The findings include $5.2 billion paid to inactive accounts, $77 million sent to deceased tenants, $150 million tied to nonexistent Social Security numbers, and $288 million for excessively high rents. Fraudulent payments were concentrated in New York, California, and Washington, D.C., though improper payments were identified in all 50 states.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the losses were enabled by weak financial controls and process failures, calling the abuse “massive” and effectively incentivized by the prior administration’s lack of oversight. For the first time, HUD used advanced data analytics to review all Tenant-Based and Project-Based Rental Assistance payments, uncovering systemic weaknesses and triggering a formal disclosure of material financial risk.

The report covers just one year. If the error rate held across the full term, the total losses could be staggering. The findings reinforce calls to aggressively audit and overhaul federal housing programs—what critics summarize bluntly as the need to “DOGE housing.”

In short: billions vanished, accountability was absent, and only now—after leadership and oversight changed—has the scope of the damage come into view.

HUD Financial Report Finds Billions in Potential Payment Errors Occurred During Biden Administration

WASHINGTON — Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner released HUD’s Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Agency Financial Report (AFR) to Congress, which detailed significant misuse of taxpayer funds under the Biden administration including potential payment errors totaling more than $5 billion.

For the first time ever, HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) used advanced data analytics to examine all Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) and Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) payments made in 2024. Through a series of internal management reviews, HUD identified significant potential improper payments, process gaps, and material weaknesses.

“A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions’ worth of potential improper payments,” said Secretary Turner. “HUD will continue investigating the shocking results and will take appropriate action to hold bad actors accountable. Additionally, the Department is advancing efforts made under President Trump’s first administration to strengthen program integrity and ensure taxpayer-funded assistance serves the vulnerable communities it was intended for.”

INFOGRAPHIC: Total Payment Integrity Unknown Payment Estimate

After identifying process gaps and weaknesses, HUD disclosed a material weakness to be transparent about the inherent risks that existed under the Biden administration and to establish accountability for fixing financial oversight moving forward. HUD will continue to implement new processes to track how Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and HUD-funded grantees spend the funds they receive, ensuring efficiency, transparency, and accountability at every level.

Background:

The AFR is HUD’s annual report on how the department manages public funds.
HUD’s rental assistance programs provide critical housing support to deserving communities across the nation:
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program helps families afford safe housing through vouchers they can use in the private market.

Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program provides rental subsidies tied to specific properties to ensure long-term affordability.

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Social Security Administration Offers Receipts To Dispute WaPo Hit Job

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The Social Security Administration is disputing a Washington Post report that claims the agency and system got worse under President Donald Trump.

The Washington Post published a story on Tuesday based on “internal documents and interviews with 41 current and former employees, advocates and customers” about how the system has suffered in both “responsiveness and trust” under the Trump administration. According to email correspondences and statements shared with the Caller, the Social Security Administration disputed much of the “findings” to the outlet.

“After our transparent and thorough responses, it is disappointing that the Washington Post was unwilling to include any facts that contradicted the politically-driven narrative against the Trump Administration,” a Social Security spokesperson told the Caller.

“The Social Security Administration under President Trump’s leadership is serving more Americans than ever before at quicker speeds, and meeting customers where they want to be served. Through technology improvements and modernization, more Americans are choosing to easily and quickly manage their benefits online or over the phone.”

The spokesperson added that the article disregarded “the historic improvements” the administration has made to help customers via the internet and by phone.

“The average speed of answer for the National 800 Number has been in the single digits the last five months,” a spokesperson continued, adding that sixty-five percent more calls were answered in FY 2025 compared to FY 2024.

The Washington Post report states that phone service by the SSA “improved in the second half of the year but is still subpar.” Ahead of publication, the SSA provided an audit to the Post showing how the “average speed of answer for the National 800 Number has been in the single digits the last five months.”

The audit also shows that nearly 90 percent of customers were satisfied with the SSA, a fact that a spokesperson said disputes the Post’s reporting.

The article also highlights worsening “bottlenecks,” noting that the agency argued those bottlenecks had improved. The SSA told the Caller that they actually made “massive improvement” which was “buried.”

“Reducing the backlog at processing centers, enabling 24/7 website access after inheriting 29 hours of weekly downtime, and serving more Americans at faster speeds is not something to be thrown in after undermining SSA,” a spokesperson told the Caller in a statement.

For the story, the Washington Post also interviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren who has called for a request for an audit.

“We’ve kept up the pressure and held Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Frank Bisignano accountable for the chaos they’ve caused,” Warren said in the interview.

The SSA responded to Warren’s quote in a statement to the Caller, telling the outlet that Commissioner Bisignano has responded to Warren’s request for an audit in previous letters.

The Washington Post also reported that the audit published by the Social Security inspector general’s office on Dec. 22 “confirmed that millions of callers requesting callbacks were counted as zero-minute waits by the agency.”

The SSA noted to the Caller that the methodology used to measure Average Speed of Answer (ASA) is key to understanding the data.

“It is calculated as follows: for customers who choose to wait in the queue for an agent, it is the total time spent in queue divided by the number of calls answered by agents. For customers who choose the convenience of a callback, we count only the time the customer waited in queue before electing a callback divided by the number of callbacks answered by agents. The combined result is the average speed of answer,” SSA told the Caller.

“Omitting that this methodology has existed for more than a decade is dishonest and undermines the work of the dedicated career public servants who provide the data. Moreover, the average wait time to callback has been nearly cut in half under President Trump as the IG report confirmed,” the agency noted.

The Washington Post also reported that one benefits authorizer in a processing center was told by management during an all-staff meeting that there was a backlog of six million cases. The outlet added that management added that the staff would be expected to work overtime to lower the number to two million.

The SSA pointed out to the Post prior to publication, according to emails reviewed by the Caller, that the agency explained in a letter to Congress that there were 6.2 million pending cases at the beginning of June. By the end of the fiscal year, the SSA reduced that number by more than one million, the letter writes.

“Today, there are 850,000 less pending actions in the processing centers compared to the same time last year, which contrary to the article, shows improvement,” the SSA shared with the Caller.

The SSA also took issue with the Post’s framing of Bisignano’s plan to close half of the agency’s field offices. The outlet reported that more than 31 million people visited field offices in the last fiscal year.

“It is disappointing yet unsurprising that the fake news media is eager to ignore the truth to scare seniors. The truth is simple: field offices are, and will always remain, our front-line, serving the approximately 75 million Americans who receive monthly payments and more than 330 million Americans with Social Security numbers,” the agency told the Caller. The SSA added that Commissioner Bisignano has “pledged to have the right level of staffing to operate at peak efficiency and deliver best-in-class customer service to the American people.”

The Washington Post also reported that in previous weeks there have been hundreds of employees who were transferred to customer service operations and have now been recalled to the roles they were hired to fill in the beginning. The outlet added that others have been placed in a new “digital engagement” office.

The SSA told the Caller that after they introduced new technology this year, they “recognized streamlined workloads in field offices that allowed us to deploy approximately 850 field office employees daily to assist with calls to the National 800 Number.” The agency told the Caller that none of these field office staff have been reassigned to the National 800 Number. Selected staff are now  Customer Service Representatives (CSR), “and the assistance they are providing is consistent with their position descriptions,” the agency shared.

The Washington Post did not respond to a request for comment.

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CALIFORNIA: Not A Single High Speed Rail Track Has Been Laid…over $70 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Have Been Lost!

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A 92-page report by the California State Auditor has found that over $70 billion in taxpayer funds have been lost, including $2.5 billion in SNAP fraud, $24 billion on fighting homelessness, and $18 billion for a high-speed rail where not a single track has been laid.

A California State Auditor report  heavily criticized poor tracking, waste, and lack of accountability for billions spent on homelessness, revealing systemic issues with oversight, while separate analyses point to massive cost overruns and delays on the High-Speed Rail project with minimal progress, confirming taxpayer money concerns, though specific fraud dollar amounts vary by report. 

Key Findings (Based on Verified Reports):

  • Homelessness Spending: A 2024 State Auditor report found California spent billions on homelessness without tracking outcomes, leading to a lack of data on effectiveness, with significant waste and poor oversight at local levels.
  • High-Speed Rail (HSR): The HSR project has faced massive budget increases and delays, with significant funds spent for little track laid, a consistent theme in audits and reports.
  • SNAP Fraud: While specific figures vary, fraud in SNAP (food stamps) has been a recurring issue, with reports highlighting significant improper payments. 

Where the Numbers Might Come From:

  • The $70 Billion: This figure likely aggregates issues across multiple reports and years, including HSR costs and homelessness spending.
  • $2.5 Billion SNAP: This number appears in various contexts related to fraud investigations and improper payments.
  • $24 Billion Homelessness: This reflects total spending over several years with little to show for it, as highlighted by auditors.

In Summary: The core of the statement reflects real audit findings about mismanagement and waste in California, but the consolidated dollar amounts likely combine findings from various official reports, not a single document with those exact totals.

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Republicans Erased Record Number Of Biden Regulations In 2025. Here Are The Worst Ones…

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Congressional Republicans capped off 2025 with one notable accomplishment: overturning a record number of regulations enacted under former President Joe Biden.

Republicans undid 22 regulations issued in the final months of Biden’s presidency that restrict fossil fuel production, phase out the sale of gas-powered cars and limit access to credit in the name of capping overdraft fees. The record number of resolutions of disapproval, used to block regulations, signed into law by President Donald Trump is the most of any Congress since the Congressional Review Act (CRA) was enacted in 1996.

GOP lawmakers rescinded 14 Obama regulations during Trump’s first term in 2017.

The CRA allows Congress to rescind recent administrative rulemakings with a simple majority vote in both chambers, along with the president’s stamp of approval.

“By reining in Biden’s heavy-handed bureaucrats, we are saving Americans $180 billion,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso said in a floor speech on Dec. 17. “That pencils out to over $2,000 in savings for each and every family.”

1. Banning New Gas-Powered Cars

Congressional Republicans successfully undid a Biden-era waiver in May allowing California and any state that adopts its stringent standards to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The Republican-controlled Congress also rescinded two California vehicle emissions rules requiring the sale of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and effectively banning diesel engines.

Republicans — and some Democrats — warned California’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) mandate would undermine consumer choice and devastate Americans employed in the automobile industry.

“These job losses will not be confined to California, but they will be spread all across the nation,” Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said in a speech on the Senate floor prior to the upper chamber voting to nix the waiver.

Trump frequently called for the repeal of EV mandates during his 2024 presidential campaign.

Though the push to rescind the rules hit several procedural roadblocks, Senate Majority Leader John Thune kept his conference united before the window to nix the waivers closed.

2. Ending Coal Leasing In America’s Top Coal Region

GOP lawmakers voted in October to repeal a Biden-era rule restricting millions of acres of land in the Powder River Basin — spanning Montana and Wyoming — from future mining.

Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines argued the Biden administration’s move to end coal leasing in the resource-rich region following the 2024 election amounted to a “midnight rule” with little political support among the affected states.

Daines alongside fellow Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy and Reps. Troy Downing and Ryan Zinke spearheaded the successful effort to nix the heavy-handed resource management plan.

“The American people have rejected the left’s radical climate hysteria and removing this harmful rule will help protect our energy dominance and our national security,” Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines told the DCNF prior the resolution of disapproval’s passage in the Senate.

Biden sought to restrict coal production and pledged to shut down coal plants “all across America” in 2022. More than 40% of the country’s coal production comes from the Powder River Basin, according to analysis published by the Energy Information Administration in 2019.

The Republican-controlled Congress also overturned a Biden plan restricting coal leasing on Wyoming public lands in November.

3. Blocking Energy Production In Alaska

In December, Trump signed into law two resolutions of disapproval overturning Biden-era rules restricting energy production in Alaska. The Biden regulations, finalized after the 2024 election, blocked oil and gas leasing across 13 million acres across Central Yukon in the name of conservation and restricted future energy production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain (ANWR).

“When we unlock Alaska, we are strengthening America’s national security and economic posture in this generation and for generations to come,” Republican Alaska Rep. Nick Begich told the DCNF in December. “These bills are not isolated. They are representative of a long-term strategy to rebuild our energy strength, reconstruct our critical mineral inventory, and ensure that America — not China — controls the supply chains that power our economy.”

Alaska’s congressional delegation and many tribal communities within the Last Frontier State argued the Biden-era regulations tamping down energy production were economically devastating.

“The economy in the North Slope is oil and gas activity,” Begich also told the DCNF. “The building blocks of communities — schools, healthcare, roads and running water  — exist due to the “economic base our early leaders ensured that we had access to.”

4. Instituting Price Controls On Overdraft Fees

Republicans voted in spring 2025 to undo a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that limited most bank overdraft fees to $5, far less than the $35 average. The Biden administration approved the controversial rulemaking capping the amount banks can charge their customers when they overdraft their checking accounts in December 2024.

GOP lawmakers and the banking industry warned the overdraft fee rule would reduce the amount of credit that banks can provide to low-income customers, who would be forced to turn to payday lenders that typically charge higher interest rates. Opponents of the rule also slammed the agency for overstepping its authority to regulate checking accounts.

“The Biden administration’s ill-conceived rule imposing new price controls on overdraft services provided by banks and credit unions harmed the very consumers the CFPB is supposed to protect,” Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott said in May. “The rule would have reduced access to credit and important financial services and resulted in more unbanked Americans.”

5.  Driving Up Costs For Commercial Appliances

Trump approved two resolutions of disapproval in May cancelling Biden regulations that imposed stringent energy efficiency standards on walk-in coolers and freezers and a separate rule targeting commercial refrigerators and freezers.

Republicans argued the Biden-era rules imposed a high cost burden on the small businesses who would have to comply with the new standards and limited consumer choice.

“This regulation, which had an estimated cost of a billion dollars, would have been crippling for businesses throughout the country, especially in rural areas,” Republican Oklahoma Rep. Stephanie Bice, the sponsor of one of the resolutions of disapproval, said in a statement in March.

Republicans also successfully nixed a Biden Department of Energy rule banning some gas water heaters by 2029.

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The Christmas Lawyer, the Lights, and a Little Holiday Justice

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Every now and then, a Christmas story comes along that feels like it belongs in a Hallmark movie, complete with twinkling lights, stubborn Grinchies, and a happy ending that reminds us why this season matters.

This is one of those stories.

It begins with a lawyer named Jeremy Morris, an Idaho father who loved Christmas so much that he decided to go all out.

And when we say “all out,” we mean hundreds of thousands of lights, hot chocolate, Santa Claus, and families gathering together to celebrate the season and raise money for children battling cancer.

What could possibly go wrong?

Enter the homeowner’s association.

Instead of seeing joy, charity, and community, the HOA saw something else entirely.

They sent letters. They hired lawyers. They demanded the lights come down. What followed was not a simple neighborhood dispute, but a years-long legal saga that climbed all the way to the steps of the United States Supreme Court.

For a time, it looked like the Grinches had won.

A jury initially sided with Morris. Then a judge overturned it. Then the appeals dragged on for years. At one point, Morris was even ordered to pay massive legal fees himself.

Through it all, he kept his sense of humor, his faith, and his love for Christmas.

And then, quietly, something changed.

After years of fighting and mounting legal costs, the HOA realized Morris was not going away.

A settlement was reached. Not only did he win, but he won by a wide margin. The HOA ended up paying him significantly more than the original jury award after spending a fortune trying to shut down Christmas.

So what did Morris do with the money?

He bought more Christmas lights.

Lots more.

He joked that every time he screwed in a bulb, he thought of the HOA that tried to stop Christmas.

This year, instead of courtrooms and cease-and-desist letters, his family filled their home with fourteen Christmas trees and an indoor winter wonderland. Outdoor displays are coming again too, in a place where Christmas is welcomed, not feared.

There is something wonderfully fitting about that.

Christmas, after all, has always pushed back the darkness. It has always survived those who tried to silence it. And it has always had a way of turning what was meant for harm into something joyful.

Today, as families gather around tables, trees, and fireplaces, we wish you a very Merry Christmas.

This is the day we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the greatest gift ever given to the world. A gift of hope. A gift of light. A gift no Grinch, no HOA, and no court ruling could ever take away.

May your home be filled with warmth, your heart with peace, and your Christmas with joy.

Merry Christmas from all of us, and may the light of Christ shine brightly in your life today and always.

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60 MINUTES CAUGHT LYING: CBS ‘Journalists’ Lied About Trump, Tried to Air Hit Job Anyway

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CBS News is not merely biased or misguided—it is structurally corrupt and intellectually irredeemable.

As Geller Report reported yesterday, the “journalists” at 60 Minutes have been attacking CBS News’ Editor in Chief for delaying the airing of a hit piece on the Trump administration and CECOT.

Bari Weiss put on hold a 60 Minutes segment after being told—incorrectly—that the Trump administration had refused to comment. In fact, as Axios later confirmed, 60 Minutes producers had received substantive responses from the White House, State Department, and DHS but deliberately excluded them from the broadcast. That omission explains why Weiss pulled the piece in the U.S., concluding it was not ready and lacked proper on-the-record rebuttals from key officials. The controversy deepened when the same segment inexplicably aired in Canada despite Weiss’s order, raising questions about internal compliance and editorial control. Ultimately, Axios’s reporting vindicated Weiss’s judgment: the segment falsely claimed no response was received and appears to have misled CBS News management—underscoring a serious breach of journalistic integrity inside 60 Minutes.

GROK: United States Homeland Security Adviso Stephen Miller blasted the CBS show for sympathizing with 238 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison in March 2025 under the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. The planned segment highlighted that 75% of the men had no criminal convictions and profiled cases like a gay makeup artist with a pending asylum claim, but CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulled it hours before airtime on Dec. 21 for lacking balance, such as an interview with an official. A federal judge later ruled some deportations violated due process, amid reports of prison abuses, while Miller pointed to victims like 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, killed by Venezuelan migrants.

Weiss wondered why nobody from the Trump administration was asked to comment, and she (and the rest of us) were told they refused to comment. Only…that’s not true.

Between the lines: According to a source familiar with “60 Minutes” correspondence with the administration, the “60 Minutes” team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News. None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios. That’s not a “between the lines” issue. That directly reveals why Weiss pulled the segment in the US.

Hot Air, Axios: For some reason, however, the Alfonsi segment aired in Canada, which Fischer viewed. It’s not clear why Weiss’ order didn’t prevent the segment from airing in another country when Weiss had ordered it pulled in the US. One has to wonder whether that’s clear to Weiss as well. Supposedly, the segment was transmitted “via app” to the Canadian distributor for 60 Minutes, but shouldn’t Weiss’ decision as the editor in chief of CBS News to keep it from airing have been universal?

What is clear is that Weiss turned out to be correct in her assessment of the segment. Weiss first responded to Alfons’s claim about political motives for spiking the story by saying it “wasn’t ready” for air. Weiss then sent a more specific memo to CBS News personnel laying out the reasons for the decision, which included the need to get principals on the record to address the allegations…Money quote: “Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realized we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.” Well, surprise again! According to Axios, Alfonsi did get principals to respond, including that same DHS spokesperson and more. Rather than include that input, Alfonsi not only lied in the segment about not getting a response, she or the producers of 60 Minutes misled CBS News management about it.  And now Axios has confirmed that, which shows exactly why Weiss got hinky after seeing the segment on Thursday. 

Axios, of all places.

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Portuguese National ID’d as Suspect in Brown University and MIT Shootings — After Killing Himself

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Curious and curiouser.

Authorities discover that the same man opened fire at Brown university students and also killed the nuclear scientist at MIT — and the Homeland Security secretary says the Portuguese native “never should have been allowed in.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Valente entered US through the lottery immigrant visa program DV1 in 2017. He was later granted a green card. “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she wrote.

Brown, MIT shooting suspect ID’d as Claudio Neves Valente — after shooting himself in storage facility

By Zoe Hussain and Joe Marino, The NY Post, Dec. 18, 2025

Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school and the murder of an MIT professor, while also confirming he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Valente, a Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night following a nearly weeklong manhunt spurred by the shooting Saturday that killed two Brown students, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez announced at a press conference.

The 48-year-old former graduate student was discovered dead with a satchel and two firearms inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility, where authorities carried out a search warrant around 9 p.m.

FBI Special Agent Ted Docks also revealed that Valente studied in Lisbon with murdered MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro, 47. The professor was killed on Monday in his $1.4 million townhouse in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts, and cops there announced late Thursday he was shot by Valente.

The two studied together in the same academic program between 1995 and 2000, Leah Foley, the US attorney in Massachusetts, revealed in a second press conference late Thursday.

Valente was then enrolled at Brown University between 2000 and 2001 in a graduate physics program. He primarily took classes at the university’s Barus & Holley building — where he opened fire on students inside a classroom on Saturday, according to Brown University President Christina Paxson.

“It is safe to assume that this man, when he was a student, spent a lot of time in that building,” Paxson told reporters.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Valente entered US through the lottery immigrant visa program DV1 in 2017. He was later granted a green card.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she wrote.

“In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people,” she continued.

She wrote Trump will be suspending the lottery program that allowed Valente to enter the US.

“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” she concluded.

On Saturday, the suspect entered the elite Providence university and opened fire in the Barus & Holley building, killing students Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old Uzbek American freshman.

Nine others were wounded in the barrage of bullets, with six remaining in the hospital on Wednesday.

Authorities were finally able to crack the case open after a man posted on Reddit that cops should investigate a possible rented gray Nissan with Florida plates that he spotted in Providence while having an odd interaction with a man.

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The Bondi Beach Attack Is Worse Than You Think

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More on the massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach by two Muslims, and the anti-Israel atmosphere created by the Albanese government that makes such things possible, can be found here: “Australia’s ‘Hanukkah Massacre’ Is Worse Than You Think,” by Daniel Pomerantz, Algemeiner, December 16, 2025:

Chabad’s “Hanukkah by the Sea” event near Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, turned into a bloody massacre on Sunday: 15 murdered and dozens more injured, as of the latest update.

Far from being an isolated incident, this nightmarish display of terror is only the latest symptom of a dangerous and systematic attack by the Australian government against its own Jewish population.

According to news sources, the terrorists were Sajid and Naveed Akram: a father and son of Pakistani origin who had pledged allegiance to ISIS shortly before carrying out their antisemitic bloodbath.

In one rare bright spot, Ahmed Al Ahmed, an immigrant from Syria, heroically risked his life to disarm one of the terrorists, likely saving many innocent lives in the process. Al Ahmed survived several gunshots and is recovering in hospital.

Before Ahmed Al Ahmed went into action, an elderly Australian Jewish couple, Boris and Sofia Gurman, managed at the very outset of the attack to wrest a gun from one of the gunmen, only to be shot dead when he grabbed another gun to kill them. Their heroism has, for obvious reasons — “Muslim saves Jewish lives” — not received nearly the same attention as Ahmed Al Ahmed.

In the aftermath of this modern day pogrom, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issued a statement in which he made no mention whatsoever of Jews, antisemitism, Hanukkah, Islamic extremism,terrorism, or ISIS.

Albanese referred to the massacre merely as “shocking” and “distressing,” and said that his thoughts were with “every person affected.”

Within hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu utterly excoriated Albanese, accusing him of “pouring fuel on this antisemitic fire,” and noting that he had sent Albanese a letter last August, warning of the very conditions that had brought about this attack, a warning that had gone unheeded.

In tandem with the Israeli Prime Minister’s vigorous public scolding, Albanese held a press conference, in which he finally condemned the Bondi attack as antisemitic.

However, Albanese continued to avoid any mention of Islamic extremism, despite Australian law enforcement having already publicly confirmed that the terrorists had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror organization (ISIS), and that they were carrying an ISIS flag in their vehicle.

According to reports, the Mossad had been warning Australia regularly for months about terror plots against the local Jewish community. Local police deny there were specific warnings about this particular attack, but Israeli leaders from all sides of the political spectrum countered that Australia had ignored “countless warning signs.”

Australia’s national failures are reminiscent of the Dutch pogrom of November 2024, in which local Muslim attackers violently hunted Israeli soccer fans through the streets of Amsterdam — after Dutch police ignored urgent warnings from Israeli intelligence.

The conditions for a similar massacre are currently shaping up in New York City, where the incoming mayor responded to a highly threatening antisemitic protest by accusing the local Jewish community of “violations of international law.” (I previously addressed both topics in depth at The Algemeiner).

The antisemitic protest which the soon-to-be mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, defended as upholding international law, was held just outside the Park East Synagogue. Inside the synagogue, an Israeli group was holding an informational session for those interested in making aliyah to Israel. Just outside, and blocking the entryways to the synagogue, stood a group of people screaming their homicidal hatred of Israelis and their desire to see it disappear, to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. They shouted, inter alia, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “globalize the Intifada” — a call to kill Jews everywhere — and “death, death, death to the IDF.”

For the past two years since the October 7 massacre, not only has Australia seen a massive rise in violent antisemitic attacks, but local Jewish leaders have consistently objected to the government’s permissive atmosphere toward attacking Jews, such as failing to apply appropriate penalties and needed protections….

People engaged in antisemitic scrawls on synagogue walls, or screaming their hatred of the Jewish state, or beating up individual Jews, do not come out of nowhere. Their hatred of Israel is in sync with the palpable dislike of the Jewish state that Prime Minister Albanese and his Foreign Minister Penny Wong exhibit.

The Albanese government’s failure to properly assign blame for the Bondi Beach massacre to the ideology of Islam, so that the public is lead astray into thinking such attacks are merely the handiwork of a handful of “extremists” who fail to understand their own peaceful religion, needs to be corrected. However, given this government’s failure to heed warnings coming from Mossad about numerous planned attacks on Jews, and given Albanese’s inability, in the statement he released just after the Bondi Beach attack, to mention even once the words “Jews, antisemitism, Hanukkah, Islamic extremism, terrorism, or ISIS,” it should be clear that Anthony Albanese is not the man to do it.

This astonishing lapsus by Albanese unfortunately demonstrates that he can’t allow himself to see Islam as it really is; he prefers to believe that the religion is a peaceful one, and only “extremists” have carried out these many terror attacks. He needs to be reminded that almost 50,000 of these terror attacks by Muslims have been carried out around the world since September 11, 2001, and that is not because the perpetrators misunderstood the faith of Islam, but rather, because they understood it all too well, and were ready and willing to carry out attacks so that, as Muhammad said in a hadith, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” That is a command that every leader in the Western world, including the hapless Anthony Albanese, should commit to memory.

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Biden Regime Let 18,000 ‘Known and Suspected’ Terrorists Into U.S.

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“The Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry into the country just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another.”

The thousands of known and suspected terrorists are also implementing a “new playbook” that is “decentralized,” according to the NCTC director, like “the attacks of Oct. 7.”

In explosive testimony before Congress, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent revealed that the Biden administration allowed roughly 18,000 known or suspected terrorists to enter the United States — individuals tied to ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other jihadist organizations who “under normal circumstances would never be allowed in.” Kent detailed how expedited vetting and lax border controls enabled thousands of Afghans and other foreign nationals with terror links to slip into the country, including several who later plotted or carried out attacks. Recent cases — from ISIS-inspired murder plots in Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., to a Hamas-linked operative who infiltrated the U.S. Air Force — underscore what Kent called a “new decentralized playbook” of small-cell terror operations now operating inside America. Intelligence officials warn that hundreds more ISIS-affiliated migrants, cartel members, and gang operatives are already roaming the country. Kent’s testimony paints a grim picture: years of open-border policies have created a massive domestic security threat that federal agencies are now scrambling to contain.

Trump official warns 18K ‘known and suspected’ terrorists in US, blames Biden for attack on National Guard

By Josh Christenson, NY Post, Dec. 11, 2025:

WASHINGTON — As many as 18,000 terrorists entered the US during the Biden administration, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent revealed during a House committee hearing on Thursday.

“So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country,” Kent testified before the House Homeland Security Committee.

“These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda,” he said.

“Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry into the country just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another.”

The FBI foiled other ISIS terror attacks in Michigan and New Jersey earlier this year.

A self-described Hamas operative also infiltrated the ranks of the US Air Force in 2023 and later planned to carry out a pipe bomb attack with two others — before he was thwarted in April.

Before Trump took office, a suspected ISIS terrorist mowed down and shot at New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people.

Kent pointed out in the House hearing that the accused National Guard shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was “just one of 88,000” Afghans — and his counterterrorism office has since “identified 2,000 of that group of 88,000 who have ties to terrorist organizations.”

Another Afghan national was arrested and charged this month for threatening to carry out a suicide bombing before Thanksgiving, while a third was collared in Virginia on Dec. 3 for providing weapons to his father, an ISIS-K commander, The Post first reported.

A fourth was let into the US by the Biden administration and later schemed to carry out an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack last year.

All five — including Lakanwal — entered the country as part of the 88,000 that received expedited vetting to settle in the US under former President Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program.

An official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told The Post that hundreds of other ISIS-affiliated migrants are roaming the country, including 4,000 from a Central Asian smuggling network and 600 Tajiks and Uzbeks.

The NCTC has also identified hundreds of MS-13, Tren de Aragua and Sinaloa cartel members and notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prioritize their arrests and deportations, the official added.

Stunningly, Kent claimed in the hearing that the remaining 16,000 with terror ties who didn’t originate from Afghanistan doesn’t even include migrants “who came here illegally through the open border.”

The Trump administration recently warned Americans that the US was at “heightened risk of terrorist attacks,” Kent said, noting risks from “terrorists, pretty much of all stripes, but in particular from ISIS and from al-Qaeda.”

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President Trump Is Right About Tim Walz

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Great article below explaining that Minnisota Governor Tampon/Stolen Valor Tim Walz deserves the tag of “Retarded” given to him by POTUS Trump. This name was not meant to be a slam against people who are mentally disadvantaged but as an ample description of Walz as an individual with idiotic tenancies.

I mean what man exclaiming to be an “every man” doesn’t even know how to load a shotgun and/or puts their image on a challenge coin as a Sergeant Major when; in fact, he declined this promotion when he decided to retire rather than go to the middle east with his national guard unit ? Or who recommended placing tampons in men’s bathrooms in schools and/or embellished his reputation as a volunteer football coach. Not to mention gleefully accepting becoming the VP running mate for the Queen of Worthless Word Salads, Commie Kamala Harris.

Now he denies any culpability or even knowledge of a $1B fraud scandal right under his nose in Minnesota by a large Democrat voting block e.g. Somalians.

President Trump Is Right About Tim Walz

They say you should not “hate” your opponents, that it will cloud your judgment. That’s probably true, at least to a certain point, but up to that point it is a helpful motivator in your quest to defeat them. Besides, some people simply deserve the hatred – the type that is passed on from generation to generation, the stuff of legend – and so much more. Those people are a special kind of evil and can go straight to hell without passing “Go” and without collecting $200.

Who deserves such condemnation? A lot of people, actually. Every new day, it seems like there is an ever-growing conga line of Democrats dancing along to imaginary music, desperately competing for the title of “Biggest Idiot” or “Largest Pile Of Watery Excrement” in a game every loses because it exists. Some are famous, some are not. Some were always radicals; some were just opportunistic con artists. Every single one of them deserves a first-class cabin on the train to hell.

On top of the deserving list is Tim Walz. The Governor of Minnesota oversaw the largest welfare fraud scheme in history, but because it was done by black people from Somalia – and Somalis are an important voting demographic in the state for Democrats – he looked the other way. Either that or he has the IQ of someone who was weaned on lead paint chips, which is also a real possibility.

When not lying about his military service or raising entitled, exceedingly ordinary children, Walz spends his time smearing half the country. He calls everyone not on the left a “Nazi” or “Gazpacho,” being too big a moron to be able to pronounce “Gestapo” phonetically written out on a teleprompter.

President Trump recently called him “retarded” because, well, it’s actually the perfect word to describe Tim Walz. Walz, who has all the mannerisms of a coked-out Muppet, was outraged over the use of the word, but the President meant no offense to those with intellectual disabilities, and I understand how that could be offensive – no one wants to be compared to Democrats. But where the word no longer is the acceptable word for its old usage, it remains the perfect one for people like Walz.

Tim claimed that people were “driving by my house and using the ‘R’ word.” This is the first recorded incident of a drive-by “retarding.” Let there be no confusion: people should not do this. They stop the car, get out and then yell it. There is no reason to speed past, yelling. When driving, your focus should be on the road…the person in the passenger seat can do the yelling.

Walz called this “shameful,” adding, “We know how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn to violence.” It’s the old “Stick and stones may break my bones, but words are the real problem.”

Yet, Timmy has spent the better part of a year smearing people as Nazis, which actually did lead to violence. His team almost killed President Trump and ICE agents; they did kill Charlie Kirk.

They’ve terrorized students on college campuses and business owners with the misfortune of opening in Democrat-controlled cities. None of this bothered Tim Walz or his equally lead-infused wife – she gleefully “opened the windows” of their home to get the smell of their burning city inside, speaking of it like it was Spanish Fly or something.

These are gross people, these are bad people. When the President called Tim Walz “retarded” he was simply using the perfect word to accurately describe someone who has actively campaigned for the assassination of his political opponents. That he hopes to inspire it for the sake of plausible deniability, rather than call for it directly, is irrelevant. The end result is the same.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Renamed The Worst Of The Deep State After Himself — Now What Will It Do?

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took a chainsaw to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) — now the agency sits nearly empty, with a new name and a big future.

The agency was seized in March by DOGE and its staffers removed. USIP made little news since, until Dec. 3 when the State Department renamed it after President Donald Trump.

DJT USIP Acting Director Darren Beattie told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview how the agency will be revamped to best support the Trump administration.

“I’m very excited about using not only the space but the programmatic aspect of USIP to highlight and, where possible, to help to facilitate and incubate these peacemaking efforts,” Beattie told the Caller. “And it might be premature to say, but we are in talks with people who are thinking about using it to incubate peace deals in other parts of the world as well.”

Beattie added that in addition to helping facilitate peace deals, the agency is “closely integrated” with the State Department and will help serve the administration through its physical space.

Since the March takeover of the agency, the institute has been at the center of a lawsuit in which its former staff argue the president does not have authority over the branch. Beattie told the Caller that the outcome of that lawsuit will determine a lot about DJT USIP’s future — like the type of staff the agency can hire — but for now isn’t a major roadblock.

Beattie told the Caller that the institute currently has a small skeleton-like crew but that restaffing the agency to support its new mission is “premature.” Regardless, Beattie said he and those at the agency are ready to start using the building again to incubate peace deals. 

“We’re going to be much more streamlined now in this new iteration, and much more narrowly focused to advance those kinds of foreign policy goals of the administration,” Beattie said of their plans to hire new staff.

USIP was established by Congress in 1984. At the time of DOGE’s takeover, the agency’s website claimed its mission is to “prevent violent conflicts and broker peace deals abroad.” The website now says the agency serves to “support the Executive Branch in resolving violent conflict abroad.”

DOGE took over the institute citing leadership’s failure to comply with a Feb. 19 executive order to eliminate “non-statutory components and functions” of USIP and other government-funded entities. Eleven board members were removed. The remaining members appointed Trump ally Kenneth Jackson as acting director, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the Daily Caller News Foundation at the time.

Kelly told the Caller that in addition to offering building space and facilitating peace deals, the USIP will work closely with the State Department “to advance America’s national interests and policies that support peace through strength.”

Peace has been a theme repeatedly touted by the president and his administration throughout his first year in office, especially following his peace deal in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas.

“I think this is a story of bringing an institution that was misaligned at best and in some cases, maybe nefarious at worst, in the previous administration, and bringing it back into the fold to serve the interests of the executive branch, in this case, the agenda of the Trump administration,” Beattie told the Caller.

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Why the Left Is Obsessed With Tearing Down Secretary of War Pete Hegseth?

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From the moment President Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon, the liberal establishment and its allies in the mainstream media launched what can only be described as a coordinated, full-scale character assault. Instead of examining his long service, battlefield leadership, or respected academic credentials, critics on the left chose to elevate allegations, half-truths, and sensational headlines in a deliberate bid to sink his nomination.

For weeks leading up to his confirmation hearing, the attacks were relentless. Pundits questioned his integrity, commentators mocked his qualifications, and political operatives whispered doubts even into conservative circles. At one point, some within the MAGA base wondered whether Hegseth—alongside RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard—would be able to survive the Senate confirmation gauntlet at all. The timing was made even more chaotic by President Trump’s decision to replace Rep. Matt Gaetz with Pam Bondi as Attorney General, setting off another round of media frenzy.

In the political noise, one narrative dominated: Stop Pete Hegseth at all costs.

And the effort intensified when Hegseth faced the Senate Armed Services Committee. Several Democratic senators made their opposition unmistakable. Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) grilled Hegseth on past allegations involving infidelity, alcohol, and assault—accusing him of withholding information during the transition, Sen. Mazie Hirono (HI) pressed him about a reported sexual-assault settlement, questioning his honesty and moral fitness, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) confronted him on previous statements about women in combat, implying he lacked respect for female service members, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH) accused him of altering his views on women in the military purely for political gain, Sen. Jack Reed (RI) challenged his criticism of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and even questioned his basic qualifications to run the Pentagon.

The hostility was unmistakable. This was not a confirmation hearing—it was a political trial.

For Nominee Pete Hegseth is like walking in to lions Den, he was calm, focus and he answer all the questions with clarity and steelze.

Yet despite the fury, despite the wall of media pressure, and despite the coordinated campaign to derail him, Pete Hegseth prevailed. It ultimately took Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote to confirm him as Secretary of War.

But the opposition didn’t stop. Not after SignaGate. Not after the so-called “Second Strike Controversy,” in which Democrats accused Hegseth of authorizing an illegal targeting decision. In each case, the media amplified unproven claims and framed him as a reckless warmonger, hoping to force his resignation.

The reason for this obsession is simple: Pete Hegseth is doing exactly what he was appointed to do. He is executing the Commander-in-Chief’s national defense vision with loyalty, strength, and decisiveness. And for those invested in weakening Trump’s agenda, Hegseth represents everything they fear—a patriotic, assertive, unapologetically America-first leader at the helm of the Defense Department.

The left’s attacks are not about ethics. They’re not about policy. They’re not even about Hegseth as an individual.

They are about politics.

And yet, despite the noise, Secretary Hegseth continues to serve. He continues to lead. He continues to act with the courage and conviction expected of an American veteran who has worn the uniform with honor.

For many Americans, Pete Hegseth is not the villain the media portrays—he is a patriot who stepped forward at a critical moment in the nation’s history. And whether his critics like it or not, he remains determined to help restore American strength on the world stage.

President Trump and Secretary Hegseth will continue their mission.

And many Americans believe they will succeed.

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Obama DEA Official Indicted For Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel

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The Department of Justice announced that a former top Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) official who retired near the end of the Obama administration has been indicted on multiple charges, including conspiracy to engage in narcoterrorism, money laundering and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

DEA Administrator Terrance C. Cole and United States Attorney Jay Clayton of the Southern District of New York revealed the indictment of Paul Campo in a Friday evening release, saying he agreed to help the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) launder $12 million in proceeds from drug trafficking. The DOJ said that Campo, who served as Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations at the DEA, also advised CJNG on acquiring drones and assault rifles after Robert Sensi — an associate of Campo — put him in touch with a representative of the cartel.

“The alleged conduct occurred after he left DEA and was unrelated to his official duties here, but any former agent who chooses to engage in criminal activity dishonors the men and women who serve with integrity and undermines the public’s confidence in law enforcement,” Cole said in the release regarding Campo. “We will not look the other way simply because someone once wore this badge. There is no tolerance and no excuse for this kind of betrayal.”

Upon taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security, including designating the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 and Mexican drug cartels, including CJNG, as foreign terrorist organizations. According to the indictment, the person Campo and Sensi believed was a representative of CJNG was actually a confidential source working at the direction of law enforcement.

The indictment alleges that Campo and Sensi met with the CJNG representative to advise them on laundering the funds through cryptocurrency purchases, real estate investments, pre-paid gift cards and assisted in three transactions involving $750,000. The indictment states that Campo and Sensi believed that the third and final transaction would trigger a shipment of about $5 million worth of cocaine, and that they would receive a portion of the proceeds.

“By participating in this scheme, Campo betrayed the mission he was entrusted with pursuing for his 25-year career with the DEA,” Clayton said. “CJNG is a violent and corrupting criminal enterprise that New Yorkers want broken. I commend the extraordinary efforts of the DEA in aggressively pursuing CJNG and those who support their deadly and corrupt efforts, no matter who they may be.”

If convicted, Campo and Sensi could face up to life in prison, according to the DOJ release.

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Harold Hutchison

Media Reporter

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