‘Next’: Schumer Dodges Simple Question About Medicaid For Illegal Immigrants

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question about whether he supported states giving illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health insurance at a press conference Wednesday.

The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act included a provision to penalize 14 states and the District of Columbia who enroll illegal immigrants in state health insurance programs by reducing their federal Medicaid funding for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion population. The Daily Caller News Foundation asked Schumer about the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) preliminary projections that 1.4 million illegal immigrants would lose health coverage as a result of this provision in the House-drafted bill.

Schumer immediately reacted by slamming the president’s tax and spending bill before offering a word salad on his opposition to congressional Republicans’ proposed crack down on states who give illegal migrants free healthcare.

“The bottom line is the overall bill is so awful,” Schumer said. “If they want to aim — if they got some specific issues aim it, don’t just do just do a ‘meat axe,’ chainsaw, across the board and cut everything, everything, everything.”

“This goes way beyond what they’re talking about and hurts everybody,” Schumer added.

The DCNF’s Andi Shae Napier attempted to ask a follow-up regarding Schumer’s opposition to the Medicaid reform provision before he declared “next question.”

The Democratic leader also incorrectly said the CBO projections were “GOP numbers” and questioned the accuracy of the congressional scorekeeper’s estimates.

The Medicaid provision specifically lowers the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP) — the Medicaid match rate the federal government pays to states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act — from 90% to 80%. The proposal would force certain blue states to cover 20% of the cost themselves, putting billions of dollars in Medicaid funding they depend on at risk.

GOP lawmakers and Trump administration officials have defended their Medicaid reforms as preserving the entitlement program’s benefits for those who need it most while eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Savings generated from reforming Medicaid contributed in part to more than $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over a decade in the president’s landmark bill.

“We’re not cutting Medicaid,” Speaker Mike Johnson told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday. “What we are doing is reducing the program wrought with fraud, waste and abuse to make sure that that program is essential to so many people and ensure that it is available for the most vulnerable, and it’s intended for young, single pregnant women, the disabled and elderly.”

Johnson added that 7.6 million people “will supposedly be affected by this,” referring to preliminary CBO projections. “When you look at the numbers and break them down, this is high on public opinion. You are talking about [removing] 1.4 million illegal immigrants.”

A spokesperson for Schumer did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment seeking clarification on the Democratic leader’s position.

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Adam Pack

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Critics of the Big Beautiful Bill ‘Are Going to Be Wrong,’ Johnson Warns

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For months, the bright lights have been on the House, capturing the made-for-TV drama of the Republicans’ Houdini-like wins. And while people have come to appreciate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a sort of consensus whisperer, no one is quite sure what to make of his Senate counterpart. But now that Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is in the reconciliation hot seat, America is about to see what Mitch McConnell’s replacement is made of. And as far as first tests go, this is a biggie.

Thune, who’s had a front-row seat for the House debate, knows that the job that awaits is no picnic. Like the speaker, he understands a thing or two about small margins. With just three votes to spare and 53 different opinions on next steps, corralling his caucus will require a mix of patience and thick skin. After listening to his caucus pick apart the draft passed by Johnson’s chamber, Thune’s early message is one of caution. “It’ll have to track very closely to the House bill,” he warned Monday, “because they’ve got a fragile majority and struck a very delicate balance.”

That in itself is a shift from earlier weeks, when Thune seemed to agree with the Republicans eager to make sweeping changes. Now, the South Dakotan says more reservedly, “[T]here are some things that senators want to add to the bill or things we’d do slightly differently.” Based on the soundbites coming out of his caucus, that’s putting it mildly. Goldilocks herself would go mad trying to find the sweet spot between the five factions of senators with competing goals.

There’s the group demanding more spending cuts (Ron Johnson, Wis.; Mike Lee, Utah; Rick Scott, Fla.), and another worried they go too deep (Susan Collins, Maine; Lisa Murkowski, Alaska). There are the pro-Medicaid reform Republicans and the not-so-pro-overhaul Republicans (Josh Hawley, Mo.; Murkowski; Jerry Moran, Kan.; and Jim Justice, W.Va.). While some cheer the end of Biden’s “clean energy credits,” others pan them (Murkowski; Moran; Thom Tillis, N.C.; John Curtis, Utah). While Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) rages against the debt ceiling hike, the more rural state senators are fighting the other chamber’s changes to health and supplemental nutrition programs (Chuck Grassley, Iowa). And remember the SALT caucus of the House? Well, Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) admitted, “There’s not one Republican in the United States Senate” who cares about the state and local tax deduction cap.

And that’s to say nothing of the give-and-take on tax levels, ranges of defense and border spending, and a million other flashpoints tucked in the 1,100-page draft. Add that to the Byrd Bath, which will decide what belongs in reconciliation and what doesn’t, and you have the makings of four long, stress-filled weeks. “There’s always some who think it’s too hot, some [who] think it’s too cold,” observer Neil Bradley shook his head. “Where do you find the point where a majority think it’s just right?”

Great question — one that Thune will be losing his share of sleep over. In the end, he told reporters, “We’ve got to do what we can get 51 [votes] for.”

Johnson can sympathize. In his weekend sit-down with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, he spoke knowingly. “… [A]s all our friends in the Senate know, it took us over a year to reach that equilibrium point in the House,” he said on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill.” The most important takeaway, the speaker reminds Thune’s disgruntled Republicans, is that “we’re going to achieve over $1.5 trillion in savings. … It’s the largest amount of savings of any government that would ever be achieved in the history of mankind. It’s a good start. It’s not enough, but it’s a good start. And I think the Senate’s got to recognize that.”

One of the greatest misunderstandings — even with people in Washington — is that the reconciliation package was never meant to be the vehicle for all of the president’s spending cuts. When Elon Musk and others complain that the bill doesn’t reduce the deficit, there’s a fundamental disconnect about several things, the speaker underscores. For starters, he reminded everyone, “This is just the beginning of a long process. We’re going to have another reconciliation bill, possibly two additional bills, coming up in the near future.”

Secondly — and just as importantly — “you have to remember how the process works,” the speaker stressed. When Americans (including Musk) wonder why there aren’t more Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts in the “one, big, beautiful bill,” it’s simple. “There are two categories of federal spending,” Johnson pointed out. “One is mandatory spending, one is discretionary. The reconciliation package [deals] with the first category, not the latter. So it was not possible — literally, under the rules of the Senate — for us to put DOGE cuts in large measure in the reconciliation package. That has to be a separate instrument.”

And that “separate instrument” is what the White House is working on right now: a rescissions package to roll back discretionary spending that was already approved. Thanks to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, presidents can permanently cancel funding to executive agencies if it’s within a 45-day window and if a simple majority of Congress approves. As we speak, Donald Trump is teeing up the first “of many” rescission proposals, worth about $9.4 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse.

That, Johnson reiterated, is what Congress has been waiting for. “I mean, there was no playbook for what Elon Musk and DOGE were doing. They didn’t have a set of procedures to follow. They had to create them as they went.” And now, he continued, Republicans are ready to make those recommendations a reality. Nothing that Musk’s team did will go to waste, the speaker assured Americans.

“The work will go forward and continue, because what he’s done is he’s brought a spotlight into these agencies — into these bureaucracies that we were never able to see. We got a perspective on it that Congress was never allowed because the bureaucracy was hiding so much data. I mean, we didn’t know, obviously, that Congress was funding transgender operas in Peru and all these other crazy things that were happening under USAID,” Johnson said, shaking his head. Elon found it because he cracked the code. He got inside the belly of the beast with his algorithms, and he uncovered it, and we’ve got to wipe it out.”

But the headlines that the House is adding to an already ballooning deficit are baloney, the speaker argued. “I sent a long text message to [Musk] to explain to him and make sure that he understands that he was looking at [an] analysis of the bill that was not accurate.” He pointed to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the bill and emphasized, “CBO is historically inaccurate. It’s run by Democrats. … They’re not going to give us a fair score. But the important thing to remember about this is that they do not use dynamic scoring. They use static scoring. In layman’s terms, all that means is they don’t give us any credit for the growth. The Big Beautiful Bill is going to be jet fuel to the U.S. economy. It is a pro-growth economy builder. It’s going to lower tax rates, lower regulations, [and] incentivize U.S. manufacturing again. When that happens, we know what [the effect will be].”

Let’s not forget, the speaker reminded Perkins, “We already did this in the first Trump administration, [and we] had the greatest economy in the history of the world after the first two years, because we cut taxes and cut regulations. Now we’re doing it on steroids. So the tremendous growth that will be achieved by this is being totally discounted by CBO. They’re saying it will add to the deficit. It’s not true,” he declared. “By our calculations, we are going to reduce the deficit because of all the growth that we stimulated. Just watch and see that the critics are going to be wrong.”

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Suzanne Bowdey

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Trump Announces Major Job-Creating Deal That Biden Blocked On His Way Out The Door

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President Donald Trump endorsed a “planned partnership” Friday between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel, claiming the deal between the two steel giants will constitute the largest economic investment in Pennsylvania’s history.

The president’s decision to greenlight a partnership between the Japanese steel company and its American rival producer caps off a years-long fight over the fate of the iconic Pennsylvania company, U.S. Steel. Trump announced the steel company will remain headquartered in Pittsburgh and that the Japanese steel company’s investments will add at least 70,000 jobs to the economy.

“For many years, the name, ‘United States Steel’ was synonymous with Greatness, and now, it will be again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel, which will create at least 70,000 jobs, and add $14 Billion Dollars to the U.S. Economy.”

The Trump administration’s endorsement of a U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel partnership follows former President Joe Biden’s decision to block the sale of U.S. Steel to its Japanese competitor for nearly $15 billion in January, citing national security and supply chain concerns.

“Without domestic steel production and domestic steel workers, our nation is less strong and less secure,” Biden wrote in a press release.

Trump opposed the takeover of U.S. steel by the Japanese steelmaker during his successful 2024 campaign and while serving as president-elect, arguing the Pittsburgh-based company should continue to be domestically-owned. However, he appeared more open to a deal upon taking office and directed the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to undertake a new review of the proposed merger in April.

Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick praised the $14 billion investment by Nippon Steel in a statement, calling the deal a “huge victory for America.”

“My priorities are preserving and expanding jobs and investment in the Mon Valley,” McCormick wrote. “This partnership gets it done.”

CFIUS was slated to deliver its assessment of the proposed merger this week. Trump announced a May 30 rally at U.S. Steel headquarters to celebrate the major job creation news.

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SCOTUS Hands Trump Victory On Firing Democrat Appointees From Federal Boards

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed for President Donald Trump’s emergency request to dismiss Democrat members of both the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to stay.

During his first two months in office, Trump removed Democrat NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and Democrat MSPB Board member Cathy Harris, a move both later challenged in lower courts. After taking up the case in April, the high court ruled 6-3 to temporarily block orders from lower courts refusing Wilcox and Harris to be removed, with the liberal justices in dissent.

“The stay reflects our judgment that the Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power. But we do not ultimately decide in this posture whether the NLRB or MSPB falls within such a recognized exception; that question is better left for resolution after full briefing and argument,” the filing states.

“The stay also reflects our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty,” the filing continued.

Following their dismissals, Wilcox and Harris sued the Trump administration over their removal from the boards, as Wilcox had four years left on her term and Harris had three. By March, Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the president to reinstate Wilcox, while U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that Harris could not be terminated “at will.”

The Trump administration then brought the case to the Supreme Court on April 9, filing an emergency application after the lower courts ordered the reinstatement of both Wilcox and Harris. In response, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay, temporarily halting their reinstatement and allowing the high court to consider the administration’s request.

With Thursday’s decision being temporary, the high court is expected to make an official ruling after hearing oral arguments likely next year, according to NPR.

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EXCLUSIVE: Massive Telecom Merger Champions Workers In A Way Biden Admin Never Could, FCC Chair Says

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) greenlit Verizon’s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications on Friday — but only after Chairman Brendan Carr insisted on a slate of labor protections he said there was “no way” the Biden administration would have pursued.

The deal requires Verizon to adopt sweeping reforms benefitting tower climbers, trench diggers and fiber splicers — a class of “unsung heroes” he said the previous FCC ignored in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“I don’t envision a world in which the prior administration would have looked out for America’s tower crews and blue-collar workers in this way,” Carr told the DCNF. “It comes down to the priorities of the administration and what types of deals are struck — and we didn’t see any of these types of deals. We saw deals at the FCC, specifically designed to benefit different progressive stakeholder groups, but there was nothing along these lines happening out of the prior administration.”

Carr, who negotiated the agreement alongside the National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE), made labor reforms a non-negotiable prerequisite for regulatory approval. The chairman emphasized his years of experience embedding himself with telecom crews, scaling towers alongside workers to gain firsthand insight into the risks and realities they face.

“I’ve spent a lot of time with them,” Carr said. “I’ve been on top of several 2,000-foot broadcaster towers with them, on top of water towers — basically every type of pole — and it’s real work. It’s hard work. And it’s important that we make sure they’re being treated fairly.”

The agreement — outlined in Verizon’s letter to the FCC — cracks down on persistent industry pain points, limiting Verizon’s reliance on 1099 workers, creating hotlines to report illegal laborers and ending the “turf vendor” model. Under that system, local firms were routinely shut out by middlemen who parceled out contracts to low-cost subcontractors, driving down wages and weakening safety standards on site, according to a NATE press release from January. The trade organization didn’t respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Verizon will also scrap its matrix pricing structure, a flat-rate payment scheme NATE criticized for ignoring regional cost variations and the real-world complexities of certain projects.

NATE, which represents over 1,000 businesses in the telecom construction sector, lauded the agreement as a “breakthrough” in a Monday press release — specifically thanking Carr for his role.

“Chairman Carr has invested a lot of time and sweat equity visiting sites and conducting tower climbs with some of America’s best contractor firms and technicians,” CEO Todd Schlekeway said. “These tangible field experiences have provided the Chairman with a deep understanding of the prominent role that NATE members play daily conducting the tough, gritty work on the frontlines to enable connectivity.”

Smaller contractors also scored practical financial wins under the deal. Verizon agreed to accelerate audits — ending long payment reviews by capping them at six months after project completion — and committed to covering third-party compliance software fees, removing a costly headache for firms forced to buy expensive reporting tools just to collect payment. New joint working groups between Verizon and NATE will keep tabs on implementation, ensuring the changes stick.

“Most people, when they turn on their smartphone or turn on their TV — if they think about it at all — maybe they think it’s magic or pixie dust,” Carr said. “But it’s some of the best people you’ll ever meet. Just real, salt-of-the-earth American workers.”

To secure FCC approval, Verizon also agreed to scrap its company-wide diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs “effective immediately,” according to a letter filed with the commission Friday. The telecom giant dropped its workforce diversity targets, ended bonus incentives linked to demographic quotas, and folded multiple employee resource groups into a single compliance-focused office. Verizon didn’t respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Carr described this change as a “good step forward for equal opportunity, nondiscrimination and the public interest” in an X post Friday.

Hours later, the FCC announced its approval of the Verizon-Frontier merger, with Carr casting the included protections as part of the broader pro-worker posture of the Trump administration.

“Usually when you see large transactions, they have a way of taking care of Wall Street interests and Main Street can get left to the sidelines,” the chairman explained. “But one of the things President Trump has been very clear about is that his administration is looking out for the blue-collar worker. You can certainly see that in this particular FCC decision.”

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American Manufacturers Overwhelmed With Orders After Trump’s Tariff Crackdown On China

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American manufacturers are seeing a surge in demand as President Donald Trump’s tariffs force companies to reconsider doing business in China.

Trump’s tariffs, including a 145% levy on Chinese goods, are causing American-made products to be more competitive in the market. As a result, many small and medium manufacturers are experiencing a surge in demand and are preparing to ramp up production and hire new workers.

Jergens Inc., a midwestern toolmaker with less than 500 employees, says it’s “going like gangbusters” trying to keep up with demand, The Wall Street Journal reported. They are seeing an influx of orders from customers trying to avoid import tariffs, along with steady defense-related demand.

“We are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week” said Jergens president Jack Schron, according to the Journal. “We are swamped.”

Grand River Rubber & Plastics, a plastics and rubber manufacturer in Ohio, says customers that once offshored to China are reversing course, the Journal noted. Two buyers who left years ago returned within days of each other and two new oil filter manufacturers have already placed orders. The company’s new business could amount to $5 million annually, roughly 10% of Grand River’s revenue.

The spike in new business reported by many American manufacturers coincides with a sharp decrease in Chinese manufacturing.  When Trump announced the tariffs last month, he predicted American businesses and consumers would both benefit.

“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base,” Trump has said. “We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers. And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.”

Even as the president insists prices will fall, economists and politicians warn his tariffs could sharply raise costs for American consumers, CNBC reported. However, executives at SafeSource Direct, a Louisiana-based medical products manufacturer, say prices are likely to decline as domestic production ramps up, according to the Journal.

SafeSource recently increased the number of production lines from two to eight, each making over 20,000 rubber gloves an hour. As new operations become more efficient, they expect costs to decrease significantly.

“We think we can get extremely close to Asian prices,” said Steve Mott, a partner with the company, as reported by the Journal.

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‘Cost A Lot Of People Their Jobs’: JD Vance Slams Biden Admin For Deciding Products Would No Longer Be Made In America

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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday slammed former President Joe Biden’s administration during a speech at Nucor Steel Berkeley for deciding that products would be made overseas instead of in the United States.

Vance said that over the last few decades, political leaders forgot about the “core part of American national identity” by allowing the U.S. to rely on foreign powers for essential goods. The vice president said manufacturing facilities like Nucor immensely struggled over the last four years due to the Biden administration’s “crushing environmental regulations.”

“For a couple decades, though, our leaders forgot about that core part of American national identity. They decided that America would no longer be a manufacturing power,” Vance said. “Instead, we let the rest of the world make the necessary things that we needed for our homes and for our families. And when a nation decides to deindustrialize my friends, you know what else they stop using? The intermediate goods, the things that are essential to manufacturing, like steel that you all make right here in Nucor. So we stopped making the things that we needed.”

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Nucor Steel’s leadership told Vance that the company’s facility in West Virginia that “sat idle” under the Biden administration due to its environmental rules. The vice president said that these types of regulations cost hard working Americans their good paying manufacturing jobs and wages.

“So when our leadership decides that Americans don’t want to make anything, you know what we do? We cost great businesses and corporations like Nuccor a lot of money, we cost great workers their wages and we cost a lot of people their jobs. And that was the policy of the last administration that came before us.”

Vance added that President Donald Trump’s administration wants American architecture to be “built with American hands and with great American steel.”

The Biden administration strived to make manufacturing eco-friendly by handing as much as $6 billion to 33 different projects in 20 states in order for them to reduce emissions generated by industrial production in March 2024. In Trump’s second term, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has repealed dozens of environmental regulations put in place by the Biden administration to lower costs and open up new job opportunities in the country.

The Trump administration placed reciprocal tariffs on other countries, which are currently under a 90-day pause, with the intent of returning manufacturing to the United States. Many union workers in the steel and auto industry have praised the administration’s move, stating that it will bring back jobs and help their industries flourish.

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EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance To Tout First 100 Days At USA Steel Plant

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Vice President JD Vance will mark the administration’s first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term with a factory tour of the U.S.’s largest manufacturer of steel, the Daily Caller has learned.

Vance, alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, will travel to Huger, South Carolina, on Thursday to visit a Nucor Steel Berkeley factory, which makes all its steel in the U.S., according to plans shared with the Daily Caller. The vice president and Zeldin will tour the factory while it is operating and then Vance will deliver remarks “touting the Trump administration ushering in America’s industrial renaissance during its first 100 days,” a White House official told the Caller.

“Nucor Steel employs tens of thousands of Americans in good paying jobs and produces key raw materials for defense, infrastructure, and domestic manufacturers, making our workers better off and our entire nation safer. The Trump administration is undoing onerous regulations and unfair trade rules to usher in an American industrial renaissance,” Taylor Van Kirk, the vice president’s press secretary, told the Caller in a statement.

With the president’s 100th day of his second term Tuesday, the White House has a week of celebration planned to tout Trump’s accomplishments. On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters with White House border czar Tom Homan on the administration’s efforts to secure the southern border. Photos of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and convicted for crimes, such as rape and murder, lined the White House drive where reporters work.

Leavitt plans to brief Tuesday about the state of the economy and the administration’s work alongside Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. In an effort to tackle both the economy and the “industrial renaissance” he plans to build, Trump has enacted a flurry of tariffs on various imports. In February, Trump signed an executive order resurrecting a 25% tariff on all foreign steel and aluminum, a move he made in his first term.

Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on about 90 countries in what the White House deemed “Liberation day” at the beginning of April. A week later, the president paused the tariffs on the countries and implemented a 10% baseline tariff. The steel tariffs remain in place as of late April.

“In just his first one hundred days President Trump has accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years. President Trump has issued a record number of executive orders and is speeding through his key nominations, and Vice President Vance and the entire White House are taking their cues from the president’s breakneck pace,” Van Kirk said in a statement to the Caller.

“Most importantly, in just a hundred days, Americans have become safer, more prosperous, and more free: Border crossings hit their all-time low, wokeness is dead, waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government are on the retreat, inflation is down, military recruiting is way up, and the president is forcing other nations to come to the negotiating table and start treating American workers fairly,” she continued.

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228,000 Jobs Added in March Far Exceeding Expectations

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The U.S. economy added 228,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), with the unemployment rate remaining at 3.5%.

The estimate was 120,000.

There is so much good news that the dying legacy media ignores. Stop listening to them!

And this is just the beginning. Trump’s economic and tariff policies will bring unprecedented job and manufacturing opportunities to the American marketplace. And these jobs won’t be government jobs (paid for by the American taxpayer) that we saw under the previous Democrat regime. These are real jobs in the private sector.

The U.S. economy added 228,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), with the unemployment rate remaining at 3.5%.

Here’s a more detailed breakdown:

Job Growth:

The US economy added 236,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Unemployment Rate:

The unemployment rate changed little at 3.5%.

Key Sectors:

Employment continued to trend up in leisure and hospitality, government, professional and business services, and health care.

March 2023 Jobs Report

The March 2023 Jobs Report saw the unemployment rate change slightly to 3.5% in March from 3.6% in February.

Overall:

The March 2023 jobs report showed that the US economy added 236,000 jobs, surpassing expectations.

Manufacturing:

In March 2023, U.S. manufacturers shed 1,000 jobs, following a 4,000-job loss the sector posted in February.

Construction:

Construction employment totaled 7,150,000 in March, a dip of 15,000 for the month but an increase of 228,000, or 3.3%, over 12 months.

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EXCLUSIVE: Musk Quietly Inserts DOGE Across Federal Agencies In Move That Could Uproot $162,000,000,000 Govt Industry

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As federal employees launched protests of entrepreneur Elon Musk’s disruption of federal agencies last week, the Office of Personnel Management quietly released a memo shoring up the formal structure of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

An OPM memo dated Feb. 4 seeks the redesignation of chief information officers across the government from career positions political appointees. OPM has recommended that every agency send a request to OPM to reclassify its CIO role from career reserved to “general” by Feb. 14.

The new CIO positions will be working with DOGE, a source familiar confirmed to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The new memo gives the greatest detail about how DOGE will operate within the federal government since a Jan. 20 executive order. Yet it has been entirely overlooked by the legacy press, which has relied largely on career officials within the government who characterize DOGE’s actions as extra-governmental. Democrats like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have sought to portray the effort as a “coup.”

However, the memo shows that DOGE is attempting to regularize its operations within the federal government.

“It is a focus of President Trump’s administration to improve the government’s digital policy to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and accessible to the public, and to make using and understanding government programs easier,” the memo reads.

Unlike most major institutions, the federal government has no central IT department. Instead, IT responsibilities are dispersed across federal agencies which in turn spend billions on contractors and disparate artificial intelligence technologies. Musk’s housecleaning could reshape this $163 billion industry.

DOGE is the renamed U.S. Digital Service. The U.S. Digital Service is a small office within the White House created to build the health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act and advises on technical strategy. How the DOGE office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building will liaison with CIOs throughout the government is not yet clear.

A Washington Post report revealed Monday that Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old DOGE team member known online as “Big Balls,” has been stationed at the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. The Bureau of Diplomatic Technology provides IT services.

The memo states that the new DOGE-aligned CIOs will take on a major role in public policy on technology.

The memo gives some insight into what they will prioritize, like improving government procurement policies and privacy, and deprioritize, namely diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

“Poor technology-procurement policies can endanger property and privacy rights. Inadequate security policies can lead to vulnerabilities and hacks,” it states. “Emphasis on policies like [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] siphons labor and resources from other core government objectives.”

The Biden administration helped lay the groundwork for the change. Two earlier OPM memos cited in the Feb. 4 memo broadened the authority of government appointees to look outside of government for highly technical roles, including one released in the final months of the last administration.

A 2018 OPM memo under the first Trump administration noted “severe shortages of candidates and/or critical hiring needs” for STEM and cybersecurity. A September 2024 memo released under the Biden administration noted that “severe shortage of talent” in cybersecurity and other high-tech sectors persisted.

The new memo states that moving certain CIO positions away from career positions could help to alleviate it by dramatically increasing the number of candidates available to fill these important roles.

The move is in keeping with public statements about DOGE made by Musk and former DOGE co-lead and potential Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy about improving the federal government’s tech infrastructure, including examining the vendors the U.S. government works with and the fact that these systems don’t communicate across agencies.

Musk’s biography on his website X reads “White House Tech support.”

“My preferred title in the new administration is Volunteer IT Consultant,” Musk wrote on X on Dec. 9. “We can’t make government efficient & fix the deficit if the computers don’t work.”

“The federal government is the world’s largest IT customer… In theory, this *should* give us great buying power to negotiate good deals for taxpayers, but of course that’s not what happens,” Ramaswamy said on Dec. 5. “If the federal government were serious about reducing costs, it would procure government-wide licenses.”

Despite the intense focus on DOGE, there has been little discussion of the federal government’s existing methods for managing data and records.

The top five contractors on IT together took in $45 billion in 2024, according to Washington Technology, a trade publication that uses federal procurement data, USASpending.gov and company Security and Exchange Commission filings.

Musk’s SpaceX was the 39th largest federal contractor in government technology at approximately $1 billion. That represents about one third of Musk’s reported $3 billion in contracts with the U.S. government. Musk’s contracts in IT include the delivery of Starlink satellite internet units and services to national and state parks and the State Department, and the provision of a satellite network called Starshield to the U.S. Space Force.

While Musk’s potential conflicts have been in the spotlight, all of the top five current contractors on government IT have either a former government official or member of Congress on their boards of directors, and sometimes multiple government officials. They include a former admiral, a former Pentagon acquisitions official, joint chiefs of staff leadership, a former deputy secretary of defense, and a former chair of the Armed Services Committee.

In addition, all of these companies use various artificial intelligence technologies across all of their federal contracts, many of them non-open source.

Musk and DOGE were dealt a setback on Saturday when District Judge Paul Engelmayer ordered a temporary stop on DOGE’s work with U.S. Treasury data, citing cybersecurity concerns. The suit was filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state attorneys general.

A Washington Post story reported Friday night that Booz Allen Hamilton had described the DOGE team’s access to Treasury data — reportedly “read only” access that doesn’t allow for data manipulation — as “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of Fiscal Services has ever faced.”

The company put out a statement hours after the assessment became public.

“Booz Allen did not conduct a threat assessment or make recommendations regarding DOGE,” a statement read. “Commentary provided in a draft document by a subcontractor contained unsubstantiated personal opinions. … Booz Allen has terminated the subcontractor.”

Booz Allen Hamilton is the government’s fourth largest contractor on IT issues, taking in $8.2 billion in 2024.

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DEEP STATE GEARING UP: Nearly Half of Federal Employees in the Swamp Plan to Resist Trump, Poll Finds

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A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump.

Most Americans, even many of the elites who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, are willing to support Trump’s administration, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the Napolitan Institute. Yet 42% of federal government managers who work in the Washington, D.C., swamp intend to work against the administration.

RMG Research conducted three surveys in mid-December to study three different segments of the population. The polling firm focused on what it calls the Elite 1% who have postgraduate degrees, earn more than $150,000 annually, and live in densely populated areas; Main Street Americans who meet none of these three criteria and who represent between 70% and 75% of the U.S. population; and Federal Government Managers—federal employees who live in the National Capitol Region around Washington and earn at least $75,000 annually.

Main Street Americans tend to have less faith in government and want more freedom for Americans, while the Elite 1% tend to have more faith in government and say Americans have too much freedom. Main Street Americans tend to look down on the idea of a deep state opposing the people’s elected president.

Favorable Headwinds for Trump, With One Exception

The poll found that many Americans are willing to support the new administration, even among the elites and even among those who voted for Harris.

The survey asked, “Looking ahead to the next four years, will your political efforts be primarily to support the Trump administration or resist the Trump administration?”

Most Main Street Americans (59%) said they would support the new administration, while only 28% said they would resist it. Even the Elite 1% proved more likely to say they would support (48%) than resist (39%) the administration.

Even some of those who said they voted for Harris in November said they would support the new administration. Twelve percent of Harris voters said they will work to at least somewhat support the new administration.

On Election Day, 64% of the Elite 1% voted for Harris while only 34% voted for Trump. Yet among the Elite 1% who voted for Harris, a quarter (26%) said they are working to support the new administration.

Federal Government Managers, however, proved evenly split, with only 44% saying they would support the administration and 42% saying they would resist it.

Government Employees Joining the Resistance

Unsurprisingly, Federal Government Managers proved more gung-ho about resistance when they identified as Democrats.

While the vast majority of government employees who identify as Republicans plan to support the administration (89% “somewhat support” or “strongly support”), almost three quarters of Democrat bureaucrats plan to resist (73% “somewhat resist” or “strongly resist”). More than half of Republican managers (52%) said they would “strongly support” the administration, while 40% of Democrats said they will “strongly resist” it.

A quarter of all managers (26%), whether Democrat or Republican, plan to “strongly support” the administration, and only a slightly smaller portion (23%) say they will “strongly resist” it.

The survey also asked Federal Government Managers what they would do if Trump gave them a lawful order that they considered to be bad policy. Only 17% of Democratic managers who voted for Harris would follow Trump’s order. Three times as many (64%) said they would ignore the order and do what they thought was best. This amounts to a declaration that they plan to act like a deep state, opposing the people’s elected president.

Voters did not look kindly on the idea of bureaucrats refusing to follow orders, however.

More than half (54%) of Main Street Voters said that a bureaucrat who refuses to follow a lawful order from the president should be fired, and even most of the Elite 1% (52%) agreed.

Most Republican managers (74%) say a bureaucrat should be fired for refusing a presidential order, while only 23% of Democratic managers agree.

A Yawning Gulf

When asked about the most important political issue at the moment, Federal Government Managers had different priorities than Main Street Americans and voters as a whole. (The survey asked an open-ended question, rather than giving a list.)

Main Street Americans proved more likely to mention some version of the economy (40%) or immigration (18%) as the top issues, as did voters overall (39% chose the economy and 17% chose immigration). Fewer Main Street Americans named some version of America’s politics (4%), abortion (6%), or Trump (4%).

Even the Elite 1% seemed closer to Main Street Americans than the Federal Government Managers. The elites named the economy (26%), America’s politics (11%), and immigration (7%) as their top issues.

While the economy proved the top issue for bureaucrats, as well, only 18% chose it. Another 11% chose immigration.

Many of the Federal Government Managers selected issues that didn’t register for most other Americans, such as guns and crime (10%), climate change (6%), education (5%), equality (5%), and cybersecurity (5%).

While these are important issues—and I’d like to see how many bureaucrats named some version of gun control and how many named increasing crime rates—they reveal a gap in priorities between bureaucrats and the people for whom they write the rules.

RMG Research surveyed 1,000 registered voters between Dec. 12 and Dec. 13; 1,000 Elite 1% voters between Dec. 9 and Dec. 19, and 500 federal government managers between Dec. 9 and Dec. 23. The margin of error for the Elite 1% is plus or minus 3.1% and the margin of error for federal government managers is plus or minus 4.4%.

What Does This Mean?

This survey confirms that bureaucrats in the administrative state are planning to oppose Trump from within, whether that means by refusing lawful orders or by engaging in political activism against Trump outside of work hours.

This deep state phenomenon undermined the first Trump administration, and the president has pledged to fight it aggressively in the new one.

My forthcoming book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” reveals how major left-wing donors prop up a vast network of woke activist groups that staff and advise the federal government. This vast influence network held sway in the Biden administration but will not end on Jan. 20.

Congress can help Trump combat this deep state phenomenon by passing laws preventing public sector unions in the federal government, restraining regulations, and reining in agencies that have been insulated from Congress and the president, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Tyler O’Neil

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DHS secretary announces ‘jobs giveaway’ for newly arrived migrants with work permits

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What about Americans seeking jobs?

America doesn’t need to be supporting jobless illegals. Americans also need jobs. Responsible governments control migration, properly vet migrants, and put the needs of their home country first. Biden is doing none of those things. Instead, his administration is rewarding multitudes of unvetted foreign illegals, with criminals and terrorists among them.

Demonstrating how lightly the Biden administration regards American safety and well-being, Biden waived sanctions on Iran three days after the November election, providing the terrorist regime “access upward of $10 billion in once-frozen funds.” Why?

He also gave away a billion tax dollars to Africa, while residents of North Carolina are still struggling from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

“DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas Announces Jobs Giveaway for Migrants,” by John Binder, Breitbart, December 10, 2024:

In the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is announcing a jobs giveaway for newly arrived migrants with work permits.

On Tuesday, Mayorkas announced a final rule from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that will allow millions of migrants, many of whom have been released into the U.S. interior by the Biden administration, to keep their work permits for up to 540 days when they seek a renewal.

Migrants previously could renew their work permits for 180 days. For years, Democratic mayors had lobbied DHS to extend such automatic employment authorization for migrants. The rule will go into effect on Jan. 13, 2025.

Mayorkas said in a statement the move is meant to help “businesses fill” American jobs with more migrants:

Increasing the automatic extension period for certain employment authorization documents will help eliminate red tape that burdens employers, ensure hundreds of thousands of individuals eligible for employment can continue to contribute to our communities, and further strengthen our nation’s robust economy. [Emphasis added]…

Indeed, in the last year, more than a million foreign-born workers have secured American jobs while nearly 800,000 native-born Americans have dropped out of the workforce.

In July of this year, a Pew Research Center study found that as of 2022, more than 30 million legal immigrants and illegal aliens were holding American jobs — a 20-percent increase over the last 15 years….

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‘He Has The Political Mandate’: Companies Scramble To Respond To Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Tariff Hikes

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Companies are scrambling to respond to President-elect Donald Trump’s “beautiful” tariff proposals that his administration may seek to enact early in his second term.

Proactive steps that companies are taking to evade anticipated price increases include stockpiling inventory in U.S. warehouses and weighing whether they need to completely eliminate China from their supply chains and raise the price of imported goods affected by tariff hikes, whose costs will be passed onto consumers.

Free-trade skeptics are touting companies’ anticipatory actions as delivering a clear sign that Trump’s proposed tariff hikes are already achieving their intended effect of pressuring retailers to eliminate China from their supply chains. However, some policy experts are warning that higher tariffs will be a regressive tax for America’s lower and middle-income families and make inflation worse, according to retailers and economists who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

On the campaign trail, Trump proposed a universal tariff of up to 20% on all imports coming into the U.S. and a 60% or higher tariff on all imports from China. Trump is considering Robert Lighthizer, the former U.S. trade representative during his administration’s first term who is well-known for favoring high tariffs, to serve as his second administration’s trade czar, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

‘Mitigation Strategies To Lessen The Impact’

Companies are taking preemptive measures, such as stockpiling goods in U.S. warehouses, to work proactively against anticipated price increases that higher tariffs would inflict, Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chains and customs policy for the National Retail Federation, told the DCNF during an interview.

“They’re looking at different mitigation strategies to lessen the impact that they might feel from the tariffs,” Gold told the DCNF. “One of those strategies is to start looking at potentially bringing in cargo, bringing products earlier to get ahead of potential tariffs that Trump might put in place.”

Importing goods into the U.S. ahead of schedule leads to additional costs for retailers that will likely be passed onto consumers, but waiting to import goods from China after a 60% or higher tariff on Chinese imports goes into effect would be substantially more expensive, according to Gold.

A recent NRF study projected that Trump’s proposed tariff hikes on consumer products would cost American consumers an additional $46 billion to $78 billion a year.

“A tariff is a tax paid by the U.S. importer, not a foreign country or the exporter,” Gold said in a press release accompanying the study. “This tax ultimately comes out of consumers’ pockets through higher prices.”

Decoupling From China

Part of the rationale behind Trump’s tariff proposals is to force manufacturing jobs to return to the United States and pressure companies to completely eliminate China from their supply chains, according to Mark DiPlacido, policy advisor at American Compass.

“I hope in addition to stockpiling, they’re also looking at actually moving their supply chains out of China and ideally back to the United States,” DiPlacido told the DCNF.

“For a long time, the framing has been what is best for just increasing trade flows, regardless of the direction those flows are going. What that’s resulted in for the last 25 years is a flow of manufacturing, a flow of factories and a flow of jobs, especially solid middle class jobs out of the United States and across the world,” DiPlacido added.

But completely shifting production outside of China is not feasible for some retailers even if companies have taken further steps to diversify their supply chain for the past decade, according to Gold.

“It takes a while to make those shifts and not everyone is able to do that, Gold acknowledged. “Nobody has the [production] capacity that China does. Trying to find that within multiple countries is a challenge. And it’s not just the capacity, but the skilled workforce as well.”

In addition, companies who move production out of China to avoid a 60% tariff on imported goods from the nation could still get hit by a 20% across the board tariff if they move their supply chain to countries other than the United States, Gold and several economists told the DCNF.

“They’re talking about tariffs on imports for which there’s not a domestic producer to switch to,” Clark Packard, a research fellow on trade policy at the CATO institute, told the DCNF in an interview. “For example, we don’t make coffee in the United States, so why are we going to impose a tariff on coffee?”

“Who are we trying to protect?” he added.

Some economists are also pessimistic that the president-elect’s planned tariff hikes will ultimately bring jobs that moved overseas to cheaper labor markets back to the United States.

“What we actually saw from the 2018-2019 trade war was a decrease in manufacturing output and employment because of the tariffs,” Erica York, senior economist and research director of the Tax Foundation’s Center for Federal Tax Policy, told the DCNF in an interview. “It played out just like every economist predicted: higher costs for U.S. consumers, reduced output, reduced incomes for American workers, foreign retaliation that’s harmful.”

The president-elect’s proposed tariff hikes could also eliminate more jobs than those saved or created as a result of protecting domestic industries, such as the U.S. steel or solar manufacturing industries, that may benefit from higher tariffs on foreign competitors, Packard told the DCNF.

“It’s disproportionate — the cost that is passed onto the broader economy to protect a very small slice of U.S. employment,” Packard said. Trump’s 25% tariff on imported steel enacted during his first administration slightly increased employment in the U.S. steel industry, but each job that was maintained or created came at a cost of roughly $650,000 that likely killed jobs in other sectors forced to buy more expensive steel, according to Packard.

‘Bipartisan Recognition’

Despite tariffs’ potential to force companies to raise the price of goods they import into the United States, DiPlacido defended Trump’s proposed tariff hikes as essential to eliminating U.S. dependence on China for a variety of strategic goods and consumer products.

“We need to be able to manufacture a broad range of goods in the United States. And we need the job security and the economic security that a strong manufacturing industrial base provides,” DiPlacido said. “That’s going to be important to any future conflict or emergency that the United States may have with China or with anyone else.”

DiPlacido, citing Trump’s dominant electoral performance, also believes Trump has the “mandate” to carry out the tariff proposals he floated during the campaign.

“There’s a sort of a bipartisan recognition of the problem. Even the Biden administration kept almost all of Trump’s tariffs in place,” DiPlacido told the DCNF. “I think he has the political mandate, and that’s often a harder thing to get.”

However, some economists are questioning whether the thousands of dollars of projected costs that American families would be forced to pay as a result of these tariff hikes could create political backlash that has so far failed to materialize against Trump and Biden’s relatively similar trade policies.

“Voters were rightly pretty upset about price increases and inflation,” Packard told the DCNF. “We’re talking about utilizing a tool in tariffs that will increase relative prices.”

“Tariffs as a whole are a regressive tax,” Gold told the DCNF. “They certainly hit low and middle income consumers the hardest.”

Retailers are forecasting a decrease in demand for consumer products as a result of Trump’s tariff proposals, according to Gold.

The incoming Senate Republican leader has also notably criticized Trump’s proposed tariff hikes.

“I get concerned when I hear we just want to uniformly impose a 10% or 20% tariff on everything that comes into the United States,” Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune, Senate GOP leader, said in August during a panel on agriculture policy in his home state. “Generally, that’s a recipe for increased inflation.”

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AGENDA 47: The Plan to Dismantle the Deep State

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Agenda 47 is the 20 point plan to dismantle and destroy the deep state while at the same time rebuilding America into a free nation once again.

Agenda 47 restores and strengthens our Constitutional Republic, returns power to the people and makes Americans healthy, happy and prosperous once again.

The 20 point plan

  1. Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion
  2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history
  3. End inflation, and make America affordable again
  4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
  5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
  6. Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
  7. Defend our constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
  8. Prevent world war three, restore peace in Europe and in the middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in America
  9. End the weaponization of government against the American people
  10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
  11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington D,C., making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
  12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
  13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency
  14. Fight for and protect social security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
  15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
  16. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
  17. Keep men out of women’s sports
  18. Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
  19. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
  20. Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

President Donald J. Trump Declares War on Cartels

Ending Veteran Homelessness in America

No Welfare for Illegal Aliens

The American Academy

President Trump’s Pledge to Homeschool Families

President Trump’s Message to America’s Auto Workers

President Trump’s Ten Principles For Great Schools Leading To Great Jobs

America Must Have the #1 Lowest Cost Energy and Electricity on Earth

Returning Production of Essential Medicines Back to America and Ending Pharmaceutical Shortages

President Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Human Traffickers

Rescuing America’s Auto Industry from Disastrous Job-Killing Policies

Rebuilding America’s Depleted Military

Protecting Students from the Radical Left and Marxist Maniacs Infecting Educational Institutions

Cementing Fair and Reciprocal Trade with the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act

Using Impoundment to Cut Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush the Deep State

Addressing Rise of Chronic Childhood Illnesses

Ending the Scourge of Drug Addiction in America

Celebration Of 250 Years Of American Independence at the Iowa State Fairgrounds

Day One Executive Order Ending Citizenship for Children of Illegals and Outlawing Birth Tourism

Protecting Students from the Radical Left and Marxist Maniacs Infecting Educational Institutions

Ending the Nightmare of the Homeless, Drug Addicts, and Dangerously Deranged

Liberating America from Governmental Regulatory Onslaught

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The Bottom Line

We know that when President Trump makes a promise he keeps his promise. We also know that there are Democrats and some Republicans who don’t want Agenda 47 fully implemented.

We will be watching what President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance and the Trump cabinet will do to implement Agenda 47.

We will also be watching what Congress does.

We believe that it will take up to 20 years to fully implement Agenda 47. Therefore we are looking forward to POTUS 47 to get it started followed by two terms for J.D. Vance to make Agenda 47 into Agenda 48, Agenda 49 and beyond.

©2024 Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

An Open Letter from over 200 Homeland Security Professionals

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Please read the below Open Letter to America signed by over 200 retired Homeland Security Professionals.

The majority of those who signed this letter were in senior leadership positions prior to their retirement. The first-hand experience and years of service for each signer is remarkable. None of these signers were invited to come onto the open letter by any PAC (Political Action Committee) political organization or the Trump Campaign.

The extreme concern for the welfare of our nation, our national sovereignty, and the welfare and future of Americans led these professionals to come together.

The United States is under active assault both across our once far more secure borders (north and southern) as well as from within by those holding public office at various levels and degrees of influence and power. The signers on this open letter have placed love for country and their fellow American above worry over being politically correct or the feedback and fallout that could follow. Much like those in the 13 colonies back in 1775, these patriots chose to stand and be counted no matter the cost.

I pray this demonstration of 200 names at least speaks to your heart a bit if not much. I pray you are able to find your voice like these fellow Americans who signed a letter for all to see.

We truly are at war to preserve this exceptional nation.

United States Homeland Security Professionals Open Letter to America

October 2024

Dear America,

On November 5th you will select a new president to lead us. The single most important factor when evaluating the candidates should be ensuring the safety and security of the United States. Of the countless issues to consider, every one of them is dependent upon our national security. National
security has many facets, but it does not exist without enforceable international borders. In this election, there is no need to speculate what each candidate might do. When reviewing their records you can see both candidates have very clear, but distinctly different track records.

The Biden/Harris administration enacted policies that systematically dismantled a proven 27-year bi-partisan border security strategy that prevented crime, both at the border and in towns across America, through deterrence and consequences. The appalling results were immediate and will have lasting consequences. US Customs and Border Protection, the frontline of America’s defense against cartels and Human trafficking syndicates, was forced to pull law enforcement personnel from critical enforcement duties protecting the borders to cope with over 10 million illegal aliens. This record setting illegal immigration overwhelmed every aspect of border security.

Unfortunately, with the majority of our borders left unprotected, approximately two million illegal aliens and narcotics smugglers were observed but evaded apprehension, disappearing unchecked into your neighborhoods. Even more frightening are the unknown numbers that made it through in areas of the border completely unpatrolled. Additionally, millions of aliens were intentionally released into the United States with a simple paper giving them a notice to appear in court at some future date, many years from now.

Pundits and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum continue to overcomplicate border
security. Border security is simply the ability, and willingness, to know and control who and what enters our homeland. Similar to our personal homes, if we cannot control who and what enters our home then we have zero real security. Our nation is no different; border security is national security.

Immigration policy is not synonymous with border security. However, immigration policy and
immigration law directly affect border security. Immigration policy can enable or destroy border security.

Bottom line, as we have seen in the last three and a half years, immigration policy encouraging fraud and illegal entry, decimates our nation’s ability to know and control who, or what enters our homeland.

Illegal immigration also erodes our legal immigration system and forces legal immigrants to the back of the line. Families with relatives here in the United States, doctors, engineers, even legal migrant workers, are all negatively impacted by unfettered illegal aliens who were allowed to jump to the front of the line. Additionally, when illegal aliens are released in significant numbers into the US, the incentivized follow-on illegal immigration will always exceed our nation’s ability to control it. Finally, consider the fact when discussing immigration policy, if we cannot, or will not control who is allowed to enter our homeland then any policy discussion becomes irrelevant.

Furthermore, transnational criminal organizations (TCO), commonly known as cartels, control illegal immigration to strategically distract and overwhelm US law enforcement. This tactic has been very successful over the last several years, as you have seen in the news reports highlighting the terrorists, murderers, rapists, violent gangs and record levels of fentanyl that made it into the US. The TCOs have been able to operate with minimal risk of being apprehended while increasing their profits by billions of dollars, all courtesy of policies implemented by the Biden/Harris administration.

President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice. When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted. The Trump administration supported policies and programs that reduced illegal immigration, instilled integrity into our legal immigration system and ensured that the US government was doing all we could to control who and what entered our homeland. The borders of the US were never more secure than they were during the Trump administration.

This same expert information, evidence, and advice was offered to the Biden/Harris administration. However, they chose to ignore the career border security experts and instead, under VP Harris’ watch, idealist political appointees with zero border security experience were empowered to implement disastrous and deadly border security policy for the United States. The devastating results have handed complete control of our border to the cartels, provided them with astronomical record profits, ballooned legal immigration backlogs, and have l0 millions of illegal aliens in the country.

The men and women whose signatures appear below, each an honorably retired career civil servant that specialized in border security, dedicated their careers to the protection of this great nation. Most are not interested in engaging in any political actions other than voting but realized after witnessing the unravelling of the rule of law at our borders and the horrific impacts on our local communities with heinous central and south American gang crimes, and the terrible loss of life from the fentanyl crisis that this election is too important to stand on the sidelines. Campaign ads can portray anything. We encourage every American to take a lesson from law enforcement and simply follow the evidence of the last eight years. The first four resulted in the most secure border in history and the other has resulted in significant increases in the loss of life and record illegal immigration.

Assuming you care about border security as much as we do, the choice is clear. President Trump is the only candidate that we can trust to secure our nation’s borders.

Rodney Scott, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
R.P. Buck Brandemuehl, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thomas Homan, Director, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mark Morgan, Former Acting Commissioner CBP, Former Chief, US Border Patrol
Mathew Hudak, Deputy Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Ronald S. Colburn, Deputy Chief-Retired, DHS/CBP, US Border Patrol
Aaron Heikte, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael S. Williams, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired U.S. Border Patrol
Chris Clem, Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Kelly Good, Deputy Executive Director- Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael Sheehy, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, Miami Sector, Retired
Joel Martinez, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Mark Haynes, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Roseborough, Senior Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian S. Hastings, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Bell, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Matthew J. Roggow, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian Martin, Directorate Chief – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Joseph Banco, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, New Orleans Sector, Retired
John Smietana Jr, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Barbara E. Matthews, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Alan F. Zeitvogel, (A) Division Chief LE Ops-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hector M. Regalado, Special Operation Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael J. Clark, Operations Officer – Retired, US Border Patrol
Irvin Ray Harris, Special Agent-Retired, USINS (former Border Patrol)
David J. McElheran, Border Patrol Agent-Retired US Border Patrol
Steven J. Anderson, Supervisory Air & Marine Agent-Retired, Air & Marine Operations
Victor J. Mancini, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Genaro F. Miranda, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Dennis W. Harmon, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Derrall Brown, Sector Intelligence Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Marion S. Byrum, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer- ICE-Retired
Kevin L. Nix, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Bruce H. Roberts, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Jose R. Martinez, Special Operations Supervisor U.S. Border Patrol
Patrick T. Murray, Assistant Field Office Director (Retired) ICE/ERO Seattle
Raul R. Valadez, Field Operations Supervisor (Retired) US Border Patrol
Jimmy F. Vance, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Daniel D. Hann II, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired), U.S. Border Patrol
David Espino, Operations Officer (Retired). U.S. Border Patrol
Darrel Walraven, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired) U.S. Border Patrol
Jeffery Abrams, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Brent Johnson, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Roger Kemp, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Daniel D. Doty, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Ball, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thomas Jenkins, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Ashley Taylor, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Blanca Flanagan, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jeff Snavely, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
M.G. Boone, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gary Viens, Deputy Division Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rafael I Cano, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Barbara Kermzner, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jennie Marquez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, CBP/OTD Artesia
Steve R. Martinez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent –Retired, El Centro Sector
Kai Libby, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Patrick M. Seeley, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
John W. Paisley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gilbertina Paisley, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Scott Zimmer, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kimberly Young, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Travis Darling, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jose M. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Jason A. Feldman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S, Border Patrol
Michael E. Powell, Director – NBCC – CBP/USBP – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Tom McKenney, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Dean Williams, Supervisory Air Interdiction Agent- Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Matthew Whittaker, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent (Ret), US Border Patrol
Dorian LaPaglia, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Johnny M. Meadors, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol-Headquarters
Jim Pilkington, Chief of Staff -Retired, DHS/ICE/ERO Targeting Operations Division
Fernando Grijalva, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kenneth Johnson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Edward Harper, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Heckler, Special Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol
John Fogle, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol
Arvin E Sepulveda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Jerry Knight, Branch Chief-Retired ICE, Homeland Security Investigation
Rafael Castañeda, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
David Lambrix, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Shawn Palmer, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Roy Dan Cason, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Cruz, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Leo Ayala, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Joseph W Mason, Filed Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Todd Bryant, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Glenn Fouty, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Chuck Huthmaker, Chief Officer-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Anthony M. Fiorita, Senior Patrol Agent/ National Recruiter- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Brent Wies, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer-Retired, USICE
Hugo Ruthling, Special Agent, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Raul G. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Rafael Castaneda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
John Wallace, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Jaime X. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
J.P. Mansell, Director, CBP Firearms and Tactics- Retired, US Border Patrol
Arturo Torrez, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Johnny Garcia, Watch Commander- Retired, US Border Patrol
Lino Giulio Mescia, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
William G. Justice, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Mike Lawler, Associate Chief- Retired, US Border Patrol
David Burke, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent K-9- Retired, US Border Patrol
Elias Herrera Jr., Field Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol
Christopher I Ewing, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Senorina Ewing, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Strauch, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
David Spear, Special Agent-Retired ICE,
Homeland Security Investigations
Stephen Henesy, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
John W. Krause, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jared Browne, Special Agent-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Peter J. Forcelli, Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
William E. Seward, Commander, USCG (Retired)
Robert Vazquez, Border Patrol Agent -Intelligence-Retired, US Border Patrol
Craig Olson, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Kevin Wiley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Steve Gulotta, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Esquivel, (A)Chief Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol
Marco Saltarelli , Special Agent-Retired, ICE/Homeland Security Investigations
Hilario Leal, Assistant Field Office Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Kyle Hobart, (A)Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Rene Dorantes, Senior Federal Air Marshal-Retired, Transportation and Security Administration
Thomas Feeley, Field Officer Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Christopher Short, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Duke Conchola, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian Shawler, Supervisory Air and Marine Agent-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Frank Carrillo, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
ScoƩ Moore, Director-investigations-Retired, Office of Air and Marine, CBP
ScoƩ M Plasse, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent–Intelligence (Retired), US Border Patrol
David Krohn, Supervisory Borer Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Joe Vaiasuso, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Dick Graham Jr. Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert V. Argento, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gary L. Tharpe, Deputy Chief-Retired, Northern and Coastal Operations, US Border Patrol
Brian R. Armstrong, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Raymond V. Russell, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael Meshirer,
William C Doggess, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Harry Beall, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Edgar J. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Louie Wayne Collins Jr. Division Chief -Retired, US Border Patrol
Michele Albertson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lance E. Martin, Special Operations Supervisor -Retired, US Border Patrol
Anthony R. Pool, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thaddeus Cleveland, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol, Sheriff -Terrell Ct. TX
Christopher S. Myhra, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael L. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Lynne M. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
James M. Obert, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Larry Blakemore, Senior Patrol Agent/Supervisory CBP Officer-Retired, US CBP
Mark Lieberman, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
George W. Gale, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Mary Olivares, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Bart Swindle, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hunter Davis, Director-Retired, Air Marine Operations, US Customs and Border Protection
Martin Aguilar Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Retired, U.S Border Patrol
James Parker, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John M. Sisk II, Special Agent/DHS Attaché-Retired, Homeland Security Investigations
Martha Irwin, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kenneth Burton, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard K. Moody, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Wagner, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kurt R. Weismantel, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Arlin Kaul, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lizdelia Lerma, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Herman Tiger Hunt Jr. Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert C Gilson, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Alex van Gils, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Patrick Straub, , Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rosendo Hinojosa, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Marion Leon Stroud Jr. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
James R. Herrick, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
David M. Shipley, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Clark Messer, Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Logan Wayne Snider, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Haynes, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Scott Gill, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hermann Rivera, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
JoAnne Federico, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Scott Tedford, Senior Patrol Agent, USBP. Brown Field
Greg N. Terrones, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-retired, US Border Patrol.
Arthur Contreras, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rowel Smith, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John A. Tedford, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Tony Ortiz, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kevin Orr. Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gil Maza, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert J Carney, Supervisor-Retired, Air and Marine Operations, US/CBP
Bruce Busby, HSI Criminal Investigator, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Carlos Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Chris Wells, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Charles McLoughlin, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John A. Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Hallmark, Deportation Officer-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Jorge Arcinienga, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Eloisa L. Bejarano, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
William Kirkman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard F. Lopez, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Ted Stark, Supervisory Special Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jesus Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol
Terrence M. Donnelly, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jose Del Campo Martin, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Freddy Medina, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Retired, US Border Patrol
Jesse Shaw, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
David P Ward, Resident Agent in Charge- Retired, DHS/Homeland Security Investigations
Bob Hood, Assistant Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Dana E. Graydon, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Paul Moran, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Fisher, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lisa Hoechst, Chief of Staff-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Cliff Timmons, Deportation Officer, US Immigration and Enforcement
John G. Derrah, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
David Maibaum, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

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