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Chuck Schumer was floored after he read this unnerving message

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Chuck Schumer was floored after he read this unnerving message

The Democrat Party is starting to crumble. Infighting threatens to boil over.

And Chuck Schumer was floored after he read this unnerving message.

There’s a massive amount of anger and discontent within the ranks of the Democrat Party.

Their lead politician is an octogenarian who can’t seem to act competent long enough for people to stop questioning whether he’s all there mentally.

The Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, is another aging establishment politician.

Despite this, the old guard are starting to take losses.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi stepped down from her position as House Minority Leader to hand over the reins to the younger Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

Chuck Schumer and his establishment fellows are worried to death they’ll lose their grip over the party.

And the message he just received isn’t exactly encouraging.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has backed down from a possible Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2024, only one month after refusing to rule it out.

The Bronx and Queens congressman, 33, is “not planning” to challenge Gillibrand, her campaign spokesman told The Post on Monday.

Politico earlier reported that AOC’s colleagues left-wing Empire State representatives Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres, as well as former Hudson Valley Rep. Mondaire Jones, are also passing on a Senate run.

With the field seemingly devoid of strong intra-party challenges, the 56-year-old Gillibrand has amassed backing from key Democrat-supporting interest groups.

The president of the NAACP’s New York chapter, Hazel Dukes, told The Washington Post on Monday that the senator earned a “A-plus” for her efforts in Congress.

“She works hard. She’s active in the community. I think she’s doing a good job,” Dukes said. “She’s been fighting for women’s rights and against sexual harassment and domestic violence. She’s been strong on education and good on health issues. She’s fought for veterans.”

Last month, the pro-abortion organization EMILYs List re-endorsed the senator.

“Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has always been a pro-choice champion for the people of New York and for all Americans, fighting tenaciously to protect reproductive freedom, uplift women and families, and defend against extremism,” EMILYs List president Laphonza Butler said in a statement.

Keith Wright, the leader of the Manhattan Democratic Party, has also endorsed Gillibrand, who is serving her second full term in the Senate after being chosen by then-Gov. David Paterson to fill a vacancy created by Hillary Clinton in 2009.

“I’m absolutely backing Gillibrand’s re-election,” he told The Post. “She’s doing a great job. She’s got seniority. She and Chuck Schumer are the equivalent of James Brown — the hardest-working senators in the United States of America.”

While this may seem like a win for Schumer and the establishment, this really shows just how weak they are.

AOC and her more radically progressive pals found out they can make Schumer and the old guard squeal.

If they can do that, they don’t need to kick them out of office to get them to do what they want. They know they have all the power now.

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This U.S. Supreme Court ruling will change America forever

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This U.S. Supreme Court ruling will change America forever

The Supreme Court has been very busy handling high profile cases. But it doesn’t get bigger than this.

Because this one U.S. Supreme Court ruling will change American life forever.

Over the past year, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down several huge rulings that had a major impact on law and society.

The Dobbs case overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively turning the issue of abortion back to the states to decide how they’d approach it.

And the Bruen case ruled that the state of New York can’t require its citizens provide an “accepted” reason for applying for a gun permit, arguing that such a requirement violates the Second Amendment.

But there’s another case that has the potential to be just as critical as those that many may not hear about in the media.

The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would hear a case that may severely curtail the authority of federal agencies and have a substantial impact on future rules and regulations.

In their upcoming term, the justices will decide whether to change a long-standing rule that gives agencies unspoken power when Congress left uncertainty in a statute.

Since the court’s decision in Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council was first rendered in 1984, the Chevron deference has grown to be one of the most often cited principles in administrative law.

It comprises a two-step test: first, judges determine whether Congress specifically addressed the relevant topic in the act. Courts defer to agencies in the event of ambiguity so long as their decisions are supported by a “permissible construction.”

Concerns about the precedent and how it has increased the authority of agencies have been voiced by a few conservative members of the top court.

The justices will now consider a case that specifically requests their overturning it. As is customary, the high court made the announcement on Monday in a brief, unsigned order, signaling at least four justices had consented to take up the case.

Loper Bright Enterprises, a herring fishing company, is contesting a decision that upheld a doctrine-based National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) regulation.

The rule mandates that federal observers be permitted to board herring fishing vessels to monitor operations and receive compensation for their time. The business claims that the regulation sharply reduces their profit margin unfairly and that the government lacked the authority to implement it.

However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the federal government’s decision and deferred to NMFS after concluding that the relevant law was unclear.

“Nearly four decades of judicial experience with Chevron have demonstrated that courts are incapable of applying its two-step Chevron framework in a consistent manner,” lawyers for Loper Bright Enterprises argued in court documents.

One of the major reasons why businesses have been leaving America en masse has been because of unfair regulations that make conducting business almost impossible for certain industries in America.

That’s why they leave overseas and find countries that won’t place such unnecessary burdens on their businesses in order to keep the doors open.

If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Chevron precedent, it is difficult to understate how important that would be for American business and the economy moving forward.

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Biden’s DOJ was just sued for committing this despicable crime

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Biden’s DOJ was just sued for committing this despicable crime

Under President Biden’s leadership, American institutions are being use as his personal police. The Rule of Law is being thrown right out the window.

And now Biden’s DOJ was just sued for committing this despicable crime.

A Catholic lobbying group has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and FBI for allegedly failing to cooperate with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request over a document from an FBI field office that branded Catholics as “violent extremists.”

On Thursday, CatholicVote and Judicial Watch filed a complaint alleging that the groups had exhausted all avenues for resolving their FOIA requests with the agencies, and that the DOJ and FBI had stopped communicating with the nonprofits since April 6.

The claim was filed in response to the release of an internal memo issued by the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, field office on January 23, 2023. According to the report, ‘radical-traditionalist Catholic[s]’ are potential “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”

The groups were requesting text and email conversations between DOJ and FBI personnel that included terms like “Catholics,” “Latin Mass,” “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics,” “Pope Francis,” and “Rosary,” among others, according to the complaint.

On March 8, the first FOIA inquiries were made. According to the complaint, the FBI informed the groups on March 14 that “unusual circumstances” precluded the agency from meeting the 20-day period for responding to a FOIA request.

Despite the fact that FOIA standards require agencies to respond within 20 business days, with an additional 10 for “unusual circumstances,” the groups claim that the FBI and DOJ have yet to produce the requested records or even communicate whether they intend to comply with the request.

“Our weaponized and corrupt government agencies have demonstrated a pattern of contempt for justice and the rule of law by prioritizing partisan ideology and agendas over the protection of the American people – in particular those with whom they disagree politically,” CatholicVote President Brian Burch said in a statement.

“We are demanding transparency from our government and are determined to uncover just how high up the anti-Catholic bigotry goes.”

In recent congressional testimony about the leaked memo, FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that the agency “took steps immediately to withdraw it and remove it from FBI systems.”

“It does not reflect FBI standards,” Wray added. “We do not conduct investigations based on religious affiliation or practices, full stop. We have also now ordered our inspection division to take a look at how this happened and try to figure out how we can make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that the document was “appalling.”

However, a subpoena issued last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, confirmed that the FBI attempted to cultivate “sources” to combat domestic terrorism by utilizing local religious organizations as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.”

According to Jordan, the FBI used “at least one undercover agent to produce its analysis, and the FBI proposed that its agents engage in outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith.”

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., then sent Garland a letter accusing him of lying to the Senate last month when he said his department is not developing sources inside Catholic churches and other houses of worship, and Hawley demanded to know how many “undercover informants or other agents” are assisting the department from these religious sites.

“Let’s be clear: your Department has decided to turn Catholic congregations into front organizations for the FBI, and when asked about it, you’ve decided to fudge the truth before Congress,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Garland on April 11.

“This is an unconscionable assault on American Catholics’ First Amendment rights and an abdication of your duty to enforce the law without fear or favor,” he said.

In the opinion of Burch of CatholicVote, his concern about the memo extends beyond the Catholic Church.

“This is again a precedent,” Burch said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

“Where unless citizens push back against our government, we’re allowing this escalation of government power to cross boundaries that are sacrosanct, including the privacy of a church, where millions of Americans go every Sunday to worship and to seek fellowship with co-believers.”

“And the prospect of our own federal government spying or sending our undercover agents into these places of worship is a much bigger concern, is a much bigger issue than just for Catholics,” he said.

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Joe Biden’s received devastating news about his future

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Joe Biden’s received devastating news about his future

The Biden administration is going down in flames. But this might be the nail in the coffin.

Because Joe Biden’s received truly devastating news about his future.

Since months, Americans’ opinion of President Biden’s job performance has deteriorated, with even Democrats and a disturbing number of independents becoming less positive.

Gallup gave Biden more bad news in the same week that he filmed a video announcing that he will seek for reelection in 2024 after months of underwater approval.

Just 37% of Americans, according to their most recent poll, think that Biden is doing a satisfactory job; this is the lowest percentage during his presidency.

The poll was conducted by Gallup between April 3 and April 25, the day Biden declared his candidacy.

The new low for Biden is three points lower than in March and five points lower than in February.

It was also “the lowest quarterly average in his presidency,” according to Gallup, as the steady decline “has pulled down Biden’s job approval average for his recently completed ninth quarter in office, which spanned Jan. 20 through April 19, to 39.7%.”

It’s noteworthy that Biden’s average approval rating for his ninth quarter in office is lower than both Jimmy Carter’s for the same time frame.

By party, only 83 percent of Democrats still support Biden’s leadership, while independent support for the president has fallen to 31 percent, down nine points from the February poll.

Republicans currently only approve of Biden’s work to the tune of 4%.

Similar to previous instances, Biden’s poor economic management is a heavy burden hanging over the president’s approval.

These figures are probably the result of President Biden’s failure to restore all of the jobs lost during the pandemic, the start of decades-high inflation, and the placing of the United States on a collision course with a recession and rising unemployment despite his assurances that he would rebuild America better than it was prior to COVID-19.

According to Gallup, Biden’s decision to run for re-election “comes at the weakest point in his presidency.”

As Americans’ confidence in the economy continues to decline, it has now slipped below the 40% threshold for just the second time during his presidency, according to Gallup.

The reelection campaign of Vice President Biden is not looking well at all.

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Shocking new details surface in Tucker Carlson firing

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Shocking new details surface in Tucker Carlson firing

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was the biggest name in cable news. That’s why his sudden firing sent tremors through the entire conservative movement.

And shocking new details just surfaced in the Tucker Carlson firing.

The media world has been in an uproar over the past few days.

Fox News announced it had parted ways with Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino, and CNN announced it had fired Don Lemon.

But Tucker was far and away the most popular and successful of any of them.

And we’re learning exactly why he was canned.

As reported by a source, Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News by Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch following a religiously charged speech delivered by the now-former Fox presenter on Friday.

According to the source, Murdoch decided to fire Carlson after he made comments during a speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary banquet on Friday night.

Vanity Fair reported, “Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, the source, who was briefed on Murdoch’s decision-making, said.”

During his remarks, Carlson informed the audience that politics had devolved into a struggle between “good” and “evil,” and that the solution was “prayer.”

“I have concluded it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will,” Carlson said.

“That stuff freaks Rupert out. He doesn’t like all the spiritual talk,” the source told the outlet.

According to the insider, Murdoch was reportedly “unnerved” by Carlson’s statements because they matched those of his former fiancee Ann Lesley-Smith.

Murdoch and Smith called off their two-week engagement earlier this spring, according to the publication, because Smith had informed others that Carlson was a “messenger from God.”

Per the source, Carlson attended dinner with Murdoch and Smith in late March at the Fox CEO’s Bel Air vineyard, during which Smith brought out a bible and began reading a passage from Exodus.

“Rupert just sat there and stared,” according to the insider.

Vanity Fair reported, “A few days after the dinner, Murdoch and Smith called off the wedding. By taking Carlson off the air, Murdoch was also taking away his ex’s favorite show.”

Fox News issued a statement on Monday announcing that the news network and its top anchor were “parting ways.”

The statement reads: “Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”

Fox Corporation’s stock dropped as much as 5% after the revelation, wiping approximately $930 million in market value.

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Joe Manchin just blindsided Joe Biden in this viral video

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Joe Manchin just blindsided Joe Biden in this viral video

Democrat Senator Manchin has slowly been shifting right. He’s not pulling any punches.

And Joe Manchin just blindsided Joe Biden in this viral video.

The Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate.

With Joe Manchin being one of the pivotal votes in any legislative battle, Democrats are getting worried about his growing dissent from Biden and the Left.

But he didn’t leave any room for guessing where he stands in this TV interview.

On Monday, Manchin chastised President Joe Biden and his administration for breaching “their word to the American public” on the Inflation Reduction Act and for failing to discuss the debt ceiling with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

During an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity, Manchin claimed he will repeal the Inflation Reduction Act because the Biden administration is not upholding its word.

“This legislation was balanced,” Manchin told Sean Hannity. “In the next 10 years, we are going to have enough fossil fuel to run our country and to help our allies around the world. We will also be investing in new technology for the future. Now, the Biden administration has utterly ignored this.”

Manchin claimed the bill was about energy security, but he claims he hasn’t heard the White House mention it once since the legislation was approved, instead focusing on the environment.

“Let me be very clear: If the administration does not honor what they said they would do and continue to liberalize what we are supposed to invest in over the next 10 years, I will do everything in my power to prevent that from happening,” Manchin said.

“And if they don’t change, then I would vote to repeal my own bill.”

The West Virginia senator also chastised Biden for failing to reach an agreement with House Republicans on the debt ceiling.

Of the president, he said, “He can’t play Russian roulette with the debt and debt ceiling. That would be disastrous for our economy and for the American people. … This is the United States, not the divided states. You have got to get in a room and work out the differences for the sake of our country.”

Manchin and the White House have had their share of disagreements in recent months, with the debt ceiling being the most recent.

Manchin alleged last week that Biden was demonstrating a “deficiency of leadership” by not meeting with McCarthy and “compromising” on the debt ceiling.

In late March, he even published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing Biden’s “betrayal” of the Inflation Reduction Act and detailing how it affects the debt ceiling.

McCarthy has not received the approval of his whole caucus for his idea to lift the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion over the next year, or until March 31, 2024, whichever comes first.

To avoid a financial default, the debt limit, or the maximum amount the federal government may borrow, will need to be raised or eliminated sometime this summer.

Economists have warned that a default would have severe economic effects. In three months, Biden has not budge on his reluctance to negotiate on the debt ceiling, and White House officials have chastised McCarthy and House Republicans for demanding that spending conversations be tied to the debt ceiling hike.

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The Democrat Party’s traitorous gift to Communist China revealed

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The Democrat Party’s traitorous gift to Communist China revealed

The issue of Chinese international dominance is getting worse. Now they’ve made allies from within the U.S.

Because the Democrat Party’s traitorous gift to Communist China has been revealed for all to see.

There is something about a significant government corporate subsidy package for a Chinese firm in Michigan that people from all political backgrounds should detest.

Conservatives hate the fact that the deal would provide Gotion, a battery maker and wholly-owned subsidiary of a Chinese conglomerate, with $715 million in public subsidies.

And environmentalists have unanswered concerns over the effects the plant will have.

However, it appears to be a win-win situation for Michigan Democrats.

Local media reports that state lawmakers on Thursday approved a scheme that would provide Gotion Inc. with direct incentives totaling $175 million for investments in the $2.4 billion battery factory.

Democrats made up all 10 of the votes in the Senate Appropriations Committee; nonetheless, three Democrats backed six Republicans in voting against the proposal.

After it was revealed that the Michigan Strategic Fund was showering subsidies and incentives on the project, including a 30-year tax exemption estimated to be worth $540 million to Gotion, the proposal came under criticism.

Liberals in the state have hailed the project as a source of employment in an underdeveloped region of the state; Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer has referred to it as “the biggest ever economic development project in Northern Michigan.”

The issue is that, despite being incorporated in California, the company that would be responsible for providing 2,350 jobs is a Chinese company’s subsidiary.

Rep. John Moolenaar of the Michigan Republican Party in the US labeled the vote a “historic mistake.”

In a formal news release, Moolenaar stated, “This proposed facility will be 100 miles from Camp Grayling where the Michigan National Guard has trained military partners from Taiwan to prepare for possible CCP aggression.”

“Yet, Michigan’s state government leaders are siding with CCP-affiliated companies.”

Security issues were raised by Marjorie Steele, a Big Rapids, Michigan citizen who lives close to the proposed factory.

She addressed the lawmakers, saying, “Your votes today, senators, are lines drawn in the sand.”

Kristina Karamo, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, expressed her worries about a Chinese-owned firm owning land in the country in an even more direct manner.

“If you choose to give these funds to Gotion, you are a Benedict Arnold. You are a traitor to this republic,” she said plainly.

In times of exigency, any Chinese-owned company will first and foremost serve the objectives of the Chinese Communist Party.

In order to strengthen the CCP’s control over one of the crucial resources of the future, Michigan Democrats plan to donate close to $750 million to a Chinese battery business.

What possibly could go wrong?

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Biden makes a complete fool of himself in this primetime speech

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Biden makes a complete fool of himself in this primetime speech

Joe Biden can’t seem to stop making cringy gaffes. It’s almost as if the lights are on but nobody’s home.

And Biden made a complete fool of himself in this primetime speech.

President Biden has history of lies and mistakes in private and public conversations that would make anyone blush.

Who could forget when he randomly nibbled on his wife’s finger during a campaign stop in 2019:

Or when he made the outrageous claim that African Americans voting for Trump meant “you ain’t black”:

Well good ‘ol Joe is at it again, but this time it’s failing at basic spelling.

President Biden misread the number “eight” during a speech about economic issues in suburban Maryland on Wednesday, just after claiming that his father “never went” to college.

“We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know the average tax rate they pay? Eight — E-I-G-H percent — 8%,” Biden said during a visit to a facility of the International Union of Operating Engineers in Accokeek, fewer than 20 miles from the nation’s capital.

The 80-year-old president’s error brought to mind other embarrassing political spelling gaffes, such as former Vice President Dan Quayle changing a 12-year-old student’s correct spelling of “potato” to “potatoe” at a 1992 spelling bee.

Biden’s speech centered on criticizing House Republicans’ proposed budget cutbacks, who released legislation raising the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion on Wednesday afternoon as an apparent opening offer to Biden ahead of anticipated discussions.

The president also chastised Republicans aligned with former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement for proposing to cut the FBI’s budget due to alleged political bias, suggesting that it could be because the bureau “maybe arrested some of them,” a clear reference to Capitol rioters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Biden also relayed dubious personal material while speaking, telling the blue-collar crowd that he can identify to them.

“My dad never went to college. My dad was a decent, honorable man who busted his neck,” the president said.

However, according to a 2020 story in the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record, Joe Biden Sr. spent one year at the elite Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, citing a 1941 newspaper announcement of his marriage to the future president’s mother.

“Mr. Biden is a graduate of St. Thomas High School and attended Johns Hopkins University. He is a salesman for the American Oil Company,” the vintage clipping said.

Oh, Joe, will you ever tell the truth?

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Joe Biden receives unexpected and horrifying threat

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Joe Biden receives unexpected and horrifying threat

The White House is in total panic mode. The entire country is in danger.

Because Joe Biden just received an unexpected and horrifying threat.

Many Americans believe that Joe Biden’s biggest weakness has been his foreign policy.

On Joe Biden’s watch, America’s enemies have grown stronger and bolder while the relationships with our allies have grown colder.

Russia has become emboldened enough to wage its near full-out war on Ukraine for more than a year with no sign of slowing down.

China’s rhetoric indicates that they very much plan to invade Taiwan any day now.

All of America’s enemies fear no consequences for their actions right now because Joe Biden appears weak and incompetent.

But there’s one threat that the Biden administration absolutely needs to take seriously, and it comes from Iran.

The Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi targeted both Israel and the United States with new threats on their annual “Army Day” this week.

Raisi threatened to destroy Israeli cities if they perform any hostility against Iran and also said that the U.S. needed to leave from the region entirely.

“The extra-regional and American forces should leave the region as soon as possible because it is in their own interests and the interests of the region,” Raisi said at a military parade on their Army Day.

He said that the “slightest move” from Israel will result in a “severe” response from Iran that will destroy Haifa and Tel Aviv.

“The enemy, especially the Zionist regime, has received this message that the slightest move against the country will invoke a severe response by the armed forces and will be accompanied by the destruction of Haifa and Tel Aviv,” Raisi said.

Iran hasn’t always lived up to its threats in recent years, but Iran has been growing more bold with its threats against the United States and her allies like Israel.

It’s noteworthy that Iran has also admitted to enriching uranium to a point that makes it viable for use in nuclear weapons, a violation of the 2015 deal that Iran had in place with the western nations that Barack Obama brokered.

These threats should absolutely not be taken lightly and there needs to be a real plan to deal with the growing problem that Iran presents.

Russia, China, and Iran have all also enjoyed closer ties in recent years, giving many a cause for concern for a potential major world war to break out.

Hopefully Joe Biden isn’t President if any major conflict arises because it’s unlikely that he would be able to defend the interests of America well at all.

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Surprise Biden admin report sends White House into lockdown

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Surprise Biden admin report sends White House into lockdown

Joe Biden’s presidency is already a dumpster fire. This is the last thing he needed to hear.

And this surprise Biden admin report sent the White House into lockdown.

Joe Biden has lost so many officials in his cabinet that it’s hard to keep track.

Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing “non-binary” nuclear energy appointment is probably the most high profile loss as he was charged with multiple counts of felony theft.

But another name is starting to make headlines and it has the Biden administration worried sick.

The acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is prepared to resign after more than two years in the position in the absence of a permanent head being confirmed, according to the Washington Examiner.

Tae Johnson, a 28-year federal immigration officer, will step down as Deputy Director of ICE in the coming weeks after heading the federal agency for two years and three months since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.

Following publication, ICE sent a statement to the Washington Examiner that addressed Johnson’s employment but did not explicitly dispute that he was intending to retire.

“Rumors surrounding the retirement of Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson are just that. Acting Director Johnson has not announced plans to retire,” ICE spokeswoman Jenny Burke wrote in an email.

“He will continue leading the men and women of this agency with the same integrity and commitment that he has demonstrated throughout his entire career.”

The departure of the agency’s director more than midway through President Joe Biden’s term will extend the agency’s five-year span without a confirmed leader — all while Congress seeks to change border security and immigration laws that affect ICE’s work.

ICE has not announced Johnson’s leaving date or who will succeed him, though it is possible that the next-in-line senior official handling the tasks of the deputy director, Patrick J. Lechleitner, may take over. Johnson planned to retire in late April, according to two persons acquainted with his impending departure, who informed the Washington Examiner late last week.

Johnson was the ninth acting head of ICE in the previous five years.

Johnson was set to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Tuesday morning regarding the agency’s fiscal 2024 budget requirements.

Biden had proposed a Houston sheriff to command ICE in April 2021. However, after claims of domestic abuse, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez withdrew his name from consideration by the Senate in July 2022. Since Gonzalez, Biden has not nominated anyone else.

More than a half-dozen individuals commanded ICE in temporary capacity under the Trump administration, and this has continued under Biden.

Jonathan Fahey, a former criminal prosecutor, was two weeks into his post temporarily heading ICE in early January 2021 when he stepped down a week before Trump left office. Johnson, Fahey’s deputy, was named acting director.

Biden took office amid calls from progressive Democrats to disband the agency tasked with enforcing immigration rules passed by Congress.

Biden immediately halted deportations, and his government promptly changed rules for determining whether illegal immigrants in the United States could be arrested and deported.

Arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants fell more than 75% in fiscal 2021, which began in September 2020, compared to the record-high levels witnessed during the Obama administration.

From October 2020 to September 2021, ICE detained 59,011 noncitizens, with the majority falling under the Biden administration’s stricter criteria for who may be detained. Nearly 400,000 noncitizens were deported in 2011, a figure that was reduced by 85% under Biden.

ICE has also decided to avoid detaining illegal immigrants in government facilities during court proceedings.

This year, the Biden administration has requested funding for 25,000 detention beds, despite the fact that over the last two years, more than 5 million people have been encountered illegally entering the country, with more than half of them being released and either digitally or not at all tracked.

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Nancy Pelosi was just caught paying hush money to cover up this crime

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Nancy Pelosi was just caught paying hush money to cover up this crime

Democrats don’t like to play by the rules. They rarely are punished.

But Nancy Pelosi was just caught paying hush money to cover up this crime.

The old guard in the Democrat Party is fighting for its life every day.

They’re getting older, younger talent is edging them out, and the money is drying up.

And some, like Nancy Pelosi, are going to extreme measures.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s campaign settled a lawsuit brought by an Illinois man accusing it of breaking federal robocalling laws by paying him $7,500.

In October 2022, the man, Jorge Rojas, filed a lawsuit against Pelosi’s campaign for $31,500, claiming that the campaign’s frequent messages violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.

The law, which also applies to text messages, forbids solicitors from calling those who have registered with the Do Not Call Registry.

Rojas registered with the Do Not Call Registry in 2008, but between November 2021 and July 2022, she still received 21 texts from Pelosi’s campaign, according to Business Insider.

Rojas demanded $1,500 in damages from Pelosi, claiming that the texts showed her “malicious, intentional, willful, reckless, wanton and negligent disregard” of the law.

Rojas received $7,500 on February 21, 2023, according to a report submitted by Pelosi’s campaign to the Federal Elections Commission, with the stated purpose being “Settlement.”

The following day, Rojas formally filed a motion to dismiss his complaint, according to Business Insider.

Fox News Digital contacted Pelosi’s office for a response, but they didn’t get back to them right away.

Pelosi raised tens of millions of dollars for herself and her Democratic colleagues during the decades she served as leader of the House Democrats.

Pelosi left her position as Democratic leader after the 2022 election, so it’s uncertain whether she’ll still be a key player in fundraising.

Early this year, Pelosi accompanied Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, her successor, on a tour to California to meet with prominent Democratic donors.

A significant portion of the leadership function in the House involves fundraising for party members.

The political operation of Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised $500 million for his Republican colleagues during the midterm election season.

Recent years have seen an increase in the frequency of fundraising texts and emails, with campaigns frequently taking advantage of current events to ask supporters for donations.

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You won’t believe what a major Republican just said about you

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You won’t believe what a major Republican just said about you

Washington, D.C. is full of shameless politicians. They’ll backstab anyone for their own gain.

And you won’t believe what a major Republican just said about you.

Republicans in Congress have been disjointed for years and years now.

The problem is that so many Republicans lack the backbone to stand up for what they say they believe in and the issues they ran on during the election cycle.

The latest example is House Republican Nancy Mace (R-SC), who recently went on live television to sell out all of her constituents.

Mace discussed the issue of abortion on Fox News with host Shannon Bream, and said that a “vast majority” of voters are pro-abortion.

She says that the Dobbs ruling of 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade suddenly turned most Americans into pro-abortionists and that it lead to Republicans underperforming in the 2022 midterms.

“We have not learned our lesson from the midterm election,” Mace said.

“We went mildly pro-choice to being a vast majority of voters being pro-choice after Roe v. Wade. It changed the entire electoral environment in ’22.” Mace continued.

Mace even fully swallows the Democrat kool-aid on the abortion issue, saying accusing Republicans of wanting to force women to have babies if the birth is be life-threatening.

One should note that there’s no pro-life law in the entire nation that doesn’t include an exception for the life of the mother.

She’s literally fear-mongering for the Democrats, painting pro-life conservatives as evil fascists who want to control people.

The entire radical Left and the Fake News Media wants you to believe that pro-life stances are suddenly falling out of popularity.

But that’s a load of bull.

The idea that the “vast majority” of Americans are pro-abortion as Mace claims is verifiably false. Polls have shown that a majority of millennials and Gen Z adults believe that there should be some restrictions on abortion.

And in fact, many Americans say those restrictions should be as soon as 6 or 8 weeks into a pregnancy.

That’s noteworthy because Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis just signed a pro-life bill into law that will ban abortions in the state after a heartbeat is detected, which is around 6 weeks.

Mace’s comments are signaling that she would never even consider voting for such a bill if it has any chance of becoming a law.

She will play the political fiddle and refuse to take any courage in defending any of her beliefs.

Nancy Mace is a fake conservative RINO who is a prime example of the type of swamp politicians in Washington, D.C. that Americans are sick and tired of.

Stay tuned to Prudent Politics.

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