America is no longer going to be weak. Under Trump, our enemies are starting to fear us again.

Now the US Army rushed a report to Donald Trump’s desk that could be a game-changer.

The U.S. Army reported record-breaking recruitment numbers in December—just weeks after President Donald Trump secured reelection.

According to the Army, last month marked the most successful recruitment period in 15 years, with an impressive average of 346 new enlistees joining each day.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directly credited Trump’s leadership for the surge, saying that young Americans “want to serve under the bold & strong ‘America First’ leadership” of the Trump administration.

The news comes on the heels of a major overhaul in military policy. In a decisive effort to restore discipline and cohesion, Trump moved swiftly to eliminate radical “woke” programs that had plagued the armed forces under his predecessor.

In late January, the president signed three executive orders aimed at purging left-wing ideology from the military.

As CatholicVote reported, these orders “prohibited people from serving in the military while simultaneously identifying as ‘transgender,’ banned programs teaching critical race theory (CRT) in the armed forces, and reinstated over 8,000 service members who were expelled from the military for declining COVID shots.”

Another executive order reversed a controversial Biden-era policy that funneled taxpayer dollars into covering travel costs for military personnel seeking out-of-state abortions.

Under the Biden administration, recruitment numbers had plummeted. The Army failed to meet its goals in both 2022 and 2023, managing to hit only 74.8% and 76.6% of its targets, respectively.

The Department of Defense (DoD) blamed the collapse on a “strong economy,” a shrinking pool of eligible recruits, and “low trust” in the military among Generation Z.

But many pointed the finger at the Pentagon’s relentless push for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that turned the military into a leftist social experiment.

Hegseth has been blunt about the damage these policies caused, arguing that DEI initiatives “detracted from the military’s core mission of keeping the country safe,” according to the Washington Examiner.

The contrast in messaging couldn’t be clearer. Trump’s Pentagon is focusing on warfighters, discipline, and national defense. New Army recruitment ads reflect this shift, featuring traditional warrior ethos slogans like “We fight to WIN” and “Strong Soldiers = Effective Warfighters.”

That’s a far cry from the embarrassing 2021 recruitment ad under Biden, which featured a young woman raised by two moms, linking LGBTQ activism to military service—a campaign that was widely mocked for treating the armed forces like a college diversity seminar.

At a recent Pentagon Town Hall, Hegseth emphasized the need to “get back to the basics” and restore the kind of messaging that actually inspires America’s best and brightest to enlist.

“I think we’ve seen an enthusiasm and excitement from young men and women who want to join the military actively because they are interested in being a part of the finest fighting force the world has to offer,” he said.

With recruitment numbers now surging, it’s clear: under Trump, the U.S. military is once again putting strength, patriotism, and readiness above political correctness.

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No one ever claimed the ladies of The View were geniuses. But this is laughable.

Because Joy Behar went on The View and gave the most braindead rant about Donald Trump.

Joy Behar just can’t help herself. On Tuesday’s episode of The View, the liberal talk show host bizarrely claimed that President Donald Trump’s plan to stop minting pennies was nothing more than an ego-driven stunt—because he’s “jealous” of Abraham Lincoln.

Behar and her cohosts were discussing Trump’s common-sense proposal to eliminate the wasteful production of pennies, yet somehow, they twisted the decision into a personal grudge against America’s 16th president.

“I mean, it’s really— and he’s jealous of everybody. Now he’s getting rid of the penny, he’s even jealous of Lincoln,” Behar ranted. “He’s so small, so petty.”

“Small and petty, absolutely,” cohost Sunny Hostin eagerly agreed.

Trump’s Move to Cut Government Waste

While The View panel cooked up conspiracy theories, the reality is much simpler.

Trump’s decision to halt penny production is about cutting government waste—something Democrats never seem interested in doing.

On Sunday, Trump explained the move on Truth Social, pointing out that the U.S. has been spending more than twice a penny’s face value just to produce each coin.

“For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” Trump wrote.

Could Nickels Be Next?

Trump’s decision to eliminate pennies might just be the beginning of a broader effort to rein in unnecessary spending.

With nickels also costing more to produce than their actual value, they could be next in line if demand spikes due to fewer pennies in circulation.

Of course, that kind of efficiency is exactly what drives the Left crazy.

Instead of addressing the real issue—why the government wastes billions on outdated policies—Behar and her cohosts resort to their usual Trump-bashing.

But no amount of media hysteria will change the fact that President Trump is once again doing what he does best: cutting through government waste and putting America first.

WATCH:

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— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 11, 2025

The immigration policy of the US has been a joke for years. And it has encouraged some terrible behavior.

Now Trump received one report from the border that left him speechless.

The Biden border crisis isn’t just unfolding on land—it’s happening at sea, too.

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped an “overloaded” boat carrying 132 Haitian migrants about 50 miles off the Florida coast, sending them back home on Monday, officials confirmed.

The interception happened last week when the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba spotted the 30-foot sailboat between Cuba and Cay Sal Bank, near Marathon, Florida.

Authorities swiftly intervened, preventing another illegal entry attempt into the United States.

Lt. Zane Carter of the Coast Guard’s District Seven made it clear that this administration is taking illegal immigration seriously.

“The Coast Guard will continue to prioritize strengthening our domestic integrity and disrupting attempts to enter the United States illegally by sea,” Carter stated in a press release.

“We are steadfast in our mission to safeguard America by securing our maritime borders.”

Once on board the Coast Guard vessel, the migrants were provided food, water, and medical attention before being repatriated to Haiti, according to the agency’s report.

Since October 1, a total of 313 Haitian migrants have been sent back after attempting to reach the U.S. illegally. These numbers underscore the ongoing challenges at the border, something President Donald Trump has vowed to tackle head-on since returning to office last month.

Under Trump’s leadership, immigration enforcement has ramped up significantly. The Coast Guard has expanded its efforts to stop illegal crossings, ensuring that migrants intercepted at sea don’t make it onto U.S. soil.

In addition to the maritime operation, federal officials also launched another round of their Alien Expulsion Flight Operation on Monday.

These flights are transporting detained migrants from across the country to Texas and California, where they are processed and sent back to their home countries.

Authorities say this crackdown is part of a broader strategy to restore order at the border.

“Through these ongoing operations, the Coast Guard is detecting, deterring and interdicting aliens, drug smugglers and individuals intent on terrorism or other hostile activity before they reach the border,” officials noted in a separate release on Tuesday.

“The Coast Guard’s current role is to assist with the national transport of aliens to designated locations in Texas and California, where the Department of Defense will transport the aliens internationally.”

With President Trump back in charge, the days of weak enforcement and open-border policies are over. The administration is making it clear: illegal crossings—whether by land or by sea—will not be tolerated.

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The war in Ukraine has been going on for years. And we’ve been had for billions of dollars.

Now Trump issued this demand to Ukraine that could change everything.

President Trump has revealed that Ukraine has “essentially agreed” to provide the United States with rare earth minerals valued at half a trillion dollars in return for the extensive military aid Washington has funneled into Kyiv.

Speaking with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Special Report in an interview recorded before Sunday’s Super Bowl, Trump underscored the immense value of Ukraine’s natural resources and made it clear that the U.S. should not be left empty-handed after sending Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars in support.

“They have tremendously valuable land in terms of rare earth [minerals], in terms of oil and gas, in terms of other things. I want to have our money secured, because we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars [in Ukraine],” Trump stated.

The 78-year-old former president emphasized that American access to Ukraine’s resources should not be contingent on the outcome of any peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.

He pointed out that the U.S. contributions to Ukraine’s war effort far exceed those of other nations, making it only fair for America to secure something in return.

“They may make a deal. They may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday. But we’re going to have all this money in [Ukraine] and I say, I want it back,” Trump asserted.

Trump then disclosed a key detail about negotiations, stating, “I told them that I want the equivalent of like $500 billion worth of rare earth [minerals], and they’ve essentially agreed to do that.”

Reaffirming his stance against what he sees as reckless spending, Trump continued:

“I said to them, ‘We have to — we have to get something. We can’t continue to pay this money,’” calling the idea of pouring aid into Ukraine without a return “stupid.”

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared open to a resource-sharing arrangement with the U.S., particularly in the context of securing long-term security assurances.

“If we are talking about a deal, then let’s do a deal, we are only for it,” Zelensky told Reuters on Friday.

“We need to stop [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and protect what we have — a very rich Dnipro region [in] central Ukraine.”

Ukraine is home to approximately 5% of the world’s mineral resources, including crucial materials such as titanium, uranium, iron, manganese, lithium, and the rare earth elements considered essential to U.S. national security.

Trump also expressed optimism about a potential resolution to the war, saying, “I think it’s going to happen.”

“I think we’ve made tremendous progress in the last week. We’re dealing with the Russians. We’re dealing with the Ukrainians. I think there’s going to be something,” he added.

A high-level U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance and Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, is expected to meet with Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference this week to discuss a potential path to ending the nearly three-year-long conflict.

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There is no shortage of people who want to get rid of Trump. And they’re willing to stoop to any low.

Now a close call assassination attempt on Trump is sending shockwaves through Washington, D.C.

Iran’s threats to assassinate President Donald Trump have been far more serious than publicly acknowledged, according to an upcoming book.

These chilling warnings, which haunted Trump throughout his campaign and beyond, reportedly involved Iranian operatives inside the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles—raising fears that “Trump Force One” could be targeted during takeoff or landing.

Axios reporter Isaac Isenstadt’s forthcoming book, Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, claims that law enforcement officials warned Trump in 2024 about the Iranian threat, leaving his team on high alert. In an article previewing his book, Isenstadt reported that Trump’s inner circle feared Tehran was actively plotting an attack on the former president as he traveled the country campaigning.

The threat reportedly reached a boiling point in September 2024, when a second assassination attempt on Trump was foiled at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Isenstadt, who interviewed key figures within Trump’s campaign, detailed the intense security concerns surrounding Trump’s safety.

Now, back in the White House for his second term, Trump isn’t mincing words when it comes to Iran. In February 2025, while signing an executive order ramping up pressure on Tehran, he revealed he had already left specific instructions in case anything happened to him.

“That would be a terrible thing for them to do,” Trump warned on Feb. 4 about any Iranian assassination attempts. “If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end.… There won’t be anything left.”

Trump’s tough stance on Iran is nothing new. During his first presidency, he withdrew from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal and reinstated crippling sanctions, further straining relations between Washington and Tehran.

The 47th president has already survived two assassination attempts in 2024. The first, in Butler, Pennsylvania, left him with an ear injury after shooter Thomas Crooks fired into a crowd of Trump supporters.

While no direct link to Iran has been established in that case, the Florida suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, had written a book in 2023 calling on Iran to assassinate Trump, according to an Associated Press report.

The dangers surrounding Trump’s campaign trail were no secret to his staff. In a harrowing revelation, senior advisor Chris LaCivita reportedly told Trump Force One staffers, “The boss ain’t riding with us today. We had to put him into another plane. This is nothing but a sort of test for how things may happen in the future.”

Staff members, fearing they could become “collateral damage” if the plane was targeted, dubbed the trip “Ghost Flight.” According to the book, some nervously joked about the deadly seriousness of the threat, with one aide saying, “some serious s—.”

Despite Tehran’s denials, the Justice Department announced in November 2024 that it had foiled an Iranian-backed assassination plot against Trump, charging a suspected Iranian government asset in a murder-for-hire scheme. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian tried to downplay the situation in January 2025, claiming his country “never” planned to target Trump and “never will.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s team has been fighting to uncover the full truth about the threats he faced.

The president recently told the New York Post that he had instructed the Secret Service to release “every bit of information” regarding the two assassination attempts in Florida and Pennsylvania—information he says was deliberately withheld by the Biden administration.

“I want to find out about the two assassins,” Trump stated. “Why did the one guy have six cellphones, and why did the other guy have [foreign] apps?”

“I’m entitled to know. And they held it back long enough,” he continued, slamming the Biden administration for its lack of transparency. “No more excuses.”

Even now, as Trump moves forward with his second term, the threats against him remain a stark reminder of the dangers he faces. But if history has proven anything, it’s that Donald Trump doesn’t back down—no matter who is coming after him.

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The battle between the media and the White House is back in full-swing. But the President has the upper hand.

And now, Trump ruthlessly tore apart this reporter for making the dumbest statement ever.

President Donald Trump took a shot at the struggling liberal news outlet HuffPost, mocking its relevance and suggesting he thought it had already faded into obscurity.

The exchange came Sunday during a press conference on Air Force One, where a reporter questioned Trump about statements made by Vice President JD Vance regarding judicial overreach.

“JD Vance suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in a way that you don’t like, they could just enforce it by themselves,” the reporter asked Trump. “Do you agree with that?”

The question stemmed from Vance’s firm stance against judicial interference in executive power.

The vice president had made it clear that judges have no authority to dictate how the executive branch operates.

“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vance wrote on X.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.”

When pressed on the matter, Trump dismissed the controversy outright.

“I don’t even know what you’re talking about,” he fired back at the reporter. “Neither do you. Who are you with?”

When the reporter revealed he worked for HuffPost, Trump didn’t hold back. “Oh, no wonder,” he said. “I thought they— I thought they died. Are they still around? I haven’t read them in years. I thought they died.”

Stung by Trump’s comments, HuffPost scrambled to respond.

A spokesperson tried to spin the moment, telling Fox News Digital, “His loss — perhaps his biggest since 2020. Millions of Americans are tuning into HuffPost’s coverage to stay informed about the consequences of Trump’s presidency.”

But the real issue at hand was judicial activism, something Trump has repeatedly called out.

When asked directly about a federal court ruling that blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department’s systems, Trump didn’t mince words.

“No, I disagree with it 100%,” he told Fox News host Bret Baier.

“I think it’s crazy. And we have to solve the efficiency problem. We have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse— all the things that have gone into the government. You take a look at USAID, the kind of fraud in there.”

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The Court has been rattled from attacks. But the damage could already be done.

Now this Supreme Court Justice betrayed the Court in a shocking confession.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took aim at the Court’s 2024 presidential immunity ruling in her first public appearance since the start of President Trump’s second term, warning that the decision puts the Court’s legitimacy at risk.

Speaking in Louisville, Kentucky, Sotomayor fielded questions on a range of topics, including public trust in the Court. It marked her first public remarks since Trump returned to the White House last month, and she wasted no time criticizing the ruling.

“If we as a court go so much further ahead of people, our legitimacy is going to be questioned,” she cautioned. “I think the immunity case is one of those situations. I don’t think that Americans have accepted that anyone should be above the law in America. Our equality as people was the foundation of our society and of our Constitution.”

The 6-3 ruling in Trump v. United States determined that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts but not for unofficial ones. It was a major blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case, which had attempted to charge Trump with a variety of crimes stemming from his post-2020 election actions.

Sotomayor, who authored the dissent joined by liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, lashed out at the decision, calling it a “mockery” of constitutional principles.

“Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law,” she argued.

Her dissent took a particularly dramatic tone, warning that “moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity” and claiming that if a president “misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop.” She concluded with a dire pronouncement: “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

Sotomayor made it clear that she took the ruling personally, telling the Louisville audience that she “had a hard time with the immunity case” and insisting that the Constitution does not exempt presidents from prosecution once out of office.

She then escalated her warnings about the Court’s future, suggesting that its credibility is at stake if it continues along the current path.

“And if we continue going in directions that the public is going to find hard to understand, we’re placing the court at risk,” she said.

Despite her dire predictions, the White House dismissed the criticism, with a spokesperson telling Fox News Digital, “This historic 6-3 ruling speaks for itself.”

Sotomayor also implied that the Court’s recent decisions—including its landmark reversals of Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, and the Chevron doctrine—were destabilizing the country.

“I think that creates instability in the society, in people’s perception of law and people’s perception of whether we’re doing things because of legal analysis or because of partisan views,” she claimed, though she stopped short of directly accusing her conservative colleagues of partisanship.

This isn’t the first time Sotomayor has voiced frustration with the Court’s direction. In 2023, following the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, she admitted to feeling “a sense of despair” over the ruling, though she did not reference the case by name.

Still, she insisted she would not give up the fight.

“It’s not an option to fall into despair,” she declared. “I have to get up and keep fighting.”

While Sotomayor’s rhetoric may resonate with progressives, her increasingly emotional critiques of the Court’s rulings suggest that the left’s frustration is reaching a boiling point as Trump’s Supreme Court reshapes the legal landscape.

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The mainstream media never learns. They can’t best Trump no matter how hard they try.

Now CNN went completely insane in a stunning display of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Comedian Amber Ruffin has been tapped as the entertainer for this year’s White House Correspondent Association dinner—but in a candid CNN interview, she made one thing crystal clear: she doesn’t want the president to attend.

With the dinner scheduled for April, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the *Daily Caller* on Wednesday that both she and President Donald Trump are still mulling over their attendance. (Notably, Trump skipped the event during his first term.)

On CNN, Ruffin sat down with host Jake Tapper and expressed her doubts about the overall excitement for the event. She even went as far as saying she isn’t planning to share her jokes with even those she agrees with, remarking that she doesn’t think anyone is “looking forward” to being there.

“So U.S. presidents traditionally attend this dinner. However, Donald Trump never went to it during his first term in office. Do you want him to be there this year?” Tapper asked Ruffin.

“No. Don’t anybody want to know — No one wants that. Sure, it’s something to do. But, I can’t imagine he would. I can’t imagine he would. He should. He’s missing out on one of the cool things about being the President of the United States. But I don’t know that anyone’s looking forward to being in the same room as him,” Ruffin explained.

Leavitt later described Ruffin as “certainly an interesting choice” when asked about the White House’s reaction to her being selected.

This comes on the heels of Ruffin’s previous biting comment, where she once called Trump a “toddler with his pants pulled down.”

The conversation then took a lighter turn as Tapper inquired whether any past hosts had given Ruffin advice for navigating the night. Laughing, she recalled:

“They also said that you have to make fun of everybody. You can’t just make fun of the people you disagree with, you have to spread it out evenly. And I am not going to do that. Maybe I will do it a little bit, probably not.”

The decision to name Ruffin as the dinner’s entertainer was announced on Tuesday by WHCA President and Politico reporter Eugene Daniels. In his statement, he lauded Ruffin’s selection, stating:

“Amber’s unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate. Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.”

He continued, “This dinner is about centering the importance of a functioning democracy and Amber is the type of entertainer who understands both the significance of that mission as well as the mechanics of power in this country.”

When asked about her approach for the evening, Ruffin revealed she plans to be completely honest about her feelings.

“I think I’m going to do it the same way I always do it, by just telling the truth about how I feel,” she said.

“I feel like we all feel a little sad. Well, some of us feel pretty happy. But a lot of us feel a little sad. And I think it’s OK to say exactly what it is that’s making us feel this way.”

“And I think when you do that, and people feel the same way as you, they think that it is fun and funny and it feels good to hear, and that’s kind of where I operate from,” she added.

In her own inimitable style, Ruffin is gearing up to bring her signature blend of wit and honesty to the dinner—proving that sometimes, speaking from the heart is the best way to handle even the most high-profile events.

🚨NEW🚨 After @presssec tells @dailycaller that Trump is still considering his WHCA dinner invite, anti-Trump comedian Amber Ruffin goes on CNN to say she DOESN'T want him there. https://t.co/bdPkfMoKrM pic.twitter.com/azZbLeC49P

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 6, 2025

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Judges legislating from the bench is an enormous problem. It almost always goes one way, too.

And now one activist judge just threw a major wrench in Donald Trump’s agenda.

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s bold plan to shrink the bloated federal workforce by offering employees eight months of pay and benefits in exchange for their immediate resignations.

U.S. District Judge George O’Toole issued an order extending the administration’s Thursday midnight deadline, delaying it until after a scheduled hearing at 2 p.m. Monday.

The administration had rolled out the mass buyout plan in a Jan. 28 email titled “Fork in the Road,” offering at least 2 million federal workers the chance to take the deal. So far, around 60,000 employees have accepted, with White House officials expecting that number to grow.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made it clear the administration is eager to move forward.

“We encourage federal workers in this city to accept the very generous offer. If they don’t want to show up to the office. If they want to rip the American people off, then they are welcome to take this offer, and we’ll find highly competent people to take these roles,” Leavitt said Thursday.

However, powerful federal employee unions were quick to fight back, filing a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. They claim the plan is “arbitrary and capricious” and violates labor laws governing workforce reductions.

Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, hailed the judge’s temporary ruling as a victory.

“We are pleased the court temporarily paused this deadline while arguments are heard about the legality of the deferred resignation program. We continue to believe this program violates the law, and we will continue to aggressively defend our members’ rights,” Kelley said.

Joining the lawsuit are the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the National Association of Government Employees, with Democracy Forward, a left-wing legal advocacy group, representing them in court.

The lawsuit alleges that the buyouts will destabilize government operations, failing to account for potential damage to essential services. Attorneys for the unions argue the “Fork Directive” lacks clear implementation guidelines and ignores best practices for reducing federal staff.

Union lawyers also claim the buyouts are a veiled effort to replace career federal workers with Trump-aligned employees, and they question whether the administration can even guarantee eight months of pay—given that the government’s temporary funding bill expires in March.

“If these employees leave or are forced out en masse, the country will suffer a dangerous one-two punch. First, the government will lose expertise in the complex fields and programs that Congress has, by statute, directed the Executive to faithfully implement. The government will have fewer qualified employees to execute the statutorily-required tasks that still remain,” the lawsuit stated.

Attorneys have requested Judge O’Toole, a Clinton appointee, to declare the “Fork Directive” illegal, delay the buyout deadline for at least 60 days, and force the Trump administration to provide additional legal justification.

President Trump has made no secret of his desire to shrink the federal government, crack down on wasteful spending, and bring an end to the remote-work culture that has left office buildings half-empty. In addition to the buyout offers, Trump has ordered all federal employees back to the office, reversing the widespread work-from-home policies that became entrenched during the previous administration.

Democrats in both the House and Senate, along with federal employee unions, have loudly opposed Trump’s plan.

Trump’s approach to government downsizing stands in stark contrast to former President Bill Clinton’s 1995 buyout program, which was first approved by Congress and capped severance pay at $25,000 per worker. Clinton’s plan, which excluded the Defense Department, ultimately led to over 100,000 federal employees leaving their jobs, with an overall reduction of 270,000 positions.

“Looking back, I can safely say that our buyout program has been a huge success. It achieved what we had hoped: to help us cut the workforce in a fiscally responsible and humane way,” Clinton said at the time.

Unlike Clinton, however, Trump isn’t waiting for congressional approval—he’s taking direct executive action to slash bureaucracy and rein in government overreach. Whether the courts will allow his aggressive streamlining to proceed remains to be seen.

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Joe Biden may be out of office, but his influence still permeates the government. But Trump isn’t going to stand for it.

And now an uncovered backroom Biden deal was just discovered by Trump and it’s dumbfounding.

President Biden was quick to spend over $100 million in taxpayer funds on transgender policies and programs within his administration—a plan that is still bleeding federal funds as the Trump administration attempts to shut it down.

Some of the spending is only now coming to light, including a breast cancer screening pilot program for men who identify as women, which is costing taxpayers $420,386.

Beyond healthcare, however, Biden’s administration spent millions implementing transgender policies across the federal government, implementing aggressive workplace and inclusion initiatives.

Now determined to stop that, President Trump has launched a series of executive orders aimed at scrubbing the federal agencies of transgender-related programs he calls “transgender lunacy.

His latest executive order, signed Wednesday, takes direct aim at men competing in women’s sports. “There will be no federal funding” for schools that violate the new rule, Trump warned during a White House ceremony.

Earlier in the week, Trump took an even broader step to cut off federal funding for all transgender-related initiatives.

One of his first actions was to shut down the USAID headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, as officials began investigating the department’s massive spending on transgender and DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – programs in foreign countries.

Some of this spending occurred right under the agency’s own roof. Nearly $900,000 in taxpayer funds went toward building gender-neutral restrooms inside the Reagan Building.

But the NIH outdid them all with the $1.12 million it paid to build just one gender-neutral bathroom at its Bethesda, Maryland campus. Of that, a cool $123,320 went to design fees alone. The final construction costs: well over $1 million.

Another $1 million in federal funds in New York was used to convert men’s and women’s restrooms at Letchworth State Park into gender-neutral facilities – justified in grant paperwork as a way to “address a changing view of gender concerns.”.

All in all, the Biden administration shelled out at least $3 million to construct gender-neutral restrooms in a few government buildings—talc of over $100 million dished out to transgender-related initiatives at home and around the world.

One particularly egregious example was the State Department’s decision to spend $50,000 in Hyderabad and Chennai, India to “sensitize employees of corporate entities” to transgender issues in the workplace. In 2023, the National Endowment for the Arts used $25,000 in taxpayer money to fund the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco.

Last month, Trump went further and barred federal funding of gender transition-related healthcare for children. Under Biden, millions had already been spent on research into transgender medical treatments for minors.

For example, the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati received $1.7 million in federal grants for a study still under way on blood clot risks for transgender adolescents and young adults receiving hormone therapy. The study promotes hormone treatments—despite their irreversible effects—as “one of the most effective interventions for treating gender dysphoria” in transgender youth.

The investigative think tank Capital Research Center has been tracking the Biden administration’s extravagant transgender spending. The total sum is likely even higher, says researcher Parker Thayer, since Biden pushed through additional funding in his final months in office.

These grants ran the gamut from smaller tens-of-thousands-dollar allocations for more localized transgender initiatives to multi-million-dollar scientific research projects. A large portion of the spending focused on mental health and medical issues, including the transmission of HIV among transgender individuals.

One blatant example: the NIH awarded Emory University $5 million to study transgender women—biological men—living with HIV.

While much of Biden’s transgender funding has already been spent, some programs remain active but are now at risk of losing federal support under Trump’s leadership.

Not surprisingly, Trump’s crackdown is facing fierce resistance from the LGBTQ lobby.

On Thursday, activist group PFLAG, along with the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, filed a suit against Trump in an effort to block his executive order defunding transgender medical services for minors.

The lawsuit calls Trump’s order “discriminatory and dangerous,” while it contends that hospitals around the country are “abruptly halting medical care for transgender people under nineteen, canceling appointments and turning away some patients who have waited years to receive medically necessary care for gender dysphoria.”

Trump, however, remains undeterred.

“Every day we are eliminating the extremism of the last four years,” he declared on Wednesday.

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As the largest denomination in the country, Catholic Americans have a lot of voting power. Trump won by the largest margin in decades.

But now Catholic Bishops from this key swing state just handed Trump a major shock.

The Catholic bishops of Georgia reaffirmed the Church’s teachings on immigration in a statement issued on Feb. 4, expressing their solidarity with immigrants while also acknowledging the need for law and order.

Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Bishop Stephen D. Parkes of the Diocese of Savannah, and three auxiliary bishops of Atlanta signed the statement, which was published in The Georgia Bulletin.

In their message, the bishops emphasized that every human being has inherent dignity, as they are created in God’s image.

They stressed that immigrants, regardless of status, should be treated with respect and compassion.

However, they also voiced concerns that certain immigration policies under discussion could have harmful consequences for immigrant communities.

At the same time, the bishops made it clear that criminal activity cannot be ignored.

“However,” they wrote, “we also understand and agree that those who come to our country with previous criminal records and those who commit crimes after their arrival must be held accountable and deported to their home countries.”

The statement echoed Archbishop Timothy Broglio’s response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration, reaffirming the Church’s long-held stance: while people have the right to seek a better life for themselves and their families, nations also have the right to secure their borders.

“The call and desire of every Catholic, regardless of national origin or legal status, is to worship the Almighty,” the bishops wrote.

“And we pray that our churches may be places of peace through solemn prayer, places of grace afforded by the celebration of the Sacraments, and places of compassion provided by fellowship and accompaniment.”

The bishops concluded with a message of hope and unity, lifting up prayers for immigrants and all those on the margins of society.

“We also lift in prayer our immigrant brothers and sisters and all who are marginalized, that the light of Christ will guide them to peace. During this Jubilee Year and always, may we have the desire to journey together as Pilgrims of Hope.”

This comes on the heels of Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia coming to the defense of Trump’s immigration policy.

“Even when immigration reform includes repatriation of those persons who have committed violent crimes, or who otherwise violate the terms of a right to remain, human dignity can be respected,” he wrote.

“We must not presume a conflict between human dignity and the rule of law.” Bishop Burbidge also acknowledged the reality of crime within some immigrant populations. “Sadly, some of those who have entered our country, legally or illegally, have committed serious crimes,” he wrote.

“There must be consequences for such behavior, as there is no place for violence, trafficking, or gang activity in our society. Our laws exist to safeguard the good of all, and they must be respected.”

Quoting other Catholic bishops who have recently addressed immigration in response to federal deportation raids, Bishop Burbidge affirmed their shared position “that every country has the right and the responsibility ‘to promote public order, safety, and security through well-regulated borders and just limits on immigration.’”

Though the self-identified Catholic electorate in this country has split between Left and Right, we may be seeing a seismic shift.

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This administration is moving fast. They learned their lesson from the first term.

Now Trump cut the legs out from under Democrats in Congress with this bold move.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., revealed that Republicans are setting their sights on roughly $1 trillion in spending cuts as they prepare a sweeping conservative policy overhaul.

“I think when you look at where we are, we’re close to a trillion and still working,” Scalise said late Tuesday night in response to a question from Fox News Digital. When pressed by another reporter on whether $1 trillion was the GOP’s baseline, he confirmed, “Roughly.” However, no final decisions have been made yet.

Republican majorities in both the House and Senate are working to enshrine large portions of President Donald Trump’s agenda using the budget reconciliation process.

This maneuver lowers the Senate passage threshold from 60 votes to just 51, allowing Republicans to bypass Democrat obstruction—so long as the legislation pertains to budgetary and fiscal matters. The House, already governed by a simple majority threshold, is positioned to move quickly.

But internal disagreements over spending cut targets have slowed House Republicans’ ambitious timeline. Their goal is to send a finalized bill to Trump’s desk by May, yet finding common ground on a baseline for cuts has proven to be a major hurdle.

The House Budget Committee was expected to advance an initial reconciliation resolution this week. However, spending hawks on the panel derailed that plan after rejecting House GOP leaders’ initial proposal of $300 billion in federal funding rollbacks.

They also dismissed a higher offer nearing $900 billion, Fox News Digital reported.

Scalise confirmed Tuesday night that leadership is now aiming for next week to advance the bill out of the House Budget Committee.

Conservative lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital expressed skepticism that the spending cuts would go much deeper than the agreed-upon baseline. However, Republican leaders maintain that additional opportunities for cuts will remain on the table.

Scalise also emphasized that negotiators are navigating spending projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan agency whose estimates have frequently drawn Republican criticism.

“There are a lot of numbers floating around. I mean, you know, CBO’s got their numbers, and we’ve had real issues with them, because CBO has been wrong so many times, but yet you still have to start with their numbers,” Scalise said.

“And then, you know, what kind of economic growth are you gonna get if you have better energy policy and better regulatory policy? And those are real factors. And our members recognize that, but, you know, you’ve got to come to an agreement on what is that growth factor gonna be? What’s a fair number?”

GOP negotiators met Tuesday evening to strategize the path forward. A source familiar with the discussions said Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., did not commit to any specific plan, and talks are still ongoing.

Republicans are aiming to use reconciliation to pass key Trump priorities, including more border security funding, the elimination of taxes on tipped and overtime wages, increased defense spending, and pro-fossil fuel energy measures.

The House had originally planned to pass its reconciliation bill first, but delays have raised concerns that the Senate could move ahead with its own version instead. Senate Republicans have signaled they are prepared to act if House infighting continues to slow progress.

Asked about the possibility of the Senate taking the lead, Speaker Johnson dismissed the idea outright. “Senate will not take the lead. We’re going to, and we’re right on schedule,” he told reporters Tuesday.

Scalise echoed that confidence, insisting that pushing the committee markup to next week would not derail the GOP’s overall timeline.

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