“Affordability” and Illegal Immigration are Mutually-Exclusive: It’s the Math, Stupid

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

One key cause of elevated worst case needs is immigration. Between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than 6 million—the largest such increase over such a short period in American history. The foreign-born population now stands at more than 53 million individuals, making up the highest share of the American population in history. This immigration-driven increase in households has contributed to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices. In fact, in some markets, immigration has accounted for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in recent years. This year’s report shows two realities. The first is that economic growth has been insufficient to lift the wages of low-income renting families high enough to make rent affordable. The second is that national macroeconomic policies, such as record immigration, have combined to drive sustained high rental demand, which has continued to place upward pressure on rent prices. As a result, in 2023, only 59 affordable units were available per 100 very low-income renter households, and only 38 units were available per 100 extremely low-income renter households. Worst case needs were common in every region and metropolitan category across the nation but most prevalent in the West, the South, and urban suburbs.

“AFFORDABILITY” IS THE CATCHY SLOGAN THAT IS SUPPOSED TO CONVINCE VOTERS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE CARE OF THE “FORGOTTEN MAN” WHO STRUGGLES DAILY TO PAY HIS BILLS AND TRY TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIS FAMILY. THIS IS A FRONT AND AN AFFRONT TO ALL OF US IN THE RUBRIC OF THE “FORGOTTEN MAN”; FOR OUR COSTS EXCEED OUR REVENUE UNLESS WE ARE SCRUPULOUS WITH EVERY EXPENSE, WITH NO UNANTICIPATED PROBLEMS ARISING.

EVEN AT GOODWILL, WHERE THE “FORGOTTEN MAN” MAKES INNUMERABLE PURCHASES OF NECESSARY ITEMS FOR THE FAMILY AND HOME FROM CLOTHING TO FURNITURE, PRICES HAVE DOUBLED! FOR INSTANCE, INFANTS’ CLOTHES HAVE HIKED FROM $.99 FOR A PAIR OF PANTS TO $1.99; PAJAMAS HAVE INCREASED FROM $1.99 TO $2.99; AND TOYS ONCE SELLING FOR $1.99 HAVE JUMPED TO $2.99 AND MORE. ALTHOUGH MANY BLAME THE “TARIFFS” FOR PRICE HIKES, GOODWILL’S ITEMS FOR SALE ARE DONATIONS, NOT SUBJECT TO TARIFFS BUT SUBJECT TO MORE-MONEY MOTIVES.

BEFORE THE VAST INFLUX OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, GOODWILL HAD REGULAR SALES THAT OFFERED POOR AMERICAN FAMILIES RELIEF FROM MONETARY BURDENS. AFTER COUNTLESS CARTS PILED HIGH WITH GOODWILL SALES GOODS BY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS, ALL THE SALES AND DISCOUNT DAYS WERE DISCONTINUED.

The same politicians promising “affordability” for the struggling “forgotten” American family are simultaneously protesting against removals of illegal aliens from this country without regard to the overwhelming financial burdens on the “forgotten” Americans. When there is competition for affordable goods and services, the poor Americans lose!

At Wal-Mart, after-Christmas sales reduce costs by 75 percent, but non-English speakers flood the aisles, piling their carts with goods also needed by poor Americans. Again, when there is competition for affordable goods and services, the “forgotten” American loses. Likewise, for affordable housing, which becomes less affordable and less available for the “forgotten” American.

When there is competition for medical care, the “forgotten” poor American waits much longer for health services to be provided. When there is competition for medical supplies, the supplies run out or run low for “forgotten” poor Americans.
Our insurance costs rise due to an influx of uninsured persons requiring medical care or government-paid medical care. Likewise, vehicle insurance costs escalate when uninsured drivers are involved in collisions.

In our schools, the influx of illegal alien children has caused costs to rise precipitously as well as communicable diseases in our classrooms. On the streets, rising crime rates cost the poor “forgotten” Americans money, health, and lives due to criminals who should never have been here with full access to hurt children whose lives were ended or harmed irreparably.

Key diseases reported in illegal immigrants include:

  • Tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, measles, scabies, and other bacterial infections.
  • The CDC traced 76% of TB cases in 2023 to non-U.S. born individuals.

Key Communicable Disease Concerns:

  • Tuberculosis (TB): Frequently cited as a significant concern, with reported increases in cases linked to international migration.
    Skin Infections & Parasites: Scabies, chickenpox, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been reported, particularly in crowded, unsanitary conditions.
  • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Measles, polio, diphtheria, and pertussis.
  • Blood-borne Pathogens: HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C.
  • Other Infections: Syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy, typhoid, cholera, and malaria.

The costs of illegal immigration to the poor “forgotten” American family of all ages and locations across this nation are immeasurable and infinite in terms of generations of citizens who are impacted by massive illegal influxes of persons competing for the same finite goods, services, and money. The infinite economic, medical, and societal costs are incompatible with the slogan of “affordability.”

The American pie only has a set finite size, and the more pieces consumed, the smaller the size of each piece for the “forgotten” poor Americans who should have the rights to which they are Constitutionally-entitled. Unchecked competition against the rights of poor “forgotten” Americans are undemocratic, unfair, and unAmerican.

HUD chief blames ‘unchecked illegal immigration’ pricing-out families amid new housing report

HUD secretary’s exclusive comments come as agency releases damning report on housing market strain

By Charles Creitz • Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner slammed the Biden administration for what he called an illegal immigration and refugee crisis that rattled the housing market – particularly for low-income renters – though some analysts dispute the findings.

Every two years, HUD releases its “Worst Case Housing Needs Report” – considered the agency’s flagship assessment of the state of the housing market for low-income Americans – and how many lack affordable and adequate housing. The report serves as a nationwide barometer of housing stress and shows whether the availability of affordable housing is improving or worsening, and who may be being hurt by the current conditions, which Congress can then use to craft policy.

Policymakers use it to gauge gaps in the supply of low-cost rentals, target federal housing programs, and understand trends in who is being left behind. In short, it’s HUD’s way of tracking the renters in the greatest need — and how the U.S. housing system is failing to meet them.

Turner told Fox News Digital there are damning findings in this year’s assessment that he places right on the policies of former President Joe Biden’s immigration crisis.

“The unchecked illegal immigration and open borders policies allowed by the Biden administration continue to put significant strain on housing, pricing out American families,” Turner said.

“These policies have plagued America’s housing market, but in President Trump, Americans finally have a leader fighting to restore sanity to American immigration policy.”

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Dems Lock Horns with GOP over ICE, as Friday the 13th Deadline Looms

By Family Research Council

There’s probably an oddsmaker crunching the numbers as we speak. Which will thaw first — the D.C. snow drifts or the tension over Homeland Security funding? Heading into Friday’s deadline, the outlook is bleak for both. While the city is finally registering some above-freezing temperatures, the warmth hasn’t extended into the Hill’s negotiating rooms, where both sides seem more dug in than ever on the biggest flashpoint of a young 2026: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

But for those worried about another partial government shutdown, there is some reassurance. As most veteran staffers will tell you, if there’s anything more sacrosanct than the two parties’ principles in Congress, it’s recess. And with Presidents’ Day around the corner and a week-long break already built into the schedule, something will have to give. What that something is, no one is quite sure. Republicans have largely panned Democrats’ demands for ICE reforms, which include controversial ideas like removing agents’ face masks and mandating the impossible-to-get judicial warrants for immigrants’ arrests.

The White House has tried to engage Minority Leader (and chief rabble-rouser) Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a compromise, but those overtures were rejected Monday night. Together with his House counterpart, Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the men dismissed the outline as “incomplete and insufficient” in “addressing the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.”

Republicans, on the other hand, argue that the president has already made key concessions, sending border czar Tom Homan to calm down tensions in Minnesota, draw down hundreds of agents, work more intentionally with local officials, and shift to a more targeted approach. Mandating body cameras was already in the works, thanks to the ICE portion of the One Big Beautiful Bill — as was the agency’s funding, conservatives are quick to counter, not that Schumer and company care to tell the American people that. They’re banking on voters’ ignorance, hoping they won’t notice that what Democrats would actually be shutting down is the rest of Homeland Security — TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and a million other non-ICE related things the country relies on every day.

They’re being “entirely unreasonable,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) complained of Schumer’s party. “First of all, ICE is already funded from the Big Beautiful Bill, and there was already a provision in there that would fund paying for body cameras. So, [they’re getting] their wish taken care of there,” he pointed out on “Washington Watch.” “But they’re trying to leverage and say, ‘Well, we’re not going to pay FEMA. We’re not going to pay TSA, we’re not going to pay Coast Guard, and several other agencies.’ That’s the leverage that they’re trying to wield. And I just don’t think it’s rational or reasonable, the things that they want done.” It’s unacceptable, Biggs continued before warning, “I think they’re underestimating the resolve of President Trump and the Republicans in Congress…”

His colleague, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), is equally perplexed at the Left’s strategy. “It just doesn’t make sense. Democrats are willing to go to the wall, shut down agencies that help us as Americans — [things like] making sure that travel continues to operate smoothly, making sure after these storms that we had in the southeast and in the South that FEMA has [the ability] to be helping where they’re needed. So, to go out and say this is going to somehow affect the outcome of what ICE is doing is just not the case.” But, once again, he stressed on Monday’s “Washington Watch,” “Democrats are showing that they’re willing to fight for the illegal in this country more than they are to fight for the American citizen.”

For House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), it’s just another day in the life of the two-year migraine he inherited as leader. “I wish we didn’t have these dramatic events every week in Congress now,” he admitted on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill” with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, “but this is the reality with small margins. We have a one-vote margin in the House now, and they have just three in the Senate. So this is what you get.”

Despite the wrench Democrats are throwing into the DHS debate, Johnson refuses to let them rob Republicans of their biggest accomplishment. “We’re really grateful, really proud, that we got the 12 appropriations bills through the whole process until the very end. Eleven are now signed into law. The president did that triumphantly in a signing service at the Oval Office. … But now, we’re all tied up on the Homeland Security bill,” he sighed. “The Democrats are politically posturing over the [ICE] issue, and we’re all sort of on the edge of our seats to see what they’ll agree to.”

That said, he acknowledged, “We obviously need to have immigration enforcement that is balanced and smart and efficient and obviously complies with the Constitution. There are always ways to tweak the processes and procedures,” the Louisianan said, “and the president has shown complete good faith in wanting to ensure that that’s true. But Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate are trying to use this for political posturing. And so, I’m not sure how exactly it’s going to sort out. But the two sides are pretty far apart at the moment.”

Considering the short runway — Friday the 13th is the deadline, ironically — it would take a miracle beyond even Mike Johnson to resolve this issue by the long weekend. Recognizing the long odds, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has been trying to prep another short-term funding extension to buy Congress more time. Hill experts just can’t envision a scenario where House or Senate Democrats vote for a DHS bill “in any form,” Punchbowl warns. “It won’t get better by next week. In the Senate, Republicans would need at least seven Democrats to join with them to clear another DHS funding patch. For now, Senate Democrats are using the imminent deadline to try to prevent a loss of momentum. Which means nearly every Democratic senator is indicating they wouldn’t support another stopgap funding bill for DHS.” Where does that leave us? Even Johnson isn’t sure.

On Saturday, he was iffy on a short-term CR. “But, of course, the amount of time it takes to move something across the floor in the Senate, you have to think ahead. Leader Thune in the Senate is doing that for the Republican side. We’ll see what happens. I’ll just tell you, it probably comes down to a couple of really tough issues that the Democrats are demanding that I think would be unworkable and unsafe.” As he has in other interviews, the speaker slammed the ban on masks. “That’s a dangerous prospect, because we know that those individuals are being doxxed. I mean, it puts their own families in physical jeopardy for their safety. So we can’t do that. We have to protect our law enforcement officers.”

The other non-starter, Johnson outlined, is the Democrats’ push for a “brand new judicial warrant requirement in order to go and apprehend someone. And that’s not workable,” he argued. (As have others.) “We have tens of millions of illegals who come across the border into the country over the four years [under] the Biden administration. It would literally be an unworkable standard. It means no one, no illegal, practically, could be apprehended.” Bogging down the courts and bringing ICE arrests to a screeching halt, however, is all part of the Left’s game plan — however onerous and unworkable it may be.

As Perkins rightly pointed out, “That’s already been a part of the immigration problem … the court backlog. So this would only make the situation worse.” Absolutely, Johnson agreed, “and it would effectively allow all illegals to stay in the country, almost all of them. And that’s obviously not something that we can do. It’s not something the American people would agree to. So we’ve got to navigate through all of that this week.”

On the mask issue, which has been a point of real contention, Biggs reiterates that agents are wearing law-enforcement vests and visible ICE jackets, so people can easily distinguish them in a crowd. “But think about this too,” he offered. “Sometimes they’re going into undercover-type situations, and they’re basically saying we want everybody to be designated and out in the open.”

FRC’s president, who spent years in the police force, agreed that it wouldn’t make sense to unmask anyone in an undercover operation. But, he countered, “I do think we need to consider this … the standard we apply to federal law enforcement [and] local law enforcement. I do think there’s some room for negotiation here.” But none of this matters, he argued, if the cities’ leaders continue to condone lawlessness. As long as there’s mayhem and rioting in the streets — and a general disdain for law and order — the chaos only gets worse.

As the speaker pointed out, “If you have friction between local and state law enforcement and the feds, that creates a problem, an inherent problem, and it is going to escalate. So we’ve got to get everybody back on the same page. We’ve got to do the work that the American people elected the Trump administration to do, and that is to apprehend and remove dangerous criminals. That’s the mission, and I think they’ll get back to it.”

In the meantime, there’s no clear way out of this mess if Democrats are locked into their corner, holding the wrong budget lines hostage, and refusing to negotiate in good faith. “I don’t know anyone in Washington who sees a ready off-ramp for this debate [that would allow] this funding to go forward,” Newsmax’s James Rosen admitted to Perkins.

But Schumer might want to be careful, he cautioned. “We’ve seen the Trump White House in 2.0 make use of shutdowns and fiscal cliffs and funding disputes in a fundamentally different way than previous White Houses have. And they have used those kinds of gaps in funding and these fiscal cliff situations to punish the Democrats, to punish blue state programs through the White House Office of Management and Budget.” He paused before adding, “And they’re very savvy about it. And to some extent, ruthless. So if there is going to be a resolution, I suspect that that could potentially put the parties together a little more swiftly.”

Until Democrats get serious and come to the table, Johnson warned, “They’re playing with fire here.”

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

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How China Sold America the Wind Turbine Scam

By John Droz, Jr.

This is a repost of a worthwhile article — this one was on Front Page.

I am sharing this as it is a story of trillions of dollars of waste, huge financial losses to citizens in “hosting” communities, scientifically documented adverse health effects to thousands of innocent citizens, enormous harmful environmental consequences, a major national security risk, etc. — with zero net benefit!

Put another way, this is a classic story of humungous adverse consequences all because politicians and community leaders did no real Critical Thinking.

In the same vein, this good piece also recently came out: Energy Wisdom is Lacking Among Public Officials… And this today…

For decades, the United States has been guided by a story about energy that presents wind power as one of the few responsible paths forward. The idea has been repeated so often that it eventually stopped sounding like a policy proposal and began to sound like a moral duty.

Wind energy was described as the answer to climate change, the way to rebuild American manufacturing, and even a strategy to strengthen national security. Once that view became popular in national politics, questioning it was treated as a refusal to accept science rather than an effort to understand the actual costs and tradeoffs.

The problem is that this story never came from a neutral scientific study. It came from a mix of international institutions, corporate lobbying efforts, and foreign governments that realized they could benefit from it. China benefited more than anyone else. What American leaders described as a clean-energy transition became, in practice, a significant transfer of industrial power to a competing nation that understood the economic opportunities far earlier than the United States did.

China’s rise in the renewable-energy market was a direct result of Western governments focusing more on climate politics than on common sense. While American and European leaders focused on emissions pledges and public messaging, China built the factories and rare-earth mining operations needed to dominate the global wind-turbine market.

Today, Chinese companies control more than 70 percent of the world’s wind-turbine supply chain and more than 80 percent of the rare-earth materials needed for turbine generators and other green-energy technologies. That dominance was built through state subsidies, centralized financing, and government direction that enabled Chinese producers to undercut American and European manufacturers, leaving most unable to compete.

This created an apparent contradiction: The United States now relies on China for the equipment that supposedly underpins American “energy independence.” Democrats rarely acknowledge this because it raises an uncomfortable question. How can a country strengthen its strategic position by depending on a foreign rival for the core parts of its energy system?

The question only grows once China’s own energy system is considered. While the United States has closed more than 300 coal plants since 2010, China has expanded coal use on a massive scale, adding roughly two new coal plants per week in recent years.

Those plants provide the power needed to run the factories that build wind turbines for export. As a result, American emissions fell on paper while global emissions continued to rise, simply shifting from one country to another.

This is the difference between symbolic climate policy and real environmental change, and for years, the United States has chosen symbolism.

A significant reason the Green Scam continues is the way climate science is communicated. Many people assume the United Nations’ climate reports are released exactly as written by scientists. In reality, draft reports are reviewed and edited by government officials before publication.

The summaries—usually the only parts the public sees—are negotiated line by line to ensure the final language supports specific policy priorities.

Science relies on open debate, repetition of results, and the ability to test conclusions, not on political negotiation. When science is filtered through policymakers before reaching the public, it becomes messaging rather than fact, and messaging cannot guide a country’s energy strategy.

This problem becomes even clearer when looking at who speaks publicly about climate science.

Many of the most visible voices do not work in climate modeling, atmospheric physics, or geophysics. Their backgrounds are often in unrelated fields, but because their views align with the dominant narrative, they are presented as experts. The scientific method requires observation and evidence. Public debates often rely on authority and repetition.

Wind energy shows what happens when climate policy is shaped by politics instead of evidence. In practice, U.S. wind turbines operate at capacity factors between 32-35 percent, meaning they produce far less energy than their maximum output most of the time.

Because wind is intermittent, states still depend on natural gas or coal to keep the grid stable. That dependence increases system-wide costs. States that built wind energy the fastest—notably California and New York—saw retail electricity prices rise far above the national average over the past decade. Taxpayers also fund new transmission lines, grid upgrades, and the costs of turbine retirement.

Wind turbines are often placed along major bird-migration pathways, leading to significant declines in bird populations, including protected species such as golden and bald eagles. Estimates from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicate wind turbines kill between 500,000 and 700,000 birds in the United States each year, with some studies suggesting totals above one million.

China benefits from all of these outcomes. It exports turbines, grows its industrial power, and expands its influence in global supply chains. The United States, meanwhile, accepts higher energy costs, greater grid instability, and increased dependence on foreign manufacturing, all while believing it has taken the lead on climate issues.

I could have submitted multiple additional comments to this article (e.g., see my prior commentary on this topic), but opted to only do the following:

FYI, during all the years of robotic accolades for wind energy, there has never been a Scientific Study that has concluded that industrial wind energy saves a consequential amount of CO2. Think about that!

The wind industry lobby did put forth “studies,” but they were all based on “computer simulations.”

Computer simulations have value when we don’t have sufficient empirical data. However, with hundreds of thousands of wind turbines world wide we have PLENTY of empirical data.

Despite that, there has never been a Scientific Study (i.e. using legitimate empirical data) that has concluded that industrial wind energy saves a consequential amount of CO2.

Oh, one more thing… There have been MANY scientific studies that have concluded that wind energy is likely a Net Liability regarding fixing Climate Change. For example, see here.

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21 Democrats Buck Hakeem Jeffries To End Four-Day Government Shutdown

By The Daily Caller

Nearly two dozen Democrats broke with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to pass a sprawling funding package on Tuesday afternoon, ending the four-day partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers voted 217-214 to approve the Senate-passed deal that funds nearly 80% of the federal budget through Sept. 30, including the Departments of War, Treasury and State among other agencies. The House also signed off on a two-week extension of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding while Senate Democrats and the White House continue to negotiate reforms to immigration enforcement.

More than 190 Democrats — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership team — voted “no” on the funding deal brokered between Senate Democrats and the White House. Top House Democrats insisted Tuesday that there is no antagonism toward their Democratic colleagues in the upper chamber despite opposing the spending framework negotiated in part by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Among the 21 Democratic lawmakers who voted for the funding deal is Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the lead Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, who lauded the “bipartisan” negotiations that crafted the five appropriations bills.

“Did we get everything we wanted, hell no,” DeLauro said Monday. “Did the Republicans get everything they wanted, hell no.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson ripped Democrats for opposing the spending deal to end the partial shutdown.

“What they’ll be shutting down is FEMA operations as we’re cleaning up from the winter storms. They’ll be shutting down TSA, which is obviously necessary to keep the country moving through our airports, Coast Guard operations,” Johnson said Tuesday at a GOP leadership press conference. “So many important functions in the Department of Homeland Security is what will be adversely affected by these partisan games.”

Twenty-one Republicans voted against the funding package, citing concerns about hundreds of earmarks included in the appropriations bills and the failure to fund DHS for the entire fiscal year.

The funding package now heads to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature. The president urged the House to quickly pass the spending agreement on Monday, arguing that Republicans must avoid “another long, pointless and destructive” shutdown.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, a fiscal hawk, was the lone GOP lawmaker to oppose a rule teeing up the funding package for a vote on final passage. Given House Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority, just two defecting GOP lawmakers could have defeated the procedural vote and prolonged the funding lapse.

Massie’s opposition to the spending agreement comes after Trump attacked Massie’s wife, Carolyn Moffa, in a Truth Social post on Monday, calling her a “Radical Left ‘flamethrower.’” Massie noted that Moffa has voted for Trump every time he has appeared on the ballot since 2016. Trump is backing a GOP primary challenger to Massie ahead of November’s midterm elections.

House GOP leadership also successfully flipped Tennessee Rep. John Rose’s vote to advance the funding package.

Rose, who is mounting a longshot bid against Trump-endorsed Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial primary, initially said he could not vote to advance the funding package without the SAVE Act attached.

The election integrity legislation, which passed the House in April 2025, faces strong headwinds in the Senate due to the 60-vote threshold. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has vowed that Democrats will use the filibuster to prevent the SAVE Act from clearing the upper chamber.

The updated legislation would require proof of citizenship and voter ID to vote in federal elections.

Republican Reps. Troy Nehls of Texas, Byron Donalds of Florida, Andy Ogles of Tennessee and Victoria Spartz of Indiana also withheld their votes until they flipped to “yes.” The conservative cohort had similar concerns about the SAVE Act’s passage in the Senate.

The funding deal appeared to be on smooth sailing Monday after several GOP holdouts, who had demanded leadership attach an updated version of the SAVE Act, stood down following a meeting with the president at the White House on Monday.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, a leading proponent of the SAVE Act, said she received commitments that the Senate would begin consideration of the legislation outside of the appropriations process.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune clarified Tuesday that he did not commit to put the SAVE Act on the floor and steer around the Senate’s 60-vote threshold by using the rarely-deployed “talking” filibuster.

Thune, who has publicly endorsed the SAVE Act and pledged a floor vote, said he would continue to have conversations with his conference about how to proceed.

AUTHOR

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CALIF-FRAUD: Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place — Los Angeles

By The Geller Report

California is facing mounting calls for a sweeping audit after MASSIVE fraud was exposed — a staggering 18% of all U.S. home health activity comes from just one place: Los Angeles County.

That single county now has more hospice agencies than 36 states combined.

One doctor alone was caught fraudulently billing taxpayers $120 MILLION.

Investigators uncovered a surreal scam hub: 287 hospice providers packed into a two-mile radius — operating out of strip malls, unmarked offices, even a wrecking yard and vacant lots. No patients. No care. Just paperwork.

As one whistleblower put it: “I could fill this out from Kazakhstan and have a hospice license waiting for me.”

This isn’t incompetence.

Gavin Newsom isn’t just allowing it — he’s complicit.

How can anyone vote Democrat??

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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New Analysis Cites 4 Ways CBO’s Budget Baseline Always Favors Increased Federal Spending

By Family Research Council

Four key assumptions in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analytical tool for projecting federal spending and revenue trends heavily distort its results in favor of continually increasing outlays and expanding government regulation, according to a new Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) analysis.

“The CBO baseline is important because it is used as the official benchmark against which legislative proposals are scored. The biases in the baseline allow the true costs of legislation to stay hidden from the public and members of Congress,” according to EPIC’s director of Budget Policy. Dickerson’s analysis was first delivered as part of the R Street Institute’s recent Virtual Federal Budget Reform Forum: Recommendations for Congress.

Dickerson points to four flaws in the baseline, three of which, in effect, make projected spending look much higher than it could otherwise be, and one of which makes tax revenues coming into the U.S. Treasury Department appear to be bigger than they actually are if Congress makes no changes in outlays or current law. The four flaws, according to Dickerson, include:

  • Discretionary appropriations are assumed to continue and grow with inflation each year. The result is a spending level authorized for one year for a specific program or agency which is assumed by CBO to continue throughout the 10-year period covered by the baseline.
  • Certain direct spending programs larger than $50 million are assumed to be extended beyond their statutory expiration. This means a program with an annual budget greater than $50 million is assumed by CBO to go on indefinitely until Congress acts to the contrary.
  • Entitlement programs are assumed to make all scheduled benefit payments, even if a program’s trust fundand financing are inadequate to do so. This means a program like Social Security and Medicare, which depend in great part upon trust funds — taxes paid into the system by employers, workers, and the self-employed — will continue paying full benefits using general revenues.
  • Excise taxes dedicated to a trust fund are assumed to be continued beyond their statutory expiration. Under current law, the federal government receives between $75 and $100 billion annually from excise levies on alcohol, gasoline, and tobacco products.

Together, the resulting bias “hides tens of trillions of dollars in spending in the baseline,” Dickerson contends. For example, of the $85 trillion in total spending the baseline projected for the 2025-2034 period, nearly 30%, or $25.5 trillion, is made up of spending not specifically authorized by Congress.

The EPIC analysis comes as Congress and Trump confront the reality that federal spending has increased more than 80% since 2015, zooming up from $5.01 trillion that year to $7.01 trillion in 2025. Entitlement spending on programs like Social Security and emergency spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic were the major drivers of the explosion in outlays.

The four flaws are included in CBO’s baseline budget tool due to requirements included in the 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control that was adopted in the first year of the second term of then-President Ronald Reagan. Legislation introduced in the 118th Congress by Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) — the No Bias in the Baseline Act — would eliminate all four of the flaws. The Virginia Republican is a member of the House Budget Committee.

Being in the center of controversy is a familiar position for CBO staffers. Most recently, House Republicans harshly criticized what they view as CBO’s chronically low projections of the positive economic impact of tax, regulation, and spending cuts at the federal level.

In its Concurrent Resolution on the 2025 Budget, for example, House Republicans noted one of the flaws pointed out by the EPIC analysis, noting that CBO “is obligated to produce an economic forecast that assumes an indefinite extension of current law, including the explosion of deficit and debt levels over the next decade. This is partly why CBO is forecasting average real Gross Domestic Policy (GDP) growth of just 2.0 percent over the next 10 years, well below the long-term trend of 3.1 percent in the United States.”

Similarly, in May 2025, when CBO released two analyses requested by House Democrats evaluating aspects of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) issued a sharply worded refutation.

“This is a smoke and mirrors tactic to try to deceive the American people into thinking that the One Big Beautiful Bill will benefit the top 10 percent at the expense of the bottom 10 percent. Ironically, the only thing Democrats are proving is that our policies are a massive success,” Arrington said.

“First, they’re not measuring economic benefits to low-income earners; they’re measuring federal resources distributed. For instance, there are fewer transfer payments to people on welfare if you prohibit illegal immigrants from accessing these programs and enact common sense work requirements to stop trapping people in dependence,” he continued.

“Second, when you allow Americans from every walk of life to keep more of their income, you lift millions out of poverty, just as we witnessed in President Trump’s first term. Democrats measure success by how many people are stuck on the welfare rolls; Republicans measure success by how many Americans are lifted off of them,” Arrington explained.

And Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who is also the number three ranking GOP member of the Senate Budget Committee, told the Senate in an April 2025 floor speech during debate on the OBBB that CBO’s baseline budget analysis incorrectly evaluates tax policies.

“There’s an inherent bias in Congress’s scoring process where tax policy is treated differently than spending policy. If tax rates are scheduled to increase, like they are right now if we don’t act, preventing that tax hike is counted as a ‘cost’ in uncollected future revenue. But many spending programs are assumed to be extended beyond their expiration, so the spending just continues and continues, unabated, which the budget rules say do not have any cost,” Crapo told colleagues on the Senate floor.

Spokesmen for Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chairman Arrington (did not respond to The Washington Stand’s request for comment. Also not responding were spokesmen for Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), the top Democrats on the two congressional budget panels.

For all the controversy, Dickerson expressed optimism to TWS that needed changes are coming. “The CBO is an important resource for lawmakers. It can also be a source of frustration, particularly when CBO fails to be transparent about its scoring, assumptions, and biases. While Director Swagel has taken steps to improve CBO, more work remains to be done,” he said.

“There is significant interest on both sides of the aisle in addressing the shortcomings at CBO. The House Budget Committee has signaled that CBO oversight will be a major focus, including conducting regular oversight hearings and advancing the first-ever audit of CBO’s operations,” he added.

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Mark Tapscott

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Lying Mamdani Invents Budget Emergency to Justify Massive Tax Hikes

By The Geller Report

In Michael Bloomberg’s final year as mayor in 2013, New York City actually had a balanced budget. However, under the Marxist mayor Bill De Blasio, New York City’s budget deficit exploded. And continued under Mayor Eric Adams.

Now the Communist Zohran Mamdani is in charge of New York City. And he want’s to do what every Communist does. Steal money from the producers. Be prepared for New York City’s to eventually go bankrupt, since Mayor Mamdani will drive out the individuals and corporations that generate the tax revenue.

Horrible.

Lying Mamdani’s phony budget crisis is cover to raise taxes on New Yorkers to pay for his ‘free stuff’ agenda

Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled the City Hall press corps Wednesday to announce his shock at finding a $12 billion budget hole . . . that everyone worth his salt has been flagging for a year.

Heck, a hole that Mayor Eric Adams warned about in 2023 at the height of, and as a result of, the migrant crisis.

Mamdani’s pretend budget crisis (more threatening than the Great Recession, he claims) is designed purely to gin up support for soak-the-rich tax hikes to fund his promised billions in new spending.

(Or, if the city’s lucky enough, to give him an excuse for failing to deliver on his promises.)

He’s trying to avoid an outright break with Gov. Kathy Hochul, but wants his allies in the Legislature to bully her into OK’ing state corporate and personal-income tax hikes even though she knows that could threaten her re-election hopes.

Read more.

New York Mayor Mamdani says city must hike taxes on wealthy to fill $12 billion deficit

  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Big Apple’s wealthiest residents must pay more in taxes to help close a looming budget deficit that tops $12 billion.
  • Mamdani, a Democrat, downplayed fears from some of the city’s business elite that tax hikes will lead to capital flight.
  • He pointed to potential budget savings, citing the Adams administration launching a “basically unusable” AI chatbot that reportedly cost about $600,000 to develop.

By CNBC, Jan 28th, 2025

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday said the city’s wealthiest must pay more in taxes to help fill the staggering budget deficit of more than $12 billion that he was left by his predecessor.

“This is at a scale that’s actually greater than what we saw here in New York City during the Great Recession,” Mamdani said of that budget hole during an interview with CNBC “Squawk Box” co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin at City Hall.

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Who Is Kevin Warsh, Trump’s Nominee To Lead The Fed?

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating Kevin Warsh to be the next Federal Reserve chairman, replacing Jerome Powell, whose term ends in May.

Warsh worked as an aide to former President George W. Bush, who later appointed him to the board of the Federal Reserve. The youngest ever Fed governor, Warsh served in that position from 2006 to 2011. He also previously worked as a mergers and acquisitions specialist at Morgan Stanley, and during his tenure as a Fed governor, served as a liaison between the central bank and Wall Street. He helped arrange the government’s bailout of insurance giant AIG.

The most important thing we need to know about Warsh’s background is where he stands on monetary policy, inflation, and interest rates. And, the fact that he was dead wrong about the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008/2009 Financial Crisis.

Throughout his career, Warsh has cultivated an image of an inflation “hawk” rather than a “dove.”

Roughly, the Fed hawks believe that keeping inflation low and prices stable is absolutely paramount to the U.S. economy. The Fed doves, on the other hand, are more loose with monetary policy, and believe that spurring economic and job growth by lowering interest rates and making money easier to borrow should take precedent over keeping inflation low. This dove policy is known as Quantitative Easing.

In the fallout from the 2008/2009 financial crisis, Warsh had sought to keep then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a dove par excellence, at arm’s length.

In November 2010, the Fed voted on Quantitative Easing 2 to buy large amounts of treasuries, lower long-term interest rates, and re-purchase mortgage-backed securities that went bust during the housing crisis. Of course, juicing the economy by creating money out of thin air runs the risk of high inflation. Warsh voted for QE2, yet days after he wrote in The Wall Street Journal that strategy should be “necessarily limited, circumscribed and subject to regular review.”

“Policies should be altered if certain objectives are satisfied, purported benefits disappoint or potential risks threaten to materialize,” he added.

Even as the financial crisis began to unfold in 2008 and the Fed moved to slash interest rates, Warsh warned that using the “hammer,” his phrase for rate-cutting, could backfire.

“If the economy were to weaken somewhat further, we should be inclined to resist expected, reflexive calls to trot out the hammer again,” he said.

But Warsh was also dead wrong in the lead-up to the crisis and the housing market’s collapse from 2007 to 2010.

“If the housing situation is beginning to stabilize, I find it hard to believe that broader anxiety about it will affect business spending or the consumer as some of these scenarios contemplate,” he said during a Fed meeting in January 2007.

In that same meeting, he predicted that economic trends pointed to “strong, balanced economic growth for 2007.” That year ended in the Great Recession.

Now, in 2026, Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have been calling for lower interest rates, leading some commentators to question the president’s pick. Why would he nominate a so-called “inflation hawk” who might support higher interest rates?

Well, Warsh has already publicly called for interest rate cuts while arguing that the Trump administration’s tariffs will not lead to higher inflation. And he has also argued that reducing the Fed’s holding of U.S. bonds would allow for rate cuts that would not trigger inflation.

In a speech in April 2025, Warsh blasted America’s “irresponsible spending,” saying that it has been on a “dangerous trajectory,” especially since COVID-19. Fed leaders like Powell, Warsh said, had encouraged government spending but “didn’t call for financial discipline at the time of sustained growth and full employment.” They also got too political, according to Warsh.

“The more the Fed opines on matters outside its remit, the more it jeopardizes its ability to ensure stable prices and full employment,” Warsh argued.

He also called for a “regime change” at the Fed during an interview with CNBC in July 2025, saying the central bank was facing a “credibility crisis.”

“It’s not just about a person, it’s about an approach to economics … I’m troubled when I see them moving the goal posts,” he said. The Fed has “done a very good job of blaming others for its mistakes,” and its decisions on inflation were made “poorly,” he added.

Only time will tell if Warsh is a hawk in the vein of Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman from 1979 to 1987, who kept interest rates high and stamped out inflation; or, if he is a mix of hawk and dove, willing to cave to pressure from Trump, Bessent, and Wall Street.

Judging by his vote on QE2 in 2010, he may be someone who wants to fight inflation in theory, but doesn’t have the Volcker-esque gumption to do it in practice. The market’s reaction, on the other hand, suggests asset holders are afraid that he will pull the trigger and raise interest rates.

Something of note:

“Warsh is married to Jane Lauder, the daughter of prominent Republican donor Ronald Lauder, who was a classmate of Trump’s at the Wharton School. Lauder donated $5 million in March to MAGA Inc., Trump’s super political action committee.”https://t.co/5JzsDMkEtJ

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 30, 2026

Warsh is married to billionaire heiress Jane Lauder, the daughter of Ronald Lauder, a big GOP donor. According to Bloomberg, Lauder donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC, in March 2025.

Make of that what you will.

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$30 MILLION WITH NO CLIENTS: Records Show No Clients Behind Ilhan Omar Husband’s Investment Firm

By The Geller Report

Records show Ilhan Omar’s husband’s investment firm lists no clients despite it driving their $30M net worth.

So how did they make money with no clients?

Public records and media reporting have raised questions about the source of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s family wealth, focusing on her husband’s investment firm, which reportedly lists no identifiable clients, deals, or SEC registration despite claims of operating in dozens of countries. Critics note the firm appears to operate out of shared office space and shows no public track record of managing money or completing transactions, while a related winery investment has also been described as inactive.

Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes, says Ilhan Omar and her husband are running a money laundering operation

Ilhan Omar’s husbands investment firm was looked into, THERE IS NO RECORDS OF THEM MANAGING MONEY, “NO CLIENTS”

“His investment firm — It’s DC headquarters appear to share office space at a WeWork. There’s no track record of his firm managing money, doing M&A deals, no clients we see, no investment deals or any work it’s done.

They say they do work in 80 nations operating in. There’s no SEC registrations for them as investment advisers. What is going on here?

This increasingly looks sketchy, both the winery and his investment firm. Yeah, the winery may not exist and the firm may be just a really a name only”

“It’s amazing how people can go into Congress and then become these entrepreneurial investing geniuses, where they come in, she had under $1,000 of net worth, and her husband didn’t have much, and suddenly now they’re multimillionaires. Is there a money laundering operation here — something is not right”

“That $30 million came from sources that are illegal, period.”

Ilhan Omar’s “winery” magically rockets from pocket change to $5M in a year — no winery, no wine, no phones, no activity.

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Pamela Geller

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Democrats Plan To Shutdown ICE Funding Has Already Been Foiled

By The Daily Caller

The Democrats’ effort to block funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations fight has so far failed to derail ICE funding.

In July, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, setting aside roughly $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border security, including about $75  billion in supplemental funding for ICE, making it one of the most heavily funded federal law enforcement agencies.

Even if parts of the federal government shut down at the end of the week, ICE and CBP operations in Minneapolis and across the country are expected to continue uninterrupted. ICE agents are classified as “excepted” workers, allowing them to remain on duty during a funding lapse, and the agency still has substantial carryover funds from last year’s Trump-backed appropriations.

Although Democrats’ attempt to curtail ICE funding has not prevailed, outrage over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti — a U.S. citizen and intensive care nurse killed by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis over the weekend — has escalated tensions in Congress.

This is just narrative building. ICE is funded through the OBBBA. If Ds make demands in DHS they’ll be threatening airline travel and storm clean-up. “Democrats support ice,” will be the line. If they want “significant policy changes,” they’ll need to give on sanctuary cities. https://t.co/eP7FvUE7gx

— Mike Fragoso (@mike_frags) January 26, 2026

Pretti’s death incident has sparked intensified scrutiny of ICE and CBP operations nationwide, with Senate Democrats warning they will oppose the DHS funding bill unless it is reworked to include meaningful limits on immigration enforcement — a standoff that could help trigger a partial government shutdown as the funding deadline looms. (RELATED: Minnesota Judge Threatens To Hold ICE Head In Contempt)

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Saturday in a post on X that Democrats will withhold the votes needed to advance the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding measure unless it is revised to address concerns over ICE and other immigration enforcement practices, highlighting growing resistance within his party to including DHS funding in the broader appropriations package.

What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling—and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to…

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 24, 2026

Although ICE would continue operating during a shutdown, Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Texas Rep. Greg Casar, have argued since the fatal Alex Pretti shooting that the funding bill goes beyond immigration enforcement and have demanded changes to DHS and ICE policies as a condition for their support.

On Jan. 13, Casar, urged Senate Democrats to insist on reforms to ICE before they vote for a major spending bill.

Casar laid out a series of nonnegotiable demands for changes to ICE’s operations as part of any DHS funding bill, calling for federal immigration agents to withdraw from Minneapolis and halt similar operations in other cities and for independent investigations into any deaths involving federal agents, according to an interview with The Guardian.

This week, the Senate will debate whether to appropriate $10 billion for ICE. Keep in mind the BBB gave ICE about $18.7 billion per year for 4 years. So, even if we don’t vote to provide ICE with additional funding, ICE would still have 87% more funding this year than last year.

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) January 26, 2026

The White House and Republicans both contacted Senate Democrats late Sunday, but no realistic solutions have been proposed so far, according to a PBS News report, citing an anonymous Senate Democratic leadership aide.

Although the shooting has sharply escalated tensions in Congress, Republicans have resisted separating DHS funding from the larger spending package, and operations by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are still expected to continue uninterrupted — in part because both agencies are funded as “essential” through carryover appropriations.

The legislation also provides funding for agencies like Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — especially important as 12 states remain under disaster declarations — and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is already grappling with major travel disruptions. As a result, failing to pass the bill could have serious consequences for essential government services unrelated to immigration.

A spokesperson for Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune, when asked about the ongoing talks with Democrat leadership, told the Daily Caller that Democrats have already acknowledged ICE would continue operating even if part of the government shuts down. He reiterated that the funding covers more than just immigration enforcement.

“Democrats themselves have said for weeks that ICE would still continue its operations during a shutdown. But the DHS bill includes so much more than that — FEMA, with 12 states under disaster declarations, and TSA, while airports are dealing with the most cancellations since the Schumer shutdown, will be greatly impacted. What Democrats want are policy changes, yet they themselves negotiated these appropriations bills, and there were House Democrats who supported homeland security appropriations in the House even after the Renee Good shooting,” the spokesperson said.

The Caller reached out to Schumer’s office to ask whether he has had any discussions with the White House or Senate GOP leadership, but did not receive a response prior to publication.

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Ashley Brasfield

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‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America

By Jihad Watch

The Freedom Center’s new pamphlet reveals the horrifying truth the Deep State wants buried.

Offend your local anti-ICE protester. Email them a copy of ‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America. Digital pamphlet available HERE. Banned everywhere else.

Somalis built America, Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed.

“You cannot talk about any achievement the City of Boston has had,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu insisted, “without mentioning the Somali community that has lifted our city up.”

Do we live in America or do we live in ‘Somalimerica’?

If you look at the Minnesota state flag, its politicians, its fraud and its anti-ICE riots, you can see how parts of America are turning into ‘Somalimerica’. Right now mobs of angry white leftists are rallying in Minnesota to fight and die in the streets so that Somali pedophiles like Sahal Osman Shidane, convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a victim 13 to 15 years old, and Abdi Gelle Mohamed, convicted of the sexual abuse of a minor, don’t have to back home to Somalia.

Politicians tell us that Somalis built America. The media insists that we should be grateful that they’re here ‘revitalizing’ our communities which were hopeless before Somalis moved there.

That’s why the David Horowitz Freedom Center decided to present ‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America.’ This digital (and eventually print) pamphlet takes our cutting edge reporting on the impact of Somali mass migration and provides hard evidence about the damage it’s done to America and the complicity of the government.

We were among the first to reveal the Somali fraud that wrecked Minnesota  when autism claims rose from $3 million to $400 million and taxpayer-funded free meals for kids went from $3.4 million to $197 million in just four years. But that’s just the tip of a very dirty iceberg.

SOMALIMERICA shows that the Somali fraud wasn’t new. The authorities knew about it for over a decade. In 2015, three Somali Minneapolis day care centers were raided after they claimed to be caring for 2,000 kids. All the charges were dropped. All the authorities did was ask and two of the men involved not to bill the government for two years. One became a senator. In Somalia. He joins at least three other former ‘health care’ managers in the Somali government.

The stories in SOMALIMERICA will shock you, outrage you and arm you to be able to talk to your elected officials about what a disaster Somali mass migration has been for America.

For example, did you know that each Somali in Minnesota represents a $15,000 fraud burden after billions in fraud that we helped uncover?

Did you know that Somalis in the state pay only 8% of the average tax burden?

When it comes to Islamic terrorism, there were at least four Somalis in Gitmo (of course they’ve been freed) and there have been numerous Somali terrorist attacks including an attempted Christmas tree bombing in Portland, a car ramming and mass stabbing in Ohio, and dozens of Somalis traveling to join Al Qaeda and ISIS. In December 2025, a Somali who was being trained as an airline pilot to be able to crash a plane into the Bank of America Plaza: a 55-story building in Atlanta, with thousands of people inside, was sentenced to life in prison. Twice.

Didn’t hear about it in the media? I wonder why. You’ll read about it in SOMALIMERICA.

Somali gangs like the Somali Assault Unit and the True Somali Bloods have taken over parts of New England, bringing crime and violence into formerly sleepy areas, and men named Mohammed have been responsible for some of the worst sexual assaults in Minneapolis.

And the authorities let them get away with it.

SOMALIMERICA tells the story of Abdimahat Bille Mohamed who was sentenced for two sexual assaults, including the rape of a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint, with no time served. Four months later he held a woman captive for a week and sexually assaulted her. There was Asad Abu Mohamed, 6’1 210 lbs,  who was let off for previous offenses, crawled into the ladies’ room on a college campus and tried to assault a woman there, then threatened to rape a police officer, and is on the loose once again. Mohamed Bakari Shei raped two little girls, a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old, on Mother’s Day, was offered a plea deal with no prison time, a dismissal of two of the three charges, no criminal record and no requirement to register as a sex offender

That’s because SOMALIMERICA isn’t just about what Somali rapists and criminals do. It’s about what politicians deliberately let them get away with. That’s why even when they’re caught and convicted of the worst possible crimes, they’re almost impossible to deport.

Abdi Gelle Mohamed molested a ten-year-old girl in Minneapolis back in 1998. The government began trying to deport him back in 2001. A generation later, the Trump administration finally arrested and is preparing to deport Mohamed back to his home country.

Now leftists are rioting in the streets and ramming ICE officers with their cars to save him.

SOMALIMERICA reveals the fraudulent origins of not just Somali day cares, free meals and autism clinics (helping fake kids with names like “Serious Problem”), but the entire Somali immigration machine in which Somalis lied about a fake famine and even more fake genocide to be able to claim ‘refugee’ status, dragged us into a war that cost dozens of American lives, and then faked family ties to come to this country that were exposed by DNA testing. (No, it’s not just Rep. Ilhan Omar, quite a few Somali migrants had ‘creative’ definitions of family ties.)

This is the big picture of not just the fraud, but where it came from, how it got so bad and what we can do about it so we don’t have to go on living in ‘Somalimerica’.

When Rep. Ilhan Omar’s pal, whose restaurant hosted her victory party, and who was part of the $250 million meal fraud, was asked to explain how he was supposed to have served  3.9 million meals to children, he said  “every person in the city was coming to Safari Restaurant.”

Every person wasn’t. But every person should read  ‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud. Crime and Terror in America because the best way to make sure we don’t all end up living in ‘Somalimerica’ or ‘Americastan’ is to be informed, prepared and to fight for an end to mass migration from the third world hellholes that hate America and want to rip us off.

When they’re not trying to kill us.

‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America is available now at the David Horowitz Freedom Center online bookstore.

Offend your local anti-ICE protester. Send them a copy.

‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America is available as a digital pamphlet now.

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Led by Johnson, House Completes Improbable Budgeting Sweep

By Family Research Council

Greenland, Venezuela, and the president’s spat with Canada may have stolen the world’s attention, but the real revelation may be what’s happening here at home. With the snow on its way and no time to spare, House Republicans accomplished what hasn’t been done since America’s top movie was “Titanic” and dial-up AOL was still cutting-edge technology: they finished a federal budget — just like House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) promised they would.

For the Louisiana leader, witnessing history that hasn’t been made since 1997 had to be one of the most gratifying milestones of his speakership. With a majority as wide as a blade of grass, the idea that anyone — let alone this divided chamber — could put their heads down and unite long enough to do their most basic job is a colossal feat.

Johnson, the perennial underdog, cheered the achievement at a press conference Friday before members hit the road to beat the winter storm. “The naysayers said it couldn’t be done, but they were wrong. House Republicans just finished passing all 12 appropriations bills — restoring regular order, cutting spending, locking in Trump-era priorities, and ending Biden-era budgets. No omnibus. No backroom deals. Just hard work and results. Americans sent us here to fix Washington — and this is how it gets done. Huge credit to [Appropriations Chairman] Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and the House Appropriations team,” he said.

Holding signs that read “12 of 12!” the conservative crew that drove the effort took a victory lap. “We aren’t here for another stopgap or temporary fix,” Cole had insisted on the House floor before the final vote. “We are here to finish the job by providing full-year funding and closing out all 12 bills with certainty and direction. …These bills were written with those priorities in mind.”

When the herculean task was complete, something no oddsmaker would have predicted with Congress’s track record, Cole heaped praise on Johnson. “This speaker is the reason that these 12 bills happened,” Cole declared.

For Johnson, the vindication only builds on his already impressive legacy — not that the humble attorney would admit it. “This is a monumental achievement,” he agreed. “Despite the noise, despite our slim margins, despite the fact that most members in the House have never gone through a regular, member-driven appropriations process before, this team got it done,” he said.

Cole also touted the lower price tag of this year’s basket of funding. “Republicans set out to spend less — and total FY26 funding does just that.We committed to codifying DOGE cuts — and these bills cut waste and rein in government bloat.” He paused and added, “This is what responsible governance looks like. This measure is the product of sustained engagement and serious legislating. It advances reforms, delivers full-year funding, and reflects a Congress doing its job.”

In a rare spirit of compromise, several Democrats also joined the unlikely return to governing, supporting most packages by a surprising margin, messaging that they, too, had secured some wins. Even Democrat Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), ranking appropriator, cheered the passage. “We got the bills done, and we came out very well, and that should be proof enough that we need to make the process work,” she said.

For both sides, the eagerness to avoid another government shutdown was a powerful motivator after the political pain of last year’s. But they aren’t out of the woods yet.

The Senate, which spent the last 10 days in recess, will come back to a pile of work — and very little time to do it. Six of the 12 appropriations bills still need the chamber’s approval — including some of the most contentious budgets. But, as The Washington Times points out, Johnson did everything he could to lighten the load by splitting the six bills into two more manageable packages. With the January 30 deadline breathing down Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) neck, “Senators will have to take a big swing at passing all six bills before sending them to President Donald Trump’s desk,” Politico explains. But the fact that we’re even talking about that prospect, the outlet acknowledged, “would be a stunning feat for lawmakers and leadership — especially in such a bitterly divided Congress.”

Reflecting on last week, the speaker took his usual humble, future-looking posture. Sitting down with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill,” he pointed to the high stakes of the election. “We must continue what we’ve been working on, continue to move forward. … We passed the House appropriations bills through the House … [in] regular order. [It’s the] first time in many years that’s happened,” he noted. “We’re rebuilding the muscle memory, as I like to say, and it’s a great advancement to returning power to the people and being better stewards of taxpayer funds.”

And yet, with 11 months until a very significant election, it’s still a daunting task to lead this group, Perkins noted. True, the speaker nodded. “But you know, Scripture says you don’t worry about tomorrow. You focus on the troubles of today because the day has enough. And we do that hour by hour, day by day, in faith and in prayer. We walk forward, we advance these priorities. … And we demonstrate day by day that we’re doing the right thing for the right reason. And I think the voters are going to reward that,” he predicted. “I don’t think they want the chaos and the communism that comes with today’s Democrat[ic] Party. I think they want us to continue to fulfill our promises. And that’s what we’ve done so far. That’s what we’ll do this year. And that will be rewarded at the ballot box.”

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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WATCH LIVE: President Trump Addresses Davos

By The Geller Report

He’s killing it. President Trump is addressing the World Economic Forum, the exclusive annual gathering of world leaders, policymakers and business figures in Davos, Switzerland.

WATCH: President Trump Delivers a Special Address to the World Economic Forum

CBS: The crowd of world leaders, business executives and others in Davos remained silent during the beginning of Mr. Trump’s address to the World Economic Forum, without clapping, as he described his transformation of the U.S. federal government and relations with Europe.

Trump took the stage at Davos, addressing, “so many friends, a few enemies,” he said.

“It’s a who’s who, I will say that,” he said.

Mr. Trump spoke in a measured tone as he described the “miracle taking place,” touting a long list of what he framed as his administration’s economic successes.

Economy:

“The United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in country’s history.”

Mr. Trump began his speech by touting the completion of his first year in office, and a “booming” economy. He noted stock market highs, economic growth and strong 401(k) growth.

“People are doing very well, they’re very happy with me,” he said.

Core inflation last 3 months: 1.6%

Q4 GDP projected: +5.4%

Trump: “Far greater than anyone other than myself predicted.”

Trump on the burgeoning US economy in Davos ‘Instead of hiring bureaucrats we’re firing them”

In 12 months, the Trump administration has removed 270K+ bureaucrats from the payroll, cut federal spending by $100B, slashed the federal budget deficit by 27%, cut 129 regulations for every ONE new regulation approved, passed the largest tax cuts in history, and so much more.

Tariffs:

Live blogging highlights:

“The USA is the economic engine of the planet, and when America booms, the entire world booms.

History shows that when America goes bad, the whole world goes bad.

When we go down, you follow us down. When we go up, you follow us up”

“I ended eight wars … and without trade and tariffs you wouldn’t have been able to end any of them … But they’ve brought hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into the United States Treasury…”

On Europe:

“Frankly, many parts of our world are being destroyed and the leaders don’t even UNDERSTAND what’s happening! And the ones that DO understand won’t do

“Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable anymore. And that’s not in a positive way. That’s in a very negative way. And I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good. But it’s not heading in the right direction.”

Mr. Trump said he wanted to discuss in Davos, “how we want to raise living standards for our citizens,” and how European countries could emulate the U.S., because “certain places in Europe are not even recognizable.”

“I don’t want to insult anybody, and I say I don’t recognize it, and that’s not in a positive way. That’s in a very negative way. And I love Europe and I want to see Europe do good, but it’s not heading in the right direction.”

Mr. Trump said many Western governments had turned their back on, “everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong.”

“Quite frankly, many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes, and the leaders don’t even understand what’s happening, and the ones that do understand aren’t doing anything about it.”

On Crytpo:

“I’m also working to ensure America remains the Crypto Capital of the World… Congress is working very hard on Crypto market structure legislation, which I hope to sign very soon, unlocking new pathways for Americans to reach financial freedom.”

On windmills:

President Trump calld out the “stupid people” who support wind energy in Davos

“China is smart. They make windmills, sell ’em for a fortune, and sell ’em to the STUPID PEOPLE that buy them!”

Trump said, China builds them, sells them but they don’t use them. They don’t use windmill energy.

“Windmills all over Europe, all over the place, and they are LOSERS. One thing I’ve learned: the more windmills a country has, the more money that country LOSES. CHINA makes almost all the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China!”

“The greatest HOAX in history, the Green New Scam. Windmills, destroy your land! Every time that goes around you lose $1,000. You’re supposed to MAKE money with energy, not LOSE money!”

Trump lauds his tariffs and says Venezuela will do “fantastically well”

Trump says his tariffs have enabled U.S. to “radically reduce our ballooning trade deficit”

The president touted his administration’s trade agreements with other countries, including European nations, Japan and South Korea, and said they “raise growth and cause stock markets to boom, not only in the U.S., but in virtually every country that came to make a deal. Because as you’ve learned, when the United States goes up, you follow.”

He said Venezuela has “got problems, but we’re helping them,” claiming that after the U.S. operation to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela will “be making more money than they’ve made in a long time. Venezuela is going to do fantastically well.”

“The attack ended and they said: ‘let’s make a deal,” Mr. Trump said.

Greenland:

Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory. It is sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the U.S., Russia, and China.

This enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America — on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere.

It is a core national security interest of the U.S. — and in fact, has been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere.

Donald J. Trump said that no country—and no alliance of countries—has the capacity to defend Greenland except the United States, arguing that the island’s security is inseparable from America’s own.

Speaking to a crowd, Trump opened with a light moment—joking about whether he should address Greenland—before turning serious. He said he holds “tremendous respect” for the people of Greenland and Denmark, but stressed that every NATO ally must be capable of defending its territory, something Greenland cannot do on its own.

Trump warned that the world is far more dangerous than it was in the past, citing advanced missile systems, nuclear threats, and emerging weapons “I can’t even talk about,” and argued that Greenland’s vulnerability makes it a strategic liability.

He rejected claims that U.S. interest in Greenland is about rare earth minerals, insisting instead that geography and security are decisive. Greenland, he said, is “an enormous, unsecured island” on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere—effectively part of North America—and therefore falls within America’s strategic responsibility.

“This isn’t about resources,” Trump made clear. “It’s about security.”

“This would not be a threat to NATO – this would greatly enhance the security of the entire alliance.”

“You need the ownership to defend it,” the president said. “You can’t defend it on a lease. Number one, legally it’s not defensible in that way, totally. And psychologically, who the hell wants to defend a license agreement or a lease?”

“All we want from Denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we’re going to build the greatest golden dome ever built,” he said, referring to his plans for a missile defense system.

He then lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, saying the U.S. would use ownership of Greenland to defend the neighboring country.

“Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful.”

Trump to Carney: “Canada lives because of us. Mark, remember that before you make those speeches.”

NATO:

President Trump says the US gives “so much” to NATO and gets “so little” in return.

Trump has said the US annexation of Greenland would “greatly enhance the security” of NATO.

He said the US was “treated very unfairly by NATO”.

“We give so much and we get so little in return,” he said.

Trump says NATO has never given America anything and now he’s calling in the debt.

“The problem with NATO is that we’ll be there for them, 100%, but I’m not sure they’ll be there for us,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re not there for us on Iceland [Greenland],” the president said, “I can tell you, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland [Greenland].”

Mr. Trump said the U.S. had “never asked for anything else” apart from Greenland.

“You can say yes and we’ll be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember. A strong and secure America means a strong NATO, and that’s one reason why I’m working every day to ensure our military is very powerful, our borders are very strong, and above all our economy is strong, because national security requires economic security and economic prosperity.”

On credit card interest rates:

“The profit margin for credit card companies now exceeds 50%, and they charge Americans interest rates of 28%… So, to help our citizens recover from the Biden disaster… I’m asking Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year.”

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Schumer Vows to Reverse DOGE Cuts and Expand Spending if They Win Midterms

By The Geller Report

Chuck Schumer announces Democrats will reverse all DOGE cuts made under President Trump if they win the 2026 midterms.

What rational American, hell, what rational human being would vote for waste, fraud and corruption? If they win, it’s election fraud.

Senate Minority Leader Schumer targets Transportation, Housing and Urban Development programs in spending talks

By Leo Briceno, Fox News, anuary 16, 2026 7:19pm EST

Chuck Schumer says he aims to undo DOGE cuts to HUD programs and even expand them

The Senate minority Leader aims to implement his plan through bipartisan negotiations on future funding packages. (Credit: Center For American Progress)

House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he would press to restore funding cut by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and even add to the original amounts.

Schumer made the comments when he was asked Thursday if he would work to replenish funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at a forum held by the Center for American Progress.

“If you look at the budget we’re working on right now, we restore most of the cuts. And even go higher than previous years on many of the programs that DOGE slashed,” Schumer said.

“We have worked really hard and gotten bipartisan support to increase these amounts and undo a lot of the cuts which are essential.”

He did not describe which specific programs he hopes to supplement.

Lawmakers have not yet released a final text for the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bill for 2026. The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed a plan that would increase its fiscal year 2026 funding by $5 billion over fiscal 2025 levels.

Since the Trump administration began making cuts through DOGE, Democrats like Schumer have largely condemned them, calling them an attack on government resources and services.

Republicans, by contrast, have framed the effort as a way to remove waste, fraud and abuse. According to the DOGE website, the group believes it has eliminated $215 billion in waste.

Republicans made $115 billion of those spending reductions official through a bill passed last year.

Since then, lawmakers have not advanced another rescissions package, a bill that helps lawmakers fast-track spending reductions at the request of the president.

Republicans like Aaron Bean, R-Fla., chairman of the House DOGE Caucus, say the GOP’s cost-cutting efforts are still ongoing in the background.

“DOGE is still alive,” Bean told Fox News Digital in December. “We’re going to get it rocking. I think that will come down the road.”

Bean noted that several pressing issues have captured Congress’ attention in the last few months.

“I think, you know, the shutdown set everybody back a little bit. These credits, with the budget, with everything,” Bean said, referring to the COVID-era Obamacare tax credits that were at the heart of the 2025 government shutdown.

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Defunding ICE: A Risky Strategy from the Lefts Ahead of the Midterm Elections

By Oladigbo Oluwasogo Olalekan

As President Donald Trump continues to implement one of his major campaign promises deporting illegal immigrants through coordinated ICE and DHS operations across the United States, the Democratic Party appears to be struggling to define an effective opposition strategy without undermining core American values of law, order, and national security.

Historically, U.S. midterm elections often favor the party out of power, with voters using the opportunity to check the sitting administration. However, the upcoming midterms may not follow that familiar pattern. Republicans, under President Trump’s leadership, appear determined to retain control of Congress, fully aware that Democrats are eager to seize on any perceived failure of the administration as a campaign weapon.

So far, those failures have been hard to find.

Frustrated by the Trump administration’s firm stance on immigration enforcement, Democrats appear increasingly desperate for a political opening. That desperation has now taken a controversial turn with renewed calls by the Democrats to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a move that could prove politically dangerous to there success in this year midterms election.

The push comes amid recent events in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where federal authorities uncovered widespread fraud involving daycare programs, with hundreds of Somali nationals reportedly implicated. As ICE agents moved in to enforce the law, violent clashes reportedly broke out, with Antifa-linked agitators attempting to disrupt federal operations. The situation escalated tragically, leading to the death of a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole, who reportedly died during stampede-related chaos near the scene.

Rather than allowing law enforcement investigations to proceed, Democratic lawmakers appear poised to politicize the tragedy. The Democratic caucus in Congress has now announced support for legislation to defund ICE, a move spearheaded by progressive lawmakers including Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

Using the death of Renee Nicole as a political tool to smear the Trump administration may generate short-term outrage, but it risks alienating a broad swath of American voters especially independents who consistently prioritize border security, public safety, and the rule of law.

This strategy is particularly puzzling given recent electoral history. One of the contributing factors to Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election was the lingering impact of the “defund the police” slogan, which many voters viewed as reckless and disconnected from everyday security concerns. Reviving a similar narrative this time targeting ICE may reopen wounds Democrats would rather forget.

Independent voters, who often decide elections, have repeatedly shown that while they may support immigration reform, they do not support weakening law enforcement agencies tasked with protecting the nation’s borders.

Defunding ICE is not just a political gamble; it is a message that may be interpreted as prioritizing ideology over national security. As the midterms approach, Democrats may want to reconsider whether this path strengthens their appeal or reinforces the very concerns that cost them crucial elections in the past.
Whatever the outcome, the stakes for American democracy, public safety, and political credibility remain high.

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White House Creates DOJ Anti-Fraud Task Force to Protect Taxpayer Dollars

By Family Research Council

Decades of lax immigration policy have resulted in widespread welfare fraud in the U.S., robbing taxpayers of billions of dollars, but President Donald Trump is equipping the Justice Department to target abuse and protect Americans’ investments in state and federal programs. Vice President J.D. Vance announced Thursday that the White House is creating a new role in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), an assistant attorney general (AAG) responsible for investigating and prosecuting fraud across the country, answering directly to the president and vice president.

“We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance shared in a press conference. “That person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because, unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.”

“If you’re a young parent struggling to afford child care in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in day care, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance explained. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others, making it hard for you to get the access to the resources you need,” he continued.

Minnesota’s large Somali immigrant community has become the focal point for fraud investigations in recent months, but the vice president noted that bad actors across the nation have defrauded the federal government and various state governments of billions of dollars through abuse of welfare programs. “We know that the fraud isn’t just happening in Minneapolis. It’s also happening in states like Ohio, it’s happening in states like California.”

In a recent example, Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warning of potential fraud affecting child care and nutrition programs in his state. “Washington families deserve to know their tax dollars are paying for real meals and real care, not padding the pockets of scammers,” Baumgartner wrote.

“Minnesota is a cautionary tale for every state: when state authorities fast-track welfare payments with weak front-end controls and lax enforcement, fraudsters will pounce,” he continued. The congressman clarified that he is not alleging wrongdoing on the part of Washington’s state government, but is seeking “independent confirmation that Washington’s safeguards are working, and if they are not, fix the problems now rather than after a headline-grabbing scandal.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who was involved in prosecuting the Feeding Our Future fraud cases in Minnesota, lauded the creation of a new fraud division as “a great idea.” He added, “It’s sad that it’s necessary, but I applaud President Trump and his administration for coming up with that idea.” He continued, “It’s really a shame that hard-earned taxpayer money was just wasted on these fraudsters who just spent millions and millions of dollars to support their lavish lifestyles and took money that was meant to go to feed hungry kids and support people finding housing and such.”

“The fraud in Minnesota was widespread. It was a deep rot. It is a deep rot,” Teirab observed, relying on his four years of experience as an assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota. “The checks and balances in these programs didn’t work. They were designed to be based on the honor system, and a lot of folks had no virtue and so [they] just stole money. It has to stop, so it’s good that there’s now this new anti-fraud unit,” he continued.

Teirab pointed to the Feeding Our Future case as an example of the rampant fraud committed in Minnesota. “That was the big investigation and prosecution of — now it’s over 70 individuals who stole money from the federal child nutrition program, basically said that they were feeding kids, and it was all a lie. They stole over $250 million,” he recounted. “Now we know that was really just the tip of the iceberg. Now, there [are] all other kinds of fraud that the federal government has charged individuals for.”

A White House fact sheet released Thursday detailed the purpose and responsibilities of the DOJ’s new anti-fraud division. “To combat the rampant and pervasive problem of fraud in the United States, the DOJ’s new division for national fraud enforcement will enforce the Federal criminal and civil laws against fraud targeting Federal government programs, Federally funded benefits, businesses, nonprofits, and private citizens nationwide,” the White House clarified. “The Assistant Attorney General for this new division will be responsible for leading the Department’s efforts to investigate, prosecute, and remedy fraud affecting the Federal government, Federally funded programs, and private citizens.”

The anti-fraud AAG will be responsible for managing multi-district and multi-district fraud investigations, aiding other federal prosecutors with fraud cases, and working with multiple law enforcement agencies and federal entities “to identify, disrupt, and dismantle organized and sophisticated fraud schemes across jurisdictions.”

“They’re going to investigate fraud where it should be investigated. So you’re going to have wrongdoers being held accountable and, hopefully, taxpayer money going back into public coffers. That’s a good thing,” Teirab commented of the anti-fraud division’s responsibilities. He also noted that the resources available to the anti-fraud division will effectively supercharge fraud investigations and prosecutions nationwide. “This is way more ability for the federal government to investigate and prosecute widespread fraud and other kinds of crimes,” Teirab noted. “I was a state prosecutor for a while and then a federal prosecutor, and there’s just a big difference in the amount of resources that you can bring to bear in these investigations and prosecutions. So you’re going to deter crime and fraud.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) have both been implicated in the Somali immigrant-run fraud schemes fleecing Minnesota’s welfare programs and federal tax dollars. Numerous reports and witnesses have charged Walz and other Minnesota Democrats with knowingly and willingly turning a blind eye to fraud, refusing to investigate or prosecute fraud, and even silencing and threatening whistleblowers, auditors, and investigators.

Teirab expressed his hope that the federal anti-fraud unit is “going to incentivize state actors to get off their butts and actually do something to stop fraud.” He continued, “So now Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, instead of sitting on their hands, they might have a little bit more of an incentive, hopefully politically and literally, to actually do something if they know that the federal government might come in and make them look bad for not getting the job done.” Teirab added, “That’s clearly what’s happened here. I mean, they don’t look good because they didn’t do a good job.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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California Screaming is Becoming a Reality

By Karen Schoen

How many of you think that what goes on in California stays in California? NOPE! Boy are we naive if we think that what goes on in California does not affects every state in the Union. It seems as though Californians have taken the “We are stupid” pill and will now pay the price at the pump and pay more for all the goods at the grocery store. Every necessity is about to escalate into the ‘I can’t afford it’ category.

How did that happen? Well, Newsom is a socialist governor who seems to feel that the cost of the regulations he puts in place don’t have any consequences on Californians and certainly don’t affect him. The regulations in AB-5 are about to strangle the 70,000 truckers who just learned they can no longer be independent truckers. AB-5 is forcing them to become W-2 employees of their carriers or be fined. No small businesses for them.

The carrier companies they work for said “No, we cannot afford to W2 these independent truckers who own their own rigs. We’ll leave California.” The truckers said “No, we want to be independent so we’ll leave California!” And a huge portion of the 70,000 independent truckers have left California or are in the process of leaving. The carriers, aka Freight Handlers, who are national corporations said “We’ll leave too. We will move to another state.” Landstar, a national company, issued one statement, “LEAVE.”

So what did Newsom do? He hired illegals to replace the American truckers. What does that mean? It means Americans are at risk from truckers who can’t read English and cause accidents. It means goods sitting at the docks can’t be distributed throughout America. That affects all of us. It also means that Californians lost government funding from the DOT for breaking federal law and hiring illegals.

To add insult to injury, the heavy duty regulations placed on the refineries are causing refineries to leave California. California is about to lose 20% of its power … of its fuel. This is causing gas prices to rise unchecked in California, Arizona and Nevada. Newsom is blaming high profitability on refineries as the cause for escalating prices. His Public Service Commission told him it was due to his regulations. But Newsom is stubborn and does not pay attention and basically doesn’t care. After all he’s rich and can afford high gas prices.

Newsom’s solution, Pay the refineries subsidies to stay in CA. YES those same companies he put out of business will now be subsidized to stay. In addition CA will no be getting oil from ASIA at a much higher price. Newsom is either evil, doesn’t care or has zero common sense.

The question is whether California will be smart enough to choose a different route as they choose their new governor or will they sit back and let the insane regulations of environmentalists destroy everything they worked hard to achieve. Do they care where their taxes are going? That remains to be seen. But, what will that do to the rest of us as the goods pile up on the docks and the prices go higher and higher and higher. CA is filled with waste fraud and abuse. Is this what you want America to look like? If we thought Minnesota was bad just look at what this incompetent, selfish governor did to the once great state of CALIFORNIA. Then ask yourself, “Is this who I want as a president?”

Let’s look around the world and around your state. Has Trump made a difference?

Love him or hate him, one thing is certain, there will never be another President like Trump. Until Trump, our leaders did not respect America or Americans. We were the meat the parasites could eat and drain us until there was nothing left. Americans were the givers and they were the takers. Then along came Trump and things changed. They changed so fast most of us can hardly follow. In this week alone the world changed because President Trump is not afraid to say, “America First”.

The Venezuela incident brought us one step closer to telling the communists the game is over. Hopefully, Maduro will start naming names of the American legislators who looked the other way and got paid handsomely. President Trump told the Venezuelans and the world communists: “You can no longer play in the Western American Hemisphere. We don’t want your criminals or your drugs killing our people. We want the oil back that you stole from American companies when you nationalized the oil. We built your infrastructure. America made you rich. We will do it again. We will arrest the international criminal dictator (NOT the President) destroying your country. We hope that you will have a fair election and until that time we will monitor what those in power do. The people will get justice.”

Do you think Maduro’s capture will cause other dictators to flee?

BREAKING: Khamenei Preparing Escape Route to Russia

Iran’s supreme leader reportedly has devised a back-up plan to flee to Moscow as the uprising against the government intensifies and spreads across the country.

According to an intelligence report, Iran’s supreme leader is preparing for the possible collapse of the Islamic regime. He plans to flee the country for Russia with a group of relatives and aides in the event that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps either fails to crush the ongoing uprising or deserts, Last report, 2 cities were taken by the protestors.

Since that was not enough, Trump turned his sights to America. He told the Defense contractors to stop being such pigs and start investing in their companies to make more products faster. From Truth Social : “All United State Defense Contractors and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE: While we make the best Military Equipment in the World (No other Country is even close!), Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks at the expense and detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment. This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!”

President Trump was not done. He said he will ban large investors from buying single family homes. “People live in homes, not corporations,” he said.

Does that affect you? Look at your county Comprehensive plan. See if they are banning Urban Sprawl – a term made up by the socialists to blame property ownership on white people. Ask your county leaders to define Urban Sprawl. Most will not be able to answer.

Definition: Urban Sprawl, the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation. Urban sprawl is caused in part by the need to accommodate a rising urban population; however, in many metropolitan areas it results from a desire for increased living space and other residential amenities. Why else would you want to buy a house? own a car? That is the American Dream

DOES your county want to eliminate single family housing in order to shove you into high density easier to control communities. Mamdani and his new housing administrator want to eliminate private property ownership. It is a “white thing” and white neighborhoods should be taxed more. It is imperative that you pay attention to your local county and stop these plans before you can’t.

Under President Trump’s lead, RFK Jr. is doing a great MAHA job. They just upgraded the health food guidelines and added more protein and dairy. The top of the food pyramid is meat. Yeah. I can smell that steak on the grill. Hopefully the insane overreaching regulations on fertilizer and processing will be eliminated and meat prices will drop.

The administration was also busy on the vaccine side. When I was a child we took 7 vaccines over a period of time. Just like the Defense industry, big Pharma decided that stakeholders and executives deserved more money. So rather that making Americans healthy, they made Americans sick. The administration just slashed the recommended vaccines from over 60 to 11. Plus, the vaccines were recommended but not mandated. Funny how the opposition will slant an article. This report from MSN was a joke.

Everything is connected. The fraud in Minnesota is never ending. Snap, Medicaid unemployment benefits, Feeding our Future, Daycare fraud, NGO’s. I read that Craig’s List had a call for child actors to pose in Daycare facilities. Billions of dollars have been stolen from We The People. Please let us not be naive enough to think this is only happening in Minnesota. It is my hope that those criminal leaders involved will be arrested soon. Have you checked your state for fraud?

Why are democrats fighting to prevent the deportation of criminals? Because they are making money as well. Lt. Michael Byrd, who Shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, Operates a Taxpayer-Funded Home Daycare as $190 Million in Federal Child Care Funds Flow to Maryland.

I looked for fraud in Florida. I was not really surprised to learn about the dirty politics of the RPOF (Republican Party of Florida). It seems as though the Chairman of the RPOF, Evan Power, is a registered lobbyist with Ramba Consulting.

Of course after learning that, I am not surprised why the RPOF, a private corporation, in charge of supporting GOP candidates, is purging the grassroots from local chapters. In many cases, the refusal to help candidates causes the loss of GOP positions like the Democrat win in the Miami City mayors race. A republican position for over 30 years is now held by a democrat. Who exactly does Evan work for? Certainly not the Florida MAGA, grassroot Republicans. Evan is doing nothing to unite. Does the GOP want to win?

So much has happened this past week I can hardly catch my breath. Join me on this week’s show We will discuss the damage the GOP is doing to Florida with David Kalin in Segment 1. David ran for office and was purged by the RPOF. In segment 2 Ed Vidal will help us understand forgotten history about the true story of Venezuela.

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As always it is imperative that you share and spread the truth. There is so much confusion. Vet your candidates! Check out their actions. Use opensecrets.org to find their donors. What have they done to earn your vote? And above all, VOTE in the Primaries. Is America worth saving?

Guest: David Kalin, Former candidate SOE, Charlotte county

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Guest: Ed Vidal, Executive Producer and General Counsel

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Website: miamiindependent.com

“I DON’T WANT THEM IN OUR COUNTRY”: Trump Slams Somali Migrants, Calls Ilhan Omar “Garbage,” Warns of National “Tipping Point”

By The Geller Report

Every American should hear this.

President Donald Trump sharpened his criticism of Somali immigrants, telling a Cabinet meeting that he did not want Somali migrants in the United States with close to 90% relying heavily on welfare and offering nothing in return (with the exception of billion dollar taxpayer funded fraud.)

Every word of this is true.

TRANSCRIPT

They contribute nothing.

The welfare is like 88%

They contribute nothing.

I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, somebody say, Oh, that’s not politically correct. I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks. And we don’t want them in our country. I can say that about other countries too. I can say it about other countries too. We don’t want them to help. We got to. We have to rebuild our country. You know, our country’s at a tipping point.

We could go bad. We’re in a tipping point. I don’t know if people mind me saying that, but I’m saying it. We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.

These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘let’s go. Come on. Let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain and from where they came from, they got nothing. You know, they came from Paradise, and they said, this is in paradise. But when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it you.

Americans who remain unaware—or willfully blind—do so at their own peril.

President Trump said what no one else would say out loud, and said it without flinching. No euphemisms. No consultant-approved language. Just the truth, warts and all.

They contribute nothing.

They take.

They complain.

They erode.

And when told it’s “not politically correct,” he didn’t retreat—he rejected the premise. Political correctness is how nations die.

We are at a tipping point. That is not rhetoric; it is reality. A country can go one way or the other, and we go the wrong way when we import dysfunction, grievance, and hostility to the civilization that took people in.

This isn’t about race.

It isn’t about compassion.

It’s about survival.

Trump says what millions know instinctively but are bullied into silence for saying. He refuses to lie to make comfortable people feel virtuous. He refuses to pretend that nations collapse by accident. They collapse by choices.

What a gift—to hear the truth spoken plainly, without varnish. What a gift to have a leader who doesn’t perform sincerity but lives it. He is so real he feels unreal.

I believe God sent him—not because we deserved him, but because God hasn’t given up on us yet.

And yes—he’s funny. Razor-sharp, fearless, human. I used to say the world was okay because my father was still in it. I feel that way about Trump. Different men, same spine. Same refusal to bend to lies.

In an age of frauds, he is the real thing.

Trump on Somalis: ‘I don’t want them in our country’

President Donald Trump commented on Gov. Tim Walz and immigrants from Somalia during his cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon, saying: “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you.”

‘Their country is no good for a reason. Your country stinks and we don’t want them in our country… Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.’

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller 

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Ilhan Omar’s Marital Deception and Financial Fraud

By Amil Imani

The political career of Rep. Ilhan Omar is defined by a pattern of calculated legal manipulation and systemic financial misconduct.

While her supporters often attempt to frame these issues as personal oversights, the documented evidence reveals a history of deliberate fraud involving her marriages, her tax filings, and the exploitation of campaign resources for personal enrichment.

The most striking instance of Omar’s disregard for U.S. law is her 2009 legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Despite Omar’s insistence that Elmi is a stranger, a significant body of evidence, including social media records and school documents, identifies Elmi as her biological brother. This marriage was not a union of affection but a strategic sham designed to secure a green card and eventual U.S. citizenship for her sibling.

While legally married to Elmi, Omar continued a domestic life and fathered children with another man, Ahmed Hirsi. This overlapping timeline exposes the 2009 marriage as a fraudulent tool used to circumvent federal immigration statutes. By entering into a legal contract with her own brother, Omar committed both incest and marriage fraud — felonies that under standard enforcement would lead to immediate denaturalization and deportation. Her refusal to release DNA records or birth certificates suggests the reality of this deception.

Omar’s fraudulent activity extends directly into the federal and state tax systems. In 2019, an investigation by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board (MCFB) forced Omar to admit to filing joint tax returns with Ahmed Hirsi in 2014 and 2015. At the time of these filings, she was still legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

This was a calculated act of tax fraud. By filing jointly with a man who was not her legal husband, Omar intentionally misrepresented her household status to the government. Minnesota law is clear: common-law marriage is not recognized. Omar’s “joint” filing was an illegal attempt to gain tax advantages. She was subsequently ordered to pay back thousands in unpaid taxes and faced formal penalties for her dishonesty.

The MCFB investigation also uncovered Omar’s habit of treating donor contributions as a personal slush fund. She was caught using campaign money to pay for personal travel — including trips to Boston and Estonia — and for personal legal services. These are not clerical errors; they are direct violations of campaign finance laws that forbid the use of political donations for a candidate’s lifestyle.

The financial exploitation worsened after she took federal office. Omar funneled nearly $3 million in campaign funds into the pocket of her current husband, Tim Mynett, through his consulting firm, E Street Group. This arrangement allowed Omar to bypass ethical standards, effectively transferring donor money directly into her own household’s wealth.

As of January 2026, Omar is under renewed pressure as federal investigators widen their probe into the $9 billion “Feeding Our Future” fraud scheme in Minnesota. This massive theft of taxpayer funds, centered in the Somali community Omar represents, involved the fabrication of thousands of “ghost children” to steal pandemic meal money.

While Omar claims she had no part in the theft, the facts tell a different story. Multiple individuals convicted in this multi-billion-dollar heist were prominent donors to her campaign. Furthermore, her husband’s various business ventures — ranging from a California winery to obscure venture capital firms — have seen their reported value skyrocket from nearly zero to $30 million in a suspiciously short period. This sudden explosion of wealth, occurring while the surrounding community was being pillaged by fraud, points to a deeper involvement in the corrupt financial networks of her district.

In January 2026, a report by The Gateway Pundit revealed that Omar attempted to slip a one million dollars funding provision into a recent spending bill, which was directly linked to organizations currently under federal investigation for fraud. This move was a brazen attempt to use taxpayer dollars to bail out or further fund the same corrupt networks involved in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal. This legislative maneuver confirms that Omar’s priority is not public service, but the continued financing of the criminal enterprises that support her political machine.

Omar’s current husband, Tim Mynett, is a defendant in a January 2026 lawsuit alleging he defrauded investors of $300,000 through a wine business. This lawsuit highlights a double standard: while Omar frequently uses her faith to secure political support, her household actively profits from the sale of alcohol — a practice strictly forbidden (haram) in the very faith she champions. This hypocrisy further illustrates that for Omar and Mynett, religious and legal rules are merely tools to be discarded when they interfere with profit.

Ilhan Omar’s history is not one of “mistakes,” but of a career built on the deliberate subversion of American law.

From marrying her brother to defraud immigration authorities to filing fraudulent tax returns and siphoning campaign cash into her husband’s bank accounts, her record is a testament to systemic corruption. As federal probes into the $9 billion Minnesota fraud continue to close in, the facade of her political legitimacy is rapidly collapsing.

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TRADE SHOCK: Trump Slashes U.S. Deficit in Half — Lowest in 15 Years

By The Geller Report

While Democrats and their media lapdogs wail about “affordability” and chant that the sky is falling, the numbers keep humiliating the experts.

Under President Trump, the U.S. trade deficit has been cut in half—plunging to roughly $29.4 billion, the lowest level in nearly two decades. Even CNBC sounded stunned, admitting on air that the deficit collapsed from $136 billion in March to under $30 billion—territory so rare they “don’t have enough records to go back that far.” This isn’t spin. It’s math. And it’s yet another case where the so-called experts were dead wrong.

Trump—and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—were right. The results are undeniable.

Reuters: The U.S. trade deficit just collapsed to $29.4B (October 2025)—the lowest since 2009—as imports fell and exports hit a record.

Inflation has also cooled from where the panic-peddlers insisted it would stay: the CPI is up 2.7% year-over-year (through November 2025) and core inflation is 2.6%.

Bureau of Labor Statistics: And even with nonstop doomcasting, the labor market isn’t “crashing” the way they promised—unemployment is still in the mid-4s, not spiraling. (Reuters) In other words: the narrative is collapsing faster than the deficit—and the people who spent years sneering at Trump’s agenda are being forced, again, to confront reality.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just cut the US trade deficit IN HALF, lowest in nearly 2 decades, CNBC is in total shock!

“Buckle up, THIS IS UNREAL. -$29.4 billion, we cut it IN HALF!”

“In March it was $136B. Now, under $30B. We haven’t been that small in a long time – I… pic.twitter.com/kwVslzcCKr

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

Boom.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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