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EXCLUSIVE: Harmeet Dhillon Reveals What’s Next For ‘Notorious’ DOJ Office That Was Weaponized Under Biden

By The Daily Caller

After the Biden administration spent four years “weaponizing” her division, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon says that she needs more “energized attorneys” to help her spearhead new initiatives to protect rights that have been trampled on in the past years.

The priorities pursued in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division by her predecessor Kristen Clarke — prosecuting pro-life activists, suing states over election integrity efforts and targeting police departments — are going to change, Dhillon told the Daily Caller News Foundation during a Friday interview.

Under her leadership, Dhillon said the Civil Rights Division will continue its core mission, while expanding to new areas of focus including defending the Second Amendment, ending race discrimination in employment, securing parental rights and fighting antisemitism on college campuses.

Some current and former career attorneys in the division are claiming the shifts in policy will undermine civil rights enforcement. Last week, around a dozen senior lawyers in the division were reassigned, Reuters reported.

“We have changed the priorities, not the mission, the priorities, in each of the sections in the Civil Rights Division,” Dhillon told the DCNF. “Some personnel here have decided that they’d rather make their careers elsewhere.”

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The following interview has been edited for the sake of length and clarity.

A lot of Americans were concerned over the past four years how this division has been one of the most weaponized in the DOJ. What did you walk into three weeks ago when you came in?

The Civil Rights Division is one of the largest litigating departments of the United States Department of Justice, and you’re correct, a lot of the most notorious, headline-grabbing policies out of the Biden DOJ came from the Civil Rights Division.

For example, the Civil Rights Division was responsible for challenging Georgia’s election laws. The DOJ took it upon itself to harass Georgia over doing the right thing. The DOJ Civil Rights Division spent a lot of resources persecuting Christians for praying outside abortion clinics, not violently, not in any way obstructing people, just praying. That’s outrageous, and we’ve dismissed those prosecutions. The Civil Rights Division has been bringing and maintaining, I think, pretty flimsy cases against police departments and other law enforcement agencies for alleged statistical anomalies in arrest rates, very small anomalies. Statistics are easily manipulated.

We are here to absolutely punish misconduct by the police, by employers, by housing agencies that discriminate against people, by educational institutions that discriminate against students and a whole host of other civil rights statutes. There’s human trafficking, certain human trafficking statues come under our purview.

We’re required to enforce the federal civil rights laws. So all of that is going to continue to be done under the Civil Rights Division, disability law and all of that, but the emphasis is going to be different. It isn’t going to be on opening up investigations and harassing people endlessly and maintaining 40-and 50-year-old consent decrees. It’s going to be examining wrongdoing or alleged wrongdoing and determining quickly whether it occurred or not. If it does, we’ll go after it. If it doesn’t, we’ll move on.

More importantly, I think the rights of ordinary Americans over the last years have been stripped and violated. The First Amendment: during COVID, we saw so many violations of civil rights in every single area, which is something that I took on as a private lawyer. The FACE [Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances] Act can be used to protect clinics where women get counseling about their options for abortion, and 200 of those have been violently attacked, firebombed, picketed and otherwise been obstructed over the last few years with zero action from the DOJ. That’s going to change.

We have changed the priorities, not the mission, the priorities, in each of the sections in the Civil Rights Division. Some personnel here have decided that they’d rather make their careers elsewhere. So there’ll be quite a bit of turnover here in the Civil Rights Division.

What does that look like as far as staffing? Do you have enough attorneys to execute those new priorities that you’re hoping to focus on?

Love more. We’re waiting for, you know, throughout the federal government, people are being offered an opportunity to take severance that pays them for five months, and they don’t have to work anymore. They still stay on our books, so, you know, from the bean counter’s perspective I have all those people.

But reality is, not only are we going to continue the mission of the Civil Rights Division, the traditional, core functions, there are a lot of new functions that our president wants us to be looking at, and new functions that I want to do. For example, the Second Amendment is a civil right. The Civil Rights Division has never gone after states that systematically violate our right under Bruen and other Supreme decisions to carry weapons, to bear arms, to keep them in our homes. We’re going to be doing that in the Civil Rights Division.

I mentioned the FACE act, different applications of the FACE act. Rampant antisemitism on college campuses is going to come to an end under our purview. Employers that discriminate against people on the basis of race and use quotas in hiring that are in no way justified, public sector employers, will be getting inquiries from us, and so that’s a new priority that wasn’t being done before. That’s almost every employer in America, unfortunately, certainly in the public sector. We’re taking on de-banking practices.

These are all new things. I’m going to need new, energized attorneys dedicated to this mission. Once we finish this reorganization, and finish the severance process, we’ll be hiring again.

What are some of the lessons you learned from your private practice in the past that you’re bringing into your role here?

I am the rare thing of a conservative civil rights lawyer almost my entire career. So for 18 years, I had my own law firm. For six years, I had a nonprofit that I founded. Both of those, well, one, represented the president in his campaign and his personal life, and many prominent people whose speech rights were violated.

That’s something I’m very passionate about, the First Amendment. But during COVID, we saw every American’s rights trampled on in so many different ways. I filed more lawsuits during COVID than any other lawyer in the United States to challenge governors and local officials stripping away people’s private rights. So these are some of the things that I intend to bring to bear here.

I’ve been a lawyer for the Second Amendment community. I’ve been a lawyer for the pro-life community. Very passionate about all of those areas. I’m not here to do my priorities. I’m here to do the president’s priorities, which happen to overlap a lot with my priorities.

Another priority that Trump signed an executive order on is child gender mutilation and the transgender issue. Could you address specifically what actions you might be taking in the future? How you might be dealing with doctors, medical malpractice cases?

I can’t be specific because that wouldn’t be appropriate, but I can tell anyone to look at my record. In my private practice, in my nonprofit, I represented four prominent young women who detransitioned — Chloe Cole, Luka Hein, Clementine Breen and one other. These girls and their families were sold a package of lies. They were subjected to medical malpractice, and frankly, doctors looked the other way on their actual medical issues and put them on this conveyor belt. Thankfully, each of them realized they made a terrible mistake, and they’ll never get their breasts back. Thankfully, worse wasn’t done to them.

The president and the attorney general have emphasized that we need to be using female genital mutilation statutes that bar female genital mutilation on girls under the age of 18, a barbaric practice that we condemn around the world, but do right here in the United States. That doesn’t protect boys, unfortunately, but we will aggressively be looking at the extent to which doctors, medical institutions, public institutions, UCSF, and you know, all these public institutions around the country, have been violating the civil rights of American families.

Some states are systematically destroying parental rights, which is a civil right, by enabling the smuggling of children across the state borders to obtain this destructive treatment and surgery. That’s illegal, in my opinion, and it may violate human trafficking statutes. So there are a number of things that we’re going to look at.

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On the religious liberty front, I know you’ve spoken a lot about that. Earlier this week, there was a meeting of the anti-Christian Bias Task Force. What do you see as the biggest issue in the religious liberty space?

Well there’s so many. I’ve mentioned some of them, but I think there’s open hostility to religion in many sectors of our society.

We’ve had presidents mock people who cling to their faith. People who sought medical exemptions from the COVID vaccine during that terrible era, were fired from our military, were fired from jobs all over the United States. There’s active anti-Christian hostility in the military, in various government agencies. Chaplains are told not to preach their faith if they’re Christian. I mean, there’s so many things. Secretary Hegseth went over those at our meeting. And State Department Secretary Rubio talked about examples over there.

We have federal statutes that protect religion, not just the First Amendment, but there’s the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. We’ve brought several cases in the DOJ Civil Rights Division to protect houses of worship, Christian and others. It’s an important right that we have, and we need to protect people of faith, even in prisons. People who have committed crimes don’t lose their religious rights. I’m very passionate about that issue, and have spent my entire 32 year career working to represent the rights of people of faith.

On election security, I also wanted to ask you, what can be done about states that are allowing non-citizens on voter rolls? What role will the Civil Rights Division have in those issues?

We have a role. We administer the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, the National Voter Registration Act. Those are specific statutes. What we are not is the all purpose law enforcement agency of elections. Americans need to understand that most of our election laws are based in the states. However, there are these federal laws.

As a lawyer for many candidates over the years, and having been a candidate myself, I’m very passionate about that. And as an immigrant to this country, I think it’s outrageous that people conflate immigrant and illegal immigrant and [say] ‘nobody should be asking for anybody’s ID.’ It’s 2025. Everyone in America who’s here legally can easily get an ID. So that’s nonsense.

I do think that we need to be enforcing voter ID laws, allowing them, enabling them and making it easier for anyone who is legally entitled to vote in the United States to vote easily. That’s the bottom line. So the hostility that we see from one side politically and from judges to this basic concept, we have to work around it. There may be legislative solutions that are required, but whatever we can do at the DOJ to make sure that our elections are fair, safe and reliable, we will be doing.

You mentioned judges. There’s been a lot of talk about district court judges overriding the president, a lot of the executive orders. What do you think the answer is there?

Oh, that’s the heavy one. And I have to appear in front of these judges, so I will not say exactly what I think about some of these judges and their rulings. What I will say is that we have a runaway trend of judges, you know, substituting their judgment for the president’s. That is not what separation of powers means. I’ll leave it at that. I’m involved in several active cases. I can’t really take a position any more than this.

Finally, what would you say Americans should expect from the Civil Rights Division over the next four years? What’s your final message?

Well, they can expect that we’ll be enforcing the federal civil rights statutes. They can expect that the emphasis of that enforcement is going to be more towards the president’s agenda. He has many executive orders out there that I fully agree with and he has a right as an executive, the person that the American people chose to be our president, to direct that agenda.

Now, that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop doing traditional work, like the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is an important statute. Discrimination is bad. Violence at any house of worship or any health care facility is unacceptable, and all those statutes are going to be enforced. But we will not be weaponizing the federal government against law abiding citizens, against law abiding employers, against police departments that are trying to do the right thing and are largely doing the right thing. But if you’re enabling violent and obstructive, antisemitic protests on your campus, and I have jurisdiction, you will not be doing that.

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The First 100 Days by the Numbers

By The White House

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IMMIGRATION

  • -99.995% DECREASE IN CATCH-AND-RELEASE: Released just 9 illegal aliens into the US between January 20, 2025 and April 1, 2025, a 99.995% decrease from the184,241 released by Biden in the same period last year.
  • 20,000 ILLEGALS ARRESTED IN ONE MONTH: Arrested over 20,000 illegal immigrants in a single month – a 627% increase in monthly arrests compared to Biden.
  • 5,000 SELF-DEPORTS: Pushed over 5,000 illegal migrants to self-deport using the CBP One app.
  • 5,000 REUNITED CHILDREN: Reunited nearly 5,000 unaccompanied children with a safe relative or guardian after more than 300,000 children went missing under Biden.
  • -99% CROSSINGS: Just 194 US-bound migrants crossed the Darien Gap in March, down more than 99% from the 37,000 who crossed in March of last year.THE

ECONOMY

  • $8 TRILLION IN INVESTMENTS: President Trump has secured over $8 trillion in investment, with the projects expected to create more than 450,000 jobs.
  • $5 BILLION IN REVENUE: Unveiled the new “Gold Card” program, which has already attracted a 250,000-person waitlist and generated $5 billion in revenue in a single day.
  • 459,000 JOBS: The US economy added a whopping 459,000 full-time jobs in March, and exceeded economists’ total job creation estimates by nearly100,000.
  • -6.3% GAS PRICES: Gas prices fell by a whopping 6.3% in March, with energy prices dropping 2.4%.
  • -0.4% WHOLESALE PRICES: Wholesale prices fell 0.4% month-over-month in the March – the largest drop since October 2023.
  • -56% WHOLESALE EGGS: Wholesale egg prices are down over 56% from their peak.
  • $11,000 SAVED: Deregulatory actions will save nearly $11,000 per family off our over the next several years.
  • -$12/BARREL: Crude oil prices have fallen by roughly $12/barrel, compared to an $8/barrel increase under Obama and an$11/barrel increase under Biden.
  • 130 COUNTRIES: Since Liberation Day, at least 130 countries have begun engaging in negotiations with the United States, with the Trump administration already receiving at least 18 written trade deal proposals.

AMERICA IS BACK

  • 139 EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Signed 139 executive orders, the most of any president in United States history.
  • 26 RELEASED HOSTAGES: Secured the release of at least 26 American hostages, including Pennsylvania school teacher Marc Fogel, ballerina Ksenia Karelina, and missionary Robert Vieira.
  • 74 TERRORISTS KILLED: Approved strikes that have killed over 74 terrorists seeking toattack the US homeland, including the head of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
  • 1,009 QUESTIONS: Took 1,009 questions in his first month, 7-times more than Biden.
  • 20X QUESTIONS: Answered 20-times more press questions in his first three Cabinet meetings than Biden did at Cabinet meetings during his entire four years in office.
  • 11 HEADS OF STATE: Hosted 11 heads of state at the White House in the first 100 days, compared with 1 for Biden and 5 for Obama.
  • $1 BILLION: Secured nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services for causes such as assisting veterans, combatting antisemitism, and ensuring fairness in the justice system.
  • 80.7 MILLION VIEWERS: Set an Inauguration viewership record with 80.7 million viewers.
  • 2,200 OFFERS: Broke modern presidential staffing records, making over 2,200 offers, all accepted, to exceptionally qualified candidates.

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‘It’s Really Difficult.’: Elon Musk Reflects On Successes, Challenges Of DOGE At 100 Days

By The Daily Caller

THE WHITE HOUSE – On day 101 of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk recognized that his mission to cleanse the federal government of “waste, fraud and abuse” hasn’t been easy.

But Musk believes he and his team have had success — and the team will continue on its mission, according to Musk, well beyond 100 days.

“DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism,” Musk laughed while meeting with reporters on Wednesday.

Elon Musk sat in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing with the Daily Caller and a handful of other print reporters on Wednesday evening to reflect back on what DOGE has been able to accomplish as the Trump administration celebrated its first 100 days in office. As of Wednesday, DOGE says it has saved the American taxpayer $160 billion, which is equivalent to about $1,000 per taxpayer.

470,000 of the 4.6 million active U.S. government credit cards and accounts have been cancelled, a six page fact sheet on “DOGE wins” provided to the Caller read. The Social Security Administration has cleaned up its records at the directive of DOGE, finding 11 million number holders (all listed to be 120 years old or older) to be dead, the fact sheet claims.

“There [was] also an intense period in the beginning to try to figure out what’s going on, so just to get the lay of the land, things have to be very intense for the first three months,” Musk said.

“Just literally trying to understand what’s going on and try to map out, map out an understanding of the government in general. So, because the federal government is gigantic, very complicated and so if you’re trying to figure out how to stop racing forward, you’ve got to map the territory, understand how money’s been spent and why and where,” he continued.

Musk has said he will be stepping back from his full-time role at DOGE (he has been working in D.C. since the start of the administration about seven days a week) because the program has gotten into a rhythm and doesn’t need as much attention as some of his businesses do.

But Musk won’t completely disappear from DOGE, telling reporters that he will continue to work in D.C. on the project about two days each week.

In fact, Musk told the Caller that he thinks DOGE could be around for all four years of the second Trump administration — dependent on how long Trump wants his services. But for now, they’re still needed.

Musk and his team provided some examples of fraud they are currently working on eliminating from the federal government, which is escalating to Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team at the Department of Justice.

“There are hundreds of thousands of cases of fraud in the federal government,” Musk told reporters.

“We try to find the cases that are the most clear cut, we send that evidence to the DOJ, where they run it through their process, which takes several weeks,” Musk said, explaining that from there the DOJ has to decide whether it has the resources to pursue the case, if worthwhile.

It is a start, but DOGE is going deeper, Musk told reporters, explaining that he believes there are fraud rings being run in the federal government.

“There are definitely fraud rings operating, but in order to break up a fraud ring, it’s kind of like the mafia. You have to basically arrest one of the mafia foot soldiers, hopeful that they do a plea deal, then they tell you who their fraud manager is, and you can kind of work your way up the chain,” Musk explained.

The Federal Reserve is another potential place of interest for DOGE to inspect, as Musk seemed baffled by the report that the department is planning on spending $2.5 billion to revamp its headquarters.

“I think since at the end of the day, this is all taxpayer money, I think we would certainly look to see if indeed the  Federal Reserve is spending two and a half billion dollars on their design. But that’s an eyebrow raiser,” Musk said.

At the beginning of DOGE, Musk set a goal of saving the American people $2 trillion. Despite outside doubt, Musk still believes.

“I think it’s possible to do that, but there’s a long road to go,” Musk said.

“It’s really difficult … It’s sort of, how much pain does the cabinet and Congress want to take because it can be done, but it requires dealing with a lot of complaints,” he continued.

Musk is no stranger to complaints. Though joyful and laughing for a majority of the meeting, it was clear his task has brought some rocky waters to Musk. Just a few weeks ago, protestors lit Tesla chargers on fire across the country, vandalized Tesla cars and threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership.

“I’m proud of the incredible work by those teams who’ve taken a lot of flack. And these are people that can easily get high paying jobs in the private sector. In fact, came from high paying jobs in the private sector,” he said.

In February, Musk admitted that he and his team would make mistakes and that they would aim to correct them. Cutting USAID was one of the moves DOGE made in the last few months that received the most pushback, some of which caused the team to make mistakes, Musk previously told Fox News.

“I think there’s maybe another tendency to focus on the regrets … it’s sort of like focusing on balls missed, versus balls hit,” Musk told the Caller about how DOGE would avoid mistakes in the future. “Nobody bats 1.000 but nobody even bats .800.”

“I think we’re probably getting things right 70/80% of the time, something like that, which would be a ridiculous number for baseball, and so the wins far exceed the losses,” Musk said.

Musk’s time in the administration has brought about once-in-a-lifetime experiences too. The richest man in the world gave a window into what it has been like to be friends with President Donald Trump and run DOGE.

“We’ll be on Air Force One or Marine One and [Trump] will be like ‘Hey do you want to stay over?’ ‘I’m like, sure.’ But I didn’t request it, to be clear,” Musk said, sharing with reporters that sometimes when he is in D.C. he stays at the White House in the Lincoln Bedroom. “It’s just like we’ve literally arrived at a friend’s house, I guess. And then it’s like, do you want to stay here? I’m like, “‘sure.’”

Musk even attested that Trump is a very good host, explaining that one night when he stayed over, the president called him to make sure he helped himself to some dessert in the kitchen.

“Then he’ll actually call late at night and say, like, ‘Oh, why don’t we make sure you get some ice cream from the kitchen?’ And then I went to the kitchen and got the ice cream and I ate a whole tub of ice cream,” Musk said, adding that it was caramel flavored.

“Don’t tell RFK Jr,” he joked.

AUTHOR

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Pope Francis the Marxist!

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

By The Daily Caller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

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The Explosion of Foreign Funding at U.S. Universities

By The Geller Report

Terror sponsor Qatar and Communist China are among the largest sources of funding to America’s ivys.

“The floodgates opened during the Biden era,”

You want these fiends dictating what your child learns?

Destroy young minds, destroy a country’s future.

Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities

Foreign countries such as China and Qatar have poured $29 billion into campuses over the past few years. ‘Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.’

By Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin, Free Press, April 28, 2025:

Foreign donors have given as much to U.S. universities in the last four years as they did in the previous 40, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute shared exclusively with The Free Press. The study shows an explosion in overseas funding for American schools between 2021 and 2024, with nearly $29 billion in foreign money donated during that period.

Qatar and China are among the largest sources of funding.

That $29 billion figure is more than double the total for the preceding four years, and accounts for half of the estimated $57.97 billion in foreign funding since 1986, when the federal government began tracking the data.

INFORGRAPHIC NEWLY REPORTED FOREIGN FUNDING, BY YEAR via NCRI

“The floodgates opened during the Biden era,” said NCRI’s co-founder Joel Finkelstein. ”This isn’t just a financial issue—it’s a national security crisis. Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.”

Here’s what the NCRI study found:

Qatar is the largest source of foreign donations to U.S. universities since reporting began in 1986, with $6.3 billion coming from the gas-rich Gulf state.

Germany ($3.3 billion) was the largest source of foreign funding over the last four years, followed by China ($2.3 billion), Qatar ($2 billion), and Saudi Arabia ($1.9 billion). Almost two-thirds of the money from Germany ($1.9 billion) went to the University of Pennsylvania, including $467 million in a settlement last fall after the university accused a German pharmaceutical firm of improperly licensing their vaccine technology.

Qatari donations have ramped up significantly over the last four years. Nearly a third of donations from Qatar—over $2 billion—were given between 2021 and 2024.

The second-largest source of foreign funding is China. Chinese funding accounts for $5.6 billion and, as with Qatar, Chinese donations have increased sharply in the past four years, with $2.3 billion in donations from 2021 to 2024. China is the single largest source of overseas donations to some of America’s most prestigious universities, including Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford.

Harvard has historically received the most funding from foreign donors ($3.2 billion), followed by Cornell and Carnegie Mellon (which have each received $2.8 billion).

INFORGRAPHIC TOP UNIVERSITIES, BY FOREIGN FUNDING ALL TIME via NCRI

The findings come amid increased political scrutiny of foreign donations….

Continue reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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WHITE HOUSE: 100 Days at the Border

By The White House

President Donald J. Trump has delivered on his campaign promises to secure the U.S. border, achieving historic reductions in illegal crossings and apprehending dangerous criminals.

His administration has implemented tough policies, including designating violent gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and resuming border wall construction, to enhance national security and public safety.

Through mass deportation operations and targeted enforcement, the administration has arrested over 150,000 illegal immigrants, including gang members and criminals, while drastically reducing the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border.

The President has taken decisive action to eliminate sanctuary cities and cut federal benefits for illegal immigrants, redirecting resources to support American citizens.

His administration has also invoked the Alien Enemies Act to dismantle migrant criminal networks and shut down immigration apps used to exploit the system.

With measures like the Laken Riley Act and executive orders to streamline border security, his policies have transformed the border into the most secure in modern American history!

America is BACK & America is SAFE!

PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT: Border Security Achieved in Fewer Than 100 Days

Since President Donald J. Trump took office, he and his administration have ushered in the most secure border in modern American history — and he didn’t need legislation to do it. President Trump has made good on the promises he made on the campaign trail to usher in an unprecedented era of homeland security.

Here are a few of those promises:

PROMISE MADE: “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” (10/12/24, Aurora, CO)

PROMISE KEPT:

  • Illegal border encounters are down by 95%.
  • Illegal immigrant “gotaways” — the top threat to public safety — are down by 99%.
  • Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin: “If Fox were to send me down there right now, I would have trouble finding a single migrant on camera.”
  • CBS immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez: “Typically, when we go to the U.S./Mexico border, we at least see one group of people who are trying to cross into the U.S. illegally. We did not see a single migrant.”
  • The Wall Street Journal: Border Crossings Grind to Halt as Trump’s Tough Policies Take Hold
  • Bloomberg: US-Bound Migration Plunges 99% Along Panama Jungle Route
  • The Washington Times: Under Trump, border catch-and-release has dropped 99.99% from worst Biden month
  • Los Angeles Times: California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty.

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In the First 100 Days, the Trump Administration Has Taken Killers, Rapists Off Our Streets

This morning, images of the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested since President Donald J. Trump took office were placed on the lawn of the White House for the world to see — highlighting the Trump Administration’s unprecedented effort to secure our homeland and send these vicious criminals back where they belong.

CONTINUE READING

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Tulsi Gabbard Gives the Deep State the Boot

By Family Research Council

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred two intelligence officials to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution over their alleged leaks of classified information Wednesday.

The two officials reportedly leaked top-secret military information to The Washington Post and The New York Times, purportedly to hamper President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and stir up public opinion for their own partisan political gain.

“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end,” Gabbard told Fox News, noting that a third criminal referral is on its way. “Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

This isn’t the first time Gabbard has cracked down on intelligence community leakers. In March, she announced her department’s intention to aggressively pursue such activity and gave examples of how leakers recently shared classified info ranging from American intel on Israel and Iran to the U.S.’s relationship with Russia with left-wing media allies such as The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and NBC.

At the time, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (R) praised Gabbard for working to end “the weaponization of the intelligence community.”

Yet the weaponization of the intelligence community against the Trump administration is far from over. Gabbard’s recent criminal referrals for two intelligence leakers come as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces a slew of coordinated media attacks meant to slander his reputation and give him the boot at the Pentagon — all thanks to partisan intel officials leaking to their allies in the press. For example, The New York Times recently tried to resurrect “Signal-gate” by alleging Hegseth sent classified info via Signal to his wife and other personal contacts. NPR joined the psyop, by reporting that an unnamed “U.S. official” told the outlet the Trump administration is now looking for a new Defense secretary (the White House immediately repudiated the claim). Notably, both “scoops” rely entirely on anonymous sources for their articles (NPR’s “story” relies on only one anonymous source).

These anonymous sources are the partisan operatives within the intelligence community Gabbard hopes to root out. Because they are diametrically opposed to Hegseth and the threat he poses to both the military industrial complex and pointless foreign conflicts, as well as the PC-ification of the military, they regularly leak to their ideologically-aligned allies in the press and jeopardize the integrity and cohesion of Trump’s intelligence agencies.

“Leaking is always designed to damage a specific target and promote a narrative,” Chris Gacek, senior fellow for Regulatory Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “The Deep State cannot be given free shots on goal. It appears Gabbard realizes this, and she is taking action.”

The Trump administration has learned its lesson from its first term, where leaks abounded and intelligence officials and federal employees — both overwhelmingly Democratic Party-affiliated — tried thwarting President Trump’s agenda at every turn, many times through coordinated media attacks made possible by anonymous leakers.

But this time around, it’s different. “We are aggressively investigating other leaks and will pursue further criminal referrals as warranted,” a Gabbard official told Fox News. “Any intelligence community bureaucrat who is considering leaking to the media should take this as a warning.”

AUTHOR

Victoria Marshall

Victoria Marshall is a news reporter for FRC’s Washington Watch and is a contributor to The Washington Stand.

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Waste and Fraud Unmasked by DOGE Sparks Question — Why Didn’t Congress Find It First?

By Family Research Council

So much waste, fraud, and inefficiency in federal spending have been exposed since President Donald Trump re-entered the Oval Office three months ago that it raises the question: why didn’t Congress shine the light on such outrages long before Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) came along?

Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Rick Manning, for example, put it well recently, asking congressional watchdogs what they “have been doing over the past 20 years? Where was their spending oversight? Why have they not forced these systems to be opened up for public review so they could dig deep into the spending on authorized programs to determine whether they are being administered properly, and that the taxpayer has been getting their [money’s] worth?”

Manning’s question makes sense, considering what DOGE has uncovered barely three months into its deep-dive, including trillions of dollars in checks issued by the Department of Treasury — with no coding showing the purpose of the spending, billions of dollars of improper payments to ineligible or fictious Social Security, Medicare, pandemic, and unemployment beneficiaries, and millions of grant dollars to pay for things like transgender surgeries for Latin American men.

To get some answers to the question posed by Manning and others, The Washington Stand dug into the years of demands from congressional investigators to executive branch departments and agencies for millions of documents, threatened and delivered subpoenas, transcribed interviews, whistle-blower reports, and public hearings.

What we found can best be summed up in a comparison of what those sleuths looked at as a measure of their priorities in two years, including 2022 when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress and Democrat President Joe Biden was in the White House, and 2024 when Republicans controlled the House, but Biden remained in office.

More specifically, we focused on one House committee, known in 2022 as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR), and in 2024 after the panel was renamed the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (HCOA).

In 2022, Democrats running HOGR were extremely active, but exposing waste, fraud, and corruption in government was not a priority. In 2024, Republicans focused almost entirely on waste, fraud, and corruption in government, but they met a solid wall of refusals to cooperate from political appointees and career civil servants in the executive branch.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a 30-year Democratic veteran of the House, chaired HOGR in the 116th and 117th Congress with Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, as the Ranking Member in 2022. When Republicans regained the House majority in 2023 for the 118th Congress, Comer succeeded Maloney as chairman. Because it has such wide-ranging investigative authority, the oversight panel is a major newsmaker.

Maloney’s HOGR publicly issued at least 189 official letters to government and corporate individuals and entities, providing detailed background information to explain and justify the panel’s concerns, as well as posing multiple questions to recipients who were expected to answer as if they were under oath. In only a handful of those many letters did Maloney go beyond questions and ask for documents related to the subject and issues in the committee’s investigation.

Sorting the letters according to investigative issues produces the following breakdown:

  • 26 of the 189 letters, or 14%, were focused on one of a wide assortment of left-wing ideological causes such as confirming the failed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution, converting the United States Postal Service (USPS) vehicle fleet to Electric Vehicles (EVs), weaponization of election disinformation, and the availability and accessibility of menstrual products, among others.
  • 17 of the letters, or 9%, focused on allegations that the 20 biggest fossil fuel corporations like Exxon and Shell were exaggerating their efforts to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate change-caused disasters.
  • 14 of the letters, or 7.4%, concerned Trump scandal allegations, including classified documents kept illegally at his Mar-a-Lago compound, allegations of excessive rates charged to representatives of foreign nations staying at the Trump Hotel in the nation’s capital, improper foreign gifts to Trump, and claims various Trump family members and appointees profited from their positions in government.
  • 11 of the letters, or 6%, dealt with issues related to cryptocurrency.
  • Nine of the letters, or 5%, were devoted to allegations of food and supply-chain inflation.
  • Five of the letters, or 2.6%, questioned whether social media giants like Facebook were sufficiently aggressive in removing disinformation from the internet.
  • Only 14, or 7.4% of the letters covered issues of oversight of government programs such as the propriety of contracts awarded by the departments of Agriculture and Defense to particular firms, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning its response to shortages of infant baby formula.

The balance of the letters, 93, covered a wide range of unrelated topics such as allegations former Washington Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder tolerated a work environment hostile to women, accusations New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) wasn’t doing enough to assure mental health care access for Riker’s Island prison inmates, Amazon labor policies and cheers for state-level programs such as New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D) “Cumulative Impacts” program.

Only one of the 189 letters was addressed to a federal agency — the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector-General (IG) — concerning the failure to produce documents requested on three occasions about that office bungling its investigation of allegations of sexual improprieties by government workers.

Notably, the HOGR did not ask the Social Security Administration (SSA) about checks being paid to dead recipients or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about improper payments to unqualified recipients covered by the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The improper payments issue has been prominent in the work of DOGE.

Maloney, who lost her 2022 re-election bid after serving in the House since 1993, could not be reached by TWS for comment. A spokesman for the Democratic minority members of the committee did not respond to TWS’s request for comment.

The oversight panel was even more prolific in writing official letters during Comer’s chairmanship in 2024, with a total of 210. And where only one HOGR request to a federal agency in 2022 concerned failure to produce requested documents, such requests were at the center of virtually every major controversy involving the committee in 2024.

Comer’s investigators encountered opposition from the Biden administration-led executive branch to virtually every request for documents, not just to those involving the controversial and politically sensitive corruption allegations related to the chief executive’s family business.

“Biden withheld tens of thousands of documents pertaining to his involvement in his family’s corrupt influence-peddling racket that generated millions for the Bidens and their associates. … [The White House] refused to hand over documents pertaining to its war on domestic energy production, which drove up energy costs for Americans and jeopardized our national security. And the Biden administration failed to provide critical information about President Biden’s border crisis. Thankfully, the Biden nightmare is now over, and President Trump is taking action to reverse President Biden’s detrimental policies and is providing transparency to the American people,” Comer told TWS.

For example, an executive order (EO) signed by Biden in March 2021 directed an executive branch-wide campaign to ensure voter access by, among other techniques, funding supposedly non-partisan groups conducting voter registration campaigns. Republican critics contended that those registration campaigns always seemed to focus on strongly Democratic areas.

Comer’s panel made its first inquiry to the Biden White House about the EO on May 13, 2024, seeking all documents concerning the drafting, implementation, and third-party organizations involved, to be produced no later than May 28, 2024.

“The executive order requires the heads of federal agencies to allow ‘approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and state officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.’ To date, the administration has not provided a comprehensive list of who these approved organizations are, the process for becoming approved, or any guardrails for agencies in implementing this order,” Comer said.

Three months later, in an August 26 letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young, Comer emphasized the delays.

“The committee received a short letter response from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) over one month past the deadline, in which none of the requested documents or communications were produced. Additionally, OMB has not provided a timeline for production of responsive documents despite several requests by committee staff to work with your agency on this matter to obtain the requested documents and communications,” Comer told Young in the letter.

Comer said a subpoena would be on the table if the requested documents were not produced by September 2. The documents were never produced, according to a committee spokesman.

Similarly, the oversight Republicans repeatedly pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to produce multiple documents and other unredacted records regarding the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), headed by former Secretary of State John Kerry.

In a lengthy August 7, 2024, letter to Blinken, Comer pointed to multiple ways in which State Department officials evaded providing requested materials: “In a recent production to the committee regarding the SPEC office’s staff names and payroll information, the department made significant unjustified redactions and has withheld fully responsive information, thus undermining the committee’s ability to effectively perform its oversight functions.”

Comer further pointed out that it was “only after the threat of compulsory process did the department release some documents and communications revealing a sophisticated and targeted coordination between leftist environmental groups and the SPEC office that undermines U.S. foreign policy, energy policy, and national security policy.”

The committee also dug into the federal government’s chronic problem of improper payments, one of the most widely publicized examples of wasteful federal spending highlighted by the DOGE effort in 2025. In a March 26, 2024, statement, the committee noted the latest in a long-running series of reports by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the vast extent of improper payments across major federal departments.

“The GAO’s new report found there were $236 billion in improper payments in Fiscal Year 2023. Nearly 80 percent of Fiscal Year 2023 improper payments are concentrated in five areas: the Department of Health and Human Services’ Medicare and Medicaid programs; the Department of Labor’s federal pandemic unemployment assistance; the Department of Treasury’s Earned Income Tax Credit; and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness. Since 2003, cumulative improper payments have totaled $2.7 trillion,” the statement said.

The panel’s Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, chaired by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) was the point of the spear in addressing improper payments, convening three hearings during 2024 to examine the costs, causes, and needed reforms.

Against the backdrop of hyper-partisanship that dominated Congress and the rest of the national political scene throughout the year, Sessions and Ranking Member Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) demonstrated in those hearings that members of the opposing parties can still work together seeking workable solutions to national problems on Capitol Hill.

Asked by TWS about his relationship with the Baltimore Democrat, Sessions responded that “Mr. Mfume understands this main point: If you’ve got misdirected payments to the extent that we have, that means the people that money is intended for will not get it.”

In an October 29, 2024, joint letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, who heads GAO, Sessions and Mfume recognized the obstacles presented by the lack of congressional access to vital documents and poor record-keeping by agencies.

“The subcommittee seeks to continuously evaluate whether agencies are getting better or worse at ensuring the levels of fraud seen during the pandemic will ‘never happen again.’ Unfortunately, because of limited or unreliable information maintained by federal agencies, the subcommittee has been unable to adequately assess agencies’ progress,” they told Dodaro.

As a result, Sessions, Mfume, and GAO launched a wide-ranging probe of why agencies too often seem incapable of eliminating improper payments and what Congress must do to fix things.

“We’re in the process now, because this is the first time in four years that we’ve had access to excessive amounts of misdirected spending. This is the first time we’ve had that kind of visibility. We knew numbers existed, fed to us by official people about money that was misdirected with, for example, COVID payments,” Sessions told TWS.

“But when you start going $400 billion here and this and that there, you are not really putting it all together for the State Department, USAID, EPA, and so forth,” he added. The Texas Republican is confident that the joint effort he and Mfume launched with GAO will yield concrete, long-term reforms enacted by Congress and signed into law by the president that ultimately will produce victory in the war against wasteful and corrupt spending throughout the executive branch.

AUTHOR

Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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The push toward AI-powered self-driving cars gets major boost from Trump administration

By Leo Hohmann

Under the guise of ‘we must keep up with China’, US transportation system is about to be fundamentally transformed in way that negates freedom of movement and it’s all being ushered in by Trump admin. 

The Department of Transportation said Thursday it will ease safety regulations for the development of self-driving vehicles in a move designed to maintain U.S. global dominance in the industry.

The program will exempt U.S. automakers from safety regulations for automated vehicles, or Avs, intended for research or demonstration purposes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) letter.

Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said in a statement:

“This administration understands that we’re in a race with China to out-innovate, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.”

Duffy stated that the move is part of the DOT’s innovation agenda to move the United States “closer to a single national standard” that promotes innovation by removing regulatory barriers.

NHTSA’s chief counsel, Peter Simshauser, said the move would allow AV manufacturers to “develop faster and spend less time on unnecessary process, while still advancing safety.”

The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA) said in a statement that it welcomes the administration’s new framework, touting it as a “bold and necessary step” to boost the country’s transition to automated vehicles.

They claim these autonomous vehicles will make the roads safer (by taking driving out of human hands and placing it into the realm of AI) without addressing the loss of privacy and freedom of movement. Self-driving cars are also cars that can be remotely shut down.

AVIA CEO Jeff Farrah stated:

“We look forward to working with Secretary Duffy and his team to implement smart, forward-looking policies that will make our roads safer, expand mobility, strengthen supply chains, and drive American economic growth for generations to come.”

This is yet another example of how the Trump administration is leading us into a Brave New World of technocracy, where fewer and fewer of the instruments used in our daily lives will actually be under our control. AI will control everything. That’s what Project Stargate is all about.

Project Stargate was launched by the White House on day one of its second term in partnership with arch-technocrats Larry Ellison of Oracle and Sam Altman of Open AI. Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are also big-time technocrats with tremendous influence on the Trump White House.

Ellison, Altman, Musk and Thiel all have one thing in common — they are technocrats trying to replace humans with AI in almost every capacity. Those humans who remain employed in most of the important roles in society will be “super humans” who have augmented their physical bodies with invasive technology. In short, they will have become part of a new, superior race of “transhumans.” That’s why they use the term “humanity 2.0.” This involves not just the “Internet of Things” like autonomous vehicles, but eventually the “Internet of Bodies.”

I doubt President Trump understands any of these ideas but he is playing with fire by hitching his train to transhumanists and technocrats like Musk, Ellison, Altman and Thiel.

Trump sees it all as merely keeping up with the Joneses. With China being the main competition.

The technocrats love to play the China card, too, because they know it’s a winning hand for them and their business interests. If we don’t do this or that, China will beat us to the punch and take over our role as world hegimon. Beware of this dangerous false talking point.

According to NTD.com, John Bozzella, president and CEO of Alliance for Automotive Innovation, said the new framework would help ensure that the United States will not “cede AV leadership to China and other countries.”

Cede AV leadership to China? So what? If the Chinese are forced to ride around in self-driving cars, which are essentially a new form of public transportation no longer controlled by the individual vehicle owner, why does that mean we in America need to move in that direction?

This entire push to allow AI to control every facet of our lives gets pushed forward under the guise of “keeping up with China” and not letting China outperform us technologically.

But here’s the rub. China is an authoritarian society and its government finds intrusive tech as a natural match. America, on the other hand, is supposed to be a free society, and yet its leaders are pushing us down the same dangerous path as China. That should be cause for alarm. Because even if the current administration sees this technology as a neutral tool only to be used for benign purposes, you can bet your last digital dollar that a future administration will be more than happy to weaponize it.

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Federal Officials Take TDA-Harboring Judge, Wife Into Custody

By The Daily Caller

Former New Mexico Democrat Judge Jose “Joel” Cano and his wife were reportedly taken into custody Thursday by federal officials after being accused of harboring a Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member in their home.

KFOX14 captured video Thursday afternoon showing federal officials placing Cano and his wife Nancy into custody as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers executed a search and probable cause arrest warrant at their Las Cruces home. The video shows officials wearing Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) vests detaining the couple near a set of vehicles, with both placed in handcuffs.

In March, Cano resigned from his position after 23-year-old Venezuelan national Cristhian Ortega-Lopez was arrested by authorities, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Ortega-Lopez had reportedly met Nancy Cano after illegally entering the U.S. in 2023 near Eagle Pass, Texas and later accepted her offer to stay in a “casita” behind their home, the outlet reported.

Leading up to Cano’s resignation, the Department of Justice said federal authorities had executed search warrants related to unlawful firearm possession and other offenses involving four illegal migrants in the state — Ortega-Lopez among them.

A spokesperson for ICE said to KFOX14 that both Cano and his wife had been taken into custody during the raid of their home, with HSI agents telling the outlet that both face evidence-tampering charges.

Ortega-Lopez is accused of being an illegal migrant in possession of firearms as well as having affiliations with TdA. Official charges against Cano and his wife have not been officially released.

The FBI was unable to provide the Daily Caller News Foundation with any further information due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.

HSI and ICE did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. 

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Hailey Gomez

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Trump Has Given ‘Significant Hope To Our Industry’ Car Part Manufacturers Say, Ask For Time To Implement Tariffs

By The Daily Caller

The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), representing over 7,500 American automotive businesses, delivered a message of support to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda.

In a letter sent Monday, SEMA praised Trump’s leadership and commitment to restoring America’s industrial strength.

“We write to commend you and your administration for your commitment to restoring the greatness of American manufacturing,” wrote SEMA President and CEO Mike Spagnola. “Your return to the White House has given significant hope to our industry.”

The automotive specialty parts aftermarket is a powerhouse of American innovation. Contributing $337 billion annually to the economy and supporting over 1.3 million jobs, the industry consists of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of motor vehicle parts and accessories.

SEMA was one of the loudest supporters of Trump’s decision to revoke former President Joe Biden’s de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate.

“On day one of his new administration, President Trump reclaimed the nation’s freedom of vehicle choice, proclaiming the authority of the United States of America, rather than so-called United States of California, to set national policies,” Spagnola said.

While SEMA’s letter made clear they support the president’s use of tariffs to bring jobs back to America, they warned the transition period has been challenging, especially for smaller operations that don’t have the capital reserves or volume pricing power of multinational giants.

“For many specialty automotive businesses that manufacture their products in America, they are forced to source components used in their products from international suppliers, because there are no domestic manufacturers or none that will produce components in smaller volumes that meet their needs,” Spagnola continued in the letter. “For businesses in this position, they have no choice but to source components from abroad.”

Rather than backing down, they are asking for temporary, targeted relief.

“Our primary request is that American automotive parts manufacturers, including our members, be provided a transition period to re-shore their manufacturing, as well as some form of economic relief to assist in that transition,” Spagnola indicated. “That relief could include tariff exemptions for things like molds, tooling, and machinery brought back to the U.S., as well as tax incentives to offset the associated costs.”

SEMA emphasized they believe in Trump’s vision and want to be on the front lines of making it a reality, they just “need a bridge to assist with the transition.”

AUTHOR

Floyd Buford

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VIDEO: How A.I. is Fueling Sexual Exploitation

By National Center on Sexual Exploitation

“Children being the targets of this deepfake technology is our worst nightmare.”

Haley and Dani discuss the current state of artificial intelligence and deepfake technology in the realm of sexual exploitation.

Overwhelmingly, these tools are used for pornographic material, and 10% of teenagers have reported being aware of deepfake pornography depicting someone they know.

They also dig into how this leads to desensitization towards sexualizing children and overwhelming law enforcement.

WATCH: Deepfake Technology and A.I. in Sexual Exploitation



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At its core, the Democrat’s rage and projection are a function of their own self loathing and failures

By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com

“At its core, leftist rage and projection is a function of their self loathing and failures. It only destroys and never creates value, only misery, until in the end it destroys itself.” — Sam J. Sugar

We are witnessing the decline and fall of the Democrat Party and it is because they know that they are in a deep hole politcially, but just can’t seem to stop digging.

The Democrats are the party of the rich, of the homosexuals and sodomites and now have embraced drug cartel members as more important to defend than we the people. They have abandoned God and God has abandoned them.

They have:

  1. Attacked their enemies, the MAGA Patriots on January 6th, 2021 with premeditation. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified the Biden Administration’s “Strategic Implementation Plan For Countering Domestic Terrorism” on April 16th, 2025. The fifteen-page document details “four pillars” of domestic terrorism response, as assessed by intelligence and law enforcement in March 2021. How exactly did the administration plan to accomplish these lofty goals? By, it appears, increasing mass surveillance of the American people. Read more here.
  2. Biden announced the creation of the nation’s first “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” in June 2021. The strategy, as explained to the public, justified itself by dual reasoning: a “resurgence” of racially motivated violence, attacks against government institutions, and associated individuals. Among the latter, according to the document, were the January 6, 2021, protests which culminated in protesters occupying the Capitol.
  3. Attacked their political opponents using the Justice System as a weapon. President Donald J. Trump and thousands of Americans have been tried, convicted and declared felons by corrupt judges.

Also unprecedented was the Biden administration’s campaign against political rivals under the guise of fighting domestic terrorism.

Since losing the 2024 election the Democrats have take a dramatic turn for the worse.

They have:

  1. Called for resistance in the halls of Congress, in the courts and in the streets. The statement “resistance in the halls of Congress, in the courts, and in the streets” refers to the various forms of opposition and challenges to policies or actions of the Trump administration, particularly in the context of political and social movements. This resistance can manifest in legislative action in Congress, legal challenges in the courts, and through protests and mobilization in the streets.
  2. Used district court judges appointed primarily by Obama and Biden to take away the Executive Powers of the President of the United States of America. These rogue judges have ruled on every action taken by the Trump administation to make America safe, prosperous and great again. These judges have ignored the U.S. Constition and its speration of Powers. To date the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the President but there are many more cases to be adjudicated.
  3. Created violence in the streets across America, on college campuses and even ploted multiple assassination attemps against the Presiden, his cabinet and other government officials.
  4. Attacked citizens who own Tesla vehicles and Tesla dealerships using a variety of means including bombs, molotov cocktails, and defacing or destroying Tesla vehicles.
  5. Come out against cutting government fraud, waste and abuses in the courts and in the halls of Congress. Including voting against bills that would protect the American people against such fraud, waste and abuse in every department of government.
  6. Voted against votor IDs, paper ballots, same day reporting of the results of elections and cleaning up voter roles of dead people and criminal illegal aliens.
  7. Actively supported MS-13 gang bangers and ignored American hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
  8. Continue to support radical Islamic terrorists and drug cartels over the safety and security of the American people.

And the list of rage and projections is not only supported but amplified by the legacy media. A prime example is the defense of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia as a Marylander. This even led to Maryland Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen who met with the now deported criminal illegal alien, and MS13 gang leader Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday, April 17th, 2025. They sat and had marjuritas together like they were members of the same cartel family.

This meeting led to this video being posted on X: Must watch DeMS-13

The Democrat party is no longer the party of Thomas Jefferson or John Fitzgeral Kennedy. That party has died long ago and is in it’s final death spiral.

The American people, thank God, have woken up and are now fighting back. They are fighting back peacefully, using their God given right to free speech.

The American people re-elected as their President Donald J. Trump for a reason. That reason is to fundametally transform American back to greatness and glory under God.

The reconing for the DeMS13 is here. It will be the end of them and their followers.

America to fix what they have broken will take POTUS 47, 48, 49 and 50 to restore our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,

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JAILBREAK!

By The Daily Caller

As Democrats book plane tickets to El Salvador to try to rescue the “father of the year,” the media is seizing on the case of another “Maryland man” who is on the path to deportation …

JAILBREAK!

Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen hopped on a flight to El Salvador on Wednesday morning to check in on his favorite “constituent,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and attempt to lobby President Nayib Bukele for his release.

A quick refresher on the facts:

Abrego Garcia is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was affirmed to be a “verified member of MS-13” by two immigration judges. Abrego Garcia successfully obtained a withholding of removal order by claiming he might be killed by a rival gang if he returned to El Salvador.

He ended up being put on a deportation flight to the CECOT prison in El Salvador, which the Trump administration contends was a mistake.

The Supreme Court asked the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return, but Bukele made very clear during an Oval Office visit earlier this week that he has zero intention of sending a likely gang member — and one of his own citizens — back to the U.S.

Democrats have decided that Abrego Garcia is their cause célèbre. Van Hollen is the first to cross the border for the infamous “Maryland father,” but Sen. Cory Booker is also reportedly looking to organize a trip. Think he’ll bring a rock hammer?

Let’s do a fun little comparison to put into perspective what the Democrats are doing:

Van Hollen has referred to Abrego Garcia as his “constituent” and falsely claimed he is an “American citizen.”

“I don’t think he wants to essentially be the president who’s kidnapped the United States citizen,” Van Hollen said of Bukele.

Van Hollen’s office later claimed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that he “misspoke.” Nonetheless, he will fly nearly 4,000 miles round trip to try to bust Abrego Garcia out of prison. Van Hollen “won’t stop fighting until he’s home,” he said.

Meanwhile, Van Hollen has an actual constituent and U.S. citizen who was murdered by an illegal alien. Rachel Morin didn’t have the courtesy of Van Hollen attending her funeral or even calling or meeting with her family after her death.

“I’m actually outraged … He did not call our family; he did not give condolences,” Rachel’s mother, Patty Morin, told Fox News. “There was no action … in Maryland none of the Senators did anything to help search for the murderer of my daughter.”

We also learned Wednesday thanks to reporting from Andy Ngo that Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer, petitioned for a domestic violence protective order against him in 2021. Jennifer married Abrego Garcia while he was in immigration custody in 2019, presumably to help him avoid deportation, and is now raking in cash on a GoFundMe by claiming Abrego Garcia is an “excellent father.”

An alleged transnational gang member and alleged wife beater? Van Hollen’s got your back. Family member of someone murdered because of his party’s border policies? Sorry, no dice.

With that out of the way, allow me to turn your attention to the next media-nominated candidate for “Maryland father of the year.”

Newsweek and the Frederick News Post have both written glowing profiles about an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, Alexi Canas, since he was picked up by ICE in early April. Canas immigrated illegally to the U.S. in 1995 and was handed over to immigration officials after appearing in court for driving on a suspended license in Maryland.

Both media publications downplayed the severity of Canas’s criminal history, tugging at the heartstrings by repeatedly reminding the reader that he has eight anchor babies.

“Father Living in US for 30 Years Detained by ICE Over Driver’s License,” Newsweek’s headline reads.

“For the past month … Alexi has not been home to greet his children. The last time they saw him was March 10, when he appeared in Frederick County Circuit Court to face a charge of driving on a suspended license,” the Frederick News Post reported before helpfully providing a link to a GoFundMe for his legal expenses.

As was the case with Abrego Garcia, the full story is far more unflattering.

Canas’s first criminal offense dates back to 2003 when he was busted with marijuana and associated paraphernalia. He was pardoned last year when Democratic Gov. Wes Moore issued sweeping pardons for all misdemeanor marijuana offenses.

Canas was taken to court by the state of Maryland on two occasions for failing to pay state taxes.

Canas’s more recent driving history is more egregious than simple “traffic violations,” as Newsweek and the Frederick News Post described them.

It appears that Canas has been driving with a suspended license for at least ten years. His first violation dates back to March 2015. Authorities had to issue a bench warrant after he failed to appear in court.

He was stopped again in December 2016 and was again found to be driving with a suspended license.

In November 2023, he was pulled over for going 94 MPH in a 55 MPH speed limit zone. Later that year, he was summoned to civil court in two private debt collection cases.

Here are the rest of Canas’s “traffic violations”:

March 2024: Pulled over for going 90 MPH in a 70 MPH speed limit zone

April 2024: Caused an accident while speeding and was driving on a suspended license

August 2024: Failed to appear in court after driving with a suspended license

November 2024: Refused to provide police with a license after being pulled over, again found to be driving on a suspended license

December 2024: Caused another accident after failing to yield while making a left turn. His license was still suspended and he failed to attend a driver improvement program.

January 2025: Pulled over for going 69 MPH in a 45 MPH speed limit zone. Failed to display his license when approached by police. Was found again to be driving with a suspended and expired license.

It was only at this point, after causing two accidents with his reckless driving in less than a year — when he didn’t have a valid driver’s license to begin with — that Canas was referred to immigration authorities for removal. We’re lucky he didn’t kill someone first.

Overall, Canas has 60 court cases on his record in the Maryland judicial system.

I’m sure Van Hollen will be begging for his release from ICE custody any day now.

AUTHOR

Amber Duke

Senior Editor.

RELATED ARTICLE: Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s Trip To El Salvador Likely Paid For By Taxpayers, Senate Aides Say

WHAT ELSE IS ON MY RADAR:

A sports reporter sweetly asked a female baseball fan for her phone number while live on air. Online woke losers immediately tried to turn him into some kind of predator. Check out my opinion piece on the entire saga:

Woke Scolds Accuse Sports Reporter Of Being ‘Creepy’ By Getting A Girl’s Phone Number

As I reported in Tuesday’s edition of Unfit to Print, the arson suspect accused of burning down the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was a self-avowed socialist and BLM supporter. The news media tried to paint the guy as some kind of political centrist, but a police warrant confirms he tried to kill Gov. Josh Shapiro over his support for Israel:

Socialist Arson Suspect Targeted Jewish Governor Over ‘Palestine,’ Police Warrant Says

You can’t make it up … while New York Attorney General Letitia James was pursuing a fraud case against President Donald Trump, she allegedly lied on a mortgage application to secure more favorable loan terms on a home in Virginia. Legal analyst Jonathan Turley believes the allegations are “quite damning”:

‘These Documents Are Quite Damning,’ Jonathan Turley Says Of Allegations Letitia James Committed Mortgage Fraud

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Florida Takes an Important Step to Support First Responders

By Center For Security Policy

The Florida state legislature recently took a small, but important step to support first responders in the Sunshine State.

A nagging problem that has impacted the first responder community has been the difficulty in recruiting and retaining support personnel, such as crime scene investigators and personnel responsible for processing evidence. There has been a great deal of turnover among support personnel, especially as compared to patrol, EMT and other front line personnel.

One reason for the disparity has been that support personnel have often not been considered “first responders” and thus have not been eligible for certain benefits and programs designed for first responders.

This is particularly true in terms of confidential support programs that are available to first responders to help them deal with the numerous traumatic incidents they become involved in.

First responders such as law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians are often exposed to incidents of death and destruction that can result in the development of behavioral health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and suicide. To cope with the demands and stresses associated with their occupations, some first responders choose to participate in peer support. Generally, peer support involves connecting a first responder who needs support with another first responder who has behavioral health training.

Thanks to legislation introduced by Florida State Representative Randy Maggard and State Senator Danny Burgess, support personnel who are are involved in investigating a crime scene or collecting or processing evidence are added to the legal definition of first responders and thus become eligible for peer support for first responders and providing confidentiality to communications made by such support personnel while participating in peer support. The term “support personnel” includes any person employed or appointed by an employing agency who is not an officer or, as specified by the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, other professional employee in the criminal justice system. As such, the bill extends the privilege of confidentiality for peer support communications to include communications made by support personnel employed by a law enforcement agency who are involved in investigating a crime scene or collecting or processing evidence.

Under the new law, such support personnel will receive the same benefit of confidentiality with respect to peer support communications as law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, 911 public safety telecommunicators, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers.

The legislation has passed the Florida House and Senate and now heads to Governor DeSantis’s desk, where he is expected to sign it.

AUTHOR

Christopher Holton

Senior Analyst and Director of State Outreach

Christopher Holton is a Senior Analyst and Director for State Outreach at the Center.

During Mr. Holton’s 20+ years with the Center, he has directed the Center’s Divest Terror Initiative and Shariah Risk Due Diligence Program. He has been involved in education and outreach in more than two dozen states regarding divestment of taxpayer supported pension systems from foreign companies that do business with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Sudan, and the Syrian Arab Republic. In addition, he has been involved in state level counterterrorism and countershariah initiatives in dozens of states.

He was a co-author of War Footing, published by the US Naval Institute Press and a co-author of Shariah, Law and Financial Jihad: How Should America Respond? In 2015, Holton co-authored The Gulen Movement: Turkey’s Islamic Supremacist Cult and Its Contribution to Civilization Jihad in America.

Holton’s work has also been published by National Review, Human Events, The American Thinker, The Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Big Peace, World Tribune, World Net Daily, NewsMax, and TheHayride.com. He has appeared on television on the O’Reilly Factor, the Glenn Beck Program, CNBC’s Squawk Box and Fox and Friends. On radio he has guested on the Laura Ingraham program, the Michael Reagan show, the Brett Winterble show, the Roger Hedgecock program, the Michael Medved show, the Jim Bohannon show and Politics With A Punch with Jeff Crouere.

Holton has been a frequent guest speaker at gatherings and events from Florida to California and has conducted law enforcement training in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arizona, Minnesota, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas.

Before joining the Center, Christopher was President of Blanchard and Company, a two hundred million dollar per year investment firm, and editor-in-chief of the Blanchard Economic Research Unit.

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DOGE Exposes Millions in Blue-State Unemployment Fraud

By Family Research Council

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has revealed that it has found close to $400 million worth of fraudulent unemployment claims that have been paid out by the federal government since 2020. The revelation comes as the overall cost-cutting goals of the Trump administration initiative have become much more modest, but experts say that the effort is still vitally important in order to help reverse the trend of massive federal deficits year after year.

In a post on X last week, DOGE announced that it had uncovered over 24,000 claims from people purporting to be over 115 years old, for a total of $59 million in unemployment benefits. Another 28,000 people between the ages of one and five claimed $254 million, and another 9,700 people “with birth dates over 15 years in the future” claimed $69 million. “In one case,” DOGE reported, “someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.”

In a follow-up post on April 10, DOGE noted that “California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these improper claims, totaling $305M in unemployment benefits. Additionally, California accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terrorist watchlist or with criminal records.”

Notably, the three states are almost entirely controlled by the Democratic Party, with the governorship and both state legislative chambers led by Democrats in all three states. “There’s a reason for the mass exodus from Democrat-run states that have mismanaged their economies and driven residents to the nearest Republican-led state,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News. “High taxes, poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars and progressive policies continue to yield negative results, which is why Americans overwhelmingly support the work of DOGE.”

A February poll indeed showed that over three-quarters of Americans supported the work of DOGE. But by March, polls showed that enthusiasm for the cost-cutting efforts had cooled off substantially, with 47% saying they had a negative view of the Elon Musk-led effort and 41% saying they had a positive view of it. Still, the polls indicated that a majority of Americans support the idea that the federal government should be downsized.

This widely popular sentiment helped energize DOGE’s initial flurry of activity after President Trump’s inauguration in January, with Musk predicting that the department could start cutting roughly $4 billion per day in order to reach the goal of $1 trillion in cuts by the end of the current fiscal year on September 30. But over the weekend, The New York Times reported that Musk predicted during a Cabinet meeting on April 10 that DOGE’s cuts would only total about $150 billion by September, 85% less than their original goal.

Nevertheless, DOGE has uncovered a significant amount of fraud that has eaten up millions of taxpayer dollars in addition to the false unemployment claims. Last week, the department revealed that under the Biden administration, almost four million noncitizens were assigned Social Security numbers, with 1.3 million of those individuals receiving Medicaid benefits.

In wide-ranging comments to The Washington Stand, Quena González, senior director of Government Affairs at Family Research Council, expressed great appreciation for the effort that DOGE is undertaking.

“DOGE is to be commended for scrutinizing the scope and size of government to look for waste, fraud, and abuse,” he remarked. “No administration has attempted to move at the speed and scale with which President Trump has.”

“Cutting government waste is always difficult, for three principal reasons,” he explained. “First, no government entity voluntarily resigns; government bureaucracies, by definition, are self-perpetuating. As President Ronald Reagan said, ‘No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!’”

González continued, “Second, when the government starts spending taxpayer money on something, a whole cottage industry springs up around facilitating that government funding, lobbying to make sure that taxpayer dollars continue to flow, and coaching the recipients to continue to request and receive more and more funding every year. Quoting Reagan again, ‘The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy.’ Third, those who would discipline government spending have to locate and stop the actual funding streams that have been set up. This is technical work that takes time and often requires congressional action in order to be effective.”

González went on to acknowledge that DOGE has had some missteps and will likely commit more in the future. “Cutting government spending of taxpayer dollars will meet so many entrenched interests that to be successful DOGE has had to move very, very quickly and at times act bluntly,” he noted. “Disciplining the size and scope of government is probably the fastest way to create political enemies in Washington. President Trump understands this; remember, this ain’t his first rodeo, and he saw how the entrenched interests in Washington blocked his efforts to ‘drain the swamp’ during his first administration.”

González concluded by applauding DOGE for its efforts to end taxpayer-funded abortion. “Christians, in particular, should cheer the fact that, from the very beginning, DOGE put taxpayer funding for abortion providers in its sights, and now it appears Congress may follow suit by defunding big abortion in the budget reconciliation process, making DOGE’s aspirations statutory.”

“Let’s not lose sight of what a reasonable goal this is,” he contended. “Taxpayers should never have been forced to subsidize big abortion in the first place; Planned Parenthood alone receives nearly $700 million a year from taxpayers, then raises and spends tens of millions of dollars — nearly $70 million in the past presidential election alone — painting even the most benign pro-life protections as ‘extreme.’ If Planned Parenthood and its ilk want to not only snuff out a million unborn lives a year, then turn around and tithe to the politics of Molech, they should at the very least be required to do their blood-soaked work on their own dime and stop forcing pro-life taxpayers to participate.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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FEC Opens Probe of Jasmine Crockett and Trump Signals Support for Religious Americans

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

GUESTS AND TOPICS

STEPHANIE N. TAUB

Stephanie N. Taub serves as Senior Counsel with First Liberty Institute, focusing on restoring religious liberty in the marketplace. At First Liberty, she advocates for the rights of employees and business leaders of faith to work with integrity, consistent with their religious convictions. Taub has authored pieces published by National Review and the Federalist Society and has appeared on Fox News. The Texas Review of Law and Politics published her article on federal employment law protections for faith-based employers. The article elaborates on the statutory right of religious institutions to cultivate communities of faith.

TOPIC: President Trump signals support for religious Americans

FRED LUCAS

Fred Lucas is the Manager of the Investigative Reporting Project at The Daily Signal. He is an award-winning journalist and veteran White House correspondent who has written and reported for Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, History Magazine Quarterly, The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, TheBlaze, Townhall, The Federalist, The National Interest, The American Spectator, The American Conservative, and other outlets. Before going to Washington, he reported on state capitals in Kentucky and Connecticut.

TOPIC: FEC Opens Probe of Jasmine Crockett



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Why Do “Green” Groups Oppose Nuclear Energy?

By Capital Research Center

Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits. 

During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024 she called for constructing 98 more of our largest nuclear reactors—enough to power 50 million additional American homes.

But as she said this, Granholm’s own department and others within the Biden administration were putting the last touches on $485 million in combined grant awards for 20 opponents of nuclear power.

This help wasn’t needed. The known opponents of nuclear energy collectively rake in at least $2.5 billion every year.

To put this in perspective, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the main trade association promoting American nuclear power, reported a mere $57.3 million annual revenue in its last publicly available IRS filing. At least seven strident anti-nuclear nonprofits, such as the Sierra Club, reported double or even triple that amount.

But elections have consequences. The Biden-era grant awards were approved grants, and the recent work of the Department of Government Efficiency has in many cases clawed back or blocked the total awarded spending.

Big Winners

With $313.8 million in total Biden-era grant awards, Grid Alternatives was set to become the biggest of the anti-nuclear winners.

This would have been a nearly 100-fold increase over all federal funding approved for Grid Alternatives from 2008 through 2020. This is typical of the Biden-era anti-nuclear grants. Most of the other 19 awardees had received comparably little or even zero federal funding prior to 2021.

As covered in a previous report, most of the approved funding for Grid Alternatives was to come from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to be used for hanging solar panels in low-income communities.

Grid Alternatives advertised its hatred of nuclear power long before the first grant was approved. The nonprofit cosigned a 2019 letter to Congress that referred to nuclear power as “dirty” and opposed its inclusion in any carbon-cutting energy policy.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was approved for $55.5 million in grants from several different agencies and departments during the Biden administration, more than half of it from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The WWF denounced a 2019 proposal from the European Union to include nuclear energy as a carbon-reduction tool, saying in a 2021 news release that doing so would be “greenwashing.”

The World Resources Institute (WRI) was approved for $43.6 million during the Biden years, most of it from USAID and the State Department. Impeding energy progress in developing nations is part of this nonprofit’s mission. In April 2018, WRI gave an “environmental prize” to a pair of South African activists for their work in blocking a $76 billion nuclear power investment in their homeland.

In 2023, the Department of Agriculture approved a $25 million grant for GreenLatinos. This sum was more than double the combined revenue raised by GreenLatinos from 2010 through 2023.

GreenLatinos consigned a May 2021 letter to Congress that opposed nuclear power and referred to it as a “dirty” energy source.

Other Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits

Here are the 16 other known anti-nuclear nonprofits that were approved for Biden administration grants, along with the approved cumulative total funding:

In addition to the federal departments and agencies already listed, the Biden-era anti-nuclear grants were also awarded by the Department of Interior, the Department Health and Human Services, the Federal Communications Commission, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Department of Commerce, NASA, and the Denali Commission.

Opponents of Civilization

The 20 anti-nuclear groups winning those awards also oppose the use of hydrocarbon fuels: oil, natural gas, and coal. This means they oppose 88 percent of all the energy used in America. As energy is the life blood of prosperity, it’s not an exaggeration to say these groups are implicitly opponents of industrial civilization itself.

Approval of these grants was in effect an attempt to force federal taxpayers to fund their own economic destruction. Going forward, perhaps federal grant seekers should be required to answer a rigorous set of questions regarding whether they have a position in opposition to the sources of American wealth and civilization that they are hoping to tap.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of the DOGE Files, a series of CRC investigations into federal grants to nonprofits. This article explores grants made to opponents of nuclear power.

AUTHOR

Ken Braun

Ken Braun is CRC’s senior investigative researcher and authors profiles for InfluenceWatch.org and the Capital Research magazine.

He previously worked for several free market policy organizations, spent six years as a chief of staff in the Michigan Legislature, and also wrote political columns for MLive Media Group, a consortium including the Grand Rapids Press and seven other mid-sized Michigan newspapers. He is an alumni of Michigan State University.

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Overbearing Judges Get a Wake-Up Call from Congress

By Family Research Council

Americans didn’t vote for James Boasberg in last year’s presidential election, but that hasn’t stopped him from trying to commandeer Donald Trump’s job. Like almost 20 other district court judges, Boasberg became a household name when he decided to slam the door on the president’s deportation strategy, overruling the entire executive branch in a breathtaking display of judicial activism. After three months of this “judge-made law,” as John Fund calls it, Republicans have had enough.

Of course, the president is no stranger to abuse at the hands of the nation’s lower courts. “More than two-thirds of all universal injunctions issued over the past 25 years [have been] levied against the first Trump administration,” Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) points out. Instead of pausing a policy for the parties involved in the lawsuit, more benches are taking a sweeping approach, applying their judgments nationwide — and handcuffing the president from carrying out his agenda in the process.

Just in the last several weeks, the White House has been on the receiving end of temporary restraining orders (TROs) on deportation, spending cuts, the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to records, taxpayer-funding of woke programs, radical transgenderism, birthright citizenship, buyouts for federal workers, the elimination of DEI, and more. As law professor Howard Wasserman warns, the difference between a narrow ruling and a national injunction can be massive. “Instead of allowing many judges to reach independent judgments, they resolve the question for all courts,” he explained. “The government has little choice but to appeal, sometimes all the way up to the Supreme Court. … That’s no way to govern a country. Injunctions should provide relief to the parties who sue, not to people who don’t sue…”

And yet, Fund reminds people, “The effort to throw a judicial monkey wrench into every one of Trump’s administrative efforts has become a well-thought-out strategy on the [L]eft.” The problem, as so many legal experts — including recently, the Supreme Court’s own justices have pointed out — is that the idea is a dramatic overreach of lower court power.

“In recent years, it has become glaringly obvious that federal judges are overstepping their constitutional bounds,” Rep. Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) argued on the House floor Tuesday. “This is not a partisan issue. It may be a timely issue for this president, but that does not make it partisan.” His solution is for Congress to use its constitutional powers to regulate the courts and change the scope of district court rulings. Under his No Rogue Rulings Act, judges like Boasberg would be forced to limit their injunctions only to parties involved in the case.

A single unelected judge, Issa insists, should not be able to block, stall, or overrule a duly-elected president from enacting his agenda. On Wednesday, 219 Republicans agreed, voting to send the legislation — which is a stinging rebuke of the country’s despotic district courts — to the Senate. And yet, in a telling sign of how desperately Democrats rely on activist judges, not a single member of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) party voted for it.

But, as Family Research Council President Tony Perkins warned on Wednesday’s “Washington Watch,” this “cuts both ways.” “They are so consumed with trying to stop Donald Trump and the policies that he is advancing” that they don’t see how this could hurt them under the next liberal administration. Live by the courts, he implied, die by the courts.

That’s right, Josh Robbins argues in his piece on NRO, “Progressives shouldn’t care about separation of powers only when Trump is president.” Fund echoed that sentiment, warning, “If the Supreme Court doesn’t curb nationwide injunctions against executive action, Congress should step in. At a minimum, it must restrict the ability of aggrieved groups to forum-shop for a sympathetic judge. … Such a reform would preserve the ability of courts to check genuine abuses of executive power and, at the same time, discourage forum-shopping by which activist groups seek ideologically sympathetic judges to advance their partisan causes.”

And while the justices have beaten back these unlawful court orders in a handful of instances this month, it all raises a bigger question — one that Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris presented to the Supreme Court, “This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country — the President, through Article II, or the Judiciary, through TROs. The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President. The republic cannot afford a different choice,” the Solicitor General insisted. She concluded, “A single district court cannot broadly disable the President from discharging his most fundamental duties…”

The president’s primary task is protecting Americans and advancing the country’s best interest. Yet now we’re watching activist courts do everything from curb the executive branch’s power to telling the commander in chief how to run the military — and without the barest form of accountability to the people who elected Donald Trump.

As Amy Coney Barrett replied to a question in her own confirmation hearing, “The danger of a court doing that [substituting its judgment for the executive or legislative branch] is to subvert the will of the people. … If judges… bend [statutes] to the judge’s idea of what would be good public policy, then it deprives the people of the chance to express the policies that they want through the democratic process.”

For now, the bill to rein in rogue judges heads to the Senate, where Republicans would need the support of seven Democrats to bring the legislation to the floor. Considering that not a single one voted for it in the House, it seems like a steep climb. Still, Rep. Derek Schmidt (R-Kan.) urged, “The basic policy of trying to rein in the overuse of nationwide injunctions was supported by Democrats before. It’s supported by Republicans now, and I’m hoping [this bill will] be supported by both.”

Like so many Americans, he believes it’s the president’s job to lead the country. It’s time for the nation’s courts to let him.

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Suzanne Bowdey

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

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