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Oversight Task Force Chair Bergman and Chairman Arrington Request CBO to Analyze Full Cost of President Biden’s Executive Actions

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By Dr. Rich Swier

Washington, D.C. – This week, House Budget Committee Oversight Task Force Chair Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) sent a letter to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), requesting a fulsome cost estimate for the 138 executive actions and agency rules unilaterally issued by the Biden Administration.

Read the full letter HERE.

According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS) executive orders “are used extensively by Presidents to achieve policy goals, set uniform standards for managing the executive branch, or to outline a policy view intended to influence the behavior of private citizens. While the U.S. Constitution does not [explicitly] define the presidential authority to issue executive orders, they are an inherent aspect of presidential power. If they are issued on the appropriate authority, they have the force and effect of law.”

The first executive order was issued by President George Washington in June 1789. Since then, nearly 14,000 executive orders have been issued by U.S. presidents.

In recent years, both sides of the political spectrum have issued executive actions—oftentimes implemented with a considerable cost to taxpayers—to advance partisan priorities without input and oversight from Congress as statutorily required by the U.S. Constitution.

The Biden Administration has issued 138 executive actions over the past three years and five months, costing more than $2 trillion U.S. dollars.

The costliest of President Biden’s executive actions includes:

  1. Total Cost of Student Loan Forgiveness, more than $1 trillion
  2. Thrifty Food Plan Overhaul, $300 billion
  3. Net Interest Payments on Spending for Executive Actions, $300 billion
  4. Green Energy Rulemaking, $224 billion
  5. Medicaid Eligibility Rule, more than $200 billion

As highlighted in the letter, “While the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) already incorporates the fiscal impact of executive actions into its economic projections, it does not provide a separate, clear accounting of these costs to taxpayers.”

In June 2022, CBO responded to House Budget’s request to provide a budgetary analysis of several executive actions taken by President Biden, displaying that the President’s actions totaled $532 billion.

Two years, and trillions of dollars in unilateral spending later, Chairman Arrington and Oversight Task Force Chair Bergman are requesting that the CBO provide:

  1. Cost estimates for ten executive actions issued by the Biden Administration since November 2022; and,
  2. Updated cost estimates for seven Biden executive actions highlighted in Budget Committee’s June 2022 letter.

A full list of the Biden Administration’s executive actions and associated spending can be found in the letter, HERE.

A key step in restoring fiscal responsibility to Washington is ensuring that lawmakers and the American public possess the necessary information on how and where taxpayer dollars are being spent.

Chairman Arrington and Rep. Bergman’s request to Congress’s scorekeepers will provide a fulsome and accurate account of the Biden Administration’s unprecedented spending habits.

Visit: bergman.house.gov

©2024. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Biden commits U.S. taxpayers to 10 years of ‘blank check’ funding of war in Ukraine: War’s ‘dark side’ includes organ harvesting and child sex trafficking

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By Leo Hohmann

Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky are planning to sign a deal for long-term US military assistance for Ukraine, a country whose government we now know is involved in the trafficking of children for sex and harvesting the organs of its own soldiers for profit.

If that sounds too sensational to be true, read on. The evidence is hiding in plain sight. See post below from X, and I will provide a video later in this article that contains more proof of what’s really going on in Ukraine. It will turn your stomach.

But back to Biden’s filthy deal with the devil. The deal commits U.S. taxpayers — we the people — to 10 years of arming and training the Ukrainian military, and feeds the military-industrial complex that holds sway over the majority of our elected members of Congress in both parties.

There is one small kernel of good news: Because the deal is a so-called “executive agreement” and not a formal treaty, it can be undone by future American presidents.

CNN previewed the deal, reporting:

“An annex in the agreement will lay out how the Biden administration plans to work with Congress on the implementation of the security commitments, specifically the long-term funding that will be needed to support Ukraine’s defense.”

So, we taxpayers are basically underwriting the defense of a foreign regime. I wonder what our Founding Fathers would think about that?

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated that the US “will continue to be right up front and clear” at the G7, and that Washington “will take bold steps to show Mr. Putin that time is not on his side and that he cannot outlast us, as we support Ukraine’s fight for freedom.”

Let’s call it what it is: A blank-check commitment to a corrupt foreign government that has completely obliterated the freedom of the Ukrainian people. Elections have been canceled. Media outlets and churches that voice opposition to the war have been closed, young and middle-aged men are being kidnapped and sent to die at the front. How is this freedom?

But the Western corporate media thinks this is great. They don’t even question it.

Watch this breathless report (below) from a very excited ABC News reporter, whose only lament is that the deal could be canceled by a future President Donald Trump.

She could hardly contain her excitement. Ten years worth of transfers of hard-earned U.S. tax dollars to prop up an illegitimate dictatorship in Ukraine. Zelensky has canceled elections and is serving beyond the scope of his term in office, and our tax dollars are paying not only him but his military and the pensions of his bureaucrats. I wonder how many Americans are even aware of that, or how many are aware of the child sex trafficking, organ harvesting, biolabs, and other scandalous activities going on in Ukraine.

Don’t believe me? Check out the report below from former Fox News reporter Clayton Morris on the “dark side” of the war in Ukraine.

©2024. Leo Hohmann. All rights reserved.

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TAKE ACTION AGAINST: Bidenflation and Broke America — Sinking Hearts and Pocketbooks

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By ACT For America!

Biden’s War on Energy and Its Catastrophic Impact on America

TAKE ACTION TO MAKE ENERGY AFFORDABLE AGAIN!

Biden’s war on energy is a war on the lower and middle class, who are always the first to feel the pain of high gas prices and the inevitable inflation that follows.

Fox Business reports, “Biden touts cooling inflation, but prices are up nearly 20% since 2021,” compared to the low of 1.4% when Biden first took office. Americans spend over $1,000 more monthly, $12,800 more annually, on necessities than 3 years ago.

The surging prices Americans face at the pump are a direct result of Biden and the Leftists’ unprecedented war on American energy, initiated on his first day in office, including the radical Green New Deal agenda. By 2022, the national average for a gallon of gas exceeded $5 for the first time in history.

By catering to this radical fringe, Biden has turned his back on lower and middle-class Americans, ALL AMERICANS, diminishing their ability to afford housing, groceries, gas, and medicine.

It seems the LEFT isn’t content with just waging an energy war—they’re now launching a full-scale burger war, targeting the fast-food industry while pushing for the consumption of lab-grown meat and insects.

In California, Governor Gavin Newsom, with a stroke of the pen, killed 10,000 jobs overnight with his minimum wage increase, combined with soaring food prices that have devastated many fast-food chains.

Bidenomics is national suicide, jeopardizing the health and survivability of major contributors to the US economy and threatening the job security of millions of Americans! Restaurants alone employed 7.2 million and generated $464 billion in revenue in 2023.

Anyone with a basic understanding of economics understands that policies eroding energy security and punishing fossil fuels would cause prices, and therefore inflation, to soar, impacting certain industries faster and more devastatingly. So why enact policies targeting and discriminating against a vital industry on which lower and middle-class Americans and communities rely?

Considering that 63% of restaurant owners polled preferred a Republican-controlled Congress, despite half identifying as Democrats or Independents, it raises questions. In April 2023, a survey determined that U.S. adults were dining out less than they had six months prior. When looking at the frequency of dining out compared to six months ago, 55% of U.S. adults claimed they were eating out less at full-service restaurants, and 45% claimed they were eating out less at fast food restaurants.

Bidenflation has caused the price for fast food favorites to skyrocket:

  • McDonald’s Medium French Fries is UP 167.6%
  • McDonald’s Big Mac Meal is UP 103.5%
  • McDonald’s 10 Piece Chicken McNuggets Meal is UP 95.5%
  • McDonald’s Hamburger Happy Meal is UP 140.6%
  • McDonald’s 4 Piece Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal is UP 97.3%
  • Taco Bell’s Cheesy Gordita Crunch is UP 111.5%
  • Taco Bell’s Nachos Bell Grande Combo is UP 77.0%
  • Taco Bell’s Beefy 5-Layer Burrito is UP 153.8%
  • Chick-fil-A’s Chicken Sandwich Combo is UP 94.8%
  • Chick-fil-A’s 8 Piece Nuggets is UP 98.2%

Join us in saving America from national suicide caused by Bidenflation!

TAKE ACTION TO MAKE ENERGY AFFORDABLE AGAIN!

Conservatives have always fought for fiscal responsibility and policies that lift all Americans out of poverty to experience the American dream. Tragically, Americans nationwide now face the harsh reality of choosing between eating and filling up their cars with gas, foregoing medicines to pay bills, and depleting their savings or going into debt to pay rent or mortgages.

Biden refuses to take responsibility for destroying our economy and the quality of life of 73% of America’s working class, choosing to blame “greed” and business owners struggling to survive! Shame!

The fastest way to combat soaring inflation is to unleash the power of Trump-era 100% Energy Independence, which would drop gas prices and keep more money in taxpayers’ pockets overnight!

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Arizona Poll: Voters 50+, Especially Women, Could Tip the Scales in 2024

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By Dr. Rich Swier

Donald Trump leads over President Joe Biden among older voters; Senate race is neck-and-neck between Rep. Ruben Gallego and Kari Lake. 

, AZ /PRNewswire/ — Today, AARP Arizona released a 2024 statewide election survey that shows candidates for President, U.S. Senate, and state races should pay close attention to Arizonans ages 50 and older. Seventy-eight percent of voters ages 50+ report that candidates’ positions on Social Security are important in deciding whom to vote for in November, followed by Medicare (74%), helping people stay in their homes as they age (67%), and the cost of housing and utilities (both at 65%).

Arizonans ages 50+ will be key to determining who wins in November. This voting bloc makes up an outsized portion of the electorate: in the 2020 elections, older voters accounted for 55% of all Arizona voters and in the 2022 mid-terms, they made up 64% of the state’s voters. Eighty-six percent of voters ages 50+ say they are “extremely motivated” to vote in this election, compared to 66% of voters ages 18-49 who say the same.

Former President Donald Trump (R) leads President Joe Biden (D) by 8 percentage points among voters ages 18 and older – 45% to 37%, with Robert Kennedy Jr. at 11%. Trump’s lead is greater among voters ages 50 and older, at 49% – 39%. However, among women voters 50+, the candidates are tied. President Biden leads among older Hispanic voters, 48% – 37%.

Representative Ruben Gallego (D) holds a narrow lead over Kari Lake (R), 48% to 45%, in the U.S. Senate race among voters overall. Among voters 50 and older the candidates are almost even, with 48% of voters favoring Lake and 47% preferring Gallego. The gender gap among voters 50+ is significant, with women supporting Gallego by 12 percentage points and men preferring Lake by 15 points. Rep. Gallego leads among Hispanic voters 50+, 62% – 36%. Arizona voters over age 50 are the biggest voting bloc that could tip the scale for any candidate in this election,” said Dana Kennedy, State Director, AARP Arizona. “If candidates want to win, they should pay attention to the issues that matter to voters over age 50, from protecting Social Security to supporting family caregivers.”

Other key takeaways from the poll include:

  • Immigration and border security (41%) is the most important issue to voters ages 50 and older when deciding who to vote for in November, followed by inflation and rising prices (28%), and threats to democracy (27%).
  • Fifty-four percent of these voters cite personal economic issues — inflation and rising prices, the economy and jobs, and Social Security — as the most important issues. Notably, Trump is leading Biden (60%-27%) among older voters who prioritize this group of issues.
  • A significant majority (68%) of Arizona residents ages 50 and older think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
  • Fifty-eight percent of older voters say they are worried about their personal financial situation.

AARP commissioned the bipartisan polling team of Fabrizio Ward & Impact Research to conduct this survey. The firms interviewed 1,358 likely Arizona voters, which includes a statewide representative sample of 600 likely voters, with an oversample of 470 likely voters age 50 and older and an additional oversample of 288 likely Hispanic voters age 50 and older, between May 28-June 4, 2024. The interviews were conducted via landline, cellphone, and SMS-to-web. The margin of sampling error for the 600 statewide sample is ±4.0%; for the 800 total sample of voters 50+ is ±3.5%; for the 400 total sample of Hispanic voters 50+ is ±4.9%.

View the full survey results at aarp.org/AZpolling.

For more information on how, when and where to vote in Arizona, visit aarp.org/AZVotes.

About AARP

AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to the more than 100 million Americans 50-plus and their families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also works for individuals in the marketplace by sparking new solutions and allowing carefully chosen, high-quality products and services to carry the AARP name. As a trusted source for news and information, AARP produces the nation’s largest circulation publications, AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org/about-aarp/, www.aarp.org/español or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspañol and @AARPadvocates on social media.

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Biden Admin Shoots Down $24 Billion Pay Raise For Enlisted Troops — After Spending Seven Times More On Ukraine

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By The Daily Caller

The Biden administration “strongly opposes” a proposal to raise the pay of junior enlisted service members in the military — even after nearly spending seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and the broader region’s security.

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would give all junior troops a pay raise, representing a rough total of $24.4 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Biden administration said in a statement on Tuesday that it does not support the proposed “significant, permanent” pay hike until it has had a chance to conduct a compensation review.

“The Administration is strongly committed to taking care of our Servicemembers and their families, and appreciates the Committee’s concern for the needs of the most junior enlisted members, but strongly opposes making a significant, permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation,” the White House budget office said.

The Biden administration has spent over $175 billion on aid to Ukraine and European security since 2022 — roughly one-seventh of the proposed pay hike for the junior troops, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The $175 billion amount is broken into several packages over the course of two years, including the most recent aid package of $61 billion in April.

“When accounting for inflation, the average American makes less today than when Joe Biden took office. The White House wants to block Republicans from giving our troops the raise they need to make ends meet in the Biden economy,” Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a HASC member, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Meanwhile, they’ve sent the Ukrainian government $11,500 per Ukrainian household. It’s shameful.”

Bipartisan members of the HASC promoted the pay increase for junior troops as a way to improve recruiting and retention, a problem that the military has increasingly struggled with. A year-long study conducted by the HASC and published in April found that “servicemembers, especially junior enlisted servicemembers and servicemembers supporting large families, struggle to afford housing and feed their families.” 

The pay level for junior troops has failed to remain competitive with the civilian job market, especially with rising inflation, the study found. Junior troops received smaller pay raises than senior servicemembers — or no raise at all — in eight of the last 40 years.

“Joe Biden must hate our military,” Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, also on the committee, told the DCNF. “While families of our junior enlisted struggle on food stamps, this administration opposes their pay raises and wants to force-feed them pronoun training and drag queen story hour. If Biden had any PRIDE at all in our troops, he’d support the long overdue pay raise House Republicans have passed.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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JAKE SMITH

Contributor.

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‘Electioneering’: Experts, Lawmakers Denounce Biden’s Taxpayer-Funded Michigan Voter Drive

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By Family Research Council

In the wake of a congressional hearing on Tuesday that delved into the ways in which the Small Business Administration (SBA) under President Joe Biden has appeared to engage in electioneering, lawmakers and experts are pointing out the “lawless” nature of the practice as the November elections approach.

The hearing, conducted by the House Committee on Small Business, sought to expose how taxpayer funds are being used by the SBA for voter registration efforts in violation of federal law.

In March 2021, Biden signed an executive order stating that federal agencies “shall evaluate ways” to “promote voter registration and voter participation,” including “soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.” As has since been uncovered, this EO has led to the SBA signing official agreements with the Michigan Department of State (MDOS) to fund voter registration efforts.

But as GOP lawmakers are highlighting, it just so happens that Michigan is a key battleground state that will play a vital role in electing the next president in November.

During the hearing, Committee Chairman Roger Williams (R-Texas) pointed out that the SBA “entangled itself in electioneering activities that not only lack a constitutional basis, but also betray the trust and purpose for which the Agency was established.” He went on to note that instead of pursuing policies that help small businesses, the SBA has “decided to dedicate their staff’s time and resources to register voters in a key swing seat ahead of the 2024 election.”

Stewart Whitson, senior director of Federal Affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, further detailed the likely underlying purpose behind the SBA’s efforts in Michigan. “The worry is that this isn’t about registering small business owners across the state of Michigan, but rather, this is about using generous business startup and other grants to lure targeted groups of voters, those the Left believes are more likely to vote for the current president, to SBA’s website and to in-person outreach events hosted in Democratic strongholds, all to help register and mobilize these voters ahead of the 2024 election,” he stated.

Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) also noted how the SBA suspiciously concentrated its voter registration efforts in southern Michigan instead of the upper peninsula, where there are more small businesses per capita. “But you know what? That’s red country, that’s Republicans up there,” he observed. “This is clearly for political purposes, and it’s unconscionable that the American people — our taxpayer money is going towards this.”

Ken Blackwell, FRC Action’s special advisor for Election Integrity, concurred with Stauber’s assessment during Wednesday’s edition of “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.” “[This hearing] is an attempt by the legislature, in this case, Congress, to put a stop to this illegal, inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars for partisan political purposes and in total rejection of a uniform application of taxpayer dollars.”

“[It’s] lawlessness,” Blackwell, who formerly served as the Secretary of State for the State of Ohio, underscored. “It’s lawlessness without question.”

Blackwell further insisted that the conservative electorate must respond by being fully committed to the election process ahead of November. “We need to be engaged. That means that we have to register to vote. … We have to vote early, and we have to vote on Election Day. We have to make sure that whenever we can stay within the lines of what is legal, we do … and we do better than the other side.”

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins agreed, while also stressing the importance of early voting. “[W]e saw a great example of this in Arizona in the midterm election where the Democrats did early voting by mail and other means. Republicans waited until the day of the election, and all of a sudden there was a problem with machines. The lines got long, people got tired, they went home, and by a small margin, the Republicans lost. We need to be banking those votes prior to Election Day.”

Blackwell concluded by urging an all-hands-on deck approach to voter registration. “[W]e still have a lot of voters who are concerned, but who are not registered and who are not engaged. And that’s why it is so important that we go through our churches. We do whatever we can to get people registered, period. And then once they’re registered, get them to vote.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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Biden regime has sent at least $11,000,000 to the Taliban since its catastrophic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops

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By Jihad Watch

It seems as if the Biden regime never misses an opportunity to aid America’s enemies. There used to be a word for that. Started with a T. But everyone has forgotten that word.

Feds send millions of taxpayer dollars to the Taliban

by Casey Harper, The Center Square, June 6, 2024:

After two decades at war with the Taliban, the U.S. government is now sending millions of taxpayer dollars to the terrorist group.

The Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan immediately after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops earlier in the Biden administration.

A recently released federal watchdog report shows that the U.S. government has sent at least $11 million to the Taliban since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops. But experts and even the federal watchdog estimate the number is much higher.

“The U.S. government has continued to be the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people since the former Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban returned to power in August 2021,” the federal watchdog, SIGAR, wrote in its report. “Since then, the U.S. government has provided more than $2.8 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to help the people of Afghanistan.”

SIGAR said that the $11 million figure is likely only “a fraction” of taxpayer dollars actually going to the Taliban.

“SIGAR also found that the $10.9 million paid by 38 U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Agency for Global Media implementing partners is likely only a fraction of the total amount of U.S. assistance funds provided to the Taliban in taxes, fees, duties, and utilities because UN agencies receiving U.S. funds did not collect data or provide relevant information about their subawardees’ payments,” the report said….

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ROBERT SPENCER

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ACLU Unveils Plans To Obstruct Trump’s Immigration Agenda

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By The Daily Caller

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday announced an outline of its plans to oppose former President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda if he’s elected in November.

The ACLU plans to use a combination of legal challenges, lobbying and coordination with liberal officials to obstruct Trump’s plans to reduce illegal immigration, which they characterize as both unethical and illegal, according to a memo released by the organization. During Trump’s first term, the ACLU helped to block several of the former president’s moves regarding immigration, such as his attempt to weaken the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.

“If given a second term, Donald Trump promises to decimate American communities by targeting immigrants who are already contributing members of society and blocking new immigrants from coming lawfully to the United States,” the memo states. The ACLU goes on to claim that Trump will seek mass deportations, attack birthright citizenship, try to restrict illegal immigrants from accessing public services, separate children from their families and “attack human rights at the border.”

“Litigation will be a critical component” of the ACLU’s planned response to a potential second Trump administration, according to the memo.

If Trump attempted to arrest large numbers of illegal aliens in service of mass deportations, for instance, the ACLU would take the administration to court for violating the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures due to racial profiling. Programs like those proposed by Trump “result in racial profiling, suspicionless interrogations and arrests, unjustified and pretextual traffic stops, and warrantless searches of workplaces and homes—all of which violate the Constitution,” according to the ACLU.

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The ACLU plans to “work with coalition partners” in Congress to leverage the budget process to impede Trump’s deportation plans. Congress acting to limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s removal operations budget is one example the ACLU offers for using appropriations to make deporting illegal immigrants more difficult.

The ACLU will also deploy lobbyists to Congress to advocate for limiting where Customs and Border Protection agents can operate.

At the state level, the ACLU will urge states to deny federal authorities access to law enforcement resources, encourage governors to pardon criminal illegal aliens to prevent them from being deported, lobby state legislatures to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and ask states to pay the legal fees of illegal immigrants facing deportation.

The ACLU joins a list of groups, including Protect Democracy, the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University and Democracy Forward in preparing strategies to obstruct a potential second Trump administration. The Biden administration appears concerned about the possibility of a second Trump term, taking measures to protect the jobs of bureaucrats amid the former president’s plans to restructure the administrative state.

Trump’s proposed border actions are relatively popular, with 51% of Americans, including 45% of Latinos, supporting the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, according to an Axios poll released in April. A May poll from Decision Desk HQ/News Nation found that 46% of voters prefer Trump to handle the border, compared to just 26% who think Biden would do a better job.

The presidential race is close, with Trump just half a point ahead of Biden as of Thursday in RealClearPolitics’ polling average. Trump has, in recent months, been leading in polls of battleground states, though some recent polls show Biden beginning to close the gap with Trump in some key states.

The ACLU is also suing Biden over his recent executive order restricting asylum claims at the border, Axios reported.

The ACLU did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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ROBERT SCHMAD

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Ted Cruz Introduces Bill To Scrap ‘Natural Gas Tax’ Wedged Inside Biden’s Climate Legislation

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By The Daily Caller

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is introducing a Senate bill that would repeal a “natural gas tax” proposal enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill.

The “Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act” would scrap IRA provisions that deputize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose fines on energy companies that emit methane in amounts above government-dictated limits, according to its text. The rule will likely have a significant impact on producers of natural gas, the form of energy most commonly associated with methane emissions.

“Joe Biden and Biden officials have proven time and time again that they care more about their radical climate agenda than the needs of the American people,” Cruz said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “They have driven up inflation and jeopardized American jobs and energy security, all of which would be made significantly worse by the methane emissions fee in the Inflation Reduction Act. This fee will particularly harm Texas by undermining producers in the Permian Basin and across the state.”

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Cruz’s bill is supported by the Independent Petroleum Producers of America, the American Exploration and Production Council, the U.S. Oil and Gas Association and the American Petroleum Institute, among other organizations. House Republicans passed a similar bill in March to repeal the IRA’s natural gas tax.

The EPA’s proposal would require companies to pay a penalty of $900 for each ton of methane emitted above limits set by the government starting in 2024, with the penalty for every ton above the government’s benchmarks jumping to $1,200 in 2025 and increasing again to $1,500 in 2026 and after, according to the EPA. The agency describes the proposal as a means to reduce methane emissions, energy producers have criticized it for further complicating the regulatory environment and potentially increasing costs for consumers.

The EPA proposal also dovetails with a December 2023 EPA proposal to impose methane detection requirements, which independent oil and gas producers oppose because the additional compliance costs figure to disadvantage them relative to the major firms.

“President Biden’s tax on natural gas production does nothing but make it harder to produce American-made energy while driving up costs. Congress must take action to repeal this looming regulatory disaster,” Texas Rep. August Pfluger, who authored the House equivalent of Cruz’s bill, said in a statement shared with the DCNF. “The House has already passed my legislation to repeal the tax, and I am proud to work alongside Senator Cruz to get it to the President’s desk. Energy security is national security.”

The EPA and the White House did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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By Family Research Council

With patriotic Americans preparing to commemorate the brave soldiers who sacrificed themselves in our nation’s battles — and the rest of America preparing to take a day off work — it became easier to miss news stories. But even if you gleaned the headlines like prospectors panning for gold, some stories went underreported in the last full week of May: Big Abortion suffered a setback at the ballot box; Border Patrol suffered (yet another) setback under Joe Biden; Hunter Biden suffered a setback from (allegedly) perjuring himself before Congress; the legacy media suffered a setback with viewers; and all Americans suffered rampant setbacks from inflation.

  1. Big Abortion’s Big Defeat

Nonpartisan state elections that take place in the middle of the year receive little media coverage — but the media made an exception this month, when a Georgia Supreme Court race briefly became a national bellwether for abortion. Then, as soon as the results came in, the media shrouded the results in studied silence.

Democrat and former five-term U.S. Congressman John Barrow decided he could win a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court by launching into an extended abortion monologue against Justice Andrew Pinson, who was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp (R) in 2022. Although three other high court justices ran unopposed, Barrow explained he specifically targeted Pinson because, as state solicitor general, Pinson defended Georgia’s heartbeat law — a pro-life protection shielding unborn babies from abortion once doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat, usually around six weeks.

During an interview with The Hill, Barrow summarized his candidacy with a triple-redundant mission statement: “I’m running for the Supreme Court of Georgia because I believe that women today have the same rights under the state constitution that they used to have under Roe vs. Wade, before it was overturned with the help of my opponent, and that’s why I’m running[,] and that’s why I’m running against him.”

No one had any doubt about the thrust of the campaign. Planned Parenthood and abortion lobbying groups endorsed him. “A state Supreme Court race in Georgia puts abortion on the ballot,” proclaimed MSNBC.

Barrow remained so committed to centering his entire campaign on abortion that, when the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission told him he was violating judicial ethics by announcing how he would vote on cases that had yet to come before him, Barrow sued to keep talking about abortion. (A judge dismissed the case.)

How did Barrow’s single-issue campaign come out? He lost by a 10-point spread: 55% Pinson vs. 45% Barrow.

The Southeast campaign director of the abortion lobby group Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America), Alicia Stallworth, pronounced the group “deeply disappointed” at the results. Christian conservatives celebrated. “The Democratic strategy of placing abortion at the center of the 2024 campaign utterly failed” last Tuesday in Georgia, said Ralph Reed, Faith & Freedom Coalition chairman and founder. Barrow’s loss “calls into question the entire Democratic strategy of eking out a victory by scaring suburban voters with abortion.”

The word sadly trickled out in local media. “Incumbent Georgia Justice Andrew Pinson defeats challenge from John Barrow focused on abortion rights,” stated Atlanta’s public broadcasting station WABE. “Justice Pinson wins court race that became referendum on abortion rights in Georgia,” reported Georgia Reporter, a publication of States Newsroom (a left-wing organization posing as a news organization, as we described earlier this month).

Curiously, that’s when the previously top-watched race fell off the national radar. The story made the national media thanks to Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner, who called Barrow’s defeat “perhaps the biggest electoral win for the pro-life cause since the fall of Roe v. Wade.”

It bears repeating: The narrative of the undefeatable abortion monologue had failed. Pro-life candidates should campaign accordingly.

  1. U.S. Border Patrol Has Lost One-Quarter of Its Agents during the Biden Administration

It’s no secret that illegal immigration — a simmering, slow-motion crisis that has been percolating for decades — has reached its worst extent thanks to the malign neglect of the Biden administration. Fewer stories have featured the morale-sapping impact his policies have on those who signed up to keep America’s borders secure.

One out of every four Border Patrol agents has left the agency since Joe Biden took office, a new review of the statistics has found. That’s an attrition rate far higher than his predecessors.

The Border Patrol employed 19,357 agents in fiscal year 2022.

During the Trump and Obama administrations, the agency lost an average of 996 agents a year — or 3,486 agents during a comparable 42-month period.

But since October 2020, the Border Patrol has lost a grand total of 4,281 agents: 3,665 in fiscal years 2020-2023, and 616 in the six months after the end of FY 2023 last October. That averages out to 1,222 agents annually in the Biden years.

Much of that atrophying came from experienced agents deciding they have had enough of Biden’s policies. Early retirements more than doubled during this period, from 257 a year (2014-2020) to 529 during this administration.

Biden lied that two Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, “whipped” illegal immigrants from Haiti who attempted to run past the agents into U.S. territory. “Those people will pay,” Biden vowed, before an investigation had formally taken place. As I explained at the time, “In reality, Border Patrol agents don’t carry whips, none of the photos showed their reins touching anybody, and agents would swing their reins to prevent people from getting hurt by their trampling horses.” The story proved as comprehensively false as any story can. The administration quietly dropped the case — but used the false story to prevent agents from patrolling the border on horseback. Competent agents decided they did not want to become the next one singled out for national humiliation by the president of the United States on the grounds of a baseless allegation.

Clearing out a federal agency of competent, dedicated civil servants accomplishes a dark, double policy goal for Biden: It removes agents who might pose administrative obstacles to his lax border policies and makes room to replace them with “diverse” new hires committed to his open borders agenda.

  1. Hunter Biden Committed Perjury?

It’s hardly news that the legacy media suppresses stories about Hunter Biden. Not only did major news outlets refuse to cover his laptop (after receiving a briefing from the intelligence community that such a story would be leaked by a foreign power), but they publicized a statement organized by Democratic officials from former intelligence agents insisting the whole thing smacked of perfidious Russian disinformation.

Well, they’re at it again.

The House Ways and Means Committee announced last Tuesday the release of more than 100 pages of obtained evidence from IRS whistleblowers that Hunter Biden may have committed perjury before Congress on February 28. Hunter Biden famously flouted his defiance of a congressional subpoena by storming out of a hearing and demanding a public interrogation, before retreating to the safety of a closed-door deposition.

The evidence shows that he lied under oath three times, House Republicans say. They say Hunter lied about a text he sent telling a Chinese official he and his father would use all their power against the company unless they received payment for services rendered. “I sent the text to the wrong Zhao,” said Hunter, claiming he texted a man who had nothing to do with the Chinese energy company and probably had no idea what the texts were about. The committee released WhatsApp records showing Biden contacted only one Zhao, named Raymond Zhao, whom he stayed in touch with for months. Zhao facilitated the release of $5 million from China to the Biden family.

They also say Hunter Biden fibbed when he claimed a shell company he set up with friend Devon Archer, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, was never “under my control nor affiliated with me.” The committee released a document signed by the president’s son stating, “I, Robert Hunter Biden, hereby certify that I am the duly elected, qualified and acting Secretary of Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC.”

Biden also denied trying to help any foreign business associates obtain a U.S. visa. “I’d never pick up the phone and call anybody for a visa,” he said under oath. The committee released an email from Devon Archer stating, “Hunter is checking with Miguel Aleman to see if he can provide cover to Kola on the visa.” The individual in question, “Kola,” is Nikolay Zlochevsky, CEO of Burisma.

“Lying during sworn testimony is a felony offense that the Department of Justice has prosecuted numerous individuals for in recent years, and the American people expect the same accountability for the son of the president of the United States,” said Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), chairman of the powerful committee.

Curiously, this blockbuster revelation has made few headlines, as the media instead repeat the most salacious details of Donald Trump’s trials which, arguably, are not criminal. This jaundiced coverage may explain why …

  1. Americans Keep Fleeing the Legacy Media

After years of repeating the “Russia collusion” narrative and covering up “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests, the legacy media continue to lose readers and trust. Two former titans of the legacy media announced last week they have taken on water.

The most influential newspaper in the nation’s capital, The Washington Post, has officially lost half of its subscribers since 2020. The subscriber plunge cost the newspaper $77 million in revenue in just the last year. “To speak candidly: We are in a hole, and we have been for some time,” Post publisher Will Lewis told employees during a meeting last Wednesday.

But the Post has plans to turn around the slide by rolling out tiered membership plans, as well as (in the words of the Post), “launching a product focused on the relationship between the climate and the economy.” It’s not clear how that will help, since voters ranked “dealing with climate change” 18th out of 20 issues presented to them as the most important crises facing America in a Pew Research Center survey earlier this year. (“Strengthening the economy” came in number one.) “I hope in the future you see this day as a significant day in the history of our company,” Lewis told employees.

Good luck with that.

Readers are not just giving up on newspapers: They’re also turning off left-wing news outlets. During the week of May 13-19, CNN averaged the lowest viewership among its most coveted audience in 33 years. CNN averaged only 83,000 members of the “targeted demographic,” which consists of people between the ages of 25 and 54. That’s its lowest share since 1991. CNN won a total viewership of 494,000 — less than half of rival MSNBC and less than one-quarter of Fox News Channel’s two million total viewers. That comes after CNN lost $100 million in revenue in 2022.

The driving force of much legacy media also took a step backwards. The left-wing group Media Matters for America (MMFA) — founded by Hillary Clinton ally David Brock and funded by George Soros — created miniature media feeding frenzies by wrenching soundbites of conservative commentators out of context. The legacy media often did no original research before breathlessly repeating their press releases.

The turning point came last November, when Elon Musk took MMFA to court for defamation after the group claimed major advertisers’ slogans appeared next to Nazi and white supremacist symbols and slogans on the social media platform X. But it appears MMFA “researchers” simply created accounts that followed only the most offensive accounts and major corporations, until its feed artificed results that would never occur organically.

Facing the music, Media Matters announced mass layoffs last Thursday. “We’re confronting a legal assault on multiple fronts and given how rapidly the media landscape is shifting, we need to be extremely intentional about how we allocate resources in order to stay effective,” said MMFA President Angelo Carusone.

Apparently, there is a price to pay for churning out bad journalism.

  1. Inflation Is Canceling Many Summer Vacations

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial beginning of summer, but too many Americans cannot afford a family holiday this year thanks to Bidenomics.

A new survey released by Fox News last week found that 55% of Americans will not be taking a summer vacation this year — and 73% of those respondents say high prices and the poor economy make it impossible. A total of 72% of travelers say prices affected their decisions about taking a vacation. One told the Associated Press that the crime-riddled city of Philadelphia “was not our original destination, but we chose here because it was cheaper.”

At the same time, families are having a harder time having a staycation in their own homes, because home ownership has crept increasingly out of reach due to rampant Bidenflation. The figures tell the full story: The average person needs to earn 80% more today than in 2020 to buy a home — $47,000 more than in 2020 — yet average wages increased during that time only 23% in nominal terms. “In 2020, a household earning $59,000 annually could comfortably afford the monthly mortgage on a typical U.S. home,” explained Zillow. “Now, the roughly $106,500 needed to comfortably afford the mortgage payment on a typical home is well above what a typical U.S. household earns each year, estimated at about $81,000.”

Inflation does not just impact vacation plans: 86% of small businesses say “inflation has hurt their businesses in the past year,” according to a survey produced by Alignable. More than three out of four small business owners also cited “tax policies” (79%) and “regulations” (76%) as “major hurdles” to their success. “In particular, many said taxes are just too high,” reported Alignable, “especially since interest rates and inflation have reduced their cash on hand.”

The fact is, you aren’t being told about inflation, but you don’t need to be. You’re living it.

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Ben Johnson

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No-Bid Contracts Inflate Cost to Massachusetts Taxpayers of Feeding Illegal Aliens

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By The Daily Signal

Most hardworking Americans can’t afford to spend $21 to $31 on dinner every day. If they did, they’d likely expect to get steak or lobster for their money.

Yet that’s exactly how much the state of Massachusetts is spending to feed homeless migrants, according to WBZ-TV CBS Boston. The state isn’t even getting its money’s worth: The meals include spaghetti and hot dogs or rice with a single chicken drumstick.

The $21 meals come from the Fairfield Inn Boston Dedham, where the state is paying $180 a day to house homeless families and migrants—even though advertisements show hotel rooms start at $129.

Lunch costs $16, but a family interviewed by CBS Boston said it contains “nothing edible,” such as soup with “just bones” in it.

Taxpayers will spend a total of $7.3 million to feed families at the Fairfield Inn.

It’s part of 17 state contracts worth $116 million that Massachusetts signed to provide free housing to migrants in hotels and motels through June, according to records obtained by CBS Boston. Nine of those, including the Fairfield Inn, are for hotels owned by Giri Hotel Management, which will make $46 million from taxpayers.

When the state hired its own catering companies for migrants instead of relying on hotels, it still overspent. Massachusetts signed a $10 million contract with Spinelli Ravioli Manufacturing Co. through a no-bid process that did not ask other vendors to provide cheaper food.

The state told CBS Boston that the ravioli contract, which ended in March, was justified by the “unprecedented increased demand” for food.

In addition to the hotel expenses, Massachusetts spends about $75 million every month on 7,500 migrant families living in state-run emergency shelters.

Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, signed a supplemental budget in March that spends $840 million over the next two years for the migrant crisis.

That still wasn’t enough. The federal government agreed in April to help Massachusetts by using Medicaid funds, which Axios Boston says could cost $647.5 million over the next four years.

State Sen. Peter Durant, a Republican, told CBS Boston of the hotel contracts, “This is something that we have been asking the administration for information on, for the better part of a year and have been stonewalled on the information.”

Something is amiss when taxpayers are spending more to feed those in emergency housing than to feed their own children.

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Originally published at RealClearInvestigations.com

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Adam Andrzejewski

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Americans’ Inflation Worries Deepen as Biden Claims Economic Victory

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With the November presidential election 24 weeks away, an index measuring consumer sentiment on the economy dropped to a six-month low after its largest decline since 2021. The plummeting confidence comes as President Joe Biden recently shrugged off the concerns while falsely claiming for the second time in less than a week that inflation was at 9% when he took office.

On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the index of consumer sentiment, which measures the economic perceptions of Americans, dropped sharply amid nagging inflation and rising gas prices. In April, inflation remained well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%, hitting 3.4%. While the number is well below the high of 9.1% that was reached in June of 2022, inflation has remained above 3% every month since last summer.

Economic concerns have consistently ranked as the top issue for American voters ever since ever since 2021, when inflation began rising steadily due to a massive uptick in government spending enacted by the Biden administration. A Gallup survey released at the end of March revealed that inflation was the top most worrisome issue for Americans, followed closely by immigration.

The price of consumer goods also continues to rise. Last week, the latest Consumer Price Index summary was released, revealing that the price of all goods rose 0.3% in April, having risen 3.4% over the last 12 months. Overall energy prices rose 2.6% in the last 12 months, while food prices saw an increase of 2.2% in the last year.

Meanwhile, gas prices have also remained consistently high. With a current average price of $3.61 per gallon, gas has shot up 50 cents since the start of the year. Under the Biden administration, the average price of gas has fluctuated wildly, reaching a peak of over $5 a gallon at the start of 2022. The current average price per gallon remains over 60 cents higher than it was when President Donald Trump left office in January 2021.

Popular companies such as McDonald’s, Home Depot, Under Armour, and Starbucks have recently reported underwhelming earnings due to increasingly modest consumer spending with few signs that the economic outlook will improve any time soon. In addition, Walmart, Target, and discount grocer Aldi have recently begun slashing prices of goods in hopes of attracting more business.

“We continue to feel the impact of a more cautious consumer,” said Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan last month. “Many customers are being more exacting about where and how they choose to spend their money, particularly with stimulus savings mostly spent.”

Notably, some Biden administration officials are beginning to acknowledge the financial struggles and low consumer confidence of ordinary Americans after the president appeared to dismiss them earlier this month, claiming that “[w]e’ve already turned [the economy] around.”

“Families are still struggling with prices that are too high,” admitted Jared Bernstein, chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. “We’ve made a lot of progress in the right direction, and we are going to keep fighting to lower costs for families and make billionaires and corporations pay their fair share.”

A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign remarked that the 45th president would “uplift all Americans” by reducing taxes and increasing wages. “The American people cannot afford four more years of Bidenomics.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Oliver McPherson-Smith, director of the Center for Energy & Environment at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), contended that consumers have little reason to be confident in America’s economic outlook under Biden.

“It’s no surprise that consumers across the country are feeling pessimistic about the economy,” he observed. “Bidenomics means overregulation and prolific spending — both of which drive up consumer prices. Under Bidenomics, household energy costs are on average 22% higher than under President Trump’s America First policies. Gas prices are up on average 39.7%.”

McPherson-Smith continued, “The May measurement of the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment is a searing indictment of the Biden administration’s economic mismanagement. Even during the uncertainty of the early pandemic months, at no point during the Trump administration were American consumers this pessimistic about the economy.”

Michael Faulkender, Chief Economist at AFPI, further expanded on the repercussions that rising inflation has incurred on American pocketbooks.

“The Bidens will keep blaming everyone but themselves for the inflation devastating Americans’ budgets,” he told TWS. “As published recently in Bloomberg, if one looks at inflation-adjusted disposable income — how far paychecks go in purchasing power terms — it rose 12% under Trump and is at 3% under Biden. Once you incorporate the effect of interest rate increases on anyone borrowing money to buy a car, home, or place a purchase on their credit card, Americans are worse off. Those effects are even greater for the most vulnerable in our society.”

“No amount of deflection, demagoguery, or gaslighting will alter the economic harm the American people have suffered under the far-left policies of the Biden administration,” Faulkender concluded.

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Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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Like Fast Food? Here’s Price Increases from End of 2019 to Now for McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A

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By Dr. Rich Swier

A reader sent us some amazing data on the price increases of fast foods at various restaurants over time.

Many American families enjoy fast food restaurants. Perhaps the three biggest are McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A.

SCRIBEMOON did a comparison of the costs of various meals at each of these fast food restaurants from the end of 2010 to today.

Here’s what SCRIBEMOON found:

McDonald’s Price Increases

Menu Item                     End of 2019 Price    Mid-2024 Price   % Increase

Medium French Fries      $1.79                           $4.19                          134.1%

McChicken                         $1.29                           $3.89                          201.6%

10 McNuggets                    $4.49                           $7.49                         68.8%

Cheeseburger                    $1.00                           $3.15                          215%

Taco Bell Price Increases

Menu Item                     End of 2019 Price     Mid-2024 Price    % Increase

Beefy 5-Layer Burrito       $1.69                           $3.69                          118.3%

Nachos Bellgrande            $3.29                           $5.89                          79%

Spicy Potato Soft Taco      $1.00                           $1.19                         19%

Cheesy Bean Burrito         $1.00                          $1.19                          19%

Crunchwrap Supreme       $3.49                          $5.29                          51.6%

Chick-fil-A Price Increases

Menu Item                     End of 2019 Price     Mid-2024 Price    % Increase

Deluxe Chicken                 $3.65                           $6.55                         79.5%
Sandwich

8 Chick-fil-A                       $3.05                           $5.99                          96.4%
Nuggets

4 Chick-n-Strips                $4.39                           $7.85                          78.8%

Medium Waffle Fries       $1.65                           $2.99                          81.2%

Large Milkshake               $3.15                           $5.19                          64.76%

Check out the prices in your favorite fast food restaurant and leave a comment on what you found.

©2024. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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A Bold Plan to End Inflation in America!

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By Cherie Zaslawsky

Wayne Allyn Root’s advice to President Trump

Trump supporter and savvy political analyst Wayne Allyn Root sees Javier Milei as a role model for Trump in his second term, since Milei turned around inflation in Argentina in just a few months.

How? By drastically cutting the primary cause of inflation: government spending!

Wayne’s plan for Trump:

Cut 15% of all government agencies except the military, on day one. Rinse and repeat in 6 months.

Say “You’re fired!” to 15% of government employees and bureaucrats on day one. Rinse and repeat in 6 months.

Eliminate two of the worst failures in our bloated federal bureaucracy: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. (To which I’d add quite a few others…)

Say “You’re fired!” to the 86,000 new IRS agents, saving us $86 billion and lots of headaches for We the People.

And instead of welfare for illegal aliens, deportations.

Make us energy independent again by canceling all green energy hogwash regulations and championing “fossil fuels”—the cheap, reliable energy that made us so prosperous to begin with!

Read Wayne’s article and the learn rest of his great ideas here.

Recommended by Cherie Z’s Truth Be Told!

©2024. Cherie Zaslawsky. All rights reserved.

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POLL: 47% of Voters Believe the American Republic Has Fallen

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By The Geller Report

More concerning is the 53% who think it’s all going swimmingly.

As one commenter succinctly put it: “Anyone who isn’t asleep can see America has fallen. We are living in clown world where everything evil is considered good and everything good is considered evil. Nice job, hippies. You created monsters who are sucking up to the enemy (Islam), allow millions of third world invaders in, who do nothing but suck off the welfare tit and rape and murder, and a bunch of lazy, “college-educated” idiots who want to do away with law and morals.”

POLL: 47% of Voters Believe the American Republic Has Fallen

RIP USA?

By: José Alberto Niño, Big League Politics, May 17, 2024

A recent Rasmussen poll found that 39% of likely United States voters believe that American leaders have done a good job of keeping the republic. However, 47% of voters believe the republic that the Founding Fathers established has already collapsed.

An additional 14% are unsure.

Many voters believe that the current American government has deviated from the country’s founding principles. Namely, the principle that governments get their authority “from the consent of the governed.” Just 26% of voters believe the federal government currently has the consent of the governed, whereas 57% believe it does not. An additional 17% are unsure.

63% of Republican voters, 43% of Democrat voters, and 65% of independent voters indicated that the federal government currently doesn’t have the consent of the governed.

44% of Democrat voters believe the government does have the consent of the government, but only 19% of Republican voters and independent voters agree.

50% of Democrats believe America’s leadership class has done a good job of keeping the republic, while only 34% of Republican voters and 32% of independent voters share the same view. 54% Republican voters and 56% of independent voters believe that the republic the Founders created has already died, in addition to 35% of Democrat voters.

Of the voters who believe that the republic has already collapsed, 62% indicated that the federal government currently does not have the consent of the governed.

58% of white voters, 44% of black voters, 63% of Hispanic voters and 58% of other non-white minorities believe the federal government currently does not have the consent of the governed. 41% of white voters, 35% of black voters, 34% of Hispanics voters and 32% of other non-white minorities believe the American ruling class has done a good job of keeping the republic.

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Forget ‘Never Trumpers’ — More Voters Now Say They’ll Never Vote For Biden

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By The Daily Caller

President Joe Biden has a new problem cropping up in polling data: more Americans now dismiss even the possibility of voting for him.

Among likely voters living in six key swing states, 51% say there’s “not really any chance” they’d vote for Biden, compared to just 46% saying the same thing about former President Donald Trump, according to a May poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. The trend of more voters vowing never to vote for Biden than Trump extends beyond just one poll, with three polls stretching between November 2023 and April all finding more never-Biden voters than never-Trump voters, The Washington Post reported.

The American voter’s refusal to even consider voting for Biden is a reversal of the situation during the 2020 election. when voters consistently reported that they would never vote for Trump at higher rates than they did for Biden, according to the Post.

Both candidates have seen considerable protest votes despite running in virtually uncontested primaries.

Options other than Biden have gotten significant support in a number of Democratic primaries, including in the swing states of Nevada, Michigan and North Carolina. Similarly, Nikki Haley continues to attract double-digit support in Republican presidential primaries despite having dropped out of the race months ago, CNN reported.

With the election only four months out, polling paints a dire picture for the president’s reelection prospects.

Biden had an approval rating of just 38.7% as of May 17, making him less popular at this point in his presidency than every president since Harry Truman, according to FiveThirtyEight’s running average of polls. Trump has also repeatedly polled ahead of Biden in the key battleground states that are likely to decide the election.

The New York Times poll surveyed 4,097 registered voters across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points for likely voters.

The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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FLORIDA: Just Vote ‘NO’ on Amendment 3 — Significant Costs to Voters

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By Royal A. Brown III

Excellent article that addresses increase costs associated with legalizing recreational pot including vehicle accidents, automobile insurance, electricity and health insurance in those states like Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska as well as Canada.

Doesn’t address other costs like higher crime rates due to black markets (dealers & buyers who don’t want to pay taxes); interstate crime as pot grown in Florida is transported to other states where it is illegal; increased emergency room visits and hospitalizations especially of young people including minors.

This will be a disaster for FL and we need to Vote NO and encourage others to do the same.

Florida: Just vote ‘no’ on Amendment 3

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John Michael Pierobon

Guest columnist

Amendment 3, a referendum to enshrine recreational marijuana in the Florida constitution, is on the ballot this November. The ballot language does not mention the significant cost to the voter.

Legalizing recreational marijuana will dramatically increase the cost of electricity, automobile insurance, and health insurance.

A 2022 study published by the Society for the Study of Addiction concluded that in the United States, there appears to be a 20% average increase in cannabis use frequency attributable to recreational legalization. Marijuana consumption also increased in all age groups when Canada legalized marijuana. This is especially true among the youth because they think that because it is legal there is no harm. Making it legal does not make it right; it normalizes dangerous behavior.

The scientific evidence is overwhelming; fatal car crashes increase significantly when recreational marijuana is legalized.

A study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows that the percentage of drivers in Washington involved in fatal crashes who tested positive for marijuana more than doubled after that state made marijuana legal for recreational use.

Another study published in 2019 in the journal ‘Accident Analysis & Prevention’ concluded that fatal crash rates increased in Colorado and Washington after the opening of commercial recreational marijuana dispensaries. The study states that in ‘the five years after legalization, fatal crash rates increased more in Colorado and Washington than would be expected’.

In Colorado, between 2013, when that state legalized recreational marijuana, and 2019, traffic deaths where drivers tested positive for marijuana increased by 140% as per a Colorado state police report.

Chances of being in a fatal car accident went up significantly in states that legalized recreational marijuana. A recent study published in the journal ‘Social Science & Medicine’ revealed substantial increases in crash fatalities of 22% in Oregon and 20% in Alaska when they legalized it.

More traffic fatalities leads to higher automobile insurance premiums.

A study published in ‘JAMA Network Open’ found that emergency room visits increased 475% when Canada legalized marijuana. The study suggests ‘cannabis-involved traffic injuries have increased over time and that the commercialization of cannabis markets may result in further increases.’

In states where recreational marijuana has been legalized, children, especially those under 10 years old, are at increased risk of accidental poisoning from edibles and other products made from marijuana. The average number of emergency room visits due to cannabis use in this age group more than tripled, from 20.9 per 10,000 visits in 2019 to 65.6 per 10,000 visits in 2022.

More emergency room visits means higher health insurance premiums and much longer waits at emergency rooms.

Voting to legalize marijuana will also raise the cost of electricity for everyone in Florida.

The demand for electricity will increase dramatically because growing marijuana consumes staggering amounts of energy. According to a 2020 study published in the journal ‘Nature Sustainability’ indoor cannabis cultivation in the United States alone accounted for approximately 1% of total electricity consumption in the country.

Even in the Sunshine State, marijuana has to be grown indoors because it requires at least 18 hours per day of high-intensity lighting such as high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps to be commercially viable.

‘Growing an Ounce of Pot Indoors Can Emit as Much Carbon as Burning a Full Tank of Gas’ is the title of an article in Smithsonian Magazine. Colorado State University researchers write that Colorado marijuana industry’s greenhouse gas emissions (2.6 megatons of carbon dioxide) exceed those of the state’s coal mining industry (1.8 megatons of carbon dioxide). Growing marijuana has a carbon footprint that easily exceeds most polluting industries.

Protect our young children, our safety, our health, our environment, and especially our pocketbooks. Vote no on Amendment 3.

John Michael Pierobon is the vice chair of the Tobacco Free Partnership of Broward County, and the chair of the Tobacco Free Environments subcommittee of the Tobacco Free Workgroup of the Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade, and an active member of Tobacco Free Volusia.

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Are you better off today than you were 5 years ago?

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By Karen Schoen

You are if you’re a criminal illegal alien. 

If you are like most Americans the answer to that is no. But then you have to ask yourself what are you going to do about it? Because doing nothing will get us nothing and right now we have a legislature in the states and DC hell bent on destroying our country.

After watching the way Congress works I no longer believe we have a Democrat party and a Republican party. I believe we have a group of globalists who want to depopulate the planet in order to control it and are using man-made climate change, disease, abortion, crime, drugs, gender confusion, lgbtq and anything that they can think of that will stop the people from reproducing. They are even teaching our children that a fetus is not a baby and therefore abortion is a kind and wonderful thing that gives women a choice. A choice of what killing a baby or not killing a baby.

The problem that we have is that we have allowed these globalists to take over and control and manipulate our language we have allowed them to give us new definitions for words that we commonly use. Abortion is baby killing and if we would say that instead of the nice sounding word of abortion maybe our children would understand that there’s no difference between killing a child of one week, 10 weeks 30 weeks or after the child is born.  You are still killing a baby.

So who are these people and what do they really want?  They are as I call them the globalist.  The 1% of elite that strive for money power and control and right now I believe their focus is on power. Like I said before I do not believe that we have a Democrat or Republican party. I believe we have globalists who want to give America’s sovereignty to the United Nations so that they can have a one world government controlled of course by them.  Also people will be able to move freely across the globe and settle wherever they want without paying attention to the country they chose to live in. Who’s laws will be followed? Traditions? Values? Multiculturalism = NO Country. No borders, No Country.

That is totally evident by what we saw going on in the college campus and in our Congress as the American flag was desecrated and the Palestinian flag was raised.  How many of our legislators raised the Palestinian flag in congress? Too many I might add. Why are they doing that? Basically because I believe it’s the in thing to do. It’s the fashion statement of the month. Let’s support Palestine against Israel. And as this administration continually throws Israel under the bus, I strongly believe that what president Trump said was absolutely true; any Jew that votes for the Democrat party hates their religion and hates Israel and probably hates America as well.

The slow creep of infiltration has begun. MN today has a new flag. They proudly display the 8 pointed star of Islam.  The Muslims are only 1% of the population but the Globalist Democrats hate America and are doing their best to eliminate it.  Remember what the Muslim Brotherhood said when Obama was in office. It is their goal to fly the Muslim flag over the White House.. 1 down 49 to go. How could the people of MN let this happen?

The Democrats have become the Marxist party and while 50% of the Republicans are the controlled opposition. The one thing we know is that he does love America and we hope that he is the one who will lead us out of this mess that has been created by the America haters. Of course everyone forgets that Marxism is communism and communism has killed probably a couple of hundred million people since it’s inception more recently 100 million of course that is never taught in school. So we now have two parties that have merged into one against we the people who are the nationalists. They will do and say anything to maintain power.

I received an email of a list of Biden accomplishments. I guess it was preparation for the debates.   I want to share my thoughts so you can answer them if you see them as well. They sound great so the left will be fooled.  You must correct them when you can. The major question is: What have these accomplishments done for the American people except raise the debt, raise inflation, raise gas prices and food prices.

Inflation Reduction Act — More spending for more green crap that no one wants. Will do nothing to help inflation I bet it will raise inflation.

American Rescue Plan — Another stimulus causing more spending and higher inflation

Pact Act — Good hopefully will help vets.

Safer Communities Act — Another way to restrict gun owners does not address any crime problem. Criminals don’t follow the law.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — Can’t define a woman . Another Affirmative Action Graduate

Sweden and Finland to join NATO — How nice but what if they don’t pay.

Chips and Science — Like many pieces of draft legislation, CHIPS is rather incoherent, and lacking in detail.

Executive Orders protecting Reproductive rights – Yeah the right to kill babies

9.5 Million jobs– Biden forget to include pandemic, part time jobs mostly for illegals.

Support Ukraine – no support for America instead we are giving money without oversight to oligarchs supporting human trafficking. Zelinskyy signed a deal with BlackRock to rebuild Ukraine and  make a fortune.

I don’t see how OBiden helped America. Do you?

OBiden is feeling the pain. One by one the cases against Trump are collapsing.  The Globalists were sure that one of the charges would stick but I don’t think so.

After the Cohen testimony Alvin Bragg’s indictment proved to be a Soviet show trial with no actual crime. We all know this is a stacked jury but I pray at least one juror is fair.

Fani Willis’ charges against Trump for challenging the 2020 election in Georgia collapsed due to Willis’ multiple scandals and GA election committee is finding fraud. .

Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago document trial fell apart due to prosecutorial misconduct and evidence tampering which led the judge to postpone the case indefinitely.

Looking good for Trump and MAGA.  Not looking good for our kids. I just read this article and I am most concerned.

We are educating a group of people who will be mentally unfit to care for themselves and mane rational decisions. I have asked John Droz, a physicist to help sort this out and Ileana Johnson to tell us what we will look forward to if OBiden gets a second term.

If you have not paid attention to your health, you had better before you lose the ability. The W.H.O. the Globalist UN World Health Organization is setting this policy and the RINOS in the House  made it possible by giving our borrowed tax dollars to the WHO. . The WHO decided they should control world health under any emergency they declare like climate change. I do not want our legislators to give away our national sovereignty or money to a group of power hungry control freaks in the UN. Tell your legislators. Communicate with congress, join the Sovereignty Coalition.

Globalists want Money, Control and Power. They can only get Power if we give it to them. Don’t give them yours. Challenge them with the truth. Doing Nothing is Affirmation. The Regime will not go quietly, Prepare.  Share with your 5.  So join me on the radio with guest  and you will learn about some of the riots of America.

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DEL. WREN WILLIAMS: Biden Blunders Put Virginia In Play For Trump

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By The Daily Caller

While driving through my rural district in Southwest Virginia, I am met with sign after sign indicating support for President Donald Trump. Even as I make my way to Richmond, suburban neighborhoods are flooded with Trump signs.

You might have heard the old adage that signs do not win elections — and they don’t. But they do serve as an indicator of where Americans stand.

In the past two weeks, Virginians have watched as college campuses across the Commonwealth are held hostage by violent demonstrators and radical activists. Protestors continue to throw rocks at police officers and storm into university buildings, forcing a swift response from law enforcement and then complaining about being held accountable for their actions.

Today, many parents and students fear their graduations may be canceled like Columbia’s because protestors are threatening to disrupt the ceremonies. These protesters are not only damaging these institutions, they are also damaging Biden’s reelection chances.

Despite voters affiliating these protestors with liberal Democrats, many of the protestors themselves refuse to vote for Biden because of his refusal to take a firm position on the conflict in Gaza.

Many pundits laughed at the idea that Trump could win a “blue state” like Virginia, but in reality Virginia is a purple state and should never be written off.

Up until last year, Republicans maintained control of the Virginia House of Delegates. Despite losing control in 2023, we took seats that Democrats should have won in a landslide – like Republican Delegate Kim Taylor, who held onto her Biden+11 district by 53 votes.

On the Senate side, Republicans actually picked up a seat, dealing Democrats a near-fatal blow and knocking them down to a one-seat majority.

With the right messaging, Virginia is competitive and could give Donald Trump an additional 13 electoral votes in November.

Keep in mind that today’s national landscape is not the same as it was during our statewide elections in 2023 or even in 2020.

Illegal immigration, riots on college campuses, and worsening economic conditions are putting states like Virginia and Minnesota in play for Republicans.

In March, I spoke at Donald Trump’s rally in our capital city, Richmond. In a blue city surrounded by blue suburbs, thousands of Virginians showed up to listen and support President Trump.

These numbers and rallies are reminiscent of 2016, when Americans were engaged and ready to fight back against the establishment — the same year Trump came within five points of winning Virginia.

In 2021, Virginia rejected President Biden’s agenda by electing Republicans across the Commonwealth, including Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Key issues like parental rights and economic freedom drove Virginia voters to the polls, with many of them casting votes for GOP candidates.

These issues are still on their minds. Today, with violent protests devouring college campuses, chaos continuing to wreak havoc on our southern border, and inflation strangling hardworking Virginia families, Trump’s chances of flipping our Commonwealth red continue to grow.

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WREN WILLIAMS

Wren Williams serves in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the state’s 47th district. He previously served as Trump’s legal counsel in the 2020 Wisconsin recount, and is currently a Permanent Organization Committee Member for the Republican National Convention.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.

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Wow, it’s genius from Team Trump to make an ad in the courthouse. 💥

Watch until the end. 😎pic.twitter.com/MMRWd21A3c

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OVER 100K ATTEND NEW JERSEY TRUMP RALLY : ‘I Support Israel’s Right to Win Its War on Terror!’

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By The Geller Report

‘”[Biden]Total Moron, I Support Israel’s Right to Win Its War on Terror, Biggest Betrayal in the History of the USA to its Ally.” — President Donald J. Trump, New Jersey rally 2024.

Wow — unprecedented crowd. President Trump’s latest rally in NJ was the biggest in the state’s history, a blue state, no less.

Remember in November when they steal the election again.

Trump blasts Biden as ‘total moron’ before crowd of 100K at NJ rally: ‘Whole world is laughing at him’

By: Diana Glebova and Steve Janosk, NY Post, May 11, 2024 ET

WILDWOOD, NJ — Donald Trump recited all his greatest hits at a massive Saturday evening rally in Wildwood, NJ — but managed to avoid violating his court-imposed gag order by focusing on President Biden, whom he called a “total moron” and blamed for his web of legal troubles.

Trump — wearing his typical blue suit, blood-red tie and “Make America Great Again” cap — railed about inflation, offshore windmills, electric cars, the press and Chris Christie.

But unsurprisingly, it was Biden who drew his most intense vitriol.

“You could take the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country, and add them up .. and they haven’t done the damage to our country that this total moron has done,” Trump, 77, said to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands.

“He’s a fool, he’s not a smart man. He never was,” Trump said.

“He was considered stupid. I talk about him differently now because now, the gloves are off. He’s a bad guy … he’s the worst president ever, of any country. The whole world is laughing at him, he’s a fool.”

The former president also alluded to his own plethora of indictments, which allege he committed a variety of crimes before, during and after the 2016 and 2020 elections.

He blamed Biden, 81, for his legal troubles, saying, “You don’t do that to your opponents.

“It’s done in third-world countries, it’s done in banana republics, it’s not done in the United States of America.”

The crowd — which Wildwood officials estimated was between 80,000 and 100,000, a record for a Garden State political rally — cheered wildly throughout the long, but controlled speech.

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FULL SPEECH: President Trump Delivers Remarks at Rally in Wildwood, New Jersey — 5/11/24

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