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Trump Orders Agencies to Stop Taxpayers’ Funding for Illegal Migrants:

President Donald Trump has ordered his agencies to scrub their regulations and spending programs to ensure illegal migrants are not getting taxpayers’ funds via hidden channels.

Trump signed the Executive Order titled “Preserving Federal Benefits for American Citizens” late on Wednesday.

The policy could save tens of billions of dollars per year. But the full economic impact will not be known for many months because Trump’s deputies must find the aid programs, change policies to stop some funding. fend off lawsuits, and then gradually rewrite regulations to stop more funding.

Democrats will furiously protest Trump’s aid cutoff because the cash flows through their vast and vital farm teams of supporters at government agencies and non-profits.

Democrats also support the funding because it attracts migrants to the United States. The aid also deters them from going home by anchoring them to U.S. society via subsidized jobs, housing, schooling, government credentials, and political support.

But the aid cutoff will also help the Democrats’ media allies to attack Trump’s popular migration policies by spotlighting pitiable migrants — for example, mothers with children — on the evening TV news shows.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/02/19/trump-orders-agencies-block-aid-welfare-illegal-migrants/   

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Trump Announces He Is Considering Giving 20% of DOGE Savings to Taxpaying Americans – And Slash National Debt:

Trump revealed on Tuesday that he’s seriously considering a proposal to give 20% to every American taxpayer, funded entirely by the massive savings the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has accumulated.

And another 20% of DOGE’s savings could go straight to paying down the federal government’s bloated debt.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-announces-he-is-considering-giving-20-doge/

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Trump’s EEOC Chief Threatens Civil Rights Lawsuits Amid H-1B Hiring:

Companies that prefer migrants and H-1B visa workers over Americans will face federal investigations and discrimination lawsuits, says Andrea Lucas, who President Donald Trump picked to serve as acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

“The EEOC is putting employers and other covered entities on notice: if you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via illegal preferences against American workers, you must stop,” Lucas said in a February 20 notice.

These foreign workers are recruited by hiring managers, many of whom are themselves migrants. This job selection process is critical for Americans’ careers, yet it has been largely exempt from the nation’s anti-discrimination laws.

Those laws bar discrimination against women, racial minorities, and also against American citizens.

However, many Americans and visa workers have told Breitbart News that hiring managers prefer to award jobs to co-ethnic foreign workers, usually in a deal for kickbacks, such as a percentage of a worker’s salary. This concealed process allows each company’s clique of immigrant managers to profitably sell jobs held by accomplished American graduates, regardless of the damage to their company’s long-term profitability.

Breitbart News has covered many examples of established American professionals being fired so they could be replaced by groups of lower-skilled, lower-wage visa workers. Many companies and CEOs have been indicted for criminal fraud for engaging in this practice.

The EEOC statement said:

Employers have many excuses for why they may prefer non-American workers, but none of these are legally permissible reasons to violate Title VII:

  • lower cost labor (whether due to payment under the table to illegal aliens, or exploiting rules around certain visa-holder wage requirements, etc.);
  • a workforce that is perceived as more easily exploited, in terms of the group’s lack of knowledge, access, or use of wage and hour protections, antidiscrimination protections, and other legal protections;
  • customer or client preference;
  • biased perceptions that foreign workers are more productive or have a better work ethic than American workers.

“The law is clear: the prohibition on national origin discrimination applies to any national origin group, including discrimination against American workers in favor of foreign workers,” Lucas said. “The EEOC is going to rigorously enforce the law to protect American workers from national origin discrimination.”

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/22/trumps-eeoc-director-threatens-lawsuits-amid-h-1b-hiring/

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TRUMP’S ULTIMATUM: THE U.S. HAS GIVEN EUROPE THREE WEEKS TO AGREE ON TERMS TO END THE UKRAINE WAR! IF WE DON’T, THE U.S. WILL WITHDRAW FROM EUROPE! BOOM!

AMERICA FIRST, EUROPE LAST – TRUMP TAKES CHARGE!

It’s happening. President Donald J. Trump is DONE playing games with NATO and the corrupt Ukrainian war machine. The message is clear: either Europe agrees to terms and ends this disastrous war in Ukraine, or the United States pulls out of Europe completely. No more free rides. No more U.S. troops babysitting Europe while their leaders drag their feet.

Trump is a man of action, and he just put NATO and Ukraine on notice. Three weeks. That’s all they have. If they don’t sign the deal, America is out. And guess what? That might just be the best thing that’s ever happened for our great nation!

THE END OF NATO AS WE KNOW IT? FINALLY!

For decades, NATO has used the United States as its personal piggy bank and security guard. American taxpayers have paid TRILLIONS to defend Europe while European leaders sit back, virtue-signal, and refuse to pull their own weight. And when Ukraine decided to poke the bear—ignoring every warning sign—who had to step in? America, of course. Not anymore!

Trump has been saying this for years: NATO needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs NATO. And now, he’s proving it. If Europe doesn’t want to end the war and take responsibility for its own security, why should we stay? The United States is done being Europe’s ATM and attack dog.

Zelensky has played the West like a fiddle, crying for more money while his inner circle lives like kings. And what do we have to show for it? Dead soldiers, wasted billions, and zero progress.

Trump knows the truth: Ukraine is a lost cause. The only path forward is peace, and if NATO and Zelensky don’t accept the terms, the United States is out!

Trump is flipping the script. No more American blood and treasure wasted on Europe’s mess. If they don’t agree to peace, they’ll have to face the consequences—without the protection of the U.S. military!

https://amg-news.com/trumps-ultimatum-the-u-s-has-given-europe-three-weeks-to-agree-on-terms-to-end-the-ukraine-war-if-we-dont-the-u-s-will-withdraw-from-europe-boom/

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Musk enrages deep-staters by telling them to show up at work, asking what they've actually done:

Elon Musk announced on Saturday that all federal workers would receive an email asking them about their productivity over the past week — a request that aligned with the Department of Government Efficiency's effort to reduce government waste.

The email read, "What did you do last week?"

"Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager," it continued. "Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pm EST."

It directed federal employees not to respond with any classified information.

"Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," he declared.

"Those who ignored President Trump's executive order to return to work have now received over a month's warning," he wrote on X. "Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave."

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) attacked Musk for expecting government employees to prove their productivity.  Musk responded to Smith, asking, "What did you get done last week?"

https://www.theblaze.com/news/musk-enrages-deep-staters-by-telling-them-to-show-up-at-work-asking-what-they-ve-actually-done

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USPS workers storm DC streets as Trump weighs shake-up, potential privatization:

Protesters demand that taxpayers keep footing the bill for the failing mail agency.

United States Postal Service workers stormed the streets of Washington, D.C, on Monday, protesting President Donald Trump’s push to make the mail agency profitable instead of a billion-dollar taxpayer drain.

Last week, the Washington Post reported that Trump plans to axe USPS’ leadership and bring the independent government agency under the control of the Commerce Department.

Trump stated that Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick would review the USPS and implement “a kind of merger,” the news outlet reported.

In December, the outlet claimed that Trump was weighing privatizing the mail agency.

The USPS has burdened American taxpayers with billions in annual losses, including $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024. Further, despite a $107 billion congressional bailout two years ago, financial records show the agency’s liabilities nearing $80 billion.

The National Association of Letter Carriers organized a rally on Monday to protest the reports — rejected by the administration — that Trump is drafting an executive order to shake up the USPS.

The union failed to mention the USPS’ financial burden, instead calling the mail service a “self-sufficient agency.”

Meanwhile, widespread reports of the USPS’ unreliable and inefficient operations have existed for years.

On Friday, Trump told reporters, "We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money. ... It’s just a tremendous loser for this country. Tremendous amounts of money are being lost. We think we can do something that will be very good."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/usps-workers-storm-dc-streets-as-trump-weighs-shake-up-potential-privatization

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‘They will be fired’: DHS has identified ICE raid leakers, Noem says:

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated on Monday that the agency has identified some of the individuals who are suspected of sabotaging Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids by leaking information about the planned operations.

Earlier this month, border czar Tom Homan revealed that a leak undermined an ICE raid in Aurora, Colorado. ICE had targeted over 100 illegal aliens, mostly Tren de Aragua gang members, but agents nabbed only 30 — just one TDA member.

Noem echoed Homan’s claims, stating that she had reason to suspect that “corrupt” FBI agents had illegally shared the information about the planned raids.

She told Sean Hannity, “I have found some leakers. We are continuing to get more. They will be fired. There will be consequences. And remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow an op, they are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/they-will-be-fired-dhs-has-identified-ice-raid-leakers-noem-says    

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New Poll Shows Massive Support for President Trump and His Agenda:

A new poll by Harvard CAPS-Harris reveals the majority of the country backs President Donald J. Trump and his actions to bring much-needed reforms that are making America great again.

  • Americans overwhelmingly support President Trump’s agenda.
    • 81% support deporting criminal illegal immigrants.
    • 76% support a “full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government.”
    • 76% support closing the border with additional security and policies.
    • 69% support keeping men out of women’s sports.
    • 68% support government declaring there are only two genders.
    • 65% support ending race-based hiring in government.
    • 63% support “freezing and re-evaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department that handled them.”
    • 61% support reciprocal tariffs.
    • 60% support direct U.S. negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
    • 59% support cutting government spending already approved by Congress.
    • 57% support ending the ban on new offshore drilling.
  • Americans strongly support President Trump’s effort to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
    • 77% support a “full examination of all government expenditures.”
    • 72% agree there should be a government agency “focused on efficiency.”
    • 70% say government is “filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency.”
    • Two-thirds say Congress should join the “effort to reduce government expenditures.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/new-poll-shows-massive-support-for-president-trump-and-his-agenda/   

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Rand Paul reintroduces bill to permanently defund Planned Parenthood:

Sen. Rand Paul reintroduced simple, one-page legislation to permanently cut off federal tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, excluding the abortion chain from public funding regardless of whatever else happens with federal abortion policy.

Last year, Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report revealed that its affiliates across the nation took in $699.3 million in government “health services” reimbursements and grants, accounting for 39 percent of its total revenue during that period. At the same time, the abortion chain committed 392,715 abortions – yet procedures such as pap tests and cancer screenings continued to decline as percentages of its overall business.

Paul’s bill complements separate legislation recently introduced by Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi...

Within days of returning to office, President Donald Trump reinstated the Hyde Amendment (that forbids most federal funds from directly supporting elective abortions) and the Mexico City Policy (that forbids non-governmental organizations from using taxpayer dollars for elective abortions abroad).

However, as executive actions, such moves only last as long as a like-minded president occupies the White House and may be unilaterally reversed by the next Democrat president. Paul, Smith, and Wicker’s bills would make clear prohibitions on funding abortion and the abortion industry permanent, reversible only by future acts of Congress.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rand-paul-reintroduces-bill-to-permanently-defund-planned-parenthood/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=catholic   

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Ukraine Agrees to Trump’s Rare Earth Minerals Deal, Zelensky to Sign in Washington on Friday:

President Trump mooted the deal as a way of recouping the billions of dollars the United States has spent on supporting Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s invasion.

Under the deal to be signed, the U.S. and Ukraine agree to jointly develop resources, including rare earth minerals, oil, and gas, and that there will be a joint investment fund. Ukraine is reported to have agreed to pay 50 per cent of proceeds from ‘future monetisation’ of state-owned minerals into the fund, and the U.S. agrees to “back Ukraine’s economic development into the future”.

The initial document — a “framework agreement” is relatively light on detail but sets the stage for future negotiations on the finer points, including the size of America’s stake in the fund and how joint ownership will work.

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