The Left is in a panic this week after Trump announced that he is shutting down USAID— the US Agency for International Development, which has been used for decades to quietly fund many radical leftist and woke causes around the world. Even I was shocked by all the evil funding flowing out of USAID, but then the State Department has also been a hotbed of radical leftist activism and promotion. Newly appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the process of eliminating all that. Will the Deep Left tolerate this? Not without a fight. I expect a flurry of lawsuits to be filed shortly in front of reliable Deep State judges to slam injunctions on any attempts to halt these payments. Donald Trump can be pleased with himself after having done more to cut down on politicized government funding in the first two weeks of his term than any president in the past has ever even contemplated. But heady success tends to inflate Trump’s sense of invincibility, which may explain what led him to propose the nearly irrational scheme of deporting all the Palestinians from Gaza, taking full possession of it by the USA and rebuilding it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” This single incredible proposal would easily eclipse all his budget gains with DOGE and trimming USAID to eliminate millions, perhaps even billions in government waste, only to waste trillions on a real estate boondoggle in what is currently the most unstable and contested piece of land in the world. To receive a free one-time sample of the Brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a Sample on the left.
The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. Kennedy, founder and former chairman of Children’s Health Defense, has vowed to end the epidemic of chronic disease in children.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has ways of implanting false information into U.S. discourse to the point that it becomes mainstream, the FBI has recently reported. The FBI refers to this phenomenon as “information laundering.”
The car crashed into the back of a demonstration by a service workers’ union.
2025 will be a year of “total meltdown” for the Chinese property market. According to Zhai, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has exhausted all means of keeping the real estate industry afloat, from governmental policies at all levels to support within the public and private business sectors.
The judge had issued a temporary hold on the program.
Trump: a meeting with Vance, Rubio, Zelensky being set up on Friday Trump: It is time to stop the Ukraine-Russia war No Ukraine deal without Ukraine and Europeans: French, German, Spanish FMs Trump has pledged that talks to end the war will start immediately. Wednesday marks the first known conversation between Trump and Putin since the new US president entered office last month.
Microsoft has dropped NewsGuard, a left-wing fact checking organization they partnered with that has helped the advertising industry justify blacklists for independent conservative media sites such as ZeroHedge.
Some schools still promote racial preferences and ideologies, while others have renamed their DEI functions.
..In other words, there are too many made up woke ‘holiday’ dates to keep up with.
The answer is all of them, in due time. Here are the latest spectacular failures.
Russia has confirmed its forces launched major overnight missile strikes on Ukrainian military plants as well as energy infrastructure. Kiev suffered significant damage, resulting in casualties and several fires in the city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed his strategic plan for ordering the risky Kursk offensive which began last August, and has resulted in Ukraine forces holding hundreds of square kilometers of Russian territory for the past six months.
As noted last night, Canada is by far the most impacted from hike on steel and aluminum tariffs, as the country is by far the largest exporter of the two commodities to the US.
The announcement comes after a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth exploded to $30 million despite an annual salary under $250,000.
Pages that were removed in recent days to comply with Trump administration orders include ones for Health Disparities Among LQBTQ Youth, Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention, Fast Facts: HIV and Transgender People, HIV data pages, the page for the U.S. global HIV program called PEPFAR, and others.
Homan said on Fox News Monday night that that the Department of Justice has opened up a criminal investigation into LA leak and that Noem is correct about her assumptions.
“We are seeing a recession in 2025. The rest of the globe is already starting to roll over. It’s going to be a worldwide recession. There is going to be a mini housing crisis. Housing has been stagnant for the better part of the year. There is no transaction volume, and nobody can afford homes. We are hitting the 18-year housing cycle. The last housing cycle was in 2007, and you add 18 years and you get 2025. . . . The economy for the middle-class is going down. . . . As time goes on, we are going to see GDP numbers go lower and lower and lower. . . . It’s kind of a perfect storm for the Trump Administration.
"This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously," said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination and vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation's largest source of online records of Kennedy's killing, Axios continues. "The FBI is finally saying, 'Let's respond to the president's order,' instead of keeping the secrecy going," Morley continued,
The Israeli army continues to bombard Syria and attack what is left of the former government’s military infrastructure
The US Mint's total loss on the year for pennies was about $85.3 million. Don't tell Trump and the DOGE team, but the nickel costs about double its face value to produce and distribute.
On Friday night, Democrats went 'judge shopping' to ask that Musk's team be stopped from accessing Treasury systems, knowing that instead of receiving a judge by random selection, the only available judge would be Paul Engelmayer - who held an ex-parte hearing without DOJ lawyers. Engelmayer did not cite any case law or precedent for his ruling, which many have criticized for vast overreach.
The Department of Government Efficiency, an agency established to root out government waste, “discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk wrote on X on Monday.
The next big test of whether congressional Republicans mean business with regard to reining in spending is the budget reconciliation process, in which Congress will make key decisions on spending and taxation, and funding Trump’s ambitious campaign promises. Burchett said that while he was disappointed that congressional leadership had not consulted him and his fiscally conservative allies as of Friday, the Republicans’ slim House majority means that leadership would eventually have to hear his case for deeper cuts on spending.
Elon Musk has statutory authority. This Department of Government Efficiency is not a Cabinet agency. He does not have to be approved by Congress. And it only is going to last until July 4, 2026. It’s not a permanent agency, but he has the same power, or lack of such, as the national security adviser, who does not have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Wednesday protecting women’s and girls sports from biological male athletes who identify as transgender.
So, when people talk about US$177 billion or even US$200 billion, we’ve never received that. We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about US$70 billion.
SecDef Pete Hegseth just killed Pride Month at the Pentagon, effective immediately, along with a host of other DEI ‘identity’ celebrations.
The sudden emergence of the unity effort of Trump and Kennedy together disoriented both sides, simply because the coalition brought together factions that had long seemed opposed. Kennedy was a long-time environmental lawyer, and Trump was generally an anti-environmentalist. They would agree to disagree on oil and energy but concentrate on the economic and physical health of America, which came to be embodied in the MAGA/MAHA coalition.
All of these had long generally formed a strategic belt of Ukrainian defenses in the east, which are fast crumbling, also as the key town of Pokrovsk is increasingly under threat. Military analysts say that once Pokrovsk falls, Russia will quickly be able to complete its hold over all of Donetsk.
Chief of the Guard’s navy Adm. Ali Reza Tangsiri described that the project to transform a commercial vessel into a drone warship took over two years, and that it even features a hospital and gym for the crew.