KOMMONSENTSJANE – Here’s What Christians Urged Trump to Prioritize in Talks at White House.

Posted on March 20, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

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03/20/2025


Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

 March 19, 2025

Christian leaders pray over President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. (Margo Martin/X)

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A Baptist leader urged the Trump administration to use its platform to promote Biblical pro-family policies during a White House roundtable on Wednesday, The Daily Signal has learned.

President Donald Trump’s White House Faith Office held a meeting with several pastors to discuss the priorities of American Christians and hear their recommendations. The head of the White House Faith Office, Paula White, indicated that she would share the pastors’ recommendations with Trump, the White House confirmed.

Roundtable participant William Wolfe, founder and executive director of the Center for Baptist Leaders, said the establishment of the Faith Office marks a “180-degree difference” from previous Democrat presidential administrations, during which Christians were persecuted for their faith.

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“It’s not just that Christians were not welcome in the Biden administration or the Obama administration,” Wolfe told The Daily Signal, “but those administrations were actively hostile against them, particularly using government agencies like the IRS to target and to harass Christians.”

After the roundtable, pastors had the opportunity to meet Trump and pray over him.

Trump signed an executive order establishing the White House Faith Office on Feb. 7.

Wolfe told The Daily Signal that when it was his turn to share the priorities of Baptists, he urged Trump to “push aggressively” for pro-life policies.

Wolfe praised Trump’s executive orders enforcing the Hyde Amendment, which bars taxpayer funding to promote abortion, and reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits U.S. funding for foreign abortions.

He urged the Trump administration to work next on repealing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which was weaponized by the Biden Department of Justice to prosecute pro-lifers for praying outside abortion clinics.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have introduced bills in the House and Senate to repeal the FACE Act.

Baptists also would like Trump to implement pro-family policies that encourage marriage and the birth of children, said Wolfe, a former Trump appointee to the State Department and Department of Defense.

“I said that it is important that we continue to defend marriage in this country, and to encourage that and to uphold that, and particularly within marriage, we need to be encouraging people to have more children,” he said, adding that he encouraged the White House to consider tax policies that incentivize having more children.

While some religious people have outspokenly opposed Trump’s deportations of illegal immigrants, Wolfe said mass deportations are a Christian issue.

“We actually believe it is directly related to the preservation of America as we know it,” he said.

As the 250th birthday of the United States approaches next year, the leaders discussed incorporating America’s Christian heritage into the celebration, the White House confirmed to The Daily Signal.

The roundtable also discussed addressing global Christian persecution in countries abroad, including Syria and Nigeria.

“America should be a global champion in Christian religious living around the world without sending millions or billions of dollars around the world or importing millions of people here,” Wolfe said.

Because of the White House Faith Office, “Christians across this country are sleeping a lot more soundly,” he added.

Wolfe is grateful for the opportunity to represent conservative Baptists in the Southern Baptist Convention who appreciate Trump’s efforts to secure wins for Christians and churches, he said.

“Baptists have had a real issue with faithful representation on politics from our leaders over the last decade,” Wolfe said. “A lot of our Baptist public and political leaders have been foolish and unhelpful in their opposition to Trump and their embrace of leftist political rhetoric and wokeness.”

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KOMMONSENTSJANE – Judge Temporarily Blocks EPA’s Order to Cut $20 Billion in Biden-Era Gold Bar Scheme..”

Posted on March 20, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

3/20/2025

Democrat judges continue interfering with President Truup’s agenda to clean out Biden’s last minute big steal which looted the coffers of the taxpayers.

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03/19/2025

Is this another “poison pen” signed bill to steal taxpayers’ money?

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Story by Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner

Judge temporarily blocks EPA’s order to cut $20 billion in Biden-era ‘gold bar scheme’

A federal judge in Washington temporarily barred Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin from terminating billions of dollars in grants to climate groups after he expressed concern that the financial funding was riddled with waste and corruption.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled Tuesday that Zeldin had not provided sufficient evidence to back his claims that federal grants handed out to Climate United, Coalition for Green Capital, and Power Forward Communities were a “$20 billion ‘gold bar’ scheme” characterized by“self-dealing and wasteful spending,” as well as “incidents of misconduct, conflicts of interest, and potential fraud.” President Donald Trump’s EPA further failed to give the climate groups sufficient notice or opportunity to respond to claims of corruption, Chutkan wrote.

“In the termination letters, EPA Defendants vaguely reference ‘multiple ongoing investigations’ into ‘programmatic waste, fraud, and abuse and conflicts of interest’ but offer no specific information about such investigations, factual support for the decision, or an individualized explanation for each Plaintiff,” Chutkan wrote. The EPA did not give the plaintiffs “an opportunity to object and provide information challenging the action when it unilaterally terminated their grants,” the judge continued.

Zeldin pulled the funding last week, writing in a press release that “the Biden EPA parked tens of billions of taxpayer dollars at an outside financial institution in a manner that deliberately reduced the ability of EPA to conduct proper oversight.”

The funding in question comes from grants awarded last year through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, commonly known as a “green bank,” that was approved by Congress through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Under the Biden administration, those funds had been deposited at Citibank, the “outside financial institution” Zeldin referred to.

Related video: Companies and Communities Feel Effects of $20B Climate Funding Freeze (Newsweek)

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Under the terms of the judge’s order, the EPA is blocked from recouping the funds. The three groups that sued the EPA for terminating grants received under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will still not be allowed to access the money sitting at Citibank.

Climate United is fighting to access $7 billion in grant funding, the Coalition for Green Capital is seeking $5 billion, and Power Forward Communities wants to recoup $2 billion. Five other nonprofit groups received the remainder of the $20 billion total, per Politico.

RUNDOWN: THE GREEN GROUPS THAT GOT THE $20 BILLION IN ‘GOLD BARS’ FROM THE EPA

Zeldin said Tuesday in a statement posted on X that the grants were awarded “in a manner that deliberately reduced the ability of EPA to conduct proper oversight.”

“I will not rest until these hard-earned taxpayer dollars are returned to the U.S. Treasury,” he said.

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KOMMONSENTSJANE – Am I Missing Something Here? U.S. Trillions in Debt And Taxpayer Funds Are Still Suppose to be Given to the World?

Posted on March 20, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

03/19/2025

The folks in this article must have taken the Clinton’s modern math course years ago when 4+4 could equal whatever they wanted it to be. Bidenomics ravaged our country and they still don’t understand – you can’t help others if you can’t help yourself – borrowing money has to stop.

Haven’t they ever heard – THAT CHARITY STARTS AT HOME?

The people in this article undoubtedly don’t know much about money.

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk is being schooled about the impacts of his foreign aid cuts that one reporter says have already killed people.

When he came into office, President Donald Trump created the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” by executive order and tasked Musk with the responsibility. That initiative has been behind the upheaval and dismantling of government agencies. Websites, grants, programs, and employees have been cut or frozen under the promise that Trump will save taxpayers trillions.

“No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Musk wrote on X. “No one.”

New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who visited South Sudan and Nairobi, Kenya, spoke to MSNBC on Wednesday morning about his bombshell report on the impact of the foreign aid cuts on communities there.

Kristof’s piece explained that some “have already died” due to Trump and Musk’s cuts.

He said, “It’s great” that a judge has restored email access to USAID employees who were put on administrative leave, but that isn’t enough.

“This doesn’t actually reverse the cancellation of programs that were keeping people alive,” said Kristof. “And so, at the end of the day, kids in places like South Sudan are still dying, still not getting their nutritional support.”

He specifically recalled visiting a maternity clinic in Sudan, where maternity care has not traditionally existed.

He went to the clinic and began asking questions, and the patients began thinking he was responsible for the clinic.

“And everybody is thanking me. They’re thanking America for its generosity. They’re saying that women are safe here now. A woman who was then in labor wants to name her baby after me,” he continued.

He said they don’t know that the clinic is about to close due to the cuts from the Trump administration.

“And those women, again, are going to be bleeding to death in the dust there,” he told MSNBC. “I mean, that’s just, you know, when you see in front of you these pregnant women who were now were going to be left to to die in childbirth. It just breaks your heart.”

He pointed out that Americans celebrate a firefighter who rescues a child. However, “American taxpayers have been doing that on a huge scale with USAID.”

“And this was a kind of heroic thing that the U.S. had done. But that just ended in January,” he explained.

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Their vision must be that the U.S. has been harvesting MONEY trees in our country?

You can’t get blood from a turnip.

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KOMMONSENTSJANE – Ron DeSantis Proposes Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges.

Posted on March 19, 2025 by kommonsentsjane

03/21/2025

Okay Congress – GET TO WORK!

Governor DeSantis Proposes Solution to Counter Activist Judges Blocking Trump’s Agenda

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3/19/2025

This is a good example:

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Thanks to all of you! This is a joyous moment.

When is someone going to “spank” Soros since his money put these outlaws in their positions?

Again, after all, the American people elected Trump not primarily to lower costs, but to restore a constitutional republic. And frequent references to the Constitution, which judicial tyranny necessitates, will help turn public opinion in the right direction.

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Ron DeSantis Proposes Solution to Stop the 'Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda' by Federal Judges

Ron DeSantis Proposes Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges© Joe Raedle / Getty Images

Article III of the United States Constitution makes one remedy for judicial tyranny as plain as language can make it.

“The judicial Power of the United States,” Section I of Article III begins, “shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”

With that plain language undoubtedly in mind, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida took to the social media platform X Wednesday morning to offer a historically plausible solution to the problem of inferior federal judges who have insisted upon “sabotaging” President Donald Trump’s popular agenda.

“Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place,” DeSantis wrote.

Moreover, the governor noted that congressional Republicans dropped the ball on this issue.

“The sabotaging of President Trump’s agenda by ‘resistance’ judges was predictable — why no jurisdiction-stripping bills tee’d up at the onset of this Congress?” DeSantis added.

Then, in a follow-up tweet, the governor offered practical advice about how to sidestep Senate Democrats.

“Attach it to a ‘must pass’ bill…,” DeSantis wrote.

Of course, that part of the equation makes DeSantis’ remedy far less plausible.

After all, as they showed during last week’s debate over a government shutdown, Democrats do not recognize “must-pass” bills. And this time, not even Democrat Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer would help Republicans eliminate liberal courts.

Related video: Checks and balances? MAGA thinks Supreme Court will let Trump get away with anything: Strategist (MSNBC)

Checks and balances?

MAGA thinks Supreme Court will let Trump get away with anything: Strategist.

Still, Republicans must make these sorts of arguments regardless of their prospects for legislative success. If nothing else, they bring before the public mind the constitutional fact of judicial inferiority.

As the Constitution indicates, Congress has no power over the Supreme Court. Nor should it. If it did, it would violate the separation of powers.

Nonetheless, Congress’ power to “ordain and establish” inferior courts also necessarily means the power to abolish said courts.

To put it another way, the Constitution, not Congress, created the Supreme Court. Thus, only the sovereign people, by amending the Constitution, could abolish the highest court.

The Constitution, however, did not create the inferior courts. It merely authorized Congress to do so, which means that Congress also could abolish those courts. And it should make that attempt in order to crush the current judicial insurrection.

For instance, on Saturday the politically, constitutionally, and morally inferior U.S. District Judge James Boasberg demonstrated the hubris of unchecked judicial tyranny when he presumed to order the Trump administration to return to America a pair of deportation flights filled with more than 250 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, whom Trump had ordered deported after invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

Neither the president nor congressional Republicans have an obligation to yield to Boasberg’s usurped authority.

In fact, the entire spectacle calls to mind the early days of the American republic.

President Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1800 so alarmed the hitherto ruling Federalists — the establishment of their day and, ironically, the authors of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act — that they viewed the judiciary as a bulwark against the Jefferson administration’s populist-inspired and ultimately successful efforts to radically shrink the size and scope of the federal government.The AI Story No One’s Telling

“[I]f we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy,” Jefferson wrote in 1802.

With that spirit in mind, Republicans in Congress (not the Republicans of today) took aim at the Federalist-dominated judiciary. Among other things, they used the Judiciary Act of 1802 to eliminate 16 judgeships.

All of this re-entered the public mind in recent days.

On Sunday, in fact, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich made this very point about the Jefferson Era.

“Those upset by the emerging dictatorship of district court justices behaving as though they were president should read the Judiciary Act of 1802,” Gingrich wrote on X. “Jefferson and his party completely revised the court system and abolished a series of federalist judges they deemed illegitimate. A warning to the current out of control judiciary.”

Former GOP congressional candidate Michael Cassidy agreed.

“The Judiciary Act of 1802 (signed by Thomas Jefferson) eliminated and restructured several federal courts over partisanship concerns. The old judges lost their seats. The Republic didn’t collapse when that happened. Perhaps something to consider once more,” Cassidy wrote Wednesday on X.

God does work in mysterious ways, so it stands to reason that the present judicial tyranny could trigger meaningful reform.

Again, after all, the American people elected Trump not primarily to lower costs, but to restore a constitutional republic. And frequent references to the Constitution, which judicial tyranny necessitates, will help turn public opinion in the right direction.

In short, when Americans actually read Article III of the Constitution, they cannot help but draw the same conclusions that DeSantis and Gingrich did, and they will draw those conclusions regardless of whether or not DeSantis’ specific recommended strategy bears legislative fruit.

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