Whoever worked up this budget must have been playing with their marbles. None of these items are for the health of the people. I propose that we forego any foreign aid until all of it is reviewed. This has to be a joke of some kind.
CBS’s Margaret Brennan Floored After GOP Congressman Says He Wants a ‘Purging’ of the State Department: ‘What Does That Mean?’
CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan was taken aback by a Republican congressman stating he supports the “purging of people throughout the State Department.”
In an interview on Sunday morning, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) — who chairs the House Foreign Affairs committee — said that he’s on board with a purge of State Department personnel.
“I will make sure, certainly as the foreign affairs chairman, that we give every single authority as we go through State Department reauthorization to make sure that this moves forward, as well as purging of people throughout the State Department, other agencies where we’re freezing aid,” Mast said. “These are all very important and necessary steps to make sure that we secure America. And we’re going to support that.”
Brennan was visibly surprised by the remark.
“I’m sorry, can I follow up on what you just said there?” Brennan said. “You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel? What does that mean exactly?
“Well, if you want to take a look at the State Department, where DEI has been a priority over, let’s say, diplomacy in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of examples of that,” Mast resp“Let’s list them off. Half a million to expand atheism in Nepal, $50,000 to do … a transgender opera in Colombia, $47,000 to do an LGBTQ trans comic book in Peru, $20,000 a pop to do drag shows in Ecuador. Shall I continue with more examples of where DEI was the priority?”
The CBS moderator pointed out just how minuscule those figures given the scope of the federal budget.
“It certainly seems like there could be a review of things,” Brennan said. “Foreign aid, as you know, is less than 1 percent of the entire federal budget. So we’re talking small amounts of money by comparison.”
“We’re still talking about tens and tens of billions of dollars,” Mast replied.
Brennan went on to ask whether President Donald Trump’s administration has told him about its plans for the State Department.
“Has the Trump administration informed you of plans to dismantle or significantly shrink this agency?” Brennan asked.
“This is something that I’m working on very specifically in conjunction with Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio, to make sure that there is the appropriate command and control of these agencies.”
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These items makes our country look like the “laughing stock of reason.”
It sounds like we are giving free money to their politicians’ piggy banks instead of helping people who are in need.
No wonder our debt is in the trillions with this kind of foolish spending.
Veteran Actress Jacqueline Bisset Says She Is Unsympathetic To #MeToo Stories: “Women Need To Learn The Word ‘No'”
Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset says she feels “unsympathetic” towards women who complained of harassment during the advent of the #MeToo movement, saying she feels women are partially to blame for their treatment.
“I understand as an idea, it’s important that men behave, but I do really think it’s important that women behave, too. I think how you dress, what your subtext is very, very important. It’s very dangerous and not to be played with.”
She added: “You have to be very careful what you put out [there].”
Bisset said that she felt “very unsympathetic to these stories, these #MeToo things.”
The #MeToo movement gathered momentum in 2017 following a myriad of allegations that movie producer Harvey Weinstein had assaulted female employees and actresses.
Bisset began her film career in 1965 and broke through in films including The Detective, Bullitt and The Sweet Ride. In 2013, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the BBC TV drama Dancing on the Edge.
She told Page Six that women “need to learn the word ‘no’ or the F-word or something and you have to do it and you can get through it without any problem.”
And she said she herself had never throughout her long career experienced any sexual harassment
She said: “I was very determined not to have anything happen to me and I was completely devoted to that idea.”
Many US government workers are surprised by the lengths President Donald Trump is going to exact revenge on his political adversaries, The Guardian reports insiders say.
Per the report, while some officials resigned ahead of Trump’s inauguration, some remained in their positions, hoping for the best.
“The most common refrain I’m hearing from people who have left but are still talking to people on the inside is: ‘I knew it was going to be bad but I didn’t think it was going to be this bad,'” longtime Democratic lawyer Mark Bergman told the Guardian.
The news outlet notes that Bergman “has been in contact with some of those who fear being targets of the retribution Trump repeatedly vowed” during his campaign.
Although Trump — in less than two weeks — has already snatched Secret Service protection from former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, ex-Trump CIA director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Assistant Secretary of State Brian Hook, “more intense vengeance may have been felt by anonymous civil servants who were less prepared,” the Guardian emphasizes.
“There’s certainly shellshock,” Bergman told the news outlet.
“My view is that Trump is animated by his revenge and retribution agenda.”
The Democratic attorney also noted, “People are being moved reassigned, fired or otherwise [put] under pressure, if they are not able to say that they are mission-aligned, which is the phrase being used by the transition team to mean you will carry out the orders of the president regardless of whether they’re lawful or not.”
(The above statement is a lie. The left/Biden has been conducting business outside of the Constitution and President Trump is bringing all departments back into the Constitution – which the left doesn’t like.)
The 47th POTUS, Donald John Trump…Making it Right!
As we approach the two week marker, President Donald John Trump has accomplished more in this short time period than Dementia Joe did in four years. Moreover, POTUSDJT has met more with the antagonistic dregs of the legacy, corporate mainstream media, who have reverted to their first term ways of unprofessional and accusatory phrasing of questions. Additionally, POTUSDJT has met more with the same aforementioned people and answered more questions in one week than Biden did in four years. He doesn’t finish after four questions. He doesn’t turn his back to shuffle away. He doesn’t look to shake hands with an imaginary friend AND he doesn’t ask for the permission of his staff to take another scripted question from a pre-picked reporter. They knew for the longest time that Biden was slipping down the cognitive declining slope at warp speed.
In the same time frame, President Donald John Trump has already issued over 300 Executive Orders to countermand the damage inflicted by the Biden-Harris administration. For example, POTUSDJT has taken action to secure the southern and northern borders; stop illegal immigration, while actively employing ICE, CBP, DEA, IRS, ATF, US Marshalls Service and the FBI to only go after illegal aliens with prior criminal history and to deport illegal alien criminals currently incarcerated, along with those under federal retainer, despite numbers of illegal alien criminals mandatorily released by the police in sanctuary cities and states; end birthright citizenship; resume drilling to restore American energy dominance and energy independence; slash burdensome Federal business regulations; fire corrupt deep state bureaucrats, along with those who worked for Jack Smith regarding the bogus presidential records case; end DEI programs in the federal government and all the branches of the military; end federal censorship and bring peace in the Middle East and Europe, both of which were direct results of Biden’s failed foreign policies due to the torpedoing of the American energy sector, which opened the door for Russia and Venezuela.
RGV
As for the southern border, in addition to the Federal government law enforcement officers assigned to the border, over 400 Texas National Guard troops and equipment began arriving in the Rio Grande Valley to assist with border security. Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) stated that he had ordered the deployment of troops from bases located in Fort Worth and Houston to work on the ground in conjunction with CBP agents in South Texas. He was also sending aircraft, like military transport C-130s and Chinook helicopters. As troops were arriving at the McAllen International Airport, they were loaded into buses and accompanied by Border Patrol. “Texas has a partner in the White House we can work with to secure the Texas-Mexico border,” Abbott said in a statement. “To support that mission, today, I deployed the Texas Tactical Border Force, comprised of hundreds of troops, to work side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol agents to stop illegal immigrants from entering our country and to enforce immigration laws.”
Partners!
In extending Governor Abbott’s comment regarding having a “partner in the White House,” after four years of being a leaderless Constitutional Republic, law enforcement on the Federal government, State governments and local municipalities, now have a leader who will support them as they detain, arrest and deport those illegal aliens. Don’t forget that any illegal alien who crossed the northern or southern borders illegally broke US immigration laws. Moreover, President Donald John Trump signed Executive Orders cutting off the funding for Non-Government Organizations who are involved in bringing illegal aliens into the country, such as Catholic Charities and increase the capability of streamlining the vetting for refugees and those submitting visa applications. It does include a ban on countries that have inadequate and insufficient screening procedures, such as Afghanistan or Syria for example, in order to make sure that countries are transparent with the people who are arriving here. Moreover, if an individual overstays their visa, they will be considered an illegal alien.
New York City
The New York Post reported that heavily armed federal immigration agents swept through New York City, as they did in Chicago, bringing into detention upwards of 30 accused illegal aliens murderers and narcotics traffickers in the first deportation raids regarding President Donald John Trump’s campaign promises. The Trump administration is planning to execute three major immigration raids in US cities per week. As reported by NBC News, ICE’s 25 field offices were directed during a meeting to “enhance” their “routine operations” by hitting a quota of 1200-1500 arrests per day. According to ICE, there are approximately 60,000 “bad actors” in NYC, without counting the gotaways. Moreover, since NYC is a sanctuary city, there is additional stress on the city’s budget…in other words, illegal aliens are very expensive and take away from other services for New Yorkers.
It’s interesting that during former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ time in office, not one time did he go into the field with those in his charge, as they executed their duties. On the flip side, new appointed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who was recently confirmed by the Senate, was out to witness criminal and civil operations conducted as she accompanied ICE operations in NYC. On her “X” account, she wrote: “We are doing this right…doing exactly what President Donald Trump promised the American people…making our streets safe.” This was written as the operations were being executed. She later posted a video showing a person being detained, stating that the “criminal alien with kidnapping, assault and burglary charges is now in custody.” All Mayorkas did was perjure himself for 3.5 years and as the 2024 poll numbers tanked for Biden, under White House directive, he changed his tune and stated that the borders will be tightened. Furthermore, the Biden-Harris administration brought back some of the Trump immigration policies, but 21 million reasons too late.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams(D) issued a statement on what appeared to be that same arrest Noem mentioned, confirming that a criminal suspect in NYC was taken into custody. “I directed the NYPD to coordinate with DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations and other federal law enforcement agencies, as allowed by law, to conduct a targeted operation to arrest an individual connected with multiple violent crimes, both here in New York and in Aurora, Colorado, including burglary, kidnapping, extortion, firearms possession, menacing with a firearm, crime of violence, and other charges,” he said. Cooperation!
Border Czar Tom Homan
As for “The Windy City”…Chicago..the illegal alien arrest crackdowns began last week. President Donald John Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, stated that among the people arrested in Chicago, six were convicted of serious offenses, two were previously convicted of murder and aggravated sexual battery, and multiple others were gang members. As arrests continued, there were 10 teams of about 10 Federal agents each canvassing the city in order to continue their operations. Chicago is a sanctuary city that protects migrants seeking citizenship, as specifically stated by radical, progressive, liberal Mayor Brandon Johnson(D). Under those protections, cooperation between the Chicago PD and immigration agents is prohibited. Additional sanctuary cities include Los Angeles, whose City Council formally adopted a sanctuary city ordinance late last year that prohibits city resources or personnel from being used to aid in federal enforcement of immigration laws. Other sanctuary cities that are apparently ignoring the DEA, ICE and federal immigration laws, aside from New York City(?), include Boston, San Francisco, Denver, San Diego and Miami, where the crime rates were rising during the Biden disaster.
ICE in NYC
In Chicago, local activists, legislators and school administrators have been coaching migrants, including criminals charged with sex assaults, weapons violations and worse, on their rights and how to evade ICE agents. Even those detained were fairly defiant. And that complicates matters just a bit.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
Furthermore, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer(R-KY) has singled out four of the nation’s most defiant sanctuary city mayors to testify before Congress about their refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. “Sanctuary jurisdictions and their misguided and obstructionist policies hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, making Americans less safe,” Comer wrote in letters to each mayor. The committee specifically targeted Boston Mayor Michelle Wu(D), Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson(D) and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston(D),accusing their cities of standing out “in their abject failure to comply with federal law.”
Johnston, Wu, Johnson and Adams
The aforementioned radical, progressive leaders didn’t wait too long to fire back at the House Oversight Committee. Denver’s Johnston fired off a dismissive response: “The most helpful thing Congressional Republicans could do right now is fix our broken immigration system.”Obviously, here’s another Democrat who fails to research history, even recent history, regarding the immigration issue/crisis/problem. What I am referring too is that during Obama’s two terms was that he had control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives and failed to resolve the immigration problem. During President Donald John Trump’s first term, he got the borders under control until secure borders were blown up by Biden. Adams has been called to Washington DC later this month to testify before a congressional committee about New York City’s sanctuary city policies.
Adams was sent a letter by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after Chairman Comer announced an investigation into sanctuary cities’ “impact on public safety and federal immigration enforcement.” The letter was also sent to Boston Mayor Wu, Chicago Mayor Johnson, and Denver Mayor Johnson, with their presence being requested before the committee on the morning of February 11.
Despite the claims that the radical, progressive liberals are leveling regarding the mass deportation of illegal criminal aliens ICE has been well received by New York City residents in the Hispanic and Black communities that supported President Donald John Trump in huge numbers in the 2024 election, celebrated the local immigration raids that nabbed a plethora of suspected heinous criminals. As reported by The New York Post, with the deportation raids starting in the Bronx, where Trump’s support surged 35% between 2020 and 2024, heavily armed federal immigration officers canvassed the city, with 969 illegal aliens arrested nationwide with warrants for murder, kidnapping and other heinous crimes. And that number will rise!
ICE raids in NYC
Black and Hispanic residences in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods were thrilled with ICE raids removing “asylum seekers” with warrants for hideous crimes like murder and kidnapping. For years the Democrats have taken poor and minority voters for granted, who have suffered from radical, progressive elitists’ insane policies and their defund the police agenda. A resident of Washington Heights, which is in deep-blue Manhattan, where Trump gained 5% in 2024 over his 2020 showing, said he’s happy to see some action being taken against criminals but added that he still hopes some deserving migrant families are offered a path to safety. Legal immigration? What a novel idea!
Illegals at the northern border
While an overwhelming majority of the focus is rightfully on the southern border, there is an increasing need to address the northern border….the US and Canada. Encounters at the northern border have increased by nearly 82% from fiscal 2022, with fiscal 2024, going from more than 109,000 to nearly 199,000 as reported by CBP. New York State border encounters increased by more than 41% from 81,000 in fiscal 2022 to nearly115,000 in fiscal 2024. Federal staffing data shows 2,019 CBP officers for the entire northern border, compared with 16,878 on the southern border. These numbers are as of 2022.
The aforementioned Democratic run city and states have promised resistance to the detainment, arrest and deportation of illegal alien criminals from their domains. What those elected officials fail to realize is that by resisting the voice of the 60% of the people who not only voted them into their offices, but adamantly support POTUSDJT’s planned deportations of criminal illegal aliens. The politicians who govern the Democratic run sanctuary cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York City(?), have failed to hear the voices of their constituents who are affected most by a lack of employment, low paying jobs, a reduced availability of housing, homicides, assaults, drugs, robberies and burglaries. As for the homicides, for example, just remember Laken Riley, Georgia(murder), Rachel Morin, Maryland(murder), Christopher Gadd, Washington(murder), Weston Fundner, California (fentanyl poisoning), Jocelyn Nungaray, Texas(murder), Kayla Hamilton, Maryland(murder),and Kate Steinle, California(murder).
No apologies…not one meeting or words to the families.
These progressive Democrats quite apparently did not learn their lessons regarding the safekeeping of their constituents and not following the party’s agenda. Were there any kind of apologies coming from Biden, Harris and former Mayorkas, who perjured himself for 3.5 years before the Congress, in public and while on mainstream media talk shows, without facing any real confrontations from the progressive, radical left. That all changed six months out from the November 5 presidential election. The administration decided to tighten things up because then former President Donald John Trump was ahead in the polls by substantial margins. Too little, too late.
What’s also stoking the flame to execute operations quickly and professionally, aside from POTUS’ support, is that law enforcement officials didn’t throw the bull as they executed the most successful immigration enforcement operation since President Donald John Trump’s return to office. Interestingly, with television cameras and Dr. Phil McGraw riding along, ICE agents demonstrated exactly what protecting American communities looked like. And who could not be more objective than Dr. Phil as a witness? On the flip side, the hypocritical, mysoginistic, narcissistic, egotistical, egocentric phonies of the entertainment industry have taken to calling the deportation of illegal criminal aliens as heartless and un-American. What could be more un-American than illegal criminal aliens committing crimes against American citizens who do not have the money to hire private, and armed, personal security?
Where are Gomez’s condolences to the Angel Families? Bloody crocodile tears!
Jocelyn Nungaray
One of those entertainers is pop star Selena Gomez, who broke down in tears on Instagram, sharing her concern that her “people” were getting “attacked,” while posting an emotional video that showed just how disconnected Hollywood celebrities are from everyday Americans’ concerns about safety and security. To be perfectly frank, if I was walking down the street and Gomez walked by me, I couldn’t give her the time of day by not knowing anything about her or recognizing her, In other words, she’s a big whoop! And who exactly is “her people?” And the video was pulled as quickly as it was posted! And response, the White House released the recorded messages from the mothers of Kayla Hamilton, Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray, who called out Gomez and the Hollywood elite for not crying for their children, as they support President Donald John Trump’s immigration policies. By the way, the bootlicking dregs of the corporate, coastal mainstream media failed to broadcast any Angel Families‘ story.
Kayla Hamilton
In most cases the Hollywood nimrods cannot face, or handle the truth(sorry Colonel Jessup), so they employ and listen to “yes-men!” So, we have the previously mentioned Border Czar Tom Homan speaking the clear and concise truth. Homan, who’s supervising the national operation, returned fire with a harsh message to critics like Gomez and others of similar radical, progressive delusions: “If people don’t like it, they should go to Congress and change the law,” Homan declared on Fox News. “We’re going to make our communities safer. No apologies. We’re moving forward.”And they are doing the job that the Biden-Harris administration would never permit. In just one day, ICE agents apprehended 956 illegal aliens the highest single-day total since Trump returned to office. The previous three days saw another 1,417 arrests, with operations continuing across Chicago, Newark, and Miami.
As Gomez and other entertainers made their attempts at empathy, Homan pointed out that these countrywide operations isn’t about emotion or sympathy. It’s about enforcing the Federal immigration laws and protecting American communities. The statistics shed light on the truth: nearly 2,400 arrests in just four days between January 23-27, 2025, with operations continuing nationwide.
Furthermore, as President Donald John Trump prepared to sign the Laken Reilly Act into law, there are members of the radical, progressive left, and the aforementioned entertainment industry nimrods, who are against the ratification of this bill. I wonder if they would feel any different if they were part of the heartbroken group of Angel Families who will never see their loved ones again?
As reported by Breitbart News, during a recent broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Democratic strategist James Carville argued that there was an issue on the border because Biden “listened to the idiot left and didn’t enforce the border.” But a marginal amount of things had improved since because of the poll numbers and by the time Biden left office, “it was a manageable situation down there.”Carville said, “So, there’s a lot of difference between where it was three years ago and what happened when President Trump took office. The criminality of all kind should be dealt with and dealt with harshly. And if there’s anybody in this country illegally that is a criminal, they’ve got to be sent back wherever they came from pronto, just like anybody that’s legally in this country who’s a criminal…needs to be tried and convicted and sent to jail pronto.” As previously stated, the only reason for the small improvement at the southern border was that Biden’s poll numbers were in the toilet and he hoped that his actions would perk up his numbers.
Not only are legacy media outlets’ attempting to paint Trump as racist and heartless for his focus on illegal immigration, but their words and empty rhetoric are not affecting Americans’ opinion of the president, but they don’t appear to be driving ratings to the outlets at all, where legacy mainstream media news outlets are losing viewership at record numbers.
In another instance of POTUSDJT’s promises made, promises kept, he stated that he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal aliens to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of his campaign to mass-deport illegal aliens who have committed crimes. “Today, I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said while signing the anti-illegal immigration Laken Riley Act. The President stated that people were not aware that GitMo could hold 30,000 beds.
And I can guarantee that members of the radical, progressive left will accuse the Trump-Vance administration of doing what President Franklin Roosevelt, who was a racist and anti-Semite, did by relocating Japanese Americans to WWII internment camps like Manzanar, solely because they were Japanese. President Donald John Trump’s plan is to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”He was also correct in determining that the illegal aliens’ home countries may not want them back.
Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, a patriot’s patriot.
In regards to relocating illegal criminal aliens to GitMo, Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth stated that Guantanamo Bay is a “perfect place” to hold criminal migrants “safely in the interim” as the process to repatriate them to their homelands plays out. “This is a temporary transit, which is already the mission of naval station Guantanamo Bay, where we can plus up thousands and tens of thousands if necessary, to humanely move illegals out of our country where they do not belong, back to the countries where they came from in proper process,” Hegseth shared on FNC. The Migrant Operations Center holds individuals detained at sea, primarily from Haiti and Cuba.
POTUSDJT… Making America Safe Again
During the remarkable first week plus of President Donald John Trump’s second term, in a single day, immigration authorities made nearly 1,200 arrests nationwide, demonstrating the scale of the criminal alien problem these sanctuary policies enabled. Current polling shows over 70% support these enforcement actions. And just ask Colombian President Gustavo Petro where President Donald John Trump stands on illegal immigration.
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