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Under the "a picture is worth a thousand words" category, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative posted a chart on X Saturday showing the steep decline in the percentage of apparel sold in America that is also manufactured in America.
Part of President Trump's tariff strategy is to make it more economically feasible for clothing manufacturers to make their products in the United States.
The post reads: "Reviving apparel production in America is not a pipe dream. It was not that long ago we were manufacturing 56% of U.S. apparel in America. 'Made in America' is an economic and national security priority of this administration."
"@POTUS' trade actions are ushering in a reshoring renaissance as companies pledge billions of dollars to expand U.S. manufacturing."
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Michelle Obama has been in the news much lately, what with a variety of lines of gossip pointing out and she and husband, ex-President Barack Obama, have been seen alone at various functions and speculating about a breakup.
And she's been complaining, on a podcast, about how expensive it was for her family to live in the White House.
On her show, she recently said, "It's expensive to live in the White House. Many people don't know. I mean, much is not covered. You're paying for every food, every bit of food that you eat. You're not paying for housing and the staff in it. But everything, even travel. If you're not traveling with the president, if your kids are coming on a bright star, which is the First Lady's plane, we had to pay for their travel to be on the plane. It is an expensive proposition, and you're running for two years and not earning an income."
She's even attacked how "financially sound" Barack Obama was when they married.
He "was a Harvard Law graduate working as a civil rights attorney for a major Chicago law firm when they married in 1992," a report said.
For average Americans, who were taking home salaries of about $60,000, according to Forbes, Obama was getting paid $400,000 for being president.
That would be $3.2 million for his eight years.
The family's net worth now is estimated at $70 million, some from book deals and more from a Netflix contract.
He also has a lifetime guaranteed pension from the government, constant Secret Service protection, a government allowance for staff and office, and more.
As long ago as 2004, he was being paid more than $80,000 a year from the Illinois state senate, plus $32,000 from the University of Chicago, where he talked.
His "investments" back then were estimated to be worth up to $200,000.
He got $1.9 million from Random House for a book and got another $1.2 million for other books.
On being elected, he already "owned somewhere between $1.1 million and $5.1 million in U.S. Treasury bills," a report said.
He now gets up to $400,000 for speeches, and the Obamas agreed to a $65 million book deal where each would write a project. The family bought a million-dollar home in Chicago as well as a $14 million beachfront estate after leaving the White House.
Her comments, which often have no elaboration, have left some wondering odd questions about her:
Democrats will vote on a resolution demanding answers from President Donald Trump's administration on conditions in El Salvador prisons, the Washington Examiner reported. This comes after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported in March and sent to an El Salvador prison as an illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member.
The resolution, which will be voted on later this month, will center on El Salvador's treatment of inmates, including at the CECOT mega prison. Although Abrego Garcia isn't referenced by name, the report will include U.S. residents "detained or imprisoned in El Salvador."
Initial reports characterized Abrego Garcia's deportation as a mistake, and Democrats pounced. "We’re going to put all of our colleagues on the record," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who is the resolution's lead sponsor, said to the press.
"If Americans are being sent in violation of the rule of law to El Salvador, we should all want to get a human rights report to see whether this nation is following the rule of law, or not," Kaine added. However, this may end up backfiring for the Democrats.
The Democrats have taken up Abrego Garcia's cause, claiming that he was the victim of the Trump administration's tyranny. However, the crackdown on illegal immigration has centered on illegal immigrants suspected of a crime, such as Abrego Garcia.
Four Democrats from the House of Representatives have made separate pilgrimages to rally for Abrego Garcia's case. They have met with him and urged for him to get his due process.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who also sponsored the resolution, made the trek as Abrego Garcia was a resident of Maryland before being deported. Meanwhile, the White House sees this twisted crusade as the Democrats' undoing.
Abrego Garcia's wife accused him of domestic violence and even referred to him as a "gang member" in her 2018 complaint. Conservative Commentator Benny Johnson shared a copy of the written statement. "This is the guy Democrats are protecting and fighting for," Johnson captioned the post to X, formerly Twitter.
Wow. Would you look at that..
In 2018, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife’s ex husband warned in court that his kids were in danger—because she in a relationship with a “gang member.”
This is the guy Democrats are protecting and fighting for. pic.twitter.com/zSDQFRC8dn
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 30, 2025
As it turns out, Abrego Garcia is not the sympathetic figure Democrats attempted to paint him as. "The hole that Democrats and the Fake News media dug themselves into by demanding the return of a wife-beating MS-13 terrorist illegal alien just keeps getting deeper," Kush Desai, White House spokesman, said.
Reports emerged this week that Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told House Democrats to quit making trips to El Salvador to save face. "They want to let the El Salvador stuff slow down," a House staffer reportedly told Fox News.
Jeffries vehemently denies this, but there's no doubt that Democrats are uneasy about the optics. "There’s a moral argument to be made, but it’s not clear this is the right poster case, and it’s definitely not the right political moment," a Democrat aide told the press.
Whether or not Abrego Garcia was removed properly is something the administration should answer for. Even suspected criminals and illegal immigrants must be treated fairly under the law.
However, Democrats have gone all in on Abrego Garcia's cause before the extent of his suspected criminal and gang-related past was fully revealed. Their continued support and pandering could backfire severely for them, and we're here for it.
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For years the creators of content at National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service have taken in tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding each year.
And they have "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'"
That's according to President Donald Trump, who now has issued an executive order ending taxpayer subsidization of the leftist story lines the organizations have created.
For example, the order revealed, "In 2021, NPR declared the Declaration of Independence to be a document with 'flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies.'
"In 2022, NPR scrapped its decades-long Independence Day tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on air to instead discuss 'equality.'
"NPR subsequently issued an 'editor's note' warning the Declaration of Independence is 'a document that contains offensive language.'"
Further, the content creators at NPR "NPR apologized for calling illegal immigrants 'illegal.'"
And it "sounded the alarm about young men who abstain from masturbating to pornography." And it "routinely" promotes "the chemical and surgical mutilation of children as so-called 'gender-affirming' care."
It also promoted the concept of "queer animals" while PBS devoted a panel to discussing "woke" and "white privilege."
Other factors identified by the White House:
The order also explained how "NPR and PBS have zero tolerance for non-leftist viewpoints."
For instance:
NPR also repeatedly denied the evidence that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab working to make viruses more dangerous, "a conclusion now deemed likely by the FBI, CIA and Department of Energy."
Trump's order states: "At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage. No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize. The CPB's governing statute reflects principles of impartiality: the CPB may not 'contribute to or otherwise support any political party.' 47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3); see also id. 396(e)(2).
"The CPB fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS. Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens. I therefore instruct the CPB Board of Directors (CPB Board) and all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS."
Former First Lady Michelle Obama recently appeared on a podcast and suggested that Ivy League schools "scam" their students, raising eyebrows considering her own attendance at Princeton as an affirmative action student.
Obama appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast and spoke about her experience at Princeton by saying, "Although I was an outstanding student, I wasn’t a good standardized test-taker. All those numbers said that I shouldn’t do well at Princeton."
She continued by saying, "'So I came in as an ‘affirmative action kid.' Sort of feeling like maybe I don’t belong in these ivory towers and maybe these kids coming from these other schools are really so much smarter and better than I am."
She then continued by saying her academic performance at Princeton demonstrated her right to be there, but that still didn't sit well with some observers who saw Obama's comments as papering over her status as an affirmative action student.
Affirmative action is being soundly dismantled around the nation in recognition of the racist and fundamentally flawed idea. This is in spite of the work of leftists like Obama, who want to keep affirmative action in place and further promote racial identity in academia.
Michelle Obama was clearly defending affirmative action but also openly taking shots at Ivy League schools by saying, "Do not let these people scam you. This is all a racket… That you don’t belong, that they’re smarter, that they work harder, that they know more, that they deserve this more than you do."
Obama was able to study sociology at Princeton and would later go on to study at Harvard Law School, making her a member of America's elite, but not stopping her from waging a campaign of racial grievance for decades.
Thanks to the rise of affirmative action, many students like Michelle Obama were able to enter Ivy League schools, but at the expense of more qualified students from racial groups that weren't considered disadvantaged.
This situation led to a massive backlash over the years, with lawsuits from Asian-Americans alleging that qualified students were passed over in favor of less qualified students from supposedly less advantaged groups.
Eventually, this fight led to the Supreme Court knocking down affirmative action in 2023, finding that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Of course, Michelle Obama decried that decision by saying, "My heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their future holds — and what kinds of chances will be open to them." Clearly, she didn't care about kids who had opportunities stolen from them by the scam that is affirmative action.
Michelle Obama is the last person to speak about Ivy League schools, as she represents the elite and is supported by the same people whom she accused of running a "racket." She was comfortable blasting these schools on the Diary of a CEO podcast, but is tied at the hip with these elite organizations.
Ivy League universities like Harvard and Columbia overwhelmingly supported former President Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. Numerous studies have found that the staffing at elite universities is overwhelmingly leftist.
This makes Michelle Obama's comments on Ivy League schools even more bizarre and inauthentic. Obama desperately wants to appeal to younger Americans, yet stands with those same people who have happily embraced elitist and anti-American policies that disadvantage young Americans.
In a deeply revealing turn of events, it has been revealed that now-former Rep. Yadira Caraveo of Colorado experienced significant mental health struggles while serving in Congress in 2024.
Caraveo allegedly made two attempts to take her own life over the course of two months, putting her campaign into a stark light as she dealt with personal difficulties, as the Daily Caller reports.
The first incident unfolded on Feb. 8, 2024, when Caraveo reportedly consumed a dangerous combination of 19 sleeping pills and alcohol. This led to a distressing situation that required a 911 call and police intervention at her residence in Thornton.
Due to the severity of this episode, she was taken to St. Anthony North Hospital and placed under a 72-hour mental health monitoring period.
Two months later, Caraveo was discovered unconscious in her congressional office on April 6. This incident, attributed to an overdose of approximately 20 lorazepam pills, demanded another round of emergency medical care. Her hospitalization caused her to miss a significant event -- the launch of her campaign headquarters.
Former aides revealed these episodes after Caraveo minimized their impact during a radio appearance. The February event was downplayed by Caraveo as a "misunderstanding" over text communications. She admitted to using sleeping pills but claimed it was just below a level requiring intensive care.
Before the election, which she subsequently lost, Caraveo sought to block public knowledge of the February event by issuing a cease-and-desist notification. Her efforts were intended to prevent details from surfacing before voters made their decisions. Despite this, The Colorado Sun temporarily halted its coverage until Caraveo signaled another campaign attempt.
Caraveo’s struggles are illustrated through her candid recollection of a message to an employee. The distressing text read, "If I don't wake up tomorrow, tell everybody that I'm sorry," which prompted the staffer to alert emergency services immediately.
Sheriff Gene Claps notably supported Caraveo during these troubling times. He arrived in a personal capacity during the April 6 situation, following emergency teams. His presence showed a level of personal commitment to Caraveo during a uniquely trying period.
Attempting to safeguard Caraveo's privacy, both the Northglenn Police Department and the Adams County Sheriff's Office declined to divulge further information. They cited applicable public interest exemptions and strict health privacy laws as reasons to withhold details.
These revelations about Caraveo’s experience reveal the private battles she faced while serving the public. Caraveo's story underscores the significant stress political figures can endure and the measures they might take to shield those struggles from public view.
The handling of these incidents sheds light on the broader conversation about mental wellness in the political sphere. Regardless of political affiliation, leaders face pressure that can take a severe toll on their mental health, often behind closed doors.
Furthermore, the revelation and concealment efforts of such matters speak to the complex intersection of personal privacy, public interest, and media responsibility in political reporting. With the public now aware of her challenges, Caraveo's journey through personal crises while in office offers critical points for societal reflection and understanding.
Caraveo's experiences reveal how personal struggles often go unnoticed amid public duties. It highlights the importance of comprehensive support systems for individuals in high-profile roles, potentially sparking discussions about policies that protect and support mental well-being.
President Donald Trump has touted new capital investments in the U.S. as proof that his bold economic reforms are restoring American industry, even as critics continue to stoke fears about the impact of his tariffs.
At a White House event on Wednesday, Trump welcomed the CEOs of major companies as he boasted of $8 trillion in new investments from companies in the pharmaceutical, energy, and technology sectors.
“We have a total of close to $8 trillion all told,” he continued. “And there’s never been anything like that in this country; we’ve never had anything close. I would say, if you looked at the last administration, probably for four years, they did maybe less than $1 [trillion], and we’ve done almost $8 [trillion].”
The White House launched a website that lists 49 different commitments from companies like Apple, NVIDIA, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Hyundai, and more.
Trump credited the new influx of capital to business-friendly policies like low taxes and deregulation, as well as tariffs giving companies an incentive to build in America. "There's never been, I don't think there's ever been anything like this anywhere in the world. Together we're going to bring back the most beautiful words I always say, made in the USA. The most beautiful words, we're going to have made in the USA like we haven't had before in a long time," he said.
Some of the biggest investments are from companies at the center of the AI revolution. Apple, NVIDIA, and Stargate, which is a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, have each pledged $500 billion.
The commitment from Apple is notable given the company's notorious reliance on Chinese imports. China has been hit harder than any other nation by Trump's tariff war, with import duties currently at 145%.
"Tim Cook from Apple is pledging, not only pledging, is committed to $500 billion, they're going to build plants all over the country, seven or eight different states," Trump said.
The CEO of chipmaker NVIDIA, Jensen Wong, praised Trump for fostering a renaissance in domestic production. Trump has pointed to America's reliance on foreign semiconductor chips as a national security concern.
"We’re going to build NVIDIA’s technology, the next generation of that, all here in the United States,” Wong said.
“Without the president’s leadership, his policies, his support, and, very importantly, his strong encouragement… frankly, manufacturing in the United States wouldn’t have accelerated to this pace,” he added.
Indeed, NVIDIA recently announced it would start building AI super computers in America for the first time.
Despite this good news, Trump's critics have painted a much darker picture, predicting an economic slowdown or recession on the heels of a contraction in gross domestic product (GDP.) The president dismissed a .3% contraction in the first quarter of the year as a lingering effect of former President Joe Biden's policies.
"This is Biden's economy because we took over on January 20th," Trump said. "I think you have to give us a little bit of time to get moving."
President Donald Trump is nominating Michael Waltz to be America's ambassador to the United Nations, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take on Waltz's current role of national security adviser, at least for the near term.
"From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress, and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump added.
Rubio is now the first secretary of State since Henry Kissinger to work simultaneously as national security adviser, although Rubio will hold the second job temporarily.
The stunning shakeup comes weeks after Waltz came under scrutiny for adding the editor of an anti-Trump magazine, The Atlantic, to a sensitive group chat about military strikes in Yemen.
The breach blindsided the White House and caused Waltz to lose favor there, but he appeared to hang on to his job initially as Trump defended him.
“I’m deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation,” Waltz wrote in response to Trump decision to nominate him for the U.N. role.
Waltz is likely to face more questions about "Signalgate" from the Senate, which must vote to confirm him in his new role. Trump pulled his initial nominee for U.N. ambassador, Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY). over concerns about the GOP's narrow House majority.
Waltz's exit is the first major personnel shakeup of the second Trump administration, and it comes just after the end of the president's historic first 100 days back in power.
Compared to his often chaotic first term, Trump's comeback has been marked by remarkable speed and discipline. Trump's opponents have been left scrambling as he transforms domestic and world politics at a furious pace.
The self-inflicted wound of "Signalgate" frustrated Trump and his top aides after the early momentum of his first weeks back in power, but Trump was said to be reluctant to fire Waltz and give the left a perceived victory.
While Waltz is no longer at the White House, he could suffer a far worse fate than getting a prestigious diplomatic post in New York.
To some, Waltz's reassignment is a "soft landing" and a way for Trump to signal that he is in charge, and not the media hounds who demanded Waltz be fired outright. The new arrangements will keep White House insiders on their toes, too.
“It wasn’t anyone’s choice but his because no one asked for this combo of things,” one source told the New York Post. “Today Trump won. Everyone (staff, Israel, Iran, [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth) is left wondering where they sit with him.”
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Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term, he's been trying to clean up the federal government, secure the border, cut expenses and spending, get rid of fraud, waste and even criminal activities.
For this, beneficiaries of that spending have sued, over and over. And over and over federal judges have declared they have the authority to determine the nation's international policy, its border security, its funding and such.
Not surprisingly, such reach has resulted in criticism from Trump and his administration, including calls for impeachment for judges such as the one who demanded that deportation flights be turned around in the air so that illegal aliens could be returned to the U.S..
Now one member of the Supreme Court is complaining about the increasingly hostile rhetoric by using her own hostile rhetoric.
Justice Ketanji Jackson said at a conference in Puerto Rico, on criticisms of the judiciary, "The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity. The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
A report from Politico pointed out she didn't mention Trump by name, but instead addressed the "elephant in the room," which the report said was "a clear reference to the belligerent language — and calls for impeachment — that Trump and some of his advisers have lobbed at federal judges who rule against his agenda."
She said, to judges, "I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service."
The comments could reappear for her later, too, as the Supreme Court is expected to rule, eventually, on a number of the controversies that right now are at the lower levels of the federal court system.
Some already have been presented to the Supreme Court for review, but decisions have not been announced.
If Jackson has described the arguments on one side of any question as "intimidating," her impartiality could be questioned.
The Trump administration, including the president and his appointees, repeatedly have criticized lower court judges for overreach when they presume to make decisions normally under the power of the Executive branch, on topics including firing workers, deportation actions, saving federal money and eliminating wasteful contracts.
Trump has, in fact, called U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, a radical lunatic and called for his impeachment after interfered in the president's campaign to deport illegal aliens. Another judge ordered the government hand out an unnecessary $2 billion.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said impeachment isn't the "appropriate response" to disagreements.
Jackson, at her speech, insisted on calling out what she claimed are "the relentless attacks and disregard and disparagement that judges around the country and perhaps many of you are facing on a daily basis. It seems as though every time I read the news or turn on the television these days, I see the affronts."
Jackson, appointed by Joe Biden, was the nominee who infamously said during her confirmation hearing that she could not define "woman."
And she likened the judges opposing Trump as like those judges who made decisions during the Civil Rights Movement and during Watergate.
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Federal judges have imposed virtually no limits on themselves in taking over control of America's foreign policy regarding illegal aliens since President Donald Trump took office.
Protect illegals from deportation? Sure. Bring back illegals already deported? Of course. Turn deportation flights around in mid-air? Why not.
But in Florida, a case has developed where a judge issued her orders to people who were not party to the underlying lawsuit, and the state attorney general says that's too far.
James Uthmeier, the state's AG, explained the state law "does nothing more than exercise Florida's inherent sovereign authority to protect its citizens by aiding the enforcement of federal immigration law."
It was his memo to state law enforcement officials that triggered the judge.
The AG said Kathleen Williams, a judge, was just wrong to claim that all Florida law enforcement agencies are barred from enforcing a state law because "no law enforcement are party to the lawsuit."
The ACLU had sued on behalf of illegals, prompting the judge to intervene in the state's law enforcement.
A report at Fox News said Uthmeier explained, "I explained that I believed her after-the-fact expansion of her order to nonparties was wrong, and that my office would be arguing as much in short order. Today, my office filed a brief explaining why her order cannot possibly restrain Florida's law enforcement agencies from enforcing Florida Statutes Sections 811.102 and 811.103. We will continue to argue that position—including on appeal as soon as possible."
The law in question allows for misdemeanor charges against illegal immigrants who enter Florida and hope to avoid federal immigration officials.
"The judge wants me to put my stamp of approval on an order prohibiting all state law enforcement from enforcing Florida's immigration laws when no law enforcement are party to the lawsuit," he said. "I'm just not going to do that. We believe the court has overstepped and lacks jurisdiction there, and I will not tell law enforcement to stop fulfilling their constitutional duties."
The judge is using the power of her office to threaten Uthmeier with contempt, the report said.
"I do not believe an AG should be held in contempt for respecting the rule of law and appropriate separation of powers. The ACLU is dead set on obstructing President Donald Trump's efforts to detain and deport illegals, and we are going to fight back. We will vigorously defend our laws and advance President Trump's agenda on illegal immigration," he said.
The ACLU has complained that state officials tried to make it a crime "simply to exist as an immigrant in this state."
However, under federal law, those who enter the nation illegally, are, in fact, criminals.
Williams said she was "offended" that her orders would not be followed.
Law enforcement officers apparently were not expressly included in the case, because of a decision by the plaintiffs.