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Amidst ongoing cuts to questionable federal programs through DOGE, the State Department is planning significant budget cuts, possibly even half of its current expenses.
And many of those cuts have to do with eliminating U.S. funding of globalist organizations like the United Nations and NATO.
According to a diplomatic source talking to Fox News, the administration has a plan to end funding for more than 20 international organizations.
The U.S. contributed around $13 billion to the United Nations in 2023 and around $3.5 billion to NATO. The source with a copy of the proposal says it calls for allocating $2 billion for "America First" priorities. Those funds could be used in support of "specific partners" like India and Jordan, according to the document, or broader priorities, like the South Pacific Tuna Treaty.
State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce stressed Tuesday, "There is no final plan, final budget." The proposed plan represents a $27 billion cut, nearly half of the State Department's current budget.
Bruce said, "Throughout the history of the United States, everyone has a budget plan and everyone has ideas for budgets. And every president has a budget plan and sends it to Congress. And then Congress either accepts it or they have their own ideas, which happens more often than not."
According to the Fox report, the foreign service travel budget and benefits would be scaled back under the plan, and the Fulbright scholarship program would be eliminated.
The document calls for a 2% reduction in diplomatic security, cuts to the inspector general's office, and the closure of smaller embassies in countries such as the Maldives, Malta, Luxembourg and the Central African Republic.
The budget proposal is in early stages, with several layers of approval needed before its finalization.
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'Millions of American workers, including those with top security clearance and advanced degrees, have been locked out of jobs or quietly replaced by visa-dependent workers with fake qualifications'
For decades, the American public has been told the nation's future depended on importing foreign "skilled workers." They have been fed a narrative claiming their nation's own citizens were somehow unqualified, uninterested or incapable of filling the very jobs that built their country. But this story was a fabrication, one carefully constructed by economic elites and facilitated by government policy. Behind the curtain stands a foreign government, executing what may be the most expansive and under-acknowledged labor infiltration in modern economic history.
This is not immigration. This is infiltration by policy. A silent economic war is being waged, not with bombs or bullets, but with resumes, fake credentials and weaponized visa loopholes. This is the story of how, through a deliberate national labor export policy, India systematically overtook America's tech, engineering, defense and research sectors while displacing qualified American citizens in the process.
This is the Skilled Worker Hoax.
India's national strategy to export human capital is neither accidental nor benign. It is embedded in the mission statements of Indian government institutions and backed by state-supported private enterprises. Subramaniam Ramadorai, then-chairman of India's National Skill Development Agency, made the country's objective clear: "To meet the aspirations of the youth and to realize our full potential we have to be ready with a skilled and talented human pool. To skill India is hence a national imperative."
Yet the skills being marketed to the world are often more myth than merit. A 2011 release by the Confederation of Indian Industry, or CII, a non-governmental business and industry organization that plays a major role in promoting India's global competitiveness, acknowledged that although 40% of the global population under age 25 lives in India, only 5% of its workforce was considered skilled. By contrast, 85% of the global labor force already had marketable skills. Rajendran Renganathan, a senior CII official, further conceded, "Vocational training is still not seen as the most respectable thing to do after XIIth standard. We need to create employable people, not just educated people."
Despite these admissions, India aggressively promoted its under-skilled labor force as a global tech powerhouse. Programs like Skill India and Digital India were launched alongside efforts from the National Skill Development Corporation to flood foreign labor markets with Indian nationals. Indian outsourcing giants Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies, all closely aligned with the Indian state, embedded themselves deep within major U.S. corporations. These firms secured large-scale contracts while effectively taking control of IT systems, hiring pipelines and contract staffing channels.
Once inside, these companies began funneling candidates through falsified documentation, resume mills and diploma factories. Skill centers operating under the All India Council for Technical Education, or AICTE, mass-produced certificates. Coursework was routinely plagiarized from U.S. syllabi. Fake employment histories and staged references became the norm, all coordinated by body shops across India that have flourished under this scheme.
While India institutionalized a labor-export economy, U.S. regulators remained inert. The Department of Labor and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved applications en masse without meaningful scrutiny. American tech giants like Google, Meta, Amazon and Salesforce actively enabled the takeover. Many of these companies established formal partnerships with Indian firms or entered into Memoranda of Understanding with Indian government bodies. Salesforce, for instance, signed a formal MOU with AICTE, pledging to collaborate on skilling initiatives targeting Indian job seekers.
Department of Homeland Security records show that over 70% of all H-1B visas are awarded to Indian nationals, and Indian outsourcing firms remain among the top petitioners every year. These staffing channels are not merit-based. Hiring increasingly relies on internal referrals, caste-based exclusivity and visa dependency. American citizens, veterans and recent STEM graduates are routinely overlooked or excluded entirely.
The Program Electronic Review Management labor certification system, or PERM, which was intended to protect American workers, has been exploited at scale. Companies claim that "no qualified U.S. worker applied," often while laying off American staff to make room for foreign visa workers. These actions are submitted under penalty of perjury, yet virtually no enforcement or consequence follows.
The role of the Confederation of Indian Industry and All India Council for Technical Education cannot be overstated. These quasi-governmental bodies have signed dozens of strategic agreements with U.S. universities, multinational companies and public institutions. Publicly framed as educational and innovation partnerships, these agreements serve as channels to embed Indian labor in critical infrastructure across the United States. One strategic plan from CII plainly states its mission "to make India the undisputed global leader in the matter of skills and talent" by embedding itself in foreign economies through commercial and policy partnerships.
Universities in the United States have also played a central role in enabling this scheme. Many American schools, eager for high-paying international tuition, now enroll tens of thousands of students from India, many of whom come from unaccredited or fraudulent institutions. These students take advantage of the Optional Practical Training, or OPT, and STEM OPT extensions, bypassing normal work visa caps and displacing American graduates in the process.
Despite claims by tech companies that there is a domestic STEM shortage, the evidence proves otherwise. The United States produces more STEM graduates than there are job openings available. Millions of American workers, including those with top security clearance and advanced degrees, have been locked out of jobs or quietly replaced by visa-dependent workers with fake qualifications, which is reflected in this Government of India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation document.
The threat extends beyond economics. Today, sensitive national defense projects, healthcare systems, critical infrastructure and proprietary technologies are being accessed and maintained by foreign contractors, often based in offshore locations. Data is frequently transmitted across borders without sufficient security protocols. This opens the door to espionage, sabotage and blackmail. If the workers entrusted with protecting U.S. systems are themselves products of fraud, then the entire system is compromised.
This is how nations fall, not by conquest, but by quiet economic displacement.
There is still time to reverse course. Congress must move swiftly to suspend the H-1B visa program and terminate OPT and CPT loopholes. PERM labor certifications issued under false pretenses must be revoked. Fraudulent universities should be decertified. Internal audits must be conducted within U.S. hiring systems to identify and eliminate foreign interference and discriminatory recruitment practices. Most importantly, new laws must guarantee that American citizens are given first right to American jobs, without exception.
Americans must not be afraid to say this. The Indian government is not their friend. It is a foreign power pursuing its own interest. That interest is to replace the American workforce with its own, to capture U.S. industries, and to dominate the future of technology. India is not a passive trade partner. It is executing a deliberate economic strategy designed to displace American labor and dominate critical global sectors through manufactured human capital. Not for partnership, but for control.
This ongoing WND investigation will continue to peel back the layers of a global deception that reshaped America without Americans' vote, voice or consent. Each report will reveal the players, pipelines and policies that handed over Americans' future. For those who want to know who stole the American Dream, and how to get it back, stay tuned.
White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller says a Salvadoran national was "not mistakenly deported" as the media was led to believe, the Daily Wire reported. Miller says the erroneous claim comes from a "saboteur" Justice Department attorney who has since been dismissed.
Miller was a guest on Fox News Saturday to set the record straight about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. President Donald Trump's administration deported him to his native El Salvador, but reports claimed that it was done in error.
Abrego Garcia was identified as an illegal alien who was also identified as a member of the dangerous MS-13 gang. The left used the narrative that he was not supposed to be deported to hammer Trump, but Miller said they got the story all wrong.
Fox News host Bill Hemmer noted that the administration claims there were misconceptions about the case and said Miller was on air to "straighten it out." Miller got right to it without holding back.
"He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador. In 2019, he was ordered deported," Miller charged.
He [has] a final removal order from the United States. These are things that no one disputes. Where is he from? El Salvador. Where is he a resident and citizen of? El Salvador. Is he here illegally? Yes. Does he have a deportation order? Yes," Miller went on.
Although Miller didn't name names, he said that the initial reports came from a particular Justice Department attorney with an agenda. "A DOJ lawyer–who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat–put into a filing incorrectly that this was a mistaken removal," Miller noted.
"It was not. This was the right person sent to the right place," Miller added.
Miller said that there was a strong case that even with the withholding order, Abrego Garcia had to go. "Now some have said, 'well, but he had a thing called a withholding order' – so a withholding order means you’ve been ordered deported, but an immigration judge is saying you cannot go back to a particular country," Miller said.
"Here’s the thing: if you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order. Since he’s in MS-13, there is no withholding order," Miller added. Trump designated the gang as a terrorist organization as one of his first executive orders after taking office.
"Furthermore, the gang he is accused of being persecuted by doesn’t exist anymore in El Salvador. The 18th Street gang is gone," Miller noted.
The left believes Abrego Garcia's assertion that he is not a gang member despite evidence to the contrary. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used a tip from a confidential informant to verify Abrego Garcia's membership as an MS-13 gang member.
The left hates that the Trump administration is clearing dangerous illegal immigrants from American streets, and they will do anything they can to undermine him. Abrego Garcia appears to be someone who was correctly deported despite the hysterical claims otherwise.
Investigators found that Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife, searched for symptoms of the flu and COVID-19 in the days leading up to her death from hantavirus in February, the New York Post reported. Police have been combing through digital data, voicemail, and security footage in the hopes of piecing together the timeline of the tragedy.
Her internet search history indicates that Arakawa was looking up information such as whether nosebleeds and dizziness were associated with the common seasonal maladies. These searches occurred between Feb. 8 and 12, the day she is thought to have died.
Email records show that Arakawa reached out to her masseuse for advice on whether to seek medical intervention for Hackman. She also searched for Santa Fe health care on the day she is thought to have died.
The 65-year-old was the primary caretaker for Hackman, who was suffering from a heart condition and Alzheimer’s disease. Hackman, 94, died at home nearly a week later, and both bodies went undiscovered for some time after.
According to Fox News, the bodies of Arakawa and Hackman were found on Feb. 26 after both had been long dead. Before then, it appears Arakawa's Google history noted "multiple searches related to flu and COVID symptoms" beginning on Feb. 8.
Two days later, Arakawa searched "flu and nosebleeds" as well as "COVID nosebleeds and finally, "Can COVID cause dizziness?" On Feb. 11, Arawaka sent to an email to massage therapist Katia Van Horn indicating that Hackman had taken a "covid test" due to "flu/cold-like symptoms" but that the test was negative.
"But out of an abundance of caution, I should cancel my appt tomorrow and rebook, say, in a couple weeks, last week of Feb if something is available." Then, on the morning of Feb. 12, her searches included the prompts "How long do the effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy last" and "Cloudberry Health Santa Fe, New Mexico."
Those would be her final searches. "This data suggests that Betsy was actively researching medical conditions related to COVID-19 and flu-like symptoms in the days leading up to her death," a report from investigators stated.
Police would find their bodies nearly mummified, with Arakawa's German shepherd dog still standing guard near her body. Pace maker records indicate Hackman lived for about a week in the house with her body before succumbing to heart disease and Alzheimer's.
The condition of the couple's home has become fodder for the media, including Page Six. "Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s cluttered, rat-infested home revealed in shocking new photos," the media outlet captioned a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s cluttered, rat-infested home revealed in shocking new photos https://t.co/vr22fb1t2y pic.twitter.com/cPO4LK9MnT
— Page Six (@PageSix) April 15, 2025
Hackman's estate had been trying to keep the investigator's photos and police body camera footage out of the media. Now that it has been released, it's part of the late actor's legacy.
The home was certainly cluttered and infested with rodents, which likely contributed to Arakawa's death from a rodent-borne illness. However, it should be noted that the main house was not infested and that Hackman needed constant care, with his wife the only person around to do so.
This is a tragic story with many sad angles. Hackman was a prolific actor, but age and illness caught up with him as it does for everyone. By all accounts, this was a horrible end for a man so beloved by audiences.
Former Republican Rep. Mayra Flores made headlines when it was announced that was hospitalized hours after she announced a run for embattled Rep. Henry Cuellar‘s (D-TX) House seat in Texas.
Flores’s team did not provide much detail about the illness when announcing it on social media, only asking for “prayers and support," as the Washington Examiner reported.
“We pray that Mayra will return stronger than ever, ready to continue her unwavering commitment to serving our country,” the Flores campaign said in its statement.
After confirming the illness, the campaign went on to speak to the former lawmakers' grit and intention going forward.
“Mayra’s passion for building a brighter future for our children, grandchildren, and generations to come is at the heart of everything she does. Guided by faith and determination, she remains steadfast in her mission during this critical moment,” the statement added.
Former and future Congresswoman Mayra Flores, a devoted conservative fighting corruption in Texas's 28th District, has been hospitalized.
During this challenging time, we humbly ask for your prayers and support. We pray that Mayra will return stronger than ever, ready to continue…— Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores4TX) April 15, 2025
Flores flipped the Texas 34th Congressional district just a few years ago, taking it red for the first time in more than a decade.
She made history for another reason, however, as she was the first Mexico-born female member of Congress.
She served only briefly, though. Her tenure in the House of Representatives lasted from late June 2022 to early January 2023 after winning a special election to replace former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela Jr.
Flores lost to Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) twice, as she lost once in the election for a full term to the 34th District in 2022 and then again in the 2024 elections.
Finally, she challenged Cuellar in the 28th District, which should have been a more reasonable endeavor, considering he was indicted by the Justice Department for bribery and money laundering. Cuellar is one of House Democrats' most vulnerable candidates in 2026.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Flores voiced her desire to represent the Spanish-speaking community and make sure they're appropriately informed about President Trump's administration's remarkable work.
“And that’s something that I feel I’m obligated to do, because there’s a lot of misinformation being spread from the left, and they’re trying to instill fear and hate in the Hispanic community,” the former congresswoman said.
Flores faces a challenging race as Cuellar's seat is a "lean Democrat," while Gonzalez's seat is a toss-up and perceived as a Republican pickup opportunity.
The Associated Press faced an unexpected roadblock on Monday when they were denied access to cover an Oval Office meeting, The Hill reported.
The surprise exclusion arose despite a recent court injunction compelling the Trump administration to provide the Associated Press with access to key White House locations.
The dispute centers on a disagreement over naming conventions related to the Gulf of Mexico. The situation began when the administration decided to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," requesting media outlets to follow suit.
The Associated Press objected, preferring to maintain the original nomenclature while agreeing to use the new term as a secondary reference to lessen any confusion.
After the Associated Press stood its ground on its stylebook, a federal judge intervened. Last week, Judge Trevor McFadden ordered the restoration of the outlet's access to important White House areas, a move welcomed by the AP. However, the ruling specified that the government retained its discretion over which journalists could attend limited-access events.
Judge McFadden's order aimed to balance the media's right to cover the administration with the government's need to manage press contacts. His written ruling emphasized that the government can choose which journalists to engage with. The decision did not mandate unrestricted entry for journalists to events or governmental spaces, allowing officials to express their views concerning press engagement.
In a statement, an AP spokesperson expressed frustration over Monday’s barring. The spokesperson emphasized the expectation for the White House to include the AP in the press pool on the same day, referencing the court's recent directive. This incident marked the first day under the judge's order but showed that tensions had not fully resolved.
The Associated Press had previously taken legal action against three top White House officials over their restricted access. This legal challenge underscored the escalating conflict over press freedoms and the control over who covers White House activities. The exclusion on Monday was particularly striking given the legal backdrop and the presiding injunction.
The White House Correspondents’ Association traditionally managed the selection of outlets for the press pool. However, this responsibility seemingly shifted back to the administration itself, adding to the complexity of media relations under the current administration. Monday's decision is emblematic of this new power dynamic, leaving media outlets uncertain about future access to the president’s events.
The White House did not comment on the exclusion of the AP from the Oval Office event with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. The lack of an official response left questions unanswered about the reasoning behind the exclusion despite the judge’s clear injunction.
Besides covering the day's events, the Associated Press is a prominent news organization that often sets the standard for journalistic practices. Its cautious approach to the administration’s renaming decision can be seen as a defense of editorial independence, resisting perceived political interference.
The broader conversation around the Gulf of Mexico’s name change highlighted ongoing tensions between the government and the press. Although the Associated Press offered a compromise by considering the new name as a secondary reference, maintaining journalistic independence remained a priority. This independence is often at the heart of disputes between media organizations and governmental bodies.
As the story unfolds, the Associated Press remains committed to advocating for its participation in presidential coverage. They continue to monitor the situation and respond as necessary to safeguard their journalistic rights. Meanwhile, other media outlets will likely watch closely to see how this dynamic develops, considering its potential implications for their own access and reporting capabilities.
The standoff has put a spotlight on the delicate balance between government policies and media freedom. It also raises questions about how similar issues will be handled in the future, particularly when major news organizations stand firm in the face of pressure to conform to political narratives. Journalists and media entities are reminded of the importance of remaining vigilant in protecting their editorial choices while navigating an increasingly complex media ecosystem.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Acute psychosis, anxiety, delusion, mania, panic attacks, and schizophrenia all at least in part were triggered by the mRNA COVID shots mandated by many governments and even more corporations for workers during the China virus pandemic that killed millions.
Also brain fog, cerebral atrophy, dementia, and mental impairment.
The results are from the "Association Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Neuropsychiatric Conditions" by multiple authors, including Peter McCullough.
A report at Slay News said the "alarming" results reveal that the mRNA treatments, which were unlike any previous "vaccine," "triggered serious neuropsychiatric conditions, causing, suicidal thoughts, violent behavior and homicidal ideation to skyrocket."
"The study also found massive surges in brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage, brain clots, and dementia among those who received the injections," the report explained. "In total, the study identifies 86 serious neuropsychiatric safety signals linked to COVID shots."
The results were published in PrePrints.
The physicians worked with information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, during the period January 1990 through December 2024.
And they found that safety thresholds set by federal agencies were "breached at unprecedented levels."
Among the findings was that homicidal ideation was 25 times more likely among those who took the COVID injections compared to flu shots, violent behavior was 80 times more likely among the COVID crowd, and deadly brain clots were 3,000 times more likely.
The study found dementia 140 times more likely, suicidal thoughts 25 times more likely, and psychosis 440 times more likely.
Also increased were schizophrenia, depression, and violent behavior.
The Slay News report explained that mRNA injections were associated with a 118-fold increase in reports of cognitive adverse events, a 115-fold hike to general psychiatric conditions, and an 80-fold increase in suicidal and homicidal "outcomes."
The study found, "There are alarming safety signals regarding neuropsychiatric conditions following COVID-19 vaccination, compared to the influenza vaccinations alone and to all other vaccinations combined. These data raise concerns about long-term consequences, including continued cognitive decline, dementia, and neuropsychiatric morbidity and mortality."
The recommendation? "An immediate global moratorium on COVID-19 vaccination."
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It's one thing to see a lab full of nonthinking human bodies created by some "mad scientist" on a late-night movie; it's another to consider the plan actually being reality.
But that's just what several writers of an article at Technology Review have proposed.
A report at the Christian Institute bluntly explained, "Academics at Stanford University have proposed the creation of 'brain-dead humans' in order to harvest their organs for transplant and research."
The authors at Technology Review are Carsten T. Charlesworth, Henry T. Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi, and they claim making "bodyoids" now can happen, scientifically, and even could be accomplished "without crossing most people's ethical lines."
The benefits they claim? An end to a shortage of organs for donation and no more need to do testing on animals to produce treatments.
"Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility," they claim, even while conceding, "It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human biological materials are an essential commodity in medicine."
And while the idea is "grotesque or appalling" to many, they claim it's not just scientifically possible, it's plausible enough to justify discussing the technical aspects and the ethics involved.
Peter J. Colosi, associate professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University, said, "You, as the person who you are, exist even when you are not conscious, and this means that other human beings who are not conscious could also do that."
And Heidi Klessig, author of The Brain Death Fallacy, described the concept as "unconscionable" and called for an end to such "morally abhorrent attempts to purposely bioengineer neurologically impaired human clones as a source of 'spare parts.'"
At Technology Review, the trio wrote, "Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create 'spare' bodies, both human and nonhuman."
They explained, "Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to every type of cell in the adult body. Recently, researchers have used these stem cells to create structures that seem to mimic the early development of actual human embryos. At the same time, artificial uterus technology is rapidly advancing, and other pathways may be opening to allow for the development of fetuses outside of the body.
"Such technologies, together with established genetic techniques to inhibit brain development, make it possible to envision the creation of 'bodyoids'—a potentially unlimited source of human bodies, developed entirely outside of a human body from stem cells, that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain."
They admit there are unknowns.
"We do not know whether the embryo models recently created from stem cells could give rise to living people or, thus far, even to living mice. We do not know when, or whether, an effective technique will be found for successfully gestating human bodies entirely outside a person. We cannot be sure whether such bodyoids can survive without ever having developed brains or the parts of brains associated with consciousness, or whether they would still serve as accurate models for living people without those brain functions."
And it might not be practical.
They claim the "bodyoids" would be like research cadavers, not being "legally, a living human being."
A report at LifeSiteNews said, "The article is clearly written in the spirit of the ends justifying the means. In their call for action, the authors conclude, 'Caution is warranted, but so is bold vision; the opportunity is too important to ignore.'
"On the contrary, the value of every human being is what is too important to ignore. We value and protect every person because they are made in the image of God, regardless of the way they were brought into the world. Using unconscious people as research subjects is wrong, both in the case of brain-injured people declared 'legally dead' (under the logical fallacy of brain death), and also with this new proposal for bioengineering human clones."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Dan Caldwell, a top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted out of the Pentagon Tuesday after being identified in an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.
"The investigation remains ongoing," a U.S. official told Reuters.
Jennifer Griffin of Fox News confirmed the report, saying Caldwell "was escorted from the building, being investigated for 'unauthorized disclosure' of classified information."
"We can confirm the Reuters reporting is accurate, but we do not comment on ongoing investigations," a senior U.S. official told Fox News.
Reuters indicates a March 21 memo signed by Hegseth's chief of staff, Joe Kasper, requested an investigation into "recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information involving sensitive communications."
"Kasper's memo left open the possibility of a polygraph, although it was unclear if Caldwell was subjected to one," the report states.
Reuters says while Caldwell is not as high-profile as other Pentagon officials, he played a "critical role" in advising Hegseth.:
His importance was underscored in a leaked text chain on Signal disclosed by The Atlantic last month.
In it, Hegseth named Caldwell as the best staff point of contact for the National Security Council as it prepared for the launch of strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
Caldwell had drawn attention in Washington for past views that critics have called isolationist, but which advocates said sought to right-size America's defense priorities.
A Marine Corps veteran who deployed to Iraq, Caldwell was quoted saying before going to the Pentagon that America would have been better off if U.S. troops had just stayed home.
"I think the Iraq war was a monstrous crime," Caldwell told the Financial Times in December 2024.
He was also a skeptic of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine and advocated for U.S. retrenchment from Europe.
Caldwell has already locked down his X account, which now notes he works on "foreign policy, limited government and vets issues."
Caldwell is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the Iraq War. He was deployed to Iraq with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Following his military service, Caldwell worked for U.S. Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., from 2011 to 2013.
As WND reported last month, Hegseth launched fiercely into the Atlantic for continuing to claim war plans were mistakenly shared on Signal with the magazine's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
"So, let's me get this straight," Hegseth posted on X.
"The Atlantic released the so-called 'war plans' and those 'plans' include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information.
"Those are some really sh*tty war plans.
"This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an 'attack plan' (as he now calls it). Not even close.
"As I type this, my team and I are traveling the INDOPACOM region, meeting with/ Commanders (the guys who make REAL 'war plans') and talking to troops.
"We will continue to do our job, while the media does what it does best: peddle hoaxes."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also jumped into the fray, saying: "The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT 'war plans.'
"This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin."
Anna Bross, senior vice president for communications at the Atlantic, released a statement from the publication, indicating:
"Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic, our editor, and our reporting follow an obvious playbook by elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans. Our journalists are continuing to fearlessly and independently report the truth in the public interest."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President Donald Trump has been at odds with many players in America's profitable higher education industry for some time already.
Those campuses frequently were the scenes of anti-Israel protests, even protests in support of the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, who slaughtered 1,200 Israeli citizens in their war-launching attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
That's resulted in accusations of anti-Semitism and a demand from Trump that officials running those lucrative institutions balance the equation and protect Jewish students.
Harvard is among those where officials have simply refused to cooperate.
And Trump now has responded.
"Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist-inspired/supporting "Sickness?" Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!" he wrote.
Trump already has frozen some $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts with Harvard, which has been unrepentant.
Harvard President Alan Garber, in fact, said, "No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
The Washington Examiner pointed out that Harvard's endowment now is in the range of $50 billion, working as a nonprofit.
"Losing tax-exempt status would be another financial blow to Harvard, which receives tax-exempt donations from rich alumni. However, it's unclear if Trump has the power to make that determination on his own," the report said. "Almost all colleges and universities in the United States accept federal funding, making them dependent on the government for operations. Trump has sought to use that fact to gain leverage over how they address protest activity and other functions."
"The showdown will likely continue for at least the next several weeks, if not longer. Two organizations representing the Harvard faculty sued the Trump administration last week over its threats to cut federal funding."
On social media, thousands already had commented, with:
"Then stop taking federal money."
"Harvard can teach what it wants. It just can't do it on the taxpayer\'s dime while discriminating against Jews."
"Be private"
"Then, you can feel free to turn down the $9 billion in funds from the taxpayer."
"DEAL — no federal funding for Harvard, use your own endowment. Let's get it done."
"Adios federal funding. Enjoy your independence."
"No one is telling you what you can and can't teach. Donald Trump is just saying we will not fund it. Why would we fund something that does not align with government policy? Teach what you want. You're not getting our money."