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President Donald Trump has launched a new website called "Criminals" to expose the names, images and other information about "criminal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded Medicaid."
It's part of his efforts to secure American borders, expel criminal illegal aliens and build the American economy for the benefit of Americans and their businesses.
The website is here.
It's a project of the Trump White House which explained, "The Trump administration has intensified enforcement against criminal illegal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded Medicaid benefits, arresting hundreds of unauthorized individuals since taking office, including those with serious criminal records who exploited taxpayer-funded Medicaid illegally or through loopholes. This crackdown, driven by executive orders prioritizing public safety and fiscal responsibility, has led to the swift deportation of many individuals convicted of heinous acts, ensuring that precious resources meant for American citizens are no longer diverted to subsidize violent criminals.
"Compounding the crisis, Democrats have refused to pass a clean budget bill to end the shutdown unless Republicans concede to their demands for $1.5 trillion in new spending, including restorations to Medicaid expansions that would effectively extend coverage to over 1 million illegal aliens, funneling an additional $200 billion to such programs over the next decade at the expense of U.S. families."
On the page are highlighted "some of those criminals convicted of heinous crimes like murder, rape, burglary and assault."
What follows is a long page of images identifying suspects such as "illegal alien from Dominican Republic."
That particular suspect was involved in assault, harassment and robbery.
The Gateway Pundit explained how the website now has gone live and publishes "names, mugshots, and criminal charges of illegal immigrants receiving benefits from the federal health program."
"Some of those criminals were convicted of heinous offenses, including murder, rape, burglary, and assault," the report said.
While Democrats have claimed no illegals get Medicaid benefits, the evidence shows otherwise.
Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed, "We have found, after studying about $100 billion in spending, thousands and thousands of illegal uses of the EBT card. We have been moving people off of SNAP. We've got almost 700,000 people, I think, that we've moved off just since the President took office."
She continued, "We've arrested about 118 people. So this has been ongoing."
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SNAP is back, according to confirmation from the White House, but its benefits now are being cut in half because of the Schumer Shutdown. And the White House has advised the judge who ordered all of the available reserves be spent there's now no way to address any emergency.
The government's SNAP program, basically food stamps for tens of millions, was closing down on Nov. 1 when its money ran out because of the government shutdown demanded by Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
While the GOP proposed a clean funding resolution, continuing the spending as it had been for several weeks, Democrats demanded the government raid Americans' paychecks for $1.5 trillion for broadcast propaganda, health care for illegal aliens and more.
GOP members in the Senate, and the White House, said that was impossible, so the government shutdown is into its second month.
Leftist groups sued when they realized food stamps was going bust, and a judge ordered the White House to spend down to nothing all the reserves.
The Washington Examiner reported Trump will "deplete" the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to provide half benefits for November.
"The [plan] will leave a total of $4.65 billion in the contingency fund for November SNAP benefits that will all be obligated to cover 50% of eligible households' current allotments," Agriculture Department spokesman Patrick Penn explained.
"This means that no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in November, disaster assistance, or as a cushion against the potential catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely," Penn charged.
It was Judge John McConnell who had said the administration must use contingency funding for November, and claimed that the government could shift funding around to obtain more, a move the White House rejected.
Penn said the government could not access other USDA funding, such as the Child Nutrition Fund, because that would just move the problem "to millions of America's low-income children."
Those funds, he told the judge, are not "a contingency fund for SNAP."
The White House explained earlier it was not allowed to use the contingency funding because that was designated as a reserve for emergencies such as natural disaster.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he simply cannot stomach politicians who lie to the public, despite plenty of evidence the Democrat himself has deceived Americans.
Appearing on "Meet the Press" with NBC's Kristen Welker, Newsom indicated: "There is nothing I dislike more than a politician that just sits there and lies to you. And we all just sit there rolling our eyes going, 'Give me a break.'"
When asked about the decline of Joe Biden's cognitive abilities and why Newsom did not speak up, the governor said: "I'm not gonna substitute myself for someone else or for popular opinion. I'm gonna express my relationship to my truth with the former president of the United States including at the end of his term quite literally in December, which was a master class of foreign policy and domestic policy which I will never forget. … There was nothing to suggest [any problems with Biden's mental acuity]."
But the record tells a different story when it comes to Newsom's own veracity.
For instance, in a high-profile March interview with Charlie Kirk before his assassination, the governor claimed no one in his office used the woke term "LatinX" in reference to someone in the Hispanic community.
"By the way, not one person in my office has ever used the word LatinX," Newsom told Kirk. "I just didn't even know where it came from. What are people talking about?"
However, Newsom himself on many occasions has used that term, and Kirk posted a video noting, "CNN put together a brutal compilation of Gov. Gavin Newsom personally and repeatedly using the phrase.
"If he'll lie like this, directly to my face, on camera … ."
Newsom himself used the word LatinX on numerous posts on X.
Last month, as WorldNetDaily reported, Trump officials fact-checked Newsom after he promoted a false claim the Trump administration was closing parts of the Interstate 5 highway for a military showcase.
"Donald Trump and JD Vance think that shutting down the I-5 to shoot out missiles from ships is how you respect the military. PUT ASIDE YOUR VANITY PARADE AND PAY OUR TROOPS INSTEAD," Newsom wrote on X.
"Governor Newsom is deliberately spreading Fake News to Californians to fearmonger and score cheap political points," Taylor Van Kirk, the vice president's press secretary, told the Daily Signal.
William Martin, a special assistant to the president and communications director to the vice president, responded to Newsom's claim: "This is complete fake news. The Marine Corps said they are NOT shutting down the I-5 highway and that the event at Camp Pendleton is a training exercise. Also, President Trump IS paying the troops despite Chuck Schumer's efforts to hold their salaries hostage."
On Oct. 26, Newsom, who has been under fire recently for granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, made no secret he's interested in following Donald Trump as the next American president.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning" on CBS, Newsom answered positively when asked about his White House ambition.
"Yeah, I'd be lying otherwise. I'd just be lying. And I'm not – I can't do that," Newsom said.
"I think the biggest challenge for anyone that runs of any office is people see right through you if you don't have that why. You doing it for the wrong reasons."
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There's no doubt that the leftists across America are using often-leftist judges to fight President Donald Trump.
One state alone, Colorado, clearly is demanding that judges in black robes rule the nation instead of the duly elected president, having gone to court 41 times already against the president.
The result is there's been a flood of rulings, both for and against Trump's agenda, from the lower courts. And because of the attempt by states literally to take over the functions of the White House, deciding foreign policy, border security issues and more, a lot of battles have landed on the Supreme Court's emergency docket.
The result of that was that dozens of judges, anonymously, have "whined" to the public that they don't like what's going on, that they're not getting their way as they want, that Trump's White House actually is being given permission to act as the White House.
It was the New York Times that publicized the judges' politics.
That publication said at issue are "the quick-turn orders the Supreme Court has issued dictating whether Trump administration policies should be left in place while they are litigated through the lower courts."
That emergency docket, a fraction of those judges on lower courts complained, wasn't being used property.
"Sixty-five judges responded to a Times questionnaire sent to hundreds of federal judges across the country. Of those, 47 said the Supreme Court had been mishandling its emergency docket since Mr. Trump returned to office," the report said.
But Mike Davis, of the rule-of-law-protecting Article III Project, says those judges are out of line and either the Supreme Court or Congress needs to punish them.
"Judges have a modest, but crucial, role. They resolve cases and controversies of the parties before them with redressable claims. That is their Article III power. Nothing more; nothing less. Their job is not to run crying anonymously to reporters because the Supreme Court is acting in a way that these inferior court snowflakes despise. Chief Justice Roberts must issue an order to judges to stop talking to the media, either on the record or anonymously," he explained in a column at the Federalist.
"Congress also must levy severe consequences against these judicial embarrassments. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees should open oversight inquiries to find out which anonymous and cowardly judges disgraced the bench through their pathetic public whining. If judges take off their judicial robes, climb into the political arena, and throw political punches, they should expect political counterpunches. Judges have life tenure to insulate them from political pressure, not so they can act like politicians in robes. Sadly, several dozen judges do not understand this basic tenet of our republic, and they must face public shaming."
The Times cited "more than three dozen" of the hundreds of federal judges because those are the ones who responded, claiming they were "confused" by the emergency orders from the high court.
Davis warned that the judges are violating the Code of Conduct for United States judges by "taking pot shots" at the Supreme Court.
"Some judges called Supreme Court reversals 'demoralizing,' while others whined that the Supreme Court's reversals at the very least created the perception of partisanship on the justices' part, as the Supreme Court mostly has been reversing rulings that had gone against Trump administration policies. One judge compared the relationship between the justices and that judge's district to 'a war zone,'" Davis explained.
There are about a thousand inferior judges, below the Supreme Court, who make rulings, and are bound by a code of conduct, which "prohibits judges from making political comments or even comments that a reasonable observer could view as such."
"The griping of inferior court judges stems from about two dozen rulings on the Supreme Court's emergency docket. This docket allows justices to pause orders from lower courts while the litigation proceeds. Radicals trying to grind to a halt President Donald Trump's electoral mandate repeatedly have run to district courts in leftist hellholes like the District of Columbia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Boston. The judges there are overwhelmingly radical leftists. Even the Republican appointees are, for the most part, milquetoast because home-state Democrat senators can veto quality conservative nominees thanks to a Senate tradition known as the blue slip. The Supreme Court has correctly reversed absurd inferior court orders issued by judges who refuse to accept that President Trump is implementing an agenda for which the American people voted," Davis wrote.
He noted the "cowardly" comments as the judges were not identified.
"These judges fail to see the obvious: their accusing the Supreme Court of partisanship in such a blatantly unethical way explicitly reveals their own partisanship. The biased authors of the article make sure to underscore that nearly half of the Republican-appointed judges who responded to questions about the Supreme Court were critical. But the authors do not tell us, for instance, where these Republican appointees sit. If these judges are in blue bastions like Massachusetts, Illinois, California, or Oregon, they do not remotely resemble judicial conservatives," he added.
Davis warned, "Chief Justice John Roberts needs to get his judicial house in order. This latest New York Times drive-by shooting by anonymous federal judges is the most recent blatant example of out-of-control rogue judges sabotaging the federal judiciary, the presidency, and American voters."
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A lawsuit against a state demand in Oregon that groups holding religious beliefs fundamentally opposing the deliberate and willful destruction of unborn children fund abortion has been revived.
It is Oregon Right to Life that had sued state Insurance Commissioner Andrew Stolfi in 2023 charging that the state's Reproductive Health Equity Act violated the First Amendment, which protects religious beliefs and liberty.
The lawsuit had been thrown out by a judge at an entry level court.
But a report at Courthousenews now confirms that the case is alive again.
"ORTL put forth significant evidence of its religiosity, and there was no conflicting evidence against ORTL's claim that its views are religiously grounded," explained Judge Lawrence VanDyke, in an opinion from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"The district court therefore erred by failing to conclude at the motion to dismiss stage that ORTL actually holds the beliefs professed in the complaint and that ORTL's opposition to abortion is genuinely religious."
The order explains the lawsuit now will proceed. ORTL charges that the state cannot demand that it provide funding for abortions for its employees without violating the Constitution.
In the state a 2017 law demands that employers pay for abortions, but lets religious groups choose insurance lans excluding that coverage.
Bill Clinton-appointed Ann Aiken, a lower court judge, claimed the group's lack of religious requirements prevailed and dismissed the case.
"There are numerous assertions in the record by Oregon Right to Life that their belief in the sanctity of individual human life and opposition to abortion is based upon religious tenets," lawyer James Bopp, representing ORTL, said in an appeals court hearing.
State officials claimed the organization wasn't religious, despite evidence from Oregon Right to Life that expressed affirmation of Judeo-Christian beliefs in its founding documents.
Circuit Judge John Owens, a Barack Obama appointee, joined VanDyke in the majority.
The decision also cited a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that favored a Catholic nonprofit in Wisconsin.
The court said, "It is worth pointing out that the unanimous Supreme Court emphasized that the issue in Catholic Charities (and a fortiori the issue here) was not a 'hard call.' That was because the court was breaking no new ground. Since long before Catholic Charities, it has been black letter law that the Free Exercise Clause bars laws that discriminate against some or all religious beliefs."
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made improvements in energy and infrastructure key pillars of his Make America Great Platform.
Now that he is in office for a second term, Trump -- through his Department of Energy (DOE) -- is endeavoring to invest upwards of $100 million in the restoration of coal plants across the country, and reverse damaging Biden-era priorities, as the Daily Caller reports.
It was on Friday that the DOE issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity in this particular strategic realm.
According to the announcement, the effort is meant to support “practical, high-impact projects that improve efficiency, plant lifetimes, and performance of coal and natural gas use.”
The DOE noted the administration’s hope that the projects would help turn the tide away from harmful policies undertaken by Trump’s predecessors.
“For years,the Biden and Obama administrations relentlessly targeted America’s coal industry and workers, resulting in the closure of reliable power plants and higher electricity costs,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated.
He continued, “Thankfully, President Trump has ended the war on American coal and is restoring common sense energy policies that put Americans first. These projects will help keep America’s coal plants operating and ensure the United States has the reliable and affordable power it needs to keep the light on and power our future.”
The Energy Department added that the Notice of Opportunity seeks applications from those capable of launching projects that will “design, implement, test, and validate three strategic opportunities for refurbishment and retrofit of existing American coal power plans to make them operate more efficiently, reliably, and affordably.
One such opportunity area is the “development, engineering, and implementation of advanced wastewater management systems capable of cost-effective water recovery and other value-added byproducts from wastewater streams.”
Another involves the “engineering, design and implementation of retrofit systems that enable fuel switching between coal and natural gas without compromising critical operational parameters.”
The last realm of opportunity is the “deployment, engineering, and implementation of advanced coal-natural gas co-firing systems and system components, including highly fuel-flexible burner designs and advanced control systems, to maximize gas co-firing capacity to provide a low cost retrofit option for coal plants while minimizing efficiency penalties.”
The DOE’s push could not come at a better time, given the administration’s recent release of a report documenting the risk of grid failure currently plaguing the nation.
This summer, the DOE report revealed that “blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2023 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity."
As such, the DOE's Friday announcement underscores not just the urgent energy challenges facing America, but also Trump’s willingness to address them.
Martha Layne Collins, the lone woman to ever hold Kentucky's governorship, has left an indelible mark on the Bluegrass State, passing away at 88 on Saturday.
Her tenure from 1983 to 1987, marked by bold economic moves and education reforms, alongside personal controversies, defined a historic chapter for Kentucky as she shattered barriers in a male-dominated political landscape, NBC News reported.
Born in Bagdad, Shelby County, Collins graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1959 and cut her teeth as a junior high teacher before diving into politics at the precinct level.
Her ascent was steady—working at state Democratic headquarters, securing a role as clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1975, and clinching the lieutenant governor spot in 1979 before her landmark election as governor in 1983.
As a Democrat, she took the national stage in 1984, chairing the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and even being considered as a vice-presidential pick for Walter F. Mondale, though the nod went elsewhere.
Her governorship, limited to a single term by state rules at the time, became a lightning rod for both progress and scrutiny, especially with her focus on industrial growth and schooling improvements.
Collins’ most tangible achievement was landing the Toyota auto assembly plant in 1986, a $800 million project employing 2,500 to build Camry sedans, tying Kentucky to the global market.
At the groundbreaking, she declared Kentucky had “entered a new age” of global economic ties, a statement that rang true but came with a hefty price tag—state incentives officially pegged at $125 million, though critics argued the real cost ballooned past $300 million with debt factored in.
That deal wasn’t without drama; a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling was needed to affirm the legality of those incentives, showing just how far Collins pushed to secure jobs over progressive fiscal caution.
On education, Collins was relentless, working tirelessly to revamp Kentucky’s public schools, a cause she held dear. “When I became governor, education always came back as the first thing you have to start with,” she reflected in a 1992 interview with the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.
Her passion for learning wasn’t just talk—her reforms aimed to uplift a state often lagging in academic metrics, a practical antidote to the feel-good rhetoric of modern social agendas.
Gov. Andy Beshear’s office hailed her as a “powerhouse” who made an “undeniable difference,” a rare bipartisan nod to a Democrat in today’s polarized climate—though one wonders if her education push would survive today’s culture-war curriculum battles.
Yet, Collins’ story isn’t all rosy; her husband Bill’s financial scandals cast a long shadow, with his 1993 conviction for extorting funds from state bond underwriters during her term.
Collins maintained she knew nothing of his dealings, stating at his trial, “He was doing his business, and I was running government,” a defense that rings hollow to skeptics of political spouse ignorance in an era craving accountability over excuses.
While her son Steve declined immediate comment, and funeral details remain pending, her passing—announced by Beshear’s office—prompts reflection on a legacy of barrier-breaking marred by personal controversy, a reminder that even conservative-leaning folks can respect grit while questioning unchecked power.
President Donald Trump agreed to cut tariffs on China after the nation agreed to accept agricultural trade from the U.S., Breitbart reported. The deal was struck during a meeting on Thursday with the communist nation's dictator, Xi Jinping, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea.
Trump has been excoriated for trying to work with his Chinese counterpart. He has also received heat for imposing tariffs, which his enemies said would make goods more expensive and create an economic downturn in America.
All along, Trump has insisted that the tariffs would put money in America's coffers, while many speculated he was using them as a bargaining chip. Now it appears the world's best negotiator has come away from the table with another win for America its farmers, and the energy sector.
Trump shared his triumph in a lengthy post to his Truth Social on Thursday. "There is enormous respect between our two Countries, and that will only be enhanced with what just took place," Trump's post began.
"I had a truly great meeting with President Xi of China. There is enormous respect between our two Countries, and that will only be enhanced with what just took place. We agreed on many things, with others, even of high importance, being very close to being resolved," Trump went on.
"I was extremely honored by the fact that President Xi authorized China to begin the purchase of massive amounts of Soybeans, Sorghum, and other Farm products. Our Farmers will be very happy! In fact, as I said once before during my first Administration, Farmers should immediately go out and buy more land and larger tractors," Trump advised.
"I would like to thank President Xi for this! Additionally, China has agreed to continue the flow of Rare Earth, Critical Minerals, Magnets, etc., openly and freely. Very significantly, China has strongly stated that they will work diligently with us to stop the flow of Fentanyl into our Country," Trump continued.
"They will help us end the Fentanyl Crisis," he added. Trump has been adamant about getting the dangerous drug off the streets in America, and turning off the illicit drug pipeline from China goes a long way to getting it done.
Besides helping with the drug crisis and purchasing agricultural products, China has also struck a deal that is good news for the energy sector. "China also agreed that they will begin the process of purchasing American Energy," Trump announced.
"In fact, a very large scale transaction may take place concerning the purchase of Oil and Gas from the Great State of Alaska. Chris Wright, Doug Burgum, and our respective Energy teams will be meeting to see if such an Energy Deal can be worked out," Trump added.
"The agreements reached today will deliver Prosperity and Security to millions of Americans. After this Historic trip to Asia, I am now heading back to Washington, D.C.," Trump said, underscoring the message that his work there is now done.
"I want to thank the Great Countries of Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea for being so generous, gracious, and hospitable. Also, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, who were at the Dinner last night hosted by His Excellency Lee Jae Myung. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are being brought into our Country because of them. Our Nation is Strong, Respected, and Admired Again and, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!" he concluded.
Trump has made America safer and more prosperous while also getting the nation's adversaries under control. This represents a significant triumph for the president and his administration, achieved in the first year of his second term.
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President Donald Trump's work on the White House includes, as Democrats have raged, a new ballroom.
To seat some 999 people for state functions, it essentially will replace the East Wing, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in costs are being funded by donors – not taxpayers.
The leftists immediately erupted, like California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, with wild ideas that Democrat presidential hopefuls must pledge to take a wrecking ball to what will be a federal building on day one.
But evidence now confirms that Trump's ability to renovate in style is online.
He posted images a finished bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom suite in the White House.
He said, "I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!" he posted online.
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Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat in Congress, of course is famous for dating an alleged Chinese spy. And for recently demanding that any party member desiring to run for president pledge to destroy President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom on day one.
Now, he's the subject of a report that uncovered a "bizarre inconsistency" in his payments to one California man.
Swalwell's explanation of the payments to Darly Meyer is that "Darly protects me and my family."
But the report at Fox News outlined a long list of concerns.
For example, Federal Election Commission filings from Swalwell for Congress and his Remedy PAC, dating to 2021, reveal 75 payments to Meyer, ranging from $53 to $12,000.
The total from 27 payments last year passed $120,000, and he's on track for that total this year.
The reasons for the payments included travel expenses, car service, security services and salary.
Also, "personal travel expense reimbursement," and "event flowers reimbursement," the report said.
Meyer, the report said, also runs a limousine service called CYD Global Car, which offers rides on a luxury basis.
"He is also an administrator of a Facebook group called 'CaliHaitians – Haitians in Az, Ca, Nv, Hi, Or, Wa,' which bills itself as a 'progressive community' of Haitians living in the United States, which has over 3,000 members," the report said. It's "selective" in that it determines who can join.
Swalwell also responded on social media, insisting that Fox "emailed and asked why I've spent $350,000 on security." He turned sarcastic, saying, "Maybe I should send [the reporter] the bill?"
Fox reported it appears Meyer does not have a security license.
Former FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky explained the accounting "is the type of bizarre inconsistency that should catch the attention of the FEC."
He suggested the agency's auditing arm should investigate.
Fox reported Swalwell earlier raised eyebrows over his spending, as he's reported multiple transactions over luxury car services, expensive restaurants and lavish hotel visits in Dubai, Berlin, Parin and more.
"Fox News Digital previously reported on Swalwell's campaign dropping tens of thousands of dollars on Just Dreaming Yacht Charters, a San Francisco agency that offers 'relaxing and luxurious' private yachts for up to 40 passengers, as a fundraising expense," the report said.