The White House marked Labor Day by celebrating job growth and wage gains for Americans, slapping back at critics who paint a more pessimistic picture of the Trump economy.
“As Americans across the nation mark Labor Day, President Trump stands as the champion of the American Worker,” the White House said.
The White House credited Trump with a "private sector boom," with half a million jobs added and small business optimism on the rise as government payrolls decline from Trump's sweeping downsizing efforts.
The administration touted continuous real wage gains since Trump's inauguration in January, including a 1.4% inflation-adjusted increase among blue-collar workers over the past year.
According to preliminary government data shared on Monday, 1.2 million foreigners have exited the labor force since President Trump returned to the White House and launched his immigration crackdown.
The stunning figure is just one sign of how Trump is reshaping the economy to prioritize American workers, who have long been forced to compete with a glut of cheap, foreign labor.
Trump's critics have pointed to signs of a slowing jobs market, but the White House notes that American workers have accounted for all net job growth since January.
Employment among native-born Americans has gone up 2.4 million, while foreign employment has decreased, a stark shift after immigration hit all-time highs under Trump's predecessor.
Trump's trade policies are also "leveling the playing field" for American workers, the administration said, citing $8 trillion in new corporate investment in American production, although the long-term impact of those commitments remains unclear.
So far, Trump's tariffs have not resulted in a surge in prices as many economists predicted, with gas prices hitting five-year lows over the Labor Day weekend.
The economy is sure to weigh heavily in next year's midterm elections. Trump and his Republican allies have started selling his Big, Beautiful Bill as a victory for workers, citing tax savings for the middle-class and workers who rely on tip income.
The administration is preparing a list of professions that qualify for Trump's tax cut on tips - with workers in industries like hospitality, entertainment, and food service expected to benefit.
Despite improvements for American workers, steep economic challenges remain, with housing costs at all-time highs. Trump is considering declaring a national emergency to address the housing crisis, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
"We're trying to figure out what we can do, and we don't want to step into the business of states, counties and municipal governments," Bessent said. "I think everything is on the table."
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A longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump is quitting Congress.
U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat who represents a large portion of Manhattan, also orchestrated an impeach-and-remove campaign against Trump during his first term, but ultimately failed.
Nadler now has announced he will not seek election again next year.
It will mark the end of Nadler's 34 years in Congress, where he consistently has maintained ultra-liberal and extreme progressive positions.
"Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that," the outgoing representative. 78, told the New York Times in a statement.
He was referring to Joe Biden's catastrophically failed campaign for re-election in the 2024 presidential vote, a bid that collapsed after he appeared in a debate with Trump and stumbled, mumbled and fumbled most of the event.
His mental decline already had been evident for considerable time, with him forgetting the names of his family members, his written instructions from staff on where to sit when he entered a meeting, and even his insistence on calling the names of dead people.
The terminal future for Nadler's career in Congress was apparent when he was forced to relinquish his House Judiciary Committee seat at the beginning of the term, to a younger Democrat.
He repeatedly has warned about Trump, claiming he is pursuing "incipient fascism," one of the left's talking points against Trump.
A report at the Gateway Pundit commented, "The 78-year-old lawmaker said that someone younger will do a better job right now as the Democrat party tries to court the younger generation."
The party's popularity has been plunging after Kamala Harris was picked by Democrat party elites to replace Biden as last year's candidate, and lost in a landslide.
The Gateway Pundit pointed out during his impeachment scheme against Trump, "Nadler lied about Trump and viciously attacked him as a 'dictator' from the Senate floor."
Then came the controversial activity during the 2020 election, and ultimately, voters returned Trump to the White House in 2024.
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In a result that will surprise few who watch Capitol Hill, it has been revealed that one party dominates the list of those members of Congress who vote against biblical principles, over and over, including a man who purports to be a "Christian minister."
It's long been known that Republicans, mostly, support family values and ideas, lower taxes and limited government.
Democrats, meanwhile, are investing in abortion, transgenderism, big spending, big government, social agendas and violence for their future.
It is the Christian Employers Alliance that released a tool, the Biblical Business Index by the Center for Biblical Business. It has reported that there are 16 Democrats in Congress – Jerry Nadler, Katie Porter, Cori Bush, Chellie Pingree, Debbie Stabenow, Jeff Merkley, Edward Markey, Tammy Baldwin, Laphonza Butler, the minister, Ralph Warnock, Richard Durbin, Peter Welch, Elizabeth Warrern, LaMonica McIver, Erica Lee Carter and Brian Higgins, who voted in support of the biblical perspective ZERO percent of the time.
Another long list of Democrats revealed dozens more in essentially the same position, with support for biblical perspectives in the range of 0.50% to maybe 0.53%.
At the other end of the scale were Republicans Elijah Crane, Matt Rosendale, Andy Biggs, Robert Good and Mike Lee at 100%, following by more than 260 more Republicans with ratings as low as about 49%, Susan Collins, before the first Democrat, Henry Cuellar, made the list at 47.76%.
According to Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard, "Democrats overwhelmingly fill out the bottom slots."
"CEA is proud to equip Christian business leaders with a tool built on the ultimate truth — the Word of God," Margaret Iuculano, the president of the Christian-based business group, told Bedard.
"Our faith is the foundation of how we live and lead, and lawmakers need that same compass as they face complex policies. That's why we launched the Biblical Business Index — a first-of-its-kind tool bringing together theologians and policy experts to connect Scripture with today's legislation. Even when the issue is something like regulations, biblical truth provides guidance to discern what upholds justice, freedom, and human dignity,"
Bedard explained, "Take the recently passed Liberty in Laundry Act as an example. The law pulled back Biden-era energy conservation regulations on washing machines. The Bible passage it was linked to focused on freedom, a common theme in the Biblical Business Index. It cited Galatians 5:1 — 'It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.'"
Lawmakers were assessed on their alignment with the Bible's principles, and overall, Wyoming's delegation rated the highest. Vermont was the lowest.
Fred McGrath, a senior policy adviser to CEA and ILA's president, told Bedard policy experts and theologians were called on to develop the new report card.
"Oftentimes, the moral and faith-aligned position on bills can be tricky to identify due to the enormous complexity of public policy. That is why CEA launched the Biblical Business Index. Essentially, build the first of its kind system to bring together both policy experts and theologians to help decipher the complex policies and identify the biblically aligned position," he said.
The results also provide analyses of state actions, with, for example, the survey recommending opposition to all of the nearly 60 issues handled recently by the Colorado legislature, suggesting support for only four.
That state has a far-left homosexual Democrat governor, Democrat-majority House and Senate and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court. The state repeatedly has tried to force Christians to abandon their beliefs and promote the dangerous LGBT lifestyle choices, being rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court for its "hostility" to Christianity. It has gone so far left that state officials tried to ban President Trump from the 2024 ballot, only to be publicly rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A tow-truck driver apparently thought it would be "funny" to tow away a vehicle being used by federal ICE agents making arrests in Los Angeles.
It's proven about has humorous as a decade in prison.
It was Acting U.S Attorney Bill Essayli who posted about the beginning of the case against Bobby Nunez:
"How it started vs. How it's going ARRESTED: Bobby Nunez is now under arrest for brazenly towing an ICE vehicle. He is charged with theft of government property. Apparently he thought it would be funny to interfere with our immigration enforcement operations. Now he can laugh behind bars while he faces justice. Nunez is looking at up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted."
Reporter Nick Sorter explained the second chapter in the story: "BREAKING: The man who went viral for TOWING AWAY an ICE vehicle while they were making an arrest in Los Angeles has now been ARRESTED himself FAFO, loser. Bobby Nunez, who was PlSSED about his perp walk being filmed, now faces TEN YEARS in prison Nunez was tracked down by DHS via TlkTok."
At the Post Millennial was a report that explained ICE agents were detaining an illegal immigrant for DUI when Nunez went into action.
"Per Fox News' Bill Melugin, the criminal complaint signed off on by a federal judge stated that Nunez was laughing and recording ICE agents on his phone while he towed the vehicle away," the report explained.
The incident happened during the arrest of Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a Colombian TikToker who was in the U.S. illegally, just weeks ago.
President Donald Trump said during an interview with The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese that he would consider reopening asylums for people with severe mental illness, asserting that society "can't have these people walking around."
Reese was asking Trump about his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., part of which involved dealing with mentally ill homeless people who have become a fixture on D.C. streets.
"Would you be open to the government reopening insane asylums for people with serious mental illness?" Reese asked him.
“Yeah I would,” Trump answered, then elaborated on the reasons why.
Trump continued, “Well, they used to have them, and you never saw people like we had, you know, they used to have them. And what happened is states like New York and California that had them, New York had a lot of them. They released them all into society because they couldn’t afford it.
“You know, it’s massively expensive. But we had, they were all over New York. I remember when I was growing up, Creedmoor. They had a place, Creedmoor, they had a lot of them, Bellevue, and they were closed by a certain governor."
“It’s a rough situation," he concluded, "because you can't have these people walking around."
Mental illness is a significant factor in homelessness, because people with severe mental illness can't hold down a job and often have a deep mistrust of authority figures, banks, and other fixtures of modern society.
Part of Trump's D.C. crime crackdown has involved emptying homeless encampments, offering those living in the makeshift dwellings shelters they can go to where they will receive food, a place to sleep, and services they need to become functional members of society again.
This will surely include mental health treatment for many of them, as well as substance abuse treatment, career counseling, job opportunities, and life skills education.
Trump is touting the success of his D.C. crackdown, calling the nation's capital a "crime-free zone."
“I mean, I knew we’re going to do it, but it went faster than I thought… Now, in two weeks, it’s going to be even better. I’m calling it, it’s a crime free zone now,” he continued. “People are going to restaurants that haven’t gone out in four years. They didn’t even want to go in their car because they get the you know, they have..,you see, the carjacking is down 87 percent.”
Even D.C.'s Democrat Mayor, Muriel Bowser, is lauding the efforts of the federal law enforcement in her city after initially resisting them.
“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city,” she said at a press conference last week.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-CA), who led the Judiciary Committee during both impeachments of President Donald Trump during his first term, announced Monday that he will not seek an 18th term in Congress in 2026.
Nadler will be 79 when he retires from Congress after 34 years.
He said that his experience seeing the mental decline and advanced age of former President Joe Biden convinced him of the need for generational change in the Democrat Party.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that," he said.
Nadler said he would not involve himself in the Democratic primary that would ensue.
His district in Manhattan is one of the wealthiest in the country.
He didn't say who he thought could replace him, but his longtime aide Assemblyman Micah Lasher may seek the seat, according to reports.
Nadler has hated Trump since the 1980s when they disagreed over development projects in the borough.
More recently, Nadler voiced opposition to mask-wearing by ICE agents even as attacks against them skyrocketed.
Earlier in the summer, Nadler seethed with rage when DHS entered his office and briefly handcuffed an aide while accusing his staff of "harboring rioters," a charge he vehemently denied.
He tried to pack the Supreme Court and wanted to impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh if Republicans gained the majority in the House, which they did.
Nadler was almost famous for talking out of both sides of his mouth, depending on who benefitted politically.
In 1998 he called the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton a "lynch mob," while in 2019 he criticized President Donald Trump for using the same term to describe his own impeachment.
His bald-faced lies about Trump during impeachment diminished the credibility of Democrats and ended up boosting Trump's popularity in the end.
Good riddance to Nadler, who became little more than a foil for conservatives and a laughingstock, the more he spewed his irrational hate.
A federal court has intervened to stop the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants from Guatemala, Breitbart reported.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered a temporary halt to the deportation of these children who seek humanitarian protection in the U.S.
The order came in response to concerns that these deportations would bypass critical legal safeguards designed for migrant minors without proper deportation procedures.
Judge Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, acted swiftly on a Sunday to issue the temporary restraining order, which specifically covered children without finalized deportation orders.
The restraining order initially focused on a smaller group of ten children, between the ages of 10 and 17. Lawyers representing these minors argued that deporting them would ignore laws meant to provide children the chance to apply for asylum and other forms of legal protection.
Drew Ensign, representing the Trump administration in court, confirmed compliance with this order and detailed ongoing deportation logistics halted by the judge's action.
During the legal proceedings, Ensign provided an update on the operational status, revealing, "On the ground, I believed one plane had taken off earlier but had come back." This confirmed that all prepared deportation flights were paused.
Controversy arose from how the administration sought to handle over 600 minor deportations, with claims from the administration that these children had self-reported having familial ties back in Guatemala.
The halt reflects broad concerns over the procedural fairness and humanitarian considerations in the deportation protocols applied to unaccompanied migrant children.
Stephen Miller, a senior official in the Trump administration, voiced strong opposition to the judge's ruling, positing that the decision undermines parental reunification efforts.
Miller articulated strong discontent, stating, "These smuggled migrant children were orphaned in America by the Biden Administration. The minors have all self-reported that their parents are back home in Guatemala. But a Democrat judge is refusing to let them reunify with their parents," highlighting a deep divide in perspectives regarding immigration management.
This judicial block has catalyzed a significant policy standoff, reflecting the intricate and often polarized nature of immigration debates in the United States.
Projected legal reviews will explore the complexities of the case further, examining the intersections of executive decisions and legal protections for vulnerable migrant groups.
An analysis of these issues will set pivotal precedents about the scope of rights and protections available to child migrants collected at U.S. borders, particularly from Central America.
This case thereby not only involves the immediate futures of these children but also the broader trajectory of U.S. immigration policy and humanitarian law.
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President Donald Trump on Monday demanded drug companies justify the success of COVID shots, saying the Centers For Disease Control is "being ripped apart over this question."
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, the president stated: "It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!
"With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW. I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???
"They go off to the next 'hunt' and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the Drug Companies Covid work.
"They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don't seem to be showing them to many others. I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!!
"I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as 'BRILLIANT' as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter!"
In 2020, during the president's first term in office, the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed, which accelerated testing and approval of COVID jabs as the coronavirus swept across America.
The World Health Organization indicates at least 70% of Americans have gotten both shots of the COVID-19 vaccine as of 2025, with more than 711 million doses having been administered in the U.S.
But the vaccines administered by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, came under fierce criticism in 2021 for failing to stop breakthrough infections, as many who got the shots developed COVID-19 nonetheless.
"This development is a total game changer and is sending shock waves throughout the global establishment," Alex Jones of Infowars said Monday.
"Trump knows he was set up and knows the truth is coming out so he is getting ahead of it. Mark my words this is over the top good news!"
"The whole thing's already come down. The whole world is waking up. The majority of people know it's pure poison. Three percent even take the new, stupid boosters. So Trump understands he was set up."
"We've been all over this," Jones added. "It's the shot that kills you, the shot that erases the immune system."
Trump rarely mentions the pandemic except for praising the rapid development of COVID vaccines, which he termed a "Christmas miracle" in December 2020.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in May, only 30% of Republicans now believe the COVID shot is safe, while 55% of independents and 87% of Democrats feel that way.
Trump's secretary for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been grappling with health officials at the CDC after putting a stop to emergency authorization for COVID shots and changing their standards to exclude most children and healthy adults.
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired Wednesday after serving less than a month in that position. The White House told the New York Times she was booted because her opinions on inoculations differed from those of Kennedy, a well-known skeptic of vaccines.
"When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted," said Monarez's lawyers Abbe Lowell and Mark Zaid.
"This is not about one official. It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science."
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An Illinois man has been arrested and accused of intentional homicide of an unborn child after he allegedly gave the abortion chemical mifepristone to his girlfriend, killing her baby, according to a report from Live Action News.
The report said it was police in Bloomington who took into custody Emerson Evans, on allegations he drugged his girlfriend without her knowledge.
"Evans had reportedly been pressuring the woman to abort the baby," the report explained, adding, "He told police he paid a different woman $50 for the pills."
Evans, 31, of Normal, Illinois, now faces counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child.
Bloomington police said in a statement emergency personnel were called to a home on August 22 for a pregnant woman having a medical emergency.
"They found the woman crying in a bathroom, surrounded by a large amount of blood. They then found the remains of her preborn baby in the toilet," the report confirmed.
Evans subsequently confirmed he wanted her to get an abortion and then said he decided to "make the decision for her" by administering the abortion drug to her without her knowledge or consent, the report said.
"We are again saddened by the alleged criminal actions which resulted in harm to others. It is my hope the mother involved in the matter fully recovers and has the resources and support of this strong community in the future," said Chief Jamal Simington.
The report noted the potential penalty for intentional homicide of an unborn child is 20-60 years in prison, and in some cases, life in prison.
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Two Virginia brands Mahandru Associates and its sister Startup Business Bureau sell a simple promise: set up a U.S. company, move a "manager" here on an L1 visa and figure out the rest later.
Their own pages show the sales engine behind it: referral commissions, markups allowed for middlemen, cash accepted at the office and a large trail of short-life LLCs registered at the same handful of addresses. This business model shows how easy it is to profit from selling access to live and profit in the U.S.
What they're selling, a visa wrapped in a starter company
Startup Business Bureau markets the L-1 visa as a way for executives and managers to transfer to the U.S. or open a new U.S. office. Their page lists friendly talking points: live and work in the U.S., premium processing available, dependents can come and there is a path to a green card. Mahandru hosts a brochure and an investment migration page that reads like a one stop shop, complete with a portfolio of house brands under the same umbrella.
The money path: Commissions, markups and cash at the counter
Mahandru Associates' Introducer Agreement is a marketing-and-commission contract built to sell immigration programs, specifically "Residency & Citizenship by Investment" and other business/personal migration packages, to paying clients.
The Introducer is a third-party referrer/marketer, not the law firm, whose job is to bring Mahandru paying prospects for immigration programs. The "leads" they supply are people with the money and interest to pursue Mahandru's programs, namely residency or citizenship by investment and other business/personal residency/visa packages the company sells. The introducer "registers" those prospects with Mahandru (usually by email) and gets commission when the person signs up and again if the application is completed. They're paid twice: an Introducer Fee when the client signs up and a Success Fee when the application is completed and the company is paid. The eye-catcher is a "White Label Pricing" clause that lets the introducer rebrand the offering under their own name and mark up the price ("top it up") for extra margin, meaning the person pitching the visa can hide the true provider and costs while keeping the spread.
This model bakes in conflicted incentives to push people into visa pathways whether or not they're good candidates, because commissions are triggered at sign-up, not at a successful immigration outcome. The agreement's broad confidentiality and IP language (covering client lists, applications and documents) reads like a lead-harvesting scheme, while the white-label feature can mask who's actually advising you, potentially a non-lawyer salesperson, while quietly adding markups the client never sees. In plain English, it's a pay-to-refer, upsell and rebrand system for investment-migration/visa products that can obscure pricing, blur accountability and encourage aggressive, high-pressure selling to would-be immigrants.
Both Mahandru Associates and Startup Business Bureau advertise a wide menu of payment options: they publicly list full bank account/routing numbers; they accept cash in person; they route payments via WhatsApp/email "invoices"; they steer people to bank transfers and P2P apps (Zelle/PayPal/Venmo/Cash App) and even a Gmail address, methods with weak chargeback protections; they require payments be "NET" of all bank/transfer fees and add card surcharges, nudging customers away from safer cards; and they disclaim responsibility for any payments made to "representatives," which invites side-door collections. Combined with their white-label setup, this money flow can obscure who is actually getting paid, reduce recourse for victims and make disputes or clawbacks much harder.
The support system:A formation mill behind the scenes
Public records provided show Mahandru Associates LLC acting as registered agent for dozens of LLCs clustered at a few repeat addresses. Many of these companies are short lived and many share the same mail-type addresses. That pattern looks like bulk entity formation, which pairs neatly with a "new office" visa package.
Why the loophole is so easy to sell
The L-1 "new office" rule allows a foreign company with no U.S. presence to transfer a manager here to start one. If the company shows a real relationship abroad, a leased space and a plan to grow, USCIS can approve a one-year starter. There is no annual cap and no required wage floor. At the one-year mark the company must prove the role is truly executive or managerial, not just a founder doing everything. That is where many paper offices fail. It is also where the seller has already been paid.
What Congress and auditors already warned
This is not a brand new problem. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General flagged L-1 vulnerabilities as far back as 2006, including weak checks on new offices and fuzzy "specialized knowledge" claims. Members of Congress have repeatedly voiced concerns over the potential for fraud and abuse in the L-1 program.
What the trend says
Data Source: U.S.Department of State
After FY2021, L-1 and L-2 applications surged. L-1 total applications jumped from 26,406 (FY2021) to 75,157 (FY2022) (≈+185%), peaked at 79,278 (FY2023) (≈+200%) and remained high at 74,713 (FY2024) (≈+183% over 2021). L-2 dependents followed the same arc: 31,651 → 80,366 → 85,222 → 75,248 (≈+138%–169% above 2021). The data strongly suggests that the business model is working and widespread.
Bottom line
Ultimately, the "new office" L-1 hustle turns visas into a product and the American dream into someone else's commission. When immigration is sold through white-label resellers, WhatsApp invoices and hidden markups, safeguards fail workers, families and honest businesses. Americans deserve simple, fair fixes: documented U.S. operations before approval, public disclosure of advisers and financial interests, strict firewalls between commission-driven sales and legal decisions and clean, traceable payments. Citizens and policymakers can press agencies to investigate, report deceptive pitches to the DOJ IER, DOL and USCIS and restrict government contracts for firms that game the system. The nation should reward real investment and real jobs not shell offices, middlemen and quick-flip visas.