President Donald Trump said he hopes Elon Musk's businesses do well as Tesla suffers its second straight losing quarter, the Washington Times reported. This comes after Musk fired parting shots as he was leaving as head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The Tesla mogul supported Trump during the 2024 campaign and helped carry get him back into the White House. Then Musk worked to cut government waste through DOGE.
However, things grew tense after he denigrated Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which will slash electric vehicle subsidies starting Sept. 30. Meanwhile, Musk’s Tesla sales dipped 16% in market share over last year.
For his part, Trump said in a social media post Thursday that he hopes Musk will continue to do well. Later remarks from Musk demonstrate that he wasn’t convinced as it appears this feud will continue.
The president’s post to Truth Social championed Musk’s continued success regardless of the legislation. “Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government,” Trump began.
“This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before!” Trump continued.
“The better they do, the better the USA does, and that’s good for all of us. We are setting records every day, and I want to keep it that way!” Trump concluded.
Shortly after Trump’s overtures toward him, Musk posted a response on X, formerly Twitter. “The ‘subsidies’ he’s talking about simply do not exist,” Musk claimed.
He said Trump “has already removed or put an expiry date on all sustainable energy support while leaving massive oil & gas subsidies untouched.” He then went on to point out how one of his other companies helped the country while receiving government money.
“SpaceX won the NASA contracts by doing a better job for less money. Moving those contracts to other aerospace companies would leave astronauts stranded and taxpayers on the hook for twice as much!” Musk claimed.
According to the New York Post, Musk’s companies raked in $38 billion in taxpayer dollars since 2007 with the majority being awarded in the last five years. SpaceX alone has secured billions in Department of Defense and NASA contracts.
These two will likely continue to spar over government waste and the role of subsidies. However, it seems that saving money for the American people is never the losing bet, even if Musk doesn’t like it.
A recent Harvard-Harris survey has found that a majority of respondents believe former President Joe Biden intentionally left the borders wide open during his tenure, Breitbart reported. These results come as President Donald Trump makes significant headway in combating illegal immigration.
During the Biden administration, record numbers of illegal immigrants crossed the border. While it's possible that this was due to complacency or incompetence, a significant majority of those surveyed believe it was intentional.
In a poll conducted from July 6 to 8 among 2,044 registered voters, 67% of respondents believed that Biden kept the border open. On whether this was a "deliberate policy" or not, 69% agreed that it was.
This sentiment is more widespread when broken down by party affiliation, with 84% of Republicans believing it was a purposeful decision, while 68% of independents share the same view. Even Democrats could only muster a slight majority of 51% who believed the border was "secure" and 52% who thought it was "not deliberate."
Biden was squarely responsible for the open border mess, and 88% of Republicans and 60% of independents are calling it "deliberate" in the poll. This is far more than just opinion, as recent facts may indicate that they're right.
Trump has plugged up the leaks at the southern border, with May and June reporting that there were zero illegal immigrants brought into the interior of the U.S. In a post to his Truth Social, the president touted his success while contrasting it with Biden's failures.
"Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a 'LANDSLIDE!' Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD!" Trump wrote on June 20.
"The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin! What this Crooked man and his CORRUPT CRONIES have done to our Country in 4 years is grossly indescribable! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump concluded.
One positive figure can be dismissed, but it appears Trump's success in reversing Biden's immigration trends continues across other metrics. According to Fox News, Biden paroled 27,766 illegal immigrants in June 2024 while Trump released exactly zero in June of this year.
His policies have also stopped illegal immigration at the source, as Border Patrol reported just 6,070 encounters with illegal immigrants for the entire month of June. During the Biden administration, there were as many as 10,000 illegal immigrants a day crossing the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott credited Trump with this change in a news release last month. "From shutting down illegal crossings to seizing fentanyl and enforcing billions in tariffs, CBP is delivering results on every front," Scott said.
"Under this administration, we are protecting this country with relentless focus, and the numbers prove it," he added. Trump is certainly a skilled statesman, but it's clear the disparity has just as much to do with Biden's open-door policy as it does with Trump's crackdown.
For as inept as Biden was at being president, the record illegal immigration can only be explained through a willful decision to let it happen. It's clear as ever now that this was intentional, especially since Trump has been so successful so quickly after taking office.
House Republicans have advanced an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the Kennedy Center's opera house to the "First Lady Melania Trump Opera House," Breitbart reported. The House Appropriations Committee passed the change Tuesday in a 33-28 vote as Democrats cry foul.
The proposal was put forth by House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), who agrees with President Donald Trump's vision for the arts center to be more welcoming to faith and family. "First Lady Melania Trump serves as the Honorary Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Kennedy Center," Simpson said.
"Naming a theater after her is an excellent way to recognize her appreciation for the arts," he added. The change was added to the FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.
The department funds the Kennedy Center, and the president is eager to reform its progressive aims. Of course, this has outraged Democrats who have accused Republicans of sneaking it into the bill.
Donald Trump has been adamant about cleaning up the crazy leftism. He posted on Truth Social about the changes, including the firing of most of the board, on February 7.
"At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture," Donald Trump said shortly after taking office.
"We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP! Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP," the president went on.
"The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!" Trump concluded.
The president has already succeeded in making the Kennedy Center a more wholesome place. It hosted "The King of Kings" film from Angel Studios to a packed house, with more events like it to come.
"This is family-friendly programming that we will be doing more of in the future. The American people want to see more shows that reflect their values," Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell promised.
Of course, the Democrats detest this and are especially outraged about the name change. According to ABC News, Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) claims Republicans "snuck in" the "divisive" proposal for the name change.
The Trumps have sought to return the nation to a better time when morals and faith mattered, especially in public endeavors. Democrats can't stand this because they are the party of depravity, but it's exactly the reason Donald Trump was elected in the first place.
The National Economic Council's data reveals that President Donald Trump's first six months in office have created a strong economy, Breitbart reported. Indicators, including low inflation and increased manufacturer output, have quelled fears of a recession.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai told Breitbart that this should silence naysayers. "During his first six months in office, President Trump has repeatedly embarrassed the panicans who predicted doom and gloom, from inflation to recession," Desai said.
In June, the Consumer Price Index recorded its fifth consecutive month of inflation rates below expectations. The Federal Reserve sets a 2 percent target, and Trump's economy has remained right in line with an annualized rate of 2.1 percent, which the Council of Economic Advisers touted on X, formerly Twitter, last week.
Core CPI rose 0.2% in June, beating market expectations 0f 0.3%.
Since President Trump took office, core CPI is tracking 2.1% annualized, consistent with low & stable inflation.
(Headline CPI is tracking 1.8% annualized)
— Council of Economic Advisers (@CEA47) July 15, 2025
One indicator of Trump's economic success is the increase in manufacturing output since he took office for his second term as president. From January when he took office through June, manufacturing increased by 1.8 percent.
While this doesn't seem significant on the surface, it is a great success compared to Trump's predecessor, former President Joe Biden. Manufacturing output between August 2024 and January 2025 decreased by .7 percent under Biden, meaning Trump's economy overcame his deficit pluse another increase.
The labor market also remains robust for job seekers, especially native-born Americans. According to Breitbart News economics editor John Carney, that cohort saw an additional 830,000 people employed.
Meanwhile, the number of foreign-born workers declined by 348,000, marking the third consecutive month of decrease. "More Americans stepping up to take jobs," Carney said of the news.
"Employers, used to drawing from a bottomless global pool, are now facing a domestic labor market and are adjusting accordingly. American workers, seeing that employers are now turning to them to fill jobs, are stepping up," Carney added.
Notably, this good news comes before Trump's policies are fully reflected, suggesting that just the promise of those is enough to give the economy a jolt. The president's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed on July 4, will allow Americans to keep more of their money.
By eliminating taxes on overtime and tips, and offering additional tax cuts, the economic outlook may only improve as the effects of the legislation are felt. Even Trump's tariffs, which caused panic among conservatives and liberals alike, have added $120 billion in revenue.
Desai touted this news. "Under President Trump, Americans have seen an end to Joe Biden’s inflation crisis, multiple expectation-beating jobs reports, record tariff revenue collection, bond and stock market rallies, and historic investment commitments worth trillions that will cement America’s dominance in cutting-edge sectors," the deputy press secretary said.
"And the best is yet to come – as the pro-growth policies of The One Big Beautiful Bill and new trade deals kick in, America’s economic resurgence under President Trump will only accelerate," Desai added. The latest data points suggest that it's already happening.
Trump is doing a great job, despite facing pushback from both sides of the aisle. If these economic trends continue, America could indeed be great again with a resurgence of prosperity and stability for all.
The Biden White House and then-Attorney General Merrick Garland conspired together to find a way to charge parents who spoke out against far left policies at school board meetings around the country, according to documents obtained by America First Legal, a watchdog group.
The group published memos and emails it obtained that looked for a "federal hook" to charge the parents with crimes, but DOJ lawyers pushed back on the requests and said any prosecution would "trample" the parents' First Amendment rights.
America First Legal said:
These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.
The emails took place between October 1 and 3, just days before the infamous memo from Garland that labeled the outspoken parents as "domestic terrorists."
Despite the DOJ lawyers telling the AG's office that the parents were merely using their First Amendment rights and nothing criminal was happening, the DOJ under Garland called them dangerous terrorists in an effort to threaten them into silence anyway.
The main reasons these parents were speaking out was because of policies around COVID, transgenderism, and critical race theory that were harming their children.
One case involved sexual assaults of two students and others involved biological males harming female students while playing girls' sports because they identified as girls.
Other parents didn't want their children exposed to critical race theory, which paints an entire race--whites--as racist and distorts American history.
Because the leftists in the DOJ and Biden administration favored these policies, they wanted to shut down dissenting parents and silence them.
These same leftists have been crying for months about President Donald Trump threatening democracy and being a tyrant, but their behavior was a direct assault on these parents' constitutional rights and an effort to circumvent democracy.
"It seems that we are ramping up an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently a non-federal conduct,” a DOJ lawyer wrote the day before Garland published his memo, ignoring the advice that it was not legally sound to do so.
Democracy prevailed, however, when Garland's memo became public and provoked enough controversy to get him to back down and give up his intimidation campaign.
Some parents became even louder after the memo, because this is America, and people accustomed to freedom don't give it up without a fight.
If parents are ever too scared of federal charges to raise their concerns at school board meetings, democracy will indeed be dead.
The Trump administration has had mixed success in federal court challenges of its executive orders and broader agenda since January, but a judge last week handed the president a noteworthy win.
As The Hill reports, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb granted a Trump administration request to dismiss a lawsuit brought for the purpose of blocking the release of names of FBI agents who performed work on Jan. 6-related cases.
Plaintiffs filed their complaint in February, soon after a handful of career FBI officials were dismissed by the new administration and after then-Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove demanded a list of all agents previously engaged in cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol unrest.
The complainants sued in an effort to stop the administration from publicly identifying those who performed investigative work on cases brought against those who demonstrated in Washington on the fateful day in question.
The case was brought by two separate groups of anonymous FBI agents who contended that their identities were at risk of exposure and that their safety could, as a result, be in jeopardy.
The agents further argued that if their names were made public, they and their families could be targets of those they had been tasked with investigating, and that such disclosures would represent a violation of federal privacy law as well as protections enshrined in the Constitution, as Reuters explained.
On Thursday, however, Judge Cobb, a Joe Biden appointee, dismissed the agents’ case, declaring the risk that the Justice Department would disclose their names was simply “too speculative” for the lawsuit to proceed.
Cobb voiced sympathy with the agents’ concerns, stating, “Plaintiffs filed these cases in a whirlwind of chaos and fear” and noted that “some former January 6 defendants, now pardoned and at large, called for FBI agents to be doxed (or worse).”
However, Cobb added, “Since then, the dust has settled some – and this case has evolved.”
The judge went on to state that expedited discovery in the case “revealed no evidence that Defendants are on the verge of disclosing Plaintiffs’ identities, nor have Plaintiffs plausibly alleged that such a disclosure is imminent.”
As such, Cobb concluded, “The Court must therefore dismiss Plaintiffs’ disclosure-related claims.”
In the wake of the ruling, lawyers for the plaintiffs, Margaret Donovan and Chris Mattei issued a statement expressing disappointment with the outcome.
“We are proud to defend the FBI employees who bravely investigated the January 6th attacks. The Court acknowledged that the disclosure of the agents’ names would endanger them and accepted the Government’s claims that it would not do so. We stand ready to return to Court immediately if the Government does not live up to its obligations,” the attorneys said.
Officials inside the Trump DOJ have not explicitly ruled out the possibility of public disclosure of agent names, and although they have declared that there are no immediate plans to do so, whether that continues to be the case in the weeks and months to come is something that remains to be seen.
Secret Service field operations assistant director Michael Centrella confirmed that a top Secret Service official was the victim of a "swatting" incident on July 4, Newsmax reported. A caller dialed into the 911 emergency system, sending law enforcement into the official's community.
During a San Francisco cybersecurity event on Thursday, Centrella made the shocking admission. The event was a Deepfake Resilience symposium, and the story is relevant as it seems the caller in the case used the emerging technology to create convincing fakes.
The Independence Day incident occurred after someone called 911 and provided the name and home address of the official and said that someone wielding a gun was in the house. The caller claimed it was the official's daughter who had the gun.
However, that fact tipped off local law enforcement that it may be a fake since the man doesn't have a daughter. Had they not known, it may have become a dangerous situation for the Secret Service official and the special weapons and tactics team responding.
These incidents have become part of a growing trend that wastes resources and puts lives in danger as a misunderstanding could cause a shooting. FBI Director Kash Patel promised to work on the problem in a post to X, formerly Twitter, in March.
"I want to address the alarming rise in ‘Swatting’ incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable," Patel wrote.
"This isn’t about politics—weaponizing law enforcement against ANY American is not only morally reprehensible but also endangers lives, including those of our officers. That will not be tolerated," Patel said.
"We are fully committed to working with local law enforcement to crack down on these crimes. More updates to come," he added. According to Fox News at the time, this came after a swatting at Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence resulted in a deadly car accident with police.
I want to address the alarming rise in ‘Swatting’ incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.
This isn’t about politics—weaponizing law enforcement…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) March 14, 2025
The House of Representatives introduced a bill in January to address the problem through legislation. "Having spent over 40 years in law enforcement, I've seen firsthand how swatting is a reckless and dangerous action that not only puts innocent lives at risk but wastes critical resources," Rep. Mike Ezell (R-MS) said while introducing the Preserving Safe Communities by Ending Swatting Act.
"Local and state law enforcement agencies are forced to divert their time, energy, and taxpayer dollars to respond to these false calls, taking them away from real emergencies. As someone who has been on the front lines, I understand the toll this takes on our officers and communities," Ezell added.
The law has not yet been passed, but it's clear that it's a necessary step, as these are not isolated incidents. According to the Associated Press just last month, Romanian citizen Thomasz Szabo, 26, allegedly initiated over 100 of these incidents with the help of Nemanja Radovanovic, 21, of Serbia.
Szabo pleaded guilty to "engaging in a plot to use 'swatting' calls and bomb threats to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police emergencies, including a former U.S. president and several members of Congress," the AP noted. None of the intended victims were named, but these calls can be initiated from virtually anywhere to anywhere.
Unfortunately, some individuals have chosen to involve law enforcement in their dangerous games or schemes. Technology has made it simple to initiate, and that makes the trend all the more dangerous.
Steak 'n Shake has announced it will soon sell Coca-Cola made with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, Breitbart reported. This is in line with the wishes of President Donald Trump and the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Make America Healthy Again agenda has notched another win with this announcement. Steak 'n Shake had previously announced it was switching from seed oils to beef tallow earlier this year and is now focusing on the soda it serves.
"Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles," the company posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. America deserves the best! We continue on our MAHA journey…"
Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles.
America deserves the best! 🇺🇸
We continue on our MAHA journey…
— Steak 'n Shake (@SteaknShake) July 17, 2025
Trump campaigned on his "MAHA" movement, spearheaded by Kennedy, and now he's following through. The president announced Wednesday on his Truth Social account that he had persuaded Coca-Cola to switch to sugar in its signature product.
"I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so," Trump boasted. "I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola," the president added.
"This will be a very good move by them — You’ll see. It’s just better!" Trump wrote. Meanwhile, Kennedy is busy implementing the agenda in other parts of the food industry.
He has succeeded in getting companies like Kraft Heinz, Nestle, and J.M. Smucker Co. to commit to removing food dyes, along with about 35% of the industry. Kennedy stressed this is in addition to the 35% of the food supply that is organic and thus already dye-free.
The International Dairy Foods Association has also agreed to remove food dyes from ice creams. "Since we came in about five and a half months ago and started talking about eliminating dyes and other bad chemicals from our food, we’ve had this extraordinary response from the industry," Kennedy said earlier this week.
Amid the good news about the voluntary action is the reality that some companies, such as MARS, are pushing back. According to Fox Business News, the candy giant is resisting the movement.
This comes after a 2016 pledge the company made "to remove all artificial colors from its human food portfolio globally." MARS has backtracked, citing its customer data that suggested that treats like candy are less of a concern to customers.
"We are aware of the administration’s request, and our technical experts are exploring alternatives that satisfy scientific safety criteria, technical requirements, and consumer preferences. At this time, we have not yet identified fully effective solutions and believe it is premature to make commitments until we are certain they can be fulfilled," a company spokesperson to Fox News Digital.
"We will continue our efforts and anticipate being able to offer consumers more choice in the near future. Meanwhile, it is important to underline that all of our products continue to be safe to enjoy and meet the high standards and applicable regulations set by food safety authorities," the spokesperson added.
Regardless of what MARS has to say, the fact that any of these companies would voluntarily do this is something I never expected. Consumer demand and a little bit of government pressure were all it took to help make America healthy again indeed.
President Donald Trump slammed his own supporters who are not backing down from demanding answers about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activity, the UK Daily Mail reported. The president now claims that the late financier's sex trafficking was all a "hoax."
For years, Trump has spoken about Epstein's alleged crimes and made remarks about his manner of death. Epstein reportedly hanged himself with his own bed sheets while in prison in 2019, but many people, including Trump, had questioned the official narrative.
However, Trump seemingly backtracked on all of it when pushed by the public to release the files on Epstein. The president called it the "Epstein hoax" and said that Republicans were "duped" into worrying about it while speaking to reporters on Wednesday.
"I know it’s a hoax," Trump told the press. "It’s started by Democrats. It’s been run by the Democrats for four years," Trump added.
It wasn't enough for Trump to say that the Epstein files don't exist. Trump also played on the sympathies of his supporters by comparing the scandal to the Russia collusion hoax cooked up by the Democrats.
Trump said that those in his own Make America Great Again movement calling for more information on the Epstein case were falling prey to Democrats' tricks. "Some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into that net, so they try and do the Democrats’ work," Trump claimed.
The president also stood behind Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has faced criticism for promising to release the files Trump now claims don't exist. "Whatever is credible, she can release," Trump capitulated.
"If a document is credible, if a document's there that is credible, she can release it," the president reiterated. Trump doubled down on his narrative about Epstein being a Democrat-invented fiction, even though he still supports Bondi.
"All it is the Republicans – certain Republicans – got duped by the Democrats. And they’re following a Democrat playbook," Trump claimed. "Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats' work, don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore!" Trump later posted to his Truth Social on Wednesday.
These comments represent a more forceful and cutting approach than Trump had taken just the day before. "He’s dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life," Trump told reporters Tuesday, downplaying the significance of the Epstein case.
"I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring, and I don't understand why it keeps going," Trump continued.
"I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going. But credible information? Let them give it — anything that's credible, I would say, let them have it," Trump added.
NOW - Trump: "I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going." pic.twitter.com/JL8xMR7VIU
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 15, 2025
It's difficult to see why Trump has taken this stance against his own supporters on this particular issue. Republicans and others concerned about justice have waited a long time for the facts of this case to come out, but the Trump administration has completely abandoned them.
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's move to end protected status for Afghan migrants, Breitbart reported. The Biden era policy gave thousands of migrants from Afghanistan de facto amnesty.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a statement about the decision. "Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that—TEMPORARY. Granted for 18 months under extraordinary circumstances," the official account posted to X, formerly Twitter.
"It was never meant to last a quarter of a century. For many of these countries, TPS was granted in the 90's after natural disasters. Now that conditions have improved, it is time to return home. President Trump and Secretary Noem are restoring integrity to our immigration system and ensuring that TPS remains TEMPORARY," the post Tuesday said.
Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that—TEMPORARY. Granted for 18 months under extraordinary circumstances. It was never meant to last a quarter of a century.
For many of these countries, TPS was granted in the 90's after natural disasters. Now that conditions… pic.twitter.com/x7LY1xbGcd
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 15, 2025
Then-President Joe Biden resettled Afghan migrants in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status. As part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, his U.S. Department of Homeland Security sought to end TPS for thousands of migrants after then-President Biden resettled them into the U.S.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit put a stay on the administration's plan to end the loophole for some 75,000 people from Afghanistan resettled under Biden. As DHS said, this was supposed to be a temporary measure set to expire on July 12.
However, the appeals court has put the brakes on any abolishment for now after the pro-immigration organization CASA, Inc. filed a lawsuit. Unfortunately, this comes amid reports of fraud in the program that could expose Americans to danger.
Even before TPS was an official policy, it was known that Afghans resettled in the U.S. had problematic ties. Unfortunately, of the 31 who were designated with "derogatory information," only three could be located within the U.S. in 2021.
That same year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) requested information about Afghans on the "No Fly List" who tried to enter the U.S. However, the Biden administration was cagey about the data and refused to report the exact count of such immigrants.
Even after TPS for Afghans was formalized in 2022, the issues persisted. In February 2022, the Department of Defense found that the Afghans imported under Biden's plan were not sufficiently vetted before being settled in communities throughout the U.S.
That early report found that 50 Afghans with "significant security concerns" were allowed into the U.S. through the resettlement program without much scrutiny. In February 2022, an Inspector General's report called out the Biden administration for its lack of vetting and warned it would "pose a national security risk."
A former Department of Defense official disclosed in 2023 that some of the Afghans given access to the U.S. had been involved in placing improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. These roadside bombs were used to kill American service members in Afghanistan.
Just last year, a 27-year-old Afghan who was brought to the U.S. as part of Biden's plan was allegedly planning a terrorist attack on Election Day. He was arrested in Oklahoma before he could carry out his diabolical agenda.
Unfortunately, Biden and his cronies in the court system are perfectly willing to risk American lives to continue with the open borders policies that got us here. Trump has been blindsided by the court's reluctance to allow him to protect the U.S. by keeping unvetted people out, but his administration will not stop fighting it.