A supposed whistleblower who warned about cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development has donated to 23 Democratic candidates, Breitbart reported. Nick Enrich, acting assistant administrator at USAID Global Health, was placed on leave Sunday for publicly criticizing the Department of Government Efficiency and others.
President Donald Trump has entrusted Tesla billionaire Elon Musk with heading up DOGE's efforts to streamline the bloated government, which has outraged the left. Enrich slammed Trump Musk, and the State Department over those efforts in a memo Friday.
Enrich alleges that DOGE has imposed "intentional and or/unintentional obstacles" to funding what he considers crucial programs. He warned the cuts would "undermine U.S. leadership, weaken global stability, and increase long-term costs" in his memo.
"The number of deaths attributable to the loss of USAID funding and support is not known at this time," claimed Enrich. However, it's difficult to heed his warning when Enrich appears unapologetically partisan.
While Enrich is being lionized as a valiant civil servant blowing the whistle on Trump's recklessness, it's clear that he's just regurgitating the Democratic talking points. Since 2019, Enrick has made a total of $400 to ActBlue, which raises money for Democratic candidates.
He has funneled those donations to Democrats in the 2020 presidential primary, including Elizabeth Warren and then Joe Biden. Enrich also supported Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and others in Congress.
While his donations were small, it's significant that Enrich intended them all for radical Democrats. He did this while raking in a $171,000 annual salary as a USAID Program Manager, outpacing the national average by 80.2% for those working for the government.
Despite this clear motivation, both as a Democratic donor and as the recipient of wasteful government spending, Democrats are praising Enrich for coming forward. They have glommed onto his message to smear Trump as callous and uncaring to those who receive foreign aid.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) jumped at the chance to claim that withdrawing foreign aid was one of their "worst fears" and predicted "deaths" because of it. "These new details confirm our worst fears: the illegal and systematic dismantling of USAID will cause real suffering and deaths that are entirely preventable," Schatz claimed.
The fake outrage and handwringing from Enrich and the Democrats don't change the fact that DOGE's mission has already saved the American taxpayer. The Trump administration gutted USAID and subsequently saved $60 billion that was previously squandered under the guise of foreign aid.
With a blessing from Trump, Musk and his organization have rooted out waste in even the most vital government sectors, including the Department of Defense. According to Fox News, the DOD could save $80 million by cutting waste in many areas, including diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Sean Parnell, the agency's spokesperson, championed DOGE for cutting the waste after it found ridiculous studies in the name of DEI. "This stuff is just not a core function of our military," Parnell said.
"This is not what we do. This stuff is a distraction from our core mission. We believe these initial findings will probably save $80 million in wasteful spending," the spokesman added.
The left is disingenuous about the role people like Enrich play in these controversies, and it vindicates Trump's assertion that these attacks are all partisan. Enrich is someone who doesn't support Trump, but they're using his memo and subsequent dismissal to fuel their neverending narrative against the president and his administration's effort to stop the financial bleeding.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Saturday that a top leader of al-Qaeda in Syria was killed last month in a precision air strike.
Senior military leader of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay was killed in northern Syria on February 23, officials said.
“As we have said in the past, we will continue to relentlessly pursue these terrorists in order to defend our homeland, and U.S., allied, and partner personnel in the region,” CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said in announcing Talay’s death.
Footage of the aerial attack was released on CENTCOM's social media account.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced just one day before CENTCOM's announcement that President Donald Trump had loosened some restrictions on how the U.S. military can go after terrorist leaders overseas.
Instead of only being allowed to go after senior leadership of foreign terrorist organizations as was the case under the Biden administration, the list of who the military can target with air strikes includes other leaders.
The agreement was signed in Germany last month.
Hegseth formally approved the changes during a meeting with senior U.S. military leaders from the U.S. Africa Command.
Those who favor Trump's move believe it will be more effective in combatting terrorism abroad.
Critics worry that there will be more civilian casualties with this plan because there may be a greater number of air strikes.
Hegseth pointed out that there is popular support for Trump's plan. People want to see terrorism reduced and eradicated.
The airstrike against Talay was "part of an ongoing effort to disrupt and degrade efforts by terrorists to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against civilians and military personnel from the U.S., our allies, and our partners throughout the region and beyond," CENTCOM said in its announcement.
Al-Qaeda mostly operates today in Yemen and Africa, but was most famously responsible for the 9-11 attacks against the U.S. in 2001 that brought down the World Trade Center and killed more than 3,000 people.
Earlier this month, the world of Florida politics was shaken by the news that a beloved former state legislator had unexpectedly died.
Last week, family, friends, and former colleagues gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of Geraldine Thompson, who succumbed to complications from knee surgery amid a career marked by service in both the Florida House and Senate, as NBC affiliate WESH reported.
Mourners gathered at Orlando's Majestic Life Church to remember and pay tribute to Thompson, who died at age 76 due to complications from a knee replacement procedure.
As the Tallahassee Democrat noted, Thompson's career in the state House began back in 2006, where she served until 2012, the year in which she ascended to the state Senate, where she remained until 2016.
The lawmaker returned to service in the House between the years of 2018 to 2022, then securing re-election to the state Senate just last year from Orange County's District 15.
Also boasting a background in education, Thompson was pivotal in the establishment of Orlando's Wells'Built Museum of African American History and Culture.
Thompson also served as part of a task force assigned to choose a site for the construction of a Florida Black History Museum.
The sizable turnout for Thompson's viewing and the expected attendance numbers for her funeral came as no surprise to Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, who underscored the undeniable impact the state lawmaker had over the years.
“Geraldine Thompson lived a life that was all about selflessness and giving to others, and so a good testament to her life and legacy is all of these people you're seeing here coming today for viewing,” he said.
Reginald McGill, constituent services staffer for Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer was similarly effusive in his praise of Thompson, stating, “She was more than a legislator. She was more than an educator. She was more than a mother, grandmother. She was really a friend to those who needed a friend.”
A statement from Thompson's family articulated the scope of her impact not just on her family and local constituents, but the entire state of Florida.
“She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother whose love, wisdom, and compassion shaped their lives and the lives of so many in their community and across the state. Her tireless work in education, health care, and civil rights, including her leadership to establish the Wells'Built Museum of African American History and Culture in Orlando reflected her unwavering commitment to creating a better world for future generations,” the family said.
According to an obituary posted by Mitchell's Funeral Home in Orlando, Thompson is survived by Judge Emerson Thompson, II, to whom she was married for 54 years.
Also left to mourn the late lawmaker are her three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, as well as a world of friends, constituents, and co-workers who admired the dedication she exhibited throughout her public service career.
The FBI has returned boxes of personal property seized in their raid of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, The Hill reported. In August 2022, the agency took 33 boxes from the home ostensibly to recover mishandled classified documents.
"The FBI is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One," Steven Cheung, White House communications director, said in a statement Friday.
Trump's counselor, Alina Habba, posted to X, formerly Twitter, that she witnessed the return of his boxes. "I just personally loaded the infamous 'boxes' back onto Air Force 1 to head home where they belong. Justice has been and will continue to be restored in this country under President Trump. TRUTH AND JUSTICE ALWAYS WIN IN THE END. God Bless America."
I just personally loaded the infamous “boxes” back onto Air Force 1 to head home where they belong. Justice has been and will continue to be restored in this country under President Trump. TRUTH AND JUSTICE ALWAYS WIN IN THE END. God Bless America 🇺🇸
— Alina Habba (@AlinaHabba) February 28, 2025
Habba noted that the FBI's raid on Trump was unnecessarily intrusive. Agents rummaged through closets belonging to wife, Melania Trump, and son, Barron Trump, and took things like newspaper clippings and photos that had nothing to do with the investigation.
Moreover, the premise of the government's argument that justified the raid didn't hold up under judicial scrutiny. Last July, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon effectively dismissed Trump's case by ruling that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment to investigate Trump was unconstitutional.
Now, after years of lawfare being waged against him, Friday's move was a win that took Donald Trump one step closer to restitution. "They [boxes] are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library," Donald Trump said on his Truth Social Friday.
"Justice finally won out. I did absolutely nothing wrong," the president added.
"This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well. Justice in our Country will now be restored," Donald Trump concluded.
The effort to take Donald Trump out began with his first presidential run in 2016 when the Russia collusion hoax began. According to the Associated Press, that charge was leveled on a faulty premise that allowed the government to spy on his campaign before it ultimately fell apart.
Still, the charge hung over him during his first term and was routinely a line of attack. By the time he left the White House in 2021, Donald Trump was impeached twice and called an "insurrectionist" over his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Then, as Donald Trump announced he would once again seek the presidency in 2022, his enemies were at it all over again again. In all, Donald Trump faced four separate criminal cases while building up his campaign.
As each case would crumble one by one, Trump promised he would be vindicated in the end. Now, he finally got that chance as the FBI turned his things back over to him after its case fell apart.
Donald Trump will never get back the time and money he wasted defending himself against all of these attacks. However, he has prevailed against everything they could possibly throw at him, and now he will get at least a portion of the long-overdue restitution.
Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu was taken into custody for questioning Wednesday after already having his winning election results annulled, Fox News reported. Many are wondering if this is Vice President J.D. Vance's warning come true about European politics.
Georgescu had won the first round of voting in the since-canceled election in his nation. Now, officials from the Romanian government announced he had been "taken in for questioning at the General Prosecutor’s Office" along with several others.
Romanian authorities raided 47 addresses over alleged campaign finance and weapons violations along with the Orwellian charge of creating an organization "with a fascist, racist or xenophobic" individual. Georgescu said on Facebook that he believes officials were "looking to justify the theft of the elections and to do anything to block my new candidacy for the presidency."
On Dec. 8, Romania's Constitutional Court threw out the election results just two days before a runoff election that would have decided the winner. They thought that Georgescu's upset win was suspect since he said he spent no money on campaigning and polled with just single-digit support.
Current Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu claimed it happened because "the judiciary is independent & the law must be applied regardless of persons." However, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly expressed skepticism about the process.
"They just arrested the person who won the most votes in the Romanian presidential election. This is messed up," Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.
They just arrested the person who won the most votes in the Romanian presidential election. This is messed up. https://t.co/hXjR4hrBcu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2025
Musk also called Judge Marian Enache, the chief of Romania's highest court who sealed the deal for tossing the results of the election Georgescu won, a "tyrant." The Trump administration has also spoken out against the idea that Romania would cancel the results it didn't like.
"Romania straight up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors. The argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections," Vance said in December.
It seems that Romania is using a familiar playbook taken from the American Democratic Party and the media against Trump. Armed with this perspective, Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference last week and warned about the "threat from within" for Europe.
"What I worry about is the threat from within – the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election," Vance said.
"He warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too. Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears," Vance acknowledged.
"For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values. Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy. But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we're holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard," Vance said.
It is frightening that an election can be canceled on a vague suspicion and the top candidate held for questioning. Vance is right to warn the world of what's coming, but only time will tell if anyone is actually listening.
The White House publicly acknowledged that Amy Gleason is the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, the Associated Press reported. Gleason is a former U.S. Digital Service expert but has maintained a low profile in her new role.
Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to appoint an administrator for DOGE. While Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has been the face of DOGE and has taken the slings and arrows of the left, he's only an adviser to the president.
Earlier this week, an attorney for the administration denied knowing who was running DOGE when asked by a judge. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to reveal Gleason's name during a news briefing.
"There are career officials, and there are political appointees who are helping run DOGE on a day-to-day basis," Leavitt said. However, the leftist media did not let this go and continued to push for names.
By Wednesday, Leavitt struck back that she had been "hounded" by the media for the names of DOGE employees. "Amy Gleason has been the DOGE administrator for quite some time, I believe several weeks, maybe a month..." she told the press in a clip posted to X, formerly Twitter.
"She's a career official. She's doing her job as the administrator of this organization. I know everybody's very interested in her name, who she is, and what she does," Leavitt went on.
"There's a lot of people who work for the federal government. They're just trying to do their jobs, and that's what she's doing. " Leavitt pointed out.
"Everybody knew, and we said who she was to all of you because you are hounds in the media who are so obsessed with this for some reason," she shot back after Leavitt asked if this information was known. The left is apoplectic over the existence of DOGE, and zeroing in on Gleason is just another way to express their ire that Trump was elected and is doing his job.
"Amy Gleason has been the DOGE administrator for quite some time ... See's a career official. She's doing her job as the Administrator of this organization... Everybody knew, and we said who she was to all of you... for some reason everybody in the press corps is so obsessed… pic.twitter.com/ImstJhTMP0
— Alex Kennedy (@therealmindman) February 26, 2025
It's clear that the media is interested in smearing Gleason as they have done with Musk, and now she will be the one taking the heat from them. The 53-year-old was employed with the United States Digital Service, now renamed DOGE, between 2018 and 2021.
Gleason was part of the agency's COVID-19 federal response team and reported the White House. After leaving that role, Gleason became chief product officer for a pair of small healthcare start-ups in Nashville.
She rejoined the agency after Trump was inaugurated in January when the newly minted president promised to slash waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. More than 20 agency members resigned after Musk's involvement and rebranding of the former Digital Service.
According to the New York Post, DOGE has already cut $55 billion in government spending and is looking to slash $1 trillion. Those who rely on an over-bloated government for grants, programs, and employment are going after anyone who tries to stop the gravy train.
Americans are tired of throwing their hard-earned tax dollars into the government money pit. What Musk and Gleason are doing is necessary to stop it, but the left is intent on doing whatever it can to hinder this mission, including outing the people involved in DOGE.
President Donald Trump is eager to restart the Keystone XL Pipeline project, which was axed in one of former President Joe Biden's first executive orders, Just the News reported. The Department of Energy estimated Biden's move cost $9.6 billion in revenue and as many as 59,000 jobs.
Trump championed the pipeline project during his first term and committed to new permits after Biden wasted no time in halting the project. It's unclear whether investors will want to take the risk again, but Trump is enthusiastic about reversing Biden's edict.
“I know they [the pipeline owners] were treated very badly by Sleepy Joe Biden, but the Trump Administration is very different — Easy approvals, almost immediate start! If not them, perhaps another Pipeline Company. We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!” Trump said on his Truth Social Tuesday.
According to the Associated Press, the project began in 2010 under then-President Barack Obama but has faced several setbacks since. After years of waffling during the Democratic administration, Trump was the first to give the green light through permits.
However, Biden canceled the project on the day he took office, Jan. 20, 2021. It was a hardship that lasted for years for some of the people involved in the project, such as pipeline construction foreman Neal Crabtree.
"It did surprise us when it happened. I was upset over it. I literally cried about it. I was a foreman on one of the compressor stations. We'd been there for three weeks," Crabtree, who was on the Nebraska section, told Fox News two years after the order to cancel it.
"We were excited to start this project. You know, we have to work to keep our insurance hours going, we have to work to build our retirement," he continued.
"And when you just spent a whole year [during the COVID-19 pandemic] not working and then we think we got this huge project that's going to provide millions of man-hours for people in our industry and then the rug is pulled out from under you, it was devastating. It was numbing, I can tell you that," Crabtree added.
In contrast to his predecessor, Trump signed an executive order, "Unleashing American Energy," on his first day in office. He committed to regaining ground Biden ceded with many environmental initiatives and executive orders.
"America is blessed with an abundance of energy and natural resources that have historically powered our Nation’s economic prosperity. In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens," the order explained.
"These high energy costs devastate American consumers by driving up the cost of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing, while weakening our national security. It is thus in the national interest to unleash America’s affordable and reliable energy and natural resources," the executive order said.
One of the many promises was to "facilitate the permitting and construction of interstate energy transportation and other critical energy infrastructure, including, but not limited to, pipelines..." This will not only help the energy sector but also ease inflation.
Trump is committed to fixing what Biden broke in the nation with his horrible policies. This project can now get off the ground with Trump at the helm and ready with the permits as Americans cheer him on.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is set to cut another 1,400 workers as part of a cost-cutting measure that will save over $83 million, Fox News reported. This comes after the VA slashes diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
The cut employees were in "non-mission critical positions" that wouldn't impact care. "Those dismissed today are bargaining-unit probationary employees who have served less than a year in a competitive service appointment or who have served less than two years in an excepted service appointment," a news release noted Monday.
The cost savings will allow the agency to "redirect all of those resources back toward health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries." The measure comes with the "additional safeguard" of allowing the "first Senior Executive Service (SES) or SES-equivalent leader in a dismissed employee’s chain of command can request that the employee be exempted from removal."
The move adds to 1,000 cuts that were announced earlier this month. "These and other recent personnel decisions are extraordinarily difficult, but VA is focused on allocating its resources to help as many Veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors as possible," VA Secretary Doug Collins said.
Democrats are apoplectic about these cuts despite the obvious necessity of them. The VA has assured the public that benefits will not be impacted, but that didn't stop Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) from raging on X.
"Donald Trump's VA fired an additional 1,400 workers—on top of the over 1,000 fired earlier this month. There are no 'non-critical' VA positions when it comes to ensuring Veterans receive the care they've earned," Duckworth claimed in a tweet Tuesday.
"Another betrayal. Another middle-finger. Another promise broken," Duckworth added.
Donald Trump's VA fired an additional 1,400 workers—on top of the over 1,000 fired earlier this month.
There are no "non-critical" VA positions when it comes to ensuring Veterans receive the care they've earned.
Another betrayal.
Another middle-finger.
Another promise broken.— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) February 25, 2025
Meanwhile, Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee ranking member Richard Blumenthal slammed Collins for the decision. "Doug Collins continues to put the interests of veterans last with additional indiscriminate firings of VA employees," the Connecticut Democrat said in a statement.
These cuts come as part of Trump's larger agenda to streamline the government and get rid of the leftist policies that hinder efficiency. With that in mind, Trump issued an executive order outlawing DEI in the federal government as one of his first orders of business.
While it has met with some snags in the courts, it's already working as intended. The VA cut at least 60 employees after dispensing with its diversity, equity, and inclusion department, Military Times reported.
On Jan. 22, then-acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter announced that he would be closing the DEI offices to comply with Trump's order. Hunter noted that the "programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination."
Although it didn't impact many employees, it marked a quick compliance with Trump's agenda. That has predictably enraged the left, but it seems to have set the agency's efficiency efforts in motion.
Trump is slashing government waste and abuse in the hopes that the existing entities will become more efficient. There's no reason to object to any of this except that Democrats exist to expand government and spend taxpayer dollars.
Billionaire Elon Musk reacted with surprise on X to leaked texts by Ashley St. Clair that said she was trying to seduce him so she could benefit from having his child.
Musk, who owns X, commented "Woah!" and "Yikes!" in response to posts from people who know St. Clair and shared messages she sent to them before becoming pregnant with what she claims is Musk's child.
He has not denied that the child is his, but has not acknowledged it either.
St. Clair filed lawsuits against Musk to establish paternity and asking for full custody of her son.
Influencer Isabella Moody said on X, “I wasn’t going to post these, but now that @stclairashley has leaked her private signal messages with @elonmusk after lying and saying she ‘wanted privacy’, here’s more evidence Ashely [sic] planned to baby trap Elon," and tagged Musk in the post.
“She doesn’t care about ‘privacy.’ She planned to seduce him by her own admission and now she’s leaking his texts,” Moody continued.
“Elon followed me. I need his rocket babies,” St. Clair allegedly wrote to Moody.
“Look ill take one for the team, seduce elon, and get in a rocket to see what’s up,” Moody also said she wrote in 2023.
St. Clair released some text messages allegedly between her and Musk after filing the lawsuit, ostensibly to further her case.
"I want to knock you up again," one text by Musk allegedly read.
When St. Clair asked to meet in person about their child, Musk allegedly responded, “Hmm ok,” adding, “Well, I do have a legion of kids to make.”
The lawsuit filing also included a photo of Musk holding the infant, which would be his 13th child if paternity is established.
The 53-year-old SpaceX founder has had several long-term relationships, but has also fathered children with an executive of one of his companies and others.
He believes in "extreme breeding" to combat population collapse and has offered his sperm to some of his acquaintances in an effort to have many children.
The world of show business was saddened on Friday to learn that a beloved character actress who appeared in a number of highly regarded film and television productions had died at the age of 78.
As Variety reports, Lynne Marie Stewart, known for her roles in Pee-wee's Playhouse and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, passed away following a brief illness, with her passing confirmed on social media by Cassandra Peterson, a friend of the actress.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Stewart got her start in the entertainment industry as part of the California-based comedy sketch group “The Groundlings," work that first brought her into contact with Paul Reubens, with whom she would later collaborate in multiple projects.
From there, she went on to perform in a host of television and film roles, including portrayals on popular shows such as M*A*S*H, Laverne & Shirley and Night Court.
Some of Stewart's brief, yet noteworthy big screen roles included appearances in 1973's American Graffiti and the 1987 thriller The Running Man.
However, Stewart's most recognizable portrayals came in conjunction with former “Groundlings” colleague Reubens, whose Pee-wee Herman Show and subsequent Pee-wee's Playhouse brought broader notoriety.
Stewart will also be remembered by fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which benefitted greatly from her portrayal of Charlie Kelly's mom, Bonnie.
As CBS News noted, the sudden and unexpected nature of Stewart's passing brought forth a range of reactions, including from Bette Smith, a spokesperson for the well-loved actress.
Smith explained of Stewart, “She was a genius with her craft. The work was most important to her she never cared about the money or fame. She was the kindest, most honorable person to know.”
Also paying tribute was Always Sunny actor Charlie Day, who wrote on Instagram, “The brilliant and talented Lynne Marie Stewart. Rest in peace. Thank you for all the years of laughter.”
Echoing his TV co-star's praise was legendary actor Danny DeVito, who wrote on X, “Gonna miss Lynne. Lynne Marie Stewart...So wonderful a spirit to work with on Sunny! All love to her family.”
Peterson, in addition to confirming her friend's death, described Stewart as “One of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived.”
According to CBS News, Stewart leaves behind a sister, Gayle, as well as several grandchildren, in addition to Emily Hudson and Zac Hudson, who are the children of her best friend, Cindy Williams.
Also joining Stewart's friends and family in mourning this noteworthy loss are the legions of fans the world over who took joy and comfort in the celebrated actress's decades of work on both the big and small screens.