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U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi hosted Trump administration officials at the Department of Justice on Tuesday for a meeting on the Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Task Force, which President Trump had directed her to form.
"Together, this task force will identify any unlawful anti-Christian policies, practices or conduct across the government, seek input from faith-based organizations and state government to end anti-Christian bias, find and fix deficiencies in existing and regulatory practice that might contribute to the anti-Christian bias," Bondi said.
Bondi said the Biden administration's Department of Justice "abused and targeted Christians."
"As President Trump has stated, the Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. The president is right," Bondi said. "President Biden declared Easter Sunday to be Transgender Day of Visibility. No longer."
As reported by WGME, many top Trump Cabinet members were in attendance at the meeting, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kristi Noem, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
The task force drew criticism from Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
"Rather than protecting religious beliefs, this task force will misuse religious freedom to justify bigotry, discrimination, and the subversion of our civil rights laws," said Rachel Laser, the group's president and CEO.
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A family-owned plumbing corporation in Illinois is being forced into court after cops confiscated a company truck when it was hit in a traffic accident, and have refused to return it to the owners. For more than a year.
The Liberty Justice Center has released a report on the fight against the Winnebago County sheriff's office and the local state's attorney, "for illegally seizing and indefinitely holding – for 15 months so far – the property of First Supply, LLC, simply because it was an innocent bystander to an auto accident."
"The government cannot take your property without a warrant or warrant exception—let alone indefinitely and without giving you any way to get it back—just because you were an innocent bystander to someone else's alleged crime," explained Loren Seehase, of LJC. "We look forward to vindicating the Fourth Amendment rights of First Supply and all innocent crime victims and bystanders."
Company lawyer Brittney Corrillaud said, "It was hard enough to have our delivery driver be involved in a fatal car accident. But to indefinitely lose our truck to impoundment hampers our ability to make a profit and pay our employees. We never could have expected that months would pass without getting it back, and now we pay thousands of dollars a month extra just to serve our customers. To add insult to injury, we've spent hours trying to retrieve our property only to be passed from person to person at the state's attorney's office, ignored by the prosecutor, and offered no support."
The war was triggered in January 2024 when an alleged drunk driver ran a red light and crashed his vehicle into a First Supply delivery truck, which was stopped, legally, at a stoplight.
"Tragically, the driver's passenger was killed on impact. First Supply was in no way responsible for the accident, but the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office seized First Supply's truck from the scene as evidence, without a warrant, and without any exigent circumstances justifying the warrantless seizure," the report said.
Then, in the months following, while First Supply complied with the law enforcement investigation, the truck remained locked up.
At one point, a sergeant said the sheriff's investigators were finished with the truck, but still, the truck was not released.
The traffic case was even dismissed without the truck's release, and then a new criminal case was filed.
"During this entire process, neither the sheriff's office nor the state's attorney's office contacted First Supply to return the truck. In fact, at no point during this entire ordeal has either office provided First Supply a process, procedure, or even a timeline as to when it can get its truck back," the legal team charged.
So, for 15 months, the company has been paying for a truck it cannot use, as well as a replacement.
LJC said it now has a lawsuit pending over the confiscation of the vehicle, and it cites the Constitution's Fourth Amendment.
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A top Republican senator says the federal district judge who has opposed President Donald Trump's deportation flights of violent, criminal illegal aliens apparently wants to be president instead of his current position on the bench.
"It can't be like getting an act of Congress every time you want to export a dangerous violent felon illegal immigrant," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel.
"And yet, you've got people like Judge [James] Boasberg who apparently wish they had gone into politics and would rather be serving as president of the United States than a federal district judge who are essentially cosplaying as chief executive officers of the United States government."
"The minute you start to have judicial officers performing the tasks that belong fundamentally to the either the executive or legislative branch, you've got a problem. And I'm hoping the Supreme Court can help us get this cleared up and cleaned up quickly."
Lee noted: "We've been flooded with millions, some would say tens of millions, of illegal immigrants."
The senator also expressed support for Trump's efforts to change the way birthright citizenship is handled in America.
"What President Trump has done is issue an executive order directing agencies prospectively, not to recognize the birthright citizenship … unless at the time of their birth they had at least one parent who was either a citizen or a lawful permanent resident," Lee explained.
"This is a close question. It's a debatable case, and I think it could go either way. I look forward to hearing the arguments and I hope the Supreme Court will sustain what President Trump is trying to do to clean up this invasion that President Biden invited into our country."
"Ideally we should pass legislation," he added. "Harry Reid who later became the Senate Democratic majority leader introduced in 1993 legislation that would do what essentially President Trump is trying to do by executive order."
Lee also voiced support for the SAVE Act, requiring identification to be provided by voters.
"We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," he said.
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An instructor at Washington State University who was captured on security video beating up a student who was wearing a MAGA hat is learning the cost of his political violence: His job.
The professor, Patrick Mahoney, "has been fired from his post," according to the Daily Mail.
The video showed Mahoney, "along with student Gerald Hoff, ripped Jay Sani's hat from him while outside of a bar near the Pullman campus on February 28."
The video confirms Sani, who is Indian-American, was pushed to the ground by the two men and punched repeatedly. He was left with scrapes and bruises and reported the assault to police.
The university later confirmed that Mahoney was "relieved of all teaching responsibilities."
"Washington State University is aware of an off-campus incident that occurred last February involving a WSU staff member and a graduate student. After an investigation conducted by the City of Pullman's police department, and in accordance with WSU policies, the staff member's employment has been terminated. The second individual involved was a graduate student serving as a teaching assistant. He was not a Washington State University professor. This person has been relieved of all teaching responsibilities."
The report said the video was first obtained by Turning Point USA Frontlines reporter Jonathan Choe, and it confirmed that policy bodycam footage confirmed the offenders "admitted to the assault."
Mahoney, to the police, tried to blame the victim.
The two attackers have also been arrested and charged with assault.
A Facebook post said, "A fight ensued, which resulted in Jay Sani being thrown onto the concrete. This caused Jay Sani to bleed and suffer further injuries. One or more of them then proceeded to kick Jay Sani while he collapsed on the concrete."
The report noted that Mahoney "has been active in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including advocating for the Pullman City Council to sign a Gaza ceasefire resolution."
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President Donald Trump has openly promoted his plan to fire thousands, even tens of thousands of federal workers, to cut waste, fraud, and corruption from the government.
He's already accomplished a lot of that, shutting down some entire bureaucracies with plans for more.
But now he's going full throttle, with an announcement that the administration is moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as "Schedule F," that will make it a lot easier to remove federal employees it believes "are undercutting President Trump's agenda."
A report from Axios noted the plan apparently will limit "civil service protections" for about 50,000, or 2% of the federal workforce.
The report explained, "The Office of Personnel Management's new rule — dubbed 'Schedule Policy/Career' — will allow many career civil servants to be classified as 'at will' employees, making them easier to remove. Trump aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are underperforming, engaging in misconduct, or undermining Trump's policy plans."
While many, many federal employees are supposedly performing "nonpartisan" jobs, many of those have, in fact, made their posts partisan by pursuing their own political agendas while being paid by taxpayers.
Those would be known these days as the "Deep State," which in fact has weaponized large parts of the federal bureaucracy against Trump.
The report said it was toward the end of his first term that Trump, by executive order, established a Schedule F category, but Joe Biden immediately killed the plan.
The report noted that a White House official confirmed that even unelected career bureaucrats need to be accountable for the agenda chosen by voters.
It was earlier this month that some agencies started picking which positions should fall under the new definition, the report said.
Leftists have claimed the cuts already being made by the Department of Government Efficiency are threatening operations of key programs such as Social Security, but Trump actually has ordered that program recipients be provided benefits as usual.
"Trump's plans to implement the rule have drawn aggressive pushback from labor groups," the report said, citing the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, who have sued to restore protections for their dues-paying members.
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DEI agendas still found in law schools, colleges of education, engineering, nursing, more
A report from an education industry watchdog confirms that hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation are defying President Donald Trump's executive orders to end promotions for the discrimination found in "diversity, equity, and inclusion" ideologies on their campuses.
Many are simply relabeling the offices, excising the DEI moniker and installing "Advocacy," "Belonging," "Community," "Inclusive," "Resilience" and the like, the report said.
It's from Defending Education, an arm of Parents Defending Education, and confirmed 243 universities still are running their DEI agenda through on-campus offices.
The organization reported it reviewed schools in 46 states plus the District of Columbia, assessing the work of 259 institutions.
Colleges and universities with active DEI projects totaled 243 and total active DEI offices/programming (including colleges or departments) totaled 388.
They are found in business schools, law schools, colleges of education, engineering, dentistry, medicine, nursing, health and more.
"This investigation is intended to track the current state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices and programming (names will vary) at colleges and universities. It is meant to identify which institutions currently have DEI offices, have shut them down, or appear to have renamed or rebranded their DEI offices and programming," the report said.
"To date, Defending Education has tracked 243 universities which still have institution-wide DEI offices and/or programming in operation, 166 schools or colleges (such as Colleges of Education, Engineering, or Medicine, etc.), with an overall total of 388 currently active DEI offices and programming."
Further, it reported, "Additionally, 28 institutions and schools/colleges appear to have renamed or rebranded their DEI offices, 16 universities have removed webpages and/or shut down DEI initiatives, and in a few cases, have moved the DEI webpage behind an institutional login. These cases are noted with an archived page of that institution's former DEI page."
There are some, like the University of Alaska Anchorage, where officials "seem to have completely shut down DEI operations," and the University of Michigan, which "has allegedly shut down its overarching 'Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.'"
But at Michigan Law, or the LSA Department of Psychology, the ideology, which largely is based on discrimination based on race, sex and such, "still have active DEI pages."
A report on the dispute, from the Washington Stand, explained the report is not exhaustive.
And Family Research Council Senior Fellow for Education Studies Meg Kilgannon said, "It would be naive to think that reforming educational institutions could be accomplished by the stroke of a pen."
She continued, "DEI is rooted in a belief system that is enforced, but more than that, it is accepted and believed. The hearts and minds of people running colleges and universities must change if we want true reform. It will take generations to transform higher education."
Trump condemned the agenda in his order, describing how the agenda violates "the text and spirit of our longstanding federal civil-rights laws."
Further, he said, they undermine traditional American values.
His order included instructions for schools to purge DEI offices and programs and instead, enforce federal civil rights laws.
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'The trend to the GOP appears real and partly due to its focus on working-class voters while Democrats embrace elites'
Democrats lost, catastrophically, during the 2024 election. They lost the White House by landslides in both the popular and Electoral College vote. They lost the Senate, they failed to capture the House.
And that was the result after polling showed the Republican party with a single-point advantage among voters.
Now that advantage is up to five points.
That's from polling by NatpolitanNews, which explained, "In March, 46% of voters considered themselves Republicans or leaned Republican, while 41% considered themselves Democrats or leaned Democrat.
"These totals, derived from interviews with 9,300 Registered Voters during the month of March, have remained steady for the first quarter of 2025," it said.
Further, "Fifty-one percent (51%) of men said they were Republicans or leaned Republican while 38% said the opposite (down 4 points from February). Among women, the numbers were little changed with 46% Democrat/lean Democrat and 41% Republican/lean Republican. While the Republicans gained ground since October, those gains have leveled off as the Trump administration approaches its first 100 days in office."
The Washington Examiner explained it was only two years ago that Gallup confirmed "more Americans identified as Republicans than Democrats for the first time in over three decades."
Now that trend has grown "as the GOP has won over more support from Hispanic and black voters," the report said.
The report said Gallup's results of 10,000 found 45% identified as Republicans and 44% as Democrats.
But the report explained, "The trend to the GOP appears real and partly due to its focus on working-class voters while Democrats embrace elites. Rasmussen said that change has helped the Republicans win over key minorities."
Rasmussen said there is a "long-term shift" that is happening.
"It's often talked about as Republicans becoming the working-class party. While not entirely accurate, the shifting party coalitions are helping the GOP. The working class shift is helping R's make preliminary inroads into the black community and strong gains among Hispanic voters," he said.
He also cited the "extreme" views of Democrats, pointing out it is hard for voters to align with those perspectives.
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The State Department has eliminated $214 million in foreign funding initiatives, reports the Washington Free Beacon, canceling 139 grants that promoted things like "newsroom sustainability" in Moldova, "media diversity" in the United Kingdom, and "environmental resilience" in Armenia.
DOGE carried out the "supplemental review of remaining foreign assistance grant programs" after the State Department completed its initial foreign funding review in late February, an internal State Department memo obtained by the Free Beacon shows. This round of cuts comes after an initial DOGE review saw the State Department identify $60 billion worth of foreign grants for elimination.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X to highlight the action, saying, "We are cleaning up the mess left by the previous administration":
According to the Free Beacon, many of the latest round of canceled taxpayer-funded grants related to the media, including a $14.6 million program that supported "expanded newsroom sustainability and engagement" in Moldova; a $5.2 million "media diversity" grant that funded an "anti-disinformation program in the United Kingdom"; a $400,000 "Building Environmental Resilience" grant in Armenia; a $1 million grant "channeling gig workers' rights" in Brazil; and a $750,000 grant for "building the migrant domestic worker-led movement" in Lebanon, where Hezbollah holds sway over the government.
These latest cuts primarily impact the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, a grantmaking body that came under congressional scrutiny in 2022 for offering taxpayer cash to nonprofit organizations engaged in efforts to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes.
Other grants canceled included a $2.4 million initiative to combat "disinformation through creative content" in Belarus and $900,000 to establish a "place for women to join to organize" in Mauritania.
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It appears that Joe Biden not only gave terrorists literally unlimited access to the United States when they entered illegally, but he gave them Social Security cards.
Through this, they've successfully collected from American taxpayers Medicaid benefits, unemployment compensation, student loans, and even tax refunds.
According to President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, "Under the Biden administration, it was routine for Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with no legal status and minimal screening. So far, CBP identified a subset of 6.3k individuals paroled into the United States since 2023 on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center watchlist or with criminal records.
"These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect. Despite having no other legal status, paroled aliens are able to file for work authorization and receive social security numbers. Among these 6.3k paroled aliens with criminal or terrorist records (all have a social security number): – 905 collecting Medicaid (including 4 on the terrorist watch list). $276k was paid out – 41 collecting Unemployment Insurance, receiving $42k in benefits – 22 received federal student loans totaling $280k – 409 received {net} tax refunds (2024 only) for $751k – Several (final number TBD) received SNAP (food stamp) benefits."
Under the Biden administration, it was routine for Border Patrol to admit aliens into the United States with no legal status and minimal screening. So far, CBP identified a subset of 6.3k individuals paroled into the United States since 2023 on the FBI's Terrorist Screening… https://t.co/nSLwwaUmtb
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025
According to a report in Center Square, there are more than 14 million illegal border crossers reported under the Biden administration, including more than two million who evaded detection.
"They include millions flown to the U.S. on international flights paid for by taxpayers through parole programs created by the administration that judges ruled were illegal in lawsuits filed by states. Among them are more than one million from Venezuela, including members of the violent terrorist organization Tren de Aragua, who under the Biden administration had expanded into at least 22 states where crimes were reported," the report said.
Biden routinely released the illegals into the United States, instead of processing them for removal, including some 6,300 "on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center watchlist."
Trump has ended those parole programs, the report said.
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PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump on Sunday took to social media to affirm "nobody is getting off the hook" when it comes to trade imbalances with the United States, as he blamed the national news media for inaccurate reporting.
"NOBODY is getting 'off the hook' for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst!" Trump exclaimed on Truth Social. "There was no Tariff 'exception' announced on Friday."
"These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff 'bucket.' The Fake News knows this but refuses to report it.
"We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.
"What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States and that we will not be held hostage by other Countries, especially hostile trading Nations like China, which will do everything within its power to disrespect the American People. We also cannot let them continue to abuse us on Trade like they have for decades, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!
"The Golden Age of America, which includes the upcoming Tax and Regulation Cuts, a substantial amount of which was just approved by the House and Senate, will mean more and better paying jobs, making products in our Nation, and treating other Countries, in particular China, the same way they have treated us.
"The bottom line is that our Country will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo to set the record straight about the status of electronic items, including computers, smartphones, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, wireless routers, USB flash drives, memory chips, and memory cards.
"President Trump had a detailed plan from the beginning that's being executed exactly as directed," Miller said. "And unfortunately, some in the media are deliberately misportraying that plan.
"There are no exemptions," Miller explained. "Everyone pays at least the 20% and these particular components are being put through a separate process controlled by the Department of Commerce."
"So this is a sophisticated, elegant, detailed plan to deal with Chinese economic aggression against the United States."
Meanwhile, China urged Trump on Sunday to correct mistakes and heed "rational voices" on reciprocal tariffs, according to CNBC.
Beijing's Commerce Ministry called any U.S. tariff exemptions a "small step" and pressed Trump to "completely abolish" the tariffs, which include a 145% duty on imports from China.
"We urge the U.S. to heed the rational voices of the international community and domestic parties, take a big stride in correcting its mistakes, completely abolish the wrongful action of 'reciprocal tariffs,' and return to the correct path of resolving differences through equal dialogue based on mutual respect," the ministry said, according to a CNBC translation.