Day: March 25, 2025

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Says Department of Education ‘Siphoned Off’ School Funding to Create Washington, D.C. Bureaucracy

Tom Pappert
bill lee

Governor Bill Lee on Monday said the executive order signed by President Donald Trump to return control over education back to state governments will empower them by dispensing with a Washington, D.C. bureaucracy that has “siphoned off” taxpayer funding through the Department of Education since its formation in 1979.

Lee made the case that Trump’s efforts to return control over schools and dismantle the Department of Education will allow Tennessee to become better stewards of tax dollars during an appearance on Newsmax TV’s “National Report.”

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JC Bowman Warns Tennessee ‘Ill-Equipped’ to Handle Federal Funds as Trump Administration Dismantles Education Department

Kaitlin Housler
High School Class

JC Bowman, founder and president of Professional Educators of Tennessee, said he believes that the Tennessee Department of Education is “ill-equipped” to handle billions in funds that the federal government would presumably distribute under the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” which directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.”

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9th Circuit Clears Path for Trump to Suspend Some Refugee Admissions

Just the News
Haitian Refugees

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday partially lifted a lower court order blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the United States Refugee Assistance Program, including its funding.

Trump initially faced an injunction from a lower court, though the Appellate Court overruled it while making clear that it did not affect those granted refugee status prior to Jan. 20, 2025. In making the ruling, the judges noted that the president has “ample power to impose entry restrictions in addition to those elsewhere enumerated in the INA.”

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Tennessee State Senate Committee Advances Bill Making Charities Liable for Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants

Tom Pappert
ICE Arrest

The Tennessee State Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted to advanced legislation that could see lawsuits brought against charitable organizations that knowingly provide housing to illegal immigrants convicted of crimes in the state.

Senate Bill (SB) 227 by State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) was forwarded from the judiciary committee with 5 votes in favor, one vote against, and one lawmaker voting present, paving the way for the Senate Calendar Committee to schedule the legislation for a full vote in the State Senate. 

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Gabbard Says No Classified Info Revealed on Group Chat of Top Intel Officials, in Senate Grilling

Just the News
Tulsi Gabbard

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday told the Senate Intelligence Committee that classified information was not revealed in a group chat among top Trump administration officials and a journalist mistakenly included in the conversation about U.S. plans to launch air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. 

“There was no classified material that was shared in that signal chat,” Gabbard said in response to questions by committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat. 

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HUD Sec. Scott Turner: Taxpayers ‘No Longer Footing the Bills’ for Illegal Immigrant Housing

American Greatness
Turner and Noem

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner has announced a new partnership with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to ensure illegal aliens cannot exploit housing programs meant for Americans.

In an interview on Newsmax on Monday, Turner announced that he and Sec. Noem had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) focused on ending “the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens instead of American citizens.”

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One Gov’t Agency Still Spending $1, Billion on DEI Despite Trump’s Order to Cut It Out

Daily Caller News Foundation
NIH building

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate them.

While other agencies have moved to eliminate the “illegal and immoral programs” targeted in Trump’s day-one executive order, NIH is still funding over $1.3 billion in active grants that include DEI components — from race-based hiring schemes to “anti-racist” training initiatives and diversity-first faculty pipelines. At least $441 million of those grants explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions, according to NIH data compiled by watchdog group Do No Harm.

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Illegal Immigrant from Honduras Indicted in Tennessee Following Pawn Shop Robbery

Kaitlin Housler
arrest

A federal grand jury indicted a man from Honduras who entered America illegally in 2022 for a robbery of a pawn shop in Dickson, which saw over 40 firearms stolen.

On Tuesday, 20-year-old Manuel De Jesus Guirola-Amaya was indicted by the grand jury with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, possession of a stolen firearm, and stealing firearms from a federal firearms licensee.

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Commentary: Government Shouldn’t Tell Parents How to Feed Their Kids

Star News Contributor
Grocery shopper

As a mother, I know how hard it is to put food on the table. Every grocery trip is a careful balancing act — finding nutritious meals my kids will eat, staying within budget, and, yes, sometimes allowing a small treat. I don’t rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but I know families who do. They are hardworking parents, veterans, and seniors doing their best to make ends meet. The last thing they need is the government micromanaging what they put in their grocery carts.

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Commentary: Trump’s Economic Plan Truly Puts America First

American Greatness
Donald Trump

Bidenomics is over, and Trump 2.0 means that America’s entrepreneur president puts citizens to work, literally. For instance, the latest manufacturing numbers for February show that factory jobs just grew by the biggest jump in 15 months. Unlike his predecessor Joe Biden, who shed manufacturing jobs at a pace of -9,000/jobs per month in 2024, Trump proves the efficacy of his on-shoring approach. Moreover, 93% of the total job gains were in the private sector, rather than budget-busting government bloat positions.

How is Trump achieving this renewal?

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Arizona Lawmakers Debate Bills to Ban State’s Red Light Cameras

Rachel Alexander

Two bills are making their way through the Arizona Legislature to end the state’s use of speed and red light cameras.

SCR 1002, sponsored by State Senator Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff), is a Senate Concurrent Resolution, so if passed, it would bypass a likely veto by Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs and be placed on the ballot for voters. It passed out of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee mainly down party lines after a hearing last week.

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Trump Admin Hastens End of Biden-Era Migrant Parole Program Riddled with Fraud

Daily Caller News Foundation
illegal immigrants

The Trump administration is set to put an end to a Biden-era program on Tuesday that paroled hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into the United States during the height of the southern border crisis.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the determination of the CHNV program, a sponsorship process that brought in roughly 530,000 non-citizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, per a memo released by the agency. The Biden administration launched the CHNV program in 2022 in an attempt to help alleviate the U.S.-Mexico border crisis and continued to parole thousands into the country every month despite internal reports indicating massive fraud.

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