Day: April 11, 2025

Legislation Reversing $600 Threshold for Reporting Payments to IRS Filed by U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty

Tom Pappert
Bill Hagerty

U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) filed legislation on Thursday to reverse the decision to require third-party payment processors to report transfers more than $600 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Hagerty called the three-year-old policy an “egregious and unwarranted overreach” into citizens’ privacy.

Hagerty introduced the Stop the Nosy Obsession with Online Payments (SNOOP) Act, which his office said would remove the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code created by former President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP), which required third-party payment processors like PayPal and CashApp to report the transaction histories of customers with volumes of more than $600, lowering the threshold from $20,000 or 200 total transfers.

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Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Allowing Schools to Charge Tuition, Deny Enrollment to Illegal Immigrants

Tom Pappert
kids learning

The Tennessee State Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would allow school districts to create policies to charge illegal immigrants tuition to attend public schools or bar their enrollment altogether, or continue to enroll all students without screening for citizenship or legal residence. 

Senate Bill (SB) 836, as amended and passed this week, the legislation would give school districts the authority to set policies governing enrollment, allowing districts to request documentation of citizenship or legal residence before enrolling a student. 

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Dow Jumps 600 Points Friday, Capping One of the Most Volatile Weeks on Wall Street Ever

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CNBC   Stocks climbed Friday as Wall Street wrapped up a historically wild week. The S&P 500 advanced 1.81% to end at 5,363.36. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 619.05 points, or 1.56%, and closed at 40,212.71. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.06% to settle at 16,724.46. Stocks took a leg higher Friday afternoon on comments from the White House that President Donald Trump is “optimistic” China will seek a deal with the U.S. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Judge Rules

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Axios   Detained Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil can be deported despite his status as a legal U.S. resident, a judge ruled Friday according to multiple outlets. It’s a win for the Trump administration in a historic test of immigrants’ speech rights. The arrest of Khalil, a leader in Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests and a U.S. green card holder from Syria, sparked outcry across the country. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Trump EPA to Prioritize Banning Animal Testing

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Breitbart   President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the direction of Administrator Lee Zeldin, is planning to roll back animal testing. An agency spokesperson informed the Washington Times of this policy shift and noted that President Donald Trump made this a priority during his first term. However, the Biden administration halted progress on banning animal testing. Now, Trump’s EPA wants to get that original effort back on track. “Under President Trump’s first term, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing and committed to reducing testing on mammals by 30% by 2025 and to eliminate it completely by 2035,” agency spokesperson Molly Vaseliou told the outlet. READ THE FULL STORY               

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U.S. Monthly Producer Prices Unexpectedly Declined in March

Daily Caller News Foundation
Shopper

Wholesale prices in the U.S. unexpectedly fell in March, largely driven by a sharp decline in energy costs.

The Producer Price Index (PPI) showed that the prices paid to producers fell 0.4% in March while slowing to an annual rate of 2.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The report did show, however, that the price of goods — excluding energy and food — increased 0.3% in March.

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Newly Declassified FBI Memos Detail Concerns, Payments to Russia Collusion Informant

Just the News

A key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by “monetary compensation,” and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show.

The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified at the start of his second administration.

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Lawmakers Target Ivy League for Tuition Price Fixing in Sweeping Investigation

Christina Botteri
Harvard University

Republican lawmakers launched a broad investigation into all eight Ivy League universities Tuesday, alleging they illegally colluded to inflate tuition prices, violating federal antitrust laws and burdening students with soaring costs.

Detailed, seven-page letters were sent to the university presidents at Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University demanding documents and communications to answer whether or not their coordinated practices harm students and families.

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Trump Plans to Withhold All Federal Funding from Sanctuary City ‘Death Traps’

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Trump and ICE

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his  administration is finalizing plans to withhold all federal funding for sanctuary cities and states that provide safe harbor to illegal aliens.

“No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World.”

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U.S. Envoy Witkoff Arrives in Russia to Meet with Putin in Search of Ukraine Ceasefire Deal

Daily Caller News Foundation
Russia and America

U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has arrived in Russia and is set to meet with Russia President Vladimir Putin on Friday. 

The meeting between Witkoff and Putin will be the third one this year as President Trump continues to press for a permanent or least temporary end to the roughly three-year-long Russia-Ukraine war. 

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Tennessee Attorney General Warns Phone Providers over Unlawful Robocall Traffic

Kaitlin Housler
Old person on phone

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti was among a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, who sent letters to nine phone service providers alleging them of unlawfully routing robocalls.

On Wednesday, the task force, which was created in 2022 to “investigate and take legal action against companies responsible for significant volumes of illegal and fraudulent robocall traffic routed into and across the United States,” sent warning letters to the service providers Global Net Holdings, All Access Telecom, Lingo Telecom, NGL Communications, Range, RSCom Ltd, Telcast Network, ThinQ Technologies, and Telcentris.

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Commentary: The Left’s Post-Trump Identity Crisis

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Victor Davis Hanson

There’s been a poverty among the Democratic Party of constructive criticism, alternate agendas to President Donald Trump.

In other words, without power in the Congress or the White House or the Supreme Court, they’ve turned to theatrics or performance art, street violence, the Teslas, cutting videos with potty-mouth senators, profanity, trying to disrupt Congress, keying Teslas, threatening people. This huge 1,400 protest—I shouldn’t say they’re huge, they were actually quite small. You know, “Hands Off.”

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Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes Sue Trump Administration Over Election Integrity Executive Order

Rachel Alexander
Arizona Sec State Adrian Fontes, AG Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes joined Secretary of State Adrian Fontes in a lawsuit filed with 19 other Democratic-run states against the Trump administration challenging his executive order on election integrity measures for allegedly intruding on state sovereignty. However, Democratic officials supported HR 1, a 2021 bill in Congress that would federalize elections, and President Joe Biden issued an executive order during his tenure directing federal agencies to find ways to facilitate voter registration and voter education. This is the 16th lawsuit Mayes has filed along with other Democrats against the new Trump administration.

Trump’s executive order will require individuals to show documented proof of citizenship (DPOC) in order to register to vote instead of merely attesting to it. Other changes include prohibiting QR codes, requiring ballots to be received by Election Day, and regularly cleaning noncitizens from voter rolls. Trump’s executive order directed the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to carry out many of his changes. 

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