Harvard University on Monday sued the Trump administration over its efforts to pull $2.2 billion in federal funding, after the school said it would not comply with the administration’s demands over its handling of antisemitism.
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Four Democratic House Representatives went to El Salvador on Monday to support an alleged Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Robert Garcia (D-CA-42), Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR-03) traveled to the Central American country to press the Trump administration to return Abrego Garcia.
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By the time this is published, everything may have changed, and that is to be expected. Throughout his career, well before and since becoming a politician, Trump has explicitly stated that he does not think it is always a good strategy to be predictable. And while markets love predictability, sometimes markets, and the systems propping them up, need disruption. This is such a moment.
Nobody should deny that the anxiety is genuine. An older friend of mine, well into his 70s, still working but ready to retire, is wondering how he and his wife will survive if their savings are wiped out. That’s true for all of us, but it begs the question: What if the painful restructuring we may be about to endure, and which may last for many years, is necessary to avoid an even worse fate?
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As the U.S. struggles to attract concessions from adversarial nations, Washington appears ready to use those nations’ people within its borders on a visa as an apparent source of leverage.
Under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. has already begun revoking visas for pro-Palestinian organizers and international students who joined with them, but the administration now appears to be mulling similar actions against other nations.
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California filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration, arguing that he lacks the authority to implement widespread tariffs.
On April 2, Trump announced tariffs on countries with which America has a trade imbalance. A week later, except for China, he suspended those tariffs for 90 days. The communist country has a tariff of 145 percent on its goods.
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal status and work permits for over 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot terminate the legal status of the migrants “without case-by-case review.”
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The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million.
Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for child sex-change surgeries in the U.S. amounted to $108,516,134, of which $18,476,978 were submitted to Medicaid, including traditional Medicaid and managed Medicaid, according to data from medical watchdog Do No Harm shared with The Daily Signal.
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The Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism on Monday announced it was freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding for Harvard, after the Ivy League school declared it would not comply with the administration’s demands.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among a coalition of attorneys general representing 28 states and Guam calling on the Trump administration to crack down on illegal Chinese e-cigarettes being flooded into the U.S.
The attorneys general request the administration’s assistance in operating a “coordinated national effort” to stop the flow of “dangerous illegal products” from China, specifically flavored e-cigarettes, which are often marketed to children.
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The impact that President Trump’s tariffs, whatever form they take, will have on U.S. manufacturing is unknown, and likely will be for several years. Hopefully, they will be the impetus for the manufacturing renaissance that the Trump Administration is banking on. But, one sure way to immediately boost our manufacturing base would be to reduce the cost of two inputs that are key to all manufacturers. No matter if your widget of choice is a sophisticated automobile or something as humble as a paper clip, all manufactured goods use both energy and transportation.
With the Trump Administration’s “drill baby drill” mantra, much is already being done to lower energy costs. Thus far the other half of the equation, transportation, has not gotten much attention. This is unfortunate. In 2023 American businesses spent over $1.5 trillion on the transportation component of the logistics equation alone – over 5% of GDP. When you purchase lettuce at a supermarket, a sweater through an online service or a bottle of Bourbon at a liquor store you are buying transportation. Transportation is an embedded purchase that no one really cares about. Except that it is an expense. Anything that can be done to reduce business expenses will make American manufacturers more competitive.
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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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The Trump administration is relaunching a key office that serves victims of immigrant crime, highlighting its commitment to combating border-related issues and its consequences.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is relaunching the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, according to a press release shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation. VOICE, which was shuttered just months after President Joe Biden entered office in 2021, offers key support services to victims of immigrant crime and their family members.
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Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s Border Czar who previously served under the first Trump administration as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, addressed the Arizona Legislature Tuesday regarding border security efforts. House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-Glendale) said, “I consider it an honor to call him my friend,” and Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) provided a warm welcome, “Just want to let you know that Arizona will do anything we can to support you in your efforts.”
The Democratic legislators in the House of Representatives’ chamber stood up and walked out as Homan began, “The Biden administration created the most significant immigration crisis in the history of this nation.” In contrast, since Trump took office, “We’ve run the biggest deportation operation in the history of this nation.” He said the administration is prioritizing finding 300,000 children of illegal immigrants who have gone missing, many who were transitioned into forced labor or sex trafficking.
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The Supreme Court halted a lower court order on Tuesday that would have forced the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers.
The Trump administration asked the justices in March to block an order issued by Clinton-appointed U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup directing the reinstatement of over 16,000 probationary employees.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) eliminated parole protections this week for almost 1 million foreign nationals who came into America using the CBP One app.
“Canceling these paroles is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect national security,” a DHS spokesperson said, according to The New York Post.
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Attorney General Kris Mayes joined other Democratic attorneys general filing two more lawsuits against the Trump administration on Friday. One of the lawsuits challenged the pausing of controversial grants issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The second contested the dismantling of three agencies that assist unions, promote minority-owned businesses, and give money to libraries for Drag Queen Story Hour for children. Mayes, who has developed a reputation for aggressively going after Republicans, has filed 13 previous lawsuits with other attorneys general against the Trump administration this year.
The 21 attorneys general argued in the lawsuits that the Trump administration was interfering with Congress’s authority. However, those agencies are under the executive branch, not Congress.
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Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted an order directing the Trump administration to bring an alleged MS-13 gang member back into the country.
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The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can cancel $65 million in education grants that were part of the administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
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The U.S. added 228,000 jobs in March, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday, nearly double what was forecast.
Employment gains occurred in the health care, transportation, warehousing and retail trade industries, according to the Labor department.
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The rapid evolution of missile technology rarely captures public attention, but within the defense community, the era of surprise over next-generation weapons is long past. Still, the advent of hypersonic missiles represents a significant shift—one that demands renewed scrutiny and strategic recalibration.
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from removing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans.
Two months ago, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revoked Venezuelan TPS status after the Biden administration extended it.
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For years, Elon Musk has revolutionized entire industries with his companies — from PayPal and Tesla to SpaceX and Neuralink. After purchasing the social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, he has also led the fight for free speech on online platforms.
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The Metro Nashville Government on Monday confirmed it intends to sue the Trump administration over its efforts to reduce government spending, Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Metro Legal Director Wally Dietz told Nashville Banner last week.
O’Connell and Dietz confirmed Nashville is exploring litigation against the Trump administration over the attempts by President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to rein in government spending, telling the outlet the White House has no authority to rescind funding promised during previous administrations.
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As the Trump administration winds down the National Institutes of Health’s devotion to increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake, expanding mRNA technology and policing purported wrongthink, its incoming director – dubbed a “fringe epidemiologist” by a predecessor – will have no shortage of supportive research to call upon.
Spanish scientists documented a second so-called class switch in people with “repeated” mRNA COVID jabs, meaning their bodies start churning out two kinds of antibodies that learn to live with infection rather than destroy it, not just the IgG4 antibodies observed in prior studies.
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The University of Michigan announced Thursday it will end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, immediately closing both the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion.
School administration said the programs are being ended in response to recent executive orders and federal guidance from the Trump administration that are beginning “to reshape higher education.”
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National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said he believes the journalist from The Atlantic who was mistakenly included in a group chat among top Trump administration officials is an example of “a war against the Trump administration being fought from the inside.”
On Monday, The Atlantic magazine Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said he was invited to join the chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal and did so when it later convened about a conversation among officials about U.S. plans to launch airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case testing the limits of the nondelegation doctrine, an issue that may sound lawyerly, but which is of the utmost importance in ensuring separation among the federal branches and accountability for the important decisions that affect us all.
Nondelegation is the principle that one branch of government may not give away its power to another. Thus, Congress, vested by the Constitution with the “legislative powers,” cannot give those powers to the executive branch. And yet it appears to do so routinely with broadly-written laws that invite bureaucrats to make the decisions and set the rules that will bind the public.
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A top MS-13 leader was arrested early Thursday morning just outside of Washington, D.C., in the northern Virginia area, law enforcement leaders announced shortly afterward.
The individual, who law enforcement has yet to identify, was described as one of the top three leaders of MS-13 in the entire United States, according to a joint press conference given by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Virginia GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin and FBI Director Kash Patel. They hailed the arrest as a major victory in the Trump administration’s war against organized crime.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday introduced a new round of export controls in an effort to further stifle China’s access to U.S. technology.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it was adding 80 companies — dozens of which are Chinese — to a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns. The move aims to restrict the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ability to acquire and develop ultra fast, or “exascale” supercomputers as well as quantum technologies to be used in military applications.
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The Trump administration reportedly plans to freeze $120 million in federal grants to Planned Parenthood and other similar organizations while the Health and Human Services Department investigates whether the grant money was used for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Planned Parenthood clinics in approximately dozen states expected to receive about $20 million from the federal government in 2025.
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The use of the private messaging app Signal by senior Trump national security officials is only the latest episode in a long, bipartisan history of those in government using private communications platforms to conduct official business, a problem that experts say would be simple to solve.
Experts told Just the News that government officials use private messaging apps for many reasons, including convenience or in an effort to avoid public records laws. They say that the Trump administration incident does not seem to suggest the officials were interested in evading the law, but that it will be a wake-up call for the government about its messaging practices.
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Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in “greenhouse gas reduction” money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention.
The $7 billion Solar for All program – part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — is meant to “enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy,” according to the EPA’s website.
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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) filed a lawsuit against Kari Lake in her capacity as advisor to the acting CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) last week.
The two independent media organizations, contracted by the government, alleged that she wrongly halted their grant funding as part of the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts. Royce Charles Lamberth, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, heard oral arguments on Monday.
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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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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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President Donald Trump revoked the Secret Service protection for former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, The New York Post reported.
“Per executive memorandum of the President, the protective detail for former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been discontinued,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Post.
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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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Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) asked the Trump administration last Wednesday to rescind its report criticizing the Phoenix Police Department (PPD), which came about as a result of violent protesters complaining about their interactions with officers. He sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting a halt to the “desperate witch hunt,” which could end up putting the PPD in a consent decree with the federal government under monitoring. The Trump administration said in January that it is pausing all civil rights investigations into law enforcement agencies.
Hamadeh said in the letter, “Despite the Biden DOJ’s baseless claims, our officers did everything right, voluntarily cooperating in good faith, opening their records, and participating in lengthy interviews. They were met with stonewalling, mischaracterized testimony, and a final report riddled with glaring inaccuracies. The Biden DOJ’s claim that Phoenix Police Department officers violated constitutional standards during unrest following one of President Trump’s rallies was absurd. That claim is especially ludicrous because the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the department’s actions were lawful. The Biden DOJ ignored this and many other court-backed facts, choosing instead to cherry-pick narratives that support their political agenda.”
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Eric Loes, a Tennessean and recovering insurance agent, attended last week’s demonstration at the Tesla showroom in Franklin, a suburb of Nashville, as a counter-protester and described the scene as “misguided and misinformed.”
Over the weekend, the leftist group Indivisible Tennessee organized protests at four Tesla showrooms across the Volunteer State.
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the Substack “American Refugees,” said the individuals behind the violent attacks on Tesla vehicles and showrooms across the country are “absolutely insane” who refuse to act in a rational manner.
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Since Inauguration Day, President Trump and congressional Republicans have been hard at work eliminating waste, reining in bureaucracy, and making government accountable to We the People. And so far, we’ve had a lot of success.
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EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show and self-described political refugee from Minnesota, pointed out the hypocrisy behind the protests and vandalism targeted at Tesla vehicles across the country as the left demonstrates its outrage over billionaire Elon Musk working with the Trump administration.
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A new lobbying push will look to pitch Biden-era green corporate welfare and carbon tariffs as America First-aligned to the Trump administration and lawmakers, Axios reported Friday.
The Cleaner Economy Coalition (CEC) is a newly-formed 501(c)(4) entity that “sees an opening in the Trump era” to pursue carbon tariffs and save the 45X tax credit, a costly subsidy for green energy manufacturing unleashed by a bill — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — that did not receive a single GOP vote on its way to becoming law, according to Axios. The CEC is hiring lobbyists who formerly worked for President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and it will have a seven-figure budget at its disposal to try to convince Republicans to back policies long favored by greens and liberals.
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The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is among a group of U.S. cities and nonprofit organizations suing the Trump administration for freezing federal funding.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina Charleston Division on Wednesday, cites three executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that freeze federal funding and directs federal agencies to eliminate certain federal grants and contracts.
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced on Friday that it will cut 43 percent of its workforce.
This means that SBA will eliminate 2,700 jobs out of 6,500. According to the SBA press release, this move will save taxpayers $435 million annually by Fiscal Year 2026.
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U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) is reportedly among the seven Congressmen who received a maximum personal donation from Elon Musk in response to the Tennessee Republican’s efforts to impeach judges who made controversial rulings which block the agenda of President Donald Trump.
Musk reportedly made the donations to Ogles and six other members of Congress on Wednesday, with the New York Times claiming Ogles received the maximum, $6,600 donation which Musk is allowed to send as a private citizen.
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In a highly anticipated move on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, calling it a “historic action that is 45 years in the making.” The East Room ceremony was attended by GOP governors from Texas, Indiana, Florida, and Ohio, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, senior advisor Stephen Miller, along with a number of students and other special guests.
“We are going to be returning education very simply BACK TO THE STATES where it belongs,” Trump said. “It’s a commonsense thing to do and it’s going to work.”
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The United States used to be the undisputed leader in nuclear power and still has more operating reactors than any other nation, with 94 currently in service. But in the last 35 years, only one new nuclear power plant has been built in the U.S.—Plant Vogtle in Georgia, which only recently began commercial operations.
Meanwhile, 25 nuclear reactors are under construction in China, seven in India, four each in Turkey, Egypt, and Russia, and two each in South Korea, Bangladesh, Japan, the UK, and Ukraine. The nations of Argentina, Brazil, France, Iran, and Slovakia are all building one plant at present.
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President Donald Trump Monday posted an blunt and enthusiastic statement of his support for building more coal-fired power plants.
“After years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants, I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,” the president said in a post on Truth Social.
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At his recent address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, President Donald Trump noted that upon taking office he had “imposed an immediate freeze… on all foreign aid” via a January 20 executive order.
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