Trump’s Education Department Axes $600 Million in ‘Social Justice Activism’ Grants

The Department of Education announced Monday that it cut $600 million in grants that used taxpayer funds on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) teacher training programs.

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Analysis: Inflation Accelerated at the End of Biden’s Term as Trump Seeks to Cut Spending, Regulations; Boost Production

Both consumer and producer inflation accelerated as former President Joe Biden left office in January and President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, to annual rates of 3 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively, according to the latest data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Trump EPA Moves to Claw Back Biden’s $20 Billion Green Slush Fund

The Trump administration is moving to take back $20 billion for a green grantmaking program that the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rushed to obligate in its final days.

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Man of Steel: Trump’s Tariffs Seek to Protect, Expand America’s Metal Industry

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President Donald Trump’s orders to impose tariffs and close loopholes on metal imports not only delivered on a major campaign promise to American steel workers, they also set the stage for geopolitical dealmaking that could stretch as far and wide as Europe and the Gaza Strip.

Within hours of Trump affixing his signature on the tariffs orders that take effect globally next month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday floated the notion that American companies would play a major role in rebuilding his country post-war. It’s one of many potential big markets for U.S. steel and aluminum that could be negotiated by a Trump administration after years of Ukraine enjoying exemptions to prior U.S. tariffs.

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Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration from Sending Venezuelan Migrants to Guantanamo Bay

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A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan migrants to the U.S. detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

The decision Sunday by a U.S. District Court judge in New Mexico, where the migrants are being held, is in response to a legal filing by their lawyers that argues, “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access [at Guantanamo] is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction.”

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ICE on Pace for 1 Million Arrests in Four Years, but Congress Likely to Fund Expansion

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on pace to arrest roughly one million illegal aliens by the end of the Trump administration, a sizable figure but well below President Donald Trump’s target. 

The revelation comes as Republicans in the House and Senate look to include border security and deportation provisions and funding in an upcoming spending package that could allow for a significant expansion of ICE arrests.

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Trump DOJ Sues Chicago over Sanctuary City Laws

Brandon Johnson

On Thursday, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago over its “sanctuary” laws defying federal immigration authorities.

As Just The News reports, the DOJ sued Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-Ill.), among other Democratic officials in the state. The suit states that the “sanctuary” laws in Illinois, and particularly Chicago, are deliberately “designed to and in fact interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.”

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Promises Made, Promises Kept: Trump’s Rapid-Fire Action Delivers Much of His Agenda in First 17 Days

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When President Donald Trump affixed his signature on Executive Order 14168 at an Oval Office ceremony Wednesday afternoon, he drew smiles from the young female athletes who surrounded him. They knew he had delivered on his promise to protect women sports from the intrusion of transgender men.

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Former USAID Director Mark Moyar Spills Agency’s Abuse and Waste That He Says Runs Deep

A former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) director appeared Wednesday on Fox News to reveal details on what he said were the agency’s misused resources and deeply rooted corruption.

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