More than half of Americans believe that billionaire businessman Elon Musk has too much influence over the federal government under President Donald Trump, according to the findings of a new national poll. The survey also found a sharp division along party and ideological lines.
Fifty-six percent of Americans believe that Musk has too much influence, while only 6% believe he has too little influence, according to the findings of the latest UMass Amherst National Poll.
Similarly, 56% believe both technology companies and Wall Street have too much influence over the government. Fifty-nine percent reported holding the same belief about health insurance companies.
Arizona will be combing its voter registration rolls with an eye to removing non-citizens, which could impact up to 50,000 people now eligible to vote in federal elections.
The state went for President Donald Trump in 2024 after narrowly backing former President Joe Biden in 2020 amid claims of voting irregularities.
After a lawsuit launched by America First Legal, the state has agreed that it will partner with the Department of Homeland Security to review voting rolls to verify that all residents on the rolls are American citizens, documents related to the suit said, according to Newsweek.
The lawsuit was filed last year.
The lawsuit was dismissed on Wednesday after a settlement was reached when the 15 counties being sued agreed “to ask DHS to begin responding to requests … to verify the citizenship of each county’s federal-only voters.”
Kinda crazy that Arizona Democrats needed a lawsuit to force them to remove 50,000 noncitizens from voter rolls
But this is who we’re up against
Democrats will cheat any way they can, whether it’s with illegal aliens voting or shutting down half the election machines on… https://t.co/pEoao8mGxc
The North Carolina Supreme Court decided to allow about 60,000 ballots to count in a race for a seat on its own bench, despite those voters never having provided proper identification upon registering.
A unanimous court Friday decided that over 60,000 votes challenged by Republican candidate and appellate judge Jefferson Griffin should remain in the count for the vote total. In a 4-2 split, the court also decided that another roughly 5,500 overseas voters who did not provide identification would be allowed 30 days to fix their ballots, while another 267 voters who have never resided in North Carolina would have their votes removed.
“This Court is aware of the valid competing interests in this case the need
If anyone isn’t sure whether Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is thwarting efforts to clean up Nevada’s dirty voter rolls, his new bill, AB 534, removes all doubt.
There are two ways for citizens to challenge the eligibility of a voter who has moved from the residence where they are registered to vote — known as “Section 535” and “Section 547.”
Last year, our group, the Pigpen Project, filed thousands of challenges using both sections. In response, Aguilar’s office claimed challenges like ours lacked “personal knowledge” that the voter had moved.
If the post office’s National Change of Address (NCOA) database shows that a voter has permanently moved, Aguilar has declared that such information gleaned from this official government database doesn’t equate to “personal knowledge.” But “personal knowledge” is not defined in the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS), only in the secretary of state’s implementing regulations. It’s only his opinion. Besides, Section 535 only requires challengers to attest “that he or she has personal knowledge of the facts set forth in the affidavit” (emphasis added).
Some Republican lawmakers are deeply concerned about President Donald Trump’s tariff gambit for more reasons than one. Many have argued that using tariffs will only raise prices for American consumers.
However, others are worried about something else: Maintaining political power.
The Hill reported that GOP lawmakers have expressed concerns that the trade wars’ impact might negatively impact their chances of retaining control over both chambers of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.
Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump’s trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other accomplishments by the GOP.
Republican senators are pointing to the 1932 and 1982 elections as historical examples of when trade wars and resulting price inflation hurt their party at the ballot box, and they are worried that history could repeat itself.
Many Republican lawmakers view tariffs as a tax hike on American consumers, and some note that the last two times Congress enacted tax hikes on the scale of Trump’s recent tariffs, the president’s party suffered a wipeout in the next election.
Another win for election integrity is unfolding in Arizona, where state officials are partnering with DHS to verify voter rolls. Make no mistake about it —this is exactly the kind of action we need to protect our elections from fraud and abuse.
As many as 50,000 non-citizens are expected to be removed from Arizona’s voter rolls following a successful lawsuit by America First Legal (AFL) against all 15 Arizona counties.
“This settlement is a great result for all Arizonans,” (AFL) senior counsel James Rogers told Fox News Digital.
As a result of the lawsuit, the 15 counties have now begun working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to verify the citizenship status of all registered voters in the state who failed to provide proof of citizenship.
While a 2013 Supreme Court ruling prohibits states from imposing voter registration requirements beyond the federal requirement that registrants must check a box affirming their U.S. citizenship, Arizona residents are still required to provide proof of citizenship to vote in state and local elections.
The Arizona law also requires that county recorders perform a monthly list maintenance to confirm the U.S. citizenship of so-called “federal-only voters,” a list of nearly 50,000 individuals who failed to provide proof of U.S. citizenship and were not allowed to vote in state or local elections.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday that Democrats are “very likely” to sue Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, accusing him of deliberately delaying a special election to fill a House seat that’s been vacant for nearly a month.
Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas died on March 5, at age 70, just two months into his term. But Abbott has yet to announce a special election date and has missed the deadline for the race to be held on May 3, Texas’ next available election date. That means the seat for Texas’ 18th Congressional District might not be filled until November.
In an interview with NBC News, Jeffries didn’t mince words, flat-out accusing Abbott of dragging his feet to help Republicans cling to their razor-thin House majority—especially as more members grow frustrated with House Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
When asked directly if he believed Abbott was intentionally stalling, Jeffries simply said, “Yes.”
More than 40 left-wing organizations (and/or some of their affiliates) opposing Republican efforts to prevent noncitizen voting in U.S. elections have collectively received more than $150 million from groups funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, a new analysis reveals.
On March 28, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) released a letter directed at members of Congress, asking them to oppose the GOP-sponsored SAVE Act, which aims to close existing loopholes in federal law that foreign nationals could exploit to register and cast ballots in U.S. elections. As described by InfluenceWatch, LCCHR “serves as an umbrella organization for over 200 mostly left-wing organizations which lobby and advocate before Congress and other federal agencies on legislation and Presidential appointments to the executive departments and judiciary.”
The 112 left-wing organizations that signed onto the aforementioned letter “strongly” urged congressional representatives to “oppose” the SAVE Act, which they falsely claimed, “represents a shameful, divisive attempt to prevent millions of eligible U.S. citizens — disproportionately Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and other voters of color — from registering to vote.” The groups specifically parroted faux Democrat talking points that basic voting safeguards such as documentary proof of citizenship requirements are “onerous,” “harmful,” and “designed to restrict participation by lawfully registered voters.”
‘I have been this racehorse that has been held back,’ says NYC mayor
Eric Adams (cropped, Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
New York City mayor Eric Adams will leave the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent, as internal tensions and a broader identity crisis roil the Democratic Party.
“Though I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election,” Adams announced in a video Thursday morning. He argued that New York City needs “truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled at by the extremists on the far-left or the far-right.”
Adams had been weighing an independent bid for weeks, as his high-profile corruption case dragged on in court, sources close to him told the New York Post. A federal judge on Wednesday permanently dismissed Adams’s criminal case.
The mayor, who faced charges of bribery, wire fraud, and soliciting illegal campaign contributions, has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of bringing the charges against him in retaliation for his criticism of former president Joe Biden’s handling of the migrant crisis, according to the New York Times.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has announced that he’s endorsing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) for Florida governor.
In a statement first reported by Politico Playbook, Johnson said:
“Byron Donalds is a principled conservative leader who Floridians can trust as their next Governor.
“In Congress, Byron has been tenacious in standing up for Florida and President Trump’s America First agenda.
“I have no doubt he will bring that same fighting spirit with him as Governor, working every day to improve the lives of Florida families.
“My good friend Byron Donalds has my full support,” Johnson added.
The Sunshine State Republican thanked Johnson for his support.
In a post on X, Donalds called Johnson a “good friend.”
“From local Tea Party Activism to the State House & the halls of Congress to my candidacy for Governor of Florida, my fight for the Sunshine State has been unwavering,” Donalds added.
“Together, we are Making America Great Again.”
Thank you to my good friend Speaker @MikeJohnson for your support!
From local Tea Party Activism to the State House & the halls of Congress to my candidacy for Governor of Florida, my fight for the Sunshine State has been unwavering.
Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers Scam US– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States.
Standing in front of a huge chart, they showed how the number of SSNs issued to new non-citizens spiked in 2024.
The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million. This counts only non-citizens who got their SSNs through the Enumeration Beyond Entry program, a system where the Social Security Administration automatically issues SSNs and cards to certain foreign nationals in the U.S., as part of an agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms. The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry (“EBE”) immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field… https://t.co/iDaFPbcL0upic.twitter.com/XNNFQb51Di
France’s Le Pen convicted of embezzlement, barred from 2027 presidential race – The Tribune India Source Link Excerpt:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and banned immediately for five years from running for public office, in a watershed moment that will rule her out of the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
The French court’s ruling was a catastrophic setback for Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) party chief who has been a front-runner in opinion polls for the 2027 contest.
The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence — two years of which are suspended sentence and two which will be served under home detention. She also received a 100,000-euro ($108,200) fine.
Jason Galanis thanks Trump for commuting sentence– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
Jason Galanis, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, praised President Donald Trump for understanding “the law better than any lawyer” in commuting his sentence.
Galanis was serving a 189-month prison sentence for securities fraud until yesterday when Trump announced he had commuted the sentence. Galanis pled guilty to fraud charges in 2020. While serving his sentence, Galanis testified against Hunter Biden and his father, then-President Joe Biden, to the House Oversight Committee.
“I’m delighted to be able to be here to thank him,” Galanis said of Trump on Fox News‘s Hannity Tuesday. “I think that big law is on notice, and the president’s onto them. And so be warned, the president is onto them, and I’ve never seen a lawyer smarter than President Trump who knows the law better than any lawyer.”
Judge Admits ‘Concerns’ About ‘Security’ Of GA Voting System– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia Amy Totenberg admitted in a late Monday ruling that there are “substantial concerns” about Georgia’s voting system but refused to address them, instead dismissing a years-long case that sought to move the state to hand-marked paper ballots for alleged lack of standing.
The case, Curling v. Raffensperger, was brought back in 2017 and has since evolved. Plaintiffs, which include the Coalition for Good Governance and several Georgia voters, asked the court — according to Totenberg’s ruling — “to stop Georgia’s use of its electronic in-person voting system so that it can be replaced with a hand-marked paper ballot system.”
Plaintiffs argued, in part, that the current voting system “makes it impossible for these voters to verify that the QR codes on their printed ballots, which are used to tabulate their votes, accurately reflect the ballot selections they made on the voting machines,” according to the ruling.
Totenberg ruled that “Plaintiffs lack standing to pursue their claims because neither of these asserted injuries constitute an invasion of a legally protected interest under governing precedent.” But Totenberg also ruled that plaintiffs “identified substantial concerns about the administration, maintenance, and security of Georgia’s electronic in-person voting system …”
Voter ID Constitutional Amendment Passes by Eye-Popping Margin in Major Defeat to Democrats– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Wisconsin voters decisively approved a measure to enshrine voter identification requirements in the state constitution on Tuesday.
Wisconsin Question 1 asked voters whether a new section should be added to the state constitution “to require that voters present valid photographic identification verifying their identity in order to vote in any election,” according to text of the amendment from Ballotpedia.
As of Wednesday morning, roughly 62.7 percent of voters cast their ballots in the affirmative, while 37.3 percent voted against the measure, according to vote tallies from The New York Times.
Wisconsin already requires voter ID, but the constitutional amendment prevents the law from being overturned.
After Trump’s Election, NSF-Funded Censorship Tools Go Missing– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) claims to be the place “where discoveries begin” — but it funded programs where free speech ends. When The Federalist asked if it still funds anti-“misinformation” tools, a representative simply pointed to its public grants database, which lists censorship projects funded during the Biden administration.
The public-interest law firm Alliance Defending Freedom sent NSF records requests in February to uncover any coordination between the federal agency and internet communications monopolies such as Google and Facebook.
NSF funds one-quarter of all federally funded academic fundamental research projects at U.S. higher education institutions, and funds technology development at approximately 400 “small businesses” each year. It has an annual budget of $8.5 billion. It also funds programs that exclude recipients based on race, according to an NSF factsheet.
The NSF’s “Convergence Accelerator,” which funds special research projects, launched a “cohort track” in 2021 for “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems.” Recipients developed software to control online speech labeled “misinformation” about politically sensitive topics including Covid-19 treatments and election integrity.
This Former Biden Official Just Announced Run for California Governor– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that he is entering the race for California governor.
In a video released on Wednesday, Becerra declared that he plans to seek the governor’s seat to replace current Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“Hi, I’m Javier Becerra, and you may have heard, I am running to be governor of our great state of California. And that’s because I watched my parents, a construction worker and a clerical worker, achieve the California dream,” he said on the video.
Can we do that today with this affordability crisis? Very tough. But we’ve taken on these tough fights. California has succeeded in those tough fights and become the economic engine of this country. We can do that, but you need a leader who can be tough. And I’ve been in those tough fights, whether it was as a member of Congress, when we helped draft and pass the Affordable Care Act, when I was attorney general for our great state of California, and I took on the Trump administration the first time, sued him over 100 times and won, or whether as Secretary of Health and Human Services, I took on the pharmaceutical industry and we negotiated lower prescription drug prices for seniors under Medicare.