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Trump Administration Takes More Steps To End Department Of Ed– thefederalist.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

Remember the 2011 Republican presidential debate when then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry blanked on one of the three federal agencies he campaigned on getting rid of if elected president? It was an unforgettable moment, particularly for Perry.

“And I will tell you, it’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone: Commerce, Education and the, um, what’s the third one there?” he said, looking like a deer in headlights as the bright lights of the stage washed over him. He tried again. Nope.

RINO Mitt Romney tried to provide a lifeline.

“The EPA?” the former Massachusetts governor offered. Perry should have phoned a friend. “EPA, there you go,” Perry agreed, momentarily relieved. But the Environmental Protection Agency wasn’t the answer.

Perry tried one last time. “The third agency of government I would do away with — the education, the uh, the commerce and let’s see. I can’t the third one. I can’t. Sorry Oops.”

DEBUNKED: Democrat Party DELETES Straight-Up LIE About President Trump Spending Thanksgiving With Epstein– wltreport.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

Democrats recently released some bits and pieces from Jeffrey Epstein’s private emails.

Once again, it proved to be a total nothing burger.

More on that here:

New Epstein Files Leaked By Dems, Once Again A Big “Nothing Burger”

However, that didn’t stop Democrats from throwing out some wild accusations.

In one of the emails, Jeffrey Epstein references “trump” while talking about plans for Thanksgiving of 2017.

That was enough for Democrats to jump to conclusions and celebrate that they finally caught President Trump doing something wrong!

UN approves US-backed peace plan for Gaza– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

The United Nations adopted the United States’s proposal on Monday to begin implementing the next phase of President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza.

Trump’s 20-point plan to achieve lasting stability in the region, which had been beset by hostilities between Hamas and Israel, gained international legitimacy after the 15-member council voted 13-0 in favor of a resolution endorsing the plan’s proposal for a temporary new government in Gaza.

Russia and China abstained from the vote, which supported the establishment of the “Board of Peace,” chaired by Trump as a transitional government, and the creation of a temporary “International Stabilization Force” in Gaza.

Illegal Immigration Drove Soaring Housing Prices– townhall.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran told Fox News that deportations are slowing inflation.

“A significant amount of the inflation that we experienced for years is because we through millions of new people into the country without sufficiently expanding the housing stock and sufficient expansion of other forms of fixed capital,” Miran said.

‘Climbing into the ceiling tiles’: DHS immigration raids hit Charlotte, where 1 in 6 residents are foreign-born– www.theblaze.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations have expanded to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Operation Charlotte’s Web launched on Saturday, as federal agents aimed to arrest criminal illegal aliens.

‘An illegal alien from Mexico gets deported 4 times, strolls back to Charlotte, then racks up a hit & run AND a DUI/DWI?’

Of the 900,000 residents in Charlotte, 150,000 are foreign-born, according to CBS News.

The Department of Homeland Security blamed “sanctuary politicians” for the state’s failure to honor 1,400 detainer requests, choosing instead to release offenders back onto the streets.

TRUMP’S TRILLION: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Pledges Nearly $1 TRILLION for America– gellerreport.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Tuesday, featuring a military flyover, horse-drawn escort, and cannon salutes, while praising his reforms and friendship. The crown prince announced an increase in Saudi investments in the U.S. to nearly $1 trillion, targeting AI, nuclear energy, and defense sectors including F-35 jet sales.

The president touted the verbal commitment of nearly a trillion dollar investment in the US from the Saudi kingdom.

Historic win for Trump as the kingdom vows massive investment spike in the American economy.

HUGE 👀

Trump just revealed that he is designating Saudi Arabia as a “major non-NATO ally” and that he and MBS just signed a military cooperation agreement.

Trump’s alliance with MBS is the pathway to a new era of peace in the Middle East.

pic.twitter.com/a9H2RDtRUx

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) November 19, 2025

Trump Admin Divided Over How to Best Reform H-1B Program– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

The Trump administration is divided between factions about the best way to reform the controversial H-1B visa program, a senior administration official told The Daily Signal.

One faction wants to restrict the program so much that foreigners won’t be able to use it, while others think it’s useful to bring in exceptional talent, the official said.

While President Donald Trump maintains abuses of the system need to be reformed, he told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham he believes the program—which allows highly skilled workers in “specialty occupations” to live and work in the U.S.—is needed to bring certain talent in. This comment sparked outrage from many of his supporters.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she’s “solidly against” Americans “being replaced by foreign labor, like with H-1Bs.” “End H-1B so it’s not used for cheap labor & expand genius visas for genuine high end talent,” conservative influencer Robby Starbuck wrote. Former Department of Government Efficiency adviser and Florida governor hopeful James Fishback said he would “fire every single H-1B working at our state agencies.”

Trump’s ‘Complete’ Pardons Cover Bogus State Election Charges– thefederalist.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

Fake news was working overtime on Monday by declaring, without authority, that the “full, complete” presidential pardons related to the 2020 presidential election cannot protect against bogus state charges arising from that election. Corporate media wrongly insisted that the pardon clause in the U.S. Constitution applies only to charges brought by federal prosecutors.

Not so. The pardon clause states that the president “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Every attempt in court to narrow the scope of the pardon clause has failed.

Our system of dual sovereigns, federal and state, is subject to the supremacy clause, which means that state sovereignty cannot limit the scope of the pardon clause. It was modeled on the vast, nearly unlimited pardon power of the King of England.

FBI denies saying Thomas Crooks had no online footprint– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser November 19, 2025

The FBI on Thursday denied saying Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in July 2024, had no online footprint.

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson alleged that the FBI “lied” about the deceased shooter’s seemingly nonexistent digital footprint and asked why that would be the case, teasing he would answer the question in a story on Friday with Crooks’s social media posts in his possession.

The FBI quickly disputed Carlson’s statement.

“This FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint. Ever,” FBI Rapid Response said Thursday.

China suspends ‘special port fees’ on US vessels– www.channelnewsasia.com

pgnewser November 10, 2025

BEIJING: China said on Monday (Nov 10) it would suspend for one year “special port fees” on US vessels “simultaneously” with Washington’s pause on levies targeting Chinese ships, as a fragile trade truce between the superpowers continues to take shape.

The United States and China have been involved in a volatile trade and tariff war for months, but agreed to walk back some punitive measures after presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met last month in South Korea.

At one point, duties on both sides had reached prohibitive triple-digit levels, hampering trade between the world’s two largest economies and snarling global supply chains.

The suspension of the port fees, which applied to ships operated by or built in the United States that visited Chinese ports, began at 1.01pm (5.01am GMT) on Monday, a transport ministry statement said.

Washington, Get Ready for Taiwan’s New Opposition Leader – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

It has been a rough couple of weeks for those claiming that Trump is abandoning Taiwan. The administration continues to show its commitment to the self-governed island. Recent examples include President Trump’s “Taiwan is Taiwan” remark, his warning regarding the “consequences” of attempting to take Taiwan, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth raising concerns about China’s actions around the island to China’s Minister of National Defense, and meetings between Taiwanese and U.S. officials at the APEC summit.

🇹🇼 “Taiwan is Taiwan” says President Trump.

I agree with him completely. Taiwan will never be a part of Communist China. pic.twitter.com/EBYuzYR4cP

— 鈴森はるか『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 (@harukaawake) October 31, 2025

Before the Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea, Taiwanese officials expressed strong confidence in the ties between Taipei and Washington.

U.S-China Tariff War Eases After Trump Meets with Xi Jinping– slaynews.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

President Donald Trump has moved to cut U.S. fentanyl-related tariffs on Chinese goods in half, following last month’s in-person meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping in South Korea.

Under a new executive order issued on Tuesday, the tariff will drop from 20 percent to 10 percent beginning November 10.

In the order, Trump stated:

“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has committed to take significant measures to end the flow of fentanyl to the United States, including stopping the shipment of certain designated chemicals to North America and strictly controlling exports of certain other chemicals to all destinations in the world.”

Trump and Xi met on October 30 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Busan, South Korea.

After the meeting, Trump said he believed Beijing would take “strong action” to stem the supply of precursor chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl.

Trump administration has revoked 80,000 non-immigrant visas, U.S. official says– japantoday.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked around 80,000 non-immigrant visas since its inauguration on January 20 for offenses ranging from driving under the influence to assault and theft, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday.

The extent of the revocations, first reported by Washington Examiner, reflects a broad immigration crackdown initiated when Trump came into office, deporting an unprecedented number of migrants including some who held valid visas.

The administration has also adopted a stricter policy on granting visas, with tightened social media vetting and expanded screening.

Around 16,000 of the visa revocations were tied to cases of driving under the influence, while about 12,000 were for assault and another 8,000 for theft.

Puzzled by Trump’s public comments, Putin orders ‘first steps’ to resume nuclear tests– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

PUTIN ORDERS ‘POSSIBLE FIRST STEPS’ FOR NUKE TESTS: At a meeting of his security council at the Kremlin on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin quizzed his ministers about what to make of President Donald Trump’s recent pronouncement that the U.S. would resume testing of nuclear weapons after a three-decade moratorium.

“I would like to note that Russia has always strictly adhered to its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and we do not plan to abandon these obligations,” Putin said, according to the official Kremlin transcript of the meeting. “At the same time, indeed, in my 2023 Address to the Federal Assembly, I said that if the United States or any other state party to the Treaty was to conduct such tests, Russia would be under obligation to take reciprocal measures.”

Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said Russian analysts have scrutinized the public statements of Trump, Vice President JD Vance, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and they still can’t figure out what the U.S. actually plans to do. “We analyzed these statements, but we are not entirely clear about the United States’ future plans and steps regarding nuclear weapons testing.”

Tension flares between Trump officials Pam Bondi and Kash Patel– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

Concerns are brewing among Trumpworld insiders about an escalating feud between two of the president’s top law enforcement officers.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have found themselves the focus of increased scrutiny in recent months, from both the media and President Donald Trump’s base, on a host of issues ranging from the Jeffrey Epstein files to law enforcement’s handling of the Charlie Kirk assassination.

And following Patel’s latest string of negative headlines, which involved taking an FBI jet to Pennsylvania to watch his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match and jumping the gun on announcing FBI actions to foil an alleged terrorism plot on Halloween, two other senior Trump administration officials told the Washington Examiner that they have heard “rumors” that Bondi is exploring ways to replace Patel atop FBI.

SCOTUS Signals Skepticism About Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Tariffs– thefederalist.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared fairly skeptical of President Trump’s implementation of numerous “emergency” tariffs in a pair of key cases before the bench on Wednesday.

The nation’s highest court held oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc. The cases center around the legality of Trump’s implementation of tariffs using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which grants presidents the power to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.”

As The Federalist previously described, the president “did so in response to existing ‘unfair trade practices’ that lead to trade deficits, as well as to punish countries like China for failing to ‘blunt the sustained influx of synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, flowing from the [People’s Republic of China] to the United States.’” Invoking language contained in IEEPA, Trump reasoned that these problems represent an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the country.

Walmart’s Annual Thanksgiving Basket Price Plummets 43 Percent from 2024, Down to Lowest Point Since Program Started– www.westernjournal.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025

On Tuesday, in several elections where they were already expected to win, the Democrats bragged that they beat the GOP on “affordability.”

Of the Democrats who will be charged with making America more affordable, now: a socialist mayor-elect in New York City who doesn’t seem to have the slightest idea of how New York City or economics works; a governor-elect in Virginia who doesn’t have the gumption to stand up against a kiddie-assassination fantasist, much less more palatable but still unconscionably free-spending members her own party; and a governor in New Jersey who will likely continue to pursue the same policies that have given the state the eighth-highest cost of living in the nation.

All of these people said they were running against President Donald Trump, who’s been in office for less than a year now.

China to ease chip export ban in new trade deal, White House says– www.bbc.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

China will begin easing an export ban on automotive computer chips vital to production of cars across the world as part of a trade deal struck between the US and China, the White House has said.

The White House confirmed details of the deal in a new fact sheet after Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in South Korea this week.

The nations also reached agreements on US soybean exports, the supply of rare earth minerals, and the materials used in production of the drug fentanyl.

The deal de-escalates a trade war between the world’s two largest economies after Trump hit China with tariffs after he entered office this year, leading to rounds of retaliatory tariffs and global business uncertainty.

Trump Calls Newsom’s Prop 50 a ‘Giant Scam,’ Says California’s Mail-in Ballots Under ‘Serious Legal and Criminal Review’– amgreatness.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

President Trump on Tuesday called California’s Proposition 50 a “giant scam” and revealed that the Golden State’s mail-in ballots are under “serious legal and criminal review.”

Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrat-controlled state Legislature placed the Prop 50 constitutional amendment on California’s 2025 special election ballot in August.

It authorizes a temporary override of California’s independent redistricting process for congressional districts, allowing the Democrat-controlled Legislature to gerrymander new maps starting with the 2026 midterm elections.

“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review,” he added. “STAY TUNED.”

EXCLUSIVE: Tren de Aragua gang members busted in Portland after fleeing Chicago ICE crackdown | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

This comes as the city of Portland and the state of Oregon recommit to their status as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants in the face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migration.

Several illegal aliens involved with the Tren de Aragua terror group were apprehended in Portland, Oregon, during a high-risk operation involving the illicit sales of drugs, firearms, and ammunition. The suspects, who were originally residing in Chicago, are believed to have moved to Portland just over a month ago in response to immigration enforcement operations increasing in the Windy City, federal investigators say.

US Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) breached a Portland apartment unit the group was suspected of using as a “stash house” on October 24, taking the ringleader into custody, along with seven other accomplices, all of whom are illegally present in the United States and have suspected ties to Tren de Aragua, according to authorities.

Trump Says ICE Raids ‘Haven’t Gone Far Enough’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

Good Monday morning.

Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:

7:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Virginia Tele-Rally

7:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a New Jersey Tele-Rally

News roundup:

FDA restricts use of kids’ fluoride supplements, citing emerging health risks

Judge extends block on National Guard deployment into Portland

Refugee From Iraq Claims He Can’t Afford To Stay In America Without Food Stamps– www.louderwithcrowder.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

Since when has it been the job of the U.S. taxpayer to fund the grocery bills of immigrants? Because one Iraqi refugee said he would not be able to stay in this country without government support. And to call that a personal problem would be an understatement.

According to KVOA:

The uncertainty has left refugees like Bakr Rajab from Iraq worried. Rajab, who arrived in Pima County last December with his wife and two children, expressed his concerns.’

JUST IN: Over 120 Illegal Aliens Arrested in MASSIVE Houston ICE Operation– wltreport.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

Last week, ICE carried out a huge operation in Houston, TX.

Through traffic stops, they ended up arresting over 120 illegal aliens, many of whom were driving without licenses or insurance!

ICE shared this video from the huge operation on X:

🧊ICE on the roads🧊

We made over 120 arrests in Houston Oct. 29 — clearing our roads of dangerous, often unlicensed and uninsured, illegal aliens who should NOT be behind the wheel. pic.twitter.com/qg4EcN9Fnr

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) November 3, 2025

5 States Handed Out $1.4B In Federal Medicaid Funding To Illegals– thefederalist.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025

Five states and Washington, D.C., funneled more than $1.35 billion in federal taxpayer Medicaid funding to illegals, according to a preliminary audit of the program completed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehemet Oz posted the results of the preliminary audit on social media showing California, D.C., Illinois, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon spent millions each on illegals, with California spending the bulk, topping over $1.3 billion alone.

That money, according to Oz, was spent “just in the last few months.”