Panama opens audit of Chinese port operator while Trump threatens to take canal back– fortune.com Source Link Excerpt:
Panama sent a team of auditors on Monday to the local offices of Panama Ports, a subsidiary of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings. Read More
Trump promises to create ‘colorblind and merit-based’ society, end DEI hires– www.thecollegefix.com Source Link Excerpt:
His administration will ‘end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists,’ president says
President Donald Trump promised to end the Biden administration’s prioritization of “useless” diversity, equity, and inclusion hires and instead support a “merit-based” society in his inaugural address Monday.
The Republican president also said he will change federal government policy so that it recognizes only two sexes.
“This week, I will … end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based,” Trump said.
“As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” he said.
Trump Strips Security Clearance from NewsGuard Adviser Michael Hayden– www.breitbart.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump on the first day of his administration stripped the security clearances of a number of anti-Trump former officials, including retired Gen. Michael Hayden, an adviser to Newsguard, the establishment pro-censorship group operating a news blacklist against conservatives.
Trump’s removed 50 security clearances, including former CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) Director and retired Air Force General Michael Hayden.
Hayden is a controversial public figure, even for those in the Never Trump camp.
For instance, he called Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to be removed from the “human race” in a social media post in late October 2023.
Hayden is also an adviser for Newsguard, an organization that ranks the alleged reliability of news outlets via a browser extension. Newsguard portrays itself as neutral; however, it favors left-leaning, corporate-owned media outlets, even if they publish verifiable disinformation without corrections, and often target right-leaning news outlets. In practice, it is a blacklisting tool aimed squarely at conservatives and a cornerstone of what Trump FCC Chairman Brendar Carr calls the Censorship Cartel.
Trump Shuts Down Biden Era App Which Helped Illegal Migrants Become Legal– www.ndtv.com Source Link Excerpt:
The American Dream has come crashing down for millions and millions of people who line up to get a chance to settle in the United States. Donald Trump has, with one signature, shut the door for them permanently – a door which Joe Biden’s administration is accused of exploiting in order to allow illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to get legal entry to the United States.
CBP One, a mobile app launched by the US Customs and Border Protection, through which over a million illegal immigrants and asylum seekers got legal status, was shut down by Donald Trump within hours of him taking oath as President for a second term.
When the CBP One app was launched in October 2020, its use was only to help commercial trucking companies schedule cargo inspections at border crossings. But in January 2023, the Biden administration expanded its utility to include unauthorised and illegal migrants seeking asylum or protection in the US from violence, poverty, or persecution in their home countries.
Trump to Reinstate All Service Members ‘Unjustly Expelled’ for Refusing Covid ‘Vaccines’: ‘With Full Back Pay’– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order to reinstate all military service members who were “unjustly expelled” for refusing to comply with Covid “vaccine” mandates.
Trump is also ordering that those service members, some of whom were fired almost four years ago, receive “full back pay.”
The president announced the move shortly after he was sworn in to power during Monday’s inauguration.
“This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate, with full back pay,” Trump declared.
“And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty.
Contrary To Democrat Hysteria, Trump Takes Aim At Government Weaponization With Day One Order– dailycaller.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end weaponization of the federal government on Monday, despite left-wing claims that he would target political opponents.
The executive order, titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” accused federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community of abuse, citing the targeting of people who opposed the Biden administration’s agenda and the aggressive prosecution of individuals related to Jan. 6, 2021.
Democrats have repeatedly insisted that Trump will weaponize the government against his political opponents. After former special counsel Jack Smith resigned, Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin claimed Trump would use the DOJ to go after political opponents.
Trump immediately flexes presidential powers: 1,500 pardons and a raft of executive orders– www.latimes.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Trump quickly flexed the sweeping powers of the presidency following his second inauguration at the Capitol on Monday, signing a slate of executive orders that would radically alter U.S. policy if allowed to stand.
He also pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of his loyalists — more than 1,500 people — who stormed the same Capitol building in a failed attempt to illegitimately keep him in power four years prior, repeatedly referring to them as “hostages.”
“We hope they come out tonight, frankly,” Trump said during an evening signing ceremony at the Oval Office — a reference to the fact that many of those defendants were in prison for serious offenses such as assaulting police officers.
Trump’s orders reflected an aggressive start to the conservative agenda he promised on the campaign trail, aimed at reining in illegal immigration, strengthening U.S. manufacturing and the broader economy, rolling back LGBTQ+ rights, reinforcing American dominance abroad and bending the sprawling federal bureaucracy to his will.
Trump Declares Energy Emergency to Push Excess Fossil Fuel Production– www.scientificamerican.com Source Link Excerpt:
Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy development and will cut into the Endangered Species Act
DC jail ‘holding out’ on releasing J6ers after Trump issues pardons: Julie Kelly | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com Source Link Excerpt:
On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed pardons for around 1,500 people charged and arrested in connection with January 6. As of Tuesday morning, journalist Julie Kelly told Steve Bannon that the DC jail housing some of those who had been pardoned is “holding back” on their release.
Kelly told Bannon that in the wake of those pardons, “J6ers are gradually being released from federal prisons across the country. Of course, DC gulag is holding out because that’s what they do, because this is a political gulag, so they’re going to do whatever they can to extend the torment of Trump supporters in custody there.”
She added that she has seen “really moving videos and photographs of men and women who are being released from federal prison who are cutting off their ankle bracelets. You know, this is really such a joyous moment.”
Outside the DC jail, Ben Bergquam spoke with William Sarsfield, who had been released from the Philadelphia Detention Center at around 3 in the morning on Tuesday and traveled to DC to join the protest outside the jail.
President Trump Opens Up America’s Treasure Chest With Alaska Resource Executive Order – RedState– redstate.com Source Link Excerpt:
What a difference a day makes.
Democrats have, for years, treated Alaska like a gigantic national park. In the Senate hearings for Energy Secretary nominee Chris Wright, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) found an acorn when she noted that the Department of the Interior has, in recent years, acted like “Alaska’s landlord.”
With the stroke of a pen, on Monday evening, amid a flurry of executive orders signed, President Donald Trump (I never will get tired of writing that) changed all that with an EO titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.”
Section 1. Background. The State of Alaska holds an abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. Unlocking this bounty of natural wealth will raise the prosperity of our citizens while helping to enhance our Nation’s economic and national security for generations to come. By developing these resources to the fullest extent possible, we can help deliver price relief for Americans, create high-quality jobs for our citizens, ameliorate our trade imbalances, augment the Nation’s exercise of global energy dominance, and guard against foreign powers weaponizing energy supplies in theaters of geopolitical conflict.
Trump reinstates Schedule F, expanding power to fire federal workers– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump has reimplemented a controversial policy that gives him the power to fire some federal employees who previously enjoyed job protections.
Hours after he was sworn into office on Monday, Trump signed an executive order giving him more power over career federal workers, previously known as “Schedule F.” The move is a centerpiece in a broader effort to rein in the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy, an issue he and his ally, Tesla founder Elon Musk, spoke about a lot on the campaign trail.
“We’re getting rid of all of the cancer — I call it cancer — the cancer caused by the Biden administration,” Trump said as he signed the order.
The order restates one issued in the last days of the previous Trump administration and subsequently undone by former President Joe Biden that would create a new class of career federal workers who could be removed based on policy considerations. Previously, they would have been labeled “Schedule F” employees. This order would categorize them as “policy/career” employees.
The order is meant to make government employees more responsive to the president and to prevent what Trump has termed “the deep state” from obstructing his agenda. Critics have argued that it would undermine the quality of the bureaucracy.
Trump Declares ‘Energy Emergency’ To Unleash U.S. Power– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump began the long road to reclaiming energy dominance with a series of executive orders designed to harness the nation’s natural resources after four years of environmental zealotry obstructed U.S. power production.
At least six out of dozens of executive actions delivered by the newly inaugurated president on Monday focused on energy or environmental issues, including an order titled “Unleashing American Energy” and a declaration of a “National Energy Emergency.” Trump previewed the emergency order in his afternoon inauguration speech from the Capitol Rotunda, where he characterized the record-level inflation Americans have suffered under the Biden years as a self-inflicted crisis.
“We will drill, baby, drill,” Trump said, remarking that the nation is host to “the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth.”
“And we are going to use it,” the president added. “We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top and export American energy all over the world.”
Anti-Trump Protests Fail to Deliver– www.dailysignal.com Source Link Excerpt:
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Left-wing groups opposing Donald Trump’s second presidency had plans to “fight back” with thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C., on Monday—but that’s not what happened.
The Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition and the People’s Forum, who were behind anti-Israel riots last summer in the nation’s capital, organized Inauguration Day rallies that led local law enforcement to expect around 10,000 people across the town, starting at Malcolm X Park. The Daily Caller News Foundation, however, observed a different scene: a crowd of dozens standing in the snow, a pile of unused megaphones, and complaints about the icy weather.
“We are here on a day that is so cold that they decided to put the inauguration indoors,” one speaker said at a podium. “But for us, we’re saying that we will be here no matter what, no matter how cold it is!”
Protesters filled roughly half of the park to decry the new president’s conservative agenda while making radical demands such as the release of Palestinian criminals in Israel, labeled “political prisoners,” and “the abolition of police, prisons, and cages.”
Trump revokes security clearance for John Bolton, 51 agents who said Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinfo | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com Source Link Excerpt:
Bolton’s “book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government.”
President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearances of former National Security Advisor John Bolton as well as the 51 intelligence agents who spread the claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” in a letter when the story came out ahead of the 2020 election from the New York Post.
Trump wrote in a release about the order that Bolton “published a memoir for monetary gain after he was terminated from his White House position in 2019,” adding, “The book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government.”
He wrote about the 51 agents signing onto the letter that made the false allegations about the Hunter Biden laptop story that they “coordinated with the Biden campaign to issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had abandoned his laptop at a computer repair business.” The letter led to the censorship of the story online on different social media platforms.
Trump admin stands firm on ending birthright citizenship amid left’s legal challenges– www.theblaze.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump kicked off his second term on Monday by signing several executive actions aimed at addressing the nation’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis, including an order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens.
The executive order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” argued that “the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States” if those individuals’ parents were illegally in the country or not lawful permanent residents at the time of their birth.
‘These lawsuits are nothing more than an extension of the left’s resistance.’
Shortly after Trump signed the executive order, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the administration, arguing that the action was unconstitutional.
Trump Uproots Biden DEI Initiatives From Federal Institutions– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump ordered an end to so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (or DEI). One of his administration’s first moves: firing Coast Guard Commandant Linda Lee Fagan.
Benjamine Huffman, Trump’s acting secretary of Homeland Security, fired Fagan for reasons including an “‘erosion of trust’” through sexual assault coverups and an “excessive focus” on DEI, according to Fox News. The Coast Guard had fallen short in its duties, including border security.
Fagan first took command of the Coast Guard in June 2022. Later that year, The Federalist reported, the branch was still punishing members who did not accept the Covid vaccine.
The Coast Guard had been rolling out a “D&I [Diversity and Inclusion] Action Plan” from 2019 to 2023, aiming at “meaningful and sustainable transformation.” One of its goals was to “attract and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce,” but in 2023 — Fagan’s second year in command — a U.S. Government Accountability Office report revealed that the branch had missed its recruitment target for the fourth fiscal year in a row.
Trump Is on a Mission to Purge Bidenistas From the Federal Government – PJ Media– pjmedia.com Source Link Excerpt:
We can all remember how the deep state constantly undermined Donald Trump during his first term. He’s not going to let that happen again.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump outlined his bold plan to swiftly and decisively reshape the federal government to allow him to govern more efficiently and effectively.
His message was nothing short of electrifying: “Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again.”
This kind of clarity and decisiveness is exactly what Trump supporters have been waiting for. It was beyond frustrating to see how his own administration worked against him during his first term, and his statement sends a clear message. The deep state will not bog down his second term, and holdovers from previous administrations will not undermine him.
Man Photographed with Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh Later Honored by Biden with Presidential Medal of Freedom Releases Statement After Being Fired by Trump | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com Source Link Excerpt:
The man who was previously photographed with would-be assassin Ryan Routh and later honored by Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom has released a statement following his firing by former President Donald Trump.
As Cullen Linebarger reported earlier, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Tuesday morning to announce the termination of the first four individuals from his predecessor’s administration upon taking office.
The firings, executed in signature “Apprentice-style” fashion, come as no surprise to conservatives, particularly one certain infamous general.
“Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again.
Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon:
Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council—YOU’RE FIRED!”
In Hilarious Turn of the Knife Trump Singles Out John Bolton by Name in Executive Order– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Despite what the establishment desperately tries to tell you, President Donald Trump is hardly the monstrous dictator that the left tries to paint him as.
In fact, there’s an argument to be made that Trump is actually a rather magnanimous, forgiving, and silly sort of grandpa — a far cry from the characterization of “orange man evil” that you often hear from the left.
Just look at some of Trump’s most recent moves.
Trump never actually investigated or brought any charges against Hillary Clinton. He’s actually brought fierce rivals — like new Secretary of State Marco Rubio (or “Little Marco,” if you will) — into his administration.
Heck, he might even be on good terms with former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Trump signs executive order banning men from women’s prisons, gender-confused troops in military– www.lifesitenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order that allowed gender-confused troops to serve in the military.
Trump rescinded 78 of former President Joe Biden’s executive orders, including a handful that pushed the LGBT agenda. The decision drew praise from conservative groups.
One of the rescinded Biden directives is “Executive Order 14004 of January 25, 2021 (Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in Uniform),” according to the White House website.
The Biden order made it “the policy of the United States to ensure that all [so-called] transgender individuals who wish to serve in the United States military and can meet the appropriate standards shall be able to do so openly and free from discrimination.”
Trump Makes Sweeping Pro-Free Speech Move in Executive Order on Day One– www.newsbusters.org Source Link Excerpt:
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed executive orders to stop and prevent federal government employees and agencies from censoring constitutionally-protected speech, including blocking the kind of collusion that existed between the Biden administration and Big Tech platforms.
Free speech is front and center in the new administration, as Trump signed an executive order protecting free speech and blocking federal censorship efforts live in his presidential parade at Capitol One Arena. Trump later suspended the security clearances of the 51 “spies who lied,” the intelligence officials whose false 2020 claim that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was Russian disinformation served as an excuse for Big Tech to crush the story.
MRC Founder and President L. Brent Bozell posted, “Donald Trump is THE free speech president. It is shocking we need an executive order telling the government to stop violating the First Amendment. This executive order is a great step towards protecting free speech, but Congress needs to step up and make these changes permanent – specifically when it comes to holding government censors accountable and preventing taxpayer money from going to groups that censor Americans.”
Restoring Biological Truth, Trump Rescinds Biden Era Gender Policies Aimed at Public Schools › American Greatness– amgreatness.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Trump administration is wasting no time signing an executive order proclaiming that there are only two biological sexes and ending what it calls “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.
In doing so, Trump is also rolling back a number of Biden era policies regarding gender guidance that had been pushed through to public schools.
Another thing this executive order did was rescind gender guidance Biden had pushed through to schools.
Get ready for this list. Most people had no idea his administration had done all of this.
Pelosi Melts Down Over Trump Pardoning 1,500 Jan 6 Defendants: ‘Outrageous Insult’– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has expressed outrage over President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute the sentences of approximately 1,500 defendants who were targetted over to the January 6, 2021 protests at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump made the announcement during his first day back in office, sparking a backlash from leftist lawmakers.
Pelosi took to social media to criticize Trump for signing an executive order to release the Jan. 6 prisoners.
She is accusing the president of undermining the justice system and dishonoring law enforcement.
“Tonight, the President announced pardons and commutations of sentences for those who violently attacked the Capitol and law enforcement officers on January 6th,” Pelosi wrote.
Trump administration tells health agencies to suspend all public communications– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
President Donald Trump’s administration has directed all federal health agencies to pause external communications, including health advisories and reports.
Staff at agencies inside the Department of Health and Human Services, including officials at the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health, received the order Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The guidance given by the Trump administration was not clear on whether the directive would affect more urgent communications, such as foodborne disease outbreaks, drug approvals, and new bird flu cases.
“A temporary pause in the flow of health information should not be cause for concern,” Dr. Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, a nonprofit organization that studies and seeks to support the nation’s public health workforce, told CNN.
“The question is how extensively is that pause enforced? If there is something that requires immediate action, it needs to be communicated because lapsed time means lost lives,” Castrucci added.
Fauci Speaks Out After Biden Issues Preemptive Pardon Over COVID-19 Misconduct Allegations — ‘Trump’s Baseless Accusations’– conservativeroof.com Source Link Excerpt:
In a last-minute display of disregard for justice, outgoing President Joe Biden granted a preemptive pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, protecting him from any future legal accountability for his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci, who has faced widespread criticism for his contradictory guidance, misleading statements, cover-ups, and controversial research funding, now avoids accountability due to Biden’s unprecedented use of executive clemency.
“For more than half a century, Dr. Fauci served our country. He saved countless lives by managing the government’s response to pressing health crises, including HIV/AIDS, as well as the Ebola and Zika viruses. During his tenure as my Chief Medical Advisor, he helped the country tackle a once-in-a-century pandemic. The United States is safer and healthier because of him,” Biden wrote.
In the 1980s, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Dr. Fauci told Americans that children could contract AIDS from casual contact.
Hallelujah… Trump Revokes Security Clearances of the 51 Deep Staters Who Lied About Hunter’s Laptop– lidblog.com Source Link Excerpt:
In one of Trump’s first, best moves, he has revoked the security clearances of the 51 scumbags who pretended to be intelligence professionals who lied to the nation saying that Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake.
You may recall that back in 2020, 51 so-called intel officials signed an open letter calling Hunter’s laptop a fake created by Russia.
The deep state cretins claimed that the laptop story made them “deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role,” and claimed that it was typical of how the Kremlin works. They added, “this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”
However, in the long run, the FBI eventually confirmed that the laptop really was owned by Hunter Biden. There wasn’t a single thing “Russian” about it.
