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Walcher: Is government going to the DOGE?
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Walcher: Is government going to the DOGE?

By Greg Walcher | Commentary, GregWalcher.com A lot of jokes about Elon Musk are making the rounds, in light of his new role in identifying government waste, fraud and abuse. One says after he puts a car into orbit, outer space will be full of germs and diseases, no longer auto-immune. Another asks what he has in common with Thomas Edison. Answer: they both got rich off Tesla. The mission of the new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) that he will co-chair with Vivek Ramaswamy, is not a joke, though. In fact, the idea of reducing wasteful spending has already achieved some level of bipartisan support in Congress. Leaders on both sides are saying no one should oppose efficiency, which is easy to say before anyone has had to vote on any specific program cut. Every govern...
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ICE arrests irate Haitian gang member, murder and rape suspects in Boston
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ICE arrests irate Haitian gang member, murder and rape suspects in Boston

By Isabel Keane | New York Post Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hit the ground running this week, arresting multiple violent offenders in sanctuary cities, including a hostile Haitian gang member with a lengthy rap sheet who said he “ain’t going back to Haiti” and raged “F*** Trump, Biden forever!” ICE officers in Boston made eight noteworthy arrests, including multiple MS-13 gang members, murder and rape suspects and the Haitian gang member, with 18 recent convictions, according to Fox News, who rode along with ICE for the arrests. There was also at least one “collateral” arrest where ICE took an illegal immigrant who wasn’t their initial target into custody, with the arrest in Boston being of an MS-13 gang member who had been released by the sanctuary city on Tuesda...
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RFK Jr. faces mounting criticism leading up to confirmation hearing
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Approved, National, THE HILL

RFK Jr. faces mounting criticism leading up to confirmation hearing

By Nathaniel Weixel | The Hill Pressure is mounting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as critics squeeze senators from both sides of the aisle to oppose President Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top health official.  Kennedy’s bipartisan opponents, including liberal advocates and an organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, argue the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services isn’t fit to serve as secretary.   Liberals point to Kennedy’s longtime advocacy against vaccines and his role as the founder of the prominent anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense.   READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Barkoukis: NYT blasted for ‘insane’ take on terrorist designation of cartels
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Barkoukis: NYT blasted for ‘insane’ take on terrorist designation of cartels

By Leah Barkoukis | Commentary, Townhall.com Social media users did a double take this week on a New York Times headline reacting to President Trump’s recent executive order designating certain cartels as global terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations. “The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs,” the EO notes.  “The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States,” the order continues. “In certain portions of M...
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10,000 troops headed to seal the southern border, as Trump shuts down asylum process
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10,000 troops headed to seal the southern border, as Trump shuts down asylum process

By Jamie McIntyre | Washington Examiner TRUMP ‘EXPECTS IMMEDIATE RESULTS’ AT THE BORDER:  Robert Salesses may only be acting secretary of defense for a short time, but he’s acting with dispatch to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order that “suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.” After a Monday meeting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commanders of the U.S. Northern Command, Transportation Command, and National Guard, Salesses established a task force to carry out “expedited implementation” of Trump’s orders to obtain “complete operational control of the southern border of the United States.” “DOD will begin augmenting its forces at the southwest border w...
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It’s a packed field of 15 for six competitive Colorado Springs City Council races
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It’s a packed field of 15 for six competitive Colorado Springs City Council races

By Brennen Kauffman | The Gazette All six of the district seats on the Colorado Springs City Council are currently set to have competitive elections this spring. Fifteen candidates had filed with the City Clerk's office by the Tuesday afternoon deadline to run in the April 1 election.  The slate of qualified candidates includes a former city council member, two current area school board members, business leaders and multiple members of other local boards. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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Trump erases ‘Bidenbucks’ and taxpayer-funded leftist voter registration drives
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Trump erases ‘Bidenbucks’ and taxpayer-funded leftist voter registration drives

By M.D. Kittle | The Federalist “Bidenbucks” was technically dead on arrival on President Donald Trump’s first day in office, but the election-influencing executive order that Trump’s predecessor signed nearly four years ago will take diligence to fully kill. As David Craig, legal director for the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), told The Federalist, Biden’s order “has substantial tentacles across government.” FGA has been on the frontlines of the battle against Bidenbucks since the executive order’s inception at the beginning of Biden’s term. “The head is cut off the snake but the body continues to slither,” Craig said, noting how deeply embedded Bidenbucks is in every agency, each teeming with left-leaning bureaucrats.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE FEDERALI...
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A fight over 340B, the fed’s program to cut hospitals’ prescription drug costs, is coming to the Colorado Capitol
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Approved, State, The Colorado Sun

A fight over 340B, the fed’s program to cut hospitals’ prescription drug costs, is coming to the Colorado Capitol

By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun Colorado is on the verge of a massive fight at the state Capitol over a multibillion-dollar federal health care program you may have never heard of. The program goes by the super-unsexy name of 340B, and it pulls together a battle royale of health care industry heavyweights: hospitals versus pharmaceutical companies versus pharmacies versus insurers. Advocates on various sides of the issue have already started sponsoring panel discussions and buying up ads (one of which appeared this week in The Colorado Sun’s politics newsletter, The Unaffiliated). And that’s before the legislation this fight is all about has even been introduced. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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SB5, the Labor Peace Act overhaul, advances over business complaints
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Approved, State, The Sum & Substance

SB5, the Labor Peace Act overhaul, advances over business complaints

By Ed Sealover | The Sum & Substance Senate Democrats used their first bill hearing of the 2025 legislative session Tuesday to advance a proposed major change to the state’s Labor Peace Act, saying that the 82-year-old “compromise” law is not working for Colorado employees anymore. The 4-3, party-line vote from the Senate Business, Labor & Technology Committee to send Senate Bill 5 to the Appropriations Committee came despite business warnings that erosion of the law will depress the state’s falling economic competitiveness even more. But one of its supporters said he’d like to see business and labor leaders find a compromise — a plea issued before the sides were set for a major negotiating session on Wednesday. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE SUM & SUBSTANCE
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Trump to address globalist elites in Davos with first major foreign policy speech
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Trump to address globalist elites in Davos with first major foreign policy speech

By Simon Kent | Breitbart President Donald Trump on Thursday will make an online appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, addressing globalist elites with what is expected to be his first major foreign policy announcements. Trump’s virtual appearance before the annual gathering in Switzerland comes after he told Russian President Vladimir Putin via social media he should negotiate over Ukraine immediately, or face what he called taxation, tariffs and sanctions, as Breitbart News reported. The new president’s live video appearance comes with banking and oil industry CEOs given the chance to lob questions at Trump, himself a successful businessman who made his fortune in real estate. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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