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Bessent sets the record straight on ‘misinformation’ about DOGE’s work
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Bessent sets the record straight on ‘misinformation’ about DOGE’s work

By Leah Barkoukis | TownHall Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday addressed the "misinformation" being circulated about the work the Department of Government Efficiency is doing. In an interview with Bloomberg, Bessent said he vetted the Treasury employees tasked with accessing federal payment data, noting they have read-only access and are not “tinkering” with payment systems in any way. “It is an operational review. It is not an ideological review,” Bessent told Saleha Mohsin, according to Bloomberg. “The ability to change the system sits over at the Federal Reserve. We don’t even run the system.”  READ THE FULL STORY ON TOWNHALL
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Senate GOP Steamrolls 30 Hours Of Dem obstruction to confirm Trump’s 13th nominee
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Senate GOP Steamrolls 30 Hours Of Dem obstruction to confirm Trump’s 13th nominee

By Adam Pack | Daily Caller Senate Republicans on Thursday evening voted to confirm former White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Russell Vought to helm the office for a second time. Senators voted 53 to 47 along party lines in favor of Vought. The OMB director-designate becomes President Donald Trump’s 13th cabinet nominee to be confirmed, doubling the confirmation pace of the Biden administration and first Trump administration. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, during a press conference on Tuesday, pledged that every Senate Democrat would oppose Vought’s nomination. READ THE FULL STORY ON THE DAILY CALLER
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Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’
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Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’

By  Brett Samuels  | The Hill President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination. Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular. “While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares,” he said. “And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls To 4.0%, Economy Added 143,000 Jobs In January
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U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls To 4.0%, Economy Added 143,000 Jobs In January

By John Carney | Breitbart Employers in the United States added 143,000 workers to their payrolls in January, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate slipped to 4.0 percent. Economists had been expecting 168,000 jobs and an unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1 percent, according to a survey by Econoday. The figures are seasonally adjusted. In January, there is typically a large downshift in employment in the retail sector, as businesses downsize following the holiday shopping season. Without seasonal adjustment, the data show the economy shed nearly 2.9 million jobs in January. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Trump admin hits brakes on $5B electric vehicle charging station program
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Trump admin hits brakes on $5B electric vehicle charging station program

By Alex Nitzberg  | Fox Business The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) pumped the brakes on a program to dole out funds to states for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The move regarding the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program comes less than a month into President Donald Trump's second term in office. In a letter to state Department of Transportation directors dated Feb. 6, Emily Biondi, associate administrator for the Office of Planning, Environment and Realty, discussed the move. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX BUSINESS
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AG Pam Bondi represented Colorado mom Erin Lee in case against Poudre school district that tried to secretly transition daughter
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AG Pam Bondi represented Colorado mom Erin Lee in case against Poudre school district that tried to secretly transition daughter

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | | Daily Signal One of Pam Bondi’s clients says the newly-confirmed U.S. attorney general took her case suing the school district that tried to secretly transition her daughter when no one else would consider it. In 2021, Erin Lee’s 12-year-old daughter was invited by her art teacher to come to art club after school in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado. Little did Lee know, it was a Gay Straight Awareness club where a guest speaker told her daughter if she’s “not 100% comfortable in her female body, she’s transgender.” The 12-year-old girl, who was new to the middle school, then adopted a transgender identity and was affirmed by the art club. The guest speaker, Kimberly Chambers, director of SPLASH Youth, an LGBT g...
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U.S. District Judge Cobb, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocks release of FBI Jan. 6 agent list
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U.S. District Judge Cobb, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocks release of FBI Jan. 6 agent list

By Ryan Knappenberger | Courthouse News A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary stay to prevent the Justice Department from publicizing or sharing with other government agencies the results of an internal survey listing the FBI employees who worked on the Jan. 6, 2021, and classified documents case. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued the administrative stay until she could hear further arguments at an 11 a.m. Friday hearing and determine whether the Justice Department would agree to a consent order and provide the agents prior notice before taking any steps to share the list outside the department. The Joe Biden appointee scheduled Thursday’s hearing, which required several hourslong breaks for the parties to confer in an effort to hash out a consent order, to determine wh...
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Trump admin sues Illinois, Chicago, Cook County over immigrant protection laws on Supremacy Clause grounds
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Trump admin sues Illinois, Chicago, Cook County over immigrant protection laws on Supremacy Clause grounds

By Dave Byrnes  | Courthouse News The Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago and Cook County on Thursday morning, claiming local laws designed to protect immigrants violate the constitution. The lawsuit declares a "national crisis" of illegal immigration and asserts a need to enforce federal immigration laws. "This action seeks to put an end to one state’s efforts to impede the federal government from doing that," the government writes in the suit. The government specifically claims Illinois' Way Forward Act and TRUST Acts, Chicago's Welcoming City Ordinance and Cook County's Ordinance 11-O-73 all violate the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which establishes that federal law takes precedent over state law. READ THE FULL STORY A...
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Trump teases big plans to celebrate America’s 250th birthday starting with a ‘National Garden of Heroes’
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Trump teases big plans to celebrate America’s 250th birthday starting with a ‘National Garden of Heroes’

By Emily Goodin | Daily Mail President Donald Trump teased big plans to celebrate America's 250th birthday next year, plugging his National Garden of Heroes as a centerpiece of the festivities. Trump, a real estate tycoon, has envisioned a national park filled with statues of great Americans since his first term in office. He needs Congress to fund the project and, when he spoke to lawmakers at the Capitol Thursday for the National Prayer Breakfast, put in a plug for his project, tying it to America's big birthday. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY MAIL
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Education Department spent hundreds of millions injecting DEI into school districts
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Education Department spent hundreds of millions injecting DEI into school districts

By Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner The Department of Education, which is facing the ax under President Donald Trump’s new administration, set aside over $300 million in grants intended to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion by prioritizing resources for racial minorities, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of grant records. Federal disbursements identified by the Washington Examiner occurred under both the Biden administration and the first Trump administration. Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, however, recently ordered a freeze of all federal grants shortly after the president took office, partially to rein in government DEI spending. “The American people sent a clear message to Congress in November — they are...
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