President-elect Donald Trump indicated Monday that his incoming administration was preparing to declare a national emergency to mobilize military assets to crack down on illegal immigration and secure the border.
Trump responded “TRUE!!” to a Truth Social Post from Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton saying that the second Trump administration was “prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.”
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) incoming co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy laid out the new agency’s vision during an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, telling the “Sunday Morning Futures” host the aggressive cost-cutting strategy will begin with executive action and lay the groundwork for Congress to do its part.
“The failures of the executive branch need to be addressed because the dirty little secret right now is the people we elect to run the government, they’re not the ones who actually run the government. It’s the unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state that was created through executive action. It’s going to be fixed through executive action,” he said.
h/t DS
In his first 100 days, President-elect Donald Trump plans to begin the process of deporting hundreds of thousands of people. He is expected to end parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. And he is likely to undo a policy that significantly constrained deportations for people who weren’t deemed threats to public safety or national security.
Thank goodness for @RealTomHoman https://t.co/ulWzPXpD19
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2024
“Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him,” reads a Reuters headline from this week. In the piece, a range of Muslim Americans who voted for the President-elect lament that he has chosen several cabinet officials who favour a strong security relationship with Israel and who have downplayed the rights of the Palestinians.
Woke academics funneling scientific funding toward political activism are terrified President-elect Donald Trump is about to Make Science Great Again.
We are witnessing a sea change of political currents both in America and in Europe. Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has sent shock waves through the liberal establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. But it is a salutary shock.
It forces the European political class , and the German in particular, to abandon some of their illusions and forces us to become more grown up and self-reliant in matters of economic and security policy. Trump’s brutal way of formulating American national interests is refreshing. It tears away the veil of fake moralising and ideological kitsch that have obscured our perception of realities and actual global power issues.
The incoming Donald Trump administration and Republicans in Congress still see Canada as a friend and ally, but will continue to press Ottawa on addressing border security and defence spending, a prominent conservative advisor says.
Georganne Burke, who has worked in both U.S. and Canadian politics and supported Trump’s return to the White House, says those two issues in particular will be major sticking points in the Canada-U.S. relationship unless the Liberal government shows it’s willing to act in the ways Trump wants.
Few people in history have had more words written about them than Donald Trump. And perhaps it is in the nature of things that much of what is written is uninformed, half-informed or mal-informed.
But reading British reactions to Trump’s historic re-election landslide this month, it is still striking how little effort there is in this country actually to understand what Trump is about or what he wants to achieve.
Just one reason why this is strange is that Trump tends to say what he wants in very plain English. And then he does what he says he’ll do.
People have good reason to doubt the veracity of campaign promises because they have good, abundant evidence that politicians hardly feel honour-bound to keep them.
For many politicians, making promises you can’t keep is as natural as breathing on the campaign trail. In turn, the electorate is conditioned to expect political promises to be like piñatas: designed to be broken.
But it looks like the Donald Trump’s victory may be ushering in a new era.
What will Donald Trump’s foreign policy look like in his second term?
This is the question currently making the buzz in the commentariat around the world.
Western European pundits claim that Trump will abandon the Ukrainian lamb to the Russian wolf or, at least, force the European shepherd to foot the bill for keeping it half alive.
The liberal media swears they’re unbiased. According to them, it’s just a weird, inexplicable quirk of fate when conservatives perpetually get the dagger and liberals are always pampered, propped up, and protected. Still, they’re adamant: “There is no media bias!”
Robert F Kennedy Jr was pictured eating McDonald’s on Donald Trump’s private plane as they made their way to watch the UFC in New York on Saturday night.
RFK Jr, who Mr Trump has tapped as America’s next health secretary, struck an awkward pose as he sat with his McDonald’s burger, fries and Coca Cola – the president-elect’s favourite meal.
Canada’s public safety minister says he’s confident in the work of agencies tasked with detaining and removing people in the country illegally and preventing security threats crossing into the U.S., but will boost enforcement resources if necessary.
Dominic LeBlanc says that work by the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) should prove to the incoming Donald Trump administration — whose newly appointed “border czar” has called the Canada-U.S. border a “huge national security issue” — that Ottawa shares their concerns about border security.
Donald Trump has announced that he will appoint Karoline Leavitt, his campaign spokeswoman, to serve as White House press secretary in his next administration.
At 27, Leavitt will be the youngest White House press secretary in US history.
Can Trumps New Press Sec get an pic.twitter.com/cBiBRUbcPv
— Greta_USA (@DEI_Greta) November 16, 2024
h/t Mauser
She is the flamethrower they describe.
Okay, Liberal, White House, Press Corespondents, don’t bother stressing over creating ‘gotcha questions’, take a deep breath and brace yourselves for Karoline Leavitt, a nice 27 year old, educated, Catholic girl, who breathes fire.
Trust me, don’t mess with us educated Catholic… pic.twitter.com/6xY0dNoPlV— & ℂ… (@bud_cann) November 16, 2024
Last night, Donald Trump signalled a seismic shift in American science and public health. Fulfilling his campaign promise, he endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest federal department with a $1.7 trillion annual budget and over 80,000 employees. Kennedy’s statement in response vows to “bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic”, as well as to “clean up corruption” and return the health agencies to “gold-standard, evidence-based science”.
