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  • Why is USAID Giving Millions to Bill Kristol? Elon Musk Says, ‘Not Anymore’

    02/03/2025 5:07:07 AM PST · by lowbridge · 58 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | February 2, 2025
    You won’t believe this one. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been funneling millions of taxpayer dollars to organizations linked to Bill Kristol, the neoconservative war hawk best known for pushing endless wars and failed foreign policy. But here’s the twist—Elon Musk just exposed it, and now the heat is on. Who is Bill Kristol? He’s the guy who cheered on the Iraq War, pushed for regime change everywhere, and now runs “Defending Democracy Together,” a group that’s received at least $2 million from USAID to influence American politics. Why is USAID involved? USAID is supposed to fund...
  • In ’60 Minutes’ interview, Mitch McConnell criticizes Trump on tariffs, mum on RFK Jr.

    02/02/2025 8:34:54 PM PST · by RandFan · 40 replies
    mcclatchydc ^ | Feb 2 | By David Catanese
    Mitch McConnell said on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign allies were a bad idea, but said he supports most of what this administration wants to accomplish. “It will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it’ll be paid for by American consumers,” McConnell said of Trump’s tariffs. “I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?” His comments came during a a nationally televised interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” and a day after Trump announced a raft of tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China.
  • Trump’s Tariff Folly

    02/02/2025 2:50:51 PM PST · by karpov · 56 replies
    National Review ^ | February 2, 2025 | The Editors
    After months of uncertainty, the White House has finally announced tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. The uncertainty since the election and especially the lack of clear communication in the past several days have caused apprehension in the stock market, which is likely part of the reason why these measures were announced on a Saturday, when the markets are closed — always a sign of confidence that an economic policy decision is the right one. The stated purpose is to reduce the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants to the U.S. Trump has had success using blunt-force threats in the...
  • Lindsey Graham: Trump Needs to Be Investigated For Pulling John Bolton’s Security (VIDEO)

    01/28/2025 12:09:58 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 116 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | January 28, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on the Senate to investigate Trump for pulling John Bolton’s security. ........ Snip........ RINO Lindsey Graham ran to CNN to call for an investigation into Trump’s decision to pull John Bolton’s security. “Whether you like Bolton or anybody else, we need to make sure that if you serve in our government and you take a foreign power at the request of the administration, that we do not leave you hanging,” Lindsey Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash. “The Senate needs to look at what happened and sit down and figure out what’s the best way forward,”...
  • Senate Reportedly Considering HIDING Their Votes on Tulsi Gabbard from the American People Following News of Susan Collins’s Possible Opposition to Gabbard

    01/28/2025 8:34:38 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 67 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | January 28, 2025 | Cullen Linebargar
    The GOP-controlled Senate may be poised to sink Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) without an outside soul knowing how they voted. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Senator Susan Collins (RINO-ME) may derail Gabbard’s confirmation as DNI due to concerns about Gabbard’s stance on Section 702 of the FISA which gives government permission to spy on supposed foreign targets without a warrant. Gabbard previously proposed legislation to repeal section 702 due to the government violating the Fourth Amendment by abusing the warrantless spying program to spy on American citizens. She has since tried to reassure senators...
  • Alaska Sen. Murkowski Releases Joint Statement with Danish MP: Greenland ‘Open for Business, but Not for Sale’

    01/28/2025 7:53:25 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 97 replies
    Breitbart ^ | January 28, 2025 | Paul Bois
    Sen. Lisa Murkowski issued a joint statement with the Danish member of parliament who holds two seats representing Greenland, emphasizing that the United States should view the icy landmass as a “an ally” rather than “an asset.” “The appeal of Greenland is easy to understand. It is strategically located for defense, shipping, and more. It is also a storehouse for all sorts of minerals, the building blocks of society that will determine who leads—and controls—the industries of the future,” the statement began. “Of course, a businessman turned president would be interested. But Greenland is not for sale. The question has...
  • President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, has a message for people who are excusing President Trump's racism

    01/27/2025 10:41:22 AM PST · by 7thson · 52 replies
    Facebook | December 16, 2019 | Michael Gerson
    The below came from a Facebook post from a FB Friend of mine. It was originally posted on FB by a Joe Daiker, who seems to be a extreme hater of President Trump. Since it was originally posted on 19 December 2019, I have no idea what Michael Gerson was crying about. However, it was another rant of President Trump being a racist without a thought of the minorities and women that are on his team and support him.
  • Mitch McConnell Votes Against Pete Hegseth, JD Vance Breaks Senate Tie, President Trump Responds to News of McConnell’s Vote

    01/25/2025 5:40:57 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 125 replies
    The Conservative Tree House ^ | 25 Jan, 2025 | Sundance
    For 20-years we have called out the Machievellian nature of Mitch McConnell and his duplicitous agenda to support the UniParty apparatus in Washington DC. Heck, even the name of this site, “The Last Refuge” came from our non-pretending association as to the nature of the root cause of our problems within the Republican apparatus. Mitch McConnell has always been working for the other side. Last night in the confirmation vote for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Mitch McConnell voted no. In an almost identical way to former Senator John McCain refusing to repeal Obamacare, Mitch McConnell ends his time in the...
  • Pence Wages Lonely Crusade Against Kennedy as Abortion Opponents Avoid Fight

    01/24/2025 12:55:17 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Jan. 24, 2025, 2:43 p.m. ET | Sheryl Gay Stolberg
    Former Vice President Mike Pence, a longtime leader of the anti-abortion movement, has taken up a lonely crusade to defeat the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary. His organization, Advancing American Freedom, is running ads against Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Pence has accused Mr. Kennedy of promoting “abortion on demand.” His fellow abortion opponents are not listening. Thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on Washington on Friday to mark the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion. President Trump addressed the crowd at the March for Life by video....
  • 🚨BREAKING: Senators McConnell, Murkowski, and Collins are reportedly set to oppose Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense

    01/22/2025 1:57:22 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 194 replies
    Benny Johnson on Twitter X ^ | January 22, 2025 | Benny Johnson
    Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Senators McConnell, Murkowski, and Collins are reportedly set to oppose Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense 3:42 PM · Jan 22, 2025
  • President Trump has stripped John Bolton of his security clearance

    01/20/2025 6:07:15 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 179 replies
    🚨BREAKING🚨: President Trump has stripped John Bolton of his security clearance
  • John Bolton to Newsmax: Trump an Aberration; I'll Be Proven Right

    01/18/2025 3:57:49 PM PST · by Kazan · 106 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Friday, 17 January 2025 | Michael Katz
    John Bolton, national security adviser in Donald Trump's first administration and now a harsh critic of the president-elect, told Newsmax on Friday he will be proven right that Trump is just an aberration in American politics.Bolton also told "Finnerty" he wouldn't take back recent remarks that if Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be "stunned" that the Republican Party had anything to do with Trump, even after the president-elect defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote and Electoral College and ushered in GOP control of Congress."We'll see on Monday what the inaugural address looks like," Bolton, the...
  • Trump’s sweeping deportation threat is unworkable and aimed at ‘rabid’ Republicans, says Newt Gingrich

    01/13/2025 4:59:04 PM PST · by Miami Rebel · 104 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 1/13/2024 | Martin Pengelly
    Former US House speaker says documented people, Dreamers, mothers and children must not be deported Newt Gingrich, the former US House speaker and presidential hopeful, said a section of his own Republican party was “rabid” over immigration and predicted Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could deport documented people as well as millions of undocumented people will not come to pass. “I’d be very surprised if you see any significant effort to change the game for people who are here legally,” Gingrich said, weeks before Trump’s return to the White House. “I just think there’s a very small faction of the...
  • Is Trump Part of the Swamp Now?

    01/08/2025 2:23:57 PM PST · by Angelino97 · 52 replies
    Chronicles ^ | January 2025 | Neema Parvini
    I am less optimistic about the election of Donald Trump than most. As he adorns the cover of Time magazine as their “Person of the Year,” as Antifa and Black Lives Matter fail to riot, as the left cannot even be bothered to feign outrage, as predictions of Civil War on the horizon melt away, and as the media collectively limps to the acceptance that he will once again be president and that the “woke era” is well and truly over, I cannot help but feel something is up. Surely, all that should signal ultimate triumph and victory, no? Well,...
  • Pence: ‘Admirable’ that Harris certified Trump’s win after losing election

    01/06/2025 12:28:15 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 147 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/06/2025 | Brett Samuels
    Former Vice President Mike Pence, who had to be evacuated four years ago Monday as rioters stormed the Capitol, welcomed “the return of order and civility” as Congress moved to certify President-elect Trump’s 2024 victory. “The peaceful transfer of power is the hallmark of our democracy and today, members of both parties in the House and Senate along with the vice president certified the election of our new president and vice president without controversy or objection,” Pence posted on the social platform X. “I also commend the members of the House, Senate and the Vice President who did their duty...
  • Thune Questions if It Is ‘Realistic’ to Deport Everybody in the Country Illegally

    01/05/2025 10:14:22 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 158 replies
    Breitbart ^ | January 5, 2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) questioned if deporting everyone in the United States illegally was “realistic” Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Host Kristen Welker said, “Let’s talk about the Republicans’ agenda. When I spoke to President-elect Donald Trump he said his mass deportation plan was his top priority. He wants to deport everyone who is here illegally. Do you support that plan to deport everyone who is here illegally?” Thune said, “Well I think certainly there are categories, people who have committed crimes. There are over a million people that the current administration had targeted for deportation. So...
  • ‘Unprecedented’: Will Chuck Grassley Really Become U.S. President if There’s No House Speaker to Certify Trump Victory?

    12/29/2024 2:10:45 PM PST · by DFG · 68 replies
    America First Report ^ | 12/29/2024 | Joe Kovacs
    Despite Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris in November, it’s possible he may not become president on Jan. 20 if there’ still no speaker of the House who has certified the election results. That alarm is being sounded on national TV as Mike Johnson, the current speaker of the House, is facing the threat of not being voted as speaker again this Friday. On “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel, host Jason Chaffetz quoted Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram who said: “The House absolutely, unequivocally cannot do anything until it elects a speaker, period. This...
  • GOP Senator-Elect John Curtis: I Will Speak Up When I Disagree with Trump

    12/22/2024 10:05:57 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/22/2024 | Pam Key
    Senator-Elect John Curtis (R-UT) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he has no qualms about speaking up when he disagreed with President-elect Donald Trump. Curtis said, “You know, it’s very important to me that President Trump is successful. I want to see him wildly successful, and I’ll be supportive of him when he’s talking about inflation and the economy and everything like that. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be moments when I disagree with him. And I think it’s very important to me and my constituents that — that at those moments that I feel comfortable speaking up.”
  • Mitt Romney: Democrats May Help Mike Johnson Remain Speaker

    12/20/2024 3:39:51 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2024 | Wendell Husebo
    House Speaker Mike Johnson’s best chance to keep the gavel is to allow House Democrats to vote for him, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told reporters Friday. If Democrats, along with some establishment Republicans, enable Johnson to retain the Speakership, he would be in a power sharing agreement with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who would demand something of Johnson in return for Democrat votes.
  • Mitt Romney: ‘Confusion reigns’ on CR as Trump’s direction ‘absent’

    12/19/2024 9:07:00 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 45 replies
    The Hill via MSN ^ | 12/18/24 | Ashleigh Fields
    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) criticized President-elect Trump for discord regarding the continuing resolution. “What does President Trump want Republicans to do: vote for the CR or shut down government? Absent direction, confusion reigns,” Romney wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. House Republicans spent Tuesday debating last-minute changes to the stopgap bill with disagreements over disaster relief funding and aid for farmers prolonging a finalized text. However, once published, Elon Musk, set to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” encouraged legislators to vote against the bill.