Month: April 2025

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The Trump administration is turning up the heat on Harvard University.

According to a report from CNN, the Trump administration has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to draw up plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status.

The move could potentially cost Harvard billions of dollars a year, threatening its status as one of the world’s leading academic institutions.

Gary Shapley, recently appointed by Trump as acting commissioner of the IRS, holds the legal authority to revoke an organization’s tax-exempt status. Such action is usually taken after the agency concludes that the group has breached federal guidelines that regulate nonprofit entities.

Tax-exempt organizations risk losing that status if they engage in prohibited activities, including certain forms of political involvement.

A final decision is expected in the coming days.

On Tuesday, Trump ordered the the freezing of approximately $2.3 billion in federal funding to the university over its non-compliance with directives on abolishing DEI and race-based admissions as well as its refusal to crack down on campus antisemitism.

Harvard President Alan Garber rejected these demands, citing the university’s supposed commitment to academic freedom and political autonomy.

Gaber said in a statement:

We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.

The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI.

And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.

​Trump Administration Freezes $2.3 Billion in Harvard Funding Amid DEI and Antisemitism Dispute

President Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism denounced the response as reinforcing the “troubling endemic mindset in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws.”

“The disruption of learning that has plagued campuses in recent years is unacceptable,” they continued. “The harassment of Jewish students is intolerable.”

”It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support.”

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The Pentagon has allegedly placed Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll on administrative leave amid an ongoing investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.

The DoD announced in late March that it would be beginning a probe into “recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information.” 

“This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense,” wrote Joe Kasper, the chief of staff to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in a March 21 memo.

The leaks allegedly include operational plans concerning the Panama Canal, the information of the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Red Sea, a visit by Elon Musk to the Pentagon to discuss China, and a pause in the collection of intelligence concerning the Ukraine War. 

Caldwell, a Marine Corps veteran, was previously a public policy advisor at the think tank Defense Priorities and. In the recently leaked Signal text-chain concerning strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, Hegseth listed Caldwell as his best staff point of contact for the National Security Council.

Selnick is a veteran of the Air Force, where he served as an officer, and was a senior advisor to Concerned Veterans of America, a nonprofit organization that Hegseth formerly led.

Carroll, who prior to his suspension had served as chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, is also a veteran of the Marine Corps and recently has worked for the defense contractor Anduril.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was joined in the briefing room on Wednesday by Patty Morin, the mother of alien crime victim Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother who was horrifically raped and murdered in 2023 by a Salvadoran illegal alien.

As Democrat politicians and their liberal media cohorts push the narrative that an innocent “Maryland father”–who is actually an MS-13 gang member, designated foreign terrorist, and Salvadoran illegal alien–was wrongfully deported by the Trump Administration, the White House called a last-minute press briefing in an attempt to force honest coverage out of the media.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Democrat Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen even flew all the way to El Salvador for a photo op in his fight to smuggle the deported MS-13 gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to the US.  Meanwhile, he had nothing to say when one of his constituents was violently raped and murdered by one of these animals.

Likewise, far-left CNN and MSNBC refused to carry coverage of the press briefing. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung exposed two networks’ “shameful” display of carelessness for victims:

SHAMEFUL that @CNN and @MSNBC refuses to take Angel Mom Patty Morin as she recounts the terrible tragedy of how an illegal killed her sweet daughter, Rachel. pic.twitter.com/h5TQiY99cj

— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) April 16, 2025

During the briefing, Patty Morin shared details about her daughter’s murder that she hadn’t even learned until the last two weeks of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez’s trial, where he was found guilty of murdering Rachel in the first degree.

“They kept most of it close to their chest, the detectives, because they didn’t want to do anything to hurt the case. They wanted to keep the integrity of the case, so they kept everything close,” she said before recounting the horrifying details she learned.

“When she went on that trail that day, she was not planning on dying,” Patty said. “She was planning on going to the grocery store with her girls afterwards.” But the animalistic thug “waited for her” then viciously attacked her, dragged her 150 feet leaving a trail of blood, and raped her after bashing her head in with a rock at least 20 times and crushing her skull like an “eggshell.”

“There wasn’t one inch of her body that didn’t have some kind of injury, whether it’s bruising, broken bones, contusions, the scratches. She had a fractured rib, fractured nose, fractured skull,” Patty said.

Worse, “when he was sitting in the courtroom, he actually looked like he thought he was going to be set free,” and “there was no remorse on his face at all,” Patty said.

She compared the pain to someone ripping out her heart while she is still living and asked the mothers in the room to try to imagine how she feels.

She concluded her speech, noting how Chris Van Hollen refused to acknowledge her daughter’s gruesome murder and is instead using taxpayer funds “to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen.”

“Why does that person have more rights than I do, or my daughter, or my grandchildren?” she asked. “I don’t understand this.”

WATCH:

Morin: You know that Rachel is a 37 year old mother. She has five children. We’ve walked the trail for the last 25 years that we’ve lived in Maryland. It’s a safe place for our family. It’s where we go to get a little bit of New England because that’s where we’re from, New England.

When she went on that trail that day, she was not planning on dying. She wasn’t planning on walking to her death. She was planning on going to the grocery store with her girls afterwards.

Victor Martinez, he waited for her, he waited for her to come closer, he saw her, he saw that there was nobody around. He attacked her. He dragged her 150 feet, blood gushing from her head. It left 150 foot trail of her blood to the culverts, where he picked her up, he threw her against the wall, the tunnel, and he raped her.

But before he did that, he stopped on that trail and rocks, still stained with her blood, he used them to hammer her head against those rocks. They say 20, at least 20 times; they could count the cuts in her head.

They said that when they did the autopsy, and I’ve seen the pictures, there’s a six-inch square in the back of her head where the skull is shattered, the way that you would crush an eggshell, in pieces.

Three fourths of her brain hemorrhaged, her right and left side of her face bashed in, her beautiful face bashed in, her head bashed in, broken bones, fractures. He takes and he drags her some more.

He drags her through the thorn bushes. She has all the scrapes and cuts on her body. There wasn’t one inch of her body that didn’t have some kind of injury, whether it’s bruising, broken bones, contusions, the scratches. She had a fractured rib, fractured nose, fractured skull.

And then he takes her into the tunnel, and he picks her up. He throws her against the wall.

Blood is gushing from her head. Her hair is soaked in blood, and they showed us pictures of her body against the wall, outlined, the blood, outlined her body, and you could see where the blood ran down around her as he was raping her.

And then he threw her down and raped her some more, and then he strangled her because he didn’t want her to be able to live to tell the story.

They said that when they did the autopsy on her neck, that one of the things they do is they open up the neck and they look to see how far the injury is, and they went all the way down as far as an injury is possible, hemorrhaging in the muscles because of how strong and violent the grip was around her.

These are the kind of people that have no compulsion. Like to them, this is nothing.

And when he was sitting in the courtroom, he actually looked like he thought he was going to be set free.

There was no remorse on his face at all. This person took my daughter so violently and so gruesomely and so graphically that they sealed the pictures because I don’t want my granddaughters to see these pictures.

These are the kind of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country.

These are the kind of criminals that we need to remove from our country. We are American citizens. Why should we allow people like this, violent criminals that have no consience at all to murder our mothers, our sisters, our daughters. I don’t understand why there’s even any kind of problem with this.

And it’s not that it’s political, like the left or the right, although I understand different parties have used it in the past, but we have to look at it as we are American citizens. We need to protect our families, our borders, our children.

Well, I do, but I want to preserve life, and that’s the only reason why I have taken and spoken about Rachel all this time.

If you’re a mother here in the room, can you imagine standing there alive, you’re alive, and someone comes and puts their hands into your chest and rips out your heart? That’s what it feels like. It feels like a part of you is being ripped out of you.

You can’t even describe the pain, just like you can’t describe to your husband what it feels like to carry a baby in your womb, or to feel those first kicks, or to know just intuitively if it’s a boy or a girl. It’s only a thing that a mother knows.

Why are we not protecting the American citizens? It’s just common sense. Why are we not protecting our children?

And to have a senator from Maryland, who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grand baby without a grandmother, so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen.

Why does that person have more rights than I do, or my daughter, or my grandchildren? I don’t— I don’t understand this. Thank you.

Afterward, Patty, holding back tears, begged the soulless Democrat members of the media to “please tell the truth.” She continued, Tell how violent it really is. This is about protecting our children. It’s more than just politics or votes, or just anything. It’s about national security and protecting Americans, protecting our children.”

WATCH:

Watch the full press briefing here:

WATCH: White House Holds Emergency Press Conference with Patty Morin, Angel Mother of Rachel Morin, as Media and Democrats Fawn Over Violent El Salvadorian MS-13 Gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The post DESPICABLE: MSNBC and CNN Refuse to Cover Press Briefing as Angel Mom Patty Morin Shares Heartbreaking New Details of Daughter’s Murder, Shreds Democrat Chris Van Hollen, and Pleads for Media to “Tell The Truth” (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg has vowed to spend millions to unseat his own party’s incumbents during primary season.

Hogg plans to allocate $20 million from his organization, Leaders We Deserve, to try to replace Democrat lawmakers in safe districts with younger and more progressive candidates.

In an interview with Politico, Hogg stated, “We have a culture of seniority politics that has created a litmus test of who deserves to be here. We need people, regardless of their age, that are here to fight.”

Democrats are not happy with the move from the political activist.

DNC Chair Ken Martin told the outlet that the party’s longstanding position is that primary voters, not the national party, determine candidates for the general election.

Still, Martin added, “David Hogg is a passionate advocate and we are grateful for his service to the Democratic Party, whether it be in his role as a D.N.C. vice chair or in an outside capacity.”

Hogg said he expects the move to “anger a lot of people” and predicts a “smear campaign” against him.

The New York Times reports:

In an interview, Mr. Hogg said he understood that he would face blowback for his decision to serve simultaneously as a top official in the party — which is typically focused on electing Democrats over Republicans — and as a leader of an effort to oust current Democratic lawmakers.

“This is going to anger a lot of people,” Mr. Hogg said of his efforts, which he began to brief allies, some lawmakers and party officials on in recent days. He predicted “a smear campaign against me” that would aim to “destroy my reputation and try to force me to stop doing this.”

“People say they want change in the Democratic Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” he said. “That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.”

His decision to engage directly in primaries threatens to fracture the leadership of the Democratic National Committee.

At a private meeting last month, a “neutrality policy” was circulated asking the party’s top officers to refrain from any activity that would “call into question their impartiality and evenhandedness,” according to two people with knowledge of the pledge, which sought to cover officers “both in their D.N.C. capacity and in their personal capacity.”

Everyone signed it — except Mr. Hogg.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia

New damning details have emerged regarding an alleged MS-13 gangster from El Salvador that the corporate media affectionately calls a “Maryland man.”

As TGP readers know, the Trump administration recently sent Kilmer Abrego Garcia, who illegally entered America in 2011, back to his home country. The administration cited two court rulings that found that he was an MS-13 gang member. This made him a designated foreign terrorist and an El Salvadoran citizen who was in the United States illegally.

The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to ‘facilitate‘Abrego Garcia’s return. This ruling came after an Obama judge demanded the administration not just “facilitate” but also “effectuate” the man’s return.

Abrego Garcia remains in El Salvador despite the Supreme Court ruling, however, because the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, has ruled out shipping him back to America.

TGP’s Jordan Conradson has also revealed that Abrego Garcia had TWO protective orders for domestic violence filed against him by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez. One of these was in 2020, and the other in 2021.

Court documents showed he repeatedly scratched and beat his helpless wife on multiple occasions, yet the media remains silent.

Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi has released a document that contains multiple damning new details regarding Abrego Garcia, which further blow up the media narrative about him.

We are releasing additional information on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.https://t.co/RbZkFvuRaf

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) April 16, 2025

The document in question is a Prince George’s County Police Department Gang Field Interview Sheet from March 28, 2019. Police arrested Abrego Garcia and three others after catching them loitering in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Hyattsville, Maryland.

The new information revealed by the document should put to rest any doubt that Abrego Garcia is nothing more than a violent and prominent member of one of the most brutal gangs on Earth.

Per the document, here are the details:

1. When Garcia was arrested in March 2019, he and three of his cronies were found in possession of marijuana and discarded several other items at the scene.

As Det. –approached the individuals, two of the individuals reached into their waistbands and discarded several unknown items under a parked vehicle. All four individuals were stopped by Hyattsville officers.

Two small plastic bottles containing marijuana were located on the scene. All four individuals were transported back to District I for interviews.

2. He was arrested with two other members of MS-13 named Christhyan Hernandez-Romero and Jose Guillermo Dominguez. A fourth individual was unnamed in the interview sheet.

Members of the Prince George’s County Gang Unit MS-13 Intelligence Squad have encountered Christhyan HERNANDEZ-ROMERO on multiple occasions. He has an extensive criminal history for multiple assaults, concealing dangerous weapons, burglary, and many other criminal offenses.

He has also been found guilty of gang participation in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in December of 2018. Officers know HERNANDEZ-ROMERO to be an active MS-13 gang member with the Sailor’s Clique with the rank of”Observacion” and the moniker of”Bimbo.”

Officers also interview Jose Guillermo DOMINGUEZ. During the interview, officers observed tattoos of skulls covering their eyes, ears, and mouth. Officers know these kind of tattoos are indicative of the Hispanic gang culture. The tattoos is meant to represent “ver, oir y caljar” or “see no evil, hear rio evil and say no evil”.

He also had a tattoo of a devil on his left leg, which officers know only higher-ranking MS-13 gang members are allowed to get a tattoo with the horns. This represents power within MS-13. Officers made contact with a past proven and reliable source of information, who advised Jose Guillermo DOMINGUEZ is an active MS-13 gang member with the Sailor’s clique, the rank of “Chequeo” with the moniker “Maniaco.”

3. When Abrego Garcia was arrested, he was wearing MS-13’s uniform.

During the interview, Thursday, March 28, 2019, officers observed he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears, and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations.

Officers know such clothing to be indicative of the Hispanic gang culture. The meaning of the clothing is to represent “ver, oir y callar” or “see no evil, hear- no evil and say no evil.”

4. A confidential source then confirmed that Abrego-Garcia was a member of MS-13 and revealed his rank in the organization.

Wearing the Chicago Bulls hat represents that they are a member in good standing with the MS-13. Officers contacted a past proven and reliable source of information, who advised Kilmar Armando ABREGO-GARCIA is an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique.

The confidential source further advised that he is the rank of “Chequeo” with the moniker of “Chele.”

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Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen visits El Salvador to fight for illegal alien gang member Abrego Garcia

Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) flew all the way to El Salvador for a photo op in his fight to smuggle deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US.

“I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia,” Van Hollen said.

“I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home,” he added.

WATCH:

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home. pic.twitter.com/MzKe7U8Wwr

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 16, 2025

To be clear, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is now home in his native country of El Salvador and Van Hollen is trying to take him out of his home country and smuggle him over the US border.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US.

Abrego Garcia is currently being held at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador where he was soundly rejected by the Vice President.

What a joke.

Senator Van Hollen said his request to meet with El Salvador’s Vice President was denied.

WATCH:

NEW: Maryland Senator @ChrisVanHollen says his request made to the VP of El Salvador to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia was denied.

The senator said he was told by the Vice President “you need to make earlier provisions to visit CECOT.”

Van Hollen says he wasn’t able to meet with… pic.twitter.com/FRBYuutcNY

— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) April 16, 2025

The US Supreme Court last Thursday ordered the US to facilitate the return of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose deportation was previously blocked by a judge over his safety concerns. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump’s DOJ argued that “federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner,” and that they cannot forcibly take the individual back or force El Salvador to return him.

Kilmar Abrego García, an MS-13 gang member recently returned to El Salvador.
Photo courtesy of En Vivo – Screenshot from video.

Judge Paula Xinis an Obama appointee, slammed the Trump Administration during Friday’s hearing and demanded ‘daily updates’ on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts.

The judge said the Trump Admin has made “no meaningful effort to comply” with her order demanding the physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia.

Trump said he doesn’t need to ask El Salvador to do anything and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele made it clear on Monday that he was not going to smuggle a terrorist into the US.

The post Democrat Sen Chris Van Hollen Suffers Humiliating Rejection After Flying to El Salvador to Meet with Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Abrego Garcia (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Kilmar Abrego García, an MS-13 gang member recently returned to El Salvador.
Photo courtesy of En Vivo – Screenshot from video.

The Department of Homeland Security has released more court documents that detail a 2021 domestic violence incident involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the deported MS-13 gang affiliate and El Salvadoran illegal alien, and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez.

Democrats and their media allies have glorified the “Maryland father,” who is actually an El Salvadoran illegal alien with MS-13 ties, as an “innocent” man who was “kidnapped” by the Trump Administration and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

However, as The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, his wife, Jennifer Vasquez, previously petitioned the court for a protective order against Garcia in 2021 for the second time. A second protective order for domestic violence in 2020 was also discovered.

It turns out the media’s so-called victim of the Trump Administration’s policies is not the upstanding father of the year that the left made him out to be.

According to the 2021 protective order against Abego Garcia, the court found that he “punched and scratched” and “ripped off the shirt, grabbed, and bruised” Vasquez.

Abrego Garcia was also prohibited from contacting or attempting to contact Vasquez, from entering her residence, and ordered to vacate the residence. He was further ordered to “stay away from” Vasquez’s mother’s home.

Still, Vasquez pleaded to the American people for her illegal alien husband’s return to the U.S. so he could continue to reside here illegally in a press conference on Tuesday. A GoFundMe page has raised nearly $200,000 for their family, which could explain the emotional appeals.

WATCH:

Homeland Security published the documents on X, commenting,

Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as.

According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm.

This MS-13 gang member is not a sympathetic figure.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding “Maryland Man” the media has portrayed him as.

According to court filings, Garcia’s wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt,… pic.twitter.com/FpSV0k3i90

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 16, 2025

Meanwhile, Democrat lawmakers are currently in El Salvador to demand that the designated foreign terrorist be released and allowed back into the United States. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Democrat lawmakers led by Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen announced this week that they are going to El Salvador to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. illegally, describing him as a “Maryland man” and “father of three,” who is a victim of “kidnapping.”

Democrat Lawmakers Say They Will Travel to El Salvador to Demand President Bukele Hand Over “Illegally Detained” Terrorist Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Accuses Bukele of “Kidnapping” (VIDEO)

The post UPDATE: Additional Court Docs Show Deported Maryland MS-13 Illegal and Media Darling Kilmar Abrego Garcia “Punched and Scratched” Wife – “Ripped Off Shirt, Grabbed and Bruised Her” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Judge Tanya Chutkan

A federal judge on Tuesday evening barred EPA Chief Lee Zeldin from clawing back billions from the Biden EPA’s slush fund.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, granted an injunction against the EPA and barred Lee Zeldin from clawing back the money currently being sheltered at Citibank for 8 different ‘green’ nonprofits.

Lee Zeldin previously clawed back the $20 billion in grants under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and Citibank agreed to freezing the funds earmarked for the eight nonprofits.

According to AP, the money was awarded to “Coalition for Green Capital, Climate United Fund, Power Forward Communities, Opportunity Finance Network, Inclusiv and the Justice Climate Fund.”

The $20 billion sitting at Citibank was ordered by Judge Chutkan to be unfrozen by Thursday and disbursed to the 8 nonprofits.

The Trump Administration will immediately appeal the judge’s decision.

A Trump Administration spokesperson blasted the judge’s decision in a statement to CNN.

“The DC District Court does not have jurisdiction to reinstate the $20 billion Biden-Harris ‘Gold Bar’ scheme, which is further amplified by a recent Supreme Court decision,” a spokesperson said in an email to CNN. “These grants are terminated, and the funds belong to the U.S. taxpayer. We couldn’t be more confident in the merits of our appeal and will take every possible step to protect hard-earned taxpayer dollars.”

Lee Zeldin last month said he notified the eight recipients of the $20 billion from the Biden EPA’s slush fund that their grants have been terminated.

“It is my commitment to President Trump, Congress, and you, that EPA will be an exceptional steward of your tax dollars. I’ll have it no other way!” Lee Zeldin said.

Update: @EPA just notified 8 recipients of $20 BILLION in Biden EPA “gold bars” that their grants have been TERMINATED!

It is my commitment to President Trump, Congress, and you, that EPA will be an exceptional steward of your tax dollars. I’ll have it no other way! pic.twitter.com/PjJ5WOlaY1

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) March 11, 2025

Lee Zeldin terminated the grants after an EPA advisor was exposed in a Project Veritas undercover video admitting that the agency rushed to allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to climate change initiatives just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Project Veritas caught Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Advisor Brent Efron on undercover video admitting there is an “insurance policy” against President Trump.

“It was an insurance policy against Trump winning,” Brent Efron told Project Veritas undercover journalist.

“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in … it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge,” Efron said.

WATCH:

BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic”

“It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.”

“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump… pic.twitter.com/eaAihuNvAh

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) December 3, 2024

The post BREAKING: Obama Judge Chutkan Blocks EPA Chief Lee Zeldin From Clawing Back $20 Billion From Biden EPA Slush Fund – Trump Spox Responds appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Starmer, Trump, and Vance at the Oval Office: free speech for trade agreement.

UK’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is tragically set on imposing censorship in social media as a last resource to silence his own citizens and impose their hated Globalist agenda unimpeded.

However, if he wants to get a trade deal with the US, Starmer will have to embrace Donald J. Trump’s free speech agenda, and repeal ‘hate speech’ and censorship laws, sources close to chief negotiator VP JD Vance have told British paper The Independent.

This report follows statements by Vance hinting that a UK-US agreement ‘may be close’, with the White House ‘working very hard’ on it.

Vance to UnHerd:

“I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of both countries.”

VP Vance is leading the negotiations.

The Independent reported:

“But allies of Mr. Vance say he is ‘obsessed by the fall of Western civilization’ – including his view that free speech is being eroded in Britain – and that he will demand the Labour government rolls back laws against hateful comments, including abuse targeting LGBT+ groups or other minorities, as a condition of any deal.

The Independent was told: ‘The vice-president expressing optimism [on a trade deal] is a way of putting further pressure on the UK over free speech. If a deal does not go through, it makes Labour look bad’.”

Starmer: ‘Special relationship’ with US or keep the censorship push?

Needless to say, the Independent report not only misrepresents Vance’s opinions as ‘an obsession’, but the paper also describes the censorship laws as benign interventions against ‘hate’ and ‘targeted abuse’.

“’No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that’, the source close to the vice-president said. It is understood that Britain has already offered to drop its proposed digital services tax as a means of getting a trade deal through. But the US wants to see laws on hate speech repealed as well as plans for a new online safety law dropped.”

Vice President Vance called out the British PM Starmer TO HIS FACE for prosecuting free speech:

“I said what I said…there have been infringements on free speech.” pic.twitter.com/GcDaURL74k

— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) February 27, 2025

Read more:

ALLIES OR WARMONGERS? Moscow’s Spy Agency Says Starmer’s UK Sees US-Russia Peace Process as a Threat, Calls Britain the ‘Instigator of Global Conflict’

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered an emergency press briefing this afternoon with Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien. 

This comes as Democrats and the mainstream media glorify deported MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ignoring the devastating consequences of illegal immigration for families like the Morins.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Democrat lawmakers are currently in El Salvador to demand that the designated foreign terrorist be released and allowed back into the United States. The lawmakers, led by Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, announced this week that they are going to El Salvador to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. illegally, describing him as a “Maryland man” and “father of three,” who is a victim of “kidnapping.”

Democrat Lawmakers Say They Will Travel to El Salvador to Demand President Bukele Hand Over “Illegally Detained” Terrorist Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Accuses Bukele of “Kidnapping” (VIDEO)

They make him out to be an angel and a great father, who the Trump Administration should have allowed to live in the country illegally.

However, he is affiliated with the violent MS-13 gang, which rapes, trafficks, and murders women and children. Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, his wife, Jennifer Vasquez, previously petitioned the court for a protective order against Garcia in 2021 for the second time. A second protective order for domestic violence in 2020 was also discovered.

Angel mother Rachel Morin joined Leavitt in the briefing room today to share the heartbreaking story of her daughter and destroy the narrative that these violent individuals should be allowed to live in our country.

Watch below:

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