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The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation into radio stations backed by leftist billionaire George Soros for broadcasting live locations of undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. A group backed by Hungarian-born Soros purchased over 200 Audacy radio stations and received foreign investments. The radio stations cover over 40 media markets in the United States, giving the leftist billionaire unprecedented control over communication. One of those stations, KCBS 740 AM in San Francisco, has come under scrutiny from the FCC for revealing live locations of undercover ICE vehicles and agents that were conducting deportation operations in the San Jose area. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has already sent a formal Letter of Inquiry to the radio station as part of the FCC investigation. The Enforcement Bureau proceeding is inquiring whether the radio station – which is licensed to operate by the FCC – is violating the terms of their FCC license, which requires that they operate in the ‘public interest. The ICE agents were operating in response to violent gang activity. On January 26, the host of KCBS Radio Weekend News, revealed over the public airwaves that undercover ICE agents were carrying out an operation on the east side of town and then revealed the specific make, color and model of several unmarked vehicles used in the operation. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Trump-appointee, says broadcasting such locations puts agents at risk, which violates the public interest.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night granted a respite to the Trump administration as it seeks to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen, despite a judge’s order directing the administration to resume payments immediately. Roberts’ intervention heads off the possibility of administration officials being held in contempt for failing to comply with the order from U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, who imposed a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Wednesday for the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion in unpaid invoices from foreign-aid contractors. Roberts issued a stay of Ali’s order shortly after acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an emergency application arguing that it was impossible for officials to comply with that urgent deadline. Ali ordered the government to unfreeze the funds in response to lawsuits from aid groups that say they’re being devastated by the administration’s broad cutoff of foreign assistance. Roberts ordered the aid groups that filed the lawsuits to respond to the government’s application by noon on Friday. Roberts will likely refer the matter to the full Supreme Court, and his stay is likely to remain in place until the full court acts. Ali, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ordered the administration on Tuesday to pay the accumulated bills by the end of the day on Wednesday. The judge acted after finding that the Trump administration ignored earlier orders he issued requiring the State Department to lift a blanket freeze on overseas aid programs. Rather than take steps to unfreeze that aid, as Ali had directed Feb. 13, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development found new legal rationales to keep it on hold. Ali then gave the administration the midnight Wednesday deadline to send the payments for what officials have estimated is $2 billion-worth of unpaid work completed by aid contractors. The Trump administration disclosed Wednesday that it is eliminating more than 90% of USAID foreign-aid contracts — and cutting $60 billion in foreign assistance overall. Peter Marocco, the Trump appointee leading USAID’s day-to-day operations, filed a statement with Ali Tuesday suggesting that it would be impossible to meet his quick deadline and in fact would require “weeks’ of work to restart dismantled payment systems. “Restarting funding related to terminated or suspended agreements is not as simple as turning on a switch or faucet,” Marocco said. “Rather, the payment systems of USAID and State are complicated and require various steps before payments are authorized to be disbursed by the U.S. Treasury, Department of Health and Human Services, and/or the Department of State, involving multiple agencies.” Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed the emergency petition with the justices at roughly the same time that a federal appeals court in Washington denied a similar emergency appeal of Ali’s decision. The unanimous three-judge appellate panel noted that temporary restraining orders of the kind Ali issued typically cannot be appealed, and there was no reason to depart from that practice in this case. The ruling left the Supreme Court as the last resort for the Trump administration. Harris said the administration was prepared to pay any bills for completed work but said the need to conduct a review for waste, fraud and abuse required a lengthier process than the one permitted by Ali’s orders. “To be very clear, the government is committed to paying legitimate claims for work that was properly completed pursuant to intact obligations and supported by proper documentation,” Harris wrote. “It is attempting to navigate the district court’s evolving orders — and the ensuing, resource-consuming contract-review process.” Harris said Ali had no authority to intervene in the matter in the first place, suggesting he was impinging on Trump’s authority to direct the nation’s foreign policy. “The President’s power is at its apex and the power of the judiciary is at its nadir in matters of foreign affairs,” Harris wrote.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives late on Tuesday passed President Trump's $4.5 trillion tax-cut plan, sending the budget resolution to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to take it up. It's mainly good for corporate US. There's expected to be less regulation, and tax cuts. I would expect it to happen and then it will be positive for the stock market if they do so.

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Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services allowed 291,000 illegal alien children unaccompanied by parents into the U.S., and the Trump administration fears many of these children have ended up in the hands of sexual predators and human traffickers thanks to Biden’s lax vetting of sponsors. Biden’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) allowed obviously fraudulent applications to sponsor children and failed to put commonsense safety measures into place to prevent abuse. The Trump administration has reformed the Democrats’ 2008 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) program to shrink migrant smuggling by labor traffickers and by illegal migrant parents and to massively reduce the number of children and young adults that could end up a victim of sex trafficking. The ORR rarely denied applications despite the questionable information provided; only one percent were turned down. In one case, a man supplied a Guatemalan ID that was clearly not his to take in a child. In another case, a man supplied an obviously faked photo of what he claimed was a child’s mother. Biden was more concerned with quickly transitioning children out of federal custody than in their safety. It was all about getting them out of custody as quickly as possible from the time the Border Patrol encountered them, to the time ORR found sponsorship. When they were putting expediency over safety, that’s what created this problem. Biden wasn’t even fingerprinting sponsors. The people that Biden was releasing kids to were unknown. Biden’s HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra was warned of these issues but took no meaningful steps to address the problems. The Trump administration says “This was a heinous dereliction of duty by the Biden administration and must be immediately rectified in order to protect vulnerable children.” Now, major changes to the process have been made to assure the safety of children in its charge.

Biden’s TSA opened up fast-track lines for illegal aliens in 2021, according to a TSA document released by the Trump’s administration. The heretofore unreleased 2021 policy allowed illegal aliens to use a variety of “DHS-provided documents” to walk quickly through security checkpoints that held up many Americans. These approved documents included various documents issued by DHS, such as warrants for arrests, “Notice to Appear” court appointments, and Alien Booking record documents. The documents could be displayed electronically at TSA security checkpoints, meaning an illegal alien could present a photo or screenshot on their device, and TSA agents were permitted to grant them passage. Biden’s deputies, especially border chief Alejandro Mayorkas, welcomed nine million illegal aliens. Someone (?) was trying to help Democrat-aligned investors by expanding the economy with extra low-wage workers, consumers, and renters. The Biden show jeopardized national security by dispersing unvetted illegal aliens (terrorists?) across the country. Journalists possess videos of the illegal aliens being ushered past waiting Americans by government-hired escorts. The TSA document says the policy was adopted to reduce the delays caused by migrants [illegal aliens] seeking to get through airport security without normal [any] identification documents: In the document, TSA says the influx of illegal aliens without IDs places a severe burden on TSA checkpoints when attempting to vet multiple individuals. The document brags about reducing the wait times since rolling this pilot program out, saying use of CBP OneTM resulted in an efficiency improvement in process cycle time over the IVCC procedures. The average cycle time for ID verification with CBP OneTM was 1.48 minutes as compared to an average IVCC cycle time of 12.87 minutes, an 88.50% reduction of average cycle time per individual.

Ukraine’s Zelensky screamed at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent so loudly that it left him trembling with fear. Despite the billions of free US taxpayer dollars of cash and equipment given to Ukraine (by the Biden administration), Zelensky has the audacity to accuse the Trump administration of trying to exploit Ukraine.

$520 million dollars for a consultant on environmental, social governance and investments in Africa $25 million dollars to promote biodiversity conservation and socially responsible behavior in Colombia. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants $42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda $10 million for Mozambique medical male circumcisions

I thought the new way was no longer giving away our tax dollars abroad. Apparently I was wrong. https://defence-blog.com/us-transfers-20-roshel-captain-armored-vehicles-to-haiti/ A Canadian APC built on a Japanese Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series chassis. No US workers benefited from this gift of the US taxpayer. https://roshel.com/products/defense/captain-apc/

Newsom late Friday sent a request to congressional leaders for $40 billion in federal funding relating to the LA fires. "Make no mistake, Los Angeles will use this money wisely,” Newsom wrote.

Three decades ago, NFL legend Frank Gifford received a call from the FBI that his wife had received a death threat. "Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There's this guy. This is a very, very bad human being. He's a psychopathic murderer — a rapist and murderer. And he's coming to get your wife." Frank Gifford made one phone call, to Donald Trump, who sent then his private helicopter to pickup Kathie Lee Gifford and their child and bring them to stay in the secure safety of Trump Plaza at Atlantic City. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14423721/Kathie-Lee-Gifford-Trump-saved-daughter-killer.html

President Trump on Friday fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family,” Trump said. Brown publicly supported Black Lives Matter. The President is nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman. Caine is a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty and in the National Guard, and was most recently the associate director for military affairs at the CIA. His military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the firings of two additional senior officers: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Jim Slife. A surface warfare officer, Franchetti has commanded at all levels, heading U.S. 6th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Korea. She commanded a destroyer and did two stints as aircraft carrier strike group commander. Slife led Air Force Special Operations Command prior to becoming the service’s vice chief of staff and had served in the Middle East and Afghanistan.