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Two Venezuelan aircraft operated by the Venezuelan airline Conviasa flew to the U.S. on Monday and returned home with deported Venezuelans.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided "full funding" for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado, documents show. Al-Awlaki was an American-born jihadist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011, during the Obama administration. He was a central figure of al Qaeda, including having direct contact with Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan before he opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, killing 13 people. Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 to parents from Yemen. He was raised both in the U.S. and Yemen, "This form, dated 1990, confirms that Anwar al-Awlaki was qualified for an exchange visa and that USAID was providing ‘full funding’ for his studies at Colorado State University," the National Security Archive reported in 2015 accompanied by a copy of the document. "The document lists Anwar’s birthplace incorrectly as Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, which he later said was a deliberate falsehood offered at the urging of American officials who knew his father so that he could qualify for a scholarship reserved for foreign citizens.” Al-Awlaki was preaching at a San Diego mosque in 2000 when he reportedly first met Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the 9/11 hijackers. He was arrested in 2006 in Yemen on suspicion of holding terrorist ties, with U.S. intelligence viewing him as a terrorist sympathizer. He was linked to the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that year, as well as the attempted bombing of a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. Obama authorized operations to capture or kill al-Awlaki in 2010, with a drone strike on Sept. 30, 2011, killing him in Yemen. “You take a look at the USAID, the kind of fraud in there." President Trump

Elon Musk's DOGE has terminated a multi-million dollar virtual reality project that taught soldiers how to have 'difficult conversations in DEI-friendly way. The Air Force and Space Force were spending millions for a training program not to better enhance soldiers' fighting capability, but to "help grow inclusive-minded leaders." It was a priority for military officials under Biden to address "unconscious bias" in the military ranks and create a more "inclusive" force, according to a White House memo. The Air Force's Air Education and Training Command spent $2.3 million contract to create a virtual reality experience where soldiers would deal with an avatar that would help them speak and act in a DEI-friendly way. 'This program allows the participants to have a conversation that are both realistic and difficult,' an Air Force soldier wrote alongside a video testimonial. 'It uses a virtual avatar that are controlled by trained actors.' It's just another way that the Air and Space Force are innovating and staying one step ahead of a time when we have difficult conversations!' the soldier continued. "DOGE has canceled a $2.3 million contract with the Air Force's University for the "profession of arms center of excellence unconscious bias mixed reality service,'' a senior White House official said.

Elon Musk says his DOGE team found out on Monday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sent payments of $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal aliens. Musk is now demanding that FEMA, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), push a clawback demand. It's unclear if the demand will be met, but if it is, FEMA would be able to recuperate the millions in already-distributed funds. "Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President's executive order. That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!" Elon Musk

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has canceled over $180 million in contracts from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These contacts were entirely for administrative expenses - none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH museum.

President Trump says he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico. He also reaffirmed that he would announce reciprocal tariffs, probably Tuesday or Wednesday, meaning that the U.S. would impose import duties on products in cases where another country has levied duties on U.S. goods. “If they are charging us 130% and we’re charging them nothing, it’s not going to stay that way.”

Very enlightening about JD Vance. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

President Trump has cancelled the security clearances of former secretary of state Antony Blinken, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, former national security advisor Jake Sullivan, Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and attorneys Andrew Weissmann, Mark Zaid and Norm Eisen. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14376597/Trump-strips-security-clearances-Anthony-Blinken-Letitia-James-Alvin-Bragg-including-humiliating-ban-entering-federal-buildings.html

I never saw this before. Amazing. .

President Trump says Biden will no longer receive classified intelligence briefings. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/trump-biden-security-briefings-00203232

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14374445/Republican-Senator-John-Kennedy-defends-Elon-Musk-DOGE.html

Congressman Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has introduced the "End The Deep State Act" this week to make it easier for President Trump to fire high-level officials who undermine his policies. A recent executive order makes policy-influencing positions within the administration directly accountable to the president, and therefore, the American people. Trump's administration implemented a similar policy during his first term, but it was undone by Biden, who then implemented a rule to make it more difficult for presidents to fire policy-influencing government employees. Ogles says "This will give the president the latitude to simply hold people accountable. You can't embed yourself into the deep state, into the bureaucracy, and then simply serve as a detractor and a disruptor for the incoming administration. There is a level of employee within the federal government that's working against Americans, hard working Americans every single day, and they're untouchable. This fixes that. This creates accountability." For years, republicans have complained about outsized power held by veteran federal bureaucrats working to advance their own objectives and not those of the president or elected officials.

Just announced: the tax priorities of the Trump administration: No tax on tips No tax on seniors’ Social Security No tax on overtime pay Renewing the Trump Tax Cuts Adjusting the state & local tax (SALT) cap Eliminating special tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners Closing the carried interest loophole Tax cuts for "Made in America" projects “This will be the largest tax cut in history for middle class working Americans.”

The democrats and democrat benefactors continue their attempt at characterizing the Trump administration as a group of dangerous out-of-control renegades that will cause the country to implode at any moment. But the Trump team continues to respond in a calm and professional manner. From Bessent to Homan, the Trump team is simply and transparently fulfilling the President's campaign commitments to the American people.

John Kennedy (R-LA) defends Elon Musk's spending cuts. .