"It's the Trump turnaround.

"The White House has launched a near-total crackdown on migrants at the border, not even bothering to question whether they are seeking asylum, leading droves to just throw in the towel, officials and sources say.

"The migrants are halting in their tracks and returning south 'due to increased border security' after President Trump ended the Biden administration's risky 'catch and release' program, deployed additional troops to the border and commenced a mass deportation effort across the nation, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks said on X."

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"As day follows night, Democrats and various other big-government parasites screamed that the Trump administration's decision to cut back on National Institutes of Health grants to colleges and universities would prove cataclysmic.

"What's really happening? Donald Trump is choking off a slush fund that colleges and universities have used for decades to finance left-wing causes.

"On Feb. 7, the NIH announced that it would pay only 15% in overhead costs to colleges and universities instead of the average 26% it paid out in 2023.

"The primal screams were immediate."

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"As the Trump administration works to shutter the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), current and former U.S. officials who worked closely with the embattled aid group say they watched for years as it funneled millions of dollars to anti-Israel advocacy groups and entities linked to terrorism.

"That funding caused internal friction across multiple administrations, according to those who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon. In some cases, USAID fought to conceal how taxpayer funds were spent. And when it came to Israel, officials recalled battling USAID over funding for groups that worked to undermine the Jewish state or maintained ties to terror organizations."

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"The Senate confirmed Russ Vought to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, bringing in a juggernaut who is anticipated to invoke heightened executive power over the budget and the handling of federal employees.

"The vote was along party lines, 53-47, after Democrats used a 30-hour overnight delay tactic, where more than a dozen senators complained about how the institutions they have long controlled are completely falling apart in the early days of the Trump administration. ...

"OMB, one of the most powerful offices in the federal government, has significant influence over the federal budget, regulatory framework, and employment."

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"On Jan. 1, California's new anti-election integrity law went into effect, prohibiting local governments in the Golden State from requiring voters to show identification to cast ballots in elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the restrictive legislation into law a little more than a month before November's historic presidential election.

"It's certainly not the first time the far-left governor with higher political aspirations has been on the wrong side of American sentiment.

"A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that more than three-quarters of likely U.S. voters (77%) say requiring a photo ID to vote is a reasonable way to protect the integrity of elections. Just 17 percent think such measures are unreasonable. The latest numbers are up from 74 percent support in 2021, according to the pollster."

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"One of the most expensive green energy projects ever undertaken in American history looks like it is now on borrowed time after eating up massive amounts of taxpayer dollars and killing thousands of birds.

"Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) -- a major utility company -- announced in January that it is terminating power purchase contracts with the owners of Southwestern California's Ivanpah Solar Power facility, a massive and unique solar project that received hundreds of millions of subsidy dollars as it launched in 2014. Just over a decade after it started operations, the facility appears to be headed toward its demise after killing thousands of birds because it could not provide the utility sufficiently cheap energy.

"'PG&E determined that ending the agreements at this time will save customers money,' the company said in its Jan. 17 statement on the plant. The original owners of the plant -- which cost about $2.2 billion to build -- included Google and NRG Energy, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal."

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"Panamanian president Jose Raul Mulino said his country would not renew its agreement with China's Belt and Road Initiative following a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a move that will make it the first Latin American country to leave the initiative.

"Mulino, speaking to reporters on Sunday after Rubio's first foreign trip as America's top diplomat, said he believes the agreement is due for renewal in a year or two. He said he would study 'whether it can be finished earlier or not.'

"The news is a blow to Beijing, which views Panama as critical to its foreign influence efforts in the Western Hemisphere. Chinese businesses operate ports near the Panama Canal, which the United States owned and operated until moving control to Panama in 1999."

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"President Trump on Thursday said he plans to follow through on Saturday on his threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada.

"'We'll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons,' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He cited the influx of migrants at the southern border, the flow of fentanyl into the United States and the trade deficit the U.S. has with its neighbors.

"'I'll be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada and Mexico, and we will really have to do that because we have very big deficits with those countries,' he said. 'Those tariffs may or may not rise with time.'"

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"The midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the nation's capital was preceded by months of harrowing near misses at airports across America, as well as increasingly shrill warnings that the nation's air traffic control and safety system is stretched to the limit.

"Just 14 months before Wednesday night's fatal mishap near Ronald Reagan National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration received a safety expert report that warned America's air traffic control system is suffering from quality control issues and staffing shortages that put safety at risk.

"That report warned that 'challenges, in the areas of process integrity, staffing, and facilities, equipment, and technology, all have ties to inadequate, inconsistent funding. Together, these challenges contribute to increased safety risk and should be regarded as incident precursor.'"

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"In his first hours in office, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order curtailing the practice of unlimited birthright citizenship. Many think the Fourteenth Amendment calls for citizenship for everyone born in America. Left-wing attorneys general in 18 states have filed suit to stop the order. But the case isn't as clear cut as some would contend.

"At the heart of the debate is this phrase: 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.'

"This central clause raises questions about its application for some children of non-citizens and illegal immigrants. By revisiting the original debates surrounding the amendment's language and reviewing its implications, Trump's call for limiting the scope of birthright citizenship appears reasonable."

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