Both consumer and producer inflation accelerated as former President Joe Biden left office in January and President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, to annual rates of 3 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively, according to the latest data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Besides illegal immigration and the border, inflation and the U.S. economy […]
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The Deep State is sinking, and the Left has decided to go down with the ship. That’s one of the realities that’s perplexing some political commentators in the early days of the second Trump White House stint. One would think that after an electoral shellacking combined with the popularity of Trump’s policies in the early days of his presidency, Democrats […]
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President Donald Trump’s second term kicked off with intense scrutiny on federal spending, including shining light on the shrouded United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID doles out American taxpayer dollars to the world to the tune of around $40 billion dollars annually, and its budget includes a slate of expenditures that are patently […]
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U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Southern District of New York on Feb. 11 clarified that the U.S. Treasury including Secretary Scott Bessent is allowed to access his own department’s payment systems after a prior ruling had blocked access to anyone but “civil servants”. Vargas clarified the scope of the ruling, saying it did not apply to Treasury […]
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Topline: The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s biannual “Budget and Economic Outlook” report. The number is $1 trillion less than the estimate from June 2024, but is coupled with an anticipated increase in government spending. Key facts: A […]
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Because common sense is the key to understanding America’s original design at every level, America was long known as “The Common Sense Nation.” Now, President Trump and his “common sense revolution” might succeed in making America the common sense nation once again. Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the core ideas of the American […]
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$50 to $100 billion a year, that is how much has already been identified by the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency through a review of Treasury payments as likely fraud. This amount is nothing more than identifying how much is paid monthly to recipients who don’t have a Social Security number or other government […]
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Many Americans have come to understand that the mainstream, corporate media is a controlled propaganda machine. There are no original ideas and no deviation allowed from the mandated set of words to describe any action or situation. For way too long, even the slugs in corporate media have essentially admitted this obvious fact because it […]
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President Donald Trump has certainly undertaken a systematic demolition of former President Joe Biden’s diversity, equity, and inclusion regime since returning to the Oval Office. But Trump is also going further. He appears intent on correcting the distortion of the original pledges of the civil rights movement. In other words, Trump is not only dispatching Bidenism to the dustbin of […]
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Elon Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency has caused a frenzy among Democrats. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) President Donald Trump’s Department Of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, began dominating the deep state before dominating the headlines. To rein in the administrative state, DOGE has taken over the offices of what […]