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February 7, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Media
Politics

DOGE Doxxer Journo Is Former USAID Manager.

The journalist who doxxed a member of staff of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claiming they made racist remarks online, previously worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Katherine Long wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal this week, identifying Marko Elez, a 25-year-old member of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team, as being behind deleted social media accounts that allegedly advocated racist positions. According to Long, Elez was behind an X account whose user joked about “normaliz[ing] Indian hate” and said they would not date outside of their ethnicity. Elez resigned from his position this week.

A short autobiography by Long from her time at the Seattle Times newspaper states, “Before matriculating at Columbia [University], I’d been working for the federal government, managing USAID projects in Central Asia.”

USAID has been a focus for DOGE in recent days, with Musk and his team revealing millions of dollars have been spent on bizarre projects, from transgender plays in Colombia to feeding al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria.

Long also previously worked for Business Insider and attempted to doxx online personality and health writer Raw Egg Nationalist (REN). She wrote a letter to local farm shops to pressure them into identifying REN. Just two weeks later, the George Soros-backed HOPE Not Hate organization publicly doxxed him.

Some have defended Elez, including Vice President J.D. Vance, who called for DOGE to bring him back.

“I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever,” Vance said on X.

Image by USAID.

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The journalist who doxxed a member of staff of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claiming they made racist remarks online, previously worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). show more
February 7, 2025
William Upton
Education
Politics

WATCH: Democrat Lawmakers Try to Force Their Way Into Dept of Education.

A large group of Democrat Members of Congress attempted to force their way into the U.S. Department of Education on Friday despite not having a scheduled appointment with any official there. However, the lawmakers’ entry was blocked by a lone security officer who stood firm in front of the doors while Rep. Maxine Waters harassed him for his ID.

While Congress does have oversight power over the various executive branch government agencies, it is unusual for a lawmaker or lawmakers to just show up without an appointment or scheduled meeting. “We are not posing any threat here,” one of the Democrat lawmakers can be heard saying in the scrum of their predominantly elderly colleagues.

It is unclear what Democrats intended to do once they gained access to the building. One lawmaker can be heard pleading with the security officer that they just want to go “stand by the desk,” apparently admitting the political stunt was all for a photo opportunity. Notably, the U.S. Senate has yet to confirm President Donald J. Trump‘s nominee to serve as Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon. The current acting Secretary is Denise L. Carter, who normally serves as the principal deputy chief operating officer for Student Aid.

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A large group of Democrat Members of Congress attempted to force their way into the U.S. Department of Education on Friday despite not having a scheduled appointment with any official there. However, the lawmakers' entry was blocked by a lone security officer who stood firm in front of the doors while Rep. Maxine Waters harassed him for his ID. show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Politics

Only 294 Out of 14,000 USAID Personnel Identified as Actually Essential.

A review of staff at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has identified only 294 of the agency’s 14,000 employees as essential to administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. The internal review, originating from within USAID, appears to have been initiated by President Donald J. Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is also currently serving as the agency’s acting director.

The essential status determination comes as Sec. Rubio has begun transferring the few core programs within USAID intended to serve U.S. national interests into the State Department—a move that suggests the just 63-year-old aid agency may soon be abolished. Meanwhile, The National Pulse reported Wednesday that President Trump is expected to place most USAID staff on leave on Friday. It is likely that the 294 workers deemed essential will be the few staff directed to remain at their posts.

Over the last week, USAID has come under much scrutiny after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Effiecity (DOGE) detailed the agency’s expenditures. The agency’s spending data reveals that nearly 90 percent of Ukrainian media relies on the U.S. federal aid agency to continue operating. Additionally, on Thursday, it was uncovered that the George Soros-funded East-West Management Institute has received $260 million in taxpayer money disbursed by USAID.

In its current form, USAID has taken to operating as if it were not a government entity funded by U.S. taxpayers, according to Sec. Rubio. This assertion is backed up by the former director of the agency, Mark Moyar, who alleges that many of its staff actively seek to undermine Trump and refuse to report corruption to protect their jobs.

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A review of staff at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has identified only 294 of the agency's 14,000 employees as essential to administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. The internal review, originating from within USAID, appears to have been initiated by President Donald J. Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is also currently serving as the agency's acting director. show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Politics

First Details of President Trump’s New Tax Cut Plan Revealed.

The White House is rolling out an overview of President Donald J. Trump’s new tax cut proposal, which is expected to be soon introduced as legislation in Congress. On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt outlined the plan shortly after Trump met privately with Republican lawmakers who have been at an impasse over how to proceed with the legislation.

“So these are the tax priorities of the Trump administration that the President has laid out for Members in that meeting today,” Leavitt announced before listing off a series of overhauls to the tax code. According to Leavitt, President Trump expects the plan to include no tax on tips—noting that this was “a very public campaign promise the President made”—no tax on senior citizens’ social security, no tax on overtime pay, a renewal of the tax cuts enacted by Trump during his first term, an adjustment to the SALT cap, the elimination of special tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners, closing the carried interest loophole, and new tax reductions for companies that locate their production in the United States.

CONGRESS DIVIDED? 

Two of the plan’s most contentious provisions will likely be the proposals to close the carried interest loophole and adjust the tax code’s SALT cap. The carried interest loophole results from the different tax treatment of interest on assets held over a certain period of time. If that interest is held for three years, it is treated as a long-term capital gain and taxed at a much lower rate than if it had been realized essentially as annual income. Changes to the loophole are fervently opposed by private equity, real estate, and hedge fund managers who use it to reduce their tax burdens.

Additionally, Congress appears divided on what changes should be made to the SALT cap, a provision allowing taxpayers to itemize as a deduction their state and local taxes on their federal income tax return. This provision is popular in high-tax states as it allows residents to offset that burden by reducing what they owe on the federal income tax. In 2017, President Trump capped the SALT deduction at just $10,000—significantly limiting the deduction individuals living in high-tax states can claim. However, the President has signaled he is open to lifting the cap, though some lawmakers want it abolished entirely.

Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are also divided on how to amend the tax code to implement Trump’s proposed cuts. House and Senate Republican leaders are at odds on whether to tackle the tax cuts with border security funding and other priorities in one budget reconciliation bill or separate the cuts into their own budget measure, resulting in two bills.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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The White House is rolling out an overview of President Donald J. Trump's new tax cut proposal, which is expected to be soon introduced as legislation in Congress. On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt outlined the plan shortly after Trump met privately with Republican lawmakers who have been at an impasse over how to proceed with the legislation. show more
February 6, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Immigration
Politics

WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill Savages Ilhan Omar in Stunning Live Interview.

Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) has stated that America would be “better off” if far-left congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) were deported, blasting the Democrats for allowing millions of illegals into the country. Gill clarified that he wasn’t calling for the deportation of Omar, who has acquired U.S. citizenship, but reiterated that the country would be better off if she returned to her native Somalia.

“My colleague Ilhan Omar was advising illegal alien Somalis on how to evade ICE detection. That is as un-American as you can possibly get. It’s unbecoming of a congressperson, and I absolutely think it is disgusting,” Gill said.

He added that Omar has a duty to the Americans who elected her and not to illegal aliens who happen to be from her native country. “To whom is she most loyal? Illegal alien Somalis or American citizens? I think that is a very legitimate question,” Gill said.

In 2019, The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam warned of Omar being an example of immigrants who move to the West but do not share Western values. He noted Omar’s connections with radical Marxism through her family in Somalia, who worked for dictator Siad Barre, the leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.

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Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) has stated that America would be "better off" if far-left congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) were deported, blasting the Democrats for allowing millions of illegals into the country. Gill clarified that he wasn't calling for the deportation of Omar, who has acquired U.S. citizenship, but reiterated that the country would be better off if she returned to her native Somalia. show more
February 6, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics
TECH

Bannon: Tech ‘Bro-ligarchs’ Surrendered to Trump on Inauguration Day.

War Room host Stephen K. Bannon believes that the tech oligarchs who control America’s major technology firms surrendered to President Donald J. Trump at his inauguration, likening their appearance to the signing of surrender by the Japanese in World War II. Speaking with British journalist Steven Edginton,  Bannon explains: “It was like [Trump] wanted to re-create the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor in 1945, with MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz taking the surrender of the imperial high command.”

“These were the bro-ligarchs that essentially came to sign a surrender document,” he said, noting that the bosses of Meta, Amazon, Google, and others had opposed President Trump during his first term.

Bannon contends that Trump wanted the whole world to see Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Apple’s Tim Cook on display and to know he had beaten them. According to Bannon, once Pennsylvania was called for Trump on November 5—securing him the presidency—the tech oligarchs had their “road to Damascus” moment, referencing the story of Saint Paul in the Book of Acts.

“They all realized they really weren’t progressive Democrats that were in partnership to suppress the MAGA movement, they were actually populist-nationalists,” he said. “They had the revelation, and they couldn’t wait to get to Mar-a-Lago.”

Along with attending the inauguration, some of the Big Tech firms have made steps to distance themselves from the past. For instance, Mark Zuckerberg is ending biased “fact-checking” across Meta’s platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.

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War Room host Stephen K. Bannon believes that the tech oligarchs who control America's major technology firms surrendered to President Donald J. Trump at his inauguration, likening their appearance to the signing of surrender by the Japanese in World War II. Speaking with British journalist Steven Edginton,  Bannon explains: "It was like [Trump] wanted to re-create the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor in 1945, with MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz taking the surrender of the imperial high command." show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Lawfare
Politics

Bannon Reveals Jack Smith’s Lawfare Team ‘Quite Upset’ Biden Didn’t Grant Them Pardons.

Former White House chief strategist and War Room host Stephen K. Bannon revealed former Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith and his team of federal attorneys, who waged a partisan lawfare campaign against President Donald J. Trump, are “quite upset that they didn’t get pardons” before former President Joe Biden left office last month. According to Bannon, the Biden DOJ lawfare specialists fear they will be the target of investigations by the department’s new leadership appointed by President Trump. Bannon believes this fear is justified.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of people that go to prison. I mean, I think a lot of people are going to go to prison for many, many years,” Bannon said in a recent interview with GBN America. He argued a sense of “arrogance” blinded Jack Smith and his team to the likelihood that Trump would win the 2024 presidential election.

“And I hear that Jack Smith’s team is quite upset that they didn’t get pardons,” Bannon revealed while offering Smith some advice: “I will just tell them, lawyer up. You know, you might want to check countries that don’t have [extradition] treaties with the United States, right? You might want to look at living the rest of your life there because investigations are going to happen.”

Bannon, himself a target of the Biden DOJ’s lawfare campaign against Trump and his allies, indicated that the beginnings of these investigations could already be underway, given who Trump appointed to the DOJ.

However, the former White House chief strategist cautioned that reviewing the Biden government’s lawfare efforts is a monumental task, and that President Trump and his DOJ may be better served appointing a special prosecutor to oversee the investigations and impanel a grand jury.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Former White House chief strategist and War Room host Stephen K. Bannon revealed former Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith and his team of federal attorneys, who waged a partisan lawfare campaign against President Donald J. Trump, are "quite upset that they didn't get pardons" before former President Joe Biden left office last month. According to Bannon, the Biden DOJ lawfare specialists fear they will be the target of investigations by the department's new leadership appointed by President Trump. Bannon believes this fear is justified. show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Politics
TRUMP TRANSITION 2024/5

Democrats Delay Vote on Kash Patel’s FBI Director Nomination for ANOTHER Week.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are delaying the vote to advance President Donald J. Trump’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee, Kash Patel, for one more week. Under committee rules, the minority party can hold over a nomination vote for one additional week until its next meeting. The Judiciary Committee’s minority ranking member, Senator Dick Durbin (I-IL), was the lawmaker who made the “hold over” request.

The committee’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), blasted Democrat members for the delaying tactic: “Democrats are establishing a double standard by forcing us to meet this morning,” the Judiciary Committee chairman said, noting in the last Congress, Republicans did not force the committee to meet in person just to hold over nominations. However, Grassley relented, acknowledging: “The minority as well as myself has exercised their right and my right under the committee rules to hold over the nomination of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. So that nomination is held over.”

Sen. Durbin contends the delay is justified, claiming Patel made a “direct contradiction under oath” regarding his involvement with a choir comprised of individuals prosecuted and imprisoned by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) for their actions during the January 6 Capitol riots. Additionally, the Illinois Democrat contends the week delay will give lawmakers more time to review a book Patel wrote.

“It’s filled with grievances, filled with conspiracy theories, and filled with information about how he sided with the January 6th rioters against the police,” Durbin insisted after leaving the Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday.

Despite the Democrat “hold over” on his nomination, Patel appears to already have enough votes to be approved by the full Senate. A final confirmation vote could come as soon as next weekend.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are delaying the vote to advance President Donald J. Trump's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee, Kash Patel, for one more week. Under committee rules, the minority party can hold over a nomination vote for one additional week until its next meeting. The Judiciary Committee's minority ranking member, Senator Dick Durbin (I-IL), was the lawmaker who made the "hold over" request. show more
February 6, 2025
Politics

40,000 Federal Bureaucrats Take Trump’s Buyout Offer Ahead of Midnight Deadline.

Federal government employees have until midnight to decide whether to accept President Donald J. Trump’s offer of a buyout to voluntarily resign in exchange for eight months of pay and benefits. As of Thursday morning, approximately 40,000 government workers, amounting to roughly two percent of the federal civilian workforce, have accepted the buyout offer. Additionally, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials say deferred retirement applications have increased and may rise further by the day’s end as employees finalize decisions.

Federal personnel were advised to submit resignations by emailing the word “resign” to their government accounts. OPM communicated to employees that while some agencies and military branches might experience workforce increases, most federal bodies are likely to downsize. This includes plans for restructuring, realignment, and potential reductions in force.

OPM is also suggesting it may initiate furloughs and a shift to at-will employment status for many workers. In addition, the federal government’s personnel office is also warning federal employees of possible changes in office locations due to consolidation and divestitures.

Despite these incentives, federal worker unions continue to advise members against accepting the offer. The unions have initiated a legal challenge to block the program, with a court hearing set for Thursday afternoon.

The Trump White House has projected that five to ten percent of the federal workforce might resign, potentially saving taxpayers nearly $100 billion.

Image by Ted Eytan.

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Federal government employees have until midnight to decide whether to accept President Donald J. Trump's offer of a buyout to voluntarily resign in exchange for eight months of pay and benefits. As of Thursday morning, approximately 40,000 government workers, amounting to roughly two percent of the federal civilian workforce, have accepted the buyout offer. Additionally, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials say deferred retirement applications have increased and may rise further by the day’s end as employees finalize decisions. show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Politics
World

Rubio Skipping G20 in Johannesburg: ‘South Africa Is Doing Very Bad Things.’

President Donald J. Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says he will not attend the globalist G20 summit in November this year, which is set to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rubio announced the decision late Wednesday, citing the South African government’s adoption of a bill authorizing the state to seize land belonging to white farmers without compensation.

“I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg. South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Sec. Rubio wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The Trump administration’s chief diplomat continued: “My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.”

In late January, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa—of the African National Congress (ANC) party once led by Nelson Mandela—signed the land expropriation bill into law. In a statement, the South African leader defended the move, claiming the measure will be used to “expropriate land in the public interest for varied reasons,” including to “promote inclusivity and access to natural resources.”

Notably, most of South Africa’s farmers hail from the country’s white minority, with most being Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Similar expropriation measures enacted in neighboring Zimbabwe under its late dictator, Robert Mugabe, in the 2000s resulted in the murder of several of the country’s white farmers and a collapse in the country’s food production.

The National Pulse previously reported on President Donald J. Trump vowing to act if the South African government uses the law, stating he intends to cut off American aid until an investigation into the matter is completed. During his first term in office, Trump successfully intervened against an earlier attempt by South Africa to adopt a similar law.

Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett.

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President Donald J. Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says he will not attend the globalist G20 summit in November this year, which is set to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rubio announced the decision late Wednesday, citing the South African government's adoption of a bill authorizing the state to seize land belonging to white farmers without compensation. show more