Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says his predecessor, Democrat Pete Buttigieg, did not focus the department on safety but rather spent valuable resources and time pursuing frivolous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-aligned policies. Speaking on Sunday with Jake Tapper, Duffy criticized Buttigieg and the Biden government for prioritizing the renaming of roads they claimed had racist connotations and mandating gender-neutral changes to terms common parlance terms like “cockpit” and “airmen.”
“So I do know that, in the last administration, they were focused on not safety, but they were focused on changing the name from cockpit to flight deck, or notice to airmen, they want to change it to notice to air mission,” Sec. Duffy said after Tapper pressed him on whether DEI policies had any part in the tragic air collision that killed 67 individuals in Washington, D.C. last week. He continued: “They focused on E.V.s and sustainability and ‘racist’ roads, things that don’t matter in regard to safety.”
“Our mission since the start has been safety, and they have lost that mission. And we see, when you don’t focus on safety and you focus on social justice or the environment, bad things happen.”
Sec. Duffy also announced plans to evaluate the impact of DEI initiatives on the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to Duffy, following this assessment, a comprehensive report detailing potential effects on aviation safety will be released.
The National Pulse reported in January 2024 that the Biden government had prioritized the recruitment of individuals with “severe” intellectual and psychiatric disabilities for roles at the FAA, which oversees airline regulation and safety, as part of its diversity hiring.
Notably, the agency has faced several lawsuits over its hiring policies, which saw a number of highly qualified individuals rejected because they were white males.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says his predecessor, Democrat Pete Buttigieg, did not focus the department on safety but rather spent valuable resources and time pursuing frivolous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-aligned policies. Speaking on Sunday with Jake Tapper, Duffy criticized Buttigieg and the Biden government for prioritizing the renaming of roads they claimed had racist connotations and mandating gender-neutral changes to terms common parlance terms like "cockpit" and "airmen."
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) disbursed over 20 percent of its foreign assistance funds to Ukraine in 2023. According to data published by the federal government, Ukraine received more than $16 billion out of the $72 billion distributed by the agency.
Ethiopia received the second-highest allocation from USAID. However, at just $1.7 billion, the sum pales in comparison to the funds granted to Ukraine. In addition, Jordan, Afghanistan, and Somalia received just over $1 billion in USAID assistance. Meanwhile, Congo, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen, and South Sudan received aid ranging from $740 million to $936 million.
While the former Biden government saw the expansive distribution of foreign assistance through USAID, President Donald J. Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, have moved to freeze current aid programs. The Trump White House says all U.S. foreign assistance will be reviewed to ensure it aligns with American national interests.
However, according to tech leader Elon Musk—who is spearheading Trump White House efforts to cut government costs while increasing efficiency—USAID may be abolished entirely. “As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it but we have actually just a ball of worms,” Musk said. “There is no apple. And when there is no apple you’ve just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. That’s why it’s got to go. It’s beyond repair.”
The United States remains the leading global provider of humanitarian aid through USAID, which manages substantial humanitarian, development, and security assistance across more than 100 nations. Founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, USAID operates as an independent government agency, tasked with foreign aid and development assistance. However, in recent years, the agency has come under intense scrutiny over its funding of programs that promote far-left and anti-American ideologies.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) disbursed over 20 percent of its foreign assistance funds to Ukraine in 2023. According to data published by the federal government, Ukraine received more than $16 billion out of the $72 billion distributed by the agency.
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President Donald J. Trump is set to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council and end any funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), whose members were previously caught working with Hamas.
POLITICOreports it has seen a document outlining the reasons for the U.S. leaving the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). It states, “The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings.” It also notes that President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the UNHRC in 2018 during his first administration.
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order removing the U.S. from the UNHRC and will also call on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to examine other international groups that promote “radical or anti-American sentiment.”
The executive order will also shut down funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which has received over $8 billion over ten years from Western nations. At least nine UNRWA staff participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks in Israel in 2023, a fact later admitted by the United Nations last year.
President Trump has already paused foreign aid funding, announcing a 90-day freeze just days after his inauguration. The United States spends around $60 billion per year on foreign aid projects, the most of any country globally.
President Donald J. Trump is set to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council and end any funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), whose members were previously caught working with Hamas.
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Tech mogul Elon Musk, recently appointed to lead President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced plans to close the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Speaking on X Spaces, Musk stated, “We’re shutting it down,” indicating that President Trump concurred with him after a detailed discussion about the agency, which funds non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other entities across the globe.
“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk posted on X. However, despite these declarations, PresidentTrump has not officially confirmed a decision to dismantle USAID fully.
The move comes against a backdrop of actions by the administration that signal skepticism about the agency. USAID’s funding was recently frozen, and many of its employees were placed on leave.
Officially, USAID is supposed to assist charities and poor countries—including Taliban-ruled Afghanistan—but there are widespread allegations the agency is funneling U.S. taxpayer cash into overtly leftist political projects and losing billions to corruption.
In 2023, under the former Biden-Harris regime, USAID pushed transgender and abortion activism. The agency also gave cash to NGOs such as the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which was involved in the first Democrat-backed impeachment of President Trump.
While the OCCRP claims to be politically neutral, its co-founder, Drew Sullivan, has been anything but neutral on social media, pushing the narrative that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Catholic-inspired tattoos are “far right,” for instance.
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Tech mogul Elon Musk, recently appointed to lead President Donald J. Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced plans to close the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Speaking on X Spaces, Musk stated, "We're shutting it down," indicating that President Trump concurred with him after a detailed discussion about the agency, which funds non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other entities across the globe.
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A number of top officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) either left or were forced out of their positions late last night. At least 20 director or assistant director-level employees were dismissed or resigned across the country, impacting several major field offices, including Miami, Las Vegas, and the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The move came just after Kash Patel, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to serve as FBI director, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Patel stressed the need to disperse FBI resources across the country and reorient the bureau to focus on addressing violent crime and not politically motivated prosecutions.
While the impetus for the dismissals and resignations is not immediately apparent, it reflects the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul the federal government and remove career bureaucrats who aren’t doing their jobs, or who have abused their power or allowed abuses to occur under their watch.
Once confirmed as director, Patel is expected to continue pushing for further staffing and structural changes at the bureau, and a number of agents expect to be transferred out of Washington, D.C., and into the field.
During his confirmation hearing, Patel emphasized that over one-third of current FBI employees are stationed in Washington, D.C., which is unacceptable. He stated he intends to push more agents into the field and build relationships with state and local law enforcement so the bureau can better assist and provide resources to combat rising crime.
A number of top officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) either left or were forced out of their positions late last night. At least 20 director or assistant director-level employees were dismissed or resigned across the country, impacting several major field offices, including Miami, Las Vegas, and the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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The grave of French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, has been desecrated, with vandals smashing the gravesite with a sledgehammer. The attack took place on the night of Thursday, January 30, at the Le Pen family tomb in La Trinité-sur-Mer. Police say that the cross of the tomb was completely destroyed and that other monuments to the family were also damaged in the attack.
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau slammed those behind the attack, stating, “Respect for the dead is what distinguishes civilization from barbarism.”
Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally, called the act “unspeakable,” saying it was “committed by those who respect neither the living nor the dead.” The Lorient gendarmerie (paramilitary police) brigade is investigating the incident.
Jean-Marie Le Pen passed away earlier this month at the age of 96 after a prominent life in nationalist and right-wing politics. Le Pen was one of the co-founders of the Front National, which later became the National Rally.
Le Pen saw electoral success in the 1980s, winning a seat in the French parliament and later in the European Parliament. He also made it to the second round in the 2002 French presidential elections in a shock result but was defeated by former President Jacques Chirac.
Pas de mot pour qualifier les individus qui s’attaquent à ce qu’il y a de plus sacré. Ceux qui s’attaquent aux morts sont capables du pire contre les vivants. pic.twitter.com/KjmDrsxOzc
The grave of French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, has been desecrated, with vandals smashing the gravesite with a sledgehammer. The attack took place on the night of Thursday, January 30, at the Le Pen family tomb in La Trinité-sur-Mer. Police say that the cross of the tomb was completely destroyed and that other monuments to the family were also damaged in the attack.
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President Donald J. Trump is taking on the BRICS coalition—named for and initially comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—as the international group continues to threaten the launch of a reserve currency alternative to the dollar. While BRICS is unlikely to be successful in its global reserve endeavors, as its member countries all tend to have either weak or manipulated currencies, the Biden government’s tolerance of its existence has allowed the group to grow in size and at least appear to be a competitor to the United States.
“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Thursday night, adding: “We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.”
Despite accounting for nearly half of the global population, the BRICS members generate only about a third of global GDP. Their relatively export-heavy economies are the result of either their nations’ intentionally (in the case of China) or unintentionally weak currencies creating tradeimbalances—which appears to be the actual crux of President Trump’s complaint against the international group.
For years, the BRICS nations have floated the possibility of creating an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency. However, with the Chinese Yuan already being pegged to the dollar and being purposefully devalued by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), it is an unlikely vehicle for this goal. Further, the Russian ruble only trades about 100 to one against the U.S. dollar, ruling it out as a possible global reserve—the Indian rupee trades on a similar margin. Brazil’s real is stronger but trades at a nearly 10 to one ratio.
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President Donald J. Trump is taking on the BRICS coalition—named for and initially comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—as the international group continues to threaten the launch of a reserve currency alternative to the dollar. While BRICS is unlikely to be successful in its global reserve endeavors, as its member countries all tend to have either weak or manipulated currencies, the Biden government's tolerance of its existence has allowed the group to grow in size and at least appear to be a competitor to the United States.
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President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kash Patel, offered a stark contrast with Senate Democrats over the future of the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency at a Thursday hearing. Patel—a former public defender, Obama Justice Department prosecutor, House Republican intelligence staffer, and national security and Department of Defense (DoD) official in President Donald J. Trump’s first administration—emphasized during his Senate confirmation hearing the need for a “constitutionally-bound” FBI to focus on bringing murderers, sex traffickers, drug kingpins, rapists, and kidnappers to justice.
Meanwhile, Democrat lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee wallowed in the past, engaging in hysterics over targeted political persecutions, the January 6 riots, and the 2020presidential election. Instead of focusing on needed reforms at the FBI—as Patel did—Senate Democrats spun conspiracies regarding hypothetical partisan investigations and prodded, hoping to expose policy disagreements with President Trump in the hopes the American First leader could be swayed to derail his own nominee.
POLICING NOT POLITICS.
Throughout the hearing, Patel repeatedly and directly answered the highly politicized inquiries leveled at him by Democrats. In a stunning moment, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)—who engaged in stolen valor while serving as Connecticut’s Attorney General—pressed Patel on whether he would pledge not to dismiss FBI agents alleged to be involved in partisan investigations.
Patel clearly and unequivocably responded that no agents would be punished for investigations that they were assigned to and tasked with completing. Yet, Blumenthal insisted that Patel did not respond in the affirmative—suggesting the Connecticut Democrat was less interested in the FBI nominee’s actual response than in trying, desperately, to orchestrate a partisan media soundbite.
Repeatedly, Patel emphasized the FBI, under his leadership, would be governed by the letter of the law and the U.S. Consitution. “Vice President [Kamala] Harris or General [Mark] Milley or whoever will not be subjected to an FBI investigation that does not meet the rigorous standards of the Constitution,” Patel stated when Democrats insinuated he would attempt to abuse the agency’s powers. He later added his intent as FBI director is “…to let good cops be cops and put handcuffs on the bad guys.”
President Trump’s FBI director nominee emphasized: “There should be no politics at the FBI.”
THE FBI’S TARNISHED LEGACY.
In one of the more clarifying moments, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) rhetorically asked Patel, “Why are Democrats so afraid of you?” The question was illustrative of the confirmation hearing overall, where the Senate Democrats either spun highly partisan conspiracies or accused Patel of intending to commit the very sort of actions the FBI engaged in under former President Joe Biden—including spying on Patel. Both Republican committee members and Patel himself noted that recent Gallup polling shows the American people’s trust in the FBI sits at a low of 40 percent—a concerning benchmark President Trump’s nominee committed to reversing.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asked whether Patel would continue to dedicate FBI resources to spying on Americans who attend a list of predominantly Catholic churches affiliated with the Latin mass and traditionalist movement in the over 2,000-year-old faith. Patel—again citing the need for the bureau to abide by the Constitution and the legal rights of Americans—replied that such operations would cease.
Most consequently, Patel laid out his intention to disperse FBI personnel and resources away from Washington, D.C.—where he notes nearly one-third of the bureau’s employees are currently located—to the interior of the United States. Patel pledged that these agents would be tasked with building relationships, assisting, and coordinating with state and local law enforcement to ensure all law enforcement agencies are supported in aggressively targeting violent crime.
President Donald J. Trump's nominee to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kash Patel, offered a stark contrast with Senate Democrats over the future of the nation's top federal law enforcement agency at a Thursday hearing. Patel—a former public defender, Obama Justice Department prosecutor, House Republican intelligence staffer, and national security and Department of Defense (DoD) official in President Donald J. Trump's first administration—emphasized during his Senate confirmation hearing the need for a "constitutionally-bound" FBI to focus on bringing murderers, sex traffickers, drug kingpins, rapists, and kidnappers to justice.
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The attempted assassin of President Donald J. Trump’s new Treasury Secretary has been revealed to be a transgender after the suspect was arrested earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Ryan Michael English, also known as Riley Jane, is originally from Massachusetts and admitted to police that he wanted to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
English was found at the Capitol building in D.C. armed with knives and Molotov cocktails when he was arrested, along with a note on the back of a receipt that stated, “I can’t do nothing while nazis kill my sisters.”
According to police, English turned himself in, claiming he intended to kill Bessent but had no concrete plan of how to go about it. He stated that he was inspired by Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City last year.
Upon searching English’s vehicle, more bomb materials were found along with strong vodka likely used for the Molotov cocktails.
English was also allegedly plotting to murder Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and wanted to set fire to the building housing the Heritage Foundation.
The case comes after a pair of transgenders shot and killed a Border Patrol agent in Vermont on January 20. Teresa “Milo” Youngblut and Felix “Ophelia” Baukholt are both believed to be connected to a larger transgender terrorist group led by a figure named “Ziz,” real name Jack Lasota, based in California. The group may be linked to several other violent acts in the past.
The attempted assassin of President Donald J. Trump's new Treasury Secretary has been revealed to be a transgender after the suspect was arrested earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Ryan Michael English, also known as Riley Jane, is originally from Massachusetts and admitted to police that he wanted to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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Kash Patel, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), took the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), to task over his denial of bureau involvement in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol riots. Citing the Inspector General’s (IG) investigation into the riots and actions of federal officials, Patel detailed the nearly year-long involvement of the FBI in developing sources who later were present and participated in the protests and subsequent riots at the U.S. Capitol.
“Well, let me inform you then,” Patel replied after Sen. Durbin insisted the IG report found no FBI involvement in January 6 and condemned Patel for his public comments suggesting otherwise. He continued: “What it says is it raises an interrogatory, asking why government resources were utilized. I’ve run resources and sources at the FBI. I’ve run sources overseas.”
“It takes months for source developmental networks…” Patel began before being cut off by Durbin. The Illinois Democrat pushed back, asking: “What resources were utilized a year in advance in planning January 6?”
“That’s the question I’m asking,” Patel responded. “And the Biden Inspector General report answered that question in the affirmative, that multiple sources were utilized. And I was simply trying to get to that answer.”
DURBIN TRIPS UP.
Subsequently, Durbin claimed the IG concluded that “there was no evidence that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds or at the Capitol on January 6.”
Without missing a beat and stumping Durbin, Patel replied: “And there is a huge distinction between undercover employees and sources. I know because I ran them. And anybody in law enforcement knows that, too.”
The National Pulse previously reported that the IG report revealed there were 26 federal informants present in the crowd on January 6, with most of them entering restricted areas of the U.S. Capitol.
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Kash Patel just lectured Ranking Democrat Durbin on how the FBI infiltrated January 6th.
Patel: “Well, let me inform you, then.”
Durbin: “Resources were utilized a year in advance in planning J6?”
Kash Patel, President Donald J. Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), took the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), to task over his denial of bureau involvement in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol riots. Citing the Inspector General's (IG) investigation into the riots and actions of federal officials, Patel detailed the nearly year-long involvement of the FBI in developing sources who later were present and participated in the protests and subsequent riots at the U.S. Capitol.
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