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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A top official at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)—with a federal career spanning 22 years—had to be escorted from her office by security officials on Monday after she refused to leave following her firing by President Donald J. Trump last Friday. Phyllis Fong, the Inspector General for the USDA, told colleagues she would refuse to leave her position following her firing, claiming the Trump White House had not followed proper federal procedures in issuing her dismissal.
According to the fired USDA Inspector General, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE)—an independent agency under the executive branch—has determined “…that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.” Fong is among several departmental Inspectors General removed by President Trump last Friday over concerns regarding their lack of partisan independence.
The White House defended the firings, arguing: “…these rogue, partisan bureaucrats… have been relieved of their duties to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy.”
“It is the belief of this White House and the White House counsel’s office that the president was within his executive authority,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday when pressed on the firings. Responding to whether the White House was concerned about legal challenges to the dismissals, she added: “We will win in court.”
A top official at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)—with a federal career spanning 22 years—had to be escorted from her office by security officials on Monday after she refused to leave following her firing by President Donald J. Trump last Friday. Phyllis Fong, the Inspector General for the USDA, told colleagues she would refuse to leave her position following her firing, claiming the Trump White House had not followed proper federal procedures in issuing her dismissal.
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Democrat lawmakers and the corporate media tried and failed to push their first hoax against President Donald J. Trump and his White House just one week after he assumed office again as the 47th President of the United States. One day after Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo temporarily halting federal loans, grants, and assistance programs authorized under presidential executive orders, an unconnected federal Medicaid payments portal suffered an access outage.
However, according to the corporate media, being fed by hysterical claims from Democrats on Capitol Hill, the OMB memo resulted in the closure of access to a federal Medicaid funding portal for state governments. Despite the claim, there is no evidence the memo and the portal access issue were remotely connected.
The OMB did not temporarily freeze portal funding or impact Medicaid payments or allocations. In fact, the Trump administration memo explicitly states that “…any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process.”
SWIFTLY FIXED.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the portal outage in a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating: “The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage. We have confirmed no payments have been affected—they are still being processed and sent.”
She added: “We expect the portal will be back online shortly.”
While a handful of state governments, including Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and North Carolina, reported a brief interruption to portal access, they acknowledged that the disruption was quickly resolved. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did warn that the payments portal was operating slower than usual after restoration—again pointing to a technology problem unrelated to the OMB memo.
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX.
Despite the obvious technical error, Democrats quickly pushed a media narrative connecting the Medicaid portal problem with the OMB memo. “My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night’s federal funding freeze,” Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote in a post on X yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) falsely claimed, “Connecticut’s Medicaid payment system has been turned off.”
Even after the corporate media acknowledged that the OMB memo narrative was false, Democrats in Congress continued to push the hoax that President Trump cut off state Medicaid payments. Throughout the Senate confirmation hearing for HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democrats repeated the allegations, going so far as to disingenuously claim President Trump violated the Impoundment Control Act. Yet, no such violation occurred, and again—despite the Democrat hysteria—state Medicaid payments were not frozen, halted, or disrupted in any way.
Additionally, Senate Democrats are attempting to demagogue on the portal outage, using it as a cudgel to delay the confirmation of Trump’s pick to lead the OMB, Russ Vought.
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Democrat lawmakers and the corporate media tried and failed to push their first hoax against President Donald J. Trump and his White House just one week after he assumed office again as the 47th President of the United States. One day after Trump's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo temporarily halting federal loans, grants, and assistance programs authorized under presidential executive orders, an unconnected federal Medicaid payments portal suffered an access outage.
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President Donald J. Trump is offering a buyout through a deferred resignation for all federal career employees. The move specifically targets civil service employees who refuse to return to in-person work. The buyout offer follows an executive order issued by the President last week ending broad COVID-19-era work-from-home policies.
Federal workers have until February 6 to accept the offer, and in doing so, they effectively tender their resignation at a given date in the Fall of 2025. Until their resignation date, they will continue to be employed by the federal government and allowed to work from home—an incentive to encourage federal employees to take the buyout offer.
“After four years of incompetence and failure, President Donald Trump is committed to making our government efficient and productive again,” Karoline Leavitt, President Trump’s White House press secretary, said in a statement. She continued: “American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers.”
“If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months,” Leavitt added.
The National Pulse previously reported that U.S. Senate investigators found just six percent of the federal workforce was actually working full-time and in person. This has left the average occupancy rate of a federal office building in Washington, D.C., at around 12 percent.
President Donald J. Trump is offering a buyout through a deferred resignation for all federal career employees. The move specifically targets civil service employees who refuse to return to in-person work. The buyout offer follows an executive order issued by the President last week ending broad COVID-19-era work-from-home policies.
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President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) told members of the United States Senate Finance Committee that combating drug addiction and substance abuse will be a top priority if he is confirmed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scion of the Kennedy political clan and named by Trump to serve as the U.S.’s top health official, testified before the Senate, outlining his agency priorities—including the expansion of addiction services and treatment access to tackle America’s ongoing drug crisis.
“Addiction services and substance abuse services, it is a priority for me—it was a priority for me when I was running for President during my campaign,” Kennedy Jr. stated, responding to questioning by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). Candidly, the son of Robert F. Kennedy Sr.—who was assassinated by a Palestinian in 1968—admitted that he himself was an addict but is now decades in recovery: “I was a heroin addict for 14 years. I’ve been 42 years in recovery.”
“I hear the stories every day. And I hear the many stories about denial or the barriers to access to care. We need to improve that,” Kennedy Jr. said. He added that access could be expanded by changes to Graduate Medical Education (GME)—which is in part government-funded—requiring medical residents to do rotations providing addiction treatment.
Additionally, Kennedy Jr. testified that using GME to expand access to addiction services access will have the added benefit of ensuring future primary physicians are adequately trained in addiction care. Speaking on addiction, President Trump’s HHS nominee displayed a deep and compassionate knowledge, stressing to the senators that often there is only a fleeting window to convince an addict to seek recovery and save their lives.
President Donald J. Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) told members of the United States Senate Finance Committee that combating drug addiction and substance abuse will be a top priority if he is confirmed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scion of the Kennedy political clan and named by Trump to serve as the U.S.'s top health official, testified before the Senate, outlining his agency priorities—including the expansion of addiction services and treatment access to tackle America's ongoing drug crisis.
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President Donald J. Trump swiftly implemented his agenda during his first week in office through a series of executive orders. The directives—nearly 40 in total—impact a range of federal policy areas, including immigration, environmental regulation, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, lawfare, and health research.
Among the more ambitious executive orders is an attempt to change birthright citizenship, which has already drawn two separate Democrat-backed legalchallenges. President Trump also moved to reverse former President Joe Biden’s restrictions on oil exploration and withdrew federal support for discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and transgender-related directives.
The executive orders vary in scope and authority and are classified as memorandums, proclamations, or directives, each carrying different levels of impact. Memorandums offer guidance but hold less authority, whereas other executive orders require publication in the Federal Register and carry significant weight.
The sweeping nature of these changes underscores the pivotal shift in federal policy direction. The National Pulse has compiled a list of Trump’s major executive orders with brief summaries of what each directive does.
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Unleashing American Energy: This order reverses Biden government environmental orders, ends electric vehicle mandates, and reopens energy exploration on federal land and in federal waters.
Declaring a National Energy Emergency: Directs federal agencies to identify emergency authorities to facilitate energy projects, including the leasing of federal lands for oil and gas production and pipeline construction.
Restoring Names that Honor AmericanGreatness: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, as well as rename Alaska’s Denali mountain to Mount McKinley.
Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending FederalCensorship: Bars federal officials from interfering with the First Amendment rights of Americans and directs the Attorney General to investigate Biden government collusion with social media companies aimed at censoring Americans online.
Reevaluating and Realigning United States ForeignAid: Enacts a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid and assistance programs and directs administration officials to review each to ensure they align with American foreign policy priorities.
Protecting the Meaning and Value of AmericanCitizenship: Clarifies that children born in the United States whose parents are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents do not automatically receive American citizenship.
Securing Our Borders: Restarts construction of the border wall and directs federal law enforcement to assist in pursuing illegal immigrants.
Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety: Orders the Attorney General to resume pursuing the death penalty whenever applicable in federal cases and to seek the death penalty against illegal immigrants accused of capital crimes.
Protecting the American People AgainstInvasion: Directs federal agencies to begin the mass deportation of illegal immigrants and authorizes civil fines and funding cuts for sanctuary cities.
President Donald J. Trump swiftly implemented his agenda during his first week in office through a series of executive orders. The directives—nearly 40 in total—impact a range of federal policy areas, including immigration, environmental regulation, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, lawfare, and health research.
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Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, is joining the New York-based law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner. The move, coming shortly after Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to now-President Donald J. Trump, is throwing the former Vice President’s political future into question. There had been rampant speculation that Harris and Emhoff would return to California in preparation for the former Vice President seeking the state’s gubernatorial office, but this will be near-impossible if her family relocates to the East Coast.
“I am delighted to be joining Willkie, where I am looking forward to working alongside trusted and innovative legal counselors,” Emhoff said in a statement. The former second gentleman added: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to join this talented and collaborative team.”
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP employs approximately 1,200 attorneys worldwide and is headquartered at the Axa Equitable Center on New York City’s Seventh Avenue. Emhoff, a longtime attorney, previously worked with DLA Piper and served as a partner at the Venable law firm. During his tenure, the former second gentleman was accused of exhibiting misogynistic behavior and favoritism. His former colleagues allege he used expletives toward female colleagues, organized male-only office gatherings, and showed preference towards younger and more attractive associates.
Meanwhile, during the 2024 presidential campaign, it came to light that Emhoff had allegedly physically assaulted an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. In addition, Kamala Harris’s husband has been accused of cheating on his first wife with the family’s nanny, which reportedly resulted in a pregnancy.
Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, is joining the New York-based law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner. The move, coming shortly after Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to now-President Donald J. Trump, is throwing the former Vice President's political future into question. There had been rampant speculation that Harris and Emhoff would return to California in preparation for the former Vice President seeking the state's gubernatorial office, but this will be near-impossible if her family relocates to the East Coast.
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