🔵 Massive Tax Cut

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Citizen Frank
February 07, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, February 6.

 

President Donald Trump gathered with House Republican leaders at the White House on Thursday to relay his tax priorities.

In the meeting, he told House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and others that he wants to fulfill his campaign promise to stop taxing tips.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt updated reporters as the lengthy meeting was still ongoing, detailing that Trump wants “no tax on seniors, Social Security, no tax on overtime pay.”

On Thursday, President Donald Trump ordered the termination of all media contracts within the General Services Administration (GSA). This comes after it was revealed that the federal government was paying millions to Politico for Politico Pro subscriptions.

According to Axios, Trump told the General Services Administration to terminate “every single media contract.” In an email, the White House wrote two points, “Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg,” as well as, “Pull all media contracts for just GSA – cancel every single media contract today for GSA only.”

GSA is in charge of managing real estate, technology services, as well as procurement for the federal government. The move comes after it was revealed by Elon Musk and his DOGE team as well as others that there was rampant waste in spending across government agencies.

Republican donors at a gathering last week in Palm Beach County openly discussed the prospect of Casey DeSantis’ running for governor in 2026, and for the first time, Florida’s first lady is seriously considering the idea.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, her husband, faces term limits and cannot seek re-election. There has long been speculation about whether Casey, a mainstay on the campaign trail for her husband, would herself one day run for office, but those plans seem to be coming closer to reality, five people directly familiar with the donor event and Casey DeSantis’ thought process told NBC News.

“I would say this: I have heard donors have been urging her to run and that while it’s not something she has wanted to do, they are causing her to at least stop and listen,” a source familiar with her thinking said.

Despite Democratic tactics to delay the confirmation vote, the Senate confirmed Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Republicans backed Vought’s nomination, arguing he proved a qualified candidate for the role since he previously held the position during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Democrats, however, raised multiple concerns about his nomination and said his views on the Impoundment Control Act, which reinforces that Congress holds the power of the purse, disqualified him from the role.

Before the Trump administration closed USAID’s doors, the agency regularly routed funding to causes aligned with George Soros’ nonprofit empire, terrorists and drag queens.

The agency came under scrutiny from the new administration over failures to ensure transparency in its funding to organizations across the globe and concerns that the leadership was not responding to explicit policy directives from the State Department and the wider executive branch to align its programs with Trump policies and the U.S. national interest.

In recent days, the Trump administration identified USAID programs ranging from contraceptives for Afghanistan to LGBT diversity programs for European countries as clear evidence that foreign aid needed to be paused and reevaluated, a task that fell to the Rubio State Department.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will sign an executive order to create a task force that will “eradicate anti-Christian bias” from the federal government.

The 45th and 47th president made the announcement at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., adding that Attorney General Pam Bondi will lead the task force in rooting out “anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government.”

“To confront such weaponization and religious persecution, today I am signing an executive order to make our attorney general, who’s a great person — she’s gonna be a great attorney general, Pam Bondi — the head of a task force, brand new, to eradicate anti-Christian bias,” he said.

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday paused nationwide the Trump administration’s offer of buyouts to federal employees, less than 11 hours before the deadline for workers to accept the deal.

Judge George O’Toole Jr., said his injunction pausing the plan would continue until at least a court hearing Monday, when he will consider arguments by employee unions challenging the legality of the buyout, and by a lawyer for the Trump administration defending the plan.

O’Toole’s order Thursday came at a brief hearing, and as more than 60,000 people — about 3% of the federal workforce — have accepted the offer.

The China Police Team “B” secured the championship title in the sixth edition of the UAE SWAT Challenge 2025, finishing at the top of the overall leaderboard with 480 points.

In second place was the Sunkar team from Kazakhstan, earning 470 points, while China Police Team “C” claimed third place with 457 points.

On the fifth and final day of the competition, which featured the Obstacle Course Challenge, Rwanda’s National Police Team “1” took first place with 77 points.

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