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🔵 Trump Building Wall
Citizen Frank
January 26, 2025
Good evening. It’s Saturday, January 25.
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President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is filling President Joe Biden’s gaps in the nation’s border wall.
Trump’s new border patrol chief, Michael Banks, touted the wall construction in a Saturday tweet: “Efforts like installing wall panels to fill critical gaps in Deming, New Mexico, exemplify our commitment to enhancing infrastructure and operational effectiveness.”
The expanded concrete-and-steel wall will complement Trump’s many other border measures. Those changes include the deployment of more border guards and the rollout of legal changes that minimize loopholes in the border law.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week arrested three Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members in two states as the new administration begins its mass deportation push, a senior Trump administration official told Fox News.
Nestor Jose Mendoza-Garcia was nabbed Thursday in San Antonio, Texas, and Elmer Aparicio-Castillo and an unidentified 36-year-old man were arrested the same day in Nashville, all after allegedly entering the country illegally last year when they were processed and arrested by the Biden administration.
“Throughout this week, the heroes of ICE have been hunting down and arresting hundreds of illegal alien criminals, and it’s immediate expulsion, including those with charges of convictions for rape, child sexual assault, terrorism and even murder,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas Saturday.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Saturday said it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added that the agency had “low confidence” in its judgment.
“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a CIA spokesperson said in a statement. “CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible.”
The spokesperson added that the agency has “low confidence in this judgement” and will continue to evaluate any new intelligence reporting or relevant information.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk eventually announced cancelling $420 million in government contracts within the first 80 hours, reported Business Insider.
This early effort actually represents approximately $126 million in daily contract cancellations while potentially amounting to $67 billion annually which is roughly 3% of Elon Musk’s original $2 trillion cost-cutting goal.
According to Business Insider, the group focused primarily on eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) contracts and then terminating leases for empty buildings. However, at the same time, the details remain unverified and the cancellations cannot be independently confirmed at this time.
President Donald Trump revoked former President Joe Biden’s orders expanding abortion access and ordered that the federal government and U.S. taxpayers no longer fund abortions at home and abroad Friday.
Trump signed an executive order enforcing “the Hyde Amendment and similar laws that prevent Federal funding of elective abortion, reflecting a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for that practice.”
By that order, Trump revoked two Biden-era orders protecting expanding access to abortion, accusing the previous administration of disregarding “this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs.”
Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks with the White House to take over the China-based TikTok app, reports NPR.
The deal would allow ByteDance, which currently owns TikTok, to keep a minority stake in the social media app while Oracle will oversee the app’s algorithm, data collection, and software updates.
President Donald Trump on Monday directed the Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain — including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and whether TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.
The case against transgender medicine whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim was dismissed with prejudice on Friday following a months-long legal battle.
“The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the Court just granted dismissal,” Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News Digital. “The case has been dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children’s Hospital.”
“We took on the most powerful federal leviathan in human history and won!” Haim told Fox News Digital. “This is credit to the power of truth and justice being able to destroy lies and corruption.”
Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which rules Syria from Damascus under Jolani, is still a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization under US law. The only change which happened at the end of the Biden administration was that the US $10 million bounty on Jolani’s head was removed, at a moment Western officials have engaged the new regime in Damascus on a diplomatic level.
But The Washington Post has just revealed that American intelligence officials met with HTS representatives and passed them classified intelligence information. This happened during the tail-end of the Biden White House.
The Washington Post report begins, “In the chaotic days after the fall of [Bashar] al-Assad, the Biden administration began to engage cautiously with HTS and its leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani.”
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