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Disgusting sermon at a National Prayer Service held at the Washington National Cathedral by an extremist Woke Bishop, Mariann Budde. She used the sermon to slam President Trump’s policies about illegal migrants, terrorists, criminals, and so-called trans children. People, some parents, are grooming children to become trans. How many children thought they were trans before […] The post Woke Bishop’s Vile Sermon at National Prayer Service appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

In addition to the thousands of political appointees Donald Trump will place in the government, there are 300 Senior Executive Service jobs that the Biden administration was in the process of filling, which Trump will now be able to fill, a Daily Wire review of government job ads found. The SES, as it is known, is what many mean when they think of the “deep state.” They are career civil servants who are paid over $200,000 a year, and are often involved in high-level policy, yet are considered permanent government employees whose term does not end with a president. They are difficult to fire, typically Democrats, and have their own lobbying organization. But the SES could be a valuable resource for Trump, giving him hundreds of extra high-level jobs to fill, beyond the approximately 3,000 political appointees who comprise a small fraction of the federal workforce. The SES level is a crucial layer that could either cause Trump’s policies to filter from executive suites to the rank-and-file, or isolate political appointees and obstruct their efforts. If Trump exerts his influence on the hiring of these employees, it could have a lasting effect on the government that outlives his presidency. On his first day in office, he signaled his intent to do just that, signing an executive order called “Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives.” “SES officials have enormous influence over the functioning of the Federal Government,” it said. “Because SES officials wield significant governmental authority, they must serve at the pleasure of the President.” It said Executive Resource Boards, which evaluate resumes and make hiring recommendations for SES jobs, should be reconstituted with majority political appointees. Another executive order issued a hiring freeze to prevent the bureaucracy from racing to fill the jobs without Trump’s input. But the fact that 300 jobs are currently vacant gives the Trump team the ability to fill them quickly and supercharge the administration’s early efforts. They include top HR roles, a position that could have a cascading effect, ensuring that other hires won’t obstruct the administration. (Trump last week requested the resignation of the State Department’s HR chief, and she retired, despite being a career employee.) Here are some of those jobs: DOJ: Director of Human Resources ICE: Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer Citizenship and Immigration Services: Head of HR Customs and Border Protection: Executive Director, Workforce Care Department of the Interior: Deputy Associate Director for Human Resources Centers for Disease Control: Principal Deputy Director, Office of Human Resources Office of Personnel Management: Director, Office of Civil Rights The jobs also include slots for Inspectors General, which find waste, fraud, and abuse in government. IGs could, in effect, function like the Department of Government Efficiency — except that they are empowered to make criminal referrals. Federal Trade Commission: Inspector General Homeland Security: Assistant Inspector General for Audits of Emergency Management & Preparedness Justice: Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audits Housing and Urban Development: OIG Chief of Staff and OIG Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit Labor: Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit They include jobs overseeing how money is spent: Treasury: Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Fiscal Accounting Treasury: Director, Office of State and Local Finance IRS: Chief Procurement Officer USAID: Deputy Chief Financial Officer Defense: Deputy General Counsel (Fiscal) HHS ACF Deputy Director, Grants Management NASA Chief Financial Officer NASA Director of Procurement They give the Trump administration a head start in transforming the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) back into an agency focused on securing the border: DHS: Associate Deputy Principal Leal Advisor for Enforcement and Litigation DHS: Director of Homeland Identity Intelligence Center Customs & Border Patrol: Executive Director of Financial Operations DHS: Office of Health Security Chief of Staff DOJ Immigration Review: Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge DHS: Director, Open Source Intelligence Division DHS: Several Chief Patrol Agents and Chief Counsels Secret Service: Chief Administrative Officer At the Social Security Administration, there are multiple Deputy Associate Commissioner positions open. At the State Department, whose career employees are notoriously left-leaning, a Managing Director career position is open. Trump can select the Army’s advisor to the United States Ambassador at NATO, avoiding the type of deep state fiasco captured by James O’Keefe in a recent sting. High-level positions dealing with labor are open, and may no longer be filled with a Democrat unionist: National Labor Relations Board Regional Director Department of Labor: Deputy Assistant Secretary – Operations and Management The Deputy Director of Grants and Debarment at the Environmental Protection Agency could — if selected by a Republican president  — stop the flow of grants to ineffective “greenwashing” projects and left-wing groups. The Department of Veterans Affairs is hiring 17 regional deputy executive directors, who, if hired with the new administration in mind, could lead to a national transformation of the agency, which became among the most far-left in the Biden era. The currently open position for HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health (paying up to $222,000 with telework eligible) illustrates the power of the SES; the job directly advises the Secretary, yet it has DEI baked in, and the president simply inherits the choice of his predecessor. Applications were accepted from November 15 to November 29, but a hiring decision still hasn’t been made, according to USAJobs.gov. You can sort and search the 300+ jobs below: Related: Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office

Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would repeal a Clinton-era law that was used by the Biden administration to imprison pro-life activists across the country. Roy’s bill, first reported by Fox News, would repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law that has been disproportionately used against pro-lifers despite guaranteeing equal protection to churches and pregnancy centers. Under President Joe Biden, pro-life activists across the country were sentenced to prison for their convictions over peaceful protests. “Americans just spent the last four years being targeted by a weaponized justice system.  The FACE Act was one of the primary weapons of abuse — being used to politically target, arrest, and jail pro-life Americans for speaking out and standing up for life,” Roy said. “While President Trump and his team are already fast at work reversing the damage of the J6 political prosecutions and persecutions through pardons and commutations, I am hopeful those targeted under the FACE Act will be given similar relief.” The Biden administration successfully prosecuted dozens of pro-life activists under FACE, pairing it with a Reconstruction-era felony conspiracy charge that came with the possibility of over a decade in federal prison. As a result, activists were sentenced in Tennessee, New York, and Washington, D.C., to years in prison over their convictions. In Nashville, Calvin Zastrow was sentenced to six months in prison last year for his participation in a peaceful sit-in outside of a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility where participants sang hymns, prayed, and urged women not to get abortions. In another case, Lauren Handy was given 57 months in prison for her participation after she helped stage a sit-in at the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility. She is currently serving her sentence in Tallahassee and won’t be free until July 2027. When passed in 1994, the FACE Act was supposed to protect both churches and clinics, but the law has almost exclusively been used to prosecute pro-lifers. Data obtained by Roy shows that 97% of FACE Act cases brought by the Justice Department have been against pro-life Americans. “Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again,” Roy said. “No more excuses, let’s get it done.” CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT At least 20 Republicans in the House are backing the measure and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is expected to introduce similar legislation in the Senate. Twenty-one pro-life Americans convicted under Biden have formally requested President Donald Trump to pardon them, saying that the government was weaponized against them. The Thomas More Society, which requested the pardon, is also pursuing a repeal of the FACE Act through the federal courts. Trump has criticized the Biden Justice Department for targeting pro-lifers on “outrageous charges,” promising on the campaign trail to “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who’s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime…so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.”

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody slammed former President Joe Biden during an interview on Tuesday after arriving in Washington, D.C., to be sworn in as the next U.S. Senator from the state of Florida. Moody said that one of the first things she did after Biden came into office was she sued the administration for reversing decades-long precedent of deporting criminal illegal aliens and and instead allowing them to stay in the U.S. where they often times committed more crimes. “One of the first things that Biden did, and this is one of the reasons, and I don’t say this lightly, he really became a trafficker in chief,” she told Fox News’ Dana Perino. “One of the first things he did was tell local law enforcement officials to start releasing people who had been arrested on serious felonies, who were here illegally, back into the communities.” “This reversed precedent under Democrat and Republican administrations,” she continued. “It was one of the first suits that we brought, and it was frustrating, because the courts told us states, you don’t have standing to sue, you can’t sue.” She said that Biden released the criminal illegal aliens back into U.S. communities where they continued to victimize Americans. “The Laken Riley Act, passed last night by the U.S. Senate, will no longer allow the type of reckless policies the Biden administration implemented,” she noted in a post that featured video from her interview. “This legislation will permanently end what I was fighting the Biden administration to stop and keep violent illegal aliens out of our communities.” CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT She also thanked President Donald Trump for signing a flurry of executive orders on Monday that immediately helped reverse many of failed policies of the disastrous Biden administration. “I commend President Trump for living up to his promises,” she said. “We have a commander in chief back in the White House that puts prosperity and safety for Americans first.” WATCH: My first action against the lawless Biden administration as Florida’s Attorney General was taking them to court as they reversed decades-long precedent of deporting criminals and instead allowed violent illegal aliens to roam the streets of the United States without consequences.… pic.twitter.com/ysSFVZ5r5O — AG Ashley Moody (@AGAshleyMoody) January 21, 2025

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