Senator Lindsey Graham stated on Sunday that he believes President Donald Trump made “a mistake” pardoning the January 6th protestors.

President Donald Trump has blasted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, demanding she use her “emergency powers” and allow residents to return to their homes to rebuild. 

We have known all along that NGOs have funded the invasion with US tax dollars. This isn’t a new revelation for many of us, but maybe for some. The NGOs have assisted cartels and terrorists coming into this country. They must be held responsible for the trafficking, child labor sex trafficking, and the drugs that […] The post NGOs Funded the Invasion with Tax Dollars appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Emilia Perez stars in two movies up for Academy Awards. One is Wicked, and the other is a bizarre, moronic film called The Brutalist. The Brutalist is up for Best Picture and about 12 other Oscars. It has received the most nominations. The film tells the story of a fictional Mexican drug trafficker nicknamed Manitas […] The post Hollywood Hates America appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Donald Trump on Saturday floated the idea of sending nearly 90,000 new IRS agents to the southern border after pausing hiring at the agency. Trump spoke at a rally at the Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend, and he joked that the tens of thousands of new IRS agents — hired under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — would be fired or reassigned to work at securing the border. “They hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 workers to go after you and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them, or maybe we’ll move them to the border,” he told supporters “I think we’re going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they’re so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border,” he said to cheers from the crowd. Trump suggests sending IRS agents to the border https://t.co/ljTsu78o1I pic.twitter.com/1HyeL9HCr7 — New York Post (@nypost) January 26, 2025 Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office freezing hiring for any “Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025,” for 90 days with some exceptions. “This order does not apply to military personnel of the armed forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety. Moreover, nothing in this memorandum shall adversely impact the provision of Social Security, Medicare, or Veterans’ benefits. In addition, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may grant exemptions from this freeze where those exemptions are otherwise necessary,” the order states. The Inflation Reduction Act granted about $80 billion in additional funding to the IRS, with most of those dollars, $46 billion, allocated toward enforcement, according to the Tax Policy Center. Operations support received $25 billion, and most of the rest went toward modernizing systems and taxpayer services. Republicans have promised to rescind the additional funding allocated to the IRS under the 2022 Biden-era legislation.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said during an interview over the weekend that the world’s leading intelligence agency was now investigating whether the COVID-19 pandemic was an accident or if it was intentional. Ratcliffe made the remarks during a Sunday interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” while discussing his decision to release the findings from a new assessment that was conducted the Biden administration that concluded that the pandemic originated from a lab in Wuhan. Ratcliffe said that the reason that he released the intelligence was because it was important for Americans to regain trust in government institutions. “I had the opportunity on my first day to make public an assessment that actually took place in the Biden administration,” Ratcliffe said. “So it can’t be accused of being political, and it does assess, the CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab related incident in Wuhan, and so we’ll continue to investigate that moving forward.” When asked by host Maria Bartiromo if the CIA has concluded whether or not the lab leak was “intentional or accidental,” Ratcliffe responded: “I’m going to look closely at the intelligence that we’ve gathered.” “I think we’ll get to the point where every intelligence agency in the United States will agree with the CIA’s assessment that the most likely outcome was from from a lab in Wuhan,” he added. “And we’ll get more intelligence as time goes by, and we’ll be transparent with the American people about what that intelligence says.” WATCH: Trump’s CIA Director John Ratcliffe says that the agency is evaluating intel it has on COVID origins to determine whether China intentionally started it or if it was an accident. pic.twitter.com/oQTSykPJI4 — Brent Scher (@BrentScher) January 26, 2025

The GOP-led Senate is ahead of the “Obama standard” when it comes to confirming President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet nominees, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on Sunday. During an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” nearly a week into Trump’s second term, Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo pressed Thune about the confirmation process, which Democrats have prevented from being conducted in a more speedy manner by forcing procedural votes and employing other delay tactics. “Why haven’t we seen more confirmations sooner? It certainly feels like the 53 Senate majority Republicans are allowing the 47 Senate minority Democrats to confirm the confirmation hearing process. Is that right?” Bartiromo asked, incorporating the 45 Senate Democrats with the pair of independents who caucus with them. Today on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, Senate Majority Leader @LeaderJohnThune spoke about the Senate confirmation process for President Trump's cabinet nominees.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/J4EY5xIZzw — SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) January 26, 2025 “Well, actually, we’re ahead of schedule. We’re going back to what is the Obama standard,” Thune replied, adding that former president Barack Obama “got 12 of his Cabinet nominees through in 15 days. It took Trump 43 days to get his first 12 through back in 2017” for his first term. “So we are pushing hard. And, obviously, there are constraints that are imposed by the rules of the Senate. The minority in the Senate has ways that can slow things down and drag it out,” Thune said. “But we’re actually, at the current point, ahead of the Obama standard,” the majority leader continued. “And so we’re going to keep moving aggressively, moving quickly, forcing people to stay and to take votes on weekends, which we did this weekend.” He added: “We will get them in place as quickly as we possibly can. But we are on the schedule that we laid out and one that I think enables these folks to get through the process in time to deliver for the president and for the American people.” The Senate has so far confirmed Marco Rubio to be U.S. Secretary of State, John Ratcliffe to be CIA director, Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary, and — in a vote on Saturday — Kristi Noem to be homeland security secretary. Scott Bessent, Trump’s treasury secretary nominee; and Sean Duffy, the nominee to become transportation secretary are expected to get confirmation votes in the coming days. Thune said that installing “new leadership” at federal agencies and departments are needed to implement Trump’s second term agenda. “Of course, we’re starting with the national security positions, which are critically important with everything that’s going on in the world and everything that’s going on at our southern border, which is why it was important that we get Governor Noem in at DHS,” Thune said. “But, as we move forward, we have got Treasury, Bessent coming up, Sean Duffy at DOT, a whole bunch more that we’re queuing up, teeing up to get done. And it’s just really important that they get in place, Maria, because you have a window of time. This doesn’t come along all that often and sometimes doesn’t last that long,” he added. Thune concluded: “And so we want to make sure the president has his team in place so he’s able to deliver on the agenda that he talked with the American people about and that they voted for in November.”

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