The Trump administration wants to deport more people at a quicker pace. In its latest move to ramp up the mass deportation effort, the Department of Homeland Security signed a roughly $140 million contract to buy six Boeing 737 planes to operate flights without the assistance of outside contractors, according to The Washington Post. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights via what’s known as “ICE Air” have long relied on charter companies to carry out removals. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on X Wednesday that the effort will save American taxpayers $279 million. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “These planes will allow ICE to operate more effectively, including by using more efficient flight patterns,” McLaughlin said. “President Trump and @Sec_Noem are committed to quickly and efficiently getting criminal illegal aliens OUT of our country.” The Trump administration has already deported more than 579,000 illegal immigrants, according to President Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan. Still, they are short of their lofty goal of carrying out one million deportations each year. The latest contract was awarded to Daedalus Aviation, which was established in February 2024 and “offers a full range of commercial and charter aviation services” and “provides comprehensive responsive flight operations tailored to the unique needs of each mission,” according to The Washington Post. Funding for the new initiative comes from the Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill that gave DHS a whopping $165 billion earlier this year. Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, along with her advisor Corey Lewandowski, ordered agency officials to purchase 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines to carry out their own deportation flights. Both Noem and Lewandowski were warned that it would be more cost-effective to hire more flight contractors, according to the outlet. It was also later discovered that the planes didn’t have engines. The Trump administration has pressured ICE to increase the number of arrests to meet its deportation goals, but sources within the agency have told The Daily Wire that the pace is unsustainable.

The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.  President Donald Trump confirmed the news during a roundtable discussion on Wednesday afternoon after he was asked about reports of the seizure by Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan. The seizure comes as the president has ramped up a pressure campaign targeting Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro. “An interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large — largest one ever seized, actually,” the president said. Trump added that the tanker was taken by the United States “for very good reasons.” Bloomberg first reported the tanker seizure. Until Wednesday, the Trump administration’s military efforts off the coast of Venezuela have been limited to destroying drug boats and submarines. Wednesday’s actions represent a significant escalation in the White House pressure campaign, targeting Venezuela’s state-owned oil industry and primary source of funding. Most of Venezuela’s oil is sold to China. Chinese buyers are typically able to get Venezuelan oil at a discount because of the risk of running afoul of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships U.S.-based Chevron has some oil operations in Venezuela. Chevron has received a waiver from the Treasury Department to work with Venezuela’s state-owned oil giant PDVSA to develop the country’s massive oil reserves. To drill in Venezuela, Chevron gives a portion of its oil to the government. Since September, the U.S. military has knocked out over 20 boats and submarines in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean in strikes targeting drugs and narcoterrorists. The strikes are part of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb the flow of illicit drugs into the United States as well as destroy operations that empower cartels in Central and South America and destabilize the region. Trump has escalated pressure on Maduro in particular after failing to oust the South American strongman from office during Trump’s first term. Trump has approved CIA operations in Venezuela to target drug operations and Maduro, whom the Trump administration has called a drug kingpin. The Trump administration has placed a $50 million bounty on information that leads to Maduro’s arrest.

Some red warning sirens are beginning to sound about Republican hopes in 2026 and, yes, in 2028, because American politics is like a pendulum. If it swings one direction one moment, then wait a minute, it’ll probably swing back the other direction, naturally. Miami has been Republican for decades, specifically because there’s a large Cuban Republican population, which is very anti-communist. But for the first time in 30 years, Democrats have now taken control of Miami. That’s after candidate Eileen Higgins clinched the city’s mayoral election. Higgins beat out Trump-backed Republican Emilio Gonzalez in the Florida city’s runoff Tuesday night. She became the first Democratic mayor in the city since 1998. President Trump threw his weight behind the Republican candidate. He was joined by senators Ted Cruz and Rick Scott, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. But it didn’t matter very much. Some of the early bellwethers are not moving in Republican directions right now. It is also a warning for Republicans with regard to the Hispanic vote in the United States. President Trump won an outsized share of Hispanics in the last election cycle. The polling shows that many, many Hispanics are falling off the Republican bandwagon right now because Trump solved some of the big issues, like closing the southern border. However, he has alienated an awful lot of Hispanic Republicans with some of the more public-facing ICE actions. And a lot of Hispanic Republicans, who were driven away from the Democratic Party by their social radicalism and DEI, have been moving back because Democrats have been moving away from those discussions and back toward “affordability.” This is the issue of the day: “affordability.” President Trump has labeled affordability a Democratic hoax, which I totally understand because “affordability” is a broad buzzword that encompasses many things. Does it encompass the inflation rate? If we’re talking inflation rate, Trump has brought down inflation to manageable levels — still higher than it should be, but it’s not riding at 9-11% as it was under Joe Biden. If we’re talking about energy prices, they are falling under President Trump. When people say “affordability,” it is fair to say that very few people ever think that things are “affordable.” Nothing is “affordable.” If you are struggling economically at any time in your life, this means inherently you’re going to think things are unaffordable. When people talk about affordability, what do they mean? They mean that things are less affordable for them now than they were back in 2019. That is what the polling data shows. Americans are dissatisfied with how far their money is going right now. Yes, many people are making more dollars than they were in 2019, but those dollars aren’t going quite as far. Items are less affordable than they were five or six years ago, but when Democrats talk about the problems of “affordability,” they are neglecting the fact that most of those problems emerged under Joe Biden. That is what Trump means when he says that the “affordability” argument is a hoax. He means they created an inflationary spiral that jacked up prices, and then they handed him a bad situation. He has brought inflation down to manageable levels, and now they’re shouting about affordability. They can’t shout about inflation because if they say the word inflation, everyone’s going to look at Joe Biden and look at Trump and realize Trump brought the inflation rates down. So if Democrats talk about “affordability” as a catch-all, that is a much more lucrative political line for them to pursue. What we need, as always, is more deregulation, lower taxes, and better incentive structures for businesses to create new goods, products, and services. When a party wins a national election, as Republicans did in 2024, the general tendency is to believe that you have a mandate and that you are in the ascendancy. That may not, in fact, be true. It may be that a lot of people voted for you just because they didn’t like the other guy. When we live in a binary election system, that is the most common answer as to why people vote. They’re not necessarily voting for something, they’re voting against something. And this is where I think the Republicans have to be very careful, because Republicans can tell themselves a story where we are now in the ascendancy. Culturally, we are in the ascendancy at the moment. But what may actually be happening is that the most visible anecdotal evidence is in our favor, but the general statistical trend is not in our favor, and that’s something we need to keep an eye on if we want to be accurate about the solutions that we actually put forth.

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