El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele posted a video of El Salvador before and after. It is very powerful. It’s also true that parts of New York City look like the before in El Salvador. That is true of many cities in the United States. BREAKING El Salvador President Nayibr Bukele just posted a VERY powerful video showing before and after transformations of El Salvador thanks to Nayib Bukele’s leadership Takes your breathe away seeing the difference Trump’s policies work Worldwide pic.twitter.com/Xn3FhJOx3F — MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) March 27, 2026 America’s Future If We Don’t Change Course Here is New York City. You can’t blame Mayor Mamdani yet, but you can blame communism. This started after Mayor Bloomberg left office, when communist Mayor DeBlasio stepped into Gracie Mansion. Mamdani’s NyC…. They’re Selling Drugs Out of Tents in the Sidewalk… pic.twitter.com/2JZKnosoqt — (@Emilio2763) February 12, 2026 San Francisco: Just a reminder on @NewsNation 9 eastern this evening an O’Reilly special: The Decline and Fall of San Francisco. Hope you check it out. pic.twitter.com/2LeHPFOOy0 — Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) March 27, 2026 Philadelphia: Philadelphia: Death, drugs, hell and the Democrat Party. Meanwhile 239,416 illegals aliens been imported by Democrats through the U.S. southern border in May, the highest monthly number recorded in U.S. history. CBP pic.twitter.com/E3NVkoWFKL — RealRobert (@Real_RobN) May 27, 2023 The post A Most Powerful Video: Before and After in El Salvador appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Senate early Friday passed a partial Department of Homeland Security funding bill, as Republicans caved to Democrats’ refusal to fund ICE and border patrol. The measure now heads to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has expressed opposition to breaking up DHS funding and could struggle to secure GOP support. He has already announced that it won’t pass. The Senate left for its Easter holiday after caving. They think they can fund ICE and CBP through reconciliation, but that process has not been terribly effective. GOP leaders could not get the support of all 100 senators to pass the measure by unanimous consent, but no senator showed up to demand a roll call vote. As the parties remained in a stalemate all day, President Trump announced an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration agents. Airports have been experiencing record-long security line wait times because many TSA agents have quit or called out during the shutdown. Mr. Thune then reversed course on the “last and final” offer with a new bill that cut even more from the department’s budget than the $5.5 billion for immigration enforcement that the GOP’s previous offer removed. The GOP already fought that battle and won the funding in the Big Beautiful Bill. Now, they have to fight for it under the reconciliation process. The new bill fully funds eight of the 10 agencies under DHS, including TSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, and Secret Service. It excludes money for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and much of Customs and Border Protection. For the latter, the agency’s customs functions are funded, but border patrol operations are not. Democrats did not get any of the immigration enforcement policy demands they began pushing after the second death of an American citizen in Minneapolis early this year. So that’s good, but now we’re not paying the officers to round them up. Republicans effectively caved to far-left Democrats, who repeatedly pushed to fund all of DHS, except for ICE and CBP, while lawmakers continued to negotiate their disputes over the administration’s immigration enforcement tactics. Radical Democrats got their precedent. Reconciliation only needs 51 votes, but some of the Senate Republicans are really Democrats. RINOs are Democrats. We can’t get anything done in our Senate because of the filibuster, the Blue Slip, and the RINOs. They gave Democrats a new talking point. The less radical Democrats were starting to weaken, and the Republicans threw them a lifeline and a talking point. Schumer can now say Republicans could have done this weeks ago. It’s the Republicans’ fault. “This could’ve been accomplished weeks ago if Republicans hadn’t stood in the way,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York said. “Democrats held firm in our opposition that Donald Trump’s rogue and deadly militia should not.” “Congressional Democrats have done real damage to the appropriations process by repeatedly forcing government shutdowns and refusing to fund entire agencies,” Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, Maine Republican, said. “Their refusal to fund ICE and Border Patrol leaves our borders and our country less secure and sets a precedent that they may one day come to regret.” Radical Democrats won’t regret it. They opened our borders to get votes. That is all they care about. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat appropriator, said it was important for her party to stand its ground on behalf of the American people. “We have rejected the ridiculous false choice that the only way to prevent chaos at our airports is by cutting another blank check for President Trump and Stephen Miller,” she said. “Speaking up matters. We’ve got to keep fighting and demanding the accountability the American people deserve.” All Patty Murphy wants is to keep all these illegal aliens in the country for votes. They don’t care if they are criminals. They have set up sanctuaries for them throughout the nation. These same people won’t allow voter ID for the same reason. In the end, if the House passes it, it could potentially work. BREAKING: Senate passes DHS funding bill without additional funds for ICE nor major reforms for ICE. The bill now goes to the House where Republicans have signaled they’ll add in voter ID measures. Meanwhile, President Trump to sign EO funding TSA today.pic.twitter.com/fZCCwc9TpD — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 27, 2026 The post GOP Caves on DHS: ICE & CBP to Get Paid If Reconciliation Works appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

[[File:Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Official Portrait.jpg|Congresswoman_Sheila_Cherfilus-McCormick_Official_Portrait]] Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick appeared before the House Ethics Committee on Thursday in a rare public hearing to face allegations she stole millions in federal disaster funds and used them to bolster her 2021 campaign. The ethics trial places renewed attention on how Congress polices its own members. This is separate from criminal proceedings underway against Cherfilus-McCormick. “The allegations before us are extremely serious. They not only concern an individual member’s conduct; they also implicate the public’s confidence in the house’s integrity as an institution,” said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier of California, the top Democrat on the committee, acknowledging the severity of the allegations against the Florida congresswoman. “Today, at a time when public confidence in our institution is so low, this committee’s role in enforcing the congressional ethics process and defending the integrity of the House could not be more important,” he continued. “We’re not in a court of law. We’re not dealing in a criminal matter. We are a body that’s unique unto itself. We’re dealing with rules. We’re not dealing with any type of criminal adjudication, I want to just push back on that a little bit that we are not violating her constitutional rights,” Republican Rep. Brad Knott of North Carolina said. In November, the Justice Department indicted Cherfilus-McCormick on charges, with prosecutors accusing her of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded Covid-19 vaccination staffing contract. Prosecutors allege that some of those funds were then used to benefit her campaign through candidate contributions. The congresswoman, who is serving her second full term in office, pleaded not guilty to those charges last month. At the time of the indictment, Attorney General Pam Bondi called the alleged conduct “a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” saying that “no one is above the law.” In a previously issued report, the Office of Congressional Ethics found that Cherfilus-McCormick’s income in 2021 was more than $6 million higher than in 2020, driven by nearly $5.75 million in consulting and profit-sharing fees received for work for Trinity Healthcare Services. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously in July to reauthorize an investigative subcommittee for the 119th Congress to examine allegations involving the congresswoman. She is still in Congress. The post House Ethics Trial for Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Who Faces a $5M Theft Charge appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

According to Israel’s Channel 12 television, President Trump is furious about Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for a general insurrection across Iran following the assassination of the lead negotiator, Ali Larijani, and the commander of the Basij public order militia, Gholamreza Soleimani. Trump allegedly slammed Israel’s PM for telling the US to exhort all Iranians to take to the streets to overthrow the regime, which, according to Israeli intelligence, is cracking up. “Why the hell should we tell people to take to the streets when they’ll just get mowed down?” Trump reportedly told Netanyahu during a phone call. They agreed to wait to see if Iranians would use the annual festival of fire, Chaharshanbe Suri, for mass street demonstrations. “Our aircraft are hitting the terrorist operatives on the grounds, the crossroads, and the city squares,” Netanyahu allegedly claimed. “This is meant to enable the brave people of Iran to celebrate the Festival of Fire.” Trump has told Republicans in Congress that his aim was the destruction of Iran’s ballistic missile forces, nuclear arsenal potential, Iranian navy, and support for terrorist proxy groups. He has not mentioned regime change for weeks. Israel is going for regime change, and that would escalate the war. Netanyahu is afraid Trump will cut a deal to end the war and is reported to have asked his generals to mount an “all-out blitz on top targets” in Iran over the next 48 hours. However, the closure of the Straits of Hormuz and the choking of oil and gas exports from the Persian Gulf could prevent Trump from ending the war soon. Yesterday, President Trump wrote on Truth Social: As per the Iranian Government’s request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media and others, they are going very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP The Final Blow If Talks Don’t Yield Peace Trump is ordering 7,000 more of our elite soldiers to the Gulf. Axios reports that the Pentagon is developing military options for a “final blow” in Iran that could include the use of ground forces and a massive bombing campaign, according to two US officials and two sources with knowledge. In interviews with Axios, officials and sources familiar with the internal discussions describe four major “final blow” options Trump could choose from: Invading or blockading Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export hub. Invading Larak, an island that helps Iran solidify its control of the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic outpost hosts Iranian bunkers, attack craft that can blow up cargo ships, and radars that monitor movements in the strait. Seizing the strategic island of Abu Musa and two smaller islands, which lie near the western entrance to the strait and are controlled by Iran but also claimed by the UAE. Blocking or seizing ships that are exporting Iranian oil on the eastern side of the Hormuz Strait. The US military has also prepared plans for ground operations deep inside the interior of Iran to secure the highly enriched uranium buried within nuclear facilities. Instead of conducting such a complicated and risky operation, the US could instead carry out large-scale air strikes on the facilities to try to prevent Iran from ever accessing the material. : . Victor Davis Hanson has spent fifty years studying how wars end. When he says the tide is turning, it’s worth listening to why. His argument isn’t based on what the Pentagon is… pic.twitter.com/pC35L1Hdsu — M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) March 20, 2026 Caveat: This is all coming from the media, which is often wrong. The post President Trump Reportedly Furious with Prime Minister Netanyahu appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

  Democrat Gregory Meeks exploded in rage right in the middle of a hearing, this week angrily demanding “answers” from Secretary Marco Rubio about the operation against Iran. He lost that attempt at bad politics when it became known that he systematically skips classified intelligence briefings. He misses the very same ones that would give […] The post Dem. Rep. Meeks Tries to Embarrass Republicans & Face Plants appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.