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I am proud to have worked with local and state officials, as well as the Trump administration, to deliver $11 billion in Hurricane Helene relief. I have helped secure more aid for our communities as a private citizen than Roy Cooper ever got as a governor. The work is not done, and as your Senator I will never stop working to help our WNC communities. washingtonreporter.news/excl…
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Roy Cooper failed Western North Carolina. 2 years ago this week, when North Carolina was facing the worst natural disaster in history, Cooper skipped town to spend time with his liberal elite friends in New York City. The state was so unprepared that his protege Josh Stein dismantled Cooper’s disaster response program as soon as he was sworn in. Cooper is a disgrace. breitbart.com/politics/2026/…
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Report: “Trans-identifying males have stolen over 2,293 gold medals from women and girls in the United States” notthebee.com/article/report…
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Roy Cooper issued more vetoes than any other governor in North Carolina history from January 2017 to January 2025, He will never vote in a "bipartisan" way. He will be an obstructionist to any Republican Agenda. He will always pick the Democrat party first over NC. #ncpol
NEW @DC_Reporter: @WhatleyNC has never held elected office before -- but as a private citizen, he helped steer billions of dollars to Western North Carolina I spoke with local leaders about how Whatley worked with @realDonaldTrump to deliver for them, and how #NCGOV Roy Cooper was completely MIA washingtonreporter.news/excl… #NCSEN
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Hmm... so gas prices are high because we're FINALLY doing something about an asshole terrorist nation that we should've dealt with fifty years ago instead of kicking the can down the road-like all prior administrations-for our kids to deal with once Iran's got nukes... So obviously the solution to these temporarily high gas prices are to vote for the Ban Oil, ACAB/Defund the Police, Trans the Kids, Make Crime Legal, Lindsey is Innocent Because Mercury Was in Retrograde, Ban the Guns, Tax You To Death, Make Sidney Sweeny Wear a Burqa, Suck The Fun Out Of Everything, Mask Mandated Lesbian Bar, Let Your Whole Town Burn Down, Import All The Illegals Possible, Party. And none of this is to say that republicans are good. No. Most of them suck. But at least they aren't belligerent meddling assholes who want to destroy me and everything I love. If the republicans weren't such bum ass bums we wouldn't be having this discussion before mid terms, but I'll take corrupt bums over totalitarian control freak rainbow communism any day. America can't have nice things because too many of us are dumb.
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Kathy Needs retweeted
Roy Cooper claims he will "Make Stuff Cost Less" 🤔 His record shows the complete opposite. From 2017 to 2025, Roy Cooper made stuff cost more and North Carolinians had to front the bill. 👎 It's time to retire Roy and his radical policies that hurt hard-working NC families.
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Yes, diesel is temporarily expensive. The GOP might point out that the real choice is between that, and a party that wants to jail diesel owners who want their equipment to work. wsj.com/opinion/the-2026-die… via @WSJopinion
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Roy, let’s talk about this. In 2018 you attended the Charlotte LGBT Chamber gala and were photographed with Chad Severance-Turner, who led that group for years. Turner is a convicted child sex offender. He was charged with lewd acts involving three boys under 16 — including fondling a 14-year-old while the boy slept — and reporting shows he was still on the sex offender registry when you stood with him. Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC later called him “an enormously influential and positive force.” Democrats kept attending those events. Your party has hosted drag brunch at headquarters. You were also a special guest at a birthday event for former Dem Rep. Cecil Brockman, now under indictment for felony statutory sex offense with a child, indecent liberties with a child, and first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. That’s the record. North Carolina can read it. Links Cooper + Turner / LGBT Chamber breitbart.com/politics/2026/… ladyliberty1885.com/2018/12/… facebook.com/media/set/?set=… apdillon.substack.com/p/game… web.archive.org/web/20160722… nccivitas.org/civitas-review… Jeff Jackson praise dailywire.com/news/exclusive… qnotescarolinas.com/carolina… Cooper as guest at Brockman birthday + indictment facebook.com/cecilbrockmanNC… nsjonline.com/article/2026/0… Cooper prisoner-release report (sex offenders) breitbart.com/politics/2026/… Drag brunch at Dem HQ nitter.net/libsoftiktok/status/19…
When Michael Whatley chose Harvey West for a senior leadership position, he knew West was a registered sex offender who had served six years in prison. North Carolina deserves better.
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Kathy Needs retweeted
An anti-AI protest outside Google’s offices today. Note the presence of a Palestinian flag. Can someone please explain the alignment between the Palestinian and anti-AI protestors?
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Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon became a media superstar after going public with his AI fears. He insisted that he wasn’t working with any third party organizations. Familiar sources told us a different story: DEY., a PR firm representing many of the most prominent AI safetyists, was booking his interviews. One source, who had direct knowledge, even said DEY. preemptively booked Nate Soares, a prominent AI safety figure, for interviews that directly overlapped with Jacob going public. Jacob working with DEY. is notable for two reasons: first, as mentioned, he previously said he wasn’t working with third parties. Second, we are in the middle of a national conversation about the future of AI that is actively determining how we regulate the most powerful technology in the world, largely thanks to the panic stirred up by Jacob — and it’s in the public’s interest to know who, exactly, is behind it. Scoop from @huntryerson 👇
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Good lord. Just watch this.
I often think of this video. Being in a room full of these people is like a form of torture.
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A POINT TO PONDER: Democrats had control of the Senate, the House and the White House from 2021-2023... Did they make your healthcare free? No. Did they give you gun control? No. Did they lower crime? No. Did they protect our borders? No. What did they do then? They ran up the debt and opened the borders. Did they drain all of our refineries and sell us to the highest bidder in the Arab nations and close the XL pipeline? YES Vote RED in November!
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#ncpol Don’t vote for Roy Cooper! He values criminals over victims every time.
🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that THE JUDGE who gave a Black woman only 30 DAYS in prison for running a RED LIGHT, hitting a 25yr old White man, and DRIVING AWAY while he DIED ON THE STREET... ...is a BLACK MALE DEMOCRAT, Reggie McKnight, who was appointed by ROY COOPER and served on the "Special Committee on Diversity" for Charlotte NC Bar. The 25 year old's name was Lance Sotelo. Lance grew up in Dalton, Georgia, and was a cross-country MVP in high school. He came to Queens University of Charlotte NC and ran cross country and track and field for SIX YEARS. On January 14th, Lance was doing the thing he loved most, he was out for a run in Charlotte NC At 5:47 in the evening, police say 28-year-old Q'Laundra Hood was ran a red light and she hit him, hard. ...and then she drove away. She left him in the road and kept going. Lance Sotelo died right there on the streets of Charlotte. He never even made it to a hospital. He didn't have life insurance, his family had to start a GoFundMe just to bury their son. Hood turned herself in and pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run and involuntary manslaughter. And on Tuesday, a courtroom packed with Lance's family and friends watched the judge hand down the sentence. 30 days in jail and probation. Thirty days and $765 restitution... which didn't even cover the funeral costs, by the way. The family had to start a GO FUND ME just to pay for his funeral. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
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🚨 JUST IN: Kamala Harris just said Republicans removing ineligible voters and illegals from the voter rolls is "CHEATING" and removing Democrats' "tools" "We RELIED on [these tools] for the last 50 years! [...] They are CHEATING by purging voter rolls [...] They try to take our tools, but we are a creative people." SHE'S SAYING THEY RELY ON CHEATING!! You literally cannot make this up... This is ALL the more reason for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act. The only thing that might be more important is mass deportations, but these go hand in hand SECURE ELECTIONS FOR A SECURE REPUBLIC
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Kathy Needs retweeted
Roy Cooper was the worst governor in North Carolina history. ❌ 104 vetoes ❌ Shut down our state ❌ Embraced sanctuary cities ❌ Fumbled Hurricane Helene relief North Carolina doesn’t need to give him a promotion. North Carolina needs to vote @WhatleyNC for Senate.
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Kathy Needs retweeted
In 2032, the new census will move another 10 congressional seats and electoral votes from Blue to Red States. in 2042 (16 years from now) another 10 congressional seats and electoral votes move from Blue to Red States. So, whatever happens this November.... In 15 years add twenty congressmen to the Republican side and remove 20 congressmen from the Democrat tally. (ditto with electoral college) it will be increasingly difficult for Democrats to win the House and the presidency. Lower taxes, flat and zero income tax states, school choice, home schooling, right to work labor laws and tort reform will drive more and more voters to buttress the Red majority in the House and the Presidential Electoral college. This has driven the Democrats to their present irrational state.
The exodus from blue states will reshape the Electoral College. California is projected to lose FOUR House seats after 2030. Texas is projected to gain FOUR, and Florida TWO. Americans continue to vote with their feet.
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Kathy Needs retweeted
Don't buy Cooper's lies about Michael Whatley. He's the one who actually supports and hob knobs with child predators. He released pedophiles, rapists and murderers back into the community before they had served their sentences. 40 years of Cooper is enough! breitbart.com/politics/2026/…
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Sorry but this idea that Republicans "did nothing" is just stupid. Feel free to say its not enough, but nothing is false. Victories under Trump & Republicans: IMMIGRATION & BORDER - Sealed the Southern Border - Carried out the most interior removals annually, ever - Expanded 287(g) by 1823% - Thousands of third nation deportations - Built around 200 miles of wall, 750 miles under construction. - Mega Master Court Hearings for illegals - Shut down the San Francisco Immigration Court - Ended TPS for 12 nations - Slowed renewals and deported some DACA individuals - Issued Guidance to make sure Public Charge can determine a foreigner's inadmissibility - Ending the 60-day layoff grace period for work visas - Revoked over 200k visas - Revoked at least 2,300 visas related to birth tourism concerns in the past 40 days. - Two different H-1B fees - Reweighted H-1Bs - DOJ first use of Alien Terrorist Removal Court - Suspended PERM filings of two companies that abused H-1Bs - Cut fentanyl trafficking at the Southern Border by 56% - Ended "catch-and-release" - Reinstated "Remain in Mexico" - Paused visa processing for 75 nations - Cut the number of new foreign students in the US by 17% - Enforced English-language proficiency requirements for commercial truck driving. - Slashed Refugee admission by 97% and the remaining % went to South Africans - 10x'd Denaturalizations - Signed the Laken Riley Act into law - Terminated the CHNV parole program for over 500k individuals - Revoked parole for those admitted through the CBP One - Created a self deportation machine - Rescinded the "sensitive locations" enforcement policy - Expanded immigration detention capacity - Reactivated immigration fines - Increased scrutiny of employment authorization - 10x'd I-9 audits - Reduced Naturalizations by 75% (monthly). - The White House reported negative net migration in 2025, which it described as the first year of net-negative migration in at least 50 years - Immigration-court asylum grant rates fell to 5.5% in June 2026 according to TRAC; the White House has cited an approximately 7% grant rate more broadly - Signed the Secure America Act, providing about $69.55 billion through FY2029 for CBP, ICE, HSI, border technology, detention, removal operations and related DHS immigration enforcement SOCIAL POLICY & DEI - Closed down over 40 "gender-affirming" centers for minors. - Forced several of the above to open detransitioning clinics. - Abolished federal DEI/DEIA programs and offices - Rescinded Biden's federal racial-equity executive orders - Removed DEI considerations from federal hiring and promotions - Eliminated or reorganized DEI-based federal Special Emphasis Programs - Ended discriminatory restrictions in federal employee affinity groups - Revoked EO 11246's federal-contractor affirmative-action framework - Ended race/sex preferences covered by the administration's federal contracting directives - Required federal contractors to comply with antidiscrimination requirements under the administration's new framework - Directed DOJ/EEOC enforcement against unlawful private-sector DEI discrimination - Initiated civil-rights investigations of university admissions practices - Removed disparate-impact provisions from Education's Title VI regulations - Abolished military DEI offices and programs - Made military personnel decisions merit-focused under the new DoD policy - Removed race/sex presumptions from DOT's DBE contracting programs - Terminated federal environmental-justice initiatives covered by the DEI orders - Terminated DOJ's Lowndes County environmental-justice settlement - Removed/archived hundreds of Education Department DEI materials - Directed changes to DEI-related programming at the Smithsonian - Expanded federal-contractor anti-DEI policy again through EO 14398 in 2026 - Whites above 50% of births reversing the trend. CRIME, DRUGS & PUBLIC SAFETY - Violent crime fell 9.3% nationwide in 2025 - Murders fell 18.1% nationwide in 2025 - Robbery fell 18.5% nationwide in 2025 - Rape fell 7.6% nationwide in 2025 - Aggravated assault fell 7.2% nationwide in 2025 - Property crime fell 12.4% nationwide in 2025 - Violent crime fell another 10.6% in the first half of 2026 - Murders fell another 23% in the first half of 2026 - Nearly 54,000 FBI violent-crime arrests - Captured nine FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitives - U.S. Marshals arrested 62,000+ fugitives in FY2025 - Launched Operation Take Back America - Launched Operation Spring Cleaning, resulting in 1,100+ arrests and seizures of nearly 1,000 illegal firearms and 2,700+ pounds of narcotics - Created the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, declared a D.C. crime emergency and temporarily placed D.C. police under federal direction - Took federal action against D.C.'s cashless-bail policies - Directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty in eligible D.C. cases - Recorded 17,000+ arrests through the D.C. crime initiative - Created the Memphis Safe Task Force, which recorded 5,100+ arrests - Memphis violent crime fell 19% in 2025 - Memphis murders fell 43%+ year-to-date in 2026 - Expanded federal enforcement against MS-13 - Expanded federal enforcement against Tren de Aragua - Designated major cartels and certain transnational gangs as terrorist organizations - Expanded federal prosecution of cartel leaders and traffickers - ATF seized 36,000+ illegal crime guns and 2.3 million+ rounds of ammunition from prohibited persons, gangs and criminal organizations - Intercepted 4,300+ firearms being trafficked toward Mexican cartels - Expanded enforcement against machine-gun conversion devices - Signed the HALT Fentanyl Act - DEA seized 45 million+ fentanyl pills, nearly 200,000 kilograms of cocaine and 1,100+ kilograms of heroin in FY2025 - Overall drug-overdose deaths fell 14% in 2025 - Expanded prosecutions of cartel-linked fentanyl networks - Created the Fentanyl Free America initiative - FBI arrested 5,000+ child predators and human traffickers - FBI located or identified 11,000+ child victims - Signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act - Restored federal death-penalty enforcement, rescinded the Biden-era execution moratorium, restored the pentobarbital protocol and directed DOJ to seek capital punishment in appropriate eligible cases - Increased federal support for state and local law enforcement - On-duty law-enforcement deaths fell 25% in 2025 MAHA & HEALTH - Established the Make America Healthy Again Commission - Released new 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines centered on whole, nutrient-dense foods - Began a federal initiative to phase out six widely used petroleum-based synthetic food dyes: Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3 - Secured synthetic-dye removal commitments from roughly 40% of the U.S. food industry, including 27 major food companies - Approved multiple new naturally derived food-color alternatives - Changed FDA policy to make "no artificial colors" labeling easier for foods using naturally derived colors - Began developing the first federal definition of "ultra-processed food" - Approved SNAP food-restriction waivers for more than 20 states, including Florida restrictions on soda, energy drinks, candy and prepared desserts - Signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act - Announced $61.9 million to strengthen Head Start nutrition and expand access to fresh and healthy food for more than 100,000 families - Restored the Presidential Fitness Test - Revamped the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition - Launched a nationwide childhood-physical-activity effort through Get Kids Active - Made childhood chronic disease a formal government-wide priority and redirected $1.8 billion annually toward combating it - Launched a $50 million autism data-science initiative - Launched the first national Autism Missing and Endangered Person Alert initiative - Doubled funding for the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative - Directed federal health agencies to increase transparency and open-source access to federally funded health research - Revised the federal childhood vaccine schedule/recommendations under the administration's new framework - Launched Operation Stork Speed to improve the safety, nutritional quality and availability of infant formula - Took executive action to expand access to IVF - Reclassified marijuana to Schedule III to facilitate medical research and alter its federal regulatory treatment - Launched the Great Healthcare Plan framework - Launched TrumpRx to provide access to discounted prescription drugs - Invested more than $1 billion in farm modernization and long-term food-supply resilience - Issued an executive order advancing regenerative agriculture - Secured Most-Favored-Nation drug-pricing agreements with 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers covering 89% of the branded-drug market by September 2026 - Secured a prior-authorization reform pledge from major health insurers covering nearly 8 in 10 Americans; by April 2026 leading plans reported eliminating about 11% of prior authorizations, or roughly 6.5 million requests ECONOMY & KITCHEN TABLE - The ISM Manufacturing PMI registered 54.6 in August 2026, marking eight straight months of manufacturing expansion after a 10-month contraction - Manufacturing employment rose by 58,000 from its December 2025 low through August 2026; the White House also reported nearly 100,000 additional factory-construction jobs during the second term - Major U.S. stock indexes reached multiple record highs during the second term; the Nasdaq reached another intraday record on September 22, 2026 - Treasury collected $292.5 billion in gross customs duties in FY2026 through August and issued $125.2 billion in refunds, leaving $167.3 billion in net customs revenue - SNAP participation fell by roughly 5 million people, or about 12%, between July 2025 and May 2026 as the OBBBA’s work-requirement and noncitizen-eligibility changes began rolling out; analysts caution that some of the decline preceded full implementation - Treasury and the IRS proposed rules applying PRWORA eligibility restrictions to the refundable portions of the Child Tax Credit, EITC, American Opportunity Tax Credit and adoption tax credit for taxpayers who are not U.S. citizens, nationals or qualified aliens OBBBA: TAXES, BENEFITS, AGRICULTURE, DEFENSE & INFRASTRUCTURE - Signed the OBBBA - Made the lower individual income-tax rates from the 2017 TCJA permanent - Permanently increased the standard deduction and increased it further under the OBBBA - Permanently increased the Child Tax Credit - Created a deduction of up to $25,000 for qualified tip income - Created a deduction of up to $12,500 in qualified overtime compensation, or $25,000 for joint filers - Created a $6,000 additional deduction for qualifying seniors ($12,000 for an eligible married couple), marketed by the White House as “No Tax on Social Security”; it is an income-tax deduction and does not literally repeal taxation of Social Security benefits - Created a deduction of up to $10,000 for interest on qualifying loans for new American-assembled vehicles - Raised the SALT deduction cap to $40,000 for 2025, subject to the law's income phaseout and scheduled changes - Made 100% bonus depreciation permanent - Made the Section 199A pass-through deduction permanent - Permanently expanded the estate and gift tax exemption - Restored immediate deductions for qualifying domestic R&D expenditures - Created Trump Accounts for children, including a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible children born from 2025 through 2028 - Permanently expanded the employer tax credit for paid family and medical leave - Expanded employer-provided childcare tax incentives - Expanded Opportunity Zones - Created new incentives for investment in qualifying rural communities - Funded additional border-wall construction, barriers and related border infrastructure - Funded thousands of additional ICE, CBP and Border Patrol personnel - Massively expanded immigration-detention funding - Funded additional removal and deportation operations - Funded additional border-surveillance technology - Funded additional immigration judges and court resources - Provided funding to reimburse states for qualifying border-security activities - Added Medicaid community-engagement requirements for certain able-bodied adults - Increased Medicaid eligibility verification and required more frequent redeterminations for certain expansion enrollees - Changed Medicaid provider-tax rules - Changed state-directed-payment rules - Added cost-sharing requirements for portions of the Medicaid expansion population - Restricted Medicaid and CHIP federal funding for certain reproductive-health providers - Limited Medicare eligibility for certain categories of lawfully present noncitizens - Tightened verification for ACA premium-tax-credit eligibility - Required repayment of excess advance premium tax credits without the previous statutory repayment caps - Permanently allowed first-dollar telehealth coverage for HSA-compatible high-deductible plans - Made bronze and catastrophic health plans HSA-compatible - Allowed qualifying direct-primary-care arrangements to work with HSAs - Created the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program - Expanded SNAP work requirements for certain able-bodied adults and extended the ages covered - Changed federal-state SNAP administrative cost sharing - Required certain states with high SNAP payment-error rates to contribute toward benefit costs - Restricted SNAP eligibility for specified categories of noncitizens - Increased agricultural commodity reference prices - Expanded base acres - Strengthened Price Loss Coverage - Strengthened Agriculture Risk Coverage - Updated agricultural marketing-loan programs - Updated federal sugar policy - Updated federal dairy policy - Expanded agricultural disaster assistance - Increased benefits for beginning farmers and ranchers - Expanded crop-insurance premium support - Created a poultry insurance pilot program - Increased agricultural trade-promotion funding - Expanded conservation funding - Capped federal lending for graduate and professional students - Ended new Grad PLUS lending - Reformed federal student-loan repayment, deferment and forbearance rules - Reformed student-loan rehabilitation - Modified Public Service Loan Forgiveness provisions - Created Workforce Pell Grants for qualifying short-term workforce programs - Changed Pell Grant eligibility rules - Funded and launched development of Golden Dome homeland missile-defense capabilities - Expanded missile and interceptor procurement and production - Expanded domestic munitions production - Expanded military aircraft procurement - Expanded naval shipbuilding - Expanded the U.S. defense industrial base - Expanded nuclear-deterrence modernization - Expanded military infrastructure investment - Expanded Coast Guard procurement and infrastructure - Required additional federal oil and gas leasing - Accelerated the termination of several EV tax subsidies - Accelerated the phaseout of several wind and solar tax subsidies - Expanded nuclear-energy tax incentives - Expanded domestic critical-mineral incentives - Provided $12.5 billion to modernize and replace aging air-traffic-control infrastructure FOREIGN AID, USAID, UN & COST CUTTING - Ordered a government-wide review of U.S. foreign assistance - Paused new obligations and disbursements of foreign development assistance pending review - Cancelled 83% of USAID-managed foreign-aid programs - Terminated more than $76.5 billion in USAID foreign-assistance awards by March 2025 - Dismantled USAID as an independent foreign-assistance operation and transferred/consolidated remaining functions under the State Department - Reduced USAID's global workforce by roughly 95%, eliminating thousands of positions - Terminated all remaining State- and USAID-funded projects in Afghanistan in April 2025 - Shifted U.S. foreign assistance toward an "America First" foreign-policy framework - Increased emphasis on burden-sharing by foreign governments and international organizations - Signed the Rescissions Act of 2025, rescinding $7.9 billion in previously enacted foreign-assistance funding across USAID, development, economic-support, international-organization, migration/refugee, democracy and peacekeeping accounts - Used presidential rescission authority to cancel additional unobligated foreign-aid and international-organization funding through the administration's 2025 pocket-rescission action - Ended U.S. funding for UNRWA - Ended U.S. participation in the UN Human Rights Council and associated U.S. funding, including the attributable share of the UN regular budget, and eliminated the U.S. representative office - Ordered a government-wide review of U.S. funding and participation in international organizations, conventions and treaties - Withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations in 2026, including 31 UN entities and 35 non-UN organizations - Reviewed U.S. membership in UNESCO and moved to end U.S. participation following the review - Proposed eliminating or consolidating the traditional Development Assistance, Economic Support Fund, Democracy Fund and Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia accounts - Proposed an $8.3 billion reduction across major economic, development and democracy-assistance accounts in the FY2026 budget - Proposed a $3.2 billion reduction across international disaster, migration and refugee-assistance accounts - Proposed consolidating international humanitarian assistance into a smaller $2.5 billion account - Proposed shifting foreign assistance away from grants and toward investment through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation - Reduced the federal civilian workforce as part of government-wide cost cutting; employment across 22 major agencies fell by nearly 256,000, or more than 11%, from December 2024 to January 2026 - Restricted federal hiring across most agencies - Used deferred resignations, attrition and reductions in force to reduce federal payrolls FRAUD ENFORCEMENT - Created the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance and spanning major federal departments and agencies - According to the White House, identified nearly $230 billion in suspected fraud, stopped $56 billion in fraudulent payments and enforced more than $55 billion through indictments, settlements and civil penalties - Created Fraud gov and a public Fraud Ledger tracking investigations, suspensions, recoveries and enforcement actions - Created minimum anti-fraud standards for federal benefit programs, expanding identity and eligibility verification and pre-payment controls - Expanded federal data-sharing and required agencies to identify high-risk fraud trends before payment and develop measurable anti-fraud plans - Launched a national fraud whistleblower program - Created the DOJ National Fraud Enforcement Division, led by the first Assistant Attorney General specifically responsible for the division, with nationwide taxpayer-fraud coordination responsibilities - Expanded DOJ Health Care Fraud Strike Forces as DOJ reported roughly 8,000 active fraud cases by April 2026 - Uncovered $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts and launched an investigation - Referred 562,000 fraudulent or delinquent pandemic-era SBA loans, totaling roughly $22 billion, for aggressive collection - Blocked $60 million in fraudulent student-loan applications in the first month of enhanced screening - Identified more than 10,000 suspected fraud cases involving international-student work programs - Suspended $1.4 billion in home-health and hospice funding amid fraud investigations, including 447 hospices and 23 home-health agencies in Los Angeles tied to an estimated $600+ million in suspected fraud - Halted new Medicare enrollment for hospice providers nationwide during the fraud crackdown - Launched audits of Medicaid Fraud Control Units in all 50 states and expanded Medicaid fraud investigations nationwide - Deferred $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid reimbursements to California amid fraud-related enforcement - Halted nearly $260 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and deferred an additional $91 million amid fraud allegations - Charged 15 defendants in a major Minnesota healthcare-fraud investigation, including cases DOJ described as the state's largest autism-fraud prosecution and highest-loss Medicaid fraud case - Charged four Ohio defendants, including two state employees, in an alleged $30 million Medicaid billing scheme and seized 14 luxury vehicles - Imposed a temporary moratorium on new home-health and hospice providers in high-risk areas of Ohio - Served criminal warrants and administrative charges on 20 Minnesota businesses suspected of SNAP fraud - Expanded investigations into fraudulent childcare providers and charged a Minneapolis daycare owner in a federal fraud case - Created the DOJ Trade Fraud Task Force, which surpassed $1 billion in recoveries, penalties, forfeitures and publicly charged losses while expanding civil and criminal enforcement against customs and tariff fraud - Created federal-state anti-fraud partnerships, including the Florida Anti-Fraud Task Force, and expanded data-sharing to identify fraudulent benefit claims ENERGY & DEREGULATION - Declared a National Energy Emergency - Resumed LNG export approvals and ended the Biden-era pause on new approvals - Achieved record U.S. LNG exports in 2025, becoming the first country to export more than 100 million metric tons in a year - Achieved record U.S. oil and natural-gas production in 2025 - Achieved record crude-oil and petroleum-product exports in 2026 - Opened hundreds of millions of acres of federal land to oil, gas and coal development - Expanded offshore oil and gas leasing - Expanded energy development in Alaska, including reopening ANWR development opportunities - Expanded coal leasing on federal lands and ended the federal coal-leasing moratorium - Accelerated federal permitting for energy projects - Ordered agencies to identify and eliminate regulations burdening domestic energy production - Revoked the Obama-era EPA Endangerment Finding - Reversed Biden-era restrictions on fossil-fuel development, natural-gas infrastructure and federal-land energy development - Ended the federal push toward eliminating gas appliances - Halted the Biden-era fossil-fuel restrictions on federal buildings - Issued four executive orders expanding American nuclear power, including faster NRC licensing and a goal of quadrupling U.S. nuclear capacity by 2050 - Accelerated deployment of advanced nuclear reactors and expanded federal support for advanced-reactor demonstrations - Expanded domestic nuclear-fuel supply chains, including uranium enrichment and fuel production - Launched a government-wide 10-for-1 deregulatory policy - Finalized 646 deregulatory actions versus five regulatory actions in FY2025, a 129-to-1 deregulatory-to-regulatory ratio - Ordered automatic review and rescission of outdated energy regulations VETERANS - Reduced the VA disability-benefits backlog by more than 70%, bringing it below 70,000 claims for the first time since 2020 - Enrolled more than 250,000 new veterans in VA healthcare in 2026 - Opened more than 40 new VA healthcare clinics since January 2025 - Provided more than 3.2 million VA appointments outside normal operating hours through expanded early-morning, evening and weekend scheduling - Completed more than 82 million direct-care VA appointments in FY2025, a 4.1% increase - Completed nearly 60 million VA community-care appointments in FY2025, a 12% increase - Permanently housed 51,936 homeless veterans in FY2025, the most in seven years - Invested another $1.2 billion in VA infrastructure improvements in Q3 FY2026, including $915 million for facility repairs/upgrades and $229 million for infrastructure supporting electronic health records FAITH & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY - Established the White House Faith Office within the Executive Office of the President and Domestic Policy Council - Established the DOJ-led Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias - Established the Religious Liberty Commission to advise the White House on religious-liberty protections and policy - Issued updated Education Department guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression in public elementary and secondary schools - Restored HHS’s Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the Office for Civil Rights
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Democrats claim to support “our democracy,” yet by a massive margin they support a military coup.
Replying to @StratPolitics
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.
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