Links for 2–12-25
sound law and the will of the voters
🇺🇸 Musk’s government crusade is legal — and all-American. From: John O McGinnis/City-Journal. DOGE’s mandate is built on sound law and the will of the voters.
Defending USAID is political suicide for Democrats. From: Ruy Teixeira/The Free Press. Once again, the party shows it has learned nothing from November 5.
👉 Eliminating wasteful spending. From: Bill O'Reilly. Why are people mad at the man that found the wasted billions, but not mad at the people who wasted it?
DOGE may cancel cancel culture. From: Scott Greer/Highly Respected. The Trump administration standing by controversial hires signals a new cultural moment.
🤬 How FEMA spending on migrants exploded under Biden. From: Andrew Arthur/NY Post. Elon Musk is targeting what he says is out-of-control spending by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on migrants.
How Democrats lost their way on immigration. From: Michael Baharaeen/Liberal Patriot. Part one in a series examining at how the party got derailed on key issues.
🚩 Four FEMA employees fired over 'egregious payments' for NYC migrant housing. From: Fox 4. It comes after Elon Musk said his Department of Government Efficiency uncovered $59 million in FEMA payments for luxury hotels.
Teacher’s union busted coaching on how to help illegal aliens evade ICE. From: Chris Donaldson/BizPac Review. The United Federation of Teachers is telling teachers to print and hand out "red cards" in newly leaked footage obtained by the New York Post.
💰 California teachers make six figures on average. Now they demand more. From: Liz Wolfe/Reason.You might think that teachers in California would wait to have better job performance before they demand more money.
School choice revs up again in the states. From: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. Texas, Tennessee and other GOP-led states join the movement for more education freedom.
👏 DOGE announces $881 million in US DoE contract terminations. From: Carballo & Perez/Politico. Education Department funds for diversity programs and research initiatives will soon dry up.
Lawmakers push legislation to abolish USAID entirely. From: Thérèse Boudreaux/The Center Square. U.S. Reps. Gregory Steube, R-Fla., and Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., have each introduced bills that would immediately halt all federal funding to the United States Agency for International Development.
⭐️ DEI — RIP. From: Washington Examiner. It has come with little surprise that DEI programs, which are now being scrapped across industry and different levels of government nationwide, have failed to bring any positive change in society.
Progressives should cheer Trump’s FBI purge. From: Christian Parenti/Unherd. There are many who dislike Trump yet cheer for him — because they dislike the FBI even more.
🎯 Ousted from power by voters, Dems turn to activist judges to defy Trump. From: John Daniel Davidson/The Federalist. Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch.
‘We’re going back to plastic.’ From: Craig Nigrelli/Straight Arrow News.Trump reverses paper straw policy.
🔎 Microplastics found in human brains have increased by 50% in the last eight years. From: Free Thought Project. The plastic pollution crisis just got personal.
Will Trump and the new GOP congress get to the bottom of COVID-19's origin? From: Christian Britschgi/Reason. It's a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government's lack of transparency to staff his administration.
🇷🇺 Trump says he has spoken directly to Putin about ending war in Ukraine. From: Jack Phillips/Epoch Times-Zero Hedge. ”Every day people are dying. This war is so bad in Ukraine. I want to end this damn thing.”