The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office in January eliminating federal DEI efforts, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told Reuters that “HHS is reviewing grantees to ensure compliance with President Trump’s executive orders.”

The money is reportedly distributed by HHS’ Title X program, with the $120 million being about half of the funding available to the program for this year. Under the program, roughly four million people access services through a network of around 4,000 clinics.

“The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they’ll end people’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson told the Journal.

Democrats in Congress also slammed the administration’s move to halt the funding.

“Fundamentally, we are talking about the Trump administration cutting off very basic and lifesaving health care,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said, according to The Washington Times. “Title X has long had bipartisan support, and I hope every one of my colleagues who support basic, cost-saving family planning services will speak out against this illegal hijacking of lifesaving funding women across America are counting on for health care.”

Trump said Tuesday that he may direct the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against Planned Parenthood officials for allegedly trafficking in aborted fetal tissue.

“I think you are talking about a subject that’s been a heated subject, and we’ll look into it,” Trump told reporters when asked about probing the fetal harvesting allegations. “We’ll look into everything, but that’s certainly a subject that’s been debated for a long time, and we will look into it.”

In 2015, an anti-abortion activist group released undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing how to abort a fetus to best preserve its organs for biomedical research, as well as negotiating the sale of aborted fetal tissue.

In one case, a Planned Parenthood representative joked about wanting a Lamborghini with the undercover anti-abortion activists, who were posing as researchers.

After the videos were released, Planned Parenthood’s then-President Cecile Richards reportedly sent an 11-page letter to members of Congress, admitting that affiliates had accepted payments of up to $60 per “tissue specimen” obtained through abortion, but claimed they were cost reimbursements, which are permitted under federal law.

In her letter, Richards also admitted that “adjustments that facilitate fetal tissue donations rarely occur at a few of our clinics that offer women this service.

The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office in January eliminating federal DEI efforts, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told Reuters that “HHS is reviewing grantees to ensure compliance with President Trump’s executive orders.”

The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

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It’s no secret that Barack Obama was the most divisive president of our lifetime—especially when it came to race. Who can forget the chaos and racial resentment that boiled over during his time in office, as he led the country down a path of confusion, division, and unrest?

Obama was the absolute opposite of unity—and sadly, to this day, we’re still paying the price for the division he sowed.

This is Obama’s legacy on race relations in America:

Even Fox Business ran a report on Obama’s catastrophic record on race relations—eight years ago.

It all started with the Trayvon Martin case, when Obama made matters worse by inserting himself into the controversy. Instead of cooling tensions, he poured fuel on the fire by suggesting that Trayvon—a known bully and thug by all honest accounts—“could have been my son.”

VIDEO AT LINK……………….

Yes, Barry—and sadly, considering what we all know about you now, that’s probably the most accurate description of your hypothetical “son” yet.

But that was just the beginning for Obama.

Little did we know back then, he’d go on to spend his entire tenure dividing the nation and fueling chaos, confusion, and unrest. From Trayvon Martin to BLM to George Floyd—and every firebombed city in between—it felt like once Obama grabbed the reins, America transformed into one massive, slow-burning riot.

So how did it all come to be?

Well, if you ask national security experts like Mike Benz, it wasn’t that difficult. In fact, it was pretty slick. According to Benz, the key piece of the puzzle is a government-backed organization you’ve probably heard a lot about lately: USAID.

Mike believes Obama funneled money through USAID to bankroll his street-level chaos right here in the U.S.—playing a calculated game of financial cat and mouse across offshore accounts and the shady banking alleys of the Cayman Islands.

Of course, it’s worth noting that there’s no concrete or independently verified evidence from official government records, audits, or mainstream investigations to confirm this as fact. But that’s exactly how corruption works. If it were easy to audit and trace, it wouldn’t be a successful corruption racket—now would it?

Here’s Mike Benz explaining on Joe Rogan’s show exactly how he believes Obama used USAID to fund his “rent-a-riot” racket in the US.

HOLY CRAP

Obama pretended to send USAID money to aid foreign countries but was actually funneling it to Cayman Islands to be used for “Rent-a-Riots” pic.twitter.com/3VN70jiIlr— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 23, 2025

This latest news is concerning to say the least—but let’s be honest, it’s not exactly shocking, is it? The company Obama keeps tells you everything you need to know about his life—and his intentions.

Take a look:

This might also explain why the Left is absolutely losing it over the DOGE’s investigations into fraud and waste. They’re not just poking around paperwork—they’re raiding the riot and election slush funds that have kept the Dem machine humming for years.

Now that USAID has been shut down, the Left is being forced to personally fund the destruction of America. And let’s just say—they’re not enjoying the price tag.

We’ll leave you with this meme—it sums up most of America’s problems in one perfect snapshot.

Revolver News, Staff

• U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced plans to open more land for oil and gas drilling in Alaska and remove restrictions on building an LNG pipeline and mining road
• This follows President Donald Trump’s order to boost energy development in the state
• Burgum said the government will reopen 82 percent of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve for leasing and allow drilling on 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

WASHINGTON, D.C.: U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has announced plans to open more land for oil and gas drilling in Alaska and remove restrictions on building an LNG pipeline and mining road.

This follows President Donald Trump’s order to boost energy development in the state.

Burgum said the government will reopen 82 percent of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve for leasing and allow drilling on 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). He also lifted restrictions on land near the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and Dalton Highway, allowing Alaska to move forward with the Ambler Road and Alaska LNG Pipeline projects.

“It’s time for the U.S. to use Alaska’s rich resources to support the nation’s economy, including Alaskans,” Burgum said.

Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic region has been controversial. Some lawmakers and tribal corporations want more drilling to create jobs, while past Democratic administrations have aimed to protect the environment. A lease auction in January, required by Congress, failed to attract any energy company bids.

Alaska’s Republican leaders, including Governor Mike Dunleavy, have pushed to reverse Biden-era restrictions on resource development. Some Indigenous groups, like the Kaktovik Iñupiat Corporation, welcomed the decision, saying it supports their right to develop their land.

However, environmental groups strongly opposed the move, arguing it threatens wildlife like caribou and polar bears and contributes to climate change. “Expanding oil drilling in the Arctic is harmful to people, wildlife, and the climate,” said Carole Holley of Earthjustice’s Alaska office.

Oil companies remain cautious, as future political changes could once again block drilling in the region.

Robert Besser

Quite the statement, eh? Let me explain. I’m well into my 60s and for my entire adult life I’ve heard that public school teachers are underpaid. It has been repeated as a mantra for decades.

Ignoring for a moment whether it is true or not — and the answer to that is generally, it depends — let’s accept the mantra and analyze why public-school teachers are still underpaid after all these years.

It’s not spending. As most voters know, it seems that every stinking year there is some ballot initiative or measure or legislative move to increase spending for our woefully underfunded public-school systems. It never seems to end. There doesn’t seem to ever be a point of “we’re good.”

Total nationwide spending on public K-12 education is approaching a trillion dollars! In most states, public K-12 education consumes around 50% of the entire state budget. Nationwide, we now spend an average of $17,000 per student per year. In New York it is $33,000! Yet teachers remain underpaid.

The Department of Education’s spending has gone from just under $11 billion in 1980 to a high of almost $193 billion in 2010 to last year’s spending of $158 billion. Yet teachers remain underpaid.

The number of administrators versus teachers has exploded — “The number of district administrators in U.S. public schools has grown 87.6 percent between 2000 and 2019 compared to student growth at 7.6 percent and teacher growth at 8.7 percent.” And many (most?) of the administrators make more than teachers. Yet teachers remain underpaid.

Remember when technology was going to transform public education? We’ve spent billions on classroom technology and what have test scores done? At best stayed flat, in many cases they went down.

Rather than throwing away all those billions on technology — projected to increase to over $132 billion by 2032 — which has had no discernable impact on education outcomes, why wasn’t it spent to help out the underpaid teachers? Every teacher out there could probably be making an additional $10,000 to $20,000 in annual salary. In all likelihood this would have led to better educational outcomes than wasting it on unnecessary, ineffective technology. Yet it wasn’t and teachers remain underpaid.

Here in my hometown, the local school district is spending hundreds of millions of dollars tearing down functioning schools and building new ones. They say the schools are old but in the neighborhood I live, many of the houses were built in the 1960s yet no one is tearing them down. In fact, they are in great demand.

I’ve worked as a management consultant for decades and I can assure you there isn’t a for-profit business in the country whose boss says, “Well, things aren’t looking good so we are going to have to tighten our belt.  So, we’re going to tear down our building and build a new one!” Never happens because it doesn’t make sense. Yet it is happening in school districts across the land at the same time we continue to hear the sad lament that teachers remain underpaid.

So, no matter how you slice it, spending has gone through the roof over the years yet teachers are still underpaid? This is where the stupidest creatures on the planet analysis comes from.

Do you see a pattern here? Public-school teachers — and generous taxpayers — have been played as saps for decades. And you all just accepted it. No, in fact you all in general wholeheartedly supported it.

And thus, my accurate description of public-school teachers being some of the stupidest creatures on the planet. Don’t shoot the messenger just because it is true.

You all have been the somewhat willing victims of a terrible joke that has gone on for over 50 years. 

The teachers unions (NEA and AFT) have done a terrible disservice to teachers — and society at large — for decades. The unions are pretty good at getting Democrats elected but not so good at actually operating as a union for teachers.

Sadly, the unions are an integral part of the Democrat machine, not really “teachers” unions at all. Instead, they take the teacher’s money via dues — and more importantly, their incredible political power — and use them in forced servitude to the Democrat party. A machine that clearly doesn’t want to pay teachers more because they like having an army of disgruntled folks who can be quite effective at getting Democrats elected. 

Get that? The evidence is overwhelming they don’t want to pay you more. They want the issue and you underpaid foot soldiers forever. As Forrest Gump would say, stupid is what stupid does.

In the for-profit world, a primary job of a union is to attempt to grab a bigger share of the profits from the shareholders and put it in their members pockets.

If the teachers unions are actually attempting to do so — and it sure doesn’t look like it — they are poor at doing much of anything in helping raise teacher’s pay. But don’t blame the unions, blame the brain-dead liberal teachers who actively support this slavery to the Democrat machine and subsequent wage depression. The vast majority of you are willing participants. When you live by the rule of the tribe above all else, don’t be crying to others because the tribe is using you all like a dirty dishrag.

You can get into a rage over the evil conservatives yet it isn’t conservatives who are holding you back. It is your blind, mistaken belief your education unions are fighting for you rather than accept the harsh, quite obvious reality they don’t really give a damn about you other than to give them political power. You seem to have forgotten the power is yours by your numbers, not theirs.

Now, I’d rather we allow the citizens who earned this money to keep it, but if we are going to spend it anyway, I’d rather raise teacher pay by tens of thousands of dollars — and as the above shows, the money is there. This at least has a chance of actually impacting kid’s educational outcomes.

But I won’t be holding my breath, because history shows public K-12 teachers are some of the stupidest creatures on the planet.

John Conlin is an expert in organizational design and change. He also holds a BS in Earth Sciences and an MBA and is the founder and President of E.I.C. Enterprises. He has been published in American Greatness, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, the Houston Chronicle, the Denver Post, and Public Square Magazine among 

You have to respect that, the guy did win. It’s more than half the country… you can not like Trump, you can hate him, but you can’t hate everybody who voted for him… I don’t hate half the country and I don’t want to hate half the country,” Bill Maher said.

Maher’s attitude differs from most Democratic voters I have encountered. Most Democratic voters loathe people who voted for Trump. In my observation, anti-Trumpers vacillate between raw hatred of Trump voters and a childlike refusal to accept that anyone could have voted for him. Viewing themselves as enlightened, objective and well-informed, these poor bewildered saps are 100 percent the product of a media that entirely manufactures a false narrative about the characteristics of Trump positions and the wide variety of reasons people have voted for him three times, in some cases. Democratic voters are so unhinged about Trump, they seem not to have noticed how their own openly socialist and fascist candidates have taken on positions differing little from history’s greatest murdering sociopaths, like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

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Here’s another unhinged Democrat inciting violence: @RepJasmine Crockett says you should “punch” your opponents, then says Senator @tedcruz “has to be knocked over the head, like, hard.”

11¹111Of course this freak is violent. She’s a Communist and a fascist, and violence is what Communism and fascism are all about. My question is: Why are people who threaten violence even permitted to hold office?

Michael J. Hurd

Axios

Mar 24, 2025 –Politics & Policy

Column / Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain: Dems’ dark, deep hole

Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse:The party has its lowest favorability ever.No popular national leader to help improve it.Insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress.

• A durable minority on the Supreme Court.
• Dwindling influence over the media ecosystem, with right-leaning podcasters and social media accounts ascendant.
• Young voters are growing dramatically more conservative.
• A bad 2026 map for Senate races.
• Democratic Senate retirements could make it harder for the party to flip the House, with members tempted by statewide races.
• There are only three House Republicans in districts former Vice President Harris won in 2024, a dim sign for a Democratic surge. There were 23 eight years ago in seats Hillary Clinton won.
• And, thanks to the number of people fleeing blue states, the math for a Dem to win the presidency will just get harder in 2028.

Why it matters: Both parties — after losing the White House, Senate and House — suffer and search for salvation. But rarely does healing seem so hard and redemption so distant.

• Doug Sosnik — a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and widely followed thinker on political megatrends — told us this is Dems’ deepest hole in at least the 45 years since Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. Sosnik said the 2024 election was at least as much a repudiation of Democrats as it was a victory for Trump.

As Ezra Klein noted this month in his New York Times column, if current population patterns hold, Democrats will suffer a devastating blow after the 2030 census: The party will lose as many as a dozen House seats and electoral votes.

• 🚨 He points out that in that Electoral College, Dems could win all the states Harris carried in 2024 — plus Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and still lose the White House.

The big picture: Democrats’ dismal reality is not Republican spin. In fact, there’s broad consensus among Democratic leaders that most current political, cultural, media and generational trends are cutting against them.

• “Democrats are losing working-class voters,” Klein, co-author with Derek Thompson of the new liberal blueprint “Abundance,” said last week. “They’re seeing their margins among nonwhite voters erode and vanish. They’re losing young voters. Something is wrong in the Democratic Party.”

By the numbers: A deep, comprehensive poll by Democratic pollster David Shor of Blue Rose Research captured vividly and empirically the daunting data.

• For those skeptical of polls and sampling size, Shor’s study is based on 26 million online responses collected over the course of 2024, and filtered to adjust to oddities of modern polling.
• Shor said on Klein’s podcast, “The Ezra Klein Show,” that his most striking finding — and the one most worrisome to him — is the surging pro-Trump/MAGA/Republican views and voting patterns of young men, immigrants and anyone other than strident liberals.

Shor estimates a 23-point swing against Democrats among immigrants. The swing is very pronounced among Hispanics who consider themselves conservatives: Democratic support dropped by 50%.

• But it’s the rise of conservatism among young people, mainly men, that spooks him most. “[Y]oung voters — regardless of race and gender — have become more Republican,” Shor writes in his 33-slide presentation. (Request the deck.)
• Ali Mortell, director of research at Blue Rose Research, told Axios’ Tal Axelrod: “Millennials were one of the most progressive generations, and it’s looking like Gen Z is about to be one of the most conservative.”

The thing he’s been most shocked by over the last four years, Shor told Klein: “[Y]oung people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the Baby Boomers, and maybe even in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years.”https://109cae21d97c1f6efb00ae23badfdcb6.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-41/html/container.html

• A gender gap has exploded: 18-year-old men were 23 points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which Shor called “just completely unprecedented in American politics.”
• Sosnik told us that young men who didn’t go to college “are firmly for Trump, not just against Democrats.” He said young white women who didn’t attend college “may be as much anti-Democrat as pro-Trump. And then the outliers are college women, who are very pro-Democratic. But it’ll be very hard to dislodge the Republicans’ success with non-college white men under 30.”

What’s next: Rahm Emanuel — the former House Democrat, Chicago mayor, ambassador to Japan, White House chief of staff and possible 2028 presidential candidate — told us his party needs an emergency meeting of mayors and governors to rethink the party’s perception and priorities, and see what’s working in schools.

• “The public has seen us as more focused around a set of cultural interests and issues — climate, ‘woke,’ DEI, abortion — than the American people,” Emanuel said. “All those I care about. But they consumed both our intellectual and thematic energy. The American people said: You care more about that than everything else.”

Emanuel told us Democrats have to stop being a liberal-only party for liberal-only voters: “We used to have liberal, moderate and conservative Democrats. Now we’re basically a liberal party, because African American and Hispanic voters went out the back door. They’re the ones who walked as we became more liberal.”

• Emanuel’s big message in conversation after conversation: “The American dream is unaffordable and inaccessible. And that is totally unacceptable. … The forgotten middle class has to be our North Star.”

Axios’ Tal Axelrod contributed reporting.

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Wyoming has become the first state in the United States to require proof of citizenship for residents to register to vote. This measure, which will take effect in July 2025, will apply to all elections: local, state, and federal.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon allowed the voter residency bill to become law without his signature.

This afternoon, WY Governor Mark Gordon allowed HB 156 to become law without his signature, establishing requirements for Proof of 1 Residency and U.S. Citizenship in order to vote!

This is a major win for Election Integrity in Wyoming! pic.twitter.com/0GhziPJ1l7— American Action Fund (@AmericanActFund) March 21, 2025

While Gordon did not veto the legislation, his decision to refrain from signing it reflects his neutral stance on a law focused on verifying voter eligibility.

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«I am a strong supporter of the idea that citizens should be residents of Wyoming for a considerable period of time before being allowed to participate in our elections (it took me eighteen years),» Gordon said.

Additionally, he expressed concern over the vagueness of some terms in the law, such as the possibility of rejecting a vote for «any indication» of an issue with registration documentation. This could be difficult for county clerks to apply as there is no clear standard.

Gordon also anticipated that the law would likely lead to litigation. However, he acknowledged that the legislation grants the Secretary of State the authority to regulate voter identification, something he had unsuccessfully attempted last year.

This legislation is another step toward improving election integrity in the state, aligning with Republican policies aimed at ensuring voters are properly established in Wyoming.

Joana Campos, Gateway Pundit

Job applications from federal workers, especially those who are employed at agencies targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have gone up significantly this year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Indeed jobs site.

Applications from those working at such agencies as USAID, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the USDA — all of which have been heavily targeted by DOGE for dismissals — have surged more than 75% above the 2022 levels by February 2025.

The surge in applications from this generally well-educated and highly specialized segment of the workforce comes as job openings are muted nationwide, particularly for the types of knowledge worker positions that displaced federal employees are likely looking for in the market.

This influx of especially skilled and specialized workers is unfolding across the United States, raising disturbing questions about if and how local labor markets can absorb such a surge of job seekers.

With the exact number of federal workers who will end up unemployed unclear, due to  some firings being tied up in court battles, it is still too early to determine what will be the broader impact on the national economy, according to Axios.

But Cory Stahle, an economist at Indeed, did point out that there are fewer opportunities right now that match the education and experience of these workers, which is “creating a friction in the labor market.” He added that there is real concern that the job market will not be able to absorb them all.

According to Pew, 31.5% of federal workers have at least a Bachelor’s degree, but almost 70% of the those in agencies targeted by DOGE and active on Indeed in February had at least that level of education.

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On March 7, I argued in The Federalist that President Donald Trump should ignore a Supreme Court that would allow lower courts to refuse to uphold the Constitution and instead encroach on executive authority. Recent new encroachments prove my point. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has blocked the EPA from terminating $14 billion in climate grants awarded by the Biden administration, funds now sitting in a Citibank account. Judge Ana Reyes has ordered the military not to enforce Trump’s ban on trans-identifying service members.

These rulings are not mere disagreements, as Chief Justice John Roberts claimed last week when he rejected Trump’s call to impeach a judge who ruled against his deportation policy. They are direct assaults on the president’s constitutional power. I urged Trump to defy such orders then, and I stand by that now — Trump must confront the courts!

Since Jan. 20, a pattern of politically motivated judicial overreach has emerged. Chutkan’s decision overrides Trump’s executive authority to redirect the EPA, preserving Biden-era spending. Reyes’ ruling interferes with his control over military policy, a domain the Constitution assigns to the president and the president alone. In February, a Rhode Island judge forced the release of frozen federal funds, and multiple courts blocked Trump’s efforts to end funding for so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.

These single district judges, often appointed by past Democrat administrations, issue nationwide injunctions that halt the president’s agenda. This is not judicial review — it is judicial governance. Roberts’ call for “normal appellate review” ignores the reality: Unelected judges are hijacking executive policies in the name of judicial review, and while appeals wind through the courts, executive action stalls, sometimes for years.

Justice Samuel Alito has warned of this for years. In his Obergefell dissent, he criticized courts for imposing policy under the guise of constitutional rulings. In Trump v. United States, he argued with the majority that judicial overreach undermines the president’s ability to fulfill his duties. These latest district court orders bear out his concerns.

They do not check executive power — they seize it, substituting judicial preference for the president’s constitutional role. Article II gives Trump, not judges, authority over federal agencies and the military. When a single judge blocks presidential policy, that judge has assumed far more power than the Constitution provides under the separation of powers.

History offers precedent. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus despite court objections, asserting executive necessity over judicial interference. Trump faces a similar moment. He should disregard Chutkan’s and Reyes’ orders, allowing the EPA to end those grants and the military to enforce his ban.

Roberts’ statement — that impeachment is not the answer to “disagreement” — misses the issue. These are not disagreements over law; they are attacks on Trump’s Article II powers. If Congress will not curb this overreach through impeachment — and with a divided Senate it likely cannot — the president must step in.

Trump was elected to dismantle the bureaucracy and strengthen the military, not to be handcuffed by judges. Each injunction undermines that mandate, replacing the will of voters with the dictates of unelected judges. Waiting for the Supreme Court to resolve these cases risks years of paralysis — too long when you’re choking on tens of trillions of dollars in debt and a massive bureaucracy, and the future of the executive branch is at stake.

Trump should defy these rulings now and force a constitutional confrontation. This is not about defying law — it is about defending the Constitution and the authority it grants the president no matter who is president. The American people expect Trump to do the job he promised. In an unprecedented fashion, he is doing just that.

The courts have an important constitutional role to fulfill. But it’s not to play president.

Curtis Hill is the former attorney general of Indiana.

The Department of Government Efficiency( DOGE) issued a new update in its ongoing audit of the Social Security Administration (SSA). This program has been a significant focus for the department, and DOGE has issued weekly updates on its findings on X. In a post about the Social Security matter made on March 12, 2025, DOGE announced a significant change to how the SSA will deal with customer service complaints meant to cut down on fraud.

The investigation began when Elon Musk reacted to the massive number of Social Security numbers over 120 years old. He posted, “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE! Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣.”

DOGE replied to this post, explaining the significance of these ‘vampires.’ The department posted, “In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database. In one case, a 157 years old individual received $36k in loans.”

Nearly a month after Musk’s initial post, DOGE announced that on March 23, 2024, they had made a significant move to close this loophole. They said, “As of Friday, @SBAgov now: – Requires date of birth collection for all direct loan applications – Pauses the direct loan process for those under 18 and above 120 years old. Basic sanity checks like these are initial steps toward minimizing fraud in government payment programs.”

While most of the response to these moves was positive, some woke activists were enraged. On February 17, 2025, Adam Schiff took to X to make his ill-intentioned post. He said, “Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data. The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances. Period. End of story.”

Other comments under the post were much more positive. Many were baffled that this was a new policy. A comment read, “Wait… so until now, the SBA didn’t check if someone was under 18 or over 120 before giving out loans? No wonder fraud ran wild. The real question is, how much taxpayer money vanished before they added these basic sanity checks? 💸🤦‍♂️”

Others explained why DOGE is so important. One reply read, “This is exactly why accountability matters. The fact that SBA handed out $333M to applicants over 115—including a 157-year-old ghost—proves how broken the system was. Basic age verification should’ve been standard from day one, not an afterthought.”

A comment hoped for accountability for the people involved in these massive scams. It read, “Hopefully @FBIDirectorKash @PamBondi can track down the fraud recipients and hold all accountable along with the department supervisors who approved and signed off on the fraud. I know so many small businesses that failed because they couldn’t get approved for a small business loan or PPP loans under COVID.

Adam Stanton, American Review