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Originally posted by 12131:
^^^^ The convicted U.S. citizens part highly doubtful will pass legal challenge, but foreign criminals? Let's get it done!

Maybe instead we could hire a few consultants from El Salvador's prison system to overhaul operations at a US facility or two.

I think President Trump should change his celebratory song from "YMCA" and instead play this whenever he smacks the swamp:

Nitwit jamie raskin is quite incensed about USAID. I've never seen him this worked up. I doubt 911 caused him to melt down like this.

^^^^^
He was probably an apologist for 911.

Raskin is a nitwit.

Congress did not establish USAID via statute.

President Kennedy did, via Executive Order 10973 — Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related Functions.

What one EO sets up, another can take down.

https://x.com/themarketswork/s.../1886512606921548072

RFK Jr. advances out of committee by party-line vote 14-13. Onto final senate floor vote next.

By Paul Steinhauser , Julia Johnson | Fox News
Published February 4, 2025 10:30am EST

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will advance to the next step in his effort to become Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary. The vaccine skeptic and environmental crusader who ran for the White House in 2024 before ending his bid and endorsing Trump sustained his bid for a cabinet position in the 47th president's administration.

The 27-member panel of 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats on the Senate finance committee approved Kennedy's advancement by a party line vote of 14-13.

Kennedy's controversial nomination has progressed slowly as the president's other choices have been moving through the upper chamber and several have been confirmed and sworn in. Even Trump's controversial Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, made it past committee and ultimately was confirmed with Vice President Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.

Kennedy survived back-to-back combustible Senate confirmation hearings last week, where Trump's nominee to lead 18 powerful federal agencies that oversee the nation's food and health faced plenty of verbal fireworks over past controversial comments, including his repeated claims in recent years linking vaccines to autism, which have been debunked by scientific research.

During the hearings, Democrats also spotlighted Kennedy's service for years as chair or chief legal counsel for Children's Health Defense, the nonprofit organization he founded that has advocated against vaccines and sued the federal government numerous times, including a challenge over the authorization of the COVID vaccine for children.

While no Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee were expected to vote to confirm Kennedy, the spotlight was on Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana physician and chair of the Senate Health Committee.

Cassidy issued a last minute endorsement indicating a party line vote for Kennedy.

"Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me," Cassidy told Kennedy at the end of Thursday's confirmation hearing.

Cassidy's office confirmed Sunday evening that the senator and Kennedy had been speaking earlier that day.

The 71-year-old Kennedy, a scion of the nation's most storied political dynasty, launched a long-shot campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination against President Joe Biden in April 2023. But six months later, he switched to an independent run for the White House.

Kennedy made major headlines again last August when he dropped his presidential bid and endorsed Trump. While Kennedy had long identified as a Democrat and repeatedly invoked his late father, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his late uncle, former President John F. Kennedy – who were both assassinated in the 1960s – Kennedy in recent years built relationships with far-right leaders due in part to his high-profile vaccine skepticism.

Trump announced soon after the November election that he would nominate Kennedy to his Cabinet to run HHS.

Kennedy, whose outspoken views on Big Pharma and the food industry have also sparked controversy, has said he aims to shift the focus of the agencies he would oversee toward promotion of a healthy lifestyle, including overhauling dietary guidelines, taking aim at ultra-processed foods and getting to the root causes of chronic diseases.

"Our country is not going to be destroyed because we get the marginal tax rate wrong. It is going to be destroyed if we get this issue wrong," Kenendy said Thursday as he pointed to chronic diseases. "And I am in a unique position to be able to stop this epidemic."

With Republicans controlling the Senate by a 53-47 majority, Kennedy can only afford to lose the support of three GOP senators if Democrats unite against his confirmation on the floor of the chamber.

Me thinks that all of Trump’s remaining nominees will win confirmation. They threw everything that Hegseth, and yet he still made it, albeit with VP Nance casting the deciding vote. RFK,Jr and Tulsi will too, but with lots of “sturm und drang” from Dems and the RINOs.

With so many foreign policy wins (Columbia, Venezuela, Panama, Canada, etc), Trump is astride in the world like a Colossus with a very Big Stick, and if you oppose him, you’ll get whacked.

Scum NY Demokrats are slow walking the special election to fill the Elise Stefanik slot.

‘Political corruption’: Speaker Johnson rips New York Democrats’ bid to delay replacing Stefanik

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times - Monday, February 3, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson said an effort by New York Democrats to delay a special election to replace Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is tantamount to “political corruption.”

Ms. Stefanik, President Trump’s pick to serve as ambassador to the United Nations, has yet to resign from the House as she awaits Senate confirmation, but once she does, her seat in New York’s 21st Congressional District will be vacant.

New York law requires the governor within 10 days of a congressional vacancy to issue a proclamation scheduling a special election 70-80 days from when the proclamation is issued.

If Ms. Stefanik were to be confirmed and resign next week, for example, that would mean a special election to fill her seat would be held in early May.

Democrats in New York’s state legislature are reportedly considering changes to the law setting the special election calendar that would delay the filling of Ms. Stefanik’s seat, which is in a solidly Republican district...

Complete article:

https://www.washingtontimes.co...ats-bid-delay-repla/

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1886828209796260144



and

https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/.../1886831837877592322

I seem to recall many reports over the last 4 years of significant portions of State & National Parks and Federal land along the border under the control of cartels and off limits to our citizens.

Seems like time to dust off the search & destroy missions and take our land back.

Doug Collins confirmed as VA Secretary by 77-23

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News
Published February 4, 2025 1:14pm EST

The Senate confirmed former Rep. Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans’ Affairs on Tuesday.

Collins scored one of the widest bipartisan votes of any Trump Cabinet nominee so far: 77 to 23. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0.

The Air Force Reserve chaplain served in Congress from 2013 to 2021, where he defended President Donald Trump during the 2019 impeachment inquiry.

Collins also passed through the Veterans’ Affairs Committee on a wide bipartisan vote – only Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, had voted against him.

Collins will now head off an agency marred by budget shortfalls, millions paid out to executives who weren’t eligible to receive them, and complaints from veterans of long wait times for care. It’ll be his first time leading an organization as sprawling as the VA and its 400,000 employees and 1,300 health facilities.

"I do not come into this with rose-colored glasses. This is a large undertaking that I feel called to be at," Collins said. "When a veteran has to call a congressman or senator’s office to get the care they have already earned, it’s a mark of failure."

In response to questions about Trump’s focus on budget cuts and a hiring freeze, Collins said he would work to ensure that did not come at the expense of veterans’ care.

"I'm gonna take care of the veterans. That means that we're not gonna balance budgets on the back of veterans benefits."

Collins said he aligned with Trump on allowing veterans choice for their healthcare. Trump during his first term pushed through the Mission Act, which allowed veterans to choose the VA or private care in their communities.

"I believe you can have both. I believe you have a strong VA as it currently exists and have the community care aspect," he said.

Democrats repeatedly asked Collins to promise not to privatize the VA, so many times that Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., asked him to "pinky swear" not to do it. Collins held up his pinky to promise that would not happen.

US sends first flights with migrant criminals to Guantanamo Bay after Trump crackdown

https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/...s-to-guantanamo-bay/

The first planeloads of criminal migrants detained in President Trump’s crackdown of illegal immigration have departed for Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where a small migrant detention center could be expanded to house tens of thousands.

Two planes carrying migrants have departed this week, with one departing from Fort Bliss, Texas, carrying about a dozen people, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Guantanamo Bay has traditionally been used to house foreign terrorists captured by the US, but has always had room — about 120 beds — to house migrants caught trying to sneak into the US through the Gulf of Mexico.

President Trump plans to expand Guantanamo’s capacity to hold illegal immigrants, signing an order on Jan. 29 directing the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare the naval base for 30,000 detainees.

“So we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said while announcing the order. “This will double our capacity immediately, right? And, it’s a tough place to get out of.”

The memorandum directed agencies to “take all appropriate actions to expand” Guantanamo’s facilities “to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”

Just a thought: It's been 16 days since Trump's inauguration. I wonder if we could maintain a post or even a separate thread of Trump's accomplishments in his second term. It would be nice to have an ongoing record just for our enjoyment and also as a reference tool.

For example:
Feb 1, 2025: Six Americans detained in Venezuela free.
Feb 1, 2025: Imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China.
Feb 3, 2025: Canada and Mexico promised to work on border security; tariffs on pause.

A boss of mine stressed that we need to celebrate accomplishments and there's no better way than to record them for prosperity.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Just a thought: It's been 16 days since Trump's inauguration. I wonder if we could maintain a post or even a separate thread of Trump's accomplishments in his second term. It would be nice to have an ongoing record just for our enjoyment and also as a reference tool.

For example:
Feb 1, 2025: Six Americans detained in Venezuela free.
Feb 1, 2025: Imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China.
Feb 3, 2025: Canada and Mexico promised to work on border security; tariffs on pause.

A boss of mine stressed that we need to celebrate accomplishments and there's no better way than to record them for prosperity.

I agree and like this idea. God Bless

A couple...few pages back, there is a list.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

US sends first flights with migrant criminals to Guantanamo Bay after Trump crackdown

I freaking love it. Are Dems finally realizing how bad they effed up by stealing 2020 and installing that puppet?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Is there a list somewhere of all the things that have been going on since Trump took office, in one place?

Last 24 hours, best I can do.

....

Here's a more comprehensive list:

Trump's First Week In Office: By The Numbers

President Trump is officially back, delivering a truly action-packed first week in office. Here is a breakdown of Trump's incredible accomplishments over his first seven days, as told by the numbers:

34: Minutes Trump has slept since retaking office.

16: Average number of executive orders per minute (EOPM).

7 million: Gay people that Trump has already put into concentration camps.

933: Diet cokes consumed by our new President.

9.9: average attractiveness of Trump cabinet nominees (Hellooooo Tom Homan).

1 billion: People already deported to Mexico.

12: Sudoku puzzles completed by Trump while that L.A. Mayor was babbling.

900,000: Women caught by J.D. Vance not making a baby during their fertile period.

20 million: Delicious menthol cigarettes sold after the ban was lifted.

72: Dude prisoners who could not get their genitals chopped off at taxpayer expense.

2: Pardons received by people who have appeared in Babylon Bee films (also, one buffalo).

1: Gulf of water that got a huge name upgrade.

Zero: Craps given what the media thinks.

What a week -- we can't wait to see what the next seven days hold.

https://babylonbee.com/news/tr...ffice-by-the-numbers

Here is a starter list.

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Originally posted by 6guns:

Here is a starter list.

Might want to reread that list.

What? Did we miss something?