<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bitcoin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitcoin</a> has soared to a series of new all-time highs in the weeks following the victory of President-elect Donald Trump, with the cryptocurrency asset surging to a new high of $94,000 today.
The largest cryptocurrency asset has climbed to a series of new highs ever since election night, first jumping from roughly $68,000 to about $74,000 as Trump secured victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, then surging again to $90,000 in the eight days that followed.
Bitcoin sat at just over $44,000 on January 1st, 2024, marking an increase of over 100 percent in less than a year.
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JUST IN: $94,000 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> 💥🚀 NEW ALL TIME HIGH! <a href="https://t.co/bqMlM4Hprf">pic.twitter.com/bqMlM4Hprf</a>
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) <a href="https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1858953098754224429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
Today’s jump in price to $94,000 followed Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-howard-lutnick-to-lead-department-of-commerce">decision</a> to name Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as his Secretary for the Department of Commerce.
Lutnick has been a vocal proponent of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin in particular, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/howard-lutnick-trump-crypto-economy-elon-musk-a03d95e323f7d2d4b722184d83e7b388">telling</a> the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year that “Bitcoin is like gold and should be free trade everywhere in the world.”
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The billionaire CEO also has a personal stake in Bitcoin, <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/327307/the-daily-trump-poised-to-tap-pro-bitcoin-lutnick-for-commerce-department-metaplanet-shares-jump-15-after-latest-btc-acquisition-and-more">explaining</a> in an interview that he has &#8220;hundreds of millions of dollars of exposure to bitcoin and it will be billions.&#8221; The announcement that Lutnick will be nominated as Commerce Secretary comes just after Trump reportedly <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-live-11-18-2024/card/exclusive-trump-to-meet-privately-with-coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-DDkgF0xW1BW242rVeuqx">met with</a> Brian Armstrong, the CEO of the major cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, to discuss personnel appointments.
The move comes after cryptocurrency companies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cryptocurrency-companies-prep-160-million-to-back-pro-crypto-candidates">entered the political arena</a> during the election, assembling $160 million as they backed candidates who support the industry.
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts and Bitcoin bulls are now <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/why-100000-bitcoin-is-right-around-the-corner-">hoping</a> for the rally to continue and propel the asset to $100k, with some pointing to increased corporate <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-consider-bitcoin-investment-december-211107913.html#:~:text=Microsoft%2C%20valued%20at%20more%20than,during%20its%20December%20annual%20meeting.">interest</a> and <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/video/microstrategy-buys-4-6b-bitcoin-160819173.html">adoption</a> of the cryptocurrency as a potential catalyst for increased upside.
Some smaller cryptocurrencies have benefited from Bitcoin’s upward move, with <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/solana/">Solana</a> inching towards its previous all time high of $258, which was set in November 2021. The asset similarly saw positive price action on the heels of Trump’s victory, jumping from $160 on election day to a recent high of $247 in a 64 percent move to the upside in less than two weeks.

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Nashville’s Democrat mayor released the names of multiple federal law enforcement agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), drawing ire from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who say that the mayor is putting law enforcement at risk.
Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s office <a href="https://x.com/KarenAFox17/status/1927828245686194453">released</a> information on interactions between ICE agents and Nashville emergency service personnel, dropping data that included the names of federal law enforcement personnel. O’Connell says their names were released by mistake, but the Department of Homeland Security isn’t convinced.
“They claimed it was a mistake. There’s zero chance it was a mistake and there will be repercussions,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin charged in response to the incident. “Our ICE enforcement officers are already facing a 400% increase in assaults against them and he’s essentially handing over intelligence to these criminal gangs so they can target our ICE enforcement officers. It’s wrong. It’s beneath the city of Nashville.”
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The Nashville Mayor is protecting illegal aliens and gang members over his constituents.
At a time when our ICE officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults, Mayor O&#8217;Connell is doxxing the names of law enforcement agents removing criminal illegal aliens from his city.… <a href="https://t.co/bKB0Ed3HSE">pic.twitter.com/bKB0Ed3HSE</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1928066913109680151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
“The Nashville Mayor is protecting illegal aliens and gang members over his constituents,” DHS charged.
The doxxing of the federal agents by O’Connell’s office comes just after Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-congressman-hits-mayors-over-opposition-to-ice-were-going-to-hold-you-accountable?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tennessee+Congressman+Hits+Mayor+Over+Opposition+To+ICE%3A+%E2%80%98We%E2%80%99re+Going+To+Hold+You+Accountable%E2%80%99">confirmed</a> that the House Judiciary Committee and Homeland Security launched investigations into O’Connell, who condemned ICE after agents carried out enforcement operations in Nashville and signed an executive order requiring city officials to report any correspondence with ICE agents.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) also blasted O’Connell, accusing him of “putting ICE agents and law enforcement in harm’s way by releasing their names for criminal gangs to see.”
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“These men and women have risked their lives to make our communities safer by removing gangs, rapists, and other heinous criminals from our communities,” the Senator from Tennessee added. “Shame on him.”
An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dems-rage-over-nashville-ice-raids-that-targeted-rapists-and-gang-members?author=Spencer+Lindquist+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Dems+Rage+Over+Nashville+ICE+Raids+That+Targeted+Rapists+And+Gang+Members">exclusive report</a> from The Daily Wire revealed that, of the 196 illegal aliens arrested by ICE in Nashville in a weeklong raid, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpencerLndqst</a> rips into Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell on <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> over the allegations of him obstructing ICE:
&#8220;Is he on the side of the people of Nashville, the American citizens&#8230; or is he on the side of drug runners, cartel members, rapists, and sex offenders?&#8221;
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— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1928157440001876386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
Included in the nearly 200 illegal aliens arrested by ICE in Music City are sex offenders, convicted rapists, Tren de Aragua and MS-13 members, and drug runners, as well as 31 people who reentered the United States after previously being deported, a felony offense.

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Nashville’s Democrat Mayor Doxxes ICE Agents

Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles slammed Nashville&#8217;s mayor over his opposition to deportation operations in an interview with Morning Wire, warning city leaders across the country that federal officials will crack down on those who impede law enforcement.
“If you impede federal law enforcement in their duties, in their directive to follow President Trump, to say, it&#8217;s time that we start deporting these folks, we&#8217;re going to be looking into your city and where appropriate, we&#8217;re going to hold you accountable,” Ogles said.
“The mayor of Nashville is making local PD, who are just trying to do their jobs, the bad guy,” Ogles said on Morning Wire. “The problem with that, aside from…impeding federal law enforcement is, we&#8217;ve had a 400% increase in attacks against law enforcement across the country.”
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Ogles&#8217; comments came just after the congressman <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/congressman-andy-ogles-confirms-federal-investigation-into-nashville-mayors-office-over-illegal-immigration/">confirmed</a> that the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees have launched an investigation into Nashville’s Democrat Mayor Freddie O’Connell, who spoke out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the federal agency captured nearly 200 illegal aliens in Nashville.
The congressman says he hopes to obtain correspondence between city officials and non-profit organizations discussing ICE’s arrests, as well as internal communications between city officials concerning the ICE raids. Ogles is also seeking internal documents and correspondence discussing an executive order from the mayor mandating that all city officials report their communications with ICE to his office.
Ogles told The Daily Wire the investigation into O’Connell also sends “a message to cities and mayors across the country.”
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With the support of the House Judiciary Committee, I will be formally requesting all documents and communications from the Mayor’s office related to:
– The amendment of Executive Order 30—an outrageous directive requiring Nashville employees and first responders to report all… <a href="https://t.co/BGv8uocsTk">pic.twitter.com/BGv8uocsTk</a>
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepOgles/status/1927130867031294345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
It isn’t just Nashville’s mayor that Ogles has his eye on, however. There’s also State Representative <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/2025/05/14/tn-rep-andy-ogles-calls-investigation-into-nashville-leadership-obstructing-ice-operations/">Aftyn Bhen</a>, who followed ICE agents as they enforced federal law in Music City.
“She recorded herself and she put it on social media where she was blocking ICE vehicles,” Ogles said. “She even admitted to blocking four different – ‘delaying’ was the word she used – ICE vehicles as they were trying to conduct operations. And so that&#8217;s a crime.”
The ICE raids in Nashville, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dems-rage-over-nashville-ice-raids-that-targeted-rapists-and-gang-members?author=Spencer+Lindquist+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Dems+Rage+Over+Nashville+ICE+Raids+That+Targeted+Rapists+And+Gang+Members">first reported</a>, led to the capture of gang members, drug runners, and a convicted rapist. Of the 196 illegal aliens arrested in the raids, 95 had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, and another 31 had reentered the country after being previously removed from the United States.
Ogles explained that criminal illegal alien gangs, some of which have been designated foreign terror organizations by the Trump administration, have a foothold in Tennessee.
“As someone who&#8217;s on the Homeland Security Committee, [I] just received a classified briefing. And what I can tell you is that MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, they&#8217;re all over the country. They&#8217;re in Nashville. They&#8217;re in our small cities like Columbia and Tullahoma,” Ogles warned.
&#8220;I can tell you that these gangs are sophisticated. They&#8217;re in every city in our country. They have very sophisticated surveillance equipment, tactical equipment. This isn&#8217;t just some thug on the street selling drugs,&#8221; he added. &#8220;These are cartels and criminal enterprises that are moving and sweeping across our country.&#8221;
“If we don&#8217;t fight back, if we don&#8217;t take our cities and our streets back, you&#8217;re going to wake up and you&#8217;re going to see those gang members on the street corner in front of your elementary and middle schools, and then it&#8217;ll be too late,” he added.
Ogles also noted that illegal alien gangs “want strongholds in Nashville,” because the city’s proximity to other population centers makes it a valuable outpost for smuggling drugs, guns, and people.
“They want to take over Nashville, and the more competition and the more fighting, the more violence you&#8217;re to see on our streets, and I&#8217;m not going to stand for it,” Ogles said. “We&#8217;re going to find these people. We&#8217;re going to get them off our streets.” 

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Tennessee Congressman Hits Mayor Over Opposition To ICE: ‘We’re Going To Hold You Accountable’

After decades of mass illegal immigration into the United States, untold millions of illegal aliens have settled throughout the country, competing with Americans for government benefits, jobs, and now, for homes.
For most illegal aliens, obtaining a mortgage from a traditional bank — without a social security number or a credit score — is nearly impossible. But as millions of illegal aliens flooded the country, a new industry has cropped up to capitalize on the new customer base, selling financing catered to the illegal population.
One entity at the forefront of this industry, a Daily Wire investigation has revealed, is Prysma Lending, which has given out more than a <a href="https://prysma.com/about-us">billion dollars</a> in loans in red and blue states alike as it blatantly targets illegal aliens.
Trump pledged to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/business/undocumented-immigrants-trump-mortgage-ban/index.html">ban mortgages for illegal aliens</a> on the campaign trail and his administration <a href="https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-048">took action</a> in March to prevent government-backed mortgages from going to illegal aliens. But Prysma is one of several companies — including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, the Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens — that uses a different financial tactic that isn’t impacted by the administration’s recent rule change, which specifically targeted loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
The company prides itself on “empowering the Latino community to achieve homeownership” in its Spanish-language <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prysma_lending_group/">Instagram bio.</a> The company’s president, Monica Serva, <a href="https://prysma.com/about-us">says</a> she started Prysma with the intent of “helping the Latino community” because she “realized how unfairly minorities were treated.”
But Prysma revealed that its business model relied on illegal aliens, in particular, when it hosted a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQX1LczTk4&amp;t=30s">webinar</a> with an immigration lawyer to answer their customers&#8217; questions about the risk of deportation in the days following President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration.
The company is evidently concerned that its clientele could be deported, or at least that potential customers could be dissuaded from buying a home in a country that they fear they could be removed from.
They have reason to be worried. The Connecticut-based company’s website is checkered with explicit appeals to illegal aliens, allowing it to corner a market that doesn’t have access to the same financial tools as American citizens and legal residents.
“Prysma has helped non-US citizen families in: Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas,” the corporation’s site reads. “No Social Security or Green Card required.”
“You have a right to homeownership, regardless of legal status,” Prysma says. The company even published guides on “<a href="https://prysma.com/blog/personal-loans-for-undocumented-immigrants-options-available">loans for undocumented immigrants</a>” and boasts that it has “extensive experience with loans tailored to the unique needs of undocumented immigrants.”
“Securing personal loans can be a crucial step toward financial independence for undocumented immigrants, who often face challenges accessing traditional financial products,” Prysma writes. 
Federation for American Immigration Reform Media Director Ira Mehlman told The Daily Wire that allowing illegal aliens to access mortgages could incentivize them to remain in the country, but that Congress could take action. 
“Access to mortgages can serve as an incentive for illegal aliens to remain in the country, especially at a time when the goal of the government is convincing illegal aliens to leave,” Mehlman explained. Congress could take many actions &#8211; from disclosure to outright prohibition &#8211; and set a national standard for states to follow.”
A Prysma employee admitted in the post-election <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQX1LczTk4&amp;t=30s">webinar</a> that the company specializes in offering loans to illegal aliens.
“At Prysma, again we’re super honored that Latinos come to us &#8230; well, people from all different parts of the world, looking for loans that don’t require a legal status,” Senior Mortgage Loan Originator Stefany Pina said.
The corporation made a guide to go along with the talk, providing “actionable steps to safeguard the things that matter to you most should you or a family member be at risk of deportation.” The document tells customers how to trigger a “credible fear” interview to avoid deportation, adding that “the interview process can slow deportation proceedings, giving you time to build a legal defense.”
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Prysma also instructs illegal aliens to avoid presenting “IDs that could flag you for deportation,” including foreign passports.
Prysma’s business model <a href="https://prysma.com/tax-id-loans">appears to rely</a> on the individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), a tax processing number from the IRS that can be obtained by anyone regardless of their immigration status. The National Immigration Law Center, a left-wing Soros-backed organization, <a href="https://www.nilc.org/resources/itinfaq/">calls ITINs</a> “a powerful tool for immigrant taxpayers.” Illegal aliens can use ITINs to receive home and personal loans, often at rates significantly higher than those offered by traditional banks.
Obtaining an ITIN, Prysma is eager to point out, does not require a legal status. “Your ITIN allows you to take out a Tax ID loan … without showing legal residency in the U.S.” The company says, also adding “no social security card needed&#8221; and &#8220;no green card needed.&#8221;
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The IRS <a href="https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identification-number-itin#what">created</a> ITINs so nonresidents could pay taxes. They were not intended to be used by illegal aliens to obtain mortgages or other loans.
This ITIN financial scheme is the same system that fueled the astronomical growth of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, the Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens. The site, which has attracted illegal alien murderers, drug-runners, human smugglers, and cartel members, similarly told buyers that they didn’t need social security numbers and instead doled out ITIN loans to illegal aliens.
Leaked emails from a Texas land developer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-developer-admits-colony-ridge-relies-on-subprime-lending-to-non-citizen-buyers">uncovered</a> by The Daily Wire indicate that there appears to be an entire industry built around supplying loans to illegal aliens. The developer, who formerly led a lobbying organization, wrote that “we will not be able to sell our developments if each of our buyers have to have [social security numbers].”
Prysma did not respond to a request for comment.

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Meet The Mortgage Company Enabling Illegal Immigrants To Buy American Homes

A Democrat Congressman spent Memorial Day attempting to visit a deported illegal alien with ties to MS-13 who stands accused of beating his wife and trafficking other illegal aliens.
Democrat Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) attempted to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien with ties to MS-13 who was deported to his home country of El Salvador, on a day reserved for honoring America’s fallen soldiers.
Ivey even referred to Abrego Garcia, who was erroneously dubbed a “Maryland man” by much of the media despite being an illegal alien, as “my constituent” in a post on X. “Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” the Maryland Democrat wrote in the post. “Let his lawyer and I check on him.”
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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him. 
<a href="https://twitter.com/CASAforall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CASAforall</a> <a href="https://t.co/V310GDmIc4">pic.twitter.com/V310GDmIc4</a>
— Rep. Glenn Ivey (@RepGlennIvey) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGlennIvey/status/1927086832732291321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
“I’m the Congressman who represents Kilmar,” Ivey said in a video. “I came all the way down from the United States,” he went on to say before complaining that he was unable to visit with the Salvadoran citizen.
Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador, where he remains imprisoned in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison for members of violent gangs that have plagued the Central American nation. Multiple courts found that Abrego Garcia is connected to MS-13, a vicious gang that the Trump administration designated as a foreign terror organization.
Abrego Garcia also stands accused of beating his wife. Abrego Garcia’s wife even filed a request for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deported-illegal-immigrant-who-dems-have-championed-accused-of-beating-wife-court-docs">protective order</a> against him, claiming that he bragged that he could kill her and get away with it. The wife of the illegal alien claims that Abrego Garcia “told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him.”
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“Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” she said, according to the legal document.
Abrego Garcia is also suspected of trafficking other illegal aliens into the United States. Body-camera <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-suspected-maryland-man-of-getting-paid-to-traffic-illegals-body-cam-footage-shows?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=16&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Police+Suspected+%E2%80%98Maryland+Man%E2%80%99+Of+%E2%80%98Getting+Paid%E2%80%99+To+Traffic+Illegals%2C+Body+Cam+Footage+Shows">footage</a> from the Tennessee Highway Patrol reveals that one law enforcement agent suspected Abrego Garcia of trafficking illegal aliens after he pulled him over.
“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” an officer says on the footage after speaking with Abrego Garcia, who was driving a car full of men who claimed not to speak English or have driver&#8217;s licenses.
Ivey is only the latest Democrat to fly to El Salvador in hopes of visiting the illegal alien. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who similarly claimed that Abrego Garcia is a “constituent” of his, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-van-hollen-did-not-ask-deported-illegal-immigrant-ms-13">visited</a> the illegal alien last month. The Democrat did not, however, ask the man if he had any connections to MS-13.
Three more Congressman &#8212; Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) &#8212; traveled to the Central American country, but were <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/5259931-house-democrats-denied-meeting-abrego-garcia-demand-daily-proof-of-life/">denied a meeting</a> with Abrego Garcia. They instead met with the United States Ambassador to El Salvador and called on him to advocate for the illegal alien’s release.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele confirmed that he will not return Abrego Garcia to the United States during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-officials-bukele-tear-into-cnn-reporter-who-asked-if-illegal-alien-will-be-returned-to-u-s">meeting</a> with President Donald Trump and administration officials in the Oval Office last month, which came on the heels of a Supreme Court order for the administration to &#8220;facilitate&#8221; the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States.
“The question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said in response to a journalist who asked if he would facilitate the man’s return to the United States. “I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country … we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere and you want us to go back?” Bukele went on to say. “That’s not going to happen.”

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The Trump administration has tapped the Treasury Department to track down and halt the flow of money to foreign drug cartels.
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender says the federal agency is choking off the cash flow that powers cartels’ human and drug smuggling operations by designating them as terrorists, he explained to The Daily Wire.
“One of the most important things that the president did upon coming into office was to declare a number of the narco groups terrorist organizations,&#8221; Faulkender told The Daily Wire. &#8220;What that does is it unleashes additional authorities at Treasury for us to better target some of the financial activities that these cartels are engaging in.&#8221;
Faulkender told The Daily Wire that the agency’s moves are cutting into the cartels’ flow of money, disincentivizing their human smuggling and drug-running operations.
“It&#8217;s one thing to have our partners at [the Department of Homeland Security] work on stopping the flow of people and drugs, but we can also use our financial tools to go after the money,” the Treasury official explained. “If the money is not flowing back south, then there&#8217;s less of an incentive to bring the drugs and the guns and some of the illicit activity up to the north.”
“Since the president took office, we&#8217;ve engaged in five different actions going after nine different entities for a total of 16 individuals,” he noted.
The Treasury Department unveiled sanctions on “two high-ranking members of the Mexico-based Cartel del Noreste,” a foreign terrorist organization formerly known as Los Zetas.
Cartel del Noreste “and its leaders have carried out a violent campaign of intimidation, kidnapping, and terrorism, threatening communities on both sides of our southern border,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent charged. “We will continue to cut off the cartels’ ability to obtain the drugs, money, and guns that enable their violent activities.”
That move follows the Treasury Department&#8217;s March announcement that it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-treasury-dept-launches-sanctions-targeting-sinaloa-cartel">imposing sanctions</a> on six individuals and seven organizations believed to be laundering money for the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations and a federally-designated foreign terror organization.
“We leveled sanctions against six individuals and seven entities involved in a money laundering operation, cutting off financing for these evil people,” Bessent said at the time. “Laundered drug money is the lifeblood of the Sinaloa Cartel’s narco-terrorist enterprise, only made possible through trusted financial facilitators like those we have designated today.”
Treasury also hit Brink’s Global Services, which specializes in transporting funds and other valuables for banks and other clients, with a <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-announces-37000000-civil-money-penalty-against-brinks-global-services-usa">$37 million civil penalty</a>, alleging that the company moved money across the southern border without following anti-money laundering regulations. The company’s violations, the Treasury Department says, exposed “the U.S. financial system to a heightened risk of money laundering, including from narcotics trafficking and other illicit activity.”
Faulkender says the Trump administration isn’t just launching a whole-of-government approach to combat the cartels’ drug and human smuggling, but is also pushing the Mexican government to track and penalize the flow of cartel money.
“The president imposed tariffs on the Mexican government and on products that are coming in from Mexico to elicit participation and cooperation from the Mexican government, and so we are seeing the Mexican government willing to work with us to go after these financial networks that are enriching the cartels,” he told The Daily Wire, adding that the government is “monitoring the money flows, tracking it down, either putting a complete stop to it and, and seizing that money, or at the very least, making it a lot more expensive for them to move that money around and try to deter them from engaging in these kinds of actions.”

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The Biden administration’s global ambassador for all things LGBT was a travel diva with no regard for cost, who even got smacked down for &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; spending requests as she traveled on the government dime, of emails obtained by The Daily Wire reveal.
The emails show that Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, failed to report travel expenses on time, requested a costly car for a week in Rome, and berated staff for missing vegetarian meals on her flights as she jetted around the world pushing far-left ideology, according to a batch of emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
Stern raked in $180,000 a year as her state-sanctioned LGBT <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">activism</a> took her to all six habitable continents, with stops in places like Fiji and Brazil, where she traveled on the taxpayer dime to march alongside a “transvestite sl*t,” a previous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">Daily Wire exposé</a> found.
Documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, obtained by the <a href="https://advancing-america.org/">Center to Advance Security in America</a> (CASA), show that Stern, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-lgbt-racial-equity-envoy-profiles-scrubbed-after-trump-takes-office">left her post</a> after President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election, failed to even report her travel expenses on time. The envoy, who said in her emails that she identifies with “all pronouns,” even admitted that she didn’t know where she would find her expenses after a State Department official asked for her accounting.
“We are still waiting on last year’s accounting for travel from your office … before approving further travel,” wrote a State Department official whose name is redacted in October 2022. “We have every other office except yours. I have asked several times and no one has provided. Please do so as soon as possible.”
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Stern then wrote to a different State Department official and made a stunning admission. “I don’t read all of her messages but I don’t recall seeing multiple requests for our expenses,” Stern wrote. “I also don’t know where we would get our expenses.”
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The documents also show that, about a year after the expense reporting mishap, Stern was admonished after she requested a costly rental car for a week in Rome.
An email from a State Department staffer to Stern indicates that the LGBT envoy was originally set to get a rental van in Rome for a week at the cost of $7,000, but that the plan was shot down because of the excessive cost. Stern then hoped to get a rental car for $3,000 to $4,000.
“Sorry for the hassle and expense. This is a stupid way to spend money,” Stern admitted in an email to <a href="https://2021-2025.state.gov/biographies/christopher-le-mon/">Christopher Le Mon</a>, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. “Apparently there aren&#8217;t options due to a taxi shortage. Do you think we could swing $3-4K for a car?”
Le Mon shot down the proposal. “No, I do not think that $3k for a car for five days can be supported. We have asked offices to cut entire trips,” he said in an email. “The overall climate we are in is one of cost consciousness.”
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Then another State Department official pushed Le Mon to give his approval. “Emb Rome has been able to shave SE Stern&#8217;s costs down and is urging me to find out today whether the updated transportation estimates would work,” the unnamed State Department staffer wrote. “Could you authorize the hotel-airport transfers?”
Le Mon denied the ask for the costly car again and called the request “inappropriate.”
“Apologies for not being clearer earlier: I&#8217;m not going to approve standby transportation in Rome in this budget environment,” Le Mon said in response. “To again make the point I made earlier, there have been DRL trips disapproved where the entire cost of the trip was less than $4000.”
“It&#8217;s inappropriate to keep asking for several thousand dollars for a car,” Le Mon admonished Stern.
“Airport transfers and ground transportation can be done by taxi or Uber the same way other DRL principals traveling to European capitals have done,” he added. “I apologize but I do not have time for further back and forth on this question.”
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In another exchange over travel arrangements, Stern berated State Department staff in an “urgent” message about her vegetarian meal preferences.
“This is urgent,” Biden’s LGBT activist wrote. “I have taken many flights since I have joined the State Department, and the airlines have repeatedly had no record of my vegetarian meal.”
“This is a serious problem,” she added.“I ask you to assure me that my vegetarian meal has been ordered for my flights this week, and I ask you to confirm how this can be corrected moving forward.”
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An unnamed State Department staffer sprung into action in a follow up email. “I have added the requests for the vegetarian meals to the reservations you currently have booked.”
It is unclear if Stern successfully received her vegetarian meals on subsequent flights. She did not respond to a request for comment.
“Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy Jessica Stern repeatedly advocated for excessive taxpayer resources to travel the world in luxury,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. “The Trump administration has since eliminated Stern’s position and the Biden era of using government resources for LGBT advocacy is over.”
While the documents don’t outline how much money was spent on Stern’s travel, one spreadsheet shows that Stern and another State Department official working to advance the Biden administration’s LGBT agenda dropped almost $42,000 in taxpayer funds over roughly five months.
Those funds went towards everything from interpreters to an “overtime photographer” on her trips to Peru, Nepal, Hungary, and other countries across the world.
“While the working men and women of this country were struggling, Stern was asking for more of their money for a private car and a photographer.&#8221; Fitzpatrick said. &#8220;The American people are sick and tired of this type of irresponsible behavior from their government officials.&#8221;
Since leaving the State Department, Stern has “rejoined the resistance” and is working to <a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/04/01/former-us-envoy-for-global-lgbtq-intersex-rights-slams-trump/">create</a> a leftwing organization to oppose the Trump administration. She’s also teaching a new generation of activists at Columbia University in a <a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/subj/INAF/U6376-20251-001/">seminar</a> that “offers students an opportunity to reflect, in-depth, on the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBTI rights transnationally.”

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