A California Democrat said Wednesday that immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area constitutes a form of “domestic terrorism.”
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove appeared on CNN’s “The Arena” and accused the Trump administration of carrying out “domestic terrorism” by enforcing immigration law. 
“I would argue that this is not immigration policy that we&#8217;re seeing unfold. This is domestic terrorism,” Kamlager-Dove told host Kasie Hunt before going on to claim that Americans do not support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation raids.
A recent poll by CBS News found that a majority of Americans support President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. Deportations <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deportation-immigration-opinion-poll/">notched</a> a net approval rating of plus eight. The poll was completed just before the deportation raids and riots began in the Los Angeles area.
Another poll, this one conducted by RMG Research, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/11/majority-americans-back-trumps-deployment-national-guard-to-poll-finds/">released</a> Wednesday and taken two days after teh president ordered National Guard troops into Los Angeles found that a majority of Americans support the president’s handling of the riots. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they are at least generally supportive of the administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens. Fifty-two percent of respondents said that supported the president’s decision to send in the National Guard.
Hunt followed up on Kamlager-Dove’s comment, pressing the California Democrat on her use of “domestic terrorism.” Hunt asked specifically if the elected lawmaker was referring to “ICE raids” as “domestic terrorism.”
“What I&#8217;m saying is when you have grandmothers taking young children to church or to the grocery store or to a little Korean market like the one that was in my district that was raided; and all of a sudden you see masked individuals with no identification producing no judicial warrants that have names on it, asking no questions, snatching people, putting them in a van, carting them off, detaining them, not informing their parents or family members, not even allowing Congress members to go in and check and make sure that everything is okay, and then deporting them, you have a real problem,” said Kamlager-Dove.
“Yes, I would argue that you are terrorizing communities,” she added.
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Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of the president, has opted against running for retiring Sen. Thom Tillis’s North Carolina seat, clearing the way for Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley&#8217;s candidacy.
Whatley is expected to announce his bid to replace Tillis within the next 10 days, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/whatley-senate-north-carolina-trump-00473419">Politico</a>. Trump, who served as co-chair with Whatley over the RNC last year, is expected to back Whatley and keep her weekend show on Fox News.
&#8220;After much consideration and heartfelt discussions with my family, friends, and supporters, I have decided not to pursue the United States Senate seat in North Carolina at this time,&#8221; Trump posted to X on Thursday morning. &#8220;While I am not running in this election, my passion for Making America Great Again burns brightly, and I look forward to the future, wherever that leads.&#8221;
Tillis announced his intention to leave the U.S. Senate after voting against the One Big, Beautiful Bill, putting him at odds with President Donald Trump.
Before heading the RNC, Whatley led the Republican Party in North Carolina and is thought to have a solid understanding of the state’s electorate, as well as relationships with key power brokers and donors.
The president is expected to name his pick to replace Whatley at the RNC around the time the current RNC chief announces his bid for the Senate.
Whatley will likely face ​​former two-term North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who top Democrats have recruited to run for Tillis’s seat. Cooper is expected to announce his bid for the U.S. Senate next week, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/michael-whatley-north-carolina-senate.html">The New York Times</a>.
Whatley earned the approval of the president during the 2020 election, when Whatley mobilized an army of poll watchers to keep tabs on election processes in North Carolina. The president won the state by slim margins in 2020 and 2024.
The president endorsed Whatley to head the RNC and replace former chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, who had fallen out of favor with the president amid questions over her record of success leading the Republican Party. RNC members approved Whatley as the party’s head in early 2024.
Lara Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lara-trump-stepping-down-from-co-chair-role-at-rnc">stepped down</a> from the RNC in December amid speculation that she wanted to replace former Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who joined the president’s cabinet as Secretary of State. Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis later tapped his former state attorney general, Sen. Ashley Moody, to fill the seat.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is warning major universities across her state to scrap DEI programs or risk their taxpayer-funded federal support.
Blackburn sent letters on Wednesday to the heads of Belmont University, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Vanderbilt University expressing “concern” over reports that the universities are hiding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs behind sanitized language. The warning comes after a series of undercover videos show employees at the universities discussing how they will push the liberal orthodoxy despite orders by the Trump administration to halt them.
The letters are largely similar, though each reflects details of the situations specific to the universities. The senator sent the letters after officials at each university were caught on camera admitting to certain tactics and ploys each institution has adopted to avoid scrutiny of their DEI programs.
“Renaming woke DEI programs to circumvent compliance and public scrutiny degrades the educational experience of your students and the trust placed in institutions of higher education,” reads a similar section posted in each letter.
“As a beneficiary of federal funding,” writes Blackburn, the university “has a responsibility to align with the President’s executive order and return to a focus on providing quality education to your students.”
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In the past week, controversy has erupted around each of the universities after hidden camera recordings caught employees admitting that at their respective institutions, university leadership has hidden DEI programs behind more benign language.
At the University of Tennessee, for instance, the university&#8217;s DEI initiatives have been wrapped under the &#8220;Access &amp; Engagement&#8221; office, a coordinator at the office said on a hidden camera. At Vanderbilt, the Center for Student Wellbeing has taken over DEI-related programs, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-dei-efforts-were-rebranded-2-red-state-colleges-skirt-trump-orders-staffers-admit">Fox News</a>.
“We’re in the Center for Student Wellbeing – like I said, we have things that clue people in and let people know that this is a safe space for everybody,” an academic coach in the center said. &#8220;Belonging and Communities is like as close to that DEI work you can probably get. Previously, they were the Center for Social Justice and Identities.”
At Belmont University, the institution is not only continuing DEI under another name, but it is also enrolling illegal aliens, Belmont University Assistant Director of Student Success and Flourishing Jozef Lukey said in an undercover video first reported by <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/07/16/belmont-university-is-hiding-illegal-aliens-on-campus-n2659728">Townhall</a>.
“We definitely have to navigate very carefully and just cautiously just because we just don&#8217;t ever know,” he said. “Especially with the ICE raids that are happening in the city that impacts our campus.”
All three universities have denied the claims caught in the undercover videos, noting that individual employees do not speak for the institutions. The universities have also asserted that they follow all relevant laws and regulations.
The Trump administration has taken a combative stance against DEI and other “woke” initiatives across college campuses, picking fights with high-profile institutions such as Harvard and Columbia. The Trump administration has threatened or yanked taxpayer funding from a slate of top-tier schools over DEI programs, antisemitism, allowing males in female sports, and other issues.
The White House’s wrangling with Harvard has so far cost the university more than $2 billion in frozen funding. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that the administration will investigate Harvard’s eligibility for a federal visa program that allows the university to sponsor foreign students and faculty.

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Democrat James Osyf is listed as the owner of a $1.7 million D.C. townhome, raising questions about how connected he is with the Virginia district he wants to represent in Congress.
Osyf, 40, is vying with two other Democratic candidates to unseat GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans in Virginia’s second district. Osyf, a Navy veteran and executive at Lockheed Martin, is the most prominent of the three Democratic contenders.
Osyf is listed as the owner of a $1.7 million townhome in Washington, D.C., while the district he seeks to represent is located roughly 200 miles away in southern Virginia. In addition to the townhome, his campaign is registered at an address in D.C., as well. Records indicate that he does not own a residence in Virginia’s second district, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/dem-in-ultra-competitive-house-race-bases-campaign-in-dc-three-hours-outside-district/">New York Post</a>.
“It certainly doesn’t look good,” Todd Belt, director of the Political Management program at George Washington University, told the Post, adding that the poor optics associated with living outside the district are “why candidates often fake a residence in a district in order to run there.”
Virginia state law requires that candidates for office be residents of the state for at least one year prior to the election.
While Osyf’s campaign headquarters are currently located in Washington, he could amend his campaign filings later to change his headquarters to an address in the district.
Osyf wants to flip Virginia’s second district from Kiggans, who has held the seat since 2023 after she beat former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria. Kiggans <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia%27s_2nd_Congressional_District">flipped</a> the seat by a vote of roughly 52% to 48%.
Kiggans held the seat in 2024 by a similar margin, overcoming a challenge from Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal by roughly 51% to 47%. Kiggans&#8217; seat is listed as “lean Republican” by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a> for 2026.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Wednesday that former President Barack Obama began a “years-long coup” against the American people by directing a fake intelligence assessment on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Gabbard made the accusation during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0C7H3biiYg">press briefing</a> at the White House. Asked about Obama’s culpability in the Russian collusion conspiracy that dogged President Donald Trump during his first term, Gabbard said the conspiracy started with Obama.
“The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly points to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment,” said Gabbard, referring to an assessment issued by Obama’s intelligence officials roughly two weeks before Trump took office in January 2017.
Gabbard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/years-long-coup-gabbard-teases-release-of-more-details-on-obama-russia-intel-controversy">released</a> an initial tranche of documents and emails surrounding the origins of the intelligence assessment last week. She followed up with another release of documents on Wednesday.
The national intelligence director said she has referred the evidence that her team has collected to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.
“I am not an attorney, but as I have said previously, when you look at the intent behind creating a fake, manufactured intelligence document that directly contradicts multiple assessments that were created by the intelligence community, the expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be described as a years-long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic, and an attempt to undermine President Trump’s administration,” said Gabbard when asked about the potential of specific crimes Obama may have committed.
Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush issued a statement from the former president’s office on Tuesday in response to accusations stemming from intelligence found in the first tranche of documents. Gabbard, Trump, and others said that Obama conspired to create a fake intelligence assessment to undermine Trump’s incoming administration.
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gabbard-fires-back-at-obama-after-he-denies-guilt-in-russia-collusion-hoax-the-art-of-deflection">said</a> Rodenbush. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
Gabbard ripped into the statement issued on behalf of the former president, and said he and others denying their roles in the Russia collusion hoax are “doing a disservice to the American people in trying to deflect away from their culpability in what is a historic scandal and negative action towards the American people and our democratic republic.”

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The Trump administration is drawing attention to an often overlooked data point that suggests Trump’s policies, and the passage of the &#8220;Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; have laid the foundation for an economic boom.
Treasury Department counselor Joe Lavorgna says that Federal Reserve data tracking the production of business equipment shows positive signs for future economic growth. Those signs come as President Donald Trump appears to be growing in popularity among business owners.
Economists view the figure that Lavorgna points to as a proxy for capital expenditure (CapEx), which encompasses most investments made by businesses in hard assets that are expected to increase production later on. Those investments could be new buildings or updated equipment, such as better computer software.
“What we observed in the first quarter is that equipment production rose at a 23% rate. Now, surprisingly, when we got the GDP data, we saw a 24% increase. Really, really strong, really exciting news,” Lavorgna told The Daily Wire.
Lavorgna contributed the surge in equipment production to the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; that passed Congress and was signed into law on July 4, though it authorized companies to expense business investments retroactively back to Inauguration Day.
“So, companies – getting very excited about the pro-growth policies that President Trump was putting forward – took that initiative in the first quarter, [and] increased production of business equipment,” the Trump administration economist said.
“Importantly though, in Q2 we saw another large gain in business equipment production, up almost 11%. That is a really strong increase following a boom in the first quarter,” he continued. “What that means is before the One Big Beautiful Bill became legislation, we had an almost 17% annualized increase over those two quarters of business equipment production.”
“That is remarkable,” said Lavorgna.
In the first half of 2025, CapEx surged 16.6%, according to Treasury Department data. That leap constitutes the largest two-quarter rally in CaPex, excluding the pandemic years, since 1997.
“The One Big Beautiful Bill jumpstarted investment that’s lifting productivity, wages, and living standards. Blue collar paychecks are rising fast — second only to @realDonaldTrump’s first term — and the best is yet to come,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted in a post on X.
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Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>’s pro-growth, America First agenda, we’re seeing a CapEx Comeback. Business equipment production jumped 11% annualized in Q2 after a huge 23% gain in Q1 — the strongest back-to-back growth since 1997.
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Recent polling numbers suggest that business owners are rallying behind Trump’s handling of the economy after showing pessimistic attitudes earlier this year. On Tuesday, the latest results from the quarterly CNBC-SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey results <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/22/main-street-business-confidence-rises-trump-tariffs-economy.html">showed</a> 46% of small business owners rate the U.S. economy as “excellent” or “good” – a leap of 16 percentage points since the Q2 survey results showed that number at 30%.

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Japan will invest over half a trillion dollars into the United States in “perhaps the largest Deal ever made,” President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday.
The deal followed Japan’s chief trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa coming to Washington this week to meet with top administration officials. Akazawa reportedly <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/japan-s-trade-negotiator-heads-into-meeting-with-trump-nhk-says">joined</a> Trump at the White House shortly before the president announced the agreement via a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114899417740854572">post</a> on Truth Social.
“We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits,” said Trump. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it.”
“Perhaps most importantly, Japan will open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things. Japan will pay Reciprocal Tariffs to the United States of 15%,” he continued. “This is a very exciting time for the United States of America, and especially for the fact that we will continue to always have a great relationship with the Country of Japan. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Negotiators for the United States and Japan rushed to work out an agreement ahead of an August 1 deadline when Trump set punishing tariffs to take effect on Japanese imports.
The rough agreement comes at a delicate moment for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who recently suffered a severe electoral setback in which his party lost control of the Japanese parliament’s upper house. Ishiba’s party lost the parliament’s lower house in an October vote, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/japan-election-throws-a-wrench-in-trade-talks-e6c1abde">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Ishiba held out on striking a deal with Trump, betting that a tough stance on trade negotiations with the United States would earn support from Japanese voters. Polls showed that voters were more concerned with the state of inflation and immigration than on trade negotiations with the United States, however. The electoral loss could cost Ishiba his prime ministership.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled that the United States was willing to slow walk trade negotiations despite the tight deadline ahead of Tuesday’s agreement.
“Our priorities are not the internal workings of the Japanese government. Our priorities are getting the best deal for the American people,” Bessent told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/cnbc-transcript-us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today.html">CNBC</a>.
“If we somehow boomerang back to the August 1 tariffs, I would think that a higher tariff level will put more pressure on those countries to come with better agreements,” he said.

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