Hunter Biden suggested that his father, former President Joe Biden, had taken Ambien to help him sleep before his disastrous debate performance that led to him dropping out of the presidential race last summer.
The scandal-ridden younger Biden made the revelation during a three-hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M">interview</a> with Andrew Callaghan’s “Channel 5” YouTube show.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what. I know exactly what happened in that debate,&#8221; Hunter Biden told the YouTube personality.
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Hunter Biden appears to suggest President Joe Biden had been given Ambien before the debate last year and ended up looking like a &#8220;deer in the headlights.&#8221;
There are no public records that indicate Biden was prescribed Ambien. <a href="https://t.co/Xp1EL076gw">pic.twitter.com/Xp1EL076gw</a>
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&#8220;He flew around the world, basically, the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. He&#8217;s 81 years old. He&#8217;s tired as s***. They gave him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he&#8217;s a deer in the headlights, and it feeds into every f***ing story that anybody wants to tell,&#8221; Biden said.
Ambien is the brand name for Zolpidem, which is known for its cognitive side effects, including <a href="https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-ambien-affect-your-memory-3015265#toc-does-it-really-affect-the-memory-ambien-amnesia">memory</a> loss, sleepwalking, and <a href="https://deserthopetreatment.com/sedatives/ambien-addiction/memory-loss/">impairment</a> after waking up.
Ambien was never included in any of Biden&#8217;s medical records that were released to the public, although other medications were <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Health-Summary-2.28.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com">listed</a>.
Biden’s behavior during the last years of his presidency sparked concerns among the public that he might already be experiencing cognitive decline.
His shaky and confused performance during his June 27 debate against President Donald Trump last year threw the presidential race into chaos.
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Biden: &#8220;Making sure we make every single solitary person eligible for what I&#8217;ve been able to do with covid, excuse me, with umm dealing with everything we had to deal with. Look, we finally beat medicare.&#8221;
Trump: &#8220;Well he&#8217;s right. He did beat medicaid. Beat it to death.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/FL152ERLiR">pic.twitter.com/FL152ERLiR</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1806496676506657136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Influential Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), pressured Biden to abandon his reelection bid and endorse a candidate with a better chance of beating Trump.
Ultimately, Biden dropped out a few weeks later in July and endorsed Kamala Harris, who ended up losing every swing state as well as the popular vote.
Hunter Biden expressed frustration with the speculation surrounding his father&#8217;s mental state.
&#8220;If this was a conspiracy, Andrew, you know this, somehow the entirety of a White House, in which you&#8217;re literally living on top of each other has kept their mouth shut about what? What&#8217;s the conspiracy? That Joe Biden got old?&#8221; Biden said during the YouTube interview.
Earlier this month, Biden’s former doctor pleaded the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee, which subpoenaed him to testify in an investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline. On Wednesday, a Jill Biden aide also pleaded the Fifth in the same investigation.
The Biden officials’ refusal to testify has only fueled speculation about a cover-up and heightened concerns about the legitimacy of executive actions taken by Biden during his last years as president.

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The Biden State Department accused a high-ranking Vatican official of denying the “full humanity” of people who identify as LGBT, internal communications first viewed by The Daily Wire reveal.
Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, made the remarks in advance of a trip to the Vatican, heavily redacted emails obtained by The Daily Wire through the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) indicate.
Stern, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-lgbt-racial-equity-envoy-profiles-scrubbed-after-trump-takes-office">vacated her position</a> after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">traveled to all six habitable continents</a> to attend pride parades, march alongside a self-proclaimed “transvestite sl*t,” and collaborate with leftist activists as she attempted to influence the policies of foreign governments.
One of those trips took the LGBT activist-turned-State Department official to the seat of the Catholic Church.
Biden State Department officials admonished the Catholic official for his stance on LGBT-related issues in an August 1, 2023, email, the subject line of which read “Special Envoy Stern at the Vatican.”
The email came after Stern was connected with Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Vatican, Laura Hochla, to discuss her future engagements with Catholic officials.
“Great news! We had a very productive conversation with [REDACTED] … and we wanted to keep you abreast of the latest,” an unnamed senior advisor to Stern wrote in a heavily redacted email to Stern, Hochla, and two other officials.
The email from Stern’s senior advisor went on to detail the Biden State Department’s posture towards the Vatican, particularly as it concerned LGBT ideology.
“Something to be mindful of though: [REDACTED] made it clear that he has not seen eye-to-eye with Cardinal Parolin and believes that the Cardinal has yet to see the ‘full humanity’ of LGBTQI+ persons,” the email goes on to say, referencing <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_parolin_p.html">Cardinal Pietro Parolin</a>, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.
&#8220;CASA has uncovered documents shedding light on far left activist Jessica Stern&#8217;s history of attacking the Catholic Church and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-lgbt-emissary-berated-staff-about-vegetarian-meals-while-globetrotting-on-the-taxpayers-dime">improper use</a> of taxpayer resources during her time as the Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy,&#8221; CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This is just another attempt by Biden administration officials advocating to impose their radical LGBT ideology on the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
The internal Biden State Department email went on to highlight comments made by Cardinal Parolin in an apparent attempt to bolster the case that the Catholic official does not recognize the “full humanity” of those who identify as LGBT.
“(See the Cardinal&#8217;s comments on the 2015 marriage referendum in Ireland … and a 2023 vote by German bishops to bless same-sex unions),” the email’s author adds.
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Parolin expressed his disapproval of Ireland’s 2015 referendum, in which 62% of voters cast a ballot in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage.
“I was deeply saddened by the result,” Parolin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/vatican-ireland-gay-marriage-referendum-vote-defeat-for-humanity#:~:text=The%20referendum%20that%20overwhelmingly%20backed,in%20Rome%20on%20Tuesday%20night.">said in comments</a> reflecting Catholic teaching on the issue. “The church must take account of this reality, but in the sense that it must strengthen its commitment to evangelisation. I think that you cannot just talk of a defeat for Christian principles, but of a defeat for humanity.”
He also <a href="https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/vatican-responds-to-the-decision-of-the-german-church-to-bless-homosexual-unions-675">spoke out against</a> a decision by the Catholic Church in Germany to bless same-sex couples in a statement that Biden State Department officials similarly appeared to cite in the redacted email.
“We are working around the birthday party to ensure government interlocuters in Vatican City and Rome know that the USG is of &#8216;one mind on LGBTQI+ human rights,'&#8221; the senior advisor went on to note.

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden State Dept. Accused Vatican Official Of Denying ‘Full Humanity’ Of LGBT People

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Illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of a far-left organization that raked in cash from the Biden administration as it advocated for illegal aliens.
Abrego Garcia, infamously and erroneously dubbed a “Maryland man” by Democrat politicians after he was deported to his home country of El Salvador, was a member of a leftwing organization called CASA, which lobbies on behalf of illegal aliens and is now advocating for the Salvadoran national to be shielded from deportation.
The group called to <a href="https://wearecasa.org/policy-agenda/immigration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolish ICE</a> and runs campaigns to <a href="https://wearecasa.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent</a> local law enforcement agents from collaborating with federal immigration enforcement, all while the Biden administration pledged more than $5 million to the organization. It also openly identified Abrego Garcia, a suspected MS-13 human smuggler, as a member of the organization.
“CASA is outraged that ICE deported CASA member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in violation of a court order and at grave personal danger,” the organization <a href="https://wearecasa.org/casa-demands-justice-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a statement.
Now, CASA falsely claims that “the Trump administration disappeared Kilmar Abrego Garcia.” The leftwing organization identified the suspected MS-13 gang member and human smuggler as one of its members in an <a href="https://wearecasa.org/casa-demands-justice-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April statement</a> condemning his deportation, and has remained involved in the case, with CASA <a href="https://apnews.com/video/wife-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-says-effort-to-free-him-has-been-the-hardest-thing-in-my-life-bcc1f7ebbc4843bfb826e4b57edeba56" target="_blank" rel="noopener">representatives</a> appearing to flank his wife at a recent press conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
CASA, to which the Biden administration <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/754c4ce6-4aab-ad50-7221-31e1f1e71de6-R/latest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> millions of taxpayer dollars, has offices across the mid-Atlantic region, including in Maryland, where Abrego Garcia resided prior to his deportation. Included in the more than $5 million awarded to CASA by the federal government since 2022 was a <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_23CICET00324_7003" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$250,000 grant</a> from the Department of Homeland Security to fund “<a href="https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/civic-assimilation/learn-about-the-citizenship-and-assimilation-grant-program/fy-2023-grant-recipients" target="_blank" rel="noopener">innovations in citizenship preparation</a>.”
The group has multiple membership tiers, including one that allows members to access a range of services, <a href="https://wearecasa.org/legal-services-md/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> legal deportation defense, vocational training, and citizenship application assistance. Each of the three <a href="https://wearecasa.org/membership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">membership tiers</a> requires members to pay a monthly or annual fee. It is not apparent what membership tier Abrego Garcia belonged to, nor whether he sought out services from the leftwing organization.
CASA did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry concerning Abrego Garcia’s membership.
In addition to offering support services to illegal aliens, CASA also pushes an extreme ideological agenda. The far-left organization <a href="https://wearecasa.org/policy-agenda/immigration/abolishice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls</a> for ICE to be abolished, calling it a “rogue agency” that has “caused immense harm to our communities.”
The organization <a href="https://wearecasa.org/casa-demands-justice-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a> that it is currently working to pass legislation in Maryland that would prevent local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE to identify and apprehend illegal aliens. The group is also <a href="https://wearecasa.org/maryland-2/legislative-session-agenda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocating</a> for legislation that would prevent ICE from obtaining identifying information from Maryland’s state and local agencies, shielding illegal aliens from being identified by federal immigration enforcement agents.
The group’s sister organization, <a href="https://casainaction.org/#footer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> CASA in Action, advocates for specific policies and endorses candidates who encourage “greater engagement of Latinos and voters of color in elections.”
“By mobilizing Black, Latine, Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Immigrant voters, CASA in Action … play[s] a powerful role in electing progressive change leaders,” the group <a href="https://casainaction.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes on</a> to say.
Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States to stand trial for human smuggling charges, but is expected to be deported yet again before his trial concludes, this time to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-will-be-deported-to-third-country-prosecutors-say?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Kilmar+Abrego+Garcia+Will+Be+Deported+To+%E2%80%98Third+Country%2C%E2%80%99+Prosecutors+Say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">willing</a> “third country” instead of his home country of El Salvador.

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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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WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives will take steps towards repealing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act this week, a law repeatedly weaponized against pro-life activists by President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.
Lawmakers on Wednesday will mark up H.R. 589, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/589">FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025</a>, which Texas Congressman Chip Roy introduced in January. The bill &#8220;repeals provisions of federal criminal law that prohibit conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with persons who are seeking to (1) obtain or provide reproductive health services, or (2) exercise their right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.&#8221;
Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/223?s=1&amp;r=78">Senate version of the bill</a> in January as well.
The move comes after years of work from Roy and his team, who aggressively argued in favor of repealing the FACE Act while the Biden Justice Department used the law to imprison <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/defend-our-country-imprisoned-pro-life-activists-urge-americans-to-vote-against-kamala">pro-life activist</a> after pro-life activist from 2022 to 2024, often pairing FACE with a felony conspiracy charge to lock peaceful pro-life protesters. President Donald Trump pardoned these imprisoned activists earlier this year.
&#8220;Over the past 4 years, we have witnessed the weaponization of the justice system, using the FACE Act to jail Americans fighting for the right to life,&#8221; Roy told The Daily Wire on Monday afternoon. &#8220;It is not enough to merely end Biden-Harris era discrimination — we must act to reverse course, ensuring selective and unfair political prosecutions are never again possible under this statute.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_922337" style="width: 893px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-house-moves-to-repeal-face-act-after-years-of-weaponization/attorney-general-garland-holds-press-conference-on-civil-rights-matter-at-doj-6" rel="attachment wp-att-922337"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-922337" class="wp-image-922337 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-883x576.jpg" alt="U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke speaks on a federal investigation of the City of Phoenix. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)" width="883" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-883x576.jpg 883w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-300x196.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154-768x501.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-1332546154.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px" /></a>U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke speaks on a federal investigation of the City of Phoenix. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;While I am proud that the FACE Act is finally being moved through committee, Congress should move quickly to repeal the FACE Act and put an end to legal harassment of pro-life Americans once and for all,&#8221; he added.
The FACE Act was intended to protect abortion clinics, pregnancy centers, and places of worship. But the Biden administration — led by former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke — almost exclusively used it to target the pro-life movement following the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion showing that Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned.
Roe’s overturn increased “the urgency” of the Justice Department’s work, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/12/doj-official-admits-targeting-pro-lifers-is-response-to-overturn-of-roe/">Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta</a> said, including the “enforcement of the FACE Act, to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services.”
Roy&#8217;s office obtained data that confirmed the Biden Justice Department charged 24 FACE Act cases against 55 defendants, and just two of those cases were brought in defense of pregnancy centers. None were brought in defense of a house of worship, even though hundreds of Catholic Churches have been attacked, firebombed, and vandalized with pro-abortion slogans since the Supreme Court leak.
&#8220;Nearly 92% of all Biden-Harris FACE Act cases were brought against pro-life demonstrators, despite over <a href="https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/">285 churches</a> and <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">94 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life groups</a> being attacked and vandalized since May 2022,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-face-act-must-be-repealed">wrote in a Daily Wire op-ed in October</a>.
&#8220;To stop this growing weaponization and intimidation, Congress should stop this targeted harassment and ensure the FACE Act is repealed,&#8221; he added at the time. &#8220;Allowing it to remain means permitting bureaucrats at the highest levels of government to unequally apply the law, target pro-life Americans with unwarranted retaliation, and shield a radical abortion industry.&#8221;
The move is also significant given that Trump&#8217;s Justice Department is rolling back <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-89-year-old-woman-convicted-faces-over-a-decade-in-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive prosecution</a> of the FACE Act, saying that the Biden administration weaponized the law against pro-life protesters.
In a January memo, Trump Justice Department Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said that it will only prosecute the FACE Act in cases of “extraordinary circumstances” or in instances related to “death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage.”
“Cases not presenting significant aggravating factors can adequately be addressed under state or local law,” the memo said. “Additionally, until further notice, no new abortion-related FACE Act actions — criminal or civil — will be permitted without authorization from the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.”
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

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The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security was set to give nearly $300,000 to an organization that provides legal services to aliens subject to deportation. Now, the Trump administration has frozen its funding.
Catholic Migration Services (CMS), a New York-based non-profit organization, was <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_24CICET00364_7003">slated to receive</a> over $293,000 from the Department of Homeland Security to provide naturalization services for immigrants. The grant term began under the Biden administration on November 22nd, 2024, and was scheduled to continue until September 2026.
The organization provides a wealth of services beyond just naturalization, however, and even offers free deportation defense to foreign nationals who have an order of removal. These services are part of the group&#8217;s effort to “advance equality and social justice in a changing and diverse population.”
“We provide free legal services, tenant organizing services and community legal education to low-income New Yorkers regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or immigration status,” Catholic Migration Services<a href="https://catholicmigration.org/about-catholic-migration-services/"> says,</a> before specifying that it provides deportation defense services to foreign aliens who have a removal order against them. “Our <a href="https://catholicmigration.org/immigration/">Immigration Unit</a> is comprised of four legal teams: Removal Defense, Affirmative, Naturalization, and the Pro Se Plus Project.”
Now the organization says that the federal funding has been frozen.
“CMS previously shared federal funding with other nonprofits to help lawful permanent residents become citizens. However, the Department of Homeland Security has recently frozen this program,” the organization told The Daily Wire. “In addition to offering various civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, CMS also assists immigrants who have valid legal claims in removal proceedings.”
The freeze is part of a wider effort from the Trump administration to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/catholic-bishops-lawsuit-refugee-resettlement-trump-administration-09477d766651a940ae53840ce3bd9c6e">halt funding</a> to non-profits that encourage mass immigration into the United States, including religiously-affiliated refugee resettlement agencies.
Catholic Migration Services <a href="https://catholicmigration.org/immigration/">states</a> on its website that the organization offers “deportation defense” before adding that its offerings are intended to “help immigrants in deportation/removal proceedings represent themselves in Immigration Court and provide assistance with applications for asylum, employment authorization, immigration court motions, and other items.”
The Pro Se Plus Project, a joint effort of Catholic Migration Servicesus and two other organizations, <a href="https://www.proseplusnyc.org/">similarly states</a> that it provides deportation defense to aliens who are subject to removal. “We help people avoid exploitation, in absentia removal orders, missed deadlines and notario fraud,” the site reads, referencing removal orders that are issued by immigration judges when a non-citizen fails to appear for an immigration hearing.
CMS has also come out <a href="https://catholicmigration.org/catholic-migration-services-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-assault-on-immigrant-communities/">against</a> the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce federal immigration law, accusing the president of launching an “assault on immigrant communities” through his “threats of mass deportation and xenophobic rhetoric that has instilled deep fear in immigrant communities.”
The group is far from the only far-left organization that has received DHS funding despite advocating for illegal aliens, however. The Biden administration also gave $1.2 million to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a radical organization that works to “dismantle the U.S. immigration enforcement system,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-says-shell-enforce-border-laws-her-admin-gave-1-2-million-to-group-that-wants-to-end-them">previously revealed</a>.
The organization was part of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-soros-backed-organizations-leverage-waves-of-new-immigrants-to-sway-elections">broader coalition</a> of non-profits that sought to naturalize citizens and mobilize them as voters to “sway the outcome of national, state, and local elections.”

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The Biden Admin Funded An NGO That Provides ‘Deportation Defense.’ Trump Froze The Money.

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The illegal alien population in the United States recently hit a record high in the wake of the Biden administration’s border policies and now sits at a whopping 18.6 million, a recent study found.
The <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/how-many-illegal-aliens-are-united-states-2025-update">study</a> from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that the number of illegal aliens present in the United States has surged 11 percent since June 2023, when the estimate sat at 16.8 million. The figure sits a full 28.2 percent higher than in December 2020, the month before former President Joe Biden took office.
Under FAIR’s new estimate, the illegal alien population present in the country is believed to be <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/largest-U-S-state-by-population">greater</a> than the populations of all but the four most populous states in the union. “As of 2025, American population growth comes almost entirely from unsustainably high levels of immigration, both legal and illegal,” FAIR wrote.
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FAIR, which advocates for border security and a reduction in legal immigration, asserts that the increased illegal alien population was due largely to “pull factors” resulting from the Biden administration’s border policies.
“In its first few months in power, the Biden administration sent a strong message of welcome to would-be illegal aliens,” FAIR writes, citing the former White House’s decisions to halt border wall construction, expand the grounds for claiming asylum, and rescind Asylum Cooperative Agreements, further expanding the pool of migrants who could apply for asylum.
“These policies had the expected effect,” FAIR charges. “Illegal border crossings began to rise as soon as the Biden administration took office, and they continued growing to catastrophic levels throughout the administration’s term.”
The organization also noted the challenges that come when attempting to estimate the illegal population, while also contending that other estimates significantly undercount the true figure. “Estimating the size, distribution, and characteristics of the illegal alien population is an inexact science,” FAIR points out. &#8220;We do not know exactly how many people cross the border illegally and evade immigration authorities, nor can anyone accurately quantify overstays or gotaways.”
“The Department of Homeland Security only (loosely) counts foreign nationals who enter and leave the United States in a lawful manner,” FAIR noted, adding that “its illegal alien population estimates remain unhelpful due to underestimating the size of the population and utilizing outdated numbers.”
FAIR&#8217;s estimate comes a year after the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that the foreign-born population in the United States reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-born-population-hits-new-high-with-surge-under-biden-fueled-by-illegal-immigration">new high</a> of 51.6 million in March 2024. The increase under the Biden administration, CIS estimated, was due primarily to mass illegal immigration.
Border crossings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-does-victory-lap-at-border-all-it-took-was-a-new-president">plummeted</a> to record lows under President Donald Trump, whose administration has carried out waves of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-500-criminal-illegal-aliens-captured-by-ice-in-week-long-houston-raids">deportation operations</a>. Other policies could encourage illegal aliens to leave the United States on their own.
Congress could require businesses across the country to use the E-Verify system to confirm the legal status of would-be employees and prevent illegal aliens from acquiring jobs. Border Czar Tom Homan <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/524920-to-stop-illegal-immigration-crack-down-on-illegal-employment">celebrated</a> the program in 2020, saying that it “is the best tool available, and currently prevents a significant amount of unauthorized employment.”

Illegal aliens

Illegal Alien Population Surges To Record High, Bombshell Study Finds

Tom Homan

A government watchdog is sounding the alarm on former President Joe Biden&#8217;s liberal use of an autopen to sign official documents, saying it raises concerns about who controlled the presidency, given Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline.
Biden pardoned six criminals on December 30, 2022, with the &#8220;exact same autopen signature&#8221; while the president was vacationing and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Oversight Project.
&#8220;Note they all say they are &#8216;Signed in the City of Washington,'&#8221; the Oversight Project posted on X.
Around the same time, an omnibus spending bill was flown to Biden in the Virgin Islands to sign, but the pardons all appear to be signed by autopen, the watchdog said.
&#8220;Whoever controlled the autopen controlled the presidency,&#8221; the Oversight Project said.
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🚨 Autopen Update 🚨 We analyzed Biden&#39;s Jan. 19, 2025 &quot;pardons&quot; for:
-Biden Family Members -Anthony Fauci -General Milley -J6 Committee -Gerald Lundergan
They all have the same exact Biden autopen signature <a href="https://t.co/jc6mkx37il">https://t.co/jc6mkx37il</a> <a href="https://t.co/8VeBDwLNv7">pic.twitter.com/8VeBDwLNv7</a>
&mdash; Oversight Project (@OversightPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightPR/status/1899520975156216146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Some prominent documents, including Hunter Biden&#8217;s pardon and Biden&#8217;s announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race, appear to be hand signed, the watchdog found.
However, several other controversial pardons, including those for Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, the January 6 committee, and other Biden family members, were all signed with the same autopen signature, Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for the Oversight Project told The Daily Wire.
Brosnan said that using the autopen to sign presidential pardons is particularly &#8220;troubling&#8221; since the authority to issue them rests solely with the president as a &#8220;constitutional principle.&#8221;
&#8220;You have to look at it in the context of President Biden&#8217;s mental decline,&#8221; Brosnan said, noting that Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s report last year <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4456879-special-counsel-describes-biden-as-elderly-man-with-a-poor-memory-in-eye-raising-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Biden an &#8220;elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
&#8220;I think we all saw with our own eyes his mental and physical deterioration over the course of his presidency,&#8221; Brosnan said. &#8220;There&#8217;s article after article that comes out showing how the Biden administration and his staff shielded him from public view, retinkered his schedule throughout the presidency, tried to script even what reporters he was calling on at press conferences, and that volume of evidence shows that President Biden wasn&#8217;t really running the White House. It was the staff. So if he&#8217;s not hand-signing these legally operative documents like pardons or even bills into law, that raises another question.&#8221;
The Justice Department should look into what the autopen policies of the previous White House were, whether certain individuals were authorized to operate the autopen, and what the approval process for affixing a signature looked like, Brosnan said.
&#8220;We need to figure out who was actually running the country for the last four years,&#8221; Brosnan said.
Brosnan said any legal cases against Biden&#8217;s signatures are still hypothetical, but he pointed to the questions around Chad Wolf&#8217;s status as acting homeland security secretary back in 2020, which resulted in a judge ruling that some of Wolf&#8217;s actions cracking down on illegal immigration were unlawful.

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Biden Pardons Were Signed With Autopen While He Was On Vacation, Watchdog Finds

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The Biden State Department’s office TVs were tuned into a state-funded Venezuelan propaganda channel that some say operates as an unregistered foreign agent to push the agenda of anti-American actors, The Daily Wire can report.
TVs at the Biden State Department were tuned into Telesur, a state-funded Venezuelan outlet that received 70 percent of its initial funding from the regime of anti-American socialist Hugo Chavez and even featured Chavez&#8217;s <a href="https://archive.ph/AEfp">weekly show</a>, “Alo, Presidente,” while he was alive.
The outlet also receives funding from the left-wing governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Bolivia, and has been <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2023/11/17/telesurs-pro-iran-propaganda/">slammed</a> as a purveyor of “<a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/news/Israel-trafica-con-ninos-de-Nepal-bajo-excusa-de-ayuda-20150505-0048.html">fake news</a>, ‘<a href="https://telesurtv.net/opinion/Que-pasa-con-la-lucha-contra-el-nazismo--20231106-0015.html">whataboutism</a>,’ and <a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/bloggers/Cesara-Israel-de-apoyar-a-los-yihadistas-20160710-0001.html">disinformation</a>” as it works to “demonize the West, undermine the credibility of Western news outlets, paint Western leaders as hypocrites, and promote a narrative of global resistance against America and its allies.&#8221;
The channel has since been removed from the State Department office TVs, The Daily Wire has learned.
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) previously called for the channel to be investigated by the Department of Justice in 2018, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article207929624.html">charging</a> that the channel “appears to act under foreign direction and engages in political activities in the interest of its foreign principal, primarily the government of Venezuela.”
“I am writing to request the Administration help the people of the United States by investigating the status of Telesur under the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” Wilson, who contended that the channel acted as an unregistered foreign agent of the Nicholas Maduro regime, wrote in 2018. “The Telesur network is to Venezuela what Russia Today is to Russia, a propaganda outfit masquerading as a news organization broadcasting information that undermines U.S. interests in Latin America.”
“Access to the United States market is a privilege, not a right and the American taxpayers deserve to know if TeleSur affiliates in the United States are acting as foreign agents of a foreign government such as Venezuela,” he went on to <a href="https://joewilson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/joewilson-evo.house.gov/files/Letter%20Telesur.pdf">write</a>.
Argentina, which previously funded the outlet and was one of the founding backers, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article68633342.html">revoked funding</a> in 2016 under the leadership of then-President Mauricio Macri. Uruguay <a href="https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-relaciones-exteriores/comunicacion/comunicados/2120-uruguay-se-retira-telesur-banco-del-sur-basado-principio-integrar">pulled its funding</a> four years later, in 2020.

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Biden State Department Was Playing Venezuelan Propaganda On Office TVs

An NBC affiliate in Boston complained of “growing concerns” of deportation raids performed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the federal law enforcement agency caught illegal alien criminals wanted for crimes such as murder and rape.
NBC10 published a <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/after-federal-agents-spotted-in-east-boston-concerns-grow-over-potential-ice-raids/3610367/">story</a> headlined, “After federal agents spotted in East Boston, concerns grow over potential ICE raids” shortly after federal law enforcement agents captured illegal alien criminals accused of a variety of violent crimes.
“There&#8217;s growing concerns over potential ICE raids locally after federal agents were spotted by NBC Boston cameras entering homes in East Boston Wednesday and taking at least one person into custody,” the NBC10 story read. “These operations come amid heightened alert for mass roundups and deportations promised by President Donald Trump, but federal authorities would not confirm they are related to that effort.”
The report was slammed on X by Bill Melugin, the Fox News National Correspondent who embedded with ICE on their series of raids in Boston.
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“I’m curious what concerns there would be over the following being removed from the streets by ICE Boston yesterday?” he wrote on X, explaining that the federal law enforcement agency captured two alleged members of MS-13, a Haitian gang member with 17 convictions, multiple alleged rapists, and an alleged heroin trafficker, among others.
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I’m curious what concerns there would be over the following being removed from the streets by ICE Boston yesterday?
Two MS-13 gang members, one of which has an Interpol Red Notice warrant for aggravated murder 
Haitian gang member w/ 17 convictions 
Multiple alleged rapists,… <a href="https://t.co/HQl6GoeAHW">https://t.co/HQl6GoeAHW</a>
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1882615991492108435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
One Haitian illegal alien and alleged gang member was captured on video yelling, “I’m not going back to Haiti,” and praising former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. “Yo Biden forever bro. Thank Obama for everything he did for me bro,” he said as he was placed in the back of a police car.
President Donald Trump pledged during his campaign to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. The 47th president signed a slate of immigration-related executive orders within hours of taking office, including declaring a national emergency on the southern border, designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and suspending refugee resettlement.
Trump’s deportation plan enjoys significant public support, with one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-overwhelming-majority-of-americans-support-trumps-plan-to-deport-criminal-illegal-aliens">recent poll</a> from The New York Times finding that nearly 9 in 10 Americans support deporting illegal aliens with criminal records. That same survey also found that 63 percent of Americans support deporting immigrants who are here illegally and arrived over the past four years and that a majority of Americans, 55 percent, support deporting all illegal aliens.
Nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-strongly-supportive-of-trumps-mass-deportation-agenda-poll-finds">60 percent</a> of respondents in a CBS News poll said they would support an effort to deport all illegal aliens from the United States, not just those who have been convicted of a violent crime.
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Former President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a Connecticut drug dealer who was convicted in the killings of a mother and her eight-year-old son as part of a slate of thousands of pardons for &#8220;non-violent&#8221; criminals.
Adrian Peeler, 48, was ultimately only convicted of conspiring to kill Karen Clarke and her eight-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, despite the testimony of an eyewitness, the Connecticut Post <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/bridgeport-clemency-adrian-peeler-murders-timeline-20049049.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The mother and son were attacked as they came home to their apartment in January 1999 — just weeks before they were set to testify against the drug dealer&#8217;s brother, who was accused of shooting Clarke&#8217;s boyfriend in front of the small boy. Peeler&#8217;s brother reportedly gave the order to kill the mother and son.
Clarke was found shot multiple times and lying face up on the floor of her son&#8217;s room with a phone just inches from her hand. Her son was found dead in the hall with a gunshot wound to the back of his head.
Peeler was sentenced to 25 years in prison on the murder conspiracy charge as well as 35 years for drug dealing.
During his last days in office, Biden commuted Peeler&#8217;s sentence as part of his mass clemency for nearly 2,500 federal prisoners the former president called &#8220;non-violent.&#8221;
&#8220;Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-clemency-non-violent-inmates-includes-connecticut-child-killer?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
Even one of Connecticut&#8217;s Democrat senators expressed discomfort with the pardon.
&#8220;It seems to me that someone dropped the ball here to let this person get released,&#8221; <a href="https://wnyt.com/us-news/family-outraged-after-man-convicted-in-connecticut-killings-gets-clemency-from-biden-in-drug-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). &#8220;This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws. It also highlights how we need to take a look at the pardon system to see how it can be improved.&#8221;
The killings led to Connecticut creating its witness protection system.
The brother of the murdered mother said the pardon is &#8220;shocking&#8221; for his family.
&#8220;I’m sick and tired, and I’m disgusted,&#8221; Oswald Clarke, <a href="https://wnyt.com/us-news/family-outraged-after-man-convicted-in-connecticut-killings-gets-clemency-from-biden-in-drug-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press. &#8220;It’s a very shocking thing. My family is very distraught about it. It’s like we’re being traumatized all over again.&#8221;
Russell Peeler was originally sentenced to death for the murders, but that was changed to life in prison when Connecticut abolished the death penalty.
The brothers&#8217; mother was a Bridgeport city cop who urged them to follow the law. Before she died of stomach cancer she urged her sons to spend her insurance money on finishing college, but Russell Peeler used the money as a seed for his drug empire instead.

President Biden And First Lady Jill Biden Speak At Classroom To Career Summit

Biden Commuted Sentence Of ‘Non-Violent’ Drug Dealer Convicted In Killings Of Mother, 8-Year-Old

Biden Commuted Sentence Of 'Non-Violent' Drug Dealer Convicted In Killings Of Mother, 8-Year-Old

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The Biden State Department celebrated its leftwing DEI agenda just days before President Donald Trump scrapped the whole enterprise.
Earlier this month, the State Department released a report titled “U.S. Department of State DEIA Accomplishments 2021-2024 &#8211; Building A Workforce That Reflects America.” The report cataloged some of the radical measures the agency took to embed the far-left ideology into America’s foreign policy.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/State-Dept.-DEI-Achievements.pdf">report,</a> which has since been removed from the State Department website, lists specific actions the State Department took in service of the DEI agenda, ranging from DEI events at embassies and consulates to formal policies dedicated to pushing the ideology.
“We made our recruiting fairer and more transparent. We incorporated commitment to diversity and inclusion as an important metric for Foreign and Civil Service evaluations,” former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says at the outset of the report. “When the people making decisions on behalf of the American public don’t reflect the full diversity of our nation, we all lose, and that impacts our national security.”
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At the consulate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for example, officials “commemorated Black Consciousness Month with an event in which employees learned about inclusion of Afro-Brazilian culture through Capoeira music and LGBTQI+ culture through Vogue dance.”
The embassy in Panama City, meanwhile, “hosted inclusive language training on how the Spanish language discusses women and gender,” also discussing Panamanians with disabilities, LGBTQI+ Panamanians, Afro-Panamanians,” and “indigenous communities — specifically Wounaan Panamanians, and HIV-positive Panamanians and the stigmas they face.”
The embassy in Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh created a “DEIA Library for all ages, featuring over 150 books in English and Khmer on DEIA and the traditions and cultures of both the United States and Cambodia.”
The events at the consulates and embassies were not just one-off DEI celebrations, but were instead part of the State Department’s broader approach under former President Joe Biden and Blinken.
The agency also created a data dashboard with the demographic characteristics of civil service and foreign service officials, instituted a biennial “DEIA climate study,” and hosted “Start Out Right,” the first DEIA summit intended to “train 250 first-time Department managers from across the world on inclusive leadership.”
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The Biden administration launched a whole-of-government approach to embed the DEI agenda throughout the entire federal government and its bureaucracy, establishing DEI offices, policies, and new roles for those tasked with advancing the ideology. The Trump administration has already rolled back these measures and is actively rooting out potential efforts by bureaucrats within the executive branch to rename and conceal the DEI agenda.
The Daily Wire documented the rise of DEI at the Biden State Department, which appointed activists to high-paying positions and tasked them with spreading leftwing dogmas on race and gender across the world. Those two officials — special envoys tasked with advancing far-left dogma on race and gender — both appear to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-lgbt-racial-equity-envoy-profiles-scrubbed-after-trump-takes-office">vacated their positions</a> at the State Department.
Trump also signed an executive order intended to purge DEI from the State Department and all executive agencies. In response to the order, the Office of Personnel Management <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-to-put-all-federal-dei-officials-on-leave-by-end-of-day-tomorrow">issued a memo</a> directing agency heads to “send a notification to all employees of DEIA offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all DEIA initiatives, offices, and programs.”
The federal Office of Personnel Management also <a href="https://x.com/weijia/status/1881890551592828947">provided</a> agency heads with a template email to send to bureaucrats, which explains that the DEI actions of the previous administration “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.”

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