Right now, children in the United States are being bought and sold for sex and labor.
While recent years have brought more awareness to this problem, putting an end to modern-day slavery takes action: protecting the vulnerable, prosecuting traffickers, helping survivors rebuild their lives, and coordinating these efforts across every level of government and society.
Fortunately, the Trump administration is advancing survivor-centered policies, strengthening enforcement, and holding traffickers accountable. But while these achievements illuminate the path forward, the fight is far from over.
CPAC&#8217;s 4th Annual Summit to Combat Human Trafficking focused on developing the strategic next steps needed to strengthen America&#8217;s fight against modern-day slavery. The summit brought together senior Trump administration officials, members of Congress, state leaders, law enforcement, and survivor advocates. The summit reinforced a simple truth: to win the battle against human trafficking, we need sustained partnerships, clear accountability, and measurable results.
Those partnerships are already producing meaningful progress.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed into law the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act — legislation the CPAC Center for Combating Human Trafficking has championed since its inception. For years, survivors who were forced into criminal activity by their traffickers carried criminal records that prevented them from securing housing, employment, and long-term stability even after escaping exploitation.
One survivor, Gina Cavallo, knows that reality firsthand. Although she was selected as a White House Champion of Change for her work helping communities recover after Hurricane Sandy, she was barred from the recognition ceremony after a background check revealed convictions from the period when she was being trafficked.
Those records have since been expunged. In July 2026, she returned to the White House for a human trafficking roundtable.
The Trafficking Survivors Relief Act gives more survivors the opportunity to seek expungement or sentence mitigation while continuing to cooperate with law enforcement. It offers survivors a genuine second chance while strengthening the prosecution of traffickers. The White House has also advanced the TAKE IT DOWN Act, strengthening protections against online sexual exploitation and helping ensure technology cannot be weaponized against children.
Combined with the designation of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, these actions reflect a renewed emphasis on enforcement, prevention, and survivor-centered policy.
That commitment is already producing measurable enforcement results. During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE Homeland Security Investigations arrested 905 suspected traffickers and rescued 180 victims, including 30 children. In April, the FBI&#8217;s Operation Iron Pursuit located more than 200 child victims and arrested more than 350 alleged predators in a single month. These operations build on a broader increase in trafficking investigations, arrests, and victim recoveries under the Trump administration.
This is a sharp contrast to the Biden administration, which released hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children into the country with no way to track them. The Department of Health and Human Services later disclosed a backlog of more than 7,300 reports of suspected human trafficking involving migrant children that were never investigated, along with tens of thousands of other concerning leads. Inadequate sponsor vetting placed children with dangerous individuals, contributing to documented cases of sexual abuse, labor exploitation, and other forms of abuse. Fragmented coordination and a failure to prioritize the most vulnerable left too many children at risk.
It&#8217;s good that the Trump administration has turned things around. But government cannot win this fight alone.
Lasting progress depends on strong public-private partnerships that bring together federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofits, faith communities, businesses, survivor leaders, and law enforcement.
That message echoed throughout this year&#8217;s summit. Participants agreed that states need greater resources, better training, and stronger policy tools to identify victims sooner, prosecute traffickers more effectively, and provide survivors with meaningful pathways to recovery and independence.
The fight against modern-day slavery is far from over. We will continue building on this momentum until every survivor has access to justice and every trafficker is held accountable. The next phase of this fight will be defined by expanding partnerships, equipping states, empowering survivors, and turning shared commitment into lasting action.
That is how traffickers are defeated. That is how survivors find justice. And that is how we build a future where human trafficking has no place in America.
Mercedes Schlapp is a Senior Fellow at CPAC, where Frank Russo is Senior Advisor for Human Dignity and Combating Human Trafficking.

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A non-English-speaking Ukrainian migrant killed two people while driving a semi-truck in Alabama after becoming distracted by his phone. Now, he&#8217;s getting off with a slap on the wrist.
Andrii Dmyterko recently took a plea deal, pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of criminally negligent homicide, while prosecutors dismissed two felony charges of homicide by vehicle, Fox 10 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/icegov/videos/1414187794142445/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He received a sentence of two years in Clarke County jail and was credited for 430 days, meaning he will need to serve less than a year behind bars.
While behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler on May 6, 2025, Dmyterko crashed into four vehicles stopped at a red light, resulting in the deaths of two people. Dmyterko didn&#8217;t stop until his truck was roughly the length of two football fields from the crash scene.
The victims of the crash were later identified as Woodie Earl Beck III, 53, and Ashley Marie Springer McDonald, 37, <a href="https://www.al.com/crime/2025/05/truck-driver-charged-in-alabama-crash-that-killed-coach-woman-was-distracted-by-phone-records-say.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to AL.com.
In an effort to ensure the Ukrainian national stays locked up, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/07/21/ice-asks-alabama-not-release-alien-convicted-fatal-truck-crash-killed-two-alabama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lodged</a> a detainer with local authorities in Alabama requesting that they hand him over upon his eventual release.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the Biden administration let Dmyterko into the country in 2024 through its humanitarian parole program for Ukraine.
That same year, he applied for a work visa and received one, DHS said.
“This alien from Ukraine was paroled into our country by the Biden Administration. Now, because of his reckless driving behind the wheel of a semi-truck, two people are dead,&#8221; Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement earlier last month.
“ICE has lodged a detainer asking Alabama officials to cooperate with us and turn him over when his sentence is complete so that we can remove him from our country,&#8221; Bis added.
The Trump administration has enacted new training requirements for individuals seeking Commercial Driver&#8217;s Licenses to drive heavy trucks following a string of crashes by foreign drivers, some of whom were in the country illegally. Among the changes is the enforcement of an English-language requirement.
President Donald Trump also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-trumps-patriotic-plan-to-replace-illegal-immigrant-truck-drivers">introduced a plan</a> to train American veterans to replace illegal immigrant truck drivers.
The new program would allow veterans with <a href="https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/military-skills-test-waiver" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two years</a> of experience safely operating heavy military vehicles to bypass the traditional CDL <a href="https://www.roehl.jobs/driving-jobs/cdl-truck-driving-schools/cdl-school-cost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training process</a>, which takes roughly three to eight weeks and often costs applicants between $3,000 and $6,000.
In a recent X post discussing the new program, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he has &#8220;ZERO TOLERANCE for any Americans being put in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; adding that it &#8220;shouldn’t be a partisan issue.&#8221;
&#8220;Getting ILLEGALS and FRAUDSTERS out from behind the wheel and putting great American Veterans in the driver’s seat is one of the many ways the Department of Transportation is working tirelessly to bring safety back to our roads,&#8221; he said.

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Newly released audio recordings of Joe Biden reveal the former president was aware that material he had stored in his basement was classified, and discussed such materials.
In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ-4dWVwWsFI">audio</a>, which was obtained and released by the Oversight Project after a legal battle, Biden told his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in 2017 that he found documents &#8220;downstairs&#8221; and acknowledged multiple times that some of the material may be or is &#8220;<a href="https://static.itsyourgov.org/Biden_Zwonitzer_Interview_Transcripts.pdf">classified</a>.&#8221;
“So this was, I early on, um, in ’09 I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden tells Zwonitzer in one portion of the audio.
“Some of this may be classified so be careful with it,” he says at another point. “I’m not sure … It’s not marked classified but —”
&#8220;The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified …” Biden also says to Zwonitzer.
Additionally, Biden often sounded uncertain and confused in the audio. In one portion of the conversations, Biden told his ghostwriter, “Alright — what was I going to ask you? Something else … Uh … um. Oh gosh. I can’t think of anything else.”
“Hang on a second,” he says in another conversation. “Um … it’s confusing me.&#8221;
The audio reveals that Biden knew he possessed potentially classified material, even though Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute him, concluding that a jury would likely view Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
By contrast, President Donald Trump was aggressively prosecuted and hauled into court for his supposed mishandling of classified docs. That case was dismissed by a judge due to an unconstitutional appointment by Special Counsel Jack Smith and later dropped by the Department of Justice after Trump was elected president in 2024.
The tapes prove that Biden not only lied when he previously claimed that he &#8220;did not share classified information” with his ghostwriter, but also that the White House &#8220;orchestrated a willful coverup of the facts to the American people when they tried to discredit the Hur report in 2024,&#8221; a press release from the Oversight Project said.
“Two and a half years ago, the Oversight Project began a lonely project trying to get access to Biden’s ghostwriter tapes where he disclosed classified information to writer Mark Zwonitzer. To date, Biden has paid zero consequences for betrayal of the country,&#8221; Oversight Project Vice President of Litigation Jeff Clark said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire.
In the audio tapes, Clark said, &#8220;Biden clearly gives away secret after secret to someone not authorized to hold such secrets&#8221; and did all of that for &#8220;personal and family profit to the tune of $8 million.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans want to see accountability,&#8221; Clark added. &#8220;Now you know why Biden’s lawyers fought so hard to keep these tapes and transcripts out of the public’s watchful eye.&#8221;
The transcript of the conversations can be viewed <a href="https://static.itsyourgov.org/Biden_Zwonitzer_Interview_Transcripts.pdf">here,</a> and the full audio can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4D7KL54VY&amp;t=5s">here</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/release-the-tapes-watchdog-scores-big-legal-win-against-autopen-biden?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Release+The+Tapes%3A+Watchdog+Scores+Big+Legal+Win+Against+‘Autopen’+Biden">Release The Tapes: Watchdog Scores Big Legal Win Against ‘Autopen’ Biden</a>

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President Donald Trump may be looking at potential strikes on another growing Islamic terrorist hotbed in the coming weeks — this time in the West African nation of Mali.
The Trump administration has reportedly been considering strikes against Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an Al Qaeda-linked militant group operating in the Sahel region that has attacked both local militias and international forces and has endeavored to enforce strict Islamic law throughout its areas of control.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/22/trump-administration-weighs-military-options-mali-officials-say/">reported</a> on Wednesday that the Trump administration is divided on military action — and said that one of those in favor of such is the current National Security Council’s senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka.
One official did tell the outlet that, despite that division, the United States had been encouraging other nations in the region &#8220;to purchase U.S. equipment and services to support their war efforts against the terrorists.&#8221;
The entire region has been in a state of upheaval in recent years as a series of Russia-backed coups upended democratically elected governments in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger — and the three nations have increasingly rejected ties with Western nations, instead joining together as The Alliance of Sahel States.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-kicked-america-out-now-theyre-being-hunted-by-jihadists">previously reported</a>, Niger overtly rejected the United States when President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration delivered an ultimatum just as the West African nation was inking a deal to provide Iran with Uranium. The Biden administration demanded that Niger cut ties with Russia and Iran, but the military junta running things at the time was disinclined to acquiesce. Instead, in addition to refusing Biden&#8217;s ultimatum, Niger ousted all remaining American military assets from the country — including a drone base that was used to target terrorists in the region.
Zineb Riboua, a research fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, told The Daily Wire that the Biden administration&#8217;s presentation may have been the crux of the problem: &#8220;Instead of presenting it as an ultimatum, they could have presented an alternative. Instead of doing a uranium deal with Iran, why don’t you do one with the United States, and you get a school program or something in Niger, something they don’t have.&#8221;
But once the United States was gone, it was soon quickly apparent that the Russian security forces with whom they&#8217;d cast their lots were more of a liability than an asset. As previously reported, &#8220;The Russians were killing untold numbers of civilians and still somehow managing to cede ground to the jihadists. In fact, in Burkina Faso and Mali, the Russians and government forces actually killed more civilians last year than the jihadists.&#8221;
The situation has only deteriorated in the years since, leading to the current consideration of possible military action.
&#8220;We urge regional partners and NATO allies to support the Alliance of Sahel States in their war against JNIM and ISIS,&#8221; the Trump administration official told The Washington Post, noting that partnership with Russia had clearly only allowed the terrorist factions to fester and grow. &#8220;We hope that other African nations take note of Russia’s terrible performance in combating terrorism.&#8221;
When asked, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not say whether he supported military action. Instead, the State Department said that the United States &#8220;unequivocally condemns the terrorist activity in Mali.&#8221;

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Not long ago, if people predicted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would issue rules to help kill off gas-powered cars or reliable electricity sources like coal and natural gas, they would have been called unhinged.
But that’s what the agency did. And now the problem goes beyond anything one administration can fix on its own.
The EPA has a long history of going well beyond what Congress has authorized, but in the last decade, the agency took overreach to shocking levels.
President Obama’s EPA finalized the <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/23/2015-22842/carbon-pollution-emission-guidelines-for-existing-stationary-sources-electric-utility-generating">Clean Power Plan</a> rule that tried to shift electricity generation away from coal power plants. The agency was effectively assuming the role of national grid manager. In 2022, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1530_n758.pdf">struck down</a> this rule, explaining “a decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.”
Did this stop the EPA from again reasserting vast authority that common sense tells us Congress never would have authorized? Nope. The Biden EPA issued a greenhouse gas power plant <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/09/2024-09233/new-source-performance-standards-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-new-modified-and-reconstructed">rule</a> even more <a href="https://cei.org/news_releases/epa-rule-against-power-plants-bad-for-energy-reliability-and-prices-bad-for-rule-of-law/">heavy-handed</a> than Obama’s Clean Power Plan in shutting down reliable electricity generation.
The agency’s biggest overreach has been the Biden administration <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/18/2024-06214/multi-pollutant-emissions-standards-for-model-years-2027-and-later-light-duty-and-medium-duty">rule</a>, often referred to as the de facto electric vehicle mandate. According to the agency, by 2032, the rule would result in internal combustion engine vehicles <a href="https://cei.org/blog/epas-latest-unlawful-assault-on-vehicle-affordability-and-choice/">being</a> less than <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/18/2024-06214/multi-pollutant-emissions-standards-for-model-years-2027-and-later-light-duty-and-medium-duty">30%</a> of new light-duty vehicles sold.
The compliance cost of the rule is a staggering <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/18/2024-06214/multi-pollutant-emissions-standards-for-model-years-2027-and-later-light-duty-and-medium-duty">$760 billion</a>, based on the agency’s own estimate. To put the cost in context, the projected and then-shocking cost of the 2009 stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, <a href="http://stimulus.org/financialresponse/2009-stimulus-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act">was</a> <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Recovery-and-Reinvestment-Act">$787 billion</a>.
To its credit, the Trump EPA is trying to get rid of these Biden administration rules, and there’s a good chance its efforts will be successful. But success is not guaranteed. And future administrations will inevitably use the EPA and the Clean Air Act as a pretext for trying to change the economy and restrict individual freedom.
To achieve a durable solution that ends these abuses, Congress needs to do its part and pass legislation. The good news is that some leaders in Congress recognize the need and are taking action.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) have introduced the End EPA Abuse Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9453">H.R. 9453</a> and <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4931?hl=end+epa+abuse+act&amp;s=1&amp;r=1">S. 4931</a>). The bill makes it clear that there are common-sense limits to what the agency can do. Considering the agency tried to help kill off gas-powered cars and act as a national grid manager, the bill expressly prohibits the EPA from issuing such rules under the Clean Air Act, along with other overreaching rules.
The bill doesn’t prevent the agency from aggressively doing its job to protect the environment. Rather, it creates protections to ensure the agency isn’t constantly trying to usurp congressional power.
This legislation has wide support, deservedly so. Recently, a coalition of over 40 organizations sent a <a href="https://cei.org/coalition_letters/cei-leads-coalition-supporting-end-of-epa-abuse-act-of-2026/">letter to Congress</a> urging lawmakers to support the bill. And 20 state attorneys general already sent a <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/D4827DFA-BCCC-4832-A045-4A8E548CE6F4">letter</a> to Sen. Lee and Rep. Clyde expressing their support for their bill. They explained, “The End EPA Abuse Act of 2026 would close the door on some of EPA’s worst overreach while still leaving the agency plenty of room to perform its legitimate functions.”
Unless lawmakers think it is fine for the EPA to restrict the types of cars Americans drive or develop rules that undermine the reliability of the electricity grid, among other extreme abuses, then supporting this bill should be a no-brainer.
Let’s hope members of Congress get on board and help stop the worst EPA abuses once and for all.
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Daren Bakst is director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment and a Senior Fellow.

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A federal infrastructure program used by the Biden administration to fund bike lanes and “advance equity” will go toward fixing America’s bridges, roads, and shipping ports, The Daily Wire has learned. 
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it would be awarding $1.73 billion in infrastructure grants through the Department of Transportation to improve roads and bridges. Under Biden, the department focused on fighting “climate change,” pushing DEI, and funding bike lanes. 
“America is fortunate to have a Builder in the White House who knows America is only as great as our infrastructure,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told The Daily Wire. “That’s why this Department is investing in repairing critical roads and bridges that connect Americans to job opportunities, port infrastructure that bolsters our national security, and aviation and transit projects that move American families.”
The funding will be awarded through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) program.
Around 77% of the total grant funding ($1.3 billion) will be allocated to roads and bridges along critical transportation arteries, and another 7% will go toward beefing up the nation’s maritime infrastructure, the Department of Transportation told The Daily Wire. In contrast to Biden, when around 20% of funding went toward pedestrian-bike lane projects, no funds will go toward bike lanes. Just 2% of the funding under Biden went toward maritime projects, according to the Department of Transportation. 
“The impact of these dollars will be felt in communities nationwide for years to come,” Duffy added. 
During the Biden presidency, the BUILD program was renamed Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE), but the Trump administration changed the name back to BUILD.
Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg focused on pushing DEI and climate-related projects through the program. In November 2021, Buttigieg <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-secretary-transportation-buttigieg-announces-nearly-1-billion-grant-awards">declared</a> the program would focus on “equity” and combating “climate change.”
In 2023, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-announces-availability-15-billion-raise-grants-made">said</a> it wanted grant applicants to “consider how their projects can address climate change, ensure racial equity, and remove barriers to opportunity.&#8221; That same year, Buttigieg <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/secretary-buttigieg-appoints-members-advisory-committee-transportation-equity-acte">reestablished</a> an Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity with the purpose of helping the department &#8220;institutionalize equity into Agency programs, policies, regulations, and activities.&#8221;
A <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/pete-buttigiegs-dot-spent-80-billion-on-dei-grants-delayed-air-traffic-control-upgrades-records-industry-insiders/">report</a> last year from the New York Post revealed that more than $80 billion was designated to DEI-related projects under Buttigieg’s four years as transportation secretary.
Shortly after taking office, Duffy <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-takes-action-rescind-woke-dei-policies-and">moved</a> to implement the Trump administration&#8217;s policy of eliminating DEI from government programs and policies. He directed department officials to rescind any DEI or climate change-related policies.

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Joe Biden opened the border.
Donald Trump closed the border, and the Supreme Court just ruled that is okay.
The Left and the legacy media are going insanely crazy. They say the Supreme Court is now a Right-wing tool as an evil stand-in for vicious racism.
Yesterday, two Supreme Court decisions came down, both 6-3. It was the Republican appointees on the Court versus the Democratic appointees. The first decision concerned people seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. The other had to do with the Trump administration labeling countries like Syria and Haiti as dangerous for the purposes of deporting people here on temporary protected status.
Before we get to the content of these decisions, we first need to understand what the Supreme Court does. Why is that important?
Because the Left wants the Supreme Court to be a thing it is not. They yell at the Supreme Court when it doesn&#8217;t do what they want.
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What is the Court supposed to do? It does not make policy, good or bad. It does not decide what the policy is, good or bad. That&#8217;s why we elect a Congress and a president. It&#8217;s why the Supreme Court is an unelected branch of government: its job is to interpret what the law means and decide what the law says.
It doesn&#8217;t get to say, “We read the law. That was bad. Now we&#8217;re overturning the law and putting a new law in its place.&#8221;
Going back to the 1930s, the Left decided the Supreme Court ought to act as a super-legislature, a group of really smart people who can simply rewrite policy they don&#8217;t like into good Left-wing policy.
In fact, what they want is for the Supreme Court to say that when the president or Congress does Left-wing things, that&#8217;s legal. When the president or Congress does Right-wing things, that&#8217;s illegal.
But that&#8217;s not the job of the Supreme Court. And yesterday, the Supreme Court did its job.
It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you agree with what the Trump administration actually did at the US-Mexico border or with Haitian migrants. It is not the job of the Supreme Court to agree or disagree with such action. The question is, under our Constitution, who has the authority to do what?
The Supreme Court said that the Trump administration acted within its legally defined purview and that it could not simply overrule it based on whether it liked it or not. If you don&#8217;t like the policy, elect a different Congress or a different president.
These things became Supreme Court cases because of a long history of bad legislation. And then presidents take advantage of bad legislation, which is the story of congressional-presidential relations since Woodrow Wilson.
Congress would pass vague laws. Presidents would take advantage of that in order to maximize their own power.
Let&#8217;s start with the first decision. It was called Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. In 2016, the Obama administration set up a process called metering. There was heavy migration at the southern border, as you recall, and until 2016, if you were a non-citizen seeking asylum at a port of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border, you crossed into U.S. soil and then had to wait in line for inspection.
At that point, we had a legal duty to listen to you. And most people would come and claim asylum. They would claim they couldn&#8217;t return to their home country due to a specific threat.
That is a different thing from temporary protected status; asylum requires you to show that you face a specific threat. You can&#8217;t just say, “I want to come here because my home country sucks.” In order for that to be adjudicated, you would come, wait in line for inspection at a port of entry, and once you were on American soil, we had a duty to actually listen to your asylum claim.
Toward the end of the Obama administration, there were so many people arriving at the border trying to get in that the government approved something called a metering policy, under which border agents would basically stand at the border and say, “Don&#8217;t come in. You don&#8217;t have travel documents or a visa. The port of entry is full. Come back later. You stay there.”
Why did they do that? Because the law says you only have to process people who are in the country. If you don&#8217;t come in, we have no legal duty to process you. The first Trump administration expanded and formalized the metering policy, and then the Biden administration rescinded it.
And then they went even further. They said, “Welcome to the border. Claim asylum and say the magic words, ‘I fear for my life, and I can&#8217;t go back to my home country,’ and we&#8217;ll let you basically run around in the United States and stay forever.”
So the Trump administration, Part II came in and said, “No, no. No metering policy back in place. You&#8217;re going to wait over there, and we will not process you. The border is closed. It&#8217;s not a matter of whether the ports of entry are full. You&#8217;re not coming in. Period. And if you&#8217;re not on American soil, we have no duty to you. “
If you don&#8217;t like that policy, you can vote for Democrats to go back to the Biden way of passing laws. Or you could rewrite the law so that people who apply for citizenship have to remain in Mexico, the Trump “Remain in Mexico” policy. Or theoretically, you could rewrite the law so that everyone who applies for citizenship, no matter where they are, has to be given an asylum hearing, even if they don&#8217;t come into the United States, and we don&#8217;t have a duty to house them.
There are a bunch of ways you could do this. But that&#8217;s what Congress exists for.
The role of the various branches of government is important. You elect people to change the policy. The Supreme Court is here to interpret what the law currently says, not what it should say or who should be elected.
The plaintiffs in this case are a group of non-citizens.
They were trying to get into the United States, and they say that their rights were violated because their asylum cases were never heard, because they were in line, and that is as good as being in the country. They never entered the United States. They were turned away at the border.
In a decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court said, “No. ‘In the United States’ means in the United States. You&#8217;re not in the United States if you&#8217;re waiting on the other side of the border.”
Justice Thomas wrote a concurrence, which said something further: that Congress has no power to force the president to bring aliens into the country. He said the Constitution allows Congress the power to regulate who doesn&#8217;t get to come in. But the Constitution does not specify a certain number of people who must be allowed into the country. Also, said Thomas, the people in this case are neither naturalized nor on the path to naturalization. You have no rights under the U.S. Constitution if you do not live in the country, if you are not on the path to naturalization, or if you&#8217;ve never entered the country.
In the more controversial case involving Haitian migrants, the only reason it reached the Supreme Court is that Congress passed an incredibly vague law that handed tremendous authority to the president. And then various presidents deliberately abused the law in various ways.
In 1990, Congress passed something called the Immigration Act. One of the provisions of the Immigration Act is something called Temporary Protected Status. The idea is, you come to the United States on a travel visa, you&#8217;re tooling around, and suddenly your home country goes nuts. There&#8217;s a coup, terrorists take over; you could be given temporary protected status by the executive branch.
At the time, Congress designated one country and one country only, El Salvador, as a country where things were so dangerous that you didn&#8217;t have to be deported back to your home country, even if you were, for example, overstaying your visa.
So what happened? Over the course of decades, the list of countries that became dangerous expanded, and the borders opened.
The Obama and Biden administrations used TPS to radically change immigration law. They would open the borders, bring in a bunch of people from crappy countries, label all those home countries dangerous, and now those people could stay forever.
The average temporary protected status holder in the United States has been here for 20 years.
So the Trump administration said, “It&#8217;s supposed to be temporary. It&#8217;s in the word temporary.”
Democrats are saying, “No, no, no, the focus should be on ‘protected.&#8217;’’
There are now 17 countries from which people are protected from going home. The Trump administration came in and they declared that a bunch of these countries are no longer dangerous for the purpose of deporting people. Those countries include places like Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Yemen, South Sudan, Haiti, Syria, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
I want to be clear about what&#8217;s factual and what&#8217;s not factual. Many of these countries are wildly dangerous; Haiti is one. It is the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere by a long shot. Five thousand and five hundred people were murdered in Haiti last year alone. Sex trafficking is rampant. Gangs basically run the place. It is now a hellhole.
But here&#8217;s what happened. Democrats are claiming that temporary protected status is a one-way ratchet; a president can legalize vast swaths of illegal immigration by labeling a country dangerous. But then a subsequent president cannot relabel that country unless there&#8217;s a showing that the country is not dangerous.
The question is what tools did the Trump administration have under the law?
According to stats from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS as well as the Congressional Research Service), in 2010, there were between 50,000 and 70,000 Haitian TPS holders. Sixteen years later, there were between 330,000 and 350,000 Haitian TPS holders. And remember, all these people have kids, and those kids are natural-born citizens of the United States.
So the Supreme Court had to decide whether or not the president can label Syria and Haiti non-dangerous for purposes of deportation. So Justice Alito wrote, “In these cases, we consider whether respondents who challenge the termination of temporary protected status for aliens from Syria and Haiti are entitled to orders postponing the terminations during litigation. We hold they are not. The TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents’ non-constitutional claims and allows ‘no judicial review’ of any determination with respect to the termination of a TPS designation.”
You might not like how the Trump administration is using the law, but the law says what the law says.
If Congress wishes to designate Haiti as a country covered by TPS in law, it can do so. They can define how long people can stay; they can define how people are deported.
But that&#8217;s not what they did. In this law, Justice Thomas said that Congress barred all judicial review of TPS termination decisions, including constitutional claims. Courts are obliged to simply give effect to the ordinary meaning of the law.
Democrats are going to call Republicans cruel. Republicans are going to say, “We should not be taking in hundreds of thousands of people illegally and then backfilling that with a TPS designation.”
The Court isn&#8217;t the problem here. If you don&#8217;t like the law, change the law.
Attacking the Court for simply interpreting the law as written is ugly stuff.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris provided her own peculiar definition of hope, adding to a growing list of rambling and confusing responses from the 2026 presidential candidate.
&#8220;I really, truly believe this. We each have light inside of us,” Harris <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtCee1K0kh4">told</a> former CNN anchor and podcast host Don Lemon on Friday. “And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves.&#8221; 
The former vice president’s attempt to inspire Lemon’s audience when confronted by challenges and failures seemingly fell flat, if not face-first. 
Harris was not finished, though. 

&#8220;And when we feel that and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other,&#8221; she added. 
Harris has quite the word salad catalog. When asked why the Biden administration didn’t release the Epstein files in 2025, Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-serves-up-word-salad-when-asked-about-epstein-files-during-jimmy-kimmel-appearance">offered</a> late-night host Jimmy Kimmel the following response: 

“To give you an answer that will not satisfy your curiosity, I will tell you, perhaps to our damage, um, but we strongly and rightly believed that there should be an absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration and what the Department of Justice did. We absolutely adhered to that, and it was right to do that.” 
“The Justice Department would make its decisions independent of any political or personal, uh, vendetta or concern that we may have and that’s the way it worked,” she finished, before Kimmel was forced to cut to commercial. 
In 2024, the then-presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-serves-up-a-fresh-word-salad-about-democracy">offered</a> the following bit of insight on the nature of democracy:
“Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy,” Harris said. “As a democracy,” she repeated, “we know there’s a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact.”
In her most recent interview, Lemon asked Harris if she planned to run for president in 2028. In classic Harris fashion, she offered the following answer: 

&#8220;I’ve been spending a lot of time traveling the country [and] listening to folks,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;I think that people want a leader who is willing to take risks, as opposed to just doing what is popular. I think people want to know that they are being seen and heard, and that their leaders — whether they’re at the local, state, federal level or in the White House — are looking first at the people. You know, not looking at themselves in the mirror.&#8221;

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This is part two of a Daily Wire series exposing the Biden administration&#8217;s previously unreported efforts to enact radical anti-family policies in the name of protecting transgender-identifying children. Part one told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody.">the story of Nicole</a>, a mother whose refusal to indulge her daughter&#8217;s gender delusions led the state of Oregon to take custody of the child.
Today, we peer behind the curtain of the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to replicate Oregon&#8217;s system on a national level. In the waning days of the administration, Biden health officials pushed a rule they said would stop an epidemic of &#8220;family rejection&#8221; straining the foster care system. There was just one problem: even radical LGBT activists told the Biden team it had its facts wrong. That didn&#8217;t stop them.
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In April 2024, the Biden administration issued a rule pressing state child welfare agencies to stock their systems with foster homes that would “affirm” a child&#8217;s “gender identity,” insisting it was the best way to protect children&#8217;s mental health.
Less than a month prior, Biden officials were scrambling to find data to support their claim.
“I’m on a tight deadline and need to provide data on why LGBTQI+ children and youth are overrepresented in child welfare,” Julie Kruse, the Biden administration&#8217;s Senior Advisor for LGBTQI+ Initiatives at the Administration for Children and Families, wrote in an email to transgender activists unearthed by The Daily Wire.
“There are so many great surveys on disproportionality of negative experiences, WHILE these youth are in care but less quantitative data I’ve been able to find on family rejection and other factors that led a disproportionate number of LGBTQI+ youth to be in foster care in the first case.”
Kruse and others in the administration pushed the <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08982/designated-placement-requirements-under-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b-for-lgbtqi-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> to fix what they believed was a massive problem with foster care: a dangerously high number of teens were entering the system because their parents did not accept their gender or sexual identity. The rule&#8217;s rationale pointed to “family rejection” — including refusing to use a child&#8217;s chosen pronouns or not letting a child “learn about their LGBTQ identity” — as harmful, and directed agencies to make placements that support a child&#8217;s gender identity.
Bianca Wilson, an LGBT scholar, warned Kruse that this claim wasn&#8217;t supported by data.
“I encourage you to avoid the go-to explanation of ‘family rejection’ that is often adopted by queer organizations that do so in the absence of data to support it,” <a href="https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/bianca-d-m-wilson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wilson</a> wrote to Kruse in an August 28, 2023, email.
“Most of the queerkids in care (based on what we saw In LA and what NYC found) entered care before they were teens,&#8221; wrote Wilson, the lead investigator of the first <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/sgm-youth-la-foster-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> to <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Surveying-LGBTQ-Youth-Foster-Care-Nov-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimate</a> the number of LGBT youth in foster care. &#8220;This means they likely entered care before [Sexual and Gender Minority] expression and identities were especially salient.&#8221;
Kruse got somewhat luckier with Angela Weeks and Marlene Matarese.
The pair had helped lead the cumbersomely named National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Two-Spirit Children and Youth in Foster Care.
The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190823151605/https://qiclgbtq2s.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">QIC-LGBTQ2S</a> was launched in 2017 and worked with child welfare agencies in Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to develop and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190823160412/http://www.qiclgbtq2s.org/lis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implement</a> gender affirming child welfare interventions in partnership with the Children’s Bureau, with the goal of transforming child welfare systems to become LGBTQ+ affirming. The programs developed by the QIC-LGBTQ2S group were later <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housed</a> and made accessible by the <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National SOGIE Center</a>, a collaborative of transgender activist groups working to influence child welfare systems.
Weeks sent Kruse a federally funded research <a href="https://sogiecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cuyahoga-Youth-Count-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> conducted through the initiative she and Matarese led, which &#8220;found that 32% of young people (ages 12-21) identified as LGBTQ+.&#8221; But Weeks made clear that &#8220;there is less administrative data to help us understand the cause of this prevalence,&#8221; and that the extant data did not definitively show the reasons &#8220;LGBTQI+ youth&#8221; entered the foster care system.
Bianca Wilson, the researcher who discouraged Kruse from employing &#8220;the go-to explanation of ‘family rejection,'&#8221; specifically named the Cuyahoga study as insufficient to demonstrate Kruse&#8217;s point in her message, insisting that &#8220;no one has yet done the research needed to examine this question adequately.&#8221;
Wilson&#8217;s warnings did not dissuade Kruse. The Cuyahoga County report is the first study cited in the &#8220;family rejection&#8221; rule the Biden administration submitted to the Federal Register.
&#8220;The rule was premised on the incorrect notion that not affirming and supporting a child’s self-proclaimed sexual identity or identity that rejects his or her sex is unsafe, harassment, mistreatment, and abuse,&#8221; Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Rachel Morrison told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This radical premise, if adopted, would not be contained to foster care; it would have far-reaching implications for adoption, custody disputes, child care, education, and athletics.&#8221;
“The Biden rule created special rules for children in foster care who identify as ‘LGBTQI+’ based on misrepresentations of research and data, outdated studies, and biased surveys produced by ideologically-driven activist organizations,&#8221; she added.
President Joe Biden continued pushing the idea that “family rejection” was driving kids into child welfare systems during his presidency. Kruse and Weeks worked together to plan an October 2024 “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-biden-administrations-speed-dating-event-for-trans-activists-and-megadonors?author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden+Admin+Hosted+%E2%80%98Speed+Dating%E2%80%99+Event+For+Trans+Activists+With+One+Rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speed dating</a>” event first exposed by The Daily Wire, which brought together transgender activists, government officials, and major progressive philanthropists to promote and expand the impact of “family acceptance” child welfare programs.
The Biden foster care rule was <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-final-victory-over-biden-era-rule-forcing-radical-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vacated</a> by a federal judge in June 2025. The Trump administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-squashes-controversial-biden-rule-forcing-foster-homes-affirm-childrens-lgbtq-status" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in March 2026 that it was taking action to rescind the rule.
<div>Wilson stood by her comment to Kruse on family rejection and told The Daily Wire that data indicate LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in foster care, but there is no systematic data to explain why. She attributed this to a lack of research funding and the government&#8217;s blocking efforts to collect SOGIE data.</div>
&#8220;Yet, if you look at some research studies, it is also clear that family rejection because of prejudice against a child or youth’s SOGIE is sometimes a major issue leading to placement in foster care. So, family rejection is sometimes a major issue, but we do not have clear data to explain whether it is central to creating LGBTQ youth disproportionality,&#8221; Wilson told The Daily Wire.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-trans-the-state-took-custody?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Megan+Brock&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=She+Wouldn%E2%80%99t+Call+Her+Daughter+%E2%80%98Trans.%E2%80%99+The+State+Took+Custody.">READ PART ONE: SHE WOULDN&#8217;T CALL HER DAUGHTER &#8216;TRANS.&#8217; THE STATE TOOK CUSTODY.</a>

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President Donald Trump revoked a costly Biden-era regulation on Thursday, axing a green energy policy that banned an alleged &#8220;hyper-pollutant&#8221; for refrigeration systems, which led to higher grocery prices across the country. 
Trump’s move will allow businesses to make their own decisions on &#8220;the refrigeration systems that work best for them,&#8221; according to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The president delivered the announcement at the White House alongside Zeldin and National Council Director Kevin Hassett. 
Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2057491297137488141">ripped</a> the Biden administration for forcing &#8220;companies to adopt specific high-cost refrigerants, massively driving up the price of transporting and storing various goods.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans faced higher grocery prices and reduced access to critical medical supplies,&#8221; Trump added.
The Biden administration determined that hydrofluorocarbons, which are used for refrigeration and cooling, are more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. As a result, supermarkets and other businesses were only allowed to use the cooling mechanism in limited quantities, forcing them to turn to more expensive cooling methods and thus passing on higher costs to consumers. 
“Americans were right to be frustrated with the Biden-era refrigerant rules. They didn’t protect human health or the environment and instead piled on costly, unattainable restrictions beyond what the law requires,” said Zeldin. “Today, the Trump EPA is fulfilling President Trump’s promise to lower costs and is fixing every problem we can under the authority Congress gave us. Our actions allow businesses to choose the refrigeration systems that work best for them, saving them billions of dollars. This will be felt directly by American families in lower grocery prices.” 
A White House official told The Daily Wire the rollback on the alleged “hyper-pollutant,” paired with a revision to the 2024 Emissions Reduction and Reclamation rule, “are estimated to save American families and businesses more than 2.4 billion” dollars a year. The White House official added that the savings are “expected to flow directly to consumers through lower grocery prices, cheaper transportation of refrigerated goods, and more affordable home air conditioning.”
The Biden administration claimed the restrictive regulation would lead to green technological innovation, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-hfcs-reduction/technology-transitions">stating</a>, &#8220;Facilitating the transition to next-generation technologies through sector-based restrictions on HFCs is one way that EPA and stakeholders are working together to meet ambitious climate protection goals.” 
The rule <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hfc-refrigerant-chemical-air-conditioners-epa-ac01324c05ba5bf5f54bc794c1054296">mandated</a> a 40% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon use, with an 85% reduction scheduled by 2036, leading to higher costs for grocery stores that were left with no choice but to overhaul their refrigeration systems.
Trump&#8217;s move to roll back Biden&#8217;s green regulation is his latest strategy to address Americans&#8217; economic concerns amid rising energy and food prices in recent months. In April&#8217;s inflation report, grocery prices <a href="https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5888142-groceries-just-had-the-biggest-price-hike-in-years-its-about-to-get-even-worse-experts-warn/">rose</a> 2.9% year-over-year, the highest rate since 2023. 
Earlier this week, the administration temporarily paused the Jones Act, which would increase the supply of ships able to transport cargo between American ports. The Administration has also urged the Department of the Interior to explore additional energy production on Federal lands and waters, remove all regulatory requirements related to energy that are not grounded in applicable law, eliminate the electric vehicle mandate, and <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-reverses-biden-lng-pause-restores-trump-energy-dominance-agenda">reverse</a> Biden’s liquified natural gas export ban.

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Microsoft’s recruitment of former Biden officials to its payroll raises conflict of interest questions as it provides major tech services to the federal government, a watchdog organization warned. 
The American Accountability Foundation asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to probe the “revolving door” between former Biden administration officials who once “oversaw, regulated, or investigated Microsoft” but now work for the tech giant. The watchdog said the investigation is warranted specifically because the Justice Department is using Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud High platform for sensitive unclassified data. 
“Public confidence in federal cybersecurity, in federal contracting, and in the impartial administration of federal law enforcement depends on the willingness of the institutions named in this letter to ask hard questions when the public record suggests they should be asked,” American Accountability Foundation President Tom Jones said in a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1041005159/Microsoft-Revolving-Door?_gl=1*1tcmssc*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTY3NDU2MDUxNi4xNzc5MjE2ODYz*_ga_Z4ZC50DED6*czE3NzkyMTY4NjIkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzkyMTY4NjQkajU4JGwwJGgw*_ga_8KZ8BV0P5W*czE3NzkyMTY4NjIkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzkyMTY4NjQkajU4JGwwJGgw">letter</a> obtained by The Daily Wire. 
One example flagged in the letter was that of Melinda Rogers, who works as a partner of Microsoft’s Customer Voice, focusing on federal, civilian, intelligence, defense, and defense industrial base sectors. Before joining Microsoft in June 2025, Rogers worked for the Justice Department and authorized the department’s use of the tech giant’s Government Community Cloud High platform. 
The platform is described as a highly secure cloud platform for the federal government and government contractors. Jones wrote that the DOJ should probe “whether any employment discussions or negotiations occurred during the period in which she was exercising official authority over Microsoft&#8217;s authorization.”
Microsoft has <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government">previously said</a> that there was no link between Rogers&#8217; hiring and the selection of the technology for the Justice Department. 
Jones noted that Microsoft faced several high-profile hacking incidents between 2019 and 2023 from foreign hackers. These contributed to the joint federal and private <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2022/02/03/dhs-launches-first-ever-cyber-safety-review-board">launch</a> of the Cyber Safety Review Board in February 2022, a partnership aimed at improving the nation&#8217;s cybersecurity. 
The Cyber Safety Review Board&#8217;s March 2024 <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/CSRB-Review-Summer-2023-MEO-Intrusion">report</a> on a 2023 breach of Microsoft&#8217;s systems by Chinese hackers determined that the company&#8217;s “security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul” and that a “cascade” of “avoidable errors” led to the intrusions. 
During this time, current Microsoft president of global affairs Lisa Monaco was the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department. She <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/deputy-attorney-general-lisa-o-monaco-announces-new-civil-cyber-fraud-initiative">launched</a> the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative with the intention of using the False Claims Act against contractors who make misrepresentations about cybersecurity risks. 
“During her tenure, the Department brought such actions against companies whose conduct, on the public record, appears far less serious than the conduct attributed to Microsoft in the same period, including against a medical contractor, a defense contractor, a telecommunications provider, and a university. No such action was ever brought against Microsoft,” Jones wrote. 
Jones added that the DOJ’s Civil Division and the National Fraud Enforcement Division should “evaluate whether Microsoft&#8217;s representations to federal customers&#8221; concerning the security of its systems are accurate. 
President Donald Trump demanded in September 2025 that the company fire Monaco, accusing her of being a “menace” to national security. 
The American Accountability Foundation further noted that multiple individuals involved with the Cyber Safety Review board subsequently joined “Microsoft as employees or consultants, or joining firms that represent Microsoft, in close proximity to their official actions concerning the company.”
These individuals <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/CSRB-Review-Summer-2023-MEO-Intrusion">include</a> former FBI official Bryan Vorndran, who <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-vorndran-43b3025/">joined</a> Microsoft as its deputy chief information security officer in June 2025, and <a href="https://commons.erau.edu/avcysecworkshop-bios-2025/12/">Jerry Davis</a>, who became a chief security advisor for Microsoft after his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jldavisnasa/details/experience/">work</a> with the board. 
Another individual mentioned in the report is former National Security Agency Cybersecurity Director Robert Joyce, who founded a consulting firm after leaving the federal government. His firm&#8217;s page <a href="https://www.joycecyber.com/empty-page">notes</a> that he has advised Microsoft.
The individuals named in the letter are not accused of any specific violations, but Jones said the hiring pattern should face scrutiny by federal investigators to ensure transparency.  
“We do believe, however, that the cumulative public record raises questions that have not been answered, that the questions are serious, and that the public has a substantial interest in seeing them addressed by the institutions with the authority and the duty to do so,” Jones said. 
&#8220;Federal ethics rules prohibit government officials from participating in matters in which they have a financial interest, and require cooling-off periods before certain officials may represent private parties before their former agencies,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;What no investigation has yet examined is whether the prospect of future employment shaped the decisions these officials made while still in government.&#8221; 
Microsoft received The Daily Wire’s request for comment, but did not respond to questions on the letter or its ties to former Biden officials.

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