President Donald Trump will end former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, which former President Joe Biden had quietly extended beyond the usual timeframe.
Harris’ Secret Service protection will end on Monday, according to a Thursday letter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/kamala-harris-secret-service-canceled-trump-biden">obtained</a> by CNN. A senior White House official confirmed the cancellation of the Secret Service detail on Friday morning. 
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” a letter from the White House to the Department of Homeland Security read.
Federal law requires that vice presidents get six months of taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection after leaving office. Biden took executive action before completing his term, giving Harris 18 total months of Secret Service protection, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-revokes-secret-service-protection-former-president-kamala-harris-rcna227959">reported</a>. Typically, her Secret Service detail would have been pulled on July 21. 
“The Vice President is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety,” senior Harris adviser Kirsten Allen said, commenting on the decision. 
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom was briefed on the end of Harris’s Secret Service protection, CNN reported. 
“The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses,” Newsom spokesman Bob Salladay said. 
In the coming weeks, Harris is set to embark on a national tour to promote her book, “107 Days,” which documents her failed 2024 presidential campaign. 
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Trump has previously moved to end Secret Service details for other former government officials. Shortly after beginning his second term, Trump yanked the Secret Service details for former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Iran envoy Brian Hook.
He also revoked the Secret Service details for Hunter and Ashley Biden in March. In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114180054723679623/">post</a> at the time, Trump said that 31 agents were protecting the half-siblings. 
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer. There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned,” Trump wrote. “Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list.”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that he was putting an end to a program that had for nearly ten years allowed Chinese coders access to Department of Defense cloud systems.
Hegseth shared a video in which he described the &#8220;Digital Escorts&#8221; program — implemented under former President Barack Obama — under which Microsoft employed Chinese coders to &#8220;support sensitive DOD cloud systems&#8221; under the supervision of American contractors.
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The use of Chinese Nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments is over. <a href="https://t.co/jZdcHwKho2">pic.twitter.com/jZdcHwKho2</a>
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1960824471683801206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Last month the Department of Defense was made aware of an Obama-Biden era legacy program called Digital Escorts,&#8221; Hegseth began. &#8220;For nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to support sensitive DOD cloud systems. The program was designed to comply with contracting rules but it exposed the department to unacceptable risk.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, if you&#8217;re thinking &#8216;America First,&#8217; and common sense, this doesn&#8217;t pass either of those tests,&#8221; Hegseth continued. &#8220;So I initiated an immediate review of this vulnerability and I want to report our initial findings.&#8221;
Hegseth went on to explain that his review had determined that any benefits were not worth the potential risk of allowing Chinese nationals to have that kind of access to sensitive information, especially information pertaining to Defense Department.
&#8220;The use of Chinese Nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments? It&#8217;s over,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;We&#8217;ve issued a formal letter of concern to Microsoft documenting this breach of trust, and we&#8217;re requiring a third party audit of Microsoft&#8217;s Digital Escort program — including the code and the submissions by Chinese nationals.&#8221;
Hegseth also announced a separate investigation into the program and into all of the Chinese nationals who had been part of it: &#8220;Did they put anything in the code that we didn&#8217;t know about? We&#8217;re going to find out.&#8221;
&#8220;It blows my mind that I&#8217;m even saying these things, it&#8217;s such common sense,&#8221; Hegseth said as he once again reiterated his intent to remove all Chinese employees from access to DOD information. &#8220;We expect vendors doing business with the Department of Defense to put U.S. national security ahead of profit maximization &#8230; This never should have happened in the first place.&#8221;

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Many paid tribute on Tuesday to the 13 American service members who were killed four years earlier in the terrorist attack at Abbey Gate — and President Donald Trump led the charge.
The attack was carried out by ISIS-K terrorists on August 26, 2021, and targeted the chaos and crowds at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan — chaos that might have been avoided altogether if President Joe Biden had not so badly botched the plan to end the war and evacuate American service members, civilians, and allies.
Trump had announced one day prior that Tuesday would be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-declares-august-26-a-day-to-remember-13-americans-lost-in-abbey-gate-attack">set aside</a> as a day to commemorate the loss of those 13 — Staff Sergeant Darin T. Hoover, USMC; Sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo, USMC; Sergeant Nicole L. Gee, USMC; Corporal Hunter Lopez, USMC; Corporal Daegan W. Page, USMC; Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez, USMC; Lance Corporal David L. Espinoza, USMC; Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz, USMC; Lance Corporal Rylee J. McCollum, USMC; Lance Corporal Dylan R. Merola, USMC; Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui, USMC; Petty Officer Third Class Maxton W. Soviak, USN; and Staff Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss, USA.
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Fourth Anniversary of the Attack at Abbey Gate
&#8220;This is a very special group of people&#8230; Abbey Gate. It&#8217;s the four-year anniversary, so we&#8217;re signing a proclamation honoring them and honoring you and your loved one.&#8221; &#8211; President Donald J. Trump ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/8cMOCMKA6d">pic.twitter.com/8cMOCMKA6d</a>
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&#8220;Four years ago today, we lost 13 American heroes at Abbey Gate. After the previous administration failed to deliver justice for the Gold Star families who lost their loved ones in Kabul, the Trump Administration took swift action to capture and extradite the ISIS-K terrorist responsible for the Abbey Gate bombing,&#8221; Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted. &#8220;@POTUS will ALWAYS stand with Gold Star families and our fallen heroes.&#8221;
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Four years ago today, we lost 13 American heroes at Abbey Gate.
After the previous administration failed to deliver justice for the Gold Star families who lost their loved ones in Kabul, the Trump Administration took swift action to capture and extradite the ISIS-K terrorist…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio/status/1960326370162270517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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America will forever remember the 13 service members we lost at Abbey Gate.
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20
Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23
Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22… <a href="https://t.co/JO9sCJh3gL">pic.twitter.com/JO9sCJh3gL</a>
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1960311269606424675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Today, we honor the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, four years ago. Their courage, sacrifice, and service will never be forgotten. May God bless our heroes,&#8221; the Republican Party posted.
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Today, we honor the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, four years ago.
Their courage, sacrifice, and service will never be forgotten. May God bless our heroes. <a href="https://t.co/aM9FeGaTGp">pic.twitter.com/aM9FeGaTGp</a>
— GOP (@GOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1960338198028075469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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VA Secretary Doug Collins added, &#8220;Four years after 13 brave Americans fell at Abbey Gate, we stand united to honor their memory, support their families, and renew our resolve to serve those who defend liberty around the globe.&#8221;
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Four years after 13 brave Americans fell at Abbey Gate, we stand united to honor their memory, support their families, and renew our resolve to serve those who defend liberty around the globe. <a href="https://t.co/05sY3LWP2X">https://t.co/05sY3LWP2X</a>
— VA Secretary Doug Collins (@SecVetAffairs) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecVetAffairs/status/1960354378348400683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepTroyDowning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepTroyDowning</a> is a U.S. Air Force veteran.
He will never forget the 13 American heroes killed at Abbey Gate. <a href="https://t.co/EUco9DnlEi">pic.twitter.com/EUco9DnlEi</a>
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1960379438543118358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Today, we remember the 13 American service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice at Abbey Gate. They will never be forgotten,&#8221; the Senate Republicans added.
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Today, we remember the 13 American service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice at Abbey Gate.
They will never be forgotten.
— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateGOP/status/1960376201429516445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Four years ago, thirteen American service members gave their lives during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,&#8221; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. &#8220;Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. We owe it to them and every warrior who wears the uniform to ensure that something like this never happens again.&#8221;
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Four years ago, thirteen American service members gave their lives during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.
We owe it to them and every warrior who wears the uniform to ensure that something like this never happens again. <a href="https://t.co/NpRzlLzNkk">pic.twitter.com/NpRzlLzNkk</a>
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1960327431711015041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ian Sams worked as an aide and spokesman for former President Joe Biden, and was often asked to defend the president’s physical health and cognitive abilities – but according to recent testimony, Sams only actually met with then-President Biden face-to-face on two occasions.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House Oversight Committee Chairman, laid out the details after hearing Sams’ testimony on Thursday — remarking in particular that he himself may have spent more time with Biden than Sams had.
“Ian Sams, a top Biden White House spokesman, just admitted to Congress he barely ever interacted with Joe Biden — yet he was the loudest voice insisting Joe was ‘fit,’” Comer captioned a video of himself speaking with reporters after Sams’ testimony.
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🚨 Ian Sams, a top Biden White House spokesman, just admitted to Congress he barely ever interacted with Joe Biden—yet he was the loudest voice insisting Joe was “fit.”
Ian parroted talking points from Biden’s handlers, not firsthand experience. <a href="https://t.co/ySil6MPcg5">pic.twitter.com/ySil6MPcg5</a>
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1958561904273584520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Ian Sams, who was the White House spokesperson for a significant amount of Joe Biden’s time as president, interacted with him two times,” Comer told C-Span. “I interacted more with Joe Biden than Joe Biden’s spokesperson.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesComer</a>: &#8220;Ian Sams, who was the White House spokesperson for a significant amount of Joe Biden&#8217;s time as president, interacted with him two times&#8230;I interacted more with Joe Biden than Joe Biden&#8217;s spokesperson.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/x47pgyXsk1">pic.twitter.com/x47pgyXsk1</a>
— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1958571479269867772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Think about this: I had more face time with Joe Biden than his own spokesman Ian Sams did. In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur probably spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams did. Ian Sams had no standing to say Joe Biden was ‘on top of his game,’” Comer added.
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Think about this: I had more face time with Joe Biden than his own spokesman Ian Sams did.
In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur probably spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams did.
Ian Sams had no standing to say Joe Biden was ‘on top of his game.’ <a href="https://t.co/WNpPLsq1zn">https://t.co/WNpPLsq1zn</a>
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1958590530306363429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The fact that Sams had no regular, in-person contact with his boss did nothing to deter him from putting up a vigorous defense of his capabilities — a defense that the public now knows was baseless.
As former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer pointed out, “In July 2024 the same Ian Sams said: ‘When I deal with him, he’s sharp. He’s asking tough questions.’”
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In July 2024 the same Ian Sams said:
“When I deal with him, he&#8217;s sharp. He&#8217;s asking tough questions.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/J27Dsul4nb">https://t.co/J27Dsul4nb</a>
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanspicer/status/1958617242691625107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comer released a full statement following Sams’ testimony:
<blockquote>Ian Sams frequently spoke publicly and with apparent authority about President Biden’s mental fitness and state of mind. However, Mr. Sams admitted he had very limited interaction with the President—identifying only two in-person meetings, one virtual meeting, and one phone call. In fact, Special Counsel Robert Hur probably spent more time with President Biden than Mr. Sams did.
Rather than drawing conclusions from firsthand experience, Mr. Sams received much of his direction from the White House Counsel and Biden’s inner circle. Mr. Sams repeatedly made broad public claims about the President’s cognitive condition, but he was not in a position to make these claims based on such limited contact.
Mr. Sams’s testimony raises serious questions about who is truly calling the shots in the White House. We will continue to press for answers to ensure full transparency for the American people.</blockquote>

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People associated with the January 6 Committee who did not receive preemptive pardons from former President Joe Biden may be contacted to answer some questions, a Department of Justice (DOJ) official suggested on Sunday.
Ed Martin, the Trump administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ed-martin-planned-to-clean-up-dc-now-hes-setting-his-sights-on-the-whole-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weaponization czar</a> working under the supervision of Attorney General Pam Bondi, briefly spoke about probing the now-defunct panel at the end of an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377014112112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on Fox News</a>.
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BARTIROMO: What about the January 6 committee? Did they destroy evidence? Is there criminality there?
ED MARTIN: Of course. Trust me, a lot of people did not get a pardon that were involved in the select committee, and they ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox. <a href="https://t.co/xRelaTtlyp">pic.twitter.com/xRelaTtlyp</a>
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&#8220;Real quick, what about the January 6 Committee? Did they destroy evidence? Is there criminality there?&#8221; asked &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;Of course. We&#8217;re all in that, too,&#8221; Martin replied. &#8220;And, trust me, a lot of &#8230; people did not get a pardon that were involved in the select committee, and they ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox, because there&#8217;s a lot to be asked about.&#8221;
Biden announced during the final hours of his presidency in January that he <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/20/statement-from-president-joe-biden-15/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned</a> the lawmakers and staffers who served on the January 6 Committee, along with D.C. and U.S. Capitol police officers who testified before the Democrat-led panel, among others.
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&#8220;Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,&#8221; Biden said in a statement at the time. &#8220;Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.&#8221;
As the Trump administration is looking into whether aides improperly used autopen to sign off on executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, Bartiromo asked Martin if the pardons were legitimate.
&#8220;Well, yes, I&#8217;m the pardon attorney, so I have — I&#8217;m in that, too,&#8221; Martin said, referring to his other job at DOJ. &#8220;I can tell you we&#8217;re investigating how the pardons were granted. It was not like anything in the history of America what Joe Biden — not Joe Biden, his staffers did, not just with the autopen, but with faking him out on the memos.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;More to come, Maria. I&#8217;m telling you, Pam Bondi has let us loose, and when this comes out, it&#8217;ll take the whole of these people&#8217;s hoaxes down. And we&#8217;re doing it bit by bit. And it&#8217;s fantastic. It&#8217;s a great privilege.&#8221;

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to complete the border wall with materials that former President Joe Biden sold off &#8220;for pennies on the dollar,&#8221; as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office">first reported in December</a>.
The president spoke with the press on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center after announcing the recipients of the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Asked by The Daily Wire about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-wall-supplies-sold-off-by-biden-to-be-returned-to-trump-admin">reports that parts of the border wall</a> will be returned to the federal government, Trump promised: &#8220;We are taking that wall back.&#8221;
The president pointed to the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to sell off the wall materials. Videos obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in December showed trucks hauling away unused sections of the wall from a section of the border just south of Tucson, Arizona, a hotspot for illegal crossings during the Biden administration.
&#8220;They sold the wall,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;This is expensive stuff. Hardened steel, very expensive. 9,000-pound concrete and rebar. Rebar is very expensive. The hardest rebar. It&#8217;s very hard to cut. You have different materials. It&#8217;s very hard to cut. They cut it down if they can. It&#8217;s very hard to cut.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden sold it for pennies on the dollar, $0.03 on the dollar, $0.04 on the dollar, he sold it,&#8221; Trump added.
&#8220;Well, Pam Bondi has been working very hard on suing that company and I think they&#8217;ve reached a settlement where we&#8217;re taking the wall back,&#8221; Trump added, glancing at the attorney general, who was watching the president&#8217;s remarks along with other administration officials. &#8220;But they stole the wall from us. That wall was so expensive to build. And we had it, as you know, hundreds of miles of it. They came along and they basically sold it for scrap. What a shame that is.&#8221;
&#8220;But that was when I first realized that these people actually want to have open borders,&#8221; he added of the Biden administration. &#8220;No country — poor countries don&#8217;t have open borders. We had open borders where people just walked in, didn&#8217;t matter what they look like, who they were, they could have — we had 11,888 murderers. Half of whom killed more than one person. Literally. Killed more than one person. And this is who we took into our country. So the wall is the least of it.&#8221;
&#8220;We are going to take the wall back,&#8221; he said again. &#8220;We are paying a small amount of money, as I understand it, to get it back, to get rid of the litigation. We&#8217;ll take it back. We&#8217;ll put it up.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a>: Biden was auctioning off border wall materials, now they&#8217;re selling them back&#8230; Are you finishing the wall? <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: Biden sold it for scrap&#8230; That&#8217;s when I first realized they really wanted open borders&#8230; We&#8217;re gonna take the wall back and put it up. <a href="https://t.co/yfV26qvVhV">pic.twitter.com/yfV26qvVhV</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1955670345001927143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I built hundreds of miles of wall and I was getting very close,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;I actually finished the wall but then I added another 200 miles&#8230;I got it to the specifications of the border patrol and ICE, they wanted steel they wanted concrete inside, they wanted rebar inside that, they wanted it to have wires, the walls are wired for all the internet stuff and security things.&#8221;
&#8220;And we built it, hundreds of miles,&#8221; Trump explained. &#8220;We did great. That&#8217;s one of the reasons even now we are able to have such good [illegal immigration] numbers at 0, essentially, very little people coming in &#8230; I was going to do another 200 because that&#8217;s the way it is. We were all set to do it, and then we had the bad election result, horrible horrible what happened to our country, what they&#8217;ve allowed to happen to our country.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Spencer Lindquist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-wall-supplies-sold-off-by-biden-to-be-returned-to-trump-admin">previously reported that GovPlanet</a>, the government supply auctioning site listing the border wall materials, has said that it will expedite the return of the materials and expressed support for the Trump administration&#8217;s border security plans.
&#8220;GovPlanet has reached an agreement, working with the Office of the Border Czar, to return border wall materials that were previously deemed surplus and sourced by the federal government to GovPlanet via existing contracts,&#8221; the company <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-happened-border-wall-components-got-sold-off-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>. &#8220;We are expediting the transfer of these materials to support the administration&#8217;s border protection plans.&#8221;
GovPlanet did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

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Ashley Biden, daughter of former president Joe Biden, has filed for divorce from her husband of 13 years.
The 44-year-old former first daughter filed the documents in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, per <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/ashley-biden-divorce-howard-krein-20250811.html">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a>. Ashley married Dr. Howard Krein, a plastic surgeon, 13 years ago on June 2, 2012, while President Biden was serving as vice president under Barack Obama.
She and Krein lived in Philadelphia and had no children.
The outlet also noted that Ashley posted a photo of herself to her Instagram stories walking through a park while giving a thumbs up with the Beyoncé song &#8220;Freedom&#8221; playing in the background.
She also reportedly posted the quote, “New life, new beginnings means new boundaries. New ways of being that won’t look or sound like they did before,&#8221; to the social media site with Lauryn Hill’s “Freedom Time” playing as the featured song.
Ashley and Krein began dating in the summer of 2010 after meeting through Beau Biden, one of her older half-brothers who died from brain cancer in 2015.
Ashley and Krein were married at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church, in Greenville, Delaware, and hosted a reception for 200 people at her family’s home.
As the activist and social worker <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/ashley-biden-files-divorce-2112172">recounted</a> at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, &#8220;I had my wedding reception in my parents&#8217; backyard. At the time, my dad was vice president, but he was also that dad who literally set up the entire reception. He was riding around in his John Deere 4-wheeler, fixing the place settings, arranging the plants, and by the way, he was very emotional.&#8221;
Besides speaking at the DNC, Ashley has remained mostly out of the spotlight during her father’s public career &#8211; but she did go viral in 2020 after pages from her private journal were published in the run-up to the presidential election. 
Pages from the first daughter’s diary, including one talking about being “hyper-sexualized” at a young age and “showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),” were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/snopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true">published</a> by a website called National File.
At the time, Ashley claimed that she was targeted because her father had been running for president, and the publicity the diary had drawn led her to be “constantly re-traumatized by it.”
She also said: “Repeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.”
This was far from the only drama in the Biden family. Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau, became romantically involved with Hunter Biden and said she was &#8220;ashamed&#8221; to have become addicted to crack in 2018 after Hunter introduced her to it.
“I found it [crack] and Googled it because I didn’t know what it was,” Hallie said during Hunter&#8217;s gun trial in 2024. “He told me what it was, crack cocaine.”
“It was a terrible experience I went through and I’m embarrassed and I’m ashamed,” Hallie said. &#8220;I regret that time of my life.”

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According to newly released Census Bureau data, all income groups in America advanced more during President Donald Trump’s first term than they did during the Biden administration.
Stephen Moore, a senior visiting fellow in economics at The Heritage Foundation, presented the unpublished data for the first time in an Oval Office presentation with Trump on Thursday. The data divided Americans into three groups: lower income (bottom 25% of earners), middle income (middle 50%), and upper income (top 25%).
“What I find fascinating about this, Mr. President, is every income group did better,” said Moore, displaying a chart showing the percentage gain that accrued on average in each income bracket.
Under President Joe Biden, the lower class, after adjusting for inflation, lost income over the course of four years. The middle-income earners stayed about the same. But the upper income earners did noticeably better, according to Moore.
“The rich were the only group that did better under Biden, which is ironic because Biden keeps saying he was trying to get rid of income inequality. He made income inequality worse, not better,” Moore said. “It was President Trump that reduced income inequality.”
The economist tallied the numbers in dollars, as well, showing that the lower income gained about $4,000 in annual revenue over Trump’s first term. The middle income gained about $6,400 in annual earnings, and the wealthiest earned $10,000 more a year from the start of Trump’s first term to its end.
The data takes into account the COVID pandemic, which hit at the end of Trump’s first term and caused a general dip in income.
In addition to data on income growth, Moore also showed graphs on Bureau of Labor Statistics data and median household income during Trump’s first months of his second term. In the first five months of Trump’s second term, the average household’s income has increased by an inflation-adjusted $1,174, Moore said.
Trump last week fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the bureau, responsible for collecting and releasing jobs data on the U.S. economy every month, issued a significant downward correction this month on data for May and June.
“Revisions for May and June were larger than normal,” the agency <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fewer-jobs-than-expected-added-in-july-as-unemployment-holds-steady">said</a> in a report issued August 1. “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised down by 125,000, from +144,000 to +19,000, and the change for June was revised  down by 133,000, from +147,000 to +14,000.”
Moore supported Trump’s decision to fire the agency head, citing similar significant corrections that were made to jobs data under Biden, which Moore said showed “incompetence.” Trump, however, told Moore he believed the figures had been deliberately manipulated.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenMoore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenMoore</a> presents new economic data in the Oval Office with <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>:
&#8220;Mr. President, you gained ten times more income for the average family than Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;Every income group did better under Trump than Biden — by a wide margin.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VIGjGf14YO">pic.twitter.com/VIGjGf14YO</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1953554707668254767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2025</a></blockquote>

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According to political analyst Mark Halperin, if former Vice President Kamala Harris slams former President Biden in her new book, Biden’s team is poised to level her publicly.
Just after Biden signed a book deal for his memoir, Harris announced her upcoming book &#8220;107 Days,” which revolves around her 2024 presidential run for the presidency. Halperin made his comments on 2Way’s &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp7wJWVNlbI">The Morning Meeting</a>.
“I’m gonna break a little news here,” Halperin boasted. “We talk all the time about what did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it about his cognitive decline. I will tell you, and this has never been reported, barely at all, if the Biden people decide that Kamala Harris is coming after Joe Biden, wait until you hear the Palin-esque stories about how much they tried to help her be prepared to be vice president and be in a position to run, and how much they decided, ‘Not happening. She’s not up to this.’ And if the Biden people feel threatened, you will hear stories about Kamala Harris as vice president that will not make her look good.&#8221;
“There’s a closeness to the couples,” he stated, “It’s not like they’re at war currently, but I’m tellin’ ya, if Joe Biden feels threatened, if his people feel threatened by her, this is going to escalate in a big way and she will have a hard time defending against the stories if that dam bursts. They were extraordinary in trying to help her do the job of vice-president; they gave her every opportunity. They found in some instances that she had some issues.&#8221;
“The folks in the Biden administration, including the president himself, were very protective of her, did their best to make her a success, did their best to make her ready to be president either if Joe Biden left office prematurely or if she decided she wanted to run,” Halperin said. “If you look at her public schedule, you&#8217;ll see she had, I think, an unprecedented number of meetings with world leaders. Certainly, every opportunity, whether they were in Washington or when she traveled overseas, she met a lot of world leaders. They tried to get her up to speed, but she was not quite ready for prime time. Let me put it that way.”

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration mobilized the federal government through the Treasury Department to get out the vote in the 2022 midterms, documents shared with The Daily Wire show, with particular focus on low-income or non-English speaking voters.
The news raises questions about the federal government&#8217;s role in elections, a senior White House official told The Daily Wire, arguing that using the Treasury Department to get out the vote is &#8220;certainly outside the scope of &#8221; its defined purpose.
&#8220;The federal government has a very carefully defined role in the nation&#8217;s elections,&#8221; that official shared, noting that Congress enacted the &#8220;Help America Vote Act&#8221; and the &#8220;National Voter Registration Act&#8221; to modernize election systems and increase voter registration. 
&#8220;But under President Biden&#8217;s leadership, we saw every single aspect of the federal government sort of turned into a massive voter mobilization, voter registration campaign, even for those departments and agencies that are not historically or by statute even involved in the election process,&#8221; the official shared. &#8220;And so that&#8217;s what happened with the IRS and the Treasury Department.&#8221; 
President Biden issued an executive order in March 2021 on &#8220;Promoting Access to Voting&#8221; requiring government agencies to encourage voter registration and voter participation by educating the public on how to cast a ballot, the electoral process, and how to vote by mail.
Under that executive order, the IRS&#8217;s Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communication (SPEC) requirement includes encouraging SPEC Partners to provide information to specific demographics of taxpayers at local Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) sites, according to White House documents viewed by The Daily Wire.
VITA is a program designed to assist low to moderate-income taxpayers, but a key component focuses on non-English speakers. TCE applies to the elderly.
What information was shared with these specific demographics at local sites? How and where to register to vote, how and where to vote, how to engage in other non-partisan efforts that promote voter participation, and more, according to a White House document on &#8220;Guidance for Promoting Voter Registration at VITA/TCE Sites for SPEC Partners&#8221; obtained by The Daily Wire.
The official who spoke with The Daily Wire highlighted that this focus on specific demographics is particularly problematic —  and that the Biden administration plan was using the federal government to do something that was &#8220;fundamentally a responsibility to states.&#8221; 
&#8220;It&#8217;s something that the US Constitution hands to the states as their sacred obligation,&#8221; the official explained. &#8220;What the IRS did was to interpret that order to apply, not even to every taxpayer, but only to those taxpayers that were primarily served by certain tax preparers and certain tax agents that they deemed more likely to be associated with politically favored demographics, those that were working with Americans from early on in urban areas and so forth.&#8221;
The Treasury Department also specifically indicated to its employees that they should use internal communications channels to encourage employees to vote and to register to vote. On November 21, 2021, the Treasury&#8217;s Acting Chief Human Capital Officer told bureau Human Resources officers that &#8220;no later than 60 days prior&#8221; to national general elections, Treasury bureaus should use their internal channels to remind employees of their right to vote as well as encourage voter registration and voter participation.
They were directed to send the following email:
<blockquote>Dear staff,
Federal elections are foundational to the American system of government. Every two years in November we come together to elect our leaders and congressional representatives. This year federal election day is Tuesday, November 8, however in many jurisdictions early voting and absentee voting are allowed and may begin as much as 46 days in advance of the official election day.
I encourage you to visit www.vote.gov to learn about voting in your state. This site will help you learn how to register or check your registration status. It also provides important deadlines and associated dates.
I also want to share recent changes from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) related to leave for voting. On March 24, OPM issued updated guidance that directs agencies to provide federal employees up to four hours of administrative leave to vote in federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial elections. The updated guidance also authorizes federal employees up to four hours of administrative leave per year to serve as non-partisan poll workers or observers.
I thank you for your service, and encourage you to exercise your right to vote.</blockquote>
The current White House maintains that under President Donald Trump&#8217;s leadership, the federal government is no longer serving as &#8220;a massive partisan leading voter registration campaign.&#8221; And the release of documents and information about what went on during President Biden&#8217;s administration is a fulfillment of the executive orders that Trump signed in February and March.
&#8220;The roles and functions of the IRS and the Treasury Department are returning to what taxpayers pay them to do, which is manage the nation&#8217;s finances and manage the enforcement of our tax law,&#8221; the White House official explained to The Daily Wire, &#8220;Not once has an American taxpayer paid for the IRS to be a voter registration portal or a voter registration entity, and unfortunately the Biden administration thought that they could force the federal government to do that.&#8221;

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Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission under former President Joe Biden and one of the administration&#8217;s most far-left members, billed taxpayers for a luxury car service while barnstorming the country on the eve of the presidential election, according to an inspector general probe.
As part of a &#8220;Charge Card Act review,&#8221; the FTC&#8217;s inspector general <a href="https://oig.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2025-07/2025-07-08_Final_Redacted_Version_FTC%20OIG%20management%20advisory_ground%20transportation.pdf">found</a> &#8220;unusually high expenses for travel,&#8221; including nearly $19,000 for booking a private car service during 16 trips to other cities, plus additional costs for using the service to get around Washington, D.C. It found that Khan had used the service for &#8220;ease of transportation,&#8221; without addressing &#8220;a less expensive alternative.&#8221; On one trip to Denver, Khan spent $1,128 on a private chauffeur service when she could have rented a car for $407, it said.
Some of the expenses billed to taxpayers may have come as she was accused of using her government position to campaign for Democrats ahead of the November 2024 election.
On October 2, 2024, <a href="https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/ftc-lina-khan-campaigns-with-democrats/">Punchbowl News</a> said Khan was &#8220;zig-zagging&#8221; the country to appear with Democrat politicians, where &#8220;Khan&#8217;s events with lawmakers have nominal policy themes&#8230;but the timing so near the election is hard to ignore.&#8221; That included an event in Chicago with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi and in Wisconsin with Rep. Mark Pocan. The car service fees highlighted by the inspector general include October 2 travel in Chicago at $1,021, and October 3 travel in Madison, Wisconsin, for $2,215.
The findings come as Khan, who has consistently attacked the greed of large corporations and CEOs, has prominently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/lina-khan-mamdani-democrats-small-business.html">boosted</a> the campaign of socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York.
FTC management replied to the inspector general that the spending did not violate existing rules, but highlighted a need to update the agency&#8217;s policies. The inspector general recommended &#8220;enhanced requirements for the justification and documentation of these travel expenses.&#8221;
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) faulted the politically tinged trips even before the luxury car service was known about, saying Khan had a pattern of playing fast and loose with rules. He <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-10-21%20JDJ%20Lee%20to%20Khan%20re%20Hatch%20Act.pdf">wrote</a> in October 2024 that &#8220;Federal law and FTC ethics rules prohibit you from participating in political events, and from using appropriated funds for any political activity&#8230; This concern is particularly significant given your history of ignoring agency ethics advice concerning the appearance of partiality, including ignoring the advice of the agency&#8217;s Designated Agency Ethics Official.&#8221;
Khan faces additional questions after she placed a Democrat political appointee into a top long-term job at the FTC in the final hours of the Biden administration, essentially infiltrating the incoming Trump administration. Nathaniel Segal worked as Special Assistant to President Joe Biden and Deputy Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris until January 18, 2025, when he was placed in a non-political FTC job after Khan personally overrode staff&#8217;s concerns, three Trump officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-aide-under-doj-investigation-falsifying-paperwork-to-get-musk-buyout">previously told</a> The Daily Wire.
As someone who had just started his job at the FTC, Segal should have been on new-employee probationary status. But he was falsely put on the FTC&#8217;s payroll as a non-probationary employee, making it harder for Trump administration officials to fire him. When the Trump administration fixed the error, which would have made Segal worry that he would be laid off, he created false, backdated paperwork to try to get paid through Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;Fork in the Road&#8221; buyout offer, for which he was not eligible and had not actually applied, according to the officials.
The Segal situation is now the subject of a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors, and it could implicate not just Segal, but also Khan.
Since The Daily Wire broke that story, it has uncovered more questions about Segal&#8217;s hiring, finding no record that the FTC ever advertised the job to the public (most openings are required to be advertised on USAJobs.gov). That would mean that Khan gave a civil service job to a Democrat insider without giving the public any chance to apply.
Converting political appointees to career employees at the tail end of an administration is known as &#8220;burrowing&#8221; and is only permitted with permission from the Office of Personnel Management, which said it had no record of approving the move.
Some Biden administration officials schemed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/labor-department-fires-kamala-aide-exposed-by-the-daily-wire-for-burrowing-in-trump-workforce">evade</a> those regulations by creating &#8220;three-year term&#8221; positions that would implant a Democrat operative through the bulk of the Trump administration, but which they argued didn&#8217;t count as burrowing because the job wasn&#8217;t permanent. But such positions also need to be advertised to the public, and wouldn&#8217;t be eligible for the buyout, which was designed to get rid of employees who could otherwise be on the payroll for decades.
Khan&#8217;s possible abuse of the civil service for partisan purposes is particularly egregious as Democrats claim it is a conspiracy theory for conservatives to believe in a &#8220;deep state.&#8221;
Although no job postings appear to show the FTC giving others the chance to apply to the Deputy Technology Officer job that went to Segal, they do show a frenzy of attempted hiring activity in the FTC&#8217;s tech and information departments between the election and inauguration. Those include:
<ul>
<li>A <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/825540600">cyber adviser</a> at up to $191,900, posted December 21</li>
<li>An <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/825528200">IT specialist</a> at up to $88,926 posted December 23</li>
<li>A &#8220;Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Mission Success Manager)&#8221; at up to <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/827928800">$195,200</a> posted January 15</li>
</ul>
Khan, now on the faculty of Columbia University, did not return a request for comment.

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs, which blocked abortions from its medical benefits package prior to changes made by President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, is proposing to reinstate that exclusion, The Daily Wire has learned.
Before Biden&#8217;s administration removed an exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from the Veterans Affairs medical benefits package, that exclusion had been in place since the package was first established in 1999 through the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992, a proposed rule from the Department of Veterans Affairs states.
Under the exclusion, abortions, which end the life of unborn babies, were expressly excluded from the package.
Veterans Affairs is also proposing that it reinstate exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA), the proposed rule shows — exclusions also removed in 2022.
&#8220;We take this action to ensure that VA provides only needed medical services to our nation’s heroes and their families,&#8221; reads the proposed rule.
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A Veterans Affairs spokesperson shared in a statement that &#8220;prior to the Biden Administration’s politically motivated change in 2022, federal law and longstanding precedent across Democrat and Republican administrations prevented VA from providing abortions and abortion counseling.&#8221;
 &#8220;VA’s proposed rule will reinstate the pre-Biden bipartisan policy, bringing the department back in line with historical norms,&#8221; the spokesperson noted.
The VA notes that the new policy will not prevent the department from caring for women in life-threatening circumstances — a fear commonly promoted by critical media when discussing abortion policy.
Under the Biden administration, the former president <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/09/2022-19239/reproductive-health-services">directed the VA to amend</a> its &#8220;medical regulations to remove the exclusion on abortion counseling and establish exceptions to the exclusion on abortions in the medical benefits package for veterans who receive care set forth in that package, and to remove the exclusion on abortion counseling and expand the exceptions to the exclusion on abortions for Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) beneficiaries.&#8221;
The administration&#8217;s VA Department <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/09/2022-19239/reproductive-health-services">said at the time</a>, shortly after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that the move was necessary to help protect &#8220;the lives and health of veterans.&#8221;
&#8220;As abortion bans come into force across the country, veterans in many States are no longer assured access to abortion services in their communities, even when those services are needed,&#8221; the Biden era rule said. &#8220;VA has determined that an abortion is &#8216;needed&#8217; pursuant to <a class="usc external" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/38/1710" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">38 U.S.C. 1710</a>, when sought by a veteran, if determined needed by a health care professional, when the life or health of the pregnant veteran would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term or when the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest. Unless VA removes its existing prohibitions on abortion-related care and makes clear that needed abortion-related care is authorized, these veterans will face serious threats to their life and health.&#8221;

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