On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) outlined two actions the House will take based on findings from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, led by Elon Musk.
The announcement followed Musk&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-disappointed-by-one-big-beautiful-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that the current version of President Donald Trump’s &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; narrowly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-one-big-beautiful-bill-in-massive-win-for-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by the House last week, &#8220;undermines&#8221; the DOGE initiative’s cost-cutting efforts because it risks further increasing the federal deficit, which has already surpassed $1 trillion in recent years.
Musk and the DOGE &#8220;team have done INCREDIBLE work exposing waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government &#8211; from the insanity of USAID’s spending to finding over 12 million people on Social Security who were over 120 years old,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1927749395363045819" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> in a post on X. &#8220;The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand.&#8221;
Johnson said the House will take a two-pronged approach in which the lower chamber will &#8220;quickly&#8221; pass legislation to codify any cuts requested by the White House in an expected rescissions package and leverage the appropriations process to &#8220;swiftly implement&#8221; Trump&#8217;s proposed 2026 budget. &#8220;In the meantime, we have been working around the clock as we prepared for those processes,&#8221; he added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a> and the entire <a href="https://twitter.com/DOGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DOGE</a> team have done INCREDIBLE work exposing waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government &#8211; from the insanity of USAID’s spending to finding over 12 million people on Social Security who were over 120 years old.
The House is eager and ready…
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Musk, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-significantly-cut-back-doge-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> last month that he was &#8220;significantly&#8221; reducing the time he spends on DOGE to refocus on his companies, made his comments about the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; during an <a href="https://x.com/CBSSunday/status/1927535075144421527" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> for &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; as the Republican-controlled Senate considers the legislation. The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” aims to advance Trump’s priorities on border security, energy, and national defense. It also seeks to retain tax cuts from 2017 that are set to expire at the end of this year, raise the debt limit by trillions of dollars, and much more.
&#8220;I was like — disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it. And it undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,&#8221; Musk said in a clip published by CBS on Tuesday night. Also shown in the clip was &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; correspondent David Pogue telling Musk that when the bill came along, he thought &#8220;everything&#8221; accomplished by DOGE would get &#8220;wiped out&#8221; in the first year. It then cut to Musk, who said, &#8220;I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful. But I don&#8217;t know if it could be both.&#8221;
Tech billionaire Elon Musk tells CBS Sunday Morning&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/Pogue?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pogue</a> he was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; to see the Trump-backed &#8220;big beautiful&#8221; spending bill, which passed in the House last week.
Musk said… <a href="https://t.co/LUcuTaNYrs">pic.twitter.com/LUcuTaNYrs</a>
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DOGE&#8217;s <a href="https://doge.gov/savings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> says “estimated savings” have reached $175 billion through a combination of &#8220;asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.&#8221; It also estimates that the amount saved per taxpayer is $1,086.96.
In his post on X, Johnson insisted that the House &#8220;made sure to build on DOGE’s success within the One Big Beautiful Bill.&#8221; He also made reference to a post from White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller regarding DOGE and the reconciliation process by which Republicans are moving the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; through Congress.
&#8220;DOGE cuts are to discretionary spending. (Eg the federal bureaucracy). Under senate budget rules, you cannot cut discretionary spending (only mandatory) in a reconciliation bill. So DOGE cuts would have to be done through what is known as a rescissions package or an appropriations bill,&#8221; Miller <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/1927572082780520465" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The Big Beautiful Bill is NOT an annual budget bill and does not fund the departments of government. It does not finance our agencies or federal programs. Instead, it includes the single largest welfare reform in American history. Along with the largest tax cut and reform in American history. The most aggressive energy exploration in American history. And the strongest border bill in American history. All while reducing the deficit.&#8221;
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DOGE cuts are to discretionary spending. (Eg the federal bureaucracy). Under senate budget rules, you cannot cut discretionary spending (only mandatory) in a reconciliation bill.
So DOGE cuts would have to be done through what is known as a rescissions package or an…
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1927572082780520465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Miller &#8220;has made an important point about the two efforts: DOGE found savings in discretionary spending (such as funding agencies), while our One Big Beautiful Bill secured over $1.6 trillion in savings in mandatory spending (such as Medicaid),&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1927749395363045819" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Both are HISTORIC and take HUGE steps toward addressing our debt and deficit.&#8221;
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is the chairwoman of the DOGE Subcommittee, divulged on X that she was &#8220;just told that we are going to see the first DOGE cuts bill on Monday.&#8221;
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I was just told that we are going to see the first DOGE cuts bill on Monday.
Foreign aid and NPR/CPB on the chopping block.
I have not seen the bill yet, but I’m just passing on what they told me.
Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1927698559140327574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Greene continued: &#8220;Foreign aid and NPR/CPB on the chopping block. I have not seen the bill yet, but I’m just passing on what they told me. Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in. As a country, we cannot survive our national debt and honestly, we may be past the point of return. We should be aggressively attacking our debt and aggressively, cutting all waste fraud, and abuse and unnecessary programs.&#8221;

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The Trump administration is &#8220;actively&#8221; considering suspending habeas corpus as it seeks to continue its mass deportation efforts that are being hindered by federal judges.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on Friday that the Constitution makes it &#8220;clear&#8221; that the writ of habeas corpus, which allows a person to petition a court to review the legality of their detention, can be &#8220;suspended in a time of invasion.&#8221;
“So, it’s an option we’re actively looking at,&#8221; Miller said, adding that &#8220;it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
Multiple federal judges have stopped Trump from carrying out his deportation agenda by blocking the administration&#8217;s use of the Alien Enemies Act. The Trump administration was using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport Venezuelan illegal immigrants that it said were violent criminals and gang members. The president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114466868060900843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> &#8220;activist judges&#8221; on Wednesday, calling on them to allow the deportation of &#8220;murderers, and other criminals who have come into our Country illegally, WITHOUT DELAY!!!
&#8220;Our Court System is not letting me do the job I was Elected to do,&#8221; Trump added.
Miller also argued on Friday that the Immigration and Nationality Act, which was passed by Congress in 1965, strips the judicial branch&#8217;s jurisdiction &#8220;from overruling a presidential determination or a secretarial determination on TPS [temporary protected status].&#8221;
&#8220;So when Secretary [Kristi] Noem terminated TPS for the illegals that Biden flew into the country, when the courts stepped in, they were violating explicit language that Congress had enacted. &#8230; So the courts aren’t just at war with the executive branch, the courts are at war — these radical, rogue judges — with the legislative branch as well. So all of that will inform the choices the president ultimately makes,&#8221; Miller said.
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Stephen Miller says the White House is looking into suspending habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detentions: &quot;A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/AZLhFy79oZ">pic.twitter.com/AZLhFy79oZ</a>
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If the White House attempts to suspend habeas corpus by arguing that the United States is being invaded, the move would likely be challenged, creating another battle between the courts and the president. Habeas corpus has been <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> four times throughout U.S. history. The first time was during the Civil War, and then again during Reconstruction while the federal government was going after the Ku Klux Klan. It was also suspended in the Philippines in 1905 during an insurrection and in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Trump rebuffed an order from Judge James Boasberg on March 15 after the judge said the administration must return deportation flights carrying Venezuelans to El Salvador. The deportation fight eventually made its way up to the Supreme Court, which blocked Trump from deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act &#8220;until further order of this Court.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump may tap White House Deputy Chief of Staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-is-child-torture-stephen-miller-lays-out-trump-plan-to-end-barbaric-child-gender-transitions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Miller</a> to serve as his next National Security Adviser, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/02/stephen-miller-national-security-adviser-candidate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Friday.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-stephen-miller-blasts-jb-pritzker-for-inciting-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miller</a>, who currently serves as the Trump administration&#8217;s Homeland Security adviser, is one of the few key players who has been with the president through his entire first term in office and into the second — and Axios cited five sources who suggested Miller was a likely choice to move into the position vacated by former Congressman (R-FL) and Green Beret veteran Mike Waltz.
One obvious reason for the move would be the fact that Trump trusts Miller to advance his agenda — and Axios cited one source who noted that Miller was already known within the administration for his efficiency, having ensured that the White House Homeland Security Council runs &#8220;like clockwork.&#8221; The source also noted that despite having a smaller staff, Miller&#8217;s HSC is &#8220;infinitely more effective than the NSC [National Security Council].&#8221;
Other sources noted that Miller&#8217;s ability to work well with Secretary of State Marco Rubio — who currently is doing multiple jobs within the administration including taking up the National Security Adviser role until Waltz&#8217;s permanent replacement is found — could be a key factor as well.
&#8220;Marco and Stephen have worked really closely on immigration and it might be a perfect match,&#8221; one said.
Another added, &#8220;Given how well he&#8217;s worked with Marco, many see him as the perfect person to restore the role of the NSA to a staff-level policy role that reports to the chief of staff, instead of some inflated Cabinet position.&#8221;
The speculation regarding Miller comes after President Trump delivered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/curveball-amid-rumors-that-mike-waltz-was-fired-trump-gives-him-another-top-admin-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surprise staffing shake-up</a> on Thursday, announcing after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flurry-of-reports-claim-mike-waltz-out-as-national-security-adviser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rumors swirled</a> all day that Waltz had been fired that he instead planned to appoint the former Florida Congressman to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller promised the “largest tax cut in history” on Thursday as pressure ramps up on the White House over tariffs.
Miller touted legislation that lawmakers on Capitol Hill are currently negotiating, which is expected to make President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent. The White House official said during a press conference that the proposal would encourage companies to invest in the United States.
“The relief for small businesses is going to come in the form of the largest tax cut in American history – a tax cut, by the way, that every single Democrat is planning to vote against,” Miller <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917935956310606034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “They&#8217;re voting for a tax hike for every middle-class family of about $4000.”
“Companies that invest in the United States will be able to deduct 100% of that cost from their tax liability. This will be the most pro-small business tax bill in American history,” he continued. “At the same time, this is what you have to understand about the plan, as they&#8217;re able to do that, as they&#8217;re able to reshore those supply chains, that also means they&#8217;ll pay no tariff. So, you&#8217;ll have the lowest tax environment and there&#8217;ll be no tariff because their production and supply chains will be in the United States.”
On Wednesday, the stock market <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stock-prices-drop-after-new-data-shows-gdp-shrank-since-start-of-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> after new data from the Department of Commerce showed that U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the economy&#8217;s health, shrank 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025.
The reduction in GDP came as Trump waged trade wars with China, Canada, and Mexico, and levied a flat 10% tariff across dozens of countries, with higher tariffs threatened. The tariffs sparked a surge in imports as companies rushed to get products to the United States before the tariffs took effect. The rise in imports significantly prevented a positive U.S. GDP.
Wells Fargo economist Shannon Grein said that the topline GDP contraction makes the U.S. economy appear weaker than it is.
“The headline decline overstates weakness because a lot of that was tariff-induced pull-forward,” Grein said. “Overall, I think that it was a relatively solid underlying report when it comes to demand.”
The White House has played up the expectation of new trade deals soon to avoid tariffs on dozens of countries. An absence of trade deals in the future could shake investor confidence and push stock prices lower still.

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Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went on an absolute tear during Thursday morning&#8217;s White House press briefing, reaffirming President Donald Trump&#8217;s commitment to ending &#8220;barbaric&#8221; child gender transitions — whether chemical or surgical — saying that they amounted to &#8220;child torture&#8221; and &#8220;medical malpractice.&#8221;
Miller began with the executive orders issued by President Trump early on — ending policies supported by former President Joe Biden and the Democrats that had allowed men to play women&#8217;s sports and change in their private locker rooms — and then pivoted to more recent moves aimed at ending all gender transition procedures for minors.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>: &#8220;It is CHILD ABUSE to change a child&#8217;s gender &#8230; Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/AMNM6eXTau">pic.twitter.com/AMNM6eXTau</a>
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&#8220;This administration ended the Biden administration&#8217;s policy and the Democrat Party&#8217;s policy of allowing men into women&#8217;s sports, men into women&#8217;s spaces,&#8221; Miller began. &#8220;We are using every single legal and financial tool we have at President Trump&#8217;s direction to make it clear that schools and universities are and will lose federal funds, as you&#8217;ve seen in Maine, if you allow men to invade women&#8217;s sports and women&#8217;s spaces.&#8221;
Miller went on to say that the administration&#8217;s policies applied to every school in the K-12 system, adding, &#8220;The Department of Justice is also coordinating with state and local law enforcement to fight child abuse in our school system. It is child abuse to change a child&#8217;s gender, particularly if you do not inform the parents. In other words, if a five-year-old or a six-year-old goes to school, or a seven-year-old goes to school, and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl and a girl into a boy, that is child abuse, and this administration is treating that as child abuse. And it is a gross violation of parental rights.&#8221;
Miller then directed the message from the administration to hospital systems across the country, saying that they would not be able to funnel taxpayer dollars into gender transition programs.
&#8220;Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;It is child torture. It is child abuse. It is medical malpractice.&#8221;

‘It Is Child Torture’: Stephen Miller Lays Out Trump Plan To End ‘Barbaric’ Child Gender Transitions

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Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, on Monday morning dismissed claims that an illegal immigrant who lived in Maryland was deported to El Salvador by mistake.
Miller appeared on Fox News and said that reporting and accusations against the Trump administration around the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia have been seriously flawed. Despite reports that Abrego Garcia should not have been deported to his home nation of El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was, in fact, correctly sent there, Miller said.
“He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador,” Miller <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1911774232435962344" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Bill Hemmer. “In 2019, he was ordered deported. He [has] a final removal order from the United States. These are things that no one disputes. Where is he from? El Salvador. Where is he a resident and citizen of? El Salvador. Is he here illegally? Yes. Does he have a deportation order? Yes.”
Miller blamed a “saboteur” working inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) for making the original claim that Abrego Garcia had been mistakenly deported. He said the lawyer has since been terminated.
“A DOJ lawyer – who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat – put into a filing incorrectly that this was a mistaken removal. It was not. This was the right person sent to the right place,” said Miller.
&#8220;Now some have said, ‘well, but he had a thing called a withholding order’ – so a withholding order means you&#8217;ve been ordered deported, but an immigration judge is saying you cannot go back to a particular country,” he continued. “Here&#8217;s the thing: if you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order.”
&#8220;Since he&#8217;s in MS-13, there is no withholding order. Furthermore, the gang he is accused of being persecuted by doesn&#8217;t exist anymore in El Salvador. The 18th Street gang is gone,” he added. Abrego Garcia has denied that he is a member of MS-13. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have <a href="https://time.com/7276642/kilmar-albrego-garcia-error-deportation-el-salvador-prison-supreme-court-return-ms-13/">accused </a>Abrego Garcia of being a part of the gang based on information local police obtained from a confidential informant who is said to have verified Abrego Garcia’s membership.

Stephen Miller Blames DOJ ‘Saboteur’ For Claiming Salvadoran Migrant Mistakenly Deported

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On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg, the execrable editor of The Atlantic, dropped a bombshell story. Goldberg is basically a stand-in for Barack Obama&#8217;s foreign policy team.
He broke the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">story</a> that he was accidentally included in a Signal chat that was basically comprised of every top member of Team Trump in the national security sphere, ranging from the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, to Vice President of the United States JD Vance, to Stephen Miller, a top adviser to President Trump.
They were all in a Signal chat discussing the upcoming military strike on the Houthis. Waltz accidentally included Goldberg in this Signal chat.
What exactly happened here? The answer is almost certainly that Waltz meant to include the U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Signal is an encrypted messaging service that is basically supposed to be uncrackable by outside sources. When using Signal — as I myself do — you can choose how your name appears in its identity line. You can either pick your full name or your initials.
My assumption is that Jamieson Greer opted to use his initials, “JG,” and that whoever put together the group selected Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic instead.
This does not mean, as so many folks who do not like Mike Waltz surmise, that he was regularly chatting with Goldberg. It just means that Goldberg was in a list of contacts that included Greer, both of them used their initials “JG,” and he selected the wrong one.
Obviously, the biggest issue is the leak itself. How did this happen?
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President Trump was asked about this yesterday, and said, “I don&#8217;t know anything about it. I&#8217;m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it&#8217;s a magazine that&#8217;s going out of business. I think it&#8217;s not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it.” When told the chat was discussing the attack on the Houthis, Trump <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/1904250234236289151">replied</a>, “The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn&#8217;t have been very effective because the [U.S.] attack was very effective. I can tell you that.”
When Hegseth was asked about this, he <a href="https://x.com/DODResponse/status/1904311661629964334" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tore into</a> The Atlantic as well: “So you&#8217;re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who&#8217;s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don&#8217;t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ or the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax or ‘it&#8217;s suckers and losers’ hoax. This is a guy who peddles in garbage.”
I&#8217;m on board. I think The Atlantic, particularly Goldberg, is not a good representative of the journalistic institution. He was basically a stenographer for Barack Obama. But it was confirmed that the Signal chat involved all these players, and the story was real.
That raises a couple of questions. One is legal. There are people who are attempting to claim that this was somehow violative of criminal law, that this was a breach of Official Records Acts because an auto-delete function can be activated in Signal chats.
The use of terms in The Atlantic piece such as “high side” suggests that there was an entire other thread that was going on inside these sort of classified government rooms. That was preserved. So, there&#8217;s that.
Second, the president of the United States has the ability to simply declassify whatever he wants. So the idea that this is some violation of law is overstated. Is it a scandal? Sure, it&#8217;s a scandal when there&#8217;s a screwup this big. If you accidentally include a journalist in a high-ranking discussion about the precise location of a bombing, that is a major problem, of course. It is a breach of security.
But I am not willing to hear such claims from people on the Democratic side of the aisle who were perfectly fine with the Hillary Clinton email issue. This is one of the lines that the Left is hammering: “You guys, you fussed all about Hillary Clinton and her emails and keeping those on her own private server.”
First, we should recognize that what Hillary Clinton did and what happened here (inviting a journalist into a group chat) are both quite bad. Obviously, that involves high-ranking discussions of national security matters that are classified. That is a giant booboo.
As much as I despise Goldberg as a human being, I think he actually did the responsible thing in not printing, for example, operational details or blowing the operation beforehand, which he certainly could have done.
With that said, the reason that everyone is so casual about the use of classified material these days is because of the original sin of James Comey not prosecuting Hillary Clinton over her emails. That set up an entire permission structure for people to mishandle classified materials — unless you’re a Republican.
That is the way this works. If Hillary Clinton uses classified materials, and she puts them on a private server — which Comey of the FBI openly acknowledged was likely accessed by foreign sources — and no prosecution attends, how can that rule apply to anybody else?
This is why it was so ridiculous when they tried to go after Trump for the mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago at the same exact time that Joe Biden had classified documents in his garage.
This issue is largely played out, in the sense that while something can be a giant screwup, nobody takes it as a criminal-level screwup at this point. That was laid to rest in 2015 and 2016 by the operation to let Clinton off the hook back for her email scandal.
When the Left says, “We&#8217;ve now heard the end about her emails,” the reality is, “But her emails,” was the inciting event for an entire string of mishandling of classified materials on both sides of the aisle.
Some Democrats say this could have cost lives. As it stands, that is hypothetical and did not happen in reality. A giant screwup is not quite the same thing as an intentional move to endanger human life on the American side of the aisle.
It&#8217;s also worth noting that many of the same people who are very upset with this particular situation would have been perfectly happy if the war plan had been leaked by a Trump administration insider and printed on the front page of The New York Times — which happened all the time in the first Trump administration.
What is interesting is the mobilization on one side of the Republican aisle against Waltz in particular, because there are really two issues that are of note with regard to this leak.
One is the leak itself, which obviously is deeply noteworthy. And the administration should make sure nothing like this ever happens again.
But then, there is the second issue, which is what was actually said in the leak. I have noticed that the partisans of Vance are saying that the real story is the leak, while partisans of Waltz are saying that the real story is what was said in the chat.
The answer is both. Both of these things are actual real stories, and neither should be obscured.
People who are fans of the vice president are shifting the focus away from what Vance actually said in the chat, which is another fascinating aspect to this.
This is a window into the open foreign policy debates happening inside the Trump administration. Trump says we are going to reopen freedom of trade and freedom of the seas. We&#8217;re going to strike the Houthis; we&#8217;re not going to be cowards as the Biden administration was.
A consequential discussion ensues in the chat: part of the administration says we need to go punch the Houthis in the mouth, but Vance says we should not punch the Houthis in the mouth and then puts forward a pretty milquetoast delay tactic. Vance posited an open disagreement with President Trump: “I&#8217;m not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now.”
It isn’t. Striking the Houthis is not inconsistent with his messaging on Europe.
By the way, the argument that only 3% of U.S. trade runs through the Suez but 40% of European trade does and thus it doesn&#8217;t matter for the United States if trade moves through the Suez Canal is incredibly silly because trade is intertwined. If the price of goods drastically goes up in Europe, then the price of goods in the United States will go up as well — because we trade with Europe.
Vance’s remarks bespeak an entirely different geopolitical strategy than what the Trump administration as a whole has been promoting. When looking past the leak issue to the actual content, Waltz, Hegseth, and Miller reflect the priorities of the president of the United States.
But Vance? Not so much. When he says, “This is really about cramming it down on the Europeans, so why don&#8217;t the Europeans do it,” he knows full well that the Europeans are not capable of taking on the Houthis. He also understands how global trade works.
This really suggests that the vice president has a very different view of foreign policy from Trump’s, a view that he expressed pretty clearly before he was vice president when he said he didn&#8217;t care whether Russia took Ukraine. That is certainly a view that bespeaks of foreign policy and spheres of influence — essentially, that Russia should have its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, stretching all the way down into the Middle East, and that the United States should basically remove itself from the world, which may or may not mean a broader sphere of influence for the Chinese.
Vance has a very different foreign policy than the Trump foreign policy. That&#8217;s just reality.
When he makes statements that openly conflict with the President of the United States’ statements, that is another side to this story.
There are two dueling narratives, and it will be interesting to see how it shakes down inside the administration.

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller schooled CNN anchor Kasie Hunt about whether President Donald Trump had the right to deport hundreds of suspected Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, which a judge had tried to block.
On Saturday, United States District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to return any flights carrying the suspected gang members. But the Trump administration declared that the flights were already over international waters, and thus, Boasberg&#8217;s order was not applicable. On Monday, Boasberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-gives-trump-admin-deadline-to-provide-sworn-declaration-on-gang-member-deportations">ordered</a> the Trump administration’s Department of Justice to provide a sworn declaration providing additional justifications for the deportation flights.
Prior to his confrontation with Hunt, Miller had already stated that Boasberg’s initial order was “patently unlawful. Beyond unlawful, it was an outrageous assault on the Constitution, an outrageous assault on the sovereignty of the nation and on democracy itself.”
“You called the judge&#8217;s order just earlier today, quote, &#8216;patently unlawful,&#8217; and said that it was an assault on democracy itself. Does that mean that the administration is ignoring this order? And might you ignore future court orders that meet the criteria you laid out?” Hunt asked.
“The president of the United States and his administration reserve all rights under the Constitution to conduct national security operations in defense of the United States,” Miller replied. &#8220;The Alien Enemies Act, which was passed into law by the founding generation of this country, men like John Adams, was written explicitly to give the president the authority to repel an alien invasion of the United States. That is not something that a district court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain in any way. You can read the law yourself. There&#8217;s not one clause in that law that makes it subject to judicial review, let alone district court review.”
“At what point does it become, in your view, legal for the justice system to be looking at this and making a judgment? And I fail to see how there&#8217;s any other way but to start with where we&#8217;re starting here before you get to eventually the Supreme Court,” Hunt posited.
Miller then explained how the law works, answering, “There&#8217;s a term in law, justiciable. This is not justiciable. In other words, this is not subject to judicial remedy. When the president is exercising his Article II powers to defend the country against an invasion or to repel a foreign terrorist that is unlawfully in the country, he&#8217;s exercising his core Article II powers as commander-in-chief.”
“Is Venezuela invading the U.S.?” Hunt asked.
“This is a very important point. This is a Title 50 authority. It&#8217;s a commander-in-chief authority. So, just to ask you a simple question. You talk about how the system works. Does a district court judge have the right to direct or enjoin troop movements overseas? Yes or no?” Miller asked bluntly.
“Is Venezuela — is Venezuela invading our country in a way that would apply in a way?” Hunt pressed.
“I&#8217;ll answer yours and you&#8217;ll answer mine,” Miller said, then stated, “Under the terms of the statute, Tren de Aragua is an alien enemy force that has come here as detailed at length in the proclamation at the direction of the Venezuelan government. The statute says that a president has the ability to repel an invasion or predatory incursion that is directed —”
“By a state or a government, right? Are they a state or a government?” Hunt interjected.
“Yes, it is documented,” Miller fired back. “The TDA was sent by the Venezuelan government in the proclamation. And here&#8217;s an even more important point. Under the Constitution, who makes that determination? A district court judge elected by no one or the commander in chief of the Army and Navy? The president and the president alone makes a decision of what triggers that determination.
“So, do you think we are actually at war with Venezuela, the nation-state of Venezuela?” Hunt patronized.
“You&#8217;re not hearing me and you&#8217;re not understanding me,” Miller answered. “Read the statute. Alien Enemies Act 1798. It says if a predatory incursion is perpetrated by a foreign government. So it lists the three qualifying actions, it could be an act of war.”
Hunt tried debating, “It does say in the very beginning there has to be a declared war against a nation or a state. That&#8217;s what it says.”
Miller crushed the response: “No. Wrong. Look up the statute. It&#8217;s on my account on social media &#8230; it says or a predatory incursion, or an invasion. The statute delineates three criteria for triggering the Alien Enemies Act. One is an act of war, which, by the way, an invasion is an act of war. But put that aside. One is an invasion, which this is. One is a predatory incursion, which this is. So it actually meets all three statutory criteria. But with respect to this particular statute, it&#8217;s the proclamation is utilizing the incursion and invasion language in the statute.”
“A district court judge can no more enjoin the expulsion of foreign terrorists to foreign soil, that he can direct the movement of Air Force One, that he can direct the movement of an aircraft carrier, that he can direct Marco Rubio to engage,” Miller pointed out. “How are you going to expel illegal alien invaders from our country who are raping little girls, who are murdering little girls, if each and every deportation has to be adjudicated in a district court judge? And that means you have no country. It means you have no sovereignty. It means you have no future. It is fundamentally incompatible to have a country and have individual expulsions adjudicated by a single district court judge.”
“By the way,” Miller said later, “These same district court judges didn&#8217;t do a damn thing to stop Joe Biden from flooding this nation with millions of illegal aliens. Did these district court judges issue any injunctions to save the lives of Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley, or anyone else?”
“I asked you a question, you never answered it,” Miller stated. “Can a judge enjoin troop movements overseas? Can a district court judge enjoin troop movements overseas? Yes or no? &#8230; Just say no and then you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;m right.”
“I am outraged that you have Democrats defending Tren de Aragua instead of celebrating President Trump expelling these terrorists from our midst. And I&#8217;m glad for the opportunity to explain how the separation of powers does work,” he concluded.
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WATCH IN FULL: White House Deputy Chief of Staff <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a> schools Fake News CNN&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/kasie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kasie</a> on the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. <a href="https://t.co/2TMnKyBLwk">pic.twitter.com/2TMnKyBLwk</a>
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White House senior adviser Stephen Miller spoke on Thursday about the an idea that the administration is kicking around involving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sending Americans &#8220;dividend checks&#8221; from wasteful spending that the department has uncovered.
Miller made the remarks when asked by a reporter at a press briefing about the dividend checks potentially giving taxpayers back 20% while another 20% would be used to pay down the debt.
&#8220;Sixty percent is left, who gets that?&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;Well, the way that it works is when you achieve savings, you can either return it to taxpayers, you can return it to our debtors, or it can be cycled into next year&#8217;s budget, and then it just lowers the overall baseline for next year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, in other words, you can just transfer it into the next fiscal window and then lower the overall spending level.&#8221;
&#8220;And that means that you can achieve a permanent savings that way, and that reduces the deficit,&#8221; he added.
When asked when Americans might actually get those checks, Miller responded: &#8220;Well, this is all going to be worked on through the reconciliation process with Congress that&#8217;s going underway right now, as you&#8217;ve seen.&#8221;
&#8220;The Senate is moving a bill. The House is moving a bill,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The president has great confidence in both chambers to deliver on his priorities.&#8221;
&#8220;I would just take this opportunity to note that President Trump has made a historic commitment to the working class of this country to fight for a major tax relief and major price relief,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And cutting spending, as DOGE is doing, and cutting taxes is the key to delivering on both of those promises. And President Trump is resolutely committed to doing both.&#8221;
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Stephen Miller Addresses Talk About DOGE Checks Being Sent To Public

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller pledged that the “full might” of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Defense will be employed as President Donald Trump enacts his mass deportation effort.
Miller’s comments came today in a White House <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjm1CsvIm1o">press briefing</a> after one journalist asked about reports that President Donald Trump is concerned about the pace of deportations. “Well, first of all, we all appreciate the encouragement from the media to deport as many illegal aliens as humanly possible,” Miller said before going on to explain that the mass deportation effort will be bolstered by multiple federal agencies.
“I can promise you that the full might of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, and every element and instrument of national power will be used to remove with speed all criminal illegals from the soil of the United States of America, to enforce final removal orders, and to ensure that this country is for American citizens and those that legally belong in this country,” Miller asserted.
The White House official also highlighted Trump’s steps to slash illegal immigration in his first days in office. “We inherited an ICE that was completely shuttered, we inherited a Department of Homeland Security whose sole mission was to resettle illegal aliens within the United States of America,” Miller noted.
“In 30 days, the president sealed the border shut, declared the cartels to be terrorist organizations, has increased ICE deportations to levels not seen in decades, and we are shortly on the verge of achieving a pace and speed of deportations this country has never before seen,” he went on to say.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-11000-illegal-aliens-in-first-18-days-of-trump-administration">deported roughly 11,000 illegal aliens</a> in the first 18 days and is currently preparing to drastically increase detention space. The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, known for holding terror suspects, has accepted its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-begins-flying-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay">first flights</a> of illegal alien detainees and Marines are working to expand the site’s capacity, enabling it to hold 30,000 detainees.
Illegal border crossing attempts have dropped drastically, with the Trump White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-celebrates-steep-drop-in-illegal-border-crossings">celebrating</a> that “in the 11 days after Jan. 20, migrants apprehended at ports of entry declined by 93%.”

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White House senior adviser Stephen Miller slammed CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar during a contentious interview on Tuesday over the subject of illegal aliens who are stealing from United States taxpayers.
Keilar asked Miller on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;News Central&#8221; about the Trump administration looking at &#8220;widespread fraud in the IRS data,&#8221; including illegal immigrants &#8220;who are getting child tax credits.&#8221;
&#8220;Are you looking for that information in the IRS data?&#8221; she asked.
&#8220;Any time a crime is committed, of course there should be an investigation,&#8221; Miller responded. &#8220;Is it your position that if somebody who is criminally stealing tax payer dollars&#8211;&#8221;
Keilar cut him off and asked: &#8220;Stephen, are you looking for that information in the IRS data?&#8221;
&#8220;The federal government will find every illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars, and that&#8217;s what Americans expect to happen,&#8221; Miller responded.
Keilar pressed Miller to share IRS data that the administration finds on illegal aliens who are stealing from taxpayers.
&#8220;If IRS investigators find illegal aliens stealing taxpayer money, of course they&#8217;ll be referred to ICE,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;Of course they&#8217;ll be referred to Homeland Security Investigations. Of course they will be.&#8221;
&#8220;Surely, your position is not that we should let illegal aliens steal taxpayer dollars?&#8221; Miller fired back. &#8220;Again you want to talk about something to be upset about, that&#8217;s it. What do you think of the millions of illegal aliens who have also stolen Social Security?&#8221;
&#8220;Illegal aliens en masse have fake social security numbers. They have fake identities. Those are felonies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Why should there be an entire class in this country that is immunized from criminal prosecution and arrest for committing felonies? Felony theft of taxpayer information, felony theft of Social Security, felony theft of identity.&#8221;
&#8220;These are all crimes, and yes, they&#8217;ll be investigated, yes, they&#8217;ll be prosecuted, and yes, illegals will be deported,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And you know what happens when deportations occur? Americans will get jobs, Americans will get benefits, Americans will get houses.&#8221;
Keilar tried to make the administration look bad by portraying them in a negative light for going after illegal aliens who are getting tax benefits that they are not eligible for, like child tax credits.
&#8220;Is that the position of the administration?&#8221; she pressed.
&#8220;If it is found that a crime has been committed, they will be referred,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;If it justifies a prosecution, they&#8217;ll be prosecuted. If it justifies a deportation, they will be deported. This will be based on existing IRS protocols and procedures for criminal investigation and fraud.&#8221;
&#8220;The difference is that no one is given immunity anymore,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;No one is given permission to break the law anymore because this is not a sovereign territory if illegal aliens can freely steal billions with a &#8216;B,&#8217; billions of taxpayer dollars. And I would have to imagine that CNN, which has endlessly talked about the importance of democracy and the rule of law, would say that no class in this country should be above the law, least of all illegal aliens who have trespassed on our territory.&#8221;
He ended the interview by noting that Keilar did not sound &#8220;indifferent or unbiased on these questions, but thank you.&#8221;
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a> COOKS Fake News CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar:
&#8220;The federal government will find EVERY illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars — and that&#8217;s what Americans expect to happen. I don&#8217;t even fathom the premise of your question.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/urhbyRrPVz">pic.twitter.com/urhbyRrPVz</a>
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Stephen Miller Battles CNN Anchor Over Illegal Aliens Stealing From Taxpayers

On Tuesday night, President Trump&#8217;s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, repeatedly countered CNN’s Jake Tapper&#8217;s attempts to vilify Trump’s order to pause federal funds.
Prior to the interview, Tapper spoke of the order, asserting, “We&#8217;re pushing for answers,” then conjectured that the order would hurt vulnerable people in society, saying:
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It is a freeze or a pause on hundreds of billions of dollars appropriated by Congress and spent by the federal government on things such as, well, school breakfast and lunch programs that feed more than 10 million children, and Section Eight housing assistance that helps pay the rent for more than 9 million people.  The majority of them, we should note, are seniors, children or those with a disability, or grants from the EPA to states and localities to ensure that they have clean drinking water or Head Start programs that serve nearly 800,000 low income children from birth to age five. And of course, Meals on Wheels, which feeds more than 2 million seniors who have no other means of purchasing or preparing meals.
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Tapper then asked Miller, “Let&#8217;s just walk through this because obviously there&#8217;s confusion. Is this pause going to affect Medicaid?”
Miller responded with a straightforward answer: “It does not affect any service that the government is required to provide, does not affect any entitlement, does not affect any service to citizens, does not affect any individual benefit, any public assistance program or anything of that nature.”
Miller then offered an example of the misuse of government funds: &#8220;We found after the president had issued a pause on funding to NGOs that were settling illegal immigrants, we found that bureaucrats at HHS were trying to funnel billions of more dollars to those resettlement agencies and try to get around the executive order. It became clear that bureaucrats were still trying to funnel unapproved discretionary grants of funds to their pet projects. So OMB, led by Russ Vought felt it was necessary to protect taxpayer resources to issue clearer guidance establishing for these discretionary grants of funding that are not directed by Congress that they go through a political approval process at the agency.&#8221;
Despite Miller having just laid out a salient reason for the pause, Tapper asked, “First of all, why a pause? An investigation &#8212; sure, I get that. Auditing, sure. Why a pause?”
“Well, Jake, once you spend money, you can&#8217;t get it back,” Miller explained. &#8220;So in other words, if you don&#8217;t put federal programs under review that are wasteful or harmful to taxpayers, and then people hit send &#8230; you wouldn&#8217;t believe the payments we&#8217;ve had to pause over the last few days with bureaucrats trying to funnel money out of the door, to funnel money to the World Health Organization, funnel money to resettlement organizations, funnel money to foreign countries.&#8221; For that reason, Miller said, &#8220;of course, you have to put a pause on these discretionary grants of funding and have a political review process.&#8221;
Miller underscored that &#8220;the review process does not include any public benefit programs,&#8221; including Meals on Wheels.
“OMB has been clear about this. Jake, we have to get control over this government,” Miller said bluntly. “You know, I&#8217;ll just say on this point about NGOs, nongovernmental organizations, Joe Biden gave just one NGO responsible for resettling illegal aliens, $3 billion with a B, $3 billion. President Trump, when he said drain the swamp, he meant it. And yes. So those kinds of spending programs are going to be put under review.”
Miller then highlighted the political affiliations of the current bureaucracy. “There&#8217;s two million employees in the federal government, overwhelmingly the career federal service in this country is far-left, left-wing,&#8221; he said.
“I don&#8217;t know that to be a fact,” Tapper interjected.
“Well, I&#8217;ll give you a great example,&#8221; Miller replied. &#8220;We looked at USAID as an example. Ninety-eight percent, 98 percent of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris or another left-wing candidate, just as an example.&#8221;
“You&#8217;re demonizing an entire workforce as having a–,&#8221; Tapper pronounced.
“Wait, wait,” Miller countered. “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Did you just say that, saying someone voted for Kamala Harris is demonizing them?”
“No,” Tapper claimed. “So your suggestion is that there&#8217;s a bias.”
“No,” Miller answered. “But you use the word &#8216;demonizing.&#8217; You just said that I&#8217;m demonizing somebody by saying they voted for Kamala Harris.”
Tapper scrambled to regain control, insisting, “Let&#8217;s get back on track.”
“I am on track,” Miller said. &#8220;What I&#8217;m saying to you is this, there are two million employees in the federal government. &#8230; They&#8217;re overwhelmingly left of center &#8230; The American people voted for dramatic change implemented by Donald Trump. So it is essential for him to get control of government, to establish a whole of government process for Donald Trump&#8217;s political appointees, to review discretionary grants of spending for pet projects that are not directed by Congress. In other words, these are pots of money where Congress hasn&#8217;t said how to spend it or where to spend it. This might be something like saying, I want to build a $500 million fountain in the courtyard of the Department of Commerce. This might be something like saying, I want to fund gender studies in Afghanistan. There has to be political control and review.&#8221;
Miller then slammed the media for deliberately characterizing the OMB guidance as confusing, saying, &#8220;I can&#8217;t help it if left-wing media outlets published a fake news story that caused confusion.”
“Does anyone believe that an unaccountable career-tenured bureaucrat should be able to approve vast sums of money for the projects that they personally agree with, that no accountable employee in the federal government has reviewed?&#8221; Miller asked.
“We always knew that the media was going to spin up fake stories, to try to create controversy, to try to create scandal,” Miller concluded, then slyly added, “I&#8217;m not saying you, Jake. I would never say you.”
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