Despite legacy media claims, illegal immigrants do indeed receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, commonly known as food stamps.
In fact, it&#8217;s estimated that millions of illegal immigrants are collecting food stamps.
Though SNAP data is hard to come by, seemingly intentionally so, a 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation that’s been <a href="https://washingtonstand.com/article/major-study-finds-illegal-immigrants-collecting-taxpayerfunded-snap-benefits">analyzed</a> by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) gives us some insight.
CIS estimates that up to 4.5 million illegals are using SNAP, even though SNAP is restricted to applicants who have legal status.
Notably, only the applicant, in theory, must have legal status in the U.S. Members of households who indirectly benefit from food stamps do not have to disclose legal status.
Moreover, illegal immigrants are already permitted to use WIC, which is another welfare food program, though it&#8217;s more restrictive than SNAP.
CIS also found that 47% of all noncitizen households &#8212; which includes noncitizens with legal status &#8212; receive taxpayer-funded food assistance, be it WIC or SNAP, or both. 
In another eye-popping statistic, <a href="https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn?">59.4% of illegal immigrant households</a> use at least one major welfare program, CIS estimates.
Much attention has been paid to the SNAP program since the recent Democrat-backed government shutdown, which is finally over. The program is massive and apparently had no real oversight before the Trump administration stepped in.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has openly called the program &#8220;extremely corrupt&#8221; and is undertaking a complete overhaul to root out fraud and abuse. Most notably, she&#8217;s having everyone on SNAP reapply for their benefits, which could potentially save taxpayers billions of dollars.
Currently, there are about 43 million people in the SNAP program, which is about 12% of the population. It costs taxpayers around $100 billion to fund annually.
Rollins said that when she became secretary, she realized SNAP was basically running on autopilot while experiencing this massive growth. She cited <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/usda-secretary-claimed-snap-benefits-120000322.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAIIcJr-nPpXfOHlcOx8vlilIpDidMmEGsXk9XHlASCVXFU-BjRq0b1SV6hBkN7TaDj4q9-1UHJSY4tn2u2RT49DPSkoiyoF_NrF1icqzJky4x6yKxEdV_RCce6HtYiIt59CRD6TvdKQh1QPXZqytMQbbTyJDsgX3O1IRjMczRj-">40% growth</a> during the COVID era.
After she was sworn in, Rollins asked every state to share their SNAP data to track down the fraud, but only 29 states complied, mostly red states. She said, so far, they&#8217;ve identified 186,000 deceased people receiving SNAP checks, 500,000 people getting two times the benefits they are supposed to, and individuals receiving benefits in multiple states.
The Trump administration is currently suing the remaining states, including New York and California, for their SNAP data. Rollins has suggested that the fraud and abuse exposed there will be even worse.
Rollins and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are also working together to push states to limit food and drink choices available for SNAP. Soda is one of the most commonly purchased items with food stamps, and <a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d1774be7-8a29-4ecc-996d-3bda421310f3/2023-erp-ch3-republican-response.pdf?">nearly 25%</a> of SNAP dollars go to soda and candy, and other junk food. So far, 11 states have asked for waivers to exclude soda and candy from SNAP – all red states except for Colorado.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents descended upon Charlotte, North Carolina, over the weekend, arresting more than 130 illegal immigrants with criminal records ranging from aggravated assault to felony larceny, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The arrests were part of the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/15/dhs-launches-operation-charlottes-web-target-criminal-illegal-aliens-terrorizing">Charlotte&#8217;s Web</a>&#8221; operation, which began on Saturday and aims to find and detain illegal immigrants who have found sanctuary in the Democrat-run city. The Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire, &#8220;Border Patrol arrested over 130 illegal aliens who have all broken the immigration laws of our country.&#8221;
&#8220;Criminal records of those arrested include known gang membership, aggravated assault, possession of a dangerous weapon, felony larceny, simple assault, hit and run, possession of stolen goods, shoplifting, DUI, DWI, and illegal re-entry after prior deportation, a felony,&#8221; a DHS spokesman said. &#8220;We will not stop enforcing the laws of our nation until every criminal illegal alien is arrested and removed from our country.&#8221;
Across North Carolina, authorities have ignored nearly 1,400 immigration detainers and released violent illegal immigrants back onto the streets, according to the DHS.
Border Patrol Commander Gregory K. Bovino posted photos of suspected illegal immigrants who have been taken &#8220;off the streets&#8221; of Charlotte over the weekend.
&#8220;Who&#8217;s at the same grocery store as you? This illegal alien from Honduras with a criminal history,&#8221; Bovino wrote in one post. &#8220;He has arrests for aggravated assault, assault with a dangerous weapon &amp; DUI. He has also been removed from the U.S. twice, so now that he&#8217;s here AGAIN, he committed a felony by re-entering the U.S.&#8221;
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Who&#8217;s at the same grocery store as you? This illegal alien from Honduras with a criminal history. He has arrests for aggravated assault, assault with a dangerous weapon &amp; DUI. He has also been removed from the U.S. twice, so now that he&#8217;s here AGAIN, he committed a felony by… <a href="https://t.co/Kx8BI4NJFi">pic.twitter.com/Kx8BI4NJFi</a>
— Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1990073456403046786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This illegal alien from Mexico has 3 DUI/DWI convictions. We arrested him, taking him off the streets of Charlotte so he can&#8217;t continue to ignore our laws and drive intoxicated on the same roads you and your loved ones are on,&#8221; Bovino added in another post.
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This illegal alien from Mexico has 3 DUI/DWI convictions. We arrested him, taking him off the streets of Charlotte so he can&#8217;t continue to ignore our laws and drive intoxicated on the same roads you and your loved ones are on.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DHS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DHS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CBP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CBP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USBP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USBP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CHARLOTTESWEB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CHARLOTTESWEB</a> <a href="https://t.co/4dv9HbbTVm">pic.twitter.com/4dv9HbbTVm</a>
— Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1990091580632424581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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DHS said that one law enforcement officer was injured during an operation over the weekend, when a U.S. citizen &#8220;weaponized his vehicle, driving a large van at law enforcement while they were conducting an operation.&#8221; The driver allegedly fled the scene, prompting a high-speed chase. The suspect, who has previous arrests for resisting law enforcement, public disturbance, and intoxication, was eventually taken into custody.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER INJURED DURING ENFORCEMENT OPERATION.
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As Border Patrol began arresting suspected illegal immigrants in Charlotte, residents took to the streets to protest, demanding that the federal agents leave the city. Hundreds of protesters gathered on Saturday, carrying signs that read &#8220;Immigrants Make Charlotte Great,&#8221; &#8220;Kidnapping Immigrants Won&#8217;t Make America Great,&#8221; and &#8220;Charlotte Demands ICE and Border Patrol Out Of Our City!&#8221;
North Carolina Democratic Governor Josh Stein blasted the federal operation in a video statement.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen masked, heavily armed agents in paramilitary garb driving unmarked cars, targeting American citizens based on their skin color, racially profiling, and picking up random people in parking lots and off of our sidewalks,&#8221; Stein said.
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Charlotte is the latest big city targeted by President Donald Trump, who is surging federal law enforcement and immigration agents to cities across the country to address illegal immigration and violent crime. Charlotte gained national attention earlier this year when Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death while riding the city&#8217;s light rail train. Decarlos Brown Jr., an American citizen, was charged with Zarutska&#8217;s murder after he had previously been arrested 14 times.
Federal agents have also arrested hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants and violent criminals in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Memphis, and Portland.

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‘Operation Charlotte’s Web’ Nets 130+ ‘Criminal Illegal Alien’ Arrests In First Weekend

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The U.S. National Archives on Friday released several batches of records related to the 1937 disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart over the Pacific, following President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent order to declassify and release all such material held by the government.
The release of 4,624 pages of documents, including log books of U.S. military vessels involved in the air-and-sea search for Earhart, was announced by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.
Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were last seen taking off in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra airplane on July 2, 1937, from Papua New Guinea en route to Howland Island, some 2,500 miles (4,000 km) away, during an attempt to fly around the world. Radio contact with the plane was lost hours later after Earhart, 39, reported running low on fuel.
A massive naval search, the most extensive ever at that time, was unsuccessful. Earhart&#8217;s fate remains one of the most enduring mysteries of the past 88 years.
In addition to U.S. Navy and Coast Guard reports about the Earhart search were various memos, newspaper clippings, letters and telegrams.
The correspondence included a letter from a woman claiming she had deduced by mental telepathy that Earhart was still alive, one from a man insisting she was buried in Spain and a series of government telegrams and memos discounting rumors that Earhart had been taken captive by Japanese forces and executed.
The National Archives said more records would be digitized and posted on a rolling basis.
The fate of Earhart and Noonan remains an open question. But researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery have pieced together evidence suggesting the pair died as castaways on the tiny coral atoll of Nikumaroro, in the Kiribati islands of the western Pacific.
A series of expeditions to that island turned up what appeared to be a jar of anti-freckle cream from the 1930s, bits of clothing, human bone fragments and a pocket knife of the type Earhart carried. A patch of aluminum believed to have come from their plane was also recovered.
In addition, TIGHAR said a sonar image taken from just beyond the shore of the remote atoll revealed what could be a wing or part of the fuselage of Earhart&#8217;s aircraft.
Some 80,000 records pertaining to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released on Trump&#8217;s order in March.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by William Mallard)

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National Archives Releases Amelia Earhart Records Promised By Trump

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The current median price for a single-family home in America has surged to <a href="https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-prices-surge-five-times-median-income-nearing-historic-highs">five times</a> the median household income, causing panic among young people that the dream of homeownership may no longer be attainable.
There’s no single explanation for the spike, but there is one that’s been singled out by both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance: the massive influx of illegal immigrants into the United States during the Biden administration, when the southern border was effectively left open. Estimates suggest that more than 10 million illegal immigrants were encountered under Biden.
“We … cannot ignore the impact that the flood of 21 million illegal aliens has had on driving up housing costs,” Trump <a href="https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-trump-speaks-at-the-economic-club-of-new-york/?singlepage=1">said</a> during a speech at the Economic Club of New York in September 2024. Vance brought the subject up again just this Thursday, <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1989058155779932651">saying</a> that there could be as many as 30 million illegal immigrants in the United States “taking houses” from Americans.
“A lot of young people are saying, ‘Housing is way too expensive.’ Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who are taking houses that ought to, by right, go to American citizens,” Vance said. “And at the same time, we weren’t building enough new houses to begin with, even for the population that we had.”
There are certainly multiple reasons that the Trump administration is forging ahead with its effort to carry out mass deportations, and the White House argues that one of the best ways to fix the housing market would be to address the illegal immigration crisis.
Many of the illegal immigrants in the United States move to city centers across the country when they enter, receiving government handouts and housing. The majority of illegal immigrants are pushed to find government shelters or cheap places to rent, given the difficulty of attaining a home without legal status in the country. Some of them, however, have been able to purchase American homes thanks to multiple mortgage companies agreeing to lend money to illegal immigrants without a social security number or green card, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes">uncovered</a> earlier this year.
There is disagreement from economists and immigration experts on whether deporting the massive illegal population would have any measurable impact on the housing market at all. Norbert Michel, the vice president and director for the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, said he believes “the idea that illegal immigration has something to do with it is absolutely insane.”
The libertarian organization’s expert said that it’s possible illegal immigrants could have minimal effects on housing markets in certain pockets of the country, but on the national level, he said it’s a non-factor.
“Do I think that’s a national-level problem? Absolutely not,” Michel said.
E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, agrees with Trump and Vance’s argument, saying it’s undeniable that such a large population would impact the market. He argues the mass deportation of illegal immigrants would have “the single biggest impact” on helping fix America’s housing problems.
“You can’t import over 10 million illegal aliens in a very short period of time and expect it not to have an impact on the real economy. Those people are all on the demand side of the housing equation. In other words, it’s 10 million additional people who now are looking for a place to live,” Antoni told The Daily Wire.
“This is econ 101: if you increase demand, you will increase price,” Antoni said.
Even though the vast majority of illegal immigrants are not technically in the market for owning a home, they still add pressure to the housing market. Increased demand for rental properties would increase lease prices and force more Americans to look at buying homes, Antoni argued.
“No matter which way you slice it, all of these people here increasing the demand for dwelling units is ultimately still going to have the effect of increasing the price of home ownership,” he said.
Studies have shown that illegal immigration can negatively affect the housing market.
Jason Richwine, a resident scholar at the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Wire that researchers consistently find that high immigration, both legal and illegal, drives up housing costs “almost every time it’s studied.” One of the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1051137717300025">studies</a> Richwine highlighted, from the Journal of Housing Economics, found that influxes in immigration “are associated with rising rents and prices,” especially in suburban areas.
“What they looked at was not only the impact on the given housing market where immigrants were coming to, but also the spillover effect. In other words, what happens to the price of housing in the areas just outside of the places where immigrants are coming to,” Richwine said. “What they found was that immigration raises the cost directly within the market immigrants arrive in, but even more so raises the cost around the area, with the idea being that people would prefer to live away from where the immigrants are coming to.”
Antoni acknowledges that there are other factors contributing to the housing market that are in the government’s control. He highlighted regulatory burdens placed on the housing industry by the government, which “makes it more difficult and more expensive to bring houses to market.”
A National Bureau of Economic Research <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33876/w33876.pdf">study</a> showed that construction of new homes is falling far behind the pace of previous generations. According to the study, “If the U.S. housing stock had expanded at the same rate from 2000-2020 as it did from 1980-2000, there would be 15 million more housing units.” From 2000 to 2020, while new home building was falling behind the pace of previous decades, illegal border crossings skyrocketed.
The libertarian Cato Institute, which generally opposes mass deportations, has argued that losing the illegal immigrant population may, in fact, increase housing costs because of how many of them work in construction.
The <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/jd-vance-correct-immigration-increases-housing-prices-thats-ok">article</a>, published by Cato last year in response to Vance’s comments about housing, agreed that illegal immigrants increase housing costs, but said the uptick in prices shouldn’t spark alarm or result in federal government action.
“Estimates show that about 30 percent of all construction workers are immigrants, with higher rates in California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Nevada. Deporting those workers or halting more immigrants will reduce the growth in the housing supply,” the author stated.
Antoni, the Heritage Foundation’s chief economist, disagreed with that argument.
“At the same time you have this massive influx of illegal aliens, you did not see a corresponding increase in home construction,” he said. “It was not as if all of these illegal aliens coming across the border suddenly caused a surge in the construction of new dwellings. That simply did not happen.”
Michel doesn’t just believe that illegal immigration has little to no effect on the housing market; he also rejects the premise that there’s a “housing crisis” to be fixed.
“I reject the crisis narrative from the beginning,” Michel said. “If you look at median annual housing costs as a percentage of income, it’s been pretty flat for quite a while. It’s almost exactly what it was in 2011. If you want to say there was a big bump during COVID, that’s true, but it’s come back down to the pre-pandemic level if you look at prices as a percentage of income.”
Michel pointed to some <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/us-housing-market-not-facing-crisis">data</a> to back up his argument. As of 2023, renters and first-time homebuyers were paying roughly the same percentage of their annual income on housing that they were in 2011. “It’s pretty hard to call that a crisis,” Michel said.
The cost of housing will almost certainly remain a topic of political debate for months as Republicans and Democrats prepare for the 2026 midterm elections. Nearly every young American — 97% of Gen-Z and 93% of Millennials — says they want to buy a home one day, and a staggering 84% of the younger generation say they’re delaying major life milestones like getting married or having kids until they can do so, according to a <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/11/10/gen-z-delaying-milestones-housing-affordability-crisis-no-single-fix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coldwell Banker report</a>.
Convincing Americans that Trump’s immigration crackdown will benefit them could be a key factor in how Americans view the president’s economic record when voters go to the polls again.

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Will Mass Deportations Fix The Housing Market?

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The Trump administration notched a victory when a Kentucky federal judge temporarily blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from implementing a rule critics say puts Americans&#8217; financial data at risk.
The 1033 Rule, proposed under President Joe Biden&#8217;s CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/personal-financial-data-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> banks to &#8220;make available to consumers, upon request, transaction data and other information concerning a consumer financial product or service that the consumer obtained from the covered entity.&#8221;
Forcht Bank, the Kentucky Bankers Association, and the Bank Policy Institute sued to block the rule, saying it exceeded the CFPB’s authority and would force the institutions to hand over large amounts of sensitive data, creating security and liability risks. Judge Danny C. Reeves of the United States District Court for Kentucky concluded the rule could cause more harm than good.
&#8220;The public could arguably lose some benefit from the Rule not being enforced at the set compliance deadlines,&#8221; said the judge. &#8220;However, the plaintiffs also contend that enforcement of the current Rule puts consumers at risk due to security risk as to their banking information.&#8221;
The <a href="https://bpi.com/joint-statement-on-courts-decision-to-stay-section-1033-compliance-deadline/">Bank Policy Institute</a> issued a statement saying the organization was grateful for the court&#8217;s decision.
&#8220;This is a common-sense procedural step,&#8221; said the Bank Policy Institute. It &#8220;doesn’t interfere with the rulemaking process but ensures banks won’t be forced to invest time and resources preparing for a rule that is currently being rewritten.”
&#8220;This preliminary injunction marks a pivotal moment for those who value consumer privacy and limited-government issues,&#8221; a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Trump administration now has a unique opportunity to advance a new 1033 rule that gets the government out of the way and unleashes innovation.”
Under Vought&#8217;s leadership, the CFPB issued <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/personal-financial-data-rights/">an advance notice of proposed rulemaking,</a> inviting the public to give input to form the basis of the final rule. Once input has been provided, the CFPB will share a draft of the rule.
The CFPB is now analyzing public comments and data around four key issues related to the implementation of the 1033 rule: who should be allowed to access financial data on a customer&#8217;s behalf, whether companies should be allowed to charge data sharing fees, how big are the security risks of sharing financial data, and how big are the privacy risks.
The Bank Policy Institute writes that the current rule &#8220;unlawfully mandated banks to share sensitive consumer data with third-party fintechs and aggregators; it required no oversight of third parties using bank customer data,&#8221; among other issues.
Earlier this year, Chopra was notified that he had been <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-rohit-chopra-director-of-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/">fired by the president</a> via an email from the White House. President Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to lead the agency in interim before handing the reins over to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.
Rethinking the CFPB has been a priority of the Trump administration&#8217;s since the start of his term. In February, the White House issued a statement stating that the agency &#8220;has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called elites.&#8221;
The Trump administration accused the CFPB of &#8220;supporting radical advocacy groups, threatening banks for refusing to lend to illegal immigrants, targeting a Chicago small business after it complained about the city&#8217;s rampant crime, and mining American citizens&#8217; personal financial information.&#8221;
On The Charlie Kirk Show, Vought discussed the importance of putting a stop to the agency&#8217;s ability to weaponize &#8220;the tools of financial laws against small mom and pop lenders and other small financial institutions.&#8221;

The Trump Administration Just Took A Huge Step Toward Reforming The CFPB

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President Donald Trump secured &#8220;breakthrough trade deals&#8221; with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala, setting up &#8220;more streamlined market access&#8221; for the United States and its four Western Hemisphere partners, the White House announced on Thursday.
The deals include both economic and national security commitments, which the White House promises will give American companies greater access to the Central and South American markets. Under the deals, the Trump administration is expected to lower tariffs on some food products, which could lower the cost of items such as coffee and bananas, according to a senior Trump administration official, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-remove-tariffs-some-products-ecuador-argentina-guatemala-el-salvador-2025-11-13/">reported</a>. The finalized frameworks for the deals are expected to be completed within the next two weeks.
The White House announced the new trade agreements shortly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bessent-promises-major-food-import-moves-to-cut-grocery-prices-very-quickly">promised</a> that the administration was seeking to give Americans some relief at the grocery store. Bessent&#8217;s comments were a rare moment of the Trump administration acknowledging that Americans are feeling the sting of Trump&#8217;s tariffs, at least in some circumstances.
&#8220;These deals secure commitments on economic and national security issues to strengthen supply chains and trade partnerships in the region, deepening bilateral trade and investment cooperation to provide American exporters with unprecedented access to markets in Central and South America,&#8221; the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-historic-trade-deals-with-western-hemisphere-trading-partners/">said</a>. &#8220;The deals will help U.S. farmers, ranchers, fishermen, small businesses, and manufacturers to increase U.S. exports to and expand business opportunities with these trading partners.&#8221;
The deal with Argentina gives U.S. exporters &#8220;preferential market access&#8221; for &#8220;medicines, chemicals, machinery, information technology products, medical devices, motor vehicles, and a wide range of agricultural products.&#8221; Under the agreement, Argentina is expected to exempt beef from its 10% tariff on imports, allowing the U.S. cattle industry to ship beef to the South American country at a more affordable rate, a U.S. official told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/white-house-agrees-to-lower-some-tariffs-on-south-american-countries-00651456?cid=apn">POLITICO</a>. President Donald Trump had also considered allowing Argentina to export more beef to the United States, but the agreement does not appear to allow that, after Trump&#8217;s idea faced backlash from Congress and the U.S. cattle industry.
&#8220;Argentina has opened its market to U.S. live cattle, committed to allow market access for U.S. poultry within one year, and agreed not to restrict market access for products that use certain cheese and meat terms,&#8221; the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/11/joint-statement-on-framework-for-a-united-states-argentina-agreement-on-reciprocal-trade-and-investment/">said</a>.
The Trump administration stated that Ecuador would reduce or eliminate tariffs on tree nuts, fresh fruit, pulses, wheat, wine, and distilled spirits. El Salvador agreed to &#8220;break down non-tariff barriers for U.S. agricultural products in its market, including ensuring that U.S. agricultural exporters will not be restricted due to the mere use of certain cheese and meat terms.&#8221; Guatemala, meanwhile, made commitments on digital trade, including ending discrimination against U.S. products distributed digitally.

Trump Makes ‘Breakthrough Trade Deals’ With 4 Countries To Lower Food Costs

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California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell faces a potential federal investigation after President Donald Trump&#8217;s top housing official referred him to the Department of Justice over alleged mortgage and tax fraud on Thursday.
Swalwell is accused of making false statements on loan documents related to a house in Washington, D.C., according to a letter Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-eric-swalwell-federal-criminal-probe-mortgage-rcna243518">reported</a>. The allegations stem from Swalwell&#8217;s purchase of a $1.2 million home in the nation&#8217;s capital that he reportedly claimed as his primary residence.
By claiming the D.C. home as his primary residence, Swalwell qualified for millions of dollars&#8217; worth of loans and refinancing, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-news/eric-swalwells-1-2-million-dc-home-target-of-doj-mortgage-fraud-criminal-referral/">reported</a>. His campaign has also faced scrutiny over payments made to a Haitian American staffer that totaled over $360,000 and for expenditures on luxury hotels and car services, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-doj-opens-mortgage-fraud-probe-eric-swalwell-congressman-vows-keep-fighting-back">Fox News</a>.
Swalwell becomes the fourth Democrat in recent months to face mortgage fraud allegations after Pulte also sent the DOJ criminal referrals for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook. Swalwell told NBC News that the criminal referral didn’t surprise him, arguing that it is politically motivated.
&#8220;As the most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade and as the only person who still has a surviving lawsuit against him, the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me,&#8221; Swalwell said.
Other Democratic lawmakers argued that the Trump administration is targeting one of the president&#8217;s most vocal critics.
&#8220;It’s no longer shocking that Trump uses his power to target an outspoken opponent—that’s the hallmark of authoritarianism. What’s remarkable is that he did it less than 24 hours after signing a bill letting 8 GOP senators embezzle $500k–$1M from taxpayers,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepLiccardo/status/1989070897932824686">wrote</a> Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA).
&#8220;Donald Trump is once again weaponizing government to punish those who speak out against his dangerous and disastrous policies. He should know my colleague @RepSwalwell is someone who never backs down or bends the knee to a tyrant,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepZoeLofgren/status/1989070929226576012">added</a> Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
For years after being elected to Congress, Swalwell struggled with finances. According to a Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/eric-swalwell-is-a-financial-mess/">report</a> from 2019, he had still failed to pay off his student loans after graduating in 2006 and had accumulated credit card debt.
Swalwell, who has been in Congress since 2013, gained notoriety for his role in pushing the Trump-Russia collusion hoax during Trump&#8217;s first term. The Democratic congressman has also been criticized over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, a relationship he had while he sat on the House Intelligence Committee.

Eric Swalwell

Eric Swalwell Faces DOJ Criminal Probe Over Mortgage Fraud Accusations

Eric Swalwell Referred To DOJ For Criminal Investigation After He's Accused Of Mortgage Fraud

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It is a brand-new day, and that means it&#8217;s time for more Epstein revelations.
The reason for the Epstein revelations is that there was a discharge petition put forward late last night in the House of Representatives. The petition was signed by several rogue Republicans — some of whom are very much oriented against the Trump administration — in order to shame President Trump by saying that there ought to be a widespread release of more documents.
Democrats had to chum the waters. They had to make everyone interested in Epstein again. So they decided to do this in their usual fashion, which is to selectively release three emails.
Republicans then responded by releasing 20,000 pages of documents.
The Democrats were attempting a shame tactic directed at President Trump that was going to demonstrate full-scale that he was in Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s pocket, or that Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing Donald Trump, or that Jeffrey Epstein had untoward material about Trump, which is why Trump has been reluctant to allow for the release of more materials.
The reason President Trump does not favor the release of more materials is, as he has noted, there are already tens of thousands of pages of materials out there, and courts have already barred the release of an enormous number of these materials on the basis of victim protection. The FBI is doing the same.
You can yell and scream about it as much as you want, but these discharge petitions, these attempts to pry more documents out, are likely to fail in court.
President Trump believes the whole process is an attempt, by implication, to humiliate him.
And it does seem like that based on what the Democrats did. They dropped three emails, which were less than edifying with regard to the broad conspiracy theories that have been put out there about Jeffrey Epstein.
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As I&#8217;ve said a thousand times, there are true, open, honest questions to be asked about Jeffrey Epstein: How did he make all of his money? Where did all that money come from? Why was one media mogul paying him something like $158 million to do his taxes and look for tax breaks? Why was another mogul giving him access to a $70 million home in Manhattan?
These are very real questions that require very real answers. But instead, the entire realm has been filled with the most outlandish speculation. The case that you have heard — retailed in public by many prominent figures — is not the idea that Jeffrey Epstein was running a child sex trafficking ring on behalf of himself, in which he preyed on underage girls, but a broader conspiracy involving the idea that Jeffrey Epstein brought in a bunch of underage girls and a bunch of prominent people, and then blackmailed them after making tapes and taking pictures of them.
There is no evidence for this. In fact, Michael Tracey, who&#8217;s been all over this for years — a journalist with whom I frequently disagree — has done a very good job digging into the details, and there’s no evidence for that version of the story.
That still doesn&#8217;t answer the question as to where all the money was coming from. Was he blackmailing those guys? That could be. But as far as Donald Trump or Bill Clinton or any of the other wide variety of figures who have been mentioned in connection with this, unless you have evidence, it&#8217;s very difficult to make claims about them.
That has been blown into an even bigger conspiracy theory, that Jeffrey Epstein was a foreign agent acting on behalf of a foreign power, honey-trapping these guys in order to blackmail them to change policy.
The evidence of that just doesn&#8217;t exist. If it did, then Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, the president, and the vice president would have an obligation to tell you that.
But they&#8217;re telling you the opposite.
So where is the evidence? It&#8217;s a free country. You can speculate, but stop pretending the speculation is evidence.
That&#8217;s the backdrop of all of this.
Democrats are trying to underscore allegations that Donald Trump was being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein. But in the supposedly embarrassing emails involving Donald Trump, there&#8217;s no “there” there.
Email number one was an email from Jeffrey Epstein, apparently to his lawyer, saying, “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn&#8217;t barked is Trump.” 
This is April 2, 2011, long before Donald Trump was even a gleam in the eye of American presidential politics in a serious way.
“I want you to realize that the dog that has embarked is Trump.” Redaction. And then it says, “‘Victim’ spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned, police chief, etc. I&#8217;m 75% there.”
There is one major problem with this particular revelation. What the Democrats did was to redact the name of the person, supposedly because it was to protect the victim. Who&#8217;s the victim? The victim here is apparently Virginia Giuffre.
Virginia Giuffre was a very unstable person. She passed away recently. She was considered such an unstable personality that prosecutors could not use her in the case against Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell. Not only that, but in a sworn deposition, Virginia Giuffre literally said that she was never mistreated by Donald Trump. But if you just read that email out of context, it would sound as though Virginia Giuffre was trafficked to Donald Trump.
But that&#8217;s not what the email says, and that&#8217;s not what the email means. And we have counter-evidence with regard to this particular person.
This is a very cynical move by Democrats to redact the name there and then put “victim.” Not because Virginia Giuffre wasn&#8217;t a victim of someone — he may very well have been victimized by Prince Andrew — but because we know who she is publicly. Also, she&#8217;s dead, so there&#8217;s no more victim protection.
There&#8217;s a deposition with Virginia Giuffre. She said, “Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s. He didn’t partake in sex with any of us but he flirted with me.”
ABC News<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/virginia-giuffre-trump-jeffrey-epstein/story?id=127468657"> noted</a>:
<blockquote>Years later, while being questioned by lawyers for Maxwell (who Giuffre sued in 2015 for defamation) – Giuffre said the quote about Trump attributed to her was not accurate. She also said that she had met Trump when she worked at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, but said she did not recall ever seeing Trump at Epstein’s homes or seeing Trump and Epstein together in the same place. She also said Trump never flirted with her.</blockquote>
The basic idea that Giuffre was victimized by Trump is not true. Democrats put out the email cynically and then redacted the name of the victim to make it look like there was another victim who was not Virginia Giuffre victimized by President Trump.
Not true.
The second email is from Jeffrey Epstein to Michael Wolff, who was basically doing PR on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. Michael Wolff is the author who is constantly writing extremely sleazy and half-accurate tomes about what&#8217;s going on in the Trump administration or the White House.
Wolff was doing defense for Jeffrey Epstein, which shows you what kind of human he is. Jeffrey Epstein apparently wrote to Michael Wolff of Trump, “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
If he asked Ghislaine to stop, I don&#8217;t understand why that&#8217;s bad for Trump. They released this email to make it sound like Trump knew about the girls. This email is dated January 2019. According to Trump, he threw Epstein out of his club because he knew that he was acting in nefarious ways.
Third email: from Michael Wolff. This is December 15, 2015.
Michael Wolff wrote, “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you, either on air or in scrum afterward.” 
Epstein wrote, “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” 
Wolf wrote back, “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn&#8217;t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you. Or if it really looks like he could win, you could save him generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in Trump regime”.
The proof here is that Michael Wolff, who is a purveyor of many untruths, said to Jeffrey Epstein that he should hold over Trump&#8217;s head the idea that maybe he had been on the plane or to the house.
I&#8217;m not sure what this is supposed to prove.
These are the only three emails the Democrats released. They released them in order to imply things about Trump without actually saying them.
This is one of the things that&#8217;s deeply annoying about our current politics: People are never asked to actually say the thing they appear to be saying.
Instead, they just imply, and then they back away, and then they imply some more, and then they back away.
If you want to say it, just say it. It&#8217;s a free country. You can say it.
And then we can all judge you by what you are actually claiming.

Patrick McMullan Archives

Democrats And The Selective Epstein Email Release: There’s No ‘There’ There

Democrats And The Selective Epstein Email Release: There’s No 'There' There

Ben Shapiro

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emails

Ghislaine Maxwell

Jeffrey Epstein

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U.S. House of Representatives

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Thursday that thousands of TSA agents would receive a $10,000 bonus check for showing “exemplary service” and “stepping up” during the government shutdown.
Noem made the announcement at a press conference, standing alongside a group of TSA agents who were among the more than one million government workers who went weeks without pay during the longest government shutdown in American history. Government workers who went without paychecks during the 44-day government shutdown are also getting back pay.
“We are not only going to continue their paychecks like they should’ve received all along, but also they’re going to receive a bonus check for stepping up, taking on extra shifts, for showing up each and every day, for serving the American people,” Noem said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sec_Noem</a> announces $10,000 bonus checks for <a href="https://twitter.com/TSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TSA</a> agents who showed up for work and took on extra shifts — despite not receiving paychecks — during the Democrat Shutdown. <a href="https://t.co/TqncMEPPnl">pic.twitter.com/TqncMEPPnl</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1989037520420762096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Noem added that the administration “will be looking at every single TSA official that helped serve during this government shutdown and do what we can to recognize that and help them financially with a bonus check to get them and their family back on their feet.” The Homeland Security Secretary then passed out checks to the agents standing behind her.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sec_Noem</a> hands out $10,000 bonus checks to Houston TSA workers who stepped up and showed up to work during the Democrat government shutdown <a href="https://t.co/N5yLMiPeEb">pic.twitter.com/N5yLMiPeEb</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1989037944787566668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Airports and the airline industry were hit hard by the record-breaking government shutdown, as the federal government had to address a shortage of air traffic controllers. The Federal Aviation Administration said last week it would slash air traffic by up to 10% at 40 of the busiest airports across the country as the shutdown continued. While the shutdown officially ended on Wednesday night when President Donald Trump signed the short-term government spending bill, officials warned that air travel disruptions could continue for days.
Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-floats-plan-to-reward-air-traffic-controllers-who-didnt-take-time-off-due-to-shutdown">promised</a> to hand out $10,000 bonus checks to air traffic controllers who stayed on the job during the shutdown.
“For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn’t take ANY TIME OFF for the ‘Democrat Shutdown Hoax,’ I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country,” Trump said on Monday.
Many controllers called in sick during the shutdown, with some picking up temporary jobs to cover lost income, and the president sharply criticized those absences.
“For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU,” Trump said. “You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK that was only meant to hurt our Country. You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record.”

Kristi Noem

Noem Hands Out $10,000 Checks To TSA Agents Who Worked Through Shutdown

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised on Wednesday that relief is coming to Americans at the grocery store, as the Trump administration plans to make &#8220;substantial announcements&#8221; on foreign food imports in the coming days.
During an interview with &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6385001023112">Fox &amp; Friends</a>&#8221; co-host Brian Kilmeade, Bessent predicted that Americans would soon feel much better about their finances and hinted that certain grocery store items would be coming down in price.
&#8220;When you look at affordability now, and you go grocery shopping, for example, what products are you working on bringing down?&#8221; Kilmeade asked. &#8220;We know that certain products are down, certain [products] are up. For example, coffee. The president said, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to lower tariff rates on Brazil and Vietnam and other places to try to bring the price of coffee down.&#8217; What else do you do?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s tough to do a lot of specific things, but I can tell you that you&#8217;re going to see substantial announcements over the next couple of days in terms of things we don&#8217;t grow here in the United States,&#8221; Bessent replied. &#8220;Coffee being one of them. Bananas, other fruits, things like that. So that will bring the prices down very quickly.&#8221;
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Sec. Scott Bessent: &#8220;You&#8217;re going to see substantial announcements over the next couple of days in terms of things we don&#8217;t grow here&#8230; coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits&#8230; That will bring the prices down very quickly.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/OlwFniutbk">pic.twitter.com/OlwFniutbk</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1988616150398214379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bessent&#8217;s comments are a rare moment in which the Trump administration appears to acknowledge that tariffs have negatively affected Americans&#8217; wallets in some circumstances. Last week, President Donald Trump also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-shift-acknowledges-americans-are-paying-something-tariffs-2025-11-06/">admitted</a> that Americans are &#8220;paying something&#8221; due to his tariffs, adding, &#8220;But when you take the overall impact, the Americans are gaining tremendously.&#8221;
The average price of coffee in the United States has spiked in recent months after the Trump administration imposed hefty tariffs on countries around the world, including the leading coffee exporters. In September, the average price for a pound of ground coffee rose 3% from the previous month and jumped 41% from September 2024, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coffee-prices-tariffs-climate-3503a37a8fc95b7dc5a1f29747c81e27">reported</a>. That increase has caused some coffee shops and grocery stores to hike prices. Banana prices have also risen slightly following the rollout of Trump&#8217;s tariffs.
Bessent said that the Trump administration is seeking to fix an &#8220;affordability mess&#8221; that began under former President Joe Biden.
&#8220;It was the worst inflation in 40-50 years, one of the worst in the nation&#8217;s history,&#8221; the Treasury Secretary added.
Bessent said the administration is working to address both affordability components: prices and income. He argued that by the first quarter of next year, Americans will see prices decline while their wages rise.
&#8220;You are going to feel it,&#8221; Bessent said, adding, &#8220;I think 2026 is going to be a blockbuster year.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s tariffs are currently hanging in the balance as the Supreme Court considers whether the president can use his broad authority over foreign policy to impose tariffs on countries worldwide. Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case, with multiple conservative justices appearing skeptical of the president’s authority.

Scott Bessent/Grocery Store

Bessent Promises Major Food Import Moves To Cut Grocery Prices ‘Very Quickly’

Economics

Food prices

Scott Bessent

At least 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in two separate suicide bombings in Pakistan on Monday and Tuesday, and eight people were killed in a car explosion in India.
The latest bombing targeted a district court building in Islamabad, killing 12 people and wounding 27 more on Tuesday, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/explosion-injures-eight-outside-court-pakistans-capital-police-say-2025-11-11/">reported</a>. Authorities said that the attacker attempted to enter the court building but was unsuccessful and then targeted a police car. All of those killed in the attack were civilians, while four police officers were also wounded, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/11/pakistan-capital-islamabad-suicide-bombing/">The Washington Post</a>.
The bombing in Islamabad came just hours after a suicide bomber targeted a military school in Pakistan&#8217;s northwest territory. Three people were killed in that bombing, and militants stormed the school, where at least three of them remain holed up.
While no terror group has claimed responsibility for either of the attacks, the Pakistani government suspects that terrorists backed by India and the Taliban in Afghanistan carried out the deadly bombings. Pakistani officials believe that the Pakistani Taliban, which the government suspects of being supported by India and Afghanistan, planned the bombing in Islamabad.
“The attack on Pakistani citizens by Indian proxy terrorist groups is condemnable,” said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The attack in Islamabad came just hours after a car exploded in India&#8217;s capital, New Delhi, killing eight people and wounding 20 more. Indian officials said they were still trying to determine whether the blast was from an issue with the vehicle or was a targeted attack, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/india/car-explosion-in-indias-capital-kills-eight-d7301ad7?mod=article_inline">reported</a>. Authorities are investigating the car explosion under an anti-terrorism law, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that the explosion in New Delhi was an attack on his country.
“The conspirators behind this will not be spared,” Modi said. “All those responsible will be brought to justice.”
The bombings in Pakistan and India threaten to reignite tensions between the two countries, months after they exchanged missile attacks and bombings and engaged in border skirmishes. In April, India launched airstrikes at targets in Pakistan, saying that it was hitting Pakistan-backed terrorist militia infrastructure after terrorists killed 26 people in Indian territory. The Pakistani government, however, accused India of killing civilians in the strikes and targeting mosques. Pakistan responded with its own mortar attack on India.
The Trump administration quickly got involved in ceasefire negotiations between the two countries in May, and India and Pakistan agreed to stop fighting after weeks of retaliatory attacks. The fighting between India and Pakistan was especially concerning for the Trump administration, as the two countries are also considerable nuclear powers.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDCecGK7m8">said</a> that his trade policies helped end the conflict between the two countries and prevent a &#8220;potential nuclear disaster.&#8221;
&#8220;I called them up and I said, &#8216;You go to war and we&#8217;re not doing a trade deal.&#8217; &#8230; And 24 hours later, they called me [and said], &#8216;We have decided not to do it.&#8217; We stopped the war. We stopped the potential nuclear disaster because of trade,&#8221; the president said last month.

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More Than 20 Killed In Bombings In India And Pakistan, Fragile Ceasefire Threatened

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President Donald Trump said on Monday that he wants to pay the majority of Americans $2,000 each from U.S. tariff revenue and use the &#8220;left over&#8221; funds to achieve debt reduction.
Trump argued that there would be enough tariff revenue to send stipends to all Americans — other than high-income earners — and &#8220;to SUBSTANTIALLY PAY DOWN NATIONAL DEBT.&#8221;
&#8220;All money left over from the $2000 payments made to low and middle income USA Citizens, from the massive Tariff Income pouring into our Country from foreign countries, which will be substantial, will be used to SUBSTANTIALLY PAY DOWN NATIONAL DEBT. Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115526165519672797">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
The national debt recently surpassed <a href="https://www.usdebtclock.org/">$38 trillion</a> and is on pace to hit $44 trillion by 2029. More than four-fifths of Americans would qualify for Trump&#8217;s dividends if his proposal is enacted. As of 2024, 81% of the U.S. population is in the middle- or lower-income classes, according to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/">Gallup</a>.
On Sunday, Trump called anyone who opposes his tariffs &#8220;FOOLS&#8221; and promised to hand out $2,000 dividends to Americans as the U.S. raked in nearly $2 billion in tariff revenue through the first three quarters of fiscal year 2025, according to the <a href="https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts0925.pdf">Treasury Department</a>.
&#8220;We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115519726463094783">wrote</a>. &#8220;401k’s are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.&#8221;
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; on Sunday that he had not discussed the $2,000 dividend proposal with the president, adding that it &#8220;could come in lots of forms and lots of ways.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s desire to hand out $2,000 checks to Americans would need Congressional approval. Earlier this year, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced legislation to give Americans $600 tariff rebates, or $2,400 for a family of four. Hawley&#8217;s bill, however, has not gained any traction in the Republican-controlled Senate.
It&#8217;s not the first time Trump has floated the idea of handing out stipends to Americans while also paying down the national debt this term. Earlier this year, Trump suggested that Americans could receive government checks as a result of massive spending cuts proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. In February, SpaceX owner and former Trump adviser Elon Musk <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/02/19/musk-doge-dividend-check">discussed</a> handing out $5,000 dividend checks if his goal of $2 trillion in government spending cuts was met. The proposal would allocate 20% of the DOGE savings to dividend checks and another 20% to the national debt. At the time, Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-dividend-85f3d001d082aebaefd397035b0b86a9">told</a> reporters he supported the plan, but the idea seems to have lost momentum, and Musk later <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5377445/doge-musk-trump-100-days">downgraded</a> his spending-cut goal to $150 billion.
Trump&#8217;s promise to hand out tariff revenue to Americans comes at a critical time for his tariff agenda as the Supreme Court weighs whether he has the authority to impose the worldwide tariffs. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Trump&#8217;s tariff case last week, with multiple conservative justices appearing skeptical of the president&#8217;s authority, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-face-skepticism-among-some-supreme-court-justices">reported</a>.
The key questions at issue in the case revolve around the meaning of the phrase “regulate importation” in the law, whether a tariff can be considered a tax, and the tension between the president’s broad authority over foreign policy and Congress’s authority over taxation.  A ruling against Trump&#8217;s tariff authority would effectively stop his most important economic and foreign policy agenda in its tracks.
In another post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump pushed back against some of the arguments against his tariffs and argued that the president must be allowed to impose tariffs on foreign countries for national security.
&#8220;So, let’s get this straight??? The President of the United States is allowed (and fully approved by Congress!) to stop ALL TRADE with a Foreign Country (Which is far more onerous than a Tariff!), and LICENSE a Foreign Country, but is not allowed to put a simple Tariff on a Foreign Country, even for purposes of NATIONAL SECURITY,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115519951705472870">said</a>. &#8220;That is NOT what our great Founders had in mind! The whole thing is ridiculous! Other Countries can Tariff us, but we can’t Tariff them??? It is their DREAM!!! Businesses are pouring into the USA ONLY BECAUSE OF TARIFFS. HAS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOT BEEN TOLD THIS??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???&#8221;

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