On the eve of April 10, 2025, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts underwent a patriotic transformation. 
Under the leadership of newly appointed President Richard Grenell, the iconic Washington, D.C., landmark made a bold and lasting statement: from now on, the building’s exterior lighting will shine every night with the vibrant and meaningful colors of red, white, and blue to honor the United States of America.
“The lights are a beautiful reminder of the American spirit,” Roma Daravi, Vice President of Public Relations at the Kennedy Center, told The Daily Wire. “The red, white, and blue colors are a powerful symbol of unity and our nation’s commitment to bringing people together. What better place for that than at the Kennedy Center, America’s institution for the Arts.”
Over the past several years, the Kennedy Center has taken on multiple different appearances.
The first big change happened in 2013 when the building was temporarily lit with colorful hues to celebrate a Nordic Festival’s “Northern Lights” exhibit. Then, in 2017, the Center started utilizing rainbow lighting annually during the Kennedy Center Honors. The Kennedy Center was lit yellow and blue in support of Ukraine back in 2022. It was also lit with purple and amber lights for the Women&#8217;s Suffrage Centennial back in August of 2020. 
Grenell choosing to light the building red, white, and blue every night going forward represents a permanent, year-round tribute to American values, his team explains. In contrast to landmarks like the Empire State Building, which rotates its lights for various causes, holidays, and marketing campaigns, the Kennedy Center will now be dedicated to displaying national pride.
The Kennedy Center has been in the news ever since President Trump took office and promised major reforms, including firing the entire board, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-dumps-kennedy-center-board-puts-immediate-end-to-drag-shows-for-kids">reported</a>.
“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote on social media in February. “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.”
The changes the new board made led to full-scale meltdowns on the Left, including protests expressed through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-protesters-plan-to-save-kennedy-center-with-interpretive-dance-yes-really">interpretive dancing</a>. But their protests haven’t made much of a difference. The Kennedy Center just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kennedy-center-breaks-all-time-attendance-record-after-lib-meltdown-over-trump">broke</a> its all-time attendance record for a public event it hosted on March 29, welcoming 11,000 attendees, of whom 76% were there for the first time.

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President Donald Trump targeted a pair of former administration officials from his first term in office for investigations by the Department of Justice.
The president signed two executive actions on Wednesday ordering probes into the conduct of Miles Taylor, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official, and Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The memos also strip Taylor, Krebs, and others of security clearances.
Taylor gained fame in the media after revealing himself in public as the author of an anonymous <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> in The New York Times in which he claimed to be part of the “resistance” to Trump inside the administration. He later authored a book titled “Anonymous” about his time in the Trump administration.
“Miles Taylor was entrusted with the solemn responsibility of Federal service, but instead prioritized his own ambition, personal notoriety, and monetary gain over fidelity to his constitutional oath,” Trump’s White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-associated-with-an-egregious-leaker-and-disseminator-of-falsehoods/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> states.
“While serving as an administrative staff assistant at the Department of Homeland Security, Taylor stoked dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed ‘resistance’ within the Federal Government that ‘vowed’ to undermine and render ineffective a sitting President,” it said. “He illegally published classified conversations to sell his book under the pseudonym ‘Anonymous,’ which is full of falsehoods and fabricated stories.”
After the memo was released, Taylor said in a post on X that the United States was “headed down a dark path.”
“I said this would happen. Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path,” Taylor wrote. “Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point.”
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I said this would happen. 
Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path.
Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point.
&mdash; Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/1910071199042068916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Krebs was in charge of cybersecurity in the first Trump administration and also led on election security. Trump fired Krebs after the cyber chief said in a statement on 2020 election fraud claims that “in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent,” according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/donald-trump-retribution-miles-taylor-00007512" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>.
Krebs also spearheaded a joint <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election-infrastructure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> by CISA and other groups that called the 2020 election the “most secure in American history” and dismissed what the statement referred to as the “many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections.”
Krebs “is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority,” Trump’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> says. “Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic.”
While heading CISA, Krebs “suppressed conservative viewpoints,” “worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop,” and “promoted the censorship of election information,” the order states.

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Multiple members of Congress experienced a frightening incident on Thursday when their plane was clipped by another aircraft on the ground at Reagan National Airport in the Washington, D.C., area.
Lawmakers posted about their experience on X, stressing that people on board their flight were unharmed.
&#8220;Serving in Congress has come with some once in a lifetime experiences… like just now while stationary on the runway at DCA, another plane just bumped into our wing. Heading back to the gate, but thankfully everyone is ok!&#8221; Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) <a href="https://x.com/RepLaLota/status/1910378262506729695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
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Serving in Congress has come with some once in a lifetime experiences… like just now while stationary on the runway at DCA, another plane just bumped into our wing. Heading back to the gate, but thankfully everyone is ok! (And ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/RepGraceMeng?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepGraceMeng</a>⁩ is handing out grapes!) <a href="https://t.co/bOo1JNXZDh">pic.twitter.com/bOo1JNXZDh</a>
&mdash; Congressman Nick LaLota (@RepLaLota) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLaLota/status/1910378262506729695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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He also noted that Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) was handing out grapes to people on board their plane.
&#8220;Glad my colleagues and I are okay! We are safely waiting on the tarmac, but we may need more snacks,&#8221; Grace <a href="https://x.com/RepGraceMeng/status/1910386638825365895" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful no one was hurt today, but this incident underscores [the] urgent need [to] restore all FAA jobs that keep our runways safe.&#8221;
Meng later posted a video showing what she said were crews fixing the wing on their plane.
&#8220;Fortunately, everyone is okay &amp; we&#8217;re heading back to New York soon. Thank you to all who reached out with your concerns!&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/RepGraceMeng/status/1910398067389382860" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> in the post.
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While waiting on the runway to fly out of DC today, another plane clipped the wing of the plane my colleagues and I were on. Fortunately, everyone is okay &amp; we&#39;re heading back to New York soon. Thank you to all who reached out with your concerns! <a href="https://t.co/MAbN2E4dcW">pic.twitter.com/MAbN2E4dcW</a>
&mdash; Grace Meng (@RepGraceMeng) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGraceMeng/status/1910398067389382860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In a <a href="https://x.com/davidshepardson/status/1910392673782943921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> announcing &#8220;preliminary&#8221; information, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the wingtip of American Airlines Flight 5490 &#8220;struck&#8221; American Airlines Flight 4522 on a taxiway at Reagan National Airport around 12:45 p.m. local time.
&#8220;Flight 5490, a Bombardier CRJ 900, was headed to Charleston International Airport in South Carolina. Flight 4522, an Embraer E175, was headed to JFK International Airport in New York. The FAA will investigate,&#8221; the agency added.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority confirmed that no one was hurt, noted that both planes returned to gates, and stated that airport operations were not impacted, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wingtip-plane-hits-taxiway-reagan-airport-faa/story?id=120687405&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>.
American Airlines said &#8220;the damage was limited to a winglet on each aircraft&#8221; and the planes &#8220;have been taken out of service to be inspected,&#8221; per the same <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wingtip-plane-hits-taxiway-reagan-airport-faa/story?id=120687405&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news outlet</a>. &#8220;Safety is our top priority, and we apologize to our customers for their experience.&#8221;
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/RepGregoryMeeks/status/1910402204789260659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> that seven members of Congress, including himself, were on board the plane that was clipped, along with dozens of other passengers.
The scare comes a couple months after a mid-air <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-suggests-airport-tower-understaffed-at-time-of-collision-had-been-for-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collision</a> between an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk Helicopter near Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people aboard the aircraft.

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The Kennedy Center just broke its all-time attendance record for a public event it hosted on March 29 despite a massive outcry and multiple protests staged by leftists who are upset that Donald Trump took it over after winning the presidency.
EARTH to SPACE: Arts Breaking the Sky fireworks show set a new mark when 11,000 people showed up to see it, per a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/09/kennedy-center-donald-trump-ric-grenell-earth-space-arts-breaking-sky-festival-fireworks-attendance-record/">report</a> from the Daily Caller. 
A Kennedy Center representative mentioned that 76% of all attendees at the event were first-time visitors. It was open to the public and offered free first-come, first-serve tickets, with a special VIP experience available to the first 800 people who signed up to attend.
“It was wonderful to have so many new visitors at the Kennedy Center for Cai Guo-Qiang’s firework showcase. We look forward to their return for more wonderful programming soon. Everyone is welcome here!” Roma Daravi, VP of PR for the Kennedy Center, told the outlet. 
Trump made headlines earlier this year when he promised to reform the Kennedy Center, which began when he <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5294697/trump-kennedy-center-chairman">replaced</a> its board and was elected chairman. Trump also tapped Special Envoy Richard Grenell as the Center’s interim director.
“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote in February. “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.”
The changes the new board made led to full-scale meltdowns on the Left, including protests expressed through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-protesters-plan-to-save-kennedy-center-with-interpretive-dance-yes-really">interpretive dancing</a>. 
According to a previous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-kennedy-center-is-40-million-in-debt-will-make-major-cuts">report</a> published on The Daily Wire, the Kennedy Center is $40 million in debt and will be making major cuts to staff. 
Kennedy Center Chief Financial Officer Donna Arduin emailed staff last month to reveal “the difficult reality of our current financial situation.”
“For years, the Kennedy Center has been budgeting to lose money. Instead of balancing our bottom line, we have spent all the funds that were raised on paying off part of The REACH debt, leaving us $40 million in debt with no cash to pay our bills,” she wrote in part.
REACH is a multipurpose space that includes rehearsal spaces, studios, and more, which President Donald Trump criticized while visiting the venue.

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The U.S. Treasury building and Hotel Washington were evacuated on Thursday morning following reports of a &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; near the White House.
NewsNation White House correspondent Libbey Dean said on X that the United States Secret Service (USSS) responded to the reports and now says the scene is &#8220;safe.&#8221;
&#8220;USSS responded to reports of a &#8216;suspicious package&#8217; outside the White House today near 15th and Pennsylvania Ave NW around 9:45 this morning,&#8221; Dean posted. &#8220;The scene is now safe, but parts of the Treasury Building and the Hotel Washington were evacuated, per USSS.&#8221;
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USSS responded to reports of a “suspicious package” outside the White House today near 15th and Pennsylvania Ave NW around 9:45 this morning.
The scene is now safe, but parts of the Treasury Building and the Hotel Washington were evacuated, per USSS.
— Libbey Dean (@LibbeyDean_) <a href="https://twitter.com/LibbeyDean_/status/1907840480756556196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/treasury-hotel-evacuated-after-suspicious-package-reported-near-white-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to DC News Now, the Metropolitan Police Department’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team was also called to the scene, before the department determined the area safe, too.
The incident sparked road closures that might still be in effect, other reports indicate.
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The White House and Ellipse areas are closed downtown due to a suspicious package call. 15th to 17th all shut down. <a href="https://t.co/6xzZlhysXf">pic.twitter.com/6xzZlhysXf</a>
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) <a href="https://twitter.com/PenguinSix/status/1907826492580429994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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House GOP leaders scrubbed the floor schedule for the week after a small number of Republicans banded together with Democrats to  safeguard a bipartisan initiative to allow proxy voting for new parents.
Nine Republicans <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202587" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> with 213 Democrats to defeat a rule that provided for consideration of bills that were expected to get votes in the next couple of days, including legislation to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-to-vote-on-restraining-nationwide-injunctions-stop-judicial-overreach-against-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stem</a> the tide of nationwide injunctions and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-to-again-vote-on-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">require</a> voters prove their United States citizenship for federal elections.
What drove the GOP rebellion was language included in the rule that sought to block a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2025031001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discharge petition</a> from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL). The petition had garnered enough signatures — 218 in total — to force leadership to act within two legislative days on a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/23/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> to allow for parental remote voting by proxy.
&#8220;At the last minute, leadership chose to tie my discharge petition to a rules package that would permanently paint me and the members supporting it as being anti-election integrity,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1907187375408914874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Luna, who reportedly <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn48z5q28vyo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">missed</a> 137 votes while recovering from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/us/politics/anna-paulina-luna-house-proxy-voting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complications</a> associated with her giving birth to a son in 2023.
&#8220;Leadership should stop playing political games with President Trump’s agenda,&#8221; she added on X. &#8220;They can bring any of the legislation to the floor. Why would they send Congress home? They’re not serious about anything they are messaging on. I’m not in the business of lying about what is happening in DC.&#8221;
Republican opponents have <a href="https://x.com/mkraju/status/1907144366533333219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised</a> constitutional objections to proxy voting, which took hold several years ago under Democrat leadership during the COVID pandemic, and warned that conceding exceptions for new parents would lead to more allowances.
&#8220;Proxy voting is unconstitutional and will be abused and expanded. Show up for work, or don’t run for Congress,&#8221; Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/chiproytx/status/1907078128410718479" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters he was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; by the outcome of the rule vote and noted that he wanted to &#8220;make clear&#8221; that it meant &#8220;we can&#8217;t have any further action on the floor this week.&#8221;
However, multiple reporters pointed out that leadership could vote on the election integrity bill because it was <a href="https://x.com/jamiedupree/status/1907149737578373320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> in January or <a href="https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1907141365697278232" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;go back to rules&#8221;</a> as the week was less than half-way over.
On Monday, Luna <a href="https://x.com/emilybrooksnews/status/1906813805985755378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that she was leaving the House Freedom Caucus, pinning the decision on how some of the conservative group&#8217;s members sought to defeat her discharge petition.
Rep. Brittany Petterson (D-CO), who sponsored the proxy voting bill, <a href="https://x.com/ABCPolitics/status/1907120319841595412" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on the House floor on Tuesday while holding her newborn baby: &#8220;It is unfathomable that in 2025, we have not modernized Congress to address these very unique challenges that members face.&#8221;

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Hundreds of pro-life activists from across the country gathered on Capitol Hill Thursday to push lawmakers to take advantage of rare opportunity to defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said that over 300 activists from 39 states would meet with congressional offices to urge lawmakers to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process. The last time Republicans had a similar opportunity to gut Planned Parenthood of its funding was in 2017, when the effort failed by one vote in the Senate. 
Planned Parenthood was given around $699 million in taxpayer dollars in 2022-2023, according to its most recent annual report. The federal funding makes up about 34% of the organization’s annual revenue. The same report also revealed the organization ended the lives of nearly 400,000 unborn babies. 
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Daily Wire that the upcoming budget negotiations were the best chance for Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood in eight years. 
“This is the biggest pot of Planned Parenthood and big abortion funding that the federal government is involved in,” she told The Daily Wire. “We provide $2 million a day for this so that they can spend $70 million last election cycle trying to defeat our candidates, unsuccessfully, thank goodness. But most importantly they are using it to build the institution of Planned Parenthood.” 
In 2017, a similar effort fell short after the late Senator John McCain decided at the last minute not to back a reconciliation bill, leaving Republicans one vote short of defunding Planned Parenthood and repealing Obamacare. 
Dannenfelser said now was the “perfect storm” to defund Planned Parenthood, given Republican control of the White House and Congress and the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency. She said that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)was the best speaker pro-lifers have ever worked on this issue. 
“We’ve got a good shot,” she told The Daily Wire, saying that the lobby day was to keep a focus on the defunding so that it wouldn’t be negotiated away during the reconciliation process. The money that could be defunded through reconciliation would be $500 million to Planned Parenthood through Medicaid. 
If successful, Dannenfelser said that it would be a monumental victory for the pro-life moment and could spell doom for Planned Parenthood. 
“You take that amount of money away for one or two years, and I really do think for an already hobbled organization, it could just bring them down,” she said. 
During a Thursday rally with several Republican lawmakers and pro-life activists, Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) said that Planned Parenthood was a “murder for profit organization” that should “never receive another penny of taxpayer dollars.” She added that she was making it her mission to “defund Planned Parenthood once and for all,” saying that its status as a non-profit should be revoked. 
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) also spoke at the event, saying that Planned Parenthood was a “baby killing machine as they abort over a thousand babies every single day.” 
Republicans have promised for years to defund Planned Parenthood after undercover videos published in 2015 showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted baby parts and organs. Yet the abortion provider has continued to receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year. 
The pro-life activists&#8217; visit to Capitol Hill comes one day after 150 national and state pro-lifer organizations sent a <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Defund-Big-Abortion-Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to members of Congress urging them to take action to fully defund Planned Parenthood.

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President Donald Trump plans to impose a 25% tariff on automotive imports to the United States.
Trump announced the new tariff plan from the Oval Office on Wednesday, touting the businesses and jobs that would be “coming back to the United States.” The tariff will kick in on April 3, a day after the president’s plan for reciprocal tariffs is expected to go into effect, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-considers-more-limited-tariff-plans-09b36d26?mod=hp_lead_pos1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“What we’re going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they are made in the United States, there is absolutely no tariff,” Trump said. “Basically, as you know and as you&#8217;ve been seeing – not reporting as accurately as it should be reported cause it’s a massive story – businesses coming back to the United States so that they don’t have to pay tariffs.”
The tariffs will affect automotive parts as well as finished vehicles, an administrative official told WSJ. Auto parts included under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement will remain duty-free until the Commerce Department finalizes a plan to account for each part’s foreign components.
About 45% of the vehicles sold in the United States annually are sourced from foreign countries, with that percentage varying widely by brand. Carmakers such as Volkswagen, BMW, and Toyota are expected to be hit much harder by the tariffs than companies such as Tesla, which makes all of its U.S.-sold vehicles in the United States, or Ford, which manufactures about 80% of its U.S. vehicles in the country, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-auto-tariffs-vehicles-cars-trucks-suvs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>.
The South Korean-based carmaker Hyundai <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/cars/hyundai-investment/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Monday that it planned to invest $20 billion in building its manufacturing capacity in the United States.
In an early morning Truth Social post on Thursday, the president threatened further “large scale tariffs” if Canada and the European Union coordinated against the U.S. tariff structure.
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114232829948632918" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
The White House touted the new tariff plan in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-adjusts-imports-of-automobiles-and-automobile-parts-into-the-united-states/#:~:text=A%202024%20economic%20analysis%20found,real%20household%20incomes%20by%205.7%25." target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact sheet</a> that said the additional duties would protect the U.S. industrial base and strengthen American manufacturing.
“These new tariffs aim to ensure the U.S. can sustain its domestic industrial base and meet national security needs,” the fact sheet says. “Studies have repeatedly shown that tariffs can be an effective tool for reducing or eliminating threats to impair U.S. national security and achieving economic and strategic objectives.”

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President Donald Trump on Thursday called for an investigation into the nation’s courts after the judge attempting to block the deportation flights of suspected gang members was also assigned to preside over the case involving the Signal chat leak between top Trump administration officials that discussed military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. 
In an early morning <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114232682702493359" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Trump ripped into Judge James Boasberg, a liberal U.S. District Court Judge in Washington, D.C., who has a history of undermining border security efforts. Boasberg is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-invokes-state-secrets-privilege-in-gang-member-deportation-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overseeing a case</a> over the deportation flights of suspected members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador and now a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-boasberg-blocked-deportation-signal-chat-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit filed</a> against the Trump administration claiming that the Signal chat violated the Federal Records Act. 
“How disgraceful is it that ‘Judge’ James Boasberg has just been given a fourth ‘Trump Case,’ something which is, statistically, IMPOSSIBLE. There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him. He is Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me — Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome! — but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts,” Trump posted. 
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-trying-to-stop-trump-from-deporting-criminal-illegals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, Boasberg’s wife, Elizabeth Manson, has also been involved in partisan political activity and even donated over $11,000 to Democratic candidates, federal data shows. Manson gave a combined $3,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund and Hillary for America when the Democratic candidate was facing off against Trump in the 2016 election.
In the same Truth Social post, Trump floated the idea of using a wheel system to assign judges to cases. 
“Boasberg, who is the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court, seems to be grabbing the ‘Trump Cases’ all to himself, even though it is not supposed to happen that way. Is there still such a thing as the ‘wheel,’ where the Judges are chosen fairly, and at random? The good news is that it probably doesn’t matter, because it is virtually impossible for me to get an Honest Ruling in D.C.” 
The Trump administration has repeatedly clashed with federal judges over the past few weeks who have put sweeping orders blocking attempted government reforms. Earlier this week, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-end-ongoing-assault-on-constitution-by-federal-judge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> for the Supreme Court to step in and block one federal judge’s order that the government rehire some 16,000 probationary workers. 
“Our Nation’s Courts are broken, with New York and D.C. being the most preeminent of all in their Corruption and Radicalism,” Trump posted Thursday. “There must be an immediate investigation of this Rigged System, before it is too late!”
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/27/grassley-says-legislation-needed-to-limit-nationwide-injunctions-courts-block-trump-agenda/82680667007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">planning</a> a hearing for April 2 to examine “legislative solutions&#8221; to the problem of overreaching decisions from federal judges.

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The Left-wing resistance continues to extend to the courts.
Judges all over the United States are now acting outside of their jurisdiction in striking down nationwide action by the White House on the basis of temporary restraining orders. This was never a part of the American legal landscape until about 1960. There is still no clear Supreme Court precedent as to whether a district court judge can enjoin entire national policies based on a local case that&#8217;s being brought in some far-flung federal jurisdiction.
Now, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of Washington, D.C., has barred the Trump administration from ousting transgendered people from the military.
I was unaware there is a federal right to serve in the military. In fact, there is no federal right to serve in the military. There&#8217;s a whole range of conditions that bar people from serving in the military, ranging from depression to obesity.
The judge <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/reyes-blocks-trans-military-ban-opinion.pdf">said</a> in her opinion, “The Court’s opinion is long, but its premise is simple. In the self-evident truth that ‘all people are created equal,’ all means all. Nothing more. And certainly nothing less.”
Hold up just a second. “All people are created equal” means that people have equal rights. It does not mean they&#8217;re equal in all of their capabilities. 
And whether you serve in the military is a question of capability.
The judge’s perspective can be likened to saying that if you are a legless person, rejection from service as a police officer is some form of discrimination.
It just might make it hard for you to chase criminals.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2162-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
One of the things that makes you less militarily ready is thinking you&#8217;re a member of the opposite sex and then requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars of hormone treatments, facial surgeries, and reconstructive genital surgeries be performed to make you feel better about yourself. I would argue that&#8217;s not a great contributor to military readiness. 
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/1902338216130179147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> this statement: “Currently, district court judges have assumed the mantle of Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security and Commander-in-Chief. Each day, they change the foreign policy, economic, staffing and national security policies of the Administration. Each day the nation arises to see what the craziest unelected local federal judge has decided the policies of the government of the United States shall be. It is madness. It is lunacy. It is pure lawlessness. It is the gravest assault on democracy. It must and will end.”
This is exactly why the Supreme Court needs to take up these cases immediately. Just elevate the issue to the Supreme Court already. What are they doing?
This is the fault of Chief Justice John Roberts. There was a case that was elevated in which the Supreme Court asked whether district court judges had the ability to issue nationwide injunctions, temporary restraining orders. The case was turned down by a majority of the Court.
That&#8217;s why this sort of chaos is emerging in the courts.
If Roberts wants to reestablish some form of actual credibility in the courts, the Supreme Court needs to rule on this matter.
This is precisely what President Trump is actually planning — to get this to the Supreme Court for the purpose of clarity. In a piece titled “Inside Trump’s Supreme Plot on Immigration,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/trump-plot-supreme-court-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> writes, “President Trump has accelerated a multipronged, methodically planned strategy to push the Supreme Court to bless his power to deport vastly more people with vastly fewer judicial restraints, top officials tell Axios. Trump officials see at least five questions that they hope the Supreme Court will answer.”
According to Axios, those questions include: 
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<li>Does a peacetime president have the right to deport noncitizens under the war-time Alien Enemies Act — even if there&#8217;s no declared war against a foreign adversary?</li>
<li>Should a single federal judge in a district court have the power to block a president&#8217;s deportation program nationwide?</li>
<li>Can that federal judge&#8217;s order extend to international waters and demand that a plane full of deportees turn around mid-flight?</li>
<li>Does a green card holder like Khalil have speech rights that protect him from deportation? Or can the secretary of state unilaterally declare his speech &#8220;adverse&#8221; to U.S. foreign policy interests because the government alleges it aligns with the terror group Hamas?</li>
<li>Can the secretary of state&#8217;s power to deport immigrants based on foreign-policy concerns extend to so many student visa holders that some colleges won&#8217;t be able to admit foreign-exchange students?</li>
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Trump seeking clarity from the Supreme Court is just how the system is supposed to work.
Getting the Supreme Court to rule on issues is part of their job.
And they should do it.

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Parents Defending Education sued the Education Department on Thursday for Biden-era records that were not handed over during the previous administration, according to a copy of the lawsuit shared with The Daily Wire. 
The parental rights group <a href="https://defendinged.org/lawsuits/pde-files-complaint-against-the-u-s-department-of-education-to-compel-compliance-with-ignored-foias/">filed a suit</a> in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to compel cooperation with several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed during the Biden administration. According to the suit, the Biden administration did not make a good faith effort to comply with numerous FOIA requests filed by PDE seeking information on the department&#8217;s activities. 
“The lawsuit is a culmination of PDE’s long-standing document requests that were not honored by the previous Department of Education’s leadership during the Biden Administration,” PDE Vice President Sarah Parshall Perry told The Daily Wire. 
&#8220;In pursuit of its stated mission to prevent the politicization of K-12 education, PDE is looking forward to finally providing the public with information relative to the discriminatory aims of the prior Education Department, and where its taxpayer dollars were being spent,” Perry added. 
Specifically, the suit seeks answers to FOIAs filed looking for records related to the National Parents and Family Engagement Council (filed July 2022), the communications of Education Department Employee Kristina Ishmael (filed December 2022), documents related to Biden’s assistant secretary of education for civil rights Catherine Lhamon (June 2023), documents related to then Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona (June 2023), and any usage of the term “from the river to the sea” by multiple Education Department employees (February 2024).
The search for communications from Ishmael asked for references to terms like “white supremacy,” “BIPOC,” “folx,” “colonizer,” and “evangelical.”
The suit says that the department has violated FOIA law by refusing to make timely responses to the requests. 
“The Department has made no ‘determination’ as to PDE’s FOIA requests, made no reasonable effort to search for responsive documents, and produced no documents responsive to PDE’s FOIA request,” the suit says. &#8220;The Department’s failure to make promptly available the records sought by PDE violates FOIA and the Department’s corresponding regulations.&#8221;
Parents Defending Education would like a judge to order the department to produce the documents in question by a certain date and detail specifically why, if any, records were ruled exempt. 
The lawsuit comes amid massive expected changes at the Department of Education. President Donald Trump is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-expected-to-sign-order-thursday-dismantling-education-department?topStoryPosition=undefined">expected</a> to sign an executive order Thursday at 4:00 p.m. that will direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start taking steps to dismantle the department.

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SWAT teams were on the scene near the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday, according to local law enforcement.
The Fairfax County Police Department said that &#8220;Dolley Madison Blvd is shut down in both directions between Georgetown Pk and Savile Ln in McLean for a barricade incident at @CIA HQ.&#8221;
&#8220;Our Special Operations Division is on scene assisting. Please follow police direction,&#8221; the department added.
Around 3:30 EST, police said that the suspect had been taken into custody.
&#8220;The barricade incident has been resolved,&#8221; police said. &#8220;The suspect surrendered to FCPD negotiators and is in custody.&#8221;
Local media <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/cia-headquarters-threats-police-presence-bomb-squad-team-fairfax-county-police-mclean-safety-public-government-trump-administration">reported</a> that it appeared as though a bomb squad was also present, but it was unclear if that was precautionary or if law enforcement had reason to believe that there was some kind of an explosive threat.
The incident comes after the Trump administration released files on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday evening, although it was unclear whether the incident was connected to the situation at the CIA headquarters.
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