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Compiled by Michael Hernandez, 3-14-25
There are so many stories making up the mosaic of national/international news that we can’t cover them all every week. The biggest stories now seem to be: the Trump presidency, immigration (migrants and illegals), wars, weaponization of government (the deep state) against Trump and conservatives, our nation’s debt, massive inflation, climate change controversy and related expenses of government, industry attempting to address these issues, the Chinese threat, national security, abortion, Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), taxpayer cuts, and Ukraine peace. Here are just a few:
March 10: Fox By Charles Creitz
DOGE Lawmakers Look To Defund Biden’s $3B EV Postal Truck ‘Boondoggle’
Two top DOGE lawmakers are introducing a bill to claw back $3 billion authorized under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which was designated to create an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for the United States Postal Service (USPS). A South Carolina defense contractor responsible for the 60,000-vehicle order was already “far behind schedule” as of November. A Washington Post exposé revealed that by then, fewer than 100 of these vehicles had been delivered to USPS.
Citing that, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, DOGE Caucus chair, and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, will be forwarding the “Return to Sender Act,” seeking to recoup what is about 30% of the overall appropriation in Biden’s law that was intended to be geared toward reducing inflation. The Postal Service was to receive an initial order of 50,000 EV delivery trucks from defense contractor Oshkosh within the next three years, but only 93 had been produced by November, according to the Post.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-lawmakers-defund-bidens-3b-ev-postal-truck-boondoggle
March 10: Gateway Pundit By Ben Kew
Marco Rubio Declares USAID Audit Complete — Vast Majority Of ‘Foreign Aid’ Programs Will Now Be Axed
The audit of USAID is complete. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that the audit into the agency’s spending activities has finished, and 83 percent of programs will be canceled.
“The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” said Senator Rubio. “In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18 percent of programs we are keeping (approximately 1,000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.”
March 10: RedState Opinion By Rep. Eric Burlson, Rep. Chip Roy, Rep Andy Harris
Freedom Caucus Members: The US Must Choose Either $20 Trillion In Debt Or Medicaid Reform
In 10 years, the United States is on course to add $20 trillion to the national debt, setting the total sum owed by American taxpayers at over $56 trillion. Every year we spend in the red, interest on the debt continues to accumulate, until by 2051, when interest alone will be the largest line item in the federal budget. Put simply, we are on a collision course with a total financial crisis, and Congress may only have a handful of chances left to turn back. To prevent a total collapse of the U.S. dollar and give the American people the opportunities they deserve, lawmakers must reform Medicaid. To do anything less borders on malfeasance.
We are not asking you to slash Medicaid, only turn back the clock and reverse its explosive expansion in the last few years that has put it on an unsustainable course. In the last five years, federal Medicaid spending has skyrocketed from $409 billion in 2019 to $618 billion in 2024, a 51% increase. Despite being 60 years old, a third of Medicaid’s growth has occurred in those same five years. And in the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicaid will cost more than $1 trillion annually, rivaling the size of Saudi Arabia’s current economy. Medicaid was never meant to be this expansive.
Medicaid was intended to assist vulnerable populations like the disabled, pregnant women, children and people in poverty. Today, able-bodied, working-capable adults are on course to become the largest subgroup on Medicaid. Nationwide, there are an estimated 24.6 million able-bodied, working-capable adults on Medicaid, 60% of whom report no earned income. Coupled with the Biden administration’s unilateral expansion of food stamps, the federal government is effectively discouraging a substantial portion of the able-bodied American population from seeking employment altogether.
The “safety net” has become a full-blown poverty trap, keeping Americans in an endless cycle of dependency and diverting resources from those who truly need help. In some states, higher provider rates for expansion enrollees have created an explicit financial incentive for healthcare providers to discriminate against traditional enrollees. Single moms, infants and the disabled are being pushed aside in favor of able-bodied adults without dependents.
March 10: Gateway Pundit By Cristina Laila
Six Criminals Were Pardoned With Biden Autopen – Signed In Washington – On Same Day Joe Biden Vacationed And Golfed In St. Croix
Last week Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the Justice Department to investigate whether White House staffers exploited Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and issued far-left orders at the end of his presidency without his knowledge. Andrew Bailey cited Joe Biden’s decision to commute the federal death sentences of nearly 40 prisoners on death row.
March 10:NewsMax
Senate Confirms Lori Chavez-DeRemer As Trump’s Labor Secretary
The Senate voted Monday to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary, a Cabinet position that puts her in charge of enforcing federally mandated worker rights and protections at a time when the White House is trying to eliminate thousands of government jobs. Chavez-DeRemer will oversee the Department of Labor, one of several executive departments named in lawsuits challenging the authority of billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to order layoffs and access sensitive government data.
The Labor Department had nearly 16,000 full-time employees and a proposed budget of $13.9 billion for fiscal year 2025. Some of its vast responsibilities include reporting the U.S. unemployment rate; regulating workplace health and safety standards; investigating minimum wage, child labor, and overtime pay disputes; and applying laws on union organizing and unlawful terminations.
Several prominent labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, endorsed Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination. The former Republican congresswoman from Oregon is the daughter of a Teamster, and during her one term in the House earned a reputation as pro-labor. The Senate voted to confirm Chavez-DeRemer 67-32.
March 11: Breitbart By John Carr
Trump Hits Canada With 50 Percent Steel And Aluminum Tariffs, Warns Of More To Come
President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Canada, announcing late Monday that he will double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50 percent, citing Ontario’s move to levy a tax on U.S. electricity exports. “This will go into effect Tomorrow Morning, March 12th,” Trump declared in a Truth Social post, emphasizing the urgency of the measure. The hike comes just hours before an already-planned 25 percent tariff was set to take effect at midnight, marking yet another sharp shift in U.S.-Canada trade relations under Trump’s second term.
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The president’s move underscores his determination to confront what he sees as Canada’s unfair trade policies, particularly its long-standing protectionist measures on key industries. Trump further warned that if Canada does not roll back tariffs on dairy products and other U.S. agricultural products, he will impose even broader restrictions on Canadian exports starting April 2. “Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous,” Trump said.
The White House is also preparing to increase tariffs on Canadian automobiles and auto parts, a move that could deliver a serious blow to Canada’s manufacturing sector. In February, Trump delayed a round of tariffs on Canadian goods, and last week, he announced a one-month extension for most imports, including auto parts, after consultations with U.S. automakers.
March 12: Breitbart By Oliver JJ Lane
Left-Wing Punished In Surprise Greenland Election Result, Next Govt May Be More Trump-Friendly
Dramatic and unexpected election results in Greenland saw long-governing legacy parties kicked out of power and more right-wing, pro-American politicians set to dominate parliament for the first time. The provisional results for the Greenlandic elections held on Tuesday show a historic result not forecast by pollsters, with the longstanding political establishment parties punished and relegated to third and fourth positions, respectively.
The election comes amid intense discussion of Greenland’s potential independence domestically and global attention over U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated overtures to the country to become part of the United States. As things stand, Greenland is now a region of its former colonial master Denmark, and as well as being divided between left and right, its politics are also split into pro- and anti-independence camps.
The present Greenland government is a coalition of the largest party, the left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit, and the second-largest, the centre-left Siumut. Both parties are pro-independence but not especially friendly to America and certainly not to Donald Trump. Voters punished both parties, which have dominated Greenland politics since the 1970s, yesterday, falling from 12 seats to five and from ten to four, respectively.
Now, the largest party is the centre-right Democrats, with a vote share surging 21 points and seats increasing from three to ten. In second place are the centrist Naleraq, up 12.5 points and seats doubled from four to eight. Between them, these two parties — also pro-independence — have enough to form a government and coalition negotiations will likely follow.
March 12: Brietbart By Kurt Zindulka
European Union to Target Republican States With Tariffs In Trump Trade War
The European Union is reportedly seeking to put pressure specifically on Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariff measures on American businesses amid the trade war with the Trump administration. As an order from U.S. President Donald Trump to impose global 25 per cent tariffs on aluminum and steel products, which are expected to impact an estimated $28 billion worth of EU exports to America, Brussels announced on Wednesday a package of countermeasures covering about the same in American exports to the bloc.
According to the Associated Press, EU officials admitted that their tariffs would be “aimed at products made in Republican-held states,” including meat produced in Kansas and Nebraska and lumber products from Alabama and Georgia. The bloc will also impose levies against American bourbon whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
March 12: Fox News By Adam Shaw
Trump ICE Unleashed On Biden Admin After Arrests Surpass All 2024 Data: ‘Cooking The Books’
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests since President Donald Trump took office are already outpacing arrests made in all of 2024, the agency said Wednesday — while saying the Biden administration had been “cooking the books” on its numbers.
Senior officials said that the majority of the overall 113,431 arrests made in FY 2024 were “pass through” arrests meaning that ICE didn’t take an enforcement action against those foreign nationals, and they instead just passed through ICE before being released into the interior and were told to report to an ICE office. They stressed that none of the arrests made by ICE under the Trump administration have been “pass through” arrests.
As for interior arrests, in FY 2024, ICE enforcement removal operations made 33,242 at-large arrests, only 29 percent of all ICE arrests. For comparison, officials say that ICE made 32,809 arrests from Jan. 20 to March 10, meaning they will surpass the FY 2024 number this week. Of those arrests,14,111 were convicted criminals and 9,980 have pending criminal charges. Over 1,150 were suspected gang members, two and a half times the 483 arrested in the same period last year.
March 13: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Rep. James Comer And FBI To Bring Criminal Charges Against ActBlue Operatives In Largest Money Laundering Scheme In U.S. History
The hammer is about to drop on ActBlue, the Democrats’ golden goose of fundraising, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) teams up with the FBI to expose what could be the biggest money-laundering scandal in American political history.
In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, Comer laid out a damning case against the far-left fundraising juggernaut, accusing it of funneling billions in suspicious cash—potentially from foreign adversaries—into Democrat coffers under the guise of “grassroots” donations. “We’re investigating ActBlue the same way we investigated the Bidens,” Comer said. “We’re starting with the suspicious activity reports—bank violations that flag financial crimes. And let me tell you, the evidence is overwhelming.”
As Comer’s investigation progresses, chaos is unfolding inside ActBlue. Key executives are resigning. Lawyers are jumping ship. Employees are getting locked out of their computers, sending frantic messages about whistleblowers.
March 14: Breitbart By Oliver JJ Lane
Trump ‘Strongly Requests’ Putin Signs Ceasefire To Spare Lives Of ‘Thousands’ Of Troops
President Trump moved to prevent “a horrible massacre” on Friday, calling U.S.-Russia talks in Moscow “productive” but “strongly” calling on Russia’s Putin to stop fighting immediately to end the killing. U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed to his frequently cited motivations for ending the Ukraine War — to end the slaughter of thousands, in what he has previously called “killing fields” — in a message to Russian Federation President Vladimir asking him to agree to a ceasefire. In January, President Trump expressed the intelligence on casualties as he knew it, saying: “We have numbers, almost a million Russian soldiers have been killed. About 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed. Russia’s bigger, they have more soldiers to lose. But that’s still no way to run a country.”
Ukraine has claimed this week that 2024 was the most deadly of the war for Russia so far, the country having allegedly sustained more casualties than 2022 and 2023 combined. Of the 434,000 casualties said to have been inflicted on Russian Federation forces in 2024, “approximately 150,000” are claimed to be kills.
President Zelensky was asked straight whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s estimates of casualties on both sides of the war were accurate, and responded with figures that suggest a massive differential between Russian and Ukrainian deaths. He said: “Approximately around 350,000 Russians have been killed… further they have around 600-700,000 wounded”. President Zelensky said the “ratio” of wounded and killed in the conflict was much higher for Russia because “their field medicine is weaker than ours, and they do not bring people who are wounded back,” suggesting it is Ukraine’s understanding that Russia leaves its wounded soldiers to die in the field.
For Ukraine, on the other hand, he said, “the exact numbers are very important for us: 45,100 people are dead, and we have around 390,000 cases of people wounded”. Assuming the figures are close to correct in all cases, President Zelensky asserted Russia has suffered over seven-and-a-half-times more combat deaths than the Ukrainian army.
Michael Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service and writes for CitizensJournal.net. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor and writes the weekly “CaliRed News” and is editor of the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and monthly “Election 2026 Countdown.” Mr. Hernandez mentors citizens journalists and can be contacted at [email protected]
