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Senate Moves to Fund Most of DHS After Shutdown Disrupts Airports

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Security but withhold funds from ICE, as a weeks-long partial government shutdown caused widespread disruptions at airports.

Senate Democrats blocked DHS funding last month, as they pressed to rein in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

The funding shortfall has left tens of thousands of Transportation Security Administration employees working without pay, prompting some airport security officers to call in sick or resign.

 As the standoff in Congress persisted, President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would take executive action to pay 50,000 airport security workers in an effort to address staff shortages that have snarled travel around the country.

The Senate bill would fund DHS components such as TSA and the U.S. Coast Guard but withhold funds from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives could vote on the bill as early as Friday.

"This agreement funds TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA, strengthens security at the border and ports of entry, and keeps America safe," Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.

"Democrats held firm in our opposition that Donald Trump's rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms," he added.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Democrats had damaged Congress' annual funding process, weakened national security, and set "a precedent that they may one day come to regret."

"Democrats remained intransigent and unreasonable with their list of demands," she said in a statement.

 

Trump Calls Into Fox News Show, Obliterates Failed CA Gov. Gavin Newsom As Only He Can

There are certain politicians that I have a visceral — highly negative — reaction to. At the top of the list is California Democrat Senator Adam Schiff, followed closely by Golden State gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) and the repellant Rep. Dan Goldman (NY-10).

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), the lip-smacking, speech-ripping former speaker of the House, also deserves honorable mention, but let’s be real: she no longer seems to be relevant anymore.

So I understand that not everyone finds President Donald Trump funny or entertaining and thinks his policies are destructive. Many relatives and friends I know cringe at the sight of him.

That doesn’t dissuade me, however, from reaching my own conclusion, which is that he is genuinely funny as hell, is still sharp as a tack at 79 years old, and is dead right on most of the issues. He proved it once again when he phoned into the Fox News show The Five on Thursday.

While the president talked about a number of issues, he was at his best when he exposed California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the failed fraud that he is. I moved to California over 30 years ago, and over the last seven years, I have watched as Gov. Hair Gel and the far-left Democrat legislature have virtually destroyed the state with endless taxes and regulations, one of the most draconian COVID policies in the nation, and an utter inability to solve the problems of homelessness, crime, and fraud.

 Trump let him have it:

 Trump was asked which of the potential Democrat candidates for president would do better, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who the president crushed in the 2024 election after Biden dropped out, or Newsom.

Trump, as his custom, didn’t hold back:

Well, first of all, he [Newsom] said he can't read. Okay? You know, he did an interview...

That was maybe the worst interview for a professional politician that I've ever seen. He said he's mentally incompetent. He can't read a speech. He said things about his brain, he's got bad Board scores.

And then he looked at the room, and he said something to the effect that, uh, I'm dumb, just like all you people. And he ends up being called a racist because of that statement.

True:

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Trump, ever loquacious, wasn’t done:

This was the worst interview, but he admitted that he was a stupid person. And we don't want a stupid person as president. And if you watch him with the hands and everything else, there's something wrong with the guy. [Brutal, but true. Watch the above video if you don’t believe me.]

Uh, he's a nice looking guy, but he's losing the look… It happens…

Now, normally, I would condemn a person for making fun of someone’s mental state or learning issues, but this isn’t just “someone” we’re talking about. This is a guy who almost certainly will be running to be the next president of the United States, and we’ve seen that movie before — very recently:

He admits that he suffers from mental disability. He admits it. And somebody said a reporter, a fake reporter, said to me, well, it's not fair that you talk about he's mentally disabled. 

I said, Yeah, but he said that he's essentially mentally disabled. And I think it's fine. I just don't want it in a president. Okay? We have enough problems. We just had that, by the way. 

We went through four years of that, and look what it got us. Not good.

I don’t think Newsom should be disqualified as a serious candidate because of dyslexia, his upbringing, or anything else of that nature. I think he should be soundly rejected by the American voters because he has an unbelievable record of failure, and his woke policies have destroyed countless lives and demolished the California dream.

Bonus coverage: Trump also smoked the liberal on the show, Jessica Tarlov, who, although she wasn't there for this segment, often looks like she’s experiencing extreme stomach pain and will jump to the defense of even the most ludicrous policies, much to the chagrin of co-host Greg Gutfeld:

President Trump: “I watch Jessica and I’m not a fan. She uses fake numbers. She’ll give, ‘Well he’s only polling at 42%.’ That’s not right. I’m polling very high actually. I hate people that use fake polls.”

“I’m sure I’d like her. I’m sure she's a lovely person… She’s just not for me.”

“Now tell me, did she not want to do it, or did you kick her off the show?”

Donald Trump is blunt, he is coarse, and he often says things that are not “politically correct.” I get that he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But after eight years of Barack Obama, four years of Joe Biden, seven years of Gavin Newsom, 39 years of Nancy Pelosi, and 45 years of Chuck Schumer, we’ve seen the Democrats’ playbook, and it’s a mission to destroy everything that makes the United States special.

If it takes a bull in a china shop to right the ship, then so be it. Eat it, Democrats.

Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.  

As Iran War Tightens Global Supply Lines, Trump Rolls Out New Minerals and Energy Strategy

The Trump administration is putting $250 million into a new Pax Silica fund aimed at critical minerals, energy infrastructure, and semiconductor supply chains.

The State Department said the funding will support extraction, processing, and manufacturing tied to secure chip supply chains while helping pull in larger pools of private and allied capital. It also said the fund is intended to “catalyze trusted capital” from sovereign wealth and institutional investors backing supply chain security.

Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg said the U.S. would administer the consortium, which is expected to draw from partners managing more than $1 trillion in combined assets. Early participants include SoftBank, Temasek, and Mubadala, as well as sovereign wealth funds from allied countries.

Helberg said the group already has projects lined up for review.

“We’re starting it as a coalition… we already have a list of projects that we’re going to review,” he said of planned joint investment decision.

Helberg tied the effort to the war with Iran, where shipping routes and energy flows were disrupted. The Strait of Hormuz blockade pushed the effort further into energy infrastructure and logistics planning. That is the kind of disruption this fund is trying to get ahead of. Ports, logistics corridors, communications networks, and power systems are now being treated as part of the same strategic layer as semiconductors and AI systems.

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China’s dominance over rare earth processing remains a central pressure point. Export controls on key minerals and magnets have already spooked manufacturers that depend on those materials. New domestic and allied mineral supply chains will take years to come together, even with funding in place.

 The State Department describes Pax Silica as linking artificial intelligence, semiconductors, energy, and minerals with partner nations.

“We believe that true economic security requires reducing excessive dependencies and forging new connections with reliable partners and suppliers committed to fair market practices.”

Helberg said the goal is to keep the “minerals, ports, corridors, factories and energy assets” behind supply chains in “trusted hands.” The administration is treating control over supply chains as leverage, not just commerce.

Officials are discussing a broader $4 trillion investment target tied to energy, minerals, and semiconductor infrastructure, though details remain limited. The scale does not match the underlying numbers, and the gap is hard to miss. Total global foreign direct investment last year was about $1.6 trillion, making a $4 trillion target an aggressive leap by comparison. The administration has not explained how that level of capital would be assembled.

New mining capacity, refining operations, and semiconductor infrastructure projects will take years to build, even with funding and political alignment in place. Washington is now treating minerals, ports, power, and chipmaking capacity as strategic assets. That does not guarantee the money will come, but it makes clear where this is going.

Watch This NJ Lawmaker Cut Through Gov. Sherill's Anti-ICE Law Like a Blowtorch Through Butter

All you can do here is laugh: a state telling a federal law enforcement agency how to operate.

 That’s not how any of this works. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherill 

 

signed into law some piece of paper stating that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can’t be masked or something, among other things. Lady, you can’t do that. Toilet paper used to wipe one’s a** is more useful than what you just signed. 

Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia

 

 cut through this like a blowtorch through butter. She reminded Trenton that there is a thing called the Supremacy Clause. The governor cannot dictate to ICE how to operate. It’s just not how this works:

So, congratulations on getting high marks for political theater, Mikie, but ICE doesn’t have to obey, and they won’t. ICE is funded through 2029. The deportations will continue, especially in New Jersey. Even with this agency helping out TSA at our airports, TSA can still do its job.   

Here's What Happened When CNN Reported Trump Nuked the Dems' Leverage in DHS Shutdown Fight

That’s it. Sorry, Democrats, you lose to Trump again. Your leverage was undermined when the president signed an order allowing the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA agents. The agency has funds from last year’s tax cut bill. Democrats will spin this, claiming Trump had the money to pay the agents and avoid long airport lines. That’s not going to work, guys. You caused this shutdown. 

 The funding bill was non-controversial; it didn’t allocate funds for DHS during Operation Epic Fury, and the increasing threats of terrorist retaliation are outrageous. We’re now at a point where even the media is reporting on your widespread foolishness regarding this issue. I’m also annoyed with Republicans, who gave Democrats too much leeway in terms of respect and decency. It’s obvious they just want to harm American workers — this was an anti-Trump tantrum. Plain and simple. They were likely to lose the fight, especially when ICE agents were deployed at airports, easing TSA workload and reducing security lines. 

Here’s how CNN reported on Trump’s order, with some calling it a deer in the headlights moment:

Deer in the headlights moment for CNN.

After weeks of nonstop coverage blaming President Trump and Republicans for TSA workers going unpaid during the DHS shutdown, the network was forced to READ the news that Trump is now signing an executive order to pay them.

This was the… pic.twitter.com/m1wN7ccoLl

— Overton (@overton_news) March 26, 2026

New: The money Trump is using to pay TSA is available from last year’s tax cuts bill (which also spent billions on immigration enforcement), according to an administration official. More w/ @burgessev: https://t.co/qIUSBhPn74

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) March 27, 2026

AKA what Dems have been asking for for weeks.... https://t.co/jwn91T1ly4

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 27, 2026

CNN: “Isn’t ICE funded?”

SWALWELL: “So why don’t we fund TSA?”

CNN: “In the offer that Senate Republicans brought to you a few days ago, there was a plan to... fund the rest of it…”

SWALWELL: “That’s right.”

CNN: “And yet Democrats said no.” pic.twitter.com/X7ikU669l5

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 26, 2026

It had to be done. And no, Democrats have been toying around on this for too long. Ignore what they say, treat them like idiots, and bulldoze them. Nuke the legislative filibuster and put that pillow over their heads.  

Enough of this.  

Also, for everyone fretting about splitting the DHS funding proposals, which would not include monies for ICE, that could’ve been handled in a new reconciliation bill. That also needs to happen. 

Editor’s Note: Democrats are causing chaos at airports and inflicting pain on the American people simply because they want to keep illegal aliens from being deported. 

DOJ probes Calif. and Maine over transgender housing policies in women’s prisons amid rise in rape reports

The Trump administration has launched federal investigations into California and Maine following allegations of sexual assault and violent harassment linked to policies that house biological males with gender dysphoria in female correctional facilities.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that it is probing whether the presence of biological males in women’s prisons violates the constitutional rights of female inmates, specifically citing reports of rape and a case of pregnancy resulting from these placements.

Governors Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) and Janet Mills (D-Maine) were officially notified of the investigation, which aims to determine if these state-level housing mandates infringe upon the 8^th and 14^th Amendment protections afforded to the female prison population.

“The Justice Department will investigate whether California engages in a pattern or practice of violating the constitutional rights of female prisoners incarcerated at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in San Bernardino County and the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Madera County,” the statement read. “The Justice Department also will investigate whether Maine similarly engages in a pattern or practice of violating constitutional rights of women incarcerated at Maine Correctional Center in Windham (MCC Windham).”

 

The investigations were prompted by a California-based campaign led by women’s rights groups Women Are Real and WomanIIWoman. The groups are drawing attention to the slew of ongoing reports of sexual assaults committed by gender dysphoric male inmates against women in correctional facilities.

At the heart of the campaign lies the high-profile legal proceedings involving 52-year-old Tremaine Carroll. The case gained significant attention following charges filed in March, which allege that Carroll — a biological male who identifies as a woman — raped a female inmate, impregnating her, while incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla.

“After his first cellmate became pregnant and was moved to Los Angeles, two other cellmates of his had complained that he had raped them, so we have filed rape charges against this inmate,” said Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno, who also asserted that “this is a person who is not a woman in any sense of the word.”

  

Carroll was sent to a women’s prison under California Senate Bill 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, signed by Newsom in 2020. A Madera County judge ruled in February that the inmate must be referred to using feminine pronouns.

“California’s Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act has provided none of these qualities to the female inmates of state prisons who have been forced to share space with biological men who are violent felons,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California.  “Our Constitution protects women from having their civil rights violated by harmful state legislation wrapped in the language of ‘equity’ and ‘progress.’”

The DOJ further vowed to investigate allegations of the “deprivation of female prisoners’ rights.”

 

“Keeping men out of women’s prisons is not only common sense – it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in the DOJ’s statement. “The Trump Administration will not stand by if governors are facilitating the abuse of biological women under the guise of inclusion.”

“Under my leadership, the Civil Rights Division will not allow women incarcerated in jails or prisons to be subject to unconstitutional risks of harm from male inmates,” stated Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. “These investigations will uncover whether the dangerous national trend of housing men in women’s prisons has resulted in violations of women’s constitutional rights.”

In addition to the legal updates, Dhillon shared the formal correspondence dispatched to the two Democrat governors. These letters serve as an official notification that should any constitutional violations be identified within their respective states, the DOJ intends to “attempt to work with the state to remedy those violations.”

 

By phrasing the outreach this way, the DOJ appears to be signaling a preference for collaborative reform over immediate litigation, while still making it clear that federal oversight is actively being applied to state-level operations.

 

Spring Break Ignorance: Is America’s Future Being Wasted?

Watching those viral spring break interviews feels like seeing the future of our country checked into a motel and left to rot. Young Americans, drunk on slogans and social media catechisms, stumbled through basic questions about politics, geography, and real-world consequences with embarrassing ease. It wasn’t just bad trivia night — it was a snapshot of civic illiteracy that our elites cheered on while they dismantled patriotism in classrooms and public life.

What’s striking is how proud many of them seemed to be of their ignorance, trained to value performative outrage over knowledge and muscle memory over mastery. This is the predictable harvest of a generation raised on cable punditry, woke curricula, and a college industrial complex that rewards conformity and punishes independent thought. Hardworking Americans who pay taxes and serve in our armed forces deserve a country where the next generation can name allies, threats, and the fundamentals of how our republic operates.

The political consequences are terrifying but obvious: a populace that cannot distinguish fact from fashionable myth is easy prey for demagogues and hard-left activists who want to remake America on the fly. If elections hinge on who yells loudest on social apps instead of who can argue policy soberly, we will lose not because our ideas were worse but because our people were unprepared. National security, economic competence, and common-sense governance require citizens who know more than hashtags.

 Blame does not fall only on the kids; it lands squarely on teachers, administrators, and media gatekeepers who have prioritized identity and grievance over history and civics. Parents who surrendered their authority to institutions must also answer for letting schools become seminaries for ideology rather than nurseries for virtue. Meanwhile, corporate media laughs from the sidelines or weaponizes these soft-target interviews to push the very narratives that hollow out our culture.

There is a conservative remedy and it begins with reclaiming education and family life. Teach civics again, inoculate children against propaganda by encouraging critical thinking, and restore a culture that honors work, responsibility, and love of country. We must demand accountability from universities that churn out activists instead of apprentices and from policymakers who fund programs that leave kids ignorant of how America was built.

Patriots cannot respond with mockery alone; we must organize, register, teach, and vote. This viral humiliation of spring breakers should be a wake-up call — not an excuse to sneer, but a call to build institutions that actually prepare young Americans to defend liberty. The future of the republic depends on whether conservatives rise to the challenge or continue to let the next generation be manufactured by a hostile cultural elite.

 

Undercover Video Exposes LA's Shocking Ballot Forgery Scheme

America deserves leaders who protect the sanctity of our votes, not stories about desperate people being used as pawns in a scheme to steal elections. This week James O’Keefe and his team released undercover footage alleging a brazen cash-for-ballots operation on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, showing what appears to be petition circulators exploiting the homeless to forge signatures and pad petition drives. The videos, if accurate, are an ugly reminder that our election system can be gamed when the powerful choose to look the other way.

The footage reportedly shows petitioners handing out printed lists of registered voters’ names and addresses, assigning fake identities, and paying signers as little as two to three dollars a form while coaching them exactly what to write. One clip captures a petitioner telling a signer, “You only write what I tell you to write,” which is exactly the kind of coordinated forgery that should set off alarm bells for every citizen who cares about fair elections. Conservatives have long warned that lax oversight and malign actors will exploit loopholes; this alleged operation underscores that peril.

This isn’t a hypothetical problem. Los Angeles has seen similar schemes before — prosecutions in prior years confirmed that some operatives paid homeless people with cash and cigarettes to sign bogus petitions and registration forms. The pattern is familiar: when the left expands convenient voting mechanisms without enforcing basic checks, bad actors find ways to monetize the system and disenfranchise honest voters. Voters must not shrug off another episode of predictable fraud; they must demand accountability now.

 For years James O’Keefe and colleagues have exposed shady ballot-harvesting and registration schemes, and whether you praise or loathe his methods, these new videos demand an immediate and impartial investigation. Left-wing defenders and legacy media will reflexively dismiss any conservative-run sting operation, but bias cannot be allowed to protect corruption. The proper response is simple: law enforcement and election officials should examine the footage, subpoena records, and prosecute wrongdoing, not attack the messenger.

Washington and California insiders who have spent years lecturing hardworking Americans about civic virtue owe the public more than platitudes — they owe results. If officials truly care about the franchise, they will follow the evidence where it leads, secure petition and signature verification processes, and enact real penalties for those who prey on the vulnerable to manipulate outcomes. Empty investigations and media spin won’t cut it; we need prosecutions and reforms that restore integrity.

This story is a clarion call for patriots across the country: demand transparency at your county elections office, insist on audits of petition circulators, and never accept the excuse that complexity or compassion justifies sloppy or criminal behavior. Protecting the ballot box is not partisan theater — it’s the bedrock of self-government. If Americans of all stripes don’t act now, the next scheme will be bigger and bolder, and the consequence will be less trust, not more.

 

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