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Trump Says He Has 'No Problem' With Russian Oil to Cuba

President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he has “no problem” with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the island, which has been brought to its knees by a U.S. oil blockade.

“We have a tanker out there. We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload because they need ... they have to survive,” Trump told reporters as he flew back to Washington.

When asked if a New York Times report that the tanker would be allowed to reach Cuba was true, Trump said: “I told them, if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem whether it’s Russia or not.”

 Tracking data shows the oil tanker carrying approximately 730,000 barrels of oil, was just off the eastern tip of the island on Sunday night and slated to arrive in the city of Matanzas by Tuesday.

Journalists working for Cuban state media also reported the on the boat's expected arrival, though Cuban officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The vessel, Anatoly Kolodkin, is sanctioned by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom following the war in Ukraine.

Trump, whose government has come at its Caribbean adversary more aggressively than any U.S. government in recent history, has effectively cut Cuba off from key oil shipments in an effort to force regime change. The blockade has had devastating effects on the civilians Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio say they want to help, leaving many desperate.

Island-wide blackouts have roiled Cubans already grappling with years of crisis, and lack of gasoline and basic resources has crippled hospital and slashed public transport.

Experts say the anticipated shipment could produce about 180,000 barrels of diesel -- enough to feed Cuba’s daily demand for nine or 10 days.

Island-wide blackouts have roiled Cubans already grappling with years of crisis, and lack of gasoline and basic resources has crippled hospital and slashed public transport.

Cuba has long been at the heart of geopolitical tug-of-war between the U.S. and Russia, dating back decades. Trump on Sunday dismissed the idea that allowing the boat to reach Cuba would help Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“It doesn’t help him. He loses one boatload of oil, that’s all it is. If he wants to do that, and if other countries want to do it, it doesn’t bother me much,” Trump said. “It’s not going to have an impact. Cuba’s finished. They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership and whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”

He added: “I’d prefer letting it in, whether it’s Russia or anybody else because the people need heat and cooling and all of the other things.”

CPAC 2026: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Talks the MAHA Agenda One Year In

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. was greeted by cheers and ovations as he closed out CPAC 2026. As one of the most popular Cabinet officials, he offered insight into what a year of initiatives and programs geared to Make America Great Again and Make America Healthy Again looked like under Health and Human Services (HHS).

In a very personal reflection, Kennedy spoke about his time in the Cabinet, particularly in his relationship with President Donald Trump. 

Kennedy said:

"Well, let me just say this: President Trump is exactly the opposite of everything that I believed him to be. And, you know, I meant, you know, I basically drank the Kool-Aid that he was this, you know, malignant narcissist, who didn't read books, and was ill-informed. And then, you know, now I know exactly the opposite. He's the opposite of a narcissist. He's an empath."

President Trump is an empath? Mind officially blown. 

Kennedy continued:

"You will see that every time he talks about the Ukraine war, he talks about the casualties on both sides. You will not hear any Democrat ever talk about that. And he talks about the Russian kids who are dying. He gets the reports every week, and they make a huge impression on him about the death rate of 1,000 kids a day who are dying. But my son, my son fought in Ukraine. He's the only member of his military unit who survived.

"And [Trump] understands that these are people's children. And he talks about that. And then also, he has an encyclopedic, molecular knowledge on these, very, very eclectic interests: Music, Broadway shows, pro wrestling, golf, and business. Wall Street knows how everybody made their money and what deals they made. And he tells stories all the time about it, and just one after the other. And one time I was, during the campaign, I was on the airplane with him, and we were sitting across the table from each other eating McDonald's. We started talking about Syria. And he got a placemat, and he turned it on its back, and then he took a Sharpie, and he drew a perfect map of the Middle East. And then he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map.

"And it just, it challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about. He has, you know, he has this extraordinary depth of knowledge about what's happening in each one of the agencies. My agency and others and that he has an instinct for making good choices."

Kennedy then placed Trump in the consequential presidents league, along with his uncle, John F. Kennedy, and Franklin Roosevelt.

"I think my uncle John Kennedy understood the use of power better than any president who's seen it. I think Donald Trump understands the use of power better than probably any president that we've had since Roosevelt, and maybe in American history."

Those are high compliments from a scion of a family that used to be Democrat royalty. 

 Then Special Fellow Mercedes Schlapp asked the Secretary to outline the successes over the past year at HHS. Here's what Kennedy detailed:

The Food Pyramid

"I think the food pyramid was really important because for 50 years the government has been lying to us about food, what food we should be eating. When I got into office, a week after I got into office, and Brooke Rollins and I were sworn in on the same day. And it's our responsibility for our agencies to sign off on that. The dietary guidelines we got from the Biden administration that they'd been working on for four years, were 453 pages long.

"And they were written by industry lobbyists. And they reflected the mercantile impulses that had put Froot Loops at the top of the food pyramid. Which is not even a food. And so we flipped the food pyramid. We brought in the best nutritionists in the country from a dozen universities, medical schools. And we gave a science-based food pyramid for the first time. We restored protein."

Loud cheers from the CPAC audience over this.

"Those dietary guidelines are going to change the dietary culture in this country in a couple different ways: One is, particularly, USDA gives huge food subsidies out: 405 million dollars a day: WIC, to Head Start, to food stamps. and a lot of other programs, and now the food is going to change here."

Make Military Food Healthy Again

"The food is changing in our military. Pete Hegseth has brought in this extraordinary Chef called Robert Irvine, and he's already changed the food. I'll tell you something. He's changed the food on five of the biggest bases. By the end of this month, it'll be in 20. So it's all fresh. Really high quality food."

There were many military folks in the CPAC audience, and they approved of these changes with greater applause and cheers.

"He brought in Robert Irvine. At the military bases, only a third of the food was getting eaten because it was so appalling. And the troops were going out and buying food at McDonald's or fast food places, which is not cheap food. It was $12 bucks and $14 bucks for a Big Mac meal. He's now changed diet completely. All the troops are now eating, there's lines around the block to get into the cafeteria.

"The military budget for food is $18.50 a day per soldier, that's for three meals. He's feeding them all for $10 a day."

Make Home Meals Great Again 

"Good food is actually cheaper if you cook at home. The problem is Americans need to cook at home, and we have a program now that is teaching this, because people have forgotten. And that's important not only because it's important to get food, but also gives you time with your family. It's a sacred ritual that's been around forever, and we've lost that. And we have now raised a spiritual malaise in our country. It's a crisis of loneliness, atomization, of fragmentation. And one of the ways that we need to bring people back together is for having this day, by encouraging people to have this daily meal ritual."

Removing Toxins From Baby Food

Kennedy announced the start of testing to remove harmful chemicals, sugars, and preservatives from baby formulas. Kennedy said: 

"We've done a first test in Operation Stork Speed on the baby formula. So we're gonna have the best information now about baby formula by the end of this month. For the first time in 30 years, we're revising the nutrition standards so that we're going to have good nutrition in baby formula, as close to breast milk as we can get."

Kennedy added, "We've gotten rid of the nine synthetic-based food dyes."

Training Practitioners in Nutrition

You would think this should be a no-brainer, but the current medical training standards offer little to no nutrition education to medical school interns and residents. Kennedy announced that this will change. 

"We've gotten the medical, 54 of the medical schools have now agreed, and many more are coming on every day, to give 40 hours of nutrition training in medical school. The testing companies, the MCAT testing companies are gonna put nutrition on the MCAT for the first time, so the students will actually want to do it.

"And we have 20 states that have now passed legislation that require nutrition training in continuing medical education."

Making Pharmaceuticals Cheap Again

As RedState reported on Day 1 of CPAC, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, along with his top team, outlined how they were working to reduce fraud, transform medicine, and mitigate costs. Kennedy dovetailed nicely into this.

"We've done a lot of things, you know, I think one of the most impressive things that we've done, thanks to Chris Klomp, who is now running the agency with operations for me. We got through the MFN, the most favored-nation status, so that we have been paying the highest price for medicine in the world in this country. We make all the medicine, we pay for the innovation, and we pay in some cases 10, 13, 15 times what they pay for the same medication in Europe. It's made in a factory in New Jersey. And now we're going to pay the lowest prices in the world. And you can already get those." 

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Read More: CPAC 2026: Team CMS, Dr. Oz Talk Beating Big Pharma and Fraud, Following 'North Star' of Truth

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Price Transparency 

"This week we passed new regulations that require hospitals to post their pricing. So, we're going to have price transparency, and the insurance companies. So, we're going to have price transparency. If you go to a restaurant, you can see what the price is before you order a meal. If you go to a car dealer and he tells you, you can buy this car, but I'm not going to tell you what the price is until after you bought it, you would not buy that car. But that's how every hospital in this country works. If you're a pregnant woman, you could go nine months making phone calls every day and not be able to figure out how much they are charging you, that a hospital is charging your insurance company for childbirth.

"We're going to have a website now that has the price of everything on it. So, if you want to get an MRI, it will tell you on one page what the cost is of that MRI at all of the different concierge services and medical centers around you. 

"I looked at pregnancy in New York. A mile around Manhattan, there's 30 hospitals. The lowest cost one was $1,350 for childbirth. The highest cost was $22,000. In Detroit, the lowest cost was $6,000. The highest was $60,000 for the same service, the same quality service. The only way you get that price chaos is if you don't tell people — if there's no market, and you don't give consumers the ability to shop. This is also going to dramatically lower the cost of medicine."

Prior Medical Authorization Eliminated

"We've gotten 80 percent of the insurance companies now to agree to eliminate a prior authorization in most of their, almost all of their procedures. Oh, you know, and this is one of the most frustrating things. If you're a patient, you go to the hospital and the doctor tells you you need a knee surgery. It takes you six months to find out whether your insurance company is going to authorize it. Now you will know at the point-of-care, before you leave that doctor's office, whether or not the procedure is going to happen."

The Great American Recovery Initiative

Kennedy gave great detail on the highly impactful changes to how addiction and recovery are handled through President Trump's executive order titled "The Great American Recovery Initiative to Address the Addiction Crisis."

"Well, the [Great American Recovery Initiative] executive order basically requires us to revamp the recovery programs in this country, the federal investment of recovery in this country to make sure that it works. And, you know, one of the things that I learned from my own experience with addiction recovery, is addiction is a disease of isolation. People who have this disease end up in either bathrooms or jails, institutions, death... alone. They cut off their relationships with their families, their friends, their community, and isolation drives addiction. And we have an epidemic of isolation now in our country. The way, the ultimate way to deal with that is to reconnect people with community and reconnect them with some kind of spiritual motivation."

Kennedy once again delved into his own personal and painful history of battling addiction to further elucidate this point.

"And the 12-step movement, the 12-steps, are designed to induce a spiritual awakening. It's a movement that's devoid of religion, but it is intensely focused on spirituality to change who you are. I believe that I was born an addict, that I'm hardwired to drink and drug myself to death. And in order to overcome that kind of biological drive, you need a spiritual fire. And one of the things, one of the unfortunate choices they made during the Biden administration was to exclude faith-based recovery programs from federal funding. I had a friend who wrote me this week, who wrote me, a friend from California, who wrote me about her son, and she said that he had been thrown out of a recovery program in California for talking about God. So this is, this has countered everything that we know about recovery, everything science will tell us about recovery. And one of the things that we're doing, as a result of President Trump's order, is we're bringing faith-based recovery back into recovery."

Kennedy expanded on how the initiative will also focus on setting up the addicted persons for long-term gains, rather than short-term successes. He continued:

"The other thing is that we are transitioning out of outcome-based care. It's a very fragmented system. So, you go into a detox, you're arrested on the street or brought in from the street. You go to detox, then you go to rehab, and then you go to sober housing, and then you get a job. None of those agencies are talking to each other. So, President Trump asked us to bring in everybody: the Department of Labor, the Department of, you know, our department at HHS, the Department of Housing, and to coordinate so that we can follow the addict throughout this whole process. So, nobody's responsible for that addict. Everybody's just checking boxes. And like the rest of the medical system, everybody has incentive to keep that addict sick. If you're a rehab, you get paid for 28 days. If that addict goes out and drinks drugs again, you get another bite at the apple. So, every time he goes out and relapses, you make more money. So, you have no incentive to make that guy healthy. And one of the things that we're developing now is a way for that rehab to be responsible for that addict for a long period of time. For example, two years. So that any time that he relapses, they have to treat him the next time for free.

"That will provide an incentive, then to maybe keep him longer the first time, make sure he's in IOP, make sure he's getting aftercare, and take responsibility for his recovery. Because they're going to make more money if he recovers than if he doesn't."

Advice to MAHA Parents

There would be no HHS Secretary Kennedy if not for the MAHA Moms and Dads. Schlapp asked Kennedy what advice he could give to the MAHA parents who were trying to raise healthy children. Kennedy gave general responses concerning the raising of children, like limiting screen time, lots more outdoor time, and encouraging physical activity.

"I would say, listen, I'm a parent, I have seven kids. 

"But, you know, for me, everybody has their own strategy and every child is different. There is no cookie cutter for any child. It's one of the things I've learned as a parent. Each child requires something different. I think the biggest threats that we're facing now are cell phones and social media."

Then Kennedy delved deeply into the specific dangers parents should look out for, like smartphone use and the radiation that cell phones emit. "Radiation is very, very bad, and it's very troubling," Kennedy said. He urged parents to never allow their child to sleep with their cell phone at or near their heads.

Kennedy gave more insight into state legislation initiatives to limit cell phone use in schools, and how that legislation was working in Virginia.

"And we've now... now we have MAHA legislation that we're working to pass in almost every state. I think probably about 18 states have already passed it, bell to bell, restrictions on cell phones. And I was in Loudoun County in Virginia the other day, where they have those restrictions. Originally the children were up in arms about it. But I went into the cafeteria and there are 600 kids in there, and they're all talking to each other. Nobody is looking at their lap. The testing scores have gone up, the disciplinary problems have gone down. Parents were there the day that I met, and I pulled them, and they loved it. They said their child, some of them said their children are no longer using their cell phones in their car. And they come home and have dinner with their families, and they're actually talking to them, because they've learned that they can exist without them."

Kennedy ended with, "I was not that focused on their food, but if I had to go back and do it again, I would be laser-focused on what they're eating."

 

Mike Rowe Hits It on the Head: Kimmel Didn't Insult Plumbers; He Insulted America's Aspirational Spirit

As only TV personality and host Mike Rowe can, he embodied what makes America great. The American Dream is not just about a certain achievement like buying a home or being promoted to a particular vocation: It's about the opportunity to dream big and aspire to higher things — or just different ones.

 Of course, Rowe's incredibly insightful commentary, which he posted to X on Sunday, was born from unfunny comedian Jimmy Kimmel's joke that maligned the fact that a plumber — that would be former plumber, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, and current Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin — is now heading the agency in charge of combating terrorism. 

Rowe began:

If you haven’t heard, and even if you have, Jimmy Kimmel said this about Markwayne Mullin, former Senator from Oklahoma, and our newest Secretary of Homeland Security:

“We have a plumber now protecting us from terrorism.”

Apparently, there has been some backlash. Plumbers were offended, obviously, as were parents of plumbers, spouses of plumbers, children of plumbers, and millions of people who have had a plumber show up when they needed one. Comedians were also offended, (the funny ones, anyway,) along with a surprising number of terrorists - especially those with access to hot and cold running water. However, in spite of the ensuing kerfuffle, @jimmykimmel doubled down.

Yeah, Kimmel loves to do that, because he knows he's bulletproof. Remember when people called for his job, and two of his syndicators stopped airing his show, after he made those terrible comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination? All Kimmel did was send out the Bat Signal, and his leftist friends in Hollywood cried censorship. Kimmel gave a half-baked fauxpology, then went right back to business as usual: being a terrible comedian, but a great left-wing activist.

Here's how Kimmel doubled down on his stupidity.

“I’m not upset that the head of Homeland Security was a plumber,” he said, “I’m upset that he isn’t still a plumber." He further elucidated by adding, "I wouldn't put a plumber in charge of Homeland Security for the same reason I wouldn't call a five-star general to pull a rat out of my toilet, OK? We all have our areas of expertise.”

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Read More: Mullin Takes the Helm at DHS As Trump Swears Him In

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Rowe makes a great point on this: Being offended is always a choice, and from my perspective, we live in an age where people think having thin skin is a badge of honor. Rowe is Gen X like me, so insults like this roll off our backs. But Rowe does make the point about what he did find offensive about Kimmel's ignorant opinion.

But I am a tad butt hurt by the suggestion that skilled workers should never evolve into something new, and that competence is somehow limited to one vocation. Obviously, expertise and skill are important. If I need a new kidney, I’d prefer a doctor do the surgery, not a late-night talk show host. But if the doctor in question used to host a talk show, why would I hold that against him?

Exactly. Dr. Ben Carson was a brilliant brain surgeon, but he chose to stop doing that and enter the political space, running for president in 2016, becoming Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Trump administration, and now serving as a special advisor in this second Trump administration. So, is Dr. Carson any less competent at any of these professions because of his choice to aspire to be something different?

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) won her seat in 2018 after working in sales and retail fashion, and then founding her own marketing and event management company that she successfully ran for over 30 years. Blackburn is the first woman to have been elected as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. That's a huge aspiration, and she achieved it. After winning re-election in 2024, Blackburn decided she aspired to become Tennessee's governor, and if the winds hold, she may just achieve this. So, does Kimmel wish to insult her for moving ably from being a successful businesswoman to U.S. Senator, and now potentially a governor?

 He really needs to go sit down. 

Rowe brought his point home with the 2016 presidential debate, when then-Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio responded to a debate question by saying that "America needed to get shop class back into high schools," and “What our country needs are more welders and fewer philosophers.” 

Rowe continued,

I don’t think the current shortage of welders has anything to do with an overabundance of philosophers. In fact, I think it’s a mistake to promote one vocation at the expense of the other. What we really need in this country, are more welders who can talk intelligently about Aristotle, and more philosophers who can run an even bead. More Generals, in other words, who can fix their own toilets, and more plumbers who can hold a powerful government job.

Amen to that. Then Rowe laid out Mullin's trajectory, something that Democrats and the Left always omit when complaining about his ascension.

This is what Mullin did. He was a private citizen who mastered an essential skill and then turned that skill into a multi-million-dollar company that employed a lot of people and served a lot of customers. That gave him the freedom to do other things with his life, including a career in public service which got him into Congress, where he’s spent the last eleven years doing whatever Congressmen do. Now, he has a very consequential position in the Cabinet of the current administration.

Boom. If anything, Mullin is the embodiment of someone who not only aspires to become more, but also to be a person of agility and flexibility. As the adage goes, "Blessed are the flexible, because they'll never be broken." If Kimmel did finally get fired from his gig, he probably wouldn't know how to pivot to anything new or different. He's a small man, and small people only see their little elitist box.

Rowe brings it home beautifully. It's not about a profession or competence in that profession: It's about the American Dream, a dream that you can continue to pursue until you draw your last breath.

Is that not the embodiment of the American Dream? I get that Jimmy Kimmel might have a problem with Mullin’s politics, but what possible objection could he have about the trajectory of his career, or his desire to do more than one thing with his life?

The only sensible thing to do in the wake of a moment this tone deaf, is remind America that the skills gap is wide, and getting wider. The shortage of skilled tradespeople is now headline news and closing it is nothing less than a matter of national security. This year, my foundation has set aside $10 million dollars to help train the next generation of plumbers, and lots of other essential workers. I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of AI-proof, six figure jobs that don't require a four-year degree, waiting to be filled. The money is currently available to anyone who wants to master a useful skill at https://mikeroweworks.org. Apply today.

As for those of you genuinely offended by Kimmel's comments, consider expressing your disappointment with a modest donation to mikeroweWORKS. Our work ethic scholarship is making a real difference, and your money will be well spent, I promise. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss, at https://mikeroweworks.org

Excellent way to promote the power of aspiration, and how anyone who pursues their dream can always benefit from a little help.

That is what I love about being an American and pursuing my American Dream. My maternal grandmother and grandfather were sharecroppers who decided they wanted to aspire to a better life. Those aspirations took them out of the fields into working the "better" jobs at that time for Southern Blacks: a maid and a bellman. They moved from Tyronza, Arkansas, to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to Chicago, Illinois, joining that Great Migration from South to North that many took during that time because they aspired to something more. I am a product of that aspirational push, and I am always dreaming bigger and reaching higher. While the golden handcuffs of being a software and document specialist in law firms might be fine for most people, I knew from a young age I wanted to be a writer, and through fits, starts, and many detours, that is what I am doing today.

Always aspiring to go higher is what the American Dream is all about. People like Mike Rowe, DHS Secretary Mullin, and I get it. Poor souls like Jimmy Kimmel never will.  

Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.

 

How These Patriots Responded to the Dems' 'No Kings' Protests Was Fantastic

There are many ways to respond to the Left’s ‘No Kings’ protests, which they hold because they can’t do anything except sit in front of CNN and complain all day. The most mentally unwell people took to the streets this weekend. It was the Home of the Merciful Rest by me, where the average age must have been 456. In other areas, it was mostly the elderly, accompanied by young anti-Israel nutjobs waving communist and pro-Hamas flags. 

These people are morons, and Alex Stein, an expert agitator and patriot, did just that with his bullhorn in Dallas, Texas. An Asian man bluntly said these clowns should go to an actual socialist country, but won’t for obvious reasons. One person played Trump’s 2024 victory speech at a rally. That’s how you respond. 

Alex Stein was in Dallas, Texas,

 

 where he repeatedly called the NO KINGS protesters “vaccinated retards” to their faces.

Watch this and enjoy. It’s pure gold.pic.twitter.com/chQVwVBRV0

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 28, 2026

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 29, 2026

This video, though, took a sledgehammer to the whole charade, 

 where this woman noted the many times during the pandemic where we faced censorship and authoritarianism, like the loss of livelihood unless we got jabbed, and where were these people then?  

This is the best takedown of "No Kings" I've seen yet.

"You just hate what you're told to hate..."

"I just wish the anti-authoritarian energy was present during actual tyranny." 🔥pic.twitter.com/126eJbo8vc

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) March 29, 2026

Exactly.

Patriots, we’re still in control, though we must deal with these idiots.

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— 𝕏avier 𝕆nasis (@HuntKevinlhunt) March 29, 2026

 

Tom Homan Wasn't Taking Any Nonsense on the From These Sunday Talk Show Hosts

Border Czar Tom Homan did well slapping down liberal media narratives about the Department of Homeland Security shutdown and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents being deployed at airports. 

 These agents are now helping travelers get through security and finding and detaining illegal aliens. They’re handing out water to weary travelers, assisting with medical emergencies, and serving as placeholders for those who need to step out of line to use the restroom.  

On CBS News, host Margaret Brennan

 

 tried to frame this crisis as a White House issue. It’s not:

BRENNAN: “Why wasn’t the White House able to get both heads of the party the president controls on the same page?!” 

HOMAN: “Look, I’ve been up on the Hill. I’ve been in these meetings. I’ve met with lawmakers on both sides. This isn’t a White House issue. This is the Democrats shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. I’ve been in these meetings—” 

BRENNAN: “So did you support the Republican bill in the Senate that passed?” 

HOMAN: “I support Congress opening up the ENTIRE government, the entire DHS, and not holding people in DHS hostage because they don’t like immigration enforcement.” 

BRENNAN: “So, no. You weren’t on board with the Senate bill?” 

HOMAN: “I’m with the president.” 

BRENNAN: “Okay…”

On CNN, Homan defended ICE’s actions at airports from Jake Tapper: 

 

Jake Tapper PRESSED Tom Homan on what ICE agents at airports have actually accomplished.

The Border Czar FIRED BACK with a series of truth bombs about ICE that CNN’s audience wasn’t ready for.

TAPPER: “What have ICE agents at airports been doing? What have they actually… pic.twitter.com/7JIiTn2mws

— Overton (@overton_news) March 29, 2026

TAPPER: “What have ICE agents at airports been doing? What have they actually accomplished?” 

HOMAN: “Well, look, the wait lines have decreased.” 

“I was in Houston — wait lines decreased by about half.” 

“We got additional agents going to Baltimore yesterday to bring those lines down.” 

“And I can understand the TSA union’s position. You know, they want to be paid and they’re frustrated.” 

“However, the facts are every place we send ICE officers, the lines have decreased — and they need to decrease more.” 

“Look, they’re checking identification before you go to screening. We’re not going to have an ICE officer looking at x-ray images, deciding what bags need to be secondary.” 

“That’s a high level of training. But we can check IDs before they get to that machine.” 

“We can cover exits to make sure that people don’t enter through the exits.” 

“That takes that TSA agent off that security line and puts him on an x-ray machine.” 

“We’re plugging other security holes. We want to keep the airport safe.” 

“So we’re doing the job TSA is asking us to do so their officers can get back to main screening.” 

When will ICE agents leave airports? It’s not going to happen today or tomorrow, despite TSA agents being paid from other monies from last year’s tax cut bill:

CNN’s Jake Tapper tried to force Tom Homan into committing whether ICE agents would leave airports now that TSA has been ordered to be paid.

Homan refused to take the bait — instead, he laid out exactly how ICE is keeping airports secure.

TAPPER: “Once TSA agents start getting… pic.twitter.com/IZIful2SZa

— Overton (@overton_news) March 29, 2026

Oh, and again, these wondering why ICE agents need to be masked. 

Tom Homan educates Jake Tapper on one of the reasons ICE needs to wear masks — constant incendiary rhetoric from Democrats in DC:

"The same people in the Democratic Congress that want ICE to take off the masks, are the same people who say ICE is going to shoot people inside… pic.twitter.com/eQJaV1JKMZ

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 29, 2026

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. 

 

Iran's war against the US and Israel is being fueled by North Korean weapons, expert warns

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s vast missile system is the brainchild of the U.S.-designated state-sponsor of terrorism, the communist North Korea regime, which works hand in glove with Iran, according to one of the world’s leading experts on the Iran-North Korea strategic alliance.

 "The missile launched at Diego Garcia was a Musudan. The Iranians bought 19 of these from the North Koreans and took delivery in 2005. They have had this capability since 2005 — and this is no ‘secret weapon,'" Bruce Bechtol, who co-authored with Anthony Celso the groundbreaking book "Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership Between Iran and North Korea," told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reported last week that Iran significantly escalated its war effort against the U.S. with its launch of two intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward Diego Garcia—roughly 2,500 miles from Iran.

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Kim pictured visiting a major munitions depot in an image released in December 2025. (KCNA via Reuters )

Bechtol said, "The most important threat from Iran as the war with the United States and Israel has evolved has been the ballistic missiles, launched not only at U.S. facilities and Israeli cities, but also at neighboring Islamic countries. Thus, it is important to consider this capability and where Iran got it."

He said, "The short-range ballistic missiles that Iran has launched at key U.S. facilities and at neighboring Arab states include a key system – the 'QIAM.' The QIAM was developed and improved with North Korean assistance… North Korea has proliferated a lot to Iran that we are seeing right now in the war."

The launch of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Shahab-3 medium-range missile during a test at an undisclosed location on Sept. 28, 2009. (AP Photo)

The joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran’s regime, the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, according to the U.S. State Department, has entered its fifth week.

Bechtol, who is a professor of political science in the Department of Security Studies at Angelo State University in Texas, noted that, according to the Wisconsin Project, North Korea had constructed a large missile test facility at Emamshahr, a city in the Fars Province in Iran, and a tracking facility at Tabas in South Khorasan province.

He said North Korea aided Iran with crucial technology "for targets farther away from Iran."

"The North Koreans proliferated around 150 No Dong systems to Iran in the late 1990s. The Iranians were apparently very happy with the missiles the North Koreans provided them, and, following the earlier precedent of the Scud C factory, contracted with Pyongyang to build a No Dong facility in Iran."

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Bechtol continued, "The Iranians called this ‘new’ missile the Shahab-3. The Shahab-3 is almost an exact copy of the No Dong. Once the Shahab-3 was up and running, the North Koreans moved forward with the Iranians in improving its range and lethality."

He said, "With assistance from the North Koreans, the Iranians were then able to produce (at the No Dong facility) the Emad and the Ghadr. The Emad has a range of 1,750 kilometers (approx 1,087 miles) and the Ghadr has a range of 1,950 kilometers (approximately 1,212 miles.) The Iranians have used these two systems to target not only Israel, but their Arab neighbors (including U.S. bases located in these countries) throughout the ongoing first stages of this conflict."

Missiles and a portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on display for the annual Defense Week, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 24, 2017. (AP)

Bechtol said the North Koreans spawned an Iranian missile warhead that weighs a ton and a half to two tons on the powerful Khorramshahr-4. "There is another system capable of hitting Israel that has been even more lethal than any of the systems described thus far. This system is called the ‘Khorramshahr,’ and the fourth version of this system, appropriately called the ‘Khorramshahr-4,’ has been proven to carry a warhead larger than any other in Iran’s missile inventory, armed with what appears to be cluster munitions," he said.

He described the strategic partnership, noting: "North Korea is the seller and Iran is the buyer. North Korea proliferates weapons systems, technology, parts and components, technicians, engineers and specialists and military capabilities (such as the building of underground facilities) to Iran. Iran pays North Korea with cash and oil. Simple as that."

Residents and officers from Israel's Home Front Command inspect a house destroyed by an Iranian missile strike in Zarzir, northern Israel, March 13, 2026. (Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)

Bechtol said the only way to stop this is through sanctions enforcement against North Korea. "The sanctions that are needed are already on the books. But the USA and our key allies need to robustly enforce them. We need to go after banks, front companies and cyber entities in order to squeeze the money and contain or destroy the supply chain."

He said, "More emphasis needs to be placed, and more action needs to be taken using the Proliferation Security Initiative — an underused aspect of preventing North Korea's arms from flowing to rogue nations and terrorist groups.  If you cut off the supply chain, you cut off the proliferation."

Benjamin Weinthal reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and email him at benjamin.weinthal@fox.com

 

Trump Administration Takes Bold Step to Protect American Jobs from Outsourcing

For too long corporate outsourcing firms and visa middlemen have gamed the system, hiring cheaper foreign labor while American families get frozen out of good-paying jobs. The Trump administration has finally moved beyond talk and pushed a concrete wage-protection proposal through the rulemaking pipeline, a necessary first step to stop this quiet wage theft.

 

The Department of Labor’s so-called “Improving Wage Protections for H-1B and PERM Employment” proposal has cleared OMB review, meaning the federal government is set to raise the prevailing-wage calculations that companies have exploited to underpay workers. Raising those wage floors matters: it forces employers to pay market-level salaries instead of bidding down wages with temporary foreign labor.

 This administration hasn’t stopped at wages; the Department of Homeland Security has reworked the H-1B allocation system to favor higher-paid, higher-skilled beneficiaries rather than rewarding the lowest bidders with a random lottery. That shift—now moving through the regulatory process—aligns incentives toward real talent, not cheap labor contractors who treat visas like a cost-cutting play.

Conservative patriots should welcome these moves because they put Americans first and defend working-class wages from downward pressure. Predictably, big-business lobbyists and some Beltway insiders are howling—filing lawsuits and scaremongering that these reforms will “kneecap startups” while downplaying the real harm done to American workers. The Chamber’s legal pushback and warnings from some tech executives show who’s really in their corner: corporate profits, not Main Street.

If the administration truly wants to finish the job, it must pair rule changes with aggressive enforcement: real audits of Labor Condition Applications, debarment of repeat-offending contractors, criminal referrals where fraud is found, and harsher civil penalties for companies that traffic in H-1B substitution schemes. Regulations without teeth are just theater; Americans deserve both a level playing field and accountability for employers who weaponize visas to undercut pay.

We should also demand transparency: public reporting on H-1B placements, wage data by employer, and a crackdown on staffing firms that farm out visas in bulk to drive down pay. Let Congress follow up where regulators act—permanent statutory reforms are the only way to lock in Americans-first immigration rules that withstand courtroom attacks and fickle political winds.

This is a moment for conservatives to be bold and unapologetic: protection of American labor is not xenophobia, it is patriotism. Support the administration’s wage-rule overhaul, pressure lawmakers to close loopholes, and spotlight companies that choose cheap foreign labor over loyal American employees; do that and hardworking families win.

 

Glenn Beck Sounds Alarm: America's Future Hangs in the Balance

Glenn Beck has spent the last week reminding Americans that the warnings he sounded a decade ago are not idle theatrics but a call to wake up. On his BlazeTV platform he revisited predictions made roughly ten years earlier, compared them to the reality we now live in, and laid out a grim forecast for the next ten years.

Ten years ago Beck was already drawing stark lines — sketching three divergent paths America might take — and too many in the elites shrugged while the rot set in. He has a track record of bold forecasts stretching back years, and conservative Americans should not lightly dismiss a voice that has repeatedly warned about systemic risks.

In his recent segments Beck and his colleagues hammered on themes every patriot should care about: economic fragility, the weaponization of information and technology, and cultural breakdown that comes when institutions stop serving the people. These aren’t abstract academic worries; they are the direct consequences of policies and cultural shifts we’ve been forced to endure, and Beck lays them out plainly on his show.

 If you’ve been asleep at the wheel, consider the financial alarms Beck has raised — from repo market disturbances to growing debt and spending that choke our future prosperity. The warnings aren’t panic for its own sake; they are the sound of someone who watches policy and markets and refuses to let comfortable elites gaslight the public into complacency.

Most damaging of all is the trend Beck sees of power centralizing under the banner of safety and progress: surveillance, speech control, and a redefinition of rights shaped by technocrats and judges rather than by the Constitution. He argues the next decade could bring either restoration or a slide into a virtual police state unless citizens fight back and demand accountability.

Conservatives should take Beck’s prognosis as a rallying cry: rebuild local resilience, push for fiscal sanity, secure borders, and reclaim the civic institutions the left has hollowed out. This isn’t fearmongering — it’s a blueprint for action, and the only appropriate response is to organize, vote, and hold leaders to account for preserving liberty and prosperity.

Hardworking Americans don’t need entertainers who soothe them with platitudes; they need conservatives who tell the truth plainly and prepare for hard choices. Glenn Beck’s decade-spanning warnings demand more than clicks and commentary — they demand a movement of citizens determined to defend the Republic for the next generation.

 

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