DAILY PRAYER: O Trinity of love and power, Our brethren shield in danger’s hour; From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe’er they go; Thus evermore shall rise to Thee, Glad hymns of praise from land and sea. Amen.
BORDER: Tom Homan’s agents have arrested 11,000 illegal aliens in just 18 days. Among the highlights are a Gulf Cartel hitman, members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs, and cartel drug traffickers. I heard a reporter ask Homan if he was satisfied with the pace of arrest. He said no, they need to do more.
- https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/border-agents-seize-19-million-worth-of-meth-in-shipment-of-jalapenos-and-cucumbers/
- https://notthebee.com/takes/ice-racks-up-11000-illegal-alien-arrests-in-first-18-days
CALIFORNICATION: According to The San Francisco Chronicle, the State of California and its public school athletics association intends to ignore Trump’s executive order and continue to allow athletes to participate as whichever gender they identify as.
Flashback: In 2023, Biden ruled that public schools that did not allow boys to play on girls’ teams and use their private spaces would lose federal aid for free and reduced-price school lunches.
- https://notthebee.com/article/california-is-reportedly-going-to-ignore-trumps-executive-order-and-allow-men-into-womens-sports
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2445450/biden-rule-takes-lunch-money-from-schools-that-reject-progressive-gender-sexuality-agenda/
CANCEL NOT: The mainstream media threw a hissy fit this week upon discovering that an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency was a 19-year-old who had made controversial social media posts under the name “Big Balls.” Musk asked his X followers their opinion; 78% of them agreed with Vance. Musk sealed the deal with a post saying, “To err is human, to forgive divine.”
CONGRESS: In January, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) – the first trannie elected to the U.S. Congress – was denied access to the women’s bathrooms. To his credit, he agreed to use single user bathrooms. Last week, presider Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) refused to “deny biological reality” and recognized McBride as “the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride, for five minutes.”
COURTS: After 19 state attorneys general sued to keep DOGE out of Treasury Department records, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer limited access to those working at the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed background checks.
A coalition of labor unions filed suit on Feb. 5 seeking to prevent DOGE from gaining access to Labor Department records. U.S. District Judge John Bates denied the suit, saying the “plaintiffs have failed to establish standing.”
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-blocks-doges-access-to-sensitive-treasury-records-5806555
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-denies-motion-to-block-doges-access-to-labor-department-systems-5806532
DEI: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qET1GnSZAH8 to hear Nick Freitas riff on the difficulties HR departments are facing in the Trump era.
DOGE: Musk and his crew uncovered the Treasury Department’s “utterly insane” payment system, by which between $50 and $100 billion in fraudulent payments go out annually.
One of the most significant changes taking place will be payment categorization codes. According to Musk, these codes are essential for financial audits, yet they are frequently left blank, making it nearly impossible to track where taxpayer dollars are going. Can you imagine a business surviving a single IRS audit if half its outgoing moneys had no code?
Another reform involves weekly or even daily updates to the Treasury’s Do-Not-Pay list, which is meant to prevent payments to fraudulent entities, deceased individuals, suspected terrorist fronts, and other entities or people who should not be paid by federal agencies. Musk said that this list has not been regularly updated or strictly enforced.
These changes will be made by the Treasury Department, not by DOGE.
LABOR: [15:42] – Democrats have been trying to eliminate 14c certificates that allow sheltered workshops to provide jobs for the disabled. Their rationale was that allowing employers to hire disabled people for sub-minimum wage was a form of wage discrimination. In fact, sheltered workshops employ people who cannot function at a level that allows businesses to pay them minimum wage. Without 14c certificates, these people wouldn’t have the pride of earning a pay check, but would be left to sit on their behinds all day, every day in care facilities.
The fact that they get paid sub-minimum wage does not mean they are living hand-to-mouth; they all qualify for additional assistance, such as SSI. Likewise, the existence of sheltered workshops is not preventing disabled workers who are capable of competing in the workplace if provided with reasonable accommodations (as required by the ADA). In fact, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to suppose that some disabled workers could develop a marketable skill in a sheltered workshop, then transition if they chose to do so.
Trump put a stop to Dems’ efforts, something that has not been reported in the news.
USAID: How it started … how it’s going … going … GONE! Trump has eliminated USAID and is in the process of laying off all but 290 of its 13,000 staffers, saving taxpayers tens of billion$. The handful of genuinely helpful programs will now be administered by the State Department which, unlike USAID, knows it is part of the executive branch of the U.S. government.
SecState Rubio said, “We had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.” They were being “completely uncooperative,” acting like “they’re not even a U.S. government agency” but rather “a global charity” spending taxpayer money “irrespective of … [our] national interest.”
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f7QYe6hHxBw to see VP Vance’s #1 aide.
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