NPR and PBS Don’t Deserve Taxpayer Funding
President Donald Trump requested that Congress defund NPR and PBS. Taxpayer relief from the burden of having to fund two liberal media outlets that disdain half the country is overdue.
Trump’s requests were sent to Congress alongside an ask to strip funds from the State Department and programs such as the U.S. Agency for International Development. Among these things, NPR and PBS have the fewest redeeming qualities. They serve as contributors to the liberal media ecosystem that prioritizes Democratic Party narratives and toxic partisanship over factual coverage.
NPR and PBS are free to be as biased as every other mainstream liberal outlet on someone else’s dime. Both have proven they are incapable of being anything close to “neutral,” and Republicans should cut them off from taxpayer funding once and for all… (Continue to full article)
Trump to Sign Memo Combating Social Security Fraud
President Donald Trump will sign a memorandum aimed at cracking down on Social Security fraud, with the White House emphasizing its efforts to prevent illegal immigrants from incorrectly receiving benefits.
“The memorandum will direct the [Trump] administration to ensure that ineligible aliens are not receiving funds from Social Security Act programs,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said while announcing the memorandum Tuesday.
Immigrants are unable to receive Social Security if they are in the country illegally, but Trump and his advisers, including X owner Elon Musk, have amplified claims that millions are being placed into the program… .. (Continue to full article)
Extending Tax Cuts and Reforming the System
Before there can be any meaningful tax reform, a taxpayer nonprofit says Congress must extend 2017 tax cuts.
Today is the deadline for many Americans to render unto Caesar. As checks are mailed and accounts are drafted, many wonder what the president can do to ease the nation’s tax burden.
Some of Trump’s proposals include exempting Social Security benefits, overtime pay, and tips from income tax while also creating an itemized deduction for auto loan interest. But as lawmakers continue considering budget reconciliation legislation, the ball is in their court… (Continue to full article)
IRS Leadership Has History of Bankrolling Democrats, Supporting Left-Wing Movements
The majority of the IRS’s leaders have contributed to Democratic politicians or promoted left-wing ideas on their personal social media pages, according to a recent memo sent to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner.
The memo, drafted by the American Accountability Foundation, found that 60% of people occupying leadership positions in the IRS’s commissioner and deputy commissioner’s office have financially or verbally supported liberal causes. It also found that not a single person in such a role was a registered Republican, gave money to Republican candidates, or posted conservative messaging on social media.
Trump has aggressively downsized the tax collection agency in an effort to automate many of its functions and to use its vast stores of taxpayer information in service of his policy goals, most notably immigration enforcement.
Opposition to the president’s agenda goes all the way to the top… (Continue to full article)
DOGE Matador – Oh, Why Not?
DOGE Takes Over Key Website That Handles Distribution of $500bn in Federal Grants
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency program has reportedly embedded itself within a key federal website handling over $500 billion in annual grant funding for agencies across the government.
DOGE will reportedly review and approve opportunities on grants.gov, which posts thousands of notices of grant opportunities each year from agencies such as the Departments of State, Interior and Defense, four unnamed sources close to the effort told The Washington Post.
A DOGE engineer has already removed federal officials’ permissions to post such opportunities without notifying the staffers, according to the sources, further entrenching the DOGE program’s influence on federal spending… (Continue to full article)
Lawmakers Reveal Whether Americans Should Pick Up the Medicaid Tab for Illegal Immigrants
California has a $6.2 billion budget deficit for Medicaid services, and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal projects the state will spend a staggering $8.4 billion to cover Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid, for illegal immigrants in 2024-2025.
Two new reports by the Bureau of Economic Analysis found the U.S. economy has become increasingly reliant on government handouts. Entitlements are growing faster than tax receipts and wages. Private wages grew by $67 billion in early 2025, while government payments to recipients surged by $162 billion… (Continue to full article)
Goldman Sachs has increased its year-end gold forecast to $3,700 per troy ounce (toz), citing stronger-than-expected central bank demand and heightened recession risks impacting ETF inflows.
Mississippi officials have calculated there are hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of government waste.
In recent days, we have read numerous articles about a possible agreement between the US administration and its main trading partners to devalue the US dollar. It has been named “The Mar-A-Lago Accord”, a concept inspired by the Plaza Accord of 1985, which aimed to devalue the US dollar to address trade imbalances. That plan failed. 
Times are still tough as we knew they would be. Trump and his people can’t turn the economy around all in one fell swoop in only a matter of a couple of months, but he’s off to a pretty darn good start, especially in regard to his energy policy and his new broad sweep tariffs in a take-no-prisoners fashion. 
