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Trump’s Approval Rating Among Black Men Soars to 42 Percent

 The Gazette:

‘Black men love Trump’ dooms Democrats with 42% support: Poll

President Donald Trump has Democrats on the ropes with his surging support from African Americans, prompting a poll to declare that “black men love Trump.”

In a new Cygnal survey shared with Secrets, Trump has a shocking 42% approval rating from black men, a massive edge over any past Republican president.

Brock McCleary, Cygnal vice president of polling, told Secrets, “Forty-two percent of black men approving of Trump’s job so far is no small thing. Unlike Democrats’ approach previously, this isn’t about placation or offering new attractive policies with no follow-through. His popularity and approval surges because he does the things he says he’ll do — and that’s a breath of fresh air for everyone.”

McCleary, who polled for Trump in 2016 and Vivek Ramaswamy last year, added, “In the pre-Trump era, these numbers for a Republican would be aspirational rather than realistic. In the thicket of this new Trump era, these gains among black Americans are noteworthy and certainly beyond a threshold of statistical normality. It boils down to follow-through, which is the most elusive of traits for politicians.

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Trump Terminates Multiple Biden-Appointed U.S. Attorneys “Effective Immediately”

ABC News reported:

 

The White House sent letters to multiple Biden-appointed holdover U.S. attorneys informing them of their termination, sources familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News.

The emails were sent on Wednesday by the deputy director of the White House’s office of presidential personnel, Sergio Gor, and informed the U.S. attorneys they were ousted “effective immediately.”

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Trump Reveals “Staggering” Government Waste Numbers, Including $521 BILLION in Fraud Per Year (VIDEO)

Below is a list of the numbers the President announced:

  • Up to $521 billion federal dollars lost to fraud per year
  • An estimated $236 billion or more in improper payments were made in 2023
  • $2.7 trillion in improper payments, including payments that went to the wrong recipient, made since 2003
  • $162 billion in total improper payments in 2024, including:
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DOGE Enters IRS Headquarters to Begin Investigating Corrupt Agency

Reuters:  Gavin Kliger, a key staffer working with Elon Musk in his efforts to downsize the federal government, entered IRS headquarters on Thursday to investigate the corrupt agency’s operations.

Sources told Reuters that Kliger had been meeting with multiple senior executives at the agency to learn more.

 

One can only imagine what nasty stuff Kliger and the rest of DOGE will discover. It’s a safe bet that documented political persecution against conservatives will be one of the items.

This development follows President Trump’s announcement during a news conference that he would be looking into the IRS.

Far-left Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) hit the panic button upon hearing the news of DOGE’s arrival.

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Trump Signs Reciprocal Tariffs, Says Days of America Being Ripped Off are OVER

Trump: "On trade, I have decided, for purposes of fairness, that I will charge a reciprocal tariff, meaning whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them. No more, no less. In other words, they charge us a tax or a tariff, and we charge them the exact same tax or tariff. Very simple. Nobody knows what that number is unless you go by the individual country. You can see what it is if you go to the individual country and you look at what they’re charging us. In almost all cases, they’re charging us vastly more than we charge them, but those days are over.

 

 

Fox Business:

A source familiar with the plans told FOX Business that Trump will sign a presidential memorandum ordering the U.S. Trade Representative to investigate and counter non-reciprocal trade across all trading partners. The representative will identify trade agreements where there are significant trade deficits that are unfair to the U.S.

Mentioned in the memo — according to the source — is that Brazil taxes U.S. ethanol at 18% while the U.S. taxes ethanol imported from Brazil at just 2.5%.

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Trump Fires Dozens of Employees in Department of Education and SBA

Excerpt from CNN:

Scores of firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees underway at the Department of Education and the Small Business Administration, federal employees and union sources told CNN Wednesday.

The firings mark the first from the Trump administration as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency aim to dramatically shrink the federal workforce. Until now, federal employees across all government agencies had only been placed on paid administrative leave.

A form letter sent to Department of Education employees, obtained by CNN, informing them of their termination stated: “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”

At the Department of Education, the firings have impacted employees across the agency from the general counsel’s office, to the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services that supports programs for children with disabilities, to the Federal Student Aid office, a union source told CNN.

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9 minutes ago, T B said:

I posted it for us TB....

DOGE’s Hit List

DOGE’s Hit List

Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (source: The Guardian)

  • “Staffers with Elon Musk’s ‘department of government efficiency’ (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.”

Department of Veteran Affairs (source: Military.com)

  • “A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now works at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where they have been given access to contracting systems as well as information on VA operations and information technology systems.”

USAID (source: Associated Press)

  • “The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according [to] the Trump administration’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who has been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days. ”
  • “USAID, whose website vanished Saturday without explanation, has been one of the federal agencies most targeted by the Trump administration in an escalating crackdown on the federal government and many of its programs.”

Treasury (source: NBC News)

  • “With a cadre of engineers as young as 19 years old, and with the encouragement of Trump, Musk has demanded and been given access to sensitive government databases and the Treasury Department’s payment system with an unprecedented series of bureaucratic maneuvers.”
  • NBC News: “Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.”

Health and Human Services/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services/National Institutes of Health (source: USA Today)

  • “Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency representatives are at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week examining payment and contracting systems of federal health agency.”
  • “Two senior agency veterans focused on policy and operations are working with DOGE to review the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, which provide health insurance for about 1 in 4 Americans, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman.”
  • Sam Stein, 2/5/25: “Reports are that DOGE staffers are now at NIH.”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (source: Washington Post)

  • “Representatives of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fanned out across several agencies Wednesday, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and meeting with the Labor Department, seeking access to sensitive data.”

Department of Labor (source: Washington Post)

  • “On Wednesday, Musk’s team also reached out to engage with the Labor Department. Senior department leaders told staffers who handle sensitive data that they would begin working with DOGE in the coming weeks, beginning with an in-office meeting Wednesday, according to an agency staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. DOGE assignments would override the team’s normal duties, the staffer said.”
  • “But senior leadership moved Wednesday’s meeting from in-person to virtual after labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, announced a protest of DOGE outside the Labor Department […] Hundreds of union activists gathered outside the department’s headquarters Wednesday afternoon holding signs that said ‘Hands Off Workers Data’ and chanting ‘Elon Musk has got to go.’”

Office of Personnel Management (source: Washington Post)

  • “Records obtained by The Post show that several members of Musk’s DOGE team — some of whom are in their early 20s and come from positions at his private companies — were given ‘administrative’ access to OPM computer systems within days of Trump’s inauguration last month. That gives them sweeping authority to install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities.”
  • “The DOGE team’s demand for access to OPM files and networks came as Musk deputies arrived at the agency promising to wipe out 70 percent of its staff, officials said. A senior OPM official, during a team meeting Wednesday, said that core units focused on modernizing the agency’s network and improving accountability are ‘likely to go away,’ according to a recording of the session obtained by The Post. Those who have been reassigned at the agency include the chief information officer and the chief financial officer.”

Department of Education (source: USA Today)

  • “A top U.S. Department of Education official confirmed to employees during a virtual meeting Tuesday that the team working for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been reviewing the agency’s operations, according to two staffers on the call who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.”
  • “During the meeting, Trainor, a new political appointee, introduced himself to the civil rights division, which is in charge of enforcing antidiscrimination laws on most school and college campuses. Just weeks after the Trump administration selected him for the role, the office’s direction has taken a sharp rightward turn from its work during the Biden years: It has halted all investigations related to book bans, opened a probe into a high school in Denver that created a gender-neutral restroom, and ordered schools across the country to be less LGBTQ-inclusive when enforcing sex discrimination laws.”

General Services Administration (source: Associated Press)

  • “Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have homed in on the GSA. An email sent last week from GSA headquarters in Washington instructed regional managers to begin terminating leases on roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide.”

Federal Aviation Administration (source: Business Insider)

  •  “On the heel of a deadly plane crash outside of Washington, DC, Elon Musk says the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ will be making changes to the country’s air traffic control system.”
  • “Musk wrote on X that he and DOGE had President Donald Trump’s support and ‘will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system.’”

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (source: WIRED)

  • “In an email early Friday morning, CFPB staff were told that several people from DOGE—including Nikhil Rajpal and Gavin Kliger (along with Chris Young, who has been described as a Republican political adviser connected with Elon Musk)—entered the agency building Thursday evening. The email stated that they would require access to CFPB data, systems, and equipment, following a message sent Thursday by CFPB chief operating officer Adam Martinez confirming that the DOGE employees were to receive ‘read-only’ access.” 
  • Musk, 11/26/24: “Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies.”

Department of Energy (source: CNN)

  • “A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted access to the Energy Department’s IT system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, two people with knowledge of the situation told CNN. ”
  • “Wright granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor — a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern — even over objections from members of the department’s general counsel and chief information offices, the people told CNN. The DOE chief information office is the department’s IT and cybersecurity office. ”

Environmental Protection Agency (source: E&E News)

  • “A person said to be associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is listed in EPA’s staff directory. Gautier Cole Killian appears in the directory on EPA’s website as a ‘Federal Detailee,’ a designation usually used for someone temporarily working at the agency on assignment from elsewhere in the federal government.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (source: NBC News)

  • “A person who has been affiliated with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a former aide to one of the FBI’s toughest congressional critics are working as advisers to the bureau’s director, four current and former FBI officials told NBC News.”
  • ProPublica: “[Justin] Monroe is working as an adviser within the office of the director of the FBI, according to three people familiar with the matter. NBC News previously reported that an unnamed SpaceX employee has been placed in the FBI director’s office but said it could not confirm the individual’s identity. Monroe is a seasoned information security professional who previously served in the U.S. Navy as an information warfare officer.”

Social Security Administration (source: ProPublica)

  • “[Michael] Russo is a top-ranking technology official at the SSA, which disburses over $1.5 trillion in benefits annually. Russo spent over seven years as an executive and senior adviser with Shift4 Payments, a payment processing company that is both an investor in SpaceX and a payment processor for StarLink, according to his Linkedin. The CEO of Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman, has been nominated by Trump to lead NASA and is a friend of Musk’s who has purchased multiple spacewalks with Musk’s SpaceX company. Russo’s office will oversee the SSA’s over $2 billion IT budget.”

Department of Housing and Urban Development (source: NYT)

  • “In the past week, his aides have descended upon the Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs Departments, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to people familiar with their activities.”

Federal Emergency Management Agency (source: NYT, Washington Post)

  • NYT: “In the past week, his aides have descended upon the Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs Departments, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to people familiar with their activities.”
  • WaPo: “Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump said his administration would consider making the Federal Emergency Management Agency ‘go away,’ representatives of Elon Musk’s U.S. Doge Service were at the agency and reviewing the grant programs it uses to help communities prepare for and respond to disasters, according to four current and two former FEMA officials.”

State Department (source: Washington Post)

  • “A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as ‘Big Balls’ has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns among some diplomats and others about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.”

Department of Homeland Security (source: Washington Post)

  • “A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as ‘Big Balls’ has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns among some diplomats and others about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.”

NASA (source: Reuters)

  • “NASA’s acting administrator Janet Petro said on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel planned to examine the space agency’s spending, and noted hundreds of agency employees had accepted a government buyout proposal. ‘We are going to have DOGE come. They’re going to look – similarly (to) what they’ve done in other agencies – at our payments and what money has gone out,’ Petro, who was previously the head of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, told reporters on the sidelines of a space industry conference in Washington.”

Internal Revenue Service (source: Sen. Ron Wyden)

  • “My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk’s henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.”

Photo Attribution: The Royal Society

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