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Epoch Times
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Epoch Times
Secretary of Labor Warns States Could Lose Federal Funding If Illegal Immigrants Get Unemployment Benefits
U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned states of losing federal funding if they fail to comply with President Donald Trump's directives on rewarding illegal immigrants with tax dollars, according to an April 25 'Our nation's unemployment benefits exist solely for workers who are eligible to receive them,' Chavez-DeRemer wrote in a The secretary reminded all states that failing to fulfill existing legal obligations will result in the loss of federal funding through the Title III UI administrative grant. The warning is pursuant to presidential memorandum, 'Preventing Illegal Aliens from Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits,' and executive order 14218, 'Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.' Chavez-DeRemer also reminded states of an earlier communication by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, based on which, states can access the DHS immigration This is a 'critical tool' to ensure 'illegal immigrants do not access our nation's unemployment benefits,' said the labor secretary. Related Stories 4/25/2025 4/25/2025 'As a result of this change, I instructed the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to send a letter to all State Unemployment Insurance Administrators urging them to immediately start using SAVE for every initial and continued claim filed by an individual who indicates that they are not a U.S. citizen,' he said. The SAVE database is aimed at helping agencies at federal, state, local, and tribal levels to confirm the immigration status and citizenship of individuals before issuing benefits. A presidential memorandum An executive According to a Department of Government Efficiency finding released The Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts have been met with challenges. State and local governments with sanctuary policies block or restrict local officials from enforcing federal laws such as those related to immigration. The lawsuit was filed by over a dozen cities that would be affected by the cancellation of federal funding for 'sanctuary' cities. In his order, the judge said the administration's attempt amounts to a violation of the Constitution's separation of powers principles and banned the government from any further funding cuts. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is On April 24, the Department of Agriculture asked states to take steps to this effect. States were asked to check the identities of people who apply for SNAP, collect their social security numbers, and verify their legal status in the United States.
Irish Daily Star
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Daily Star
'Obsessed' Trump has mentioned Joe Biden a staggering 580 times since becoming president
U.S. President Donald Trump is known for his unique vernacular and tendency to repeat phrases, and though he says 'the most beautiful word' is 'tariffs,' experts counted and found that there's one thing he mentions most - his predecessor, Joe Biden . According to an analysis by NBC News , Donald Trump talks about Biden an average of 'six times' a day, adding up to 580 mentions of Biden since his January 20 inauguration. Meanwhile, a separate New York Times analysis found that Trump mentioned Biden's name more than he said the word "America" during his first 50 days. Liberal pundits have characterized Trump's constant invocation of his once-opponent "Biden Derangement Syndrome," cleverly named for Trump's insistence that the 'fake news media' has 'Trump Derangement Syndrome,' experts at NBC say. It has led to some accusing Trump of being "obsessed" with Biden in posts online. Read More Related Articles Donald Trump branded 'dumbest President ever' after six-word comment about Congo Read More Related Articles White House branded 'narcissistic' after brief 5-word tribute to Pope While Biden largely steered away from talking about Trump, Trump has done the opposite (Image: Getty Images) In contrast, Biden spoke about Trump just 29 times in the first 100 days of his presidency, according to the same report. Trump, who says, he's 'got the best words,' has taken every chance he can to slam Biden. Just two days ago in a speech, Trump once again railed against Biden , labeling him the 'worst president in history.' Prior to the White House Easter event, Trump went on a ranting rampage taking aim at his enemies, saving space for a special message for Joe Biden. "Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America," Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump made several quips about Biden during Easter (Image: Getty Images) He finished with more insults, stating that Biden was "by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing. But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!" But that wasn't it for the Easter celebratory Biden shout-outs. At the actual egg hunt, Trump, began to tell an anecdote. 'Do you remember the bunny with Joe Biden? Do you remember when the bunny took Joe Biden out? He's not taking Trump out," Trump joked. The person in the bunny costume standing next to him nodded along. President Trump's repetitive phrasing is part of his technique, say speech experts (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) For the final Biden dig of the weekend, the White House's official X account posted a video of the quip, captioned, 'The White House is no longer a nursing home.' The 47th US president had previously mentioned Biden an impressive 13 times during a speech to Congress last month. At his inauguration alone, Trump mentioned Biden a dozen times, which is about half of how many times the Biden administration mentioned Trump in his first 100 days. Trump's repetition is part of a speech pattern, however, as a Politico analysis noticed that there's a number of words Trump uses repeatedly, including, 'beautiful' (one of his most used), 'Witch hunt,' 'Fake news,' 'Tremendous,' 'Swamp,' and 'Huge.' The repetition of speech is a psychological maneuver that experts sounded the alarm on during the first Trump presidency. "It's effective when people hear things over and over, it sticks in their minds," said Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, in a 2017 interview with USA Today. She added, "Where did people come away with this idea that Hillary can't be trusted? We heard it over and over."
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump unloads on Judge Boasberg, 'radical left judges' for halting deportations of violent illegal aliens
President Donald Trump slammed U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg and other "radical left judges" for reportedly working to hamper his ability to serve as president through legal orders preventing the deportation of violent illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. "People are shocked by what is going on with the Court System. I was elected for many reasons, but a principal one was LAW AND ORDER, a big part of which is QUICKLY removing a vast Criminal Network of individuals, who came into our Country through the Crooked Joe Biden Open Borders Policy! These are dangerous and violent people, who kill, maim and, in many other ways, harm the people of our Country," Trump posted to Truth Social on Sunday morning. "The Voters want them OUT, and said so in Record Numbers. If it was up to District Judge Boasberg and other Radical Left Judges, nobody would be removed, the President wouldn't be allowed to do his job, and people's lives would be devastated all throughout our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!," he added. Judges Extend Orders Against Deportation Flights, Including Wartime Act On Violent Venezuelan Gang Members Trump's message comes after Boasberg, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., extended a restraining order on Friday against the use of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime immigration law, by the Trump administration to deport violent gang members with alleged ties to gangs, such as Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). Boasberg ruled the extension will run through April 12. Read On The Fox News App El Salvador Takes In Hundreds Of Venezuelan Gang Members From Us, Even As Judge Moves To Block Deportations A separate federal judge in Boston, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, blocked the deportation of migrants to countries where they have no existing relationship without a chance to go to court to contest that move. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allows deportation of natives and citizens of an enemy nation without a hearing, and has been invoked three times before, during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. On March 15, Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to halt its deportations of illegal immigrants under the wartime powers act. Planes carrying hundreds of suspected gang members, however, had already flown from the U.S. to El Salvador, where the nation's president had offered to take illegal immigrants of any nationality facing deportation in the U.S. in February, booking the illegal aliens in his country's notorious prison system. El Salvador Agrees To Accept Us Deportees Of Any Nationality Following Meeting With Rubio Appeals Court Blocks Trump Admin's Deportation Flights In Alien Enemies Act Immigration Suit The Trump administration filed an emergency request for the U.S. appeals court to intervene in the case, and called on the Supreme Court last week to lift the judge's block to deporting illegal aliens under the wartime act. "This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country – the President, through Article II, or the judiciary," acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the Supreme Court. "The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the president. The republic cannot afford a different choice." Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch, Breanne Deppisch and Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report. Original article source: Trump unloads on Judge Boasberg, 'radical left judges' for halting deportations of violent illegal aliens
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Is Unleashing a Chaos Economy
Americans hold all sorts of views on tariffs. Some are opposed on free-market grounds. Others are in favor for reasons of national security or to bring back American manufacturing. Those debates are part of a normal democratic process. But President Donald Trump's first weeks in office have shown that a principled discussion over tariff policy is simply not on the agenda, because the administration's tariff policy is nonsense. What we have is chaos. One U.S. uncertainty index of economic policy, which goes back to 1985, has been higher at only one point in the past 40 years: when the coronavirus pandemic began. That, of course, was a global phenomenon that the United States could do little to avoid. What's going on now, by contrast, is entirely self-inflicted. [Read: Trump's most inexplicable decision yet] Chaos is Trump's calling card, but few could have expected how quickly the president would ricochet all over the place on the size, nature, and timing of—not to mention the justifications for—one of his signature policies. Before markets can adjust to one pronouncement, the world's smartphones buzz in unison announcing that the wealthiest nation in the world, whose dollars hold up the global financial system, is hurtling in another direction once again. Just consider this abridged timeline of the most significant twists and turns thus far: November 25, 2024: Trump posted on Truth Social that on the first day of his new term, he would 'sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25 percent Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders.' January 20, 2025: The first day of Trump's term. No tariffs announced. Instead, Trump signed a memo directing the Commerce secretary to 'investigate the causes of our country's large and persistent annual trade deficits.' January 26: After the Colombian president rejected U.S. military flights carrying deportees, Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs on all Colombian goods. Colombia threatened to respond but deescalated before the new taxes were put in place. February 1: Tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada are on. February 3: Tariffs (for Mexico and Canada) are off. February 4: Chinese tariffs go into effect, and the Chinese government announces retaliatory tariffs as well as export controls on key minerals. February 11: Trump imposes a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum from all countries. February 13: Trump threatens reciprocity to any country enacting tariff policies against the United States. February 25: Trump raises the possibility of tariffs on copper. February 27: Canada and Mexico tariffs maybe coming back on? March 1: In the middle of a housing crisis, Trump raises the possibility of tariffs on lumber and timber. March 4: Okay, yes, the Canada and Mexico tariffs are back on. March 6: Just kidding, only for some stuff. March 9: Tariffs 'could go up,' Trump says on Fox News. March 11: Ontario threatens 25 percent tariffs on electricity, causing Trump to promise a 50—yes, 50—percent tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel. By the end of the day, both countries backed off these threats. March 12: A big day for tariffs. The 25 percent tax on all imports of steel and aluminum go into effect, and in retaliation, the European Union enacted duties on $28 billion worth of American goods, while Canada announced $21 billion in tariffs on American goods. March 13: Not to be outdone, Trump threatened 200 percent tariffs on wine and other alcoholic beverages from Europe. To recap, the United States is now in a trade war with its largest trading partner (Canada), its second-largest trading partner (the European Union), its third-largest trading partner (Mexico), and its fourth-largest trading partner (China). It's obvious to the point of cliché that businesses rely on regulatory—and fiscal—policy predictability in order to plan hiring, capital investments, and pricing strategies. And that means these past few weeks have been very rough. How can you begin a capital-intensive project if you have no idea what anything will cost? The chaos of the current trade policy is a strange parallel to the chaos that the Trump administration has unleashed on the federal government. One difference is evident, however: Although markets expected the new president to go on a deregulatory spree, they failed to take his affinity for tariffs seriously—or at least thought things would be executed a little more deliberately. An adviser to prominent energy companies told me that because 'infrastructure projects require five to 10 years for permitting and construction,' some of her clients are pausing normal business decisions. 'The current environment is so chaotic that it's difficult to understand effects [on] permitting pathways, community approvals, and supply-chain costs.' She requested anonymity to speak freely about her clients' struggles in the early days of the new Trump administration. The big companies are in a better spot than small businesses. As we've already seen when the Big Three automakers were able to get direct relief from the tariffs, large companies that can provide Trump with good PR are able to get carve-outs from tariffs. But small businesses are less suited to absorbing shocks and are less likely to stay abreast of the day-to-day shifts of tariff policy. Many will be unable to game the system. Uncertainty may also be paralyzing the labor markets. As my colleague Rogé Karma reported last month, job switching is at its lowest level in nearly a decade, even though the unemployment rate remains low. Part of what's going on is that lack of confidence in the future breeds risk aversion: Employers are too rattled to make a bet on a new hire, and employees are too worried to leave a safe position. [Read: A great way to get Americans to eat worse] Some people—such as those who are worried that a backlash may invigorate American support for free markets—would like the public to believe that the country is in the throes of an 'economic masterplan' and that the chaos of this moment will cohere into a reasonable strategy. Color me skeptical. For one, the president and his team have yet to articulate a consistent set of arguments for supporting his vision. Instead, the justifications for the tariff policies change as fast as the policies themselves. If the tariffs are about rebalancing America's trade and restoring its manufacturing greatness, then why are they being removed? If they're about improving America's negotiating position vis-à-vis bordering nations on issues such as fentanyl and immigration, then why are we putting them on Canada? Is Trump doing this to make Americans richer? Is he doing this to balance the budget? To hit back at other countries for their unfair policies? For national-security reasons? To solve the child-care-cost crisis? As the Yale Law professor Jerry Mashaw wrote for Fordham Law Review, 'The authority of all law relies on a set of complex reasons for believing that it should be authoritative. Unjustifiable law demands reform, unjustifiable legal systems demand revolution.' That our elected officials are required to explain themselves, to give reasons for the actions they take, is a cornerstone of democratic accountability. Without clear reasons, it's not just businesses that are at stake. It's democratic governance. But if sifting through Trump's roiling sea of rationalizations is important for democratic purposes, it's also personally significant. Every business, worker, and consumer in the country has a stake in figuring out the why and what of tariffs. [Read: Don't invite a recession in] Ideologues across the political spectrum resent the American voter's materialism. Environmentalists moan that the public refuses to bear higher energy costs in order to help mitigate the effects of climate change; animal-rights advocates worry that people won't pay to ensure better treatment of livestock; farm advocates who already benefit from distortionary subsidies have even advocated for price floors. Now it's the economic populists insisting that the public should be willing to pay higher prices on the path to restoring American greatness. On Truth Social, Trump posted an article with the headline 'Shut Up About Egg Prices,' and Republicans are insisting that it's worth it to 'pay a little bit more' to support the president. But 'America First' has always been a better slogan than organizing principle. When people have the option to pay for domestic goods at higher prices, they opt out, time and again. The speed with which Republicans have gone from hammering Democrats about high grocery prices to justifying the inflationary effects of tariffs is remarkable. Yet Republicans are likely to learn the lesson that Democrats did last November: Before they are Republicans, Democrats, or even Americans, my countrymen are consumers first. Article originally published at The Atlantic
