Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

The ‘Speed of Trump’ continues.

The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):

1. Refugee Re-Settlers Hit by Layoffs After Crackdown on Illegal Alien Business

The “migrant” business of foisting illegal aliens falsely claiming to be ‘refugees’ on Americans used to be very big business.

Fortunately for We the People, the business of illegal alien invaders and their profiteers is diminishing.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued Trump claiming $65 million had been allocated for 6,700 invaders and that with the funding cutoff, it is on the hook for millions of dollars. Reportedly it has laid off a third of its staff.

Catholic Charities in Houston, an epicenter of the invasion, announced it was laying off 120 workers.

In Dallas, Catholic Charities jettisoned 59 employees. A news story cited the help given to Afghan “refugees.”

Episcopal Migration Ministries laid off 22 employees, Jesuit Refugee Services has laid off 400, and HIAS (formerly Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) cut 22 staff members.

Church World Service Lancaster furloughed much of its staff. IRIS (Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services) in Connecticut laid off 20% of its staff and the Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids dumped approximately half of its workforce.

Refugee re-settlers lose, Americans win.

2. A Never-Trump European Scolds President Trump—At Issue: Uncle Sam will no longer be their patsy.

Having returned to the White House, President Trump is once again challenging the “rules based international order” with his America first policies and impatience with our allies’ refusal to share the cost of being the “world’s policeman.”

Last week the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the erstwhile Prime Minister of Denmark and NATO Secretary General, who expressed his fears that Trump has “gone rogue” and “no longer exercises his authority over geopolitical gangsters, or becomes abusive toward the world’s most steadfast rule followers”—by which he means Europeans, especially the NATO nations.

According to a 2023 Washington Post article, the gap between the feel-good rhetoric from NATO nations about confronting Putin in Ukraine, and the sober facts of their misplaced spending priorities shows:

[F]or all its wealth, industrial might and sophistication, the [NATO] bloc remains benumbed, oblivious to its sclerotic arms production incapacity and content to continue outsourcing its mounting security needs to the United States. Together they reflect Europe’s cognitive dissonance on security and should amplify the alarm bells set ringing [by Russia’s invasion]. Yet Europe has left unaddressed the corrosive, longer-term problem of defense industries in most E.U. countries that were left to atrophy after the Soviet Union’s collapse more than three decades ago, and today remain supine.

As a consequence, today’s NATO nations do not have the industrial capability, political will, nor enough citizens willing to serve in the military to save themselves from what has transitioned from a fear of Mother Russia to an invasion of Islam.

3. Musk, Under Trump Administration, Cuts 84,500 Federal Jobs in Major Government Downsizing

In a bold move that has sent shockwaves through D.C.’s administrative state, President Trump and his special adviser Elon Musk have dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce.

Initial data from the first wave of reforms shows promising results. Agencies report up to 20% faster processing times for basic services, while operating with reduced staff. The Department of Energy alone projects $1.2 billion in annual savings from streamlined operations.

Of grave concern—finally—$36 trillion in government debt. A $1.8 trillion deficit last year alone. A federal bureaucracy that has swelled to 2.3 million civilian employees, with taxpayers footing the bill for every salary, benefit, and pension.

Trump and Musk started with the termination of over 9,500 federal employees across nearly a dozen agencies.

The initial wave of reductions strategically targeted probationary employees—those in their first year of federal employment who have fewer protections than entrenched bureaucrats. This approach allows for swift action while minimizing legal challenges.

Additionally, approximately 75,000 federal workers have accepted voluntary buyout offers, bringing the total workforce reduction to nearly 85,000 positions—the largest downsizing since World War II.

The administration’s approach mirrors successful corporate restructuring strategies: identify redundancies, eliminate unnecessary positions, and optimize operations for maximum efficiency. With federal employee compensation consuming 6.6% of the overall budget, these reforms represent a significant step toward fiscal responsibility.

4. mRNA Inventor Sounds Alarm Over ‘Bird Flu Vaccines’ in Food Supply

Dr. Robert Malone, the world-renowned biochemist who pioneered mRNA technology, has issued a warning about America’s food supply being spiked with “bird flu vaccines.”

Malone is raising the alarm regarding the implications of rolling out untested mRNA “vaccines” on chicken populations heavily relied upon by American consumers.

The celebrated scientist issued the warning during a new interview with Alex Jones on Infowars.

He said:

One of the things about influenza is that it is a multi-stranded single-strand RNA virus which means that it mutates, drifts, and shifts very rapidly.

Further:

They’ve been trying for my entire career to do this.

He asserted:

[It has] failed again and again.

Because all influenza vaccines are leaky…

And:

What we will do is evolve a more vaccine-resistant bird flu. And then we’ve got even more of a problem.

5. D.C. Prosecutor Probes Threats Against DOGE, Names Schumer as Target

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin said in an email seen by Reuters that the probe was inspired by a conversation with an employee of billionaire Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency—DOGE.

Martin said:

I reached out to Senator Schumer to investigate his threats. He has not yet responded to me.

6. Stephen Miller Breaks Out the Crayons for Awesome Schooling of CNN Host

This week Stephen Miller took apart host Brianna Keilar’s false premise that somehow it is illegal or improper for the president to appoint people to work in the executive branch.

Miller detailed how DOGE had previously been created [under Barack Obama] as the U.S. Digital Service and which is part of the Executive Office of the President that reports to the president. He explained that’s how Article II works, that the president gets to appoint staff.

Keilar replied curtly, “Well aware.” Miller then grinned, and you could tell he was thinking, “Well, no, you aren’t, otherwise you wouldn’t be asking me these questions.”

Miller went on to say that Trump was committed to “restoring accountability at every level of the federal government” while Keilar sat there looking sullen.

Miller exhorted her:

Why are you not celebrating these cuts!? If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted!?

She pitched the “privacy” thing — another Democratic talking point. Miller shot that down.

But the government that has been misusing our money already has our information. So, this seems like such a silly argument.