The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):
1. Trump Revoked Security Clearances for Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Antony Blinken, his previous opponent—What’s-Her-Name, and members of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family.
Trump said in the memorandum:
I have determined it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information.
Therefore, I hereby direct every executive department and agency head to take all additional action as necessary and consistent with existing law to revoke any active security clearances held by the aforementioned individuals and to immediately rescind their access to classified information.
The order also impacts former Biden White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who is also a known Trump critic.
2. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Has Agreed to a Colossal Investment in the United States Economy over the Next 10 Years
The White House announced on Friday the Gulf nation will “increase the UAE’s existing investments in the U.S. economy” in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, and manufacturing to $1.4 trillion over the next 10 years.
As part of the new investment framework, UAE investment fund ADQ and U.S.-based Energy Capital Partners unveiled a $25 billion plan focused on energy infrastructure and data centers.
Meanwhile, XRG, a subsidiary of the state-owned Abu Dhabi oil company, confirmed its commitment to bolstering U.S. natural gas production and exports, with “additional plans to make substantial investments in US assets across gas, chemicals, energy infrastructure and low carbon solutions.”
Emirates Global Aluminum revealed plans to build a new aluminum smelter in the United States, which the White House stated would “nearly double U.S. domestic aluminum production.”
“These significant investments underscore the close ties between the United States and the United Arab Emirates,” the White House noted, proving the “strong relationship” between Trump and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
The investment comes following a successful meeting with UAE’s National Security Advisor H.H. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan and President Trump early last week.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social:
The evening demonstrated the long-standing ties and bonds of friendship between our countries. UAE and the U.S. have long been partners in the work to bring peace and security to the Middle East and the World.
Final thought: The UAE is a major economic power driven by vast oil and gas reserves, but the nation is also moslem and driven to conquer and colonize. Be careful, Mr. President.
3. Columbia Univ. Bows to Trump Demands in Bid to Restore US Funding
The university released a memo outlining its agreement with the Trump’s administration hours before an extended deadline set by the government was to expire.
This from newsmax.com.
As a precondition for restoring $400 million in federal funding the school acquiesced to banning face masks on campus, empowering security officers to remove or arrest individuals, and taking control of the department that offers courses on the Middle East from its faculty.
The Ivy League university’s response is being watched by other universities which the administration has sanctioned as it advances its policy objectives in areas ranging from campus protests to transgender sports and diversity initiatives.
The administration has warned at least 60 other universities of possible action over alleged failure to comply with federal civil rights laws related to antisemitism. It has also targeted at least three law firms that the president says helped his political opponents or helped prosecute him unfairly.
Among the most contentious of the nine demands, Columbia agreed to place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department under a new official, the memo said, taking control away from its faculty.
The university will appoint a new senior administrator to review curriculum and faculty to make sure they are balanced, and to provide fresh leadership at the department, which offers courses on Middle Eastern politics and related subjects.
The school has also hired three dozen special officers who have the power to arrest people on campus and has revised its anti-discrimination policies, including its authority to sanction campus organizations, the memo said.
Face masks to conceal identities are no longer allowed, and any protesters must now identify themselves when asked, the memo said.
4. DHS Pulls Temporary Status of 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
The order applies to people who arrived since October 2022 with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S.
A new policy follows an earlier Trump administration decision to end what it called the “broad abuse” of the humanitarian parole—a long-standing legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries where there is war or political instability to enter and temporarily live in the U.S.
During his campaign President Trump promised to deport millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally, and as president he has been also ending legal pathways for immigrants to come to the U.S. and to stay.
The administration decision has already been challenged in federal courts—a group of American citizens and immigrants sued the Trump administration for ending humanitarian parole and seeks to reinstate the programs for the four nationalities.
Since late 2022, more than half a million people have come to the U.S. under the policy, also known as CHNV. It was a part of The Obiden Regime approach to encourage people to come through new legal channels while cracking down on those who crossed the border illegally.
5. Congo’s President Offers Trump Control of $24 Trillion in Minerals to Bring Peace in the Region
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has reached out directly to President Trump with a historic proposal: Help defeat a brutal rebel force terrorizing his nation, and in return, America will gain direct access to one of the world’s richest untapped troves of critical minerals—worth an estimated $24 trillion.
Tshisekedi wrote:
Your election has ushered in the golden age for America. Our partnership would provide the U.S. with a strategic advantage by securing critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, copper and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The proposal comes just days after President Trump launched a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, a key piece of his “America First 2.0” economic policy to reclaim supply chains from foreign adversaries like China. Tshisekedi’s plan offers the U.S. Fund exclusive mining opportunities, effectively locking China out of yet another crucial global resource hub.
The DRC sits on a goldmine, literally and figuratively, with the Panzi Foundation estimating its untapped reserves at over $20 trillion, according to Fox News.
