Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

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

1. Trump: ‘Powell’s Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautioned about the growth outlook during his address and held off on lowering interest rates.

President Trump responded:

Powell’s interest rate reductions will be too late and his termination cannot come fast enough.

Trump wrote Thursday morning on Truth Social:

The ECB [European Central Bank] is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, ‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete ‘mess!’

Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now.

That remains more than a year from now, as Powell’s second four-year term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends in May 2026.

2. Once the Deadline on May 7th Arrives, You Will Need to Show a National ID Card if You Want to Travel by Plane

The United States will have joined more than 100 countries around the world who have a national ID card.

Being forced to “show your papers” is precisely what is about to happen on May 7th:

Due to a law passed by Congress in 2005 that has been repeatedly extended for two decades, anyone traveling on domestic flights must have the new REAL ID to get through routine security protocols and board a plane. REAL ID also allows access to some federal buildings and nuclear facilities. The deadline of May 7, 2025, now appears set and is unlikely to be extended again, with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) extending hours to help Americans obtain them.

NOTE: Pursuant to official confirmation there will be no more extensions of the deadline.

On Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted the following message on Twitter:

Starting on May 7, everyone needs a REAL ID, passport or another approved identification to fly. REAL ID helps ensure that travelers are who they say they are and prevents fraud by criminals, terrorists, and illegal aliens. Enforcing federal law will help keep American travelers safe.

There will still be other forms of identification you can use to travel by plane if you do not want to get a REAL ID card.  Click HERE for further information.

3. U.S. Considering Eliminating UN and NATO Funding

What has euphemistically been called the SHTF Plan the United States is considering eliminating funding for the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as part of a State Department budget proposal. This would cut about half of the State Department’s budget.

Citing officials and an internal memo, The New York Times reported on Monday:

[T]he most recent budget proposal would eliminate almost all funding for international organizations like the United Nations and NATO.

This news comes as the Trump administration seeks to increase the Pentagon’s budget to $1 trillion.

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce insisted the United States’ remains fully committed to the military bloc, NATO. She stressed, however, Washington does not see NATO as a tool for waging war, but rather as a deterrent to conflict:

We want to make sure… the nations in NATO can actually deliver on the mission of NATO, which is to be a deterrent. It is not to help with wars or to help fight them… NATO was meant to be a collection of entities that would stop the bad actors from doing the bad thing.

Plus:

The Trump administration has repeatedly pushed NATO members to increase their defense spending, arguing the US bears a disproportionate share of the burden. Trump has warned that the US might not defend NATO members who fail to meet spending targets. –RT

4. Trump’s “Big Progress!” Trade Talk with Japanese Delegation Boosted Asian Markets

Tokyo led Asian stocks overnight after President Trump shared optimism on social media about promising Japan-U.S. trade talks.

Akazawa, who Bloomberg quoted, said he met with Trump for an hour and then with U.S. negotiators from the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments for about 75 minutes.

Akazawa said:

Both sides will engage in frank and constructive discussions and aim to reach a swift agreement.

Further:

[T]he U.S. sought a deal before the 90-day reprieve of the reciprocal tariffs.

In markets, Goldman analysts Chloe Garber, Jonathan Hurvitz, and Matthew Kaplan told clients:

“Big Progress” trade talks overnight lifted sentiment, with Asia closing higher.

The White House said earlier this week that more than 75 countries have reached out to discuss new trade deals. This comes as China and the U.S. remain locked in a trade war.

5. The Trump Administration Could Finally Put an End to California’s High Speed Rail Hoax

The Transportation Department duly began an investigation in February into $4.1 billion in grants awarded by The Regime. Secretary Sean Duffy said during a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business the Federal Railroad Administration is close to wrapping up the investigation and that if “what many people have reported on is true, we’re gonna pull the funding for this boondoggle endeavor.”

The Rail to Never Completion:

 – The track laid in January was not track for an actual high-speed train but a siding which would eventually allow construction of the actual track, though no contract to lay it had yet been signed,

 – More recently we’ve learned about ongoing funding problems with the project which needs another $7 billion by next summer to keep going,

– That’s a very immediate funding deadline for a rail project that isn’t scheduled to be operational this decade. That has led to a call for the state to finally cut its losses on this project, and

Meanwhile, the only group that seems truly happy about this boondoggle are the unions. This has been great for them. They want many more years of over-spending with no end in sight.

6. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Declassified The Regime’s ‘Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism’

When the Left responds to concerns about protecting the Second Amendment with “nobody’s coming for your guns,” We the People can be certain they are devising a way to come for our guns.

Back in 2022, communist/globalist Rep. Eric Swalwell wrote an op-ed that was published in Newsweek titled President Biden Does Not Want to Take Your Guns Away. Here is how it started:

For decades, one of the most tried and true scare tactics by the gun lobby is that the government—specifically Democrats—are coming for your guns. These misinformation campaigns have been used for years to scare law-abiding Americans into thinking they are going to be put under government surveillance to confiscate their guns.

Let’s be crystal clear—the Biden administration has no secret plan to take away your guns.

Fast forward three years to President Trump’s second term and we again see more evidence that was just another lie from the Left.

Director Gabbard declassified an Obiden “strategic implementation plan for countering domestic terrorism,” and being told what exactly is in it will not come as a surprise.

As usual, whenever We the People want to know what the crime syndicate is up to, we merely need to pay attention to what they deny wanting to do.

NOTE: “no one is coming for your guns” has always been a lie.

Gabbard has released all of The Obiden Regime’s plan and all we can say is it is a really good thing Trump won because imagine four more years of the crime syndicate working to take a hatchet to the Second Amendment:

As it turns out, The Obiden Regime’s enemy when it came to “countering domestic terrorism” was the U.S. Constitution, and What’s-Her-Name losing to President Trump was a victory in more ways than one.

The communist/globalist crime syndicate wanted America to believe Trump was the tyrant, which was just more radical Leftist projection.