The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):
1. Trump Guts Bill Clinton’s AmeriCorps—It Failed Last 8 Audits
Roughly 75% of AmeriCorps’ staff have now been placed on administrative leave as the Trump administration overhauls the agency.
On Thursday, officials confirmed 535 full-time AmeriCorps employees out of the agency’s 700 member staff were placed on leave.
Volunteers with AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps—a program that focuses specifically on volunteer opportunities for youth between the ages of 18–26—were preemptively pulled out of the field.
Roughly $250 million in taxpayer-funded AmeriCorps contracts also have been canceled.
AmeriCorps is expected to remain in existence, according to an admin official, but the operations will essentially restart from scratch.
Former President Bill Clinton created the AmeriCorps National Service Program in 1993, during his first year in office.
It was pitched as a volunteer arm of the government to help aid communities nationwide.
The House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee previously found the agency has received roughly $1 billion in taxpayer funds every year.
However, AmeriCorps has failed eight consecutive audits over the past decade.
In December 2024, the chair of the House subcommittee, Republican Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, said in a statement:
Unfortunately, AmeriCorps has a long history of abusing taxpayer dollars.
2. ICE Celebrates Record-Breaking Worksite Arrests, Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Labor
ICE has apprehended over 1,000 illegal alien workers. The crackdown, which unearthed significant evidence of immigration employment violations, has led to the proposal of $1 million in fines.
This aggressive approach is a direct reflection of the Trump administration’s commitment to upholding the rule of law and holding employers accountable for hiring illegal workers.
HSI acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer said in a statement:
Businesses that exploit and hire illegal workers are harming the American public.
ICE’s statutory duties include protecting Americans and enforcing more than 400 laws that relate to immigration, so there are two aspects to our worksite enforcement operations.
ICE Detroit acting Special Agent in Charge Jared Murphey said:
[In April,] ICE filed a civil complaint against a Chinese money laundering organization that orders the multimillion-dollar seizure of 14 properties, seven bank accounts and 15 vehicles.
ICE and the IRS’ Criminal Investigation division investigated the case, in which we allege the money laundering organization operated a staffing company to supply illegal workers to a factory in Ohio and harbored that illegal workforce.
The agency also conducted operations at worksites in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, which resulted in 11, 4, and 16 arrests, respectively.
3. Switching Sides? Mark Cuban Gushes Over Trump’s EO: It’ll ‘Save Hundreds of Billions’
President Trump’s latest executive order on health care and drug pricing, signed Tuesday, targets prescription drug costs, transparency in health care pricing, and pharmacy benefit manager reforms.
One surprising supporter is billionaire Mark Cuban, a longtime Trump adversary.
Cuban took to X Wednesday to laud the executive order, saying it “could save hundreds of billions:”
Gotta be honest. The @realDonaldTrump EO on healthcare and in particular, drug pricing could save hundreds of billions.
Here is how:
1. Divorce formularies from PBMs. Require them to come from independent organizations with no economic incentive from the formulary
Make them…— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) April 16, 2025
Cuban is not only praising Trump’s health care order, but also volunteering his help. In his X post, Cuban actually put a little respect on Trump’s name, writing, “Put me in coach! I’m here to help.”
Trump’s order clearly aligns with Cuban’s mission to tackle inflated health care costs.
Health care expert Sally Pipes made similar arguments to Cuban’s X points in Medical Economics, highlighting some universal appeal for Trump’s policies.
Cuban calls for “radical transparency,” starting with separating formularies from pharmacy benefit managers, known as PBMs, to end profit-driven schemes that prioritize money over patient wellness.
Cuban also pushed for PBMs to share all claims data with employers, states, and manufacturers, a move Pipes noted could improve patient outcomes and cut retail pricing by up to 10 percent, savings that could clearly benefit consumers.
Another reform Cuban supported is removing the “specialty tier” for drugs. He argued there’s nothing inherently special about these drugs—they are just an excuse to jack up prices.
Cuban also advocated for eliminating confidentiality clauses that block companies from negotiating directly with manufacturers for better prices.
Pipes similarly stressed the importance of transparency in all of this.
Trump has tackled drug prices before, capping insulin copays for Medicare beneficiaries in his first term and having long pushed for price transparency, though progress stalled under The Regime.
Now, Trump is taking bold action again, and even critics like Cuban are taking notice. If the order succeeds, it could signal a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation.
4. Cleaning Up: ICE Scoops Up Over 200 Illegal Aliens in Crime-Infested NYC Neighborhoods
ICE, working with several other agencies, has been busy cleaning up in New York City. Over 200 illegal aliens were arrested between April 6th and 12th.
Over 200 illegal aliens were arrested in an “enhanced immigration enforcement operation” in the “most crime-infested neighborhoods” in and around New York City in just one week this month.
According to a statement by ICE released Wednesday, 206 illegal immigrants, the majority of whom have ‘egregious criminal histories to include manslaughter, rape, assault, drug trafficking and sex assault against minors,’ were apprehended as part of the operation.
The operation took place in New York City and throughout Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley region between April 6-12.
The effort was aimed at the worst of the worst, in accordance with the Trump administration’s stated goal of removing violent criminals and gang members as a priority. And many of these were some pretty bad people, including known gang members:
It is unclear why people with major criminal convictions and who were in the country illegally were allowed to remain in the United States, but things are different now.
We note as well that many of these people were in the possession of local authorities but were released back onto the streets, as the city of New York ignored legitimate ICE detainers.
It is sad that nationally, the Left appears to be choosing this among several different 80-20 or even 95-5 issues to stake their future election success on. New York’s Mayor Adams, currently seeking re-election as an independent, would appear to agree; in a statement to Fox News, the mayor said:
One of the big mistakes that’s being made in some parts of the far-left philosophy is that ICE is a criminal organization. They are not, they are part of our law enforcement community. We have to get bad, dangerous people off our streets.
5. Trump Appoints Jay Clayton as Interim SDNY Prosecutor, Bypassing Schumer’s Block
Because this is Washington the appointment process often turns into a political circus where scoring points trumps getting things done. And this kind of obstructionism helps only the point-scorers, not the country.
President Trump recently tried to fill one of the most important prosecutor jobs in the entire country—the Southern District of New York—and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, pulled out the procedural stops to block Trump’s pick.
But the president, clearly fed up with the swamp’s delay tactics and facing yet another example of obstruction, was not about to let Schumer dictate the pace or grind the process to a halt. He announced a smart, strategic counter-move to put leadership in place.
By appointing Clayton as the interim U.S. Attorney, President Trump neatly sidestepped Schumer’s blockade for now. This allows Clayton, who, let us recall, served admirably as SEC Chair and earned respect across the aisle, to actually start doing the job while the administration pushed for full confirmation later. It shows he is thinking steps ahead. Frankly, that is the kind of leadership we need—cutting through the nonsense.
And let us be clear, the SDNY is not some backwater post. As the President pointed out, it oversees critical parts of our financial markets and tackles major crime affecting millions of New Yorkers and visitors. It is not rocket science—this office matters. Letting it drift because of Schumer’s political theatre? Unacceptable. Leadership was needed, and fast.
