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#10 Los Angeles ‘Recovery Chief’ Steve Soboroff Agrees to Work for Free After Grenell Exposes $500,000 Salary - Joel B. Pollak for Breitbart, Richard Grenell, Amuse, Kent Moyer, and Ben Owen on X
Earlier in the day, Breitbart News reported that Ambassador Ric Grenell, who is representing President Donald Trump in overseeing the recovery effort from last month’s devastating fires, criticized Soboroff harshly for his salary.Grenell’s sentiments were shared by many residents, who vented their outrage at Soboroff making a fortune off their misfortune. “Steve Soboroff should be embarrassed to accept $500,000 for 3 months of work (and [assistant] Randy Johnson for accepting $250,000 for the same period). This is an absurd rate of pay,” one resident wrote on NextDoor, a social media app that connects neighbors. “Even if the funds are coming from philanthropic sources, why is the money not going to the many, many people who have lost [sic] everything? Why would an elderly and wealthy man think it proper to take this money home? Disgusting.”
#9 Trump Says He Has Directed Us Treasury to Stop Minting New Pennies, Citing Rising Cost - Jill Colvin for AP News, Autism Capital, Cremieux, Paul A. Szypula, and Newsweek on X
President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.“For far too long, the United States has minted pennies, which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.” The move by Trump is the latest in what has been a rapid-fire effort by his new administration to enact sweeping change through executive orders and proclamations on issues ranging from immigration to gender and diversity to the name of the Gulf of...
#8 T-Mobile’s Starlink Messaging Service Is Now Free to Try, Even if You Aren’t on T-Mobile - Jess Weatherbed for The Verge, T-Mobile, Elon Musk, Libs of TikTok, and Nick Sortor on X
T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered direct-to-cell satellite messaging service is now available for free to anyone in the US, including non—T—Mobile customers. The service will initially be limited to text messaging, but the company hopes to have some apps and even limited multimedia support ready by the time it goes live this summer. It will cost T-Mobile users $15 per month once the free testing period ends in July, or $10 for customers who participated in the beta trial. Verizon and AT&T customers can also try the service for free, according to T-Mobile’s press release, and will pay $20 a month per line. T-Mobile customers paying for the carrier’s priciest Go5G Next plan (which starts at $105 per month) will have the Starlink feature baked in at no additional cost...
#7 Court Blocks Administration From Deporting 3 Venezuelan Immigrants Held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay - CBS News, Raw Egg Nationalist, Sara Servatius, and John Moore on X
A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president's immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees "fit the profile of those the administration has prioritized for detention in Guantanamo, i.e. Venezuelan men detained in the El Paso area with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang." It asked a U.S. District Court in New Mexico for a temporary restraining order blocking their transfer, adding that "the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction." During a brief hearing, Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales granted the temporary order, which was opposed by the government, said Jessica Vosburgh, an attorney for the three men...
#6 Top Federal Agency With History of Wasteful Spending Could Be Next DOGE Target - Andrew Mark Miller for Fox News, Elon Musk, Zaid Smith, Brian Cates, RealRobert and Crazy Moments on X
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk’s efforts to clean up waste and fraud in the federal government will soon shift its focus to the Social Security Administration (SSA) in a move likely to create a firestorm with Democrats. The SSA, created by the Social Security Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 and tasked with establishing a federal benefits system for older Americans, will soon become a focus of DOGE, according to a report from Semafor that was not denied by the White House when contacted by Fox News Digital...
#5 Trump 100% Disagrees With Federal Judge’s ‘Crazy’ Ruling Blocking DOGE From Treasury System - Emma Colton for Fox News, New York Post, Nerd Raven, and AlexGangitano on X
President Donald Trump "100 percent" disagrees with a federal judge's ruling on Saturday that bars the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department, he said during an exclusive interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. "Nineteen states attorneys general filed a lawsuit, and early Saturday, a judge agreed with them to restrict Elon Musk and his government efficiency team, DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department payment and data systems. They said there was a risk of ‘irreparable harm.’ What do you make of that? And does that slow you down and what you want to do?" Baier asked Trump in the interview clip...
#4 Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Uncovers Fema’s $59M Illegal Funding for Housing Illegal Migrants in Luxury NYC Hotels - Frank DeMatteo for Investing.com, Amuse, Elon Musk (community notes), Matt Van Swol, and Mario Nawfal/Private First Class Kelly on X
Elon Musk, President Trump's confidant and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), disclosed that the DOGE team found out last week that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had unlawfully transferred $59 million to upscale hotels in New York City. The funds, meant for American disaster relief, were used to accommodate undocumented immigrants. "The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants," Musk said on X. Musk said this action goes against the law and blatantly disobeys the President's executive order. In response, Musk stated that a demand to recover the misused funds, referred to as a clawback, will be initiated today...
#3 USAID Funded Massive ‘News’ Platform, Extending ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ to Billions Worldwide - Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, Vigilant News, Jeff P, Stacy is Right, Kyle Becker, and Justin Hart on X
We wonder how the American taxpayer feels about their hard-earned cash being taken away from them and used for this purpose... In addition to propping up far-left corporate media outlets like Politico and the BBC with taxpayer funds, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funneled half a billion dollars to a secretive non-governmental organization operating a global news propaganda matrix. WikiLeaks published the bombshell report in the overnight hours that shows the massive taxpayer-funded state propaganda network - operating as a shady NGO - called "Internews Network"...
#2 DOGE Looks to Shrink the Federal Workforce by Making Buildings and Commutes ‘So Crappy’ That Employees Will Quit, Report Says - Jason Ma for Fortune (MSN), Mario Nawfal, Jeff Stein, Dreamweaver, and GUIguana on X
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has targeted the General Services Administration, which manages federal property and is key to efforts to shrink the government's workforce. Sources told the Washington Post that part of the Department of Government Efficiency's plan to slash spending and personnel is to boost attrition by depressing morale...#1 Alarm as JD Vance Says Federal Judges ‘Aren’t Allowed’ to Control President - Josh Marcus for The Independent, JD Vance (community Note), US Homeland Security News Steve Friend, Mag 1775, and Eric Daugherty on X
Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House’s “legitimate power.” The controversy began on Sunday morning when Vance tweeted his views on executive power. “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” he wrote on X. “If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.”
