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WASHINGTON D.C. - Newly-sworn in U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has gotten straight to work on her first day by directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities,” according to a Wednesday report.
Bondi’s day one directives, obtained by Fox News, showed a heavy focus on countering illegal immigration and drug cartels, as she also ordered the DOJ to evaluate funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support illegal migrants.
The former Florida attorney general, nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the DOJ immediately after he won the November election, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday and sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday morning, Breitbart News reported.
In her first-day directives, Bondi reportedly added that Joint Task Force Vulcan, a coordinated effort between government agencies to dismantle MS-13, and Joint Task Force Alpha, created to fight human trafficking, would be “further empowered and elevated” to the Office of the Attorney General. Click here to read more.
On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting women’s sports from the incursion of transgender athletes.
“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “And it should have been done long ago.”
The president signed the order in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by dozens of excited girls and young women who were there to witness the signing.
The order contains several measures, the first of which is to re-write federal Title IX education rules to withhold federal funds from schools that allow transgender athletes to play as females.
Another aspect of the order would charge the Department of Homeland Security with the task of denying visas to foreign trans athletes who want to enter the U.S. to compete among women. Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - Michigan’s reading and math scores failed to return to pre-lockdown levels, according to the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. With only six states trailing Michigan in fourth-grade grade reading, it’s time for lawmakers to consider bold solutions to this growing education crisis.
Michigan ranked 44th among the states in fourth-grade reading on the 2024 NAEP, also known as The Nation’s Report Card. Eighth graders didn’t fare much better; they landed at 33rd on the reading test and 31st on the math test, right behind Missouri and Hawaii, respectively. And students got lower scores on these tests than they did on the previous NAEP, administered in 2022.
The fourth-grade math results were slightly better. These improved by three points, leaving them two points below the national average. This score placed Michigan at 34th in the nation. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - The executive branch will stop spending money on Politico subscriptions after paying millions of dollars to the news outlet last year, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Wednesday.
"I was made aware of the funding of USAID to media outlets, including Politico ... And I can confirm that the more than eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening," Leavitt said. "The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now."
'This is a whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books."
Why it matters: It's an easy political lever for the Trump administration to pull to undermine media without facing legal or regulatory hurdles.
Right-wing personalities are using USAspending.gov to dig up more payments from the government to media organizations — like The New York Times, AP and Reuters — for products and subscriptions. Look for those organizations to be in the hot seat next. Click here to learn more.
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday released the unedited interview and transcript of Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election at the centerpiece of a complaint brought by President Donald Trump.
Trump’s team says 60 Minutes deceptively spliced the interview to benefit the Harris campaign. Click here to watch the entire video
