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Trump’s Immigration Agenda Polls Negative

By Douglas V. Gibbs

First, we must remember: They only show you what they want you to see. Second, they lie. Whenever someone tells me that they read or heard something about politics or the news, my first question is, “From whom?”

According to the mainstream media, a number of polls are showing that President Trump’s immigration policies are slowly losing public support, including among Republicans. Initially, President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda received great support. His appearance upon the political scene back in 2015 was anchored by his immigration policy that included the deportation of illegal aliens. His opponents have framed his immigration policies as tyrannical, and Hitleric. They figure if they say it often enough, you will begin to believe them.

Except, Trump’s policies regarding immigration are as popular as ever.

If you won’t believe their lies, then they need to convince you that your neighbors believe what they are saying. Perhaps that will wear you down and make you turn against Trump. So, they now offer polls saying that the popularity of President Trump’s immigration policies, particularly regarding the use of ICE, is wavering. The problem is, that also is false.

According to a new poll from CBS News, President Trump’s approval rating among Republicans stands at a solid 90%.

That is interesting. How is it that CNN, and MSNow, and ABC, and NBC all claim Trump’s popularity is wavering, and I’ve even seen some of their polls say his popularity is under 50% among Republicans, yet CBS’s poll says he’s at 90%? And the thing is, it’s much higher than even CBS used to report.

CBS has done something different than their mainstream cousins. The new head of CBS News is Bari Weiss. She’s not a conservative, per se, but she is a straight shooter. When ideology is set aside, the truth can be amazing. When you push away the lies, the reality is, President Donald Trump is the most popular President in U.S. History, aside from perhaps George Washington.

— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Deep-Seated Demons Behind St. Paul Church Attack

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Nekima Levy Armstrong, leader of the Racial Justice Network and a former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, was arrested for leading a group of agitators into a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The incursion on church-goers during Sunday Services was an organized, coordinated attack, according to Pam Bondi of the Department of Homeland Security. She also indicated that attacks on places of worship will not be tolerated. Chauntyll Louisa Allen has also been arrested; a St. Paul school board member and leader of Black Lives Matter Twin Cities. The invasion of the church by anti-ICE agitators consisted of between 30 and 40 agitators, shouting “Justice for Renee Good!” as they stormed around church attendees. In videos of the incident, as the pastor attempts to tell them to leave, the agitators chanted, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!”

Constitutionally, while the activists claim they were exercising their First Amendment Rights of Freedom of Speech, the Constitution in that amendment also enumerates the Freedom of Religion. A right stops being a right when it interferes with another right – like the right to swing one’s arms stops at the tip of another’s nose, or the right to go through an intersection stops at the edge of another’s bumper.

Armstrong states she does not regret her actions. “We are unapologetic about going into the church,” Armstrong told Democracy Now. They attacked the church based on the belief that the pastor works with ICE, calling it a “conflict of interest.” While in the church they accused any support for ICE “un-Christian” of the church goers.

Not only are the perpetrators of the church attack not sorry for what they did, but according to the Daily Signal, anti-ICE protestors do not condemn the action. Indivisible Twin Cities is one of the groups behind the organization of the street protests, and have encouraged “ICE Watch” groups who monitor and track ICE agents with the aim to not only disrupt ICE activities, but to prohibit ICE agents from conducting their operations.

A group called “Defend the 612” also organizes “ICE Watch” activities, and hosts a “de-arrest primer” encouraging activists to physically prevent law enforcement from carrying out arrests. The group also encourages stalking ICE while honking and blowing on whistles when they are sighted, with the aim to create “traffic jams and slowdowns.”

Other groups involved are Unidos MN, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Democratic Socialists of America, all communist and all anti-Christian.

Minnesota political support of the anti-ICE activists includes Minneapolis’ district attorney office, the mayor’s office, and Governor Tim Walz. Jamael Lundy, the intergovernmental affairs coordinator for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office posted on Facebook that the church invasion was a case of “good trouble,” adding, “When Minnesotans say we want ICE out, we mean it, right?” Lundy is running to represent District 65 in the Minnesota Senate, and posed with the church invaders, including disgraced journalist Don Lemon who live-streamed the invasion of the church, after their invasion of the church. Lundy serves as a liaison between Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and the state legislature, and Moriarty’s campaign has received more than $500,000 from political groups funded by anti-Christian George Soros.

The Department of Justice is investigating the incident and has suggested that the FACE Act, a law passed to attack Christians for their peaceful protests outside of abortion clinics, applies to the case of the anti-ICE agitators entering the church in St. Paul. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison disagrees, defending the church invasion and calling any prosecution against the activists “a stretch.” Ellison stated, in defense of the agitators, “Chanting cannot be a crime; it’s freedom of expression.”

Again, a right stops being a right when it collides with another right.

The DOJ has also suggested using the KKK Act, which addresses when the threat of force or violence is used to deny a person or group of their human rights and/or civil rights.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard condemned the anti-ICE protestors, calling the disruption of a church service, “demonic.”

Gabbard said, “One of the main reasons I left the Democrat Party was because of their hostility towards God and those who have faith in or are trying to cultivate their love for God. Those so-called ‘protestors’ who tried to intimidate and terrorize innocent women, children, and men in the Minneapolis church is just another example of their hostility towards God and His worshippers. Such behavior is demonic and should be condemned by everyone, and those who took part in such intimidation tactics should be held accountable.”

The violent activities in Minneapolis are being encouraged by ICE Watch posts using language like, “by any means necessary,” urging their supporters to “embrace militancy.” Shortly after that language went out, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz also encouraged residents to “resist ICE,” and accused the Trump Administration’s agents of carrying out a “campaign of organized brutality.” These calls for violence come as activists use their vehicles as weapons, and one agent was attacked by three illegal aliens, once with a shovel and the other with a broomstick.

The ICE Watch guide given to agitators uses language like “fascist,” “Zionist enemies,” and instructs activists that the goal is, “keeping our eyes on the enemy and knowing their movements…surrounding police cars to dearrest our comrades…communication about our opponents’ movements.”

At one point, also, Anti-Islam activist and Jan. 6 prisoner Jake Lang was attacked and stabbed during a protest in Minneapolis, receiving repeated blows to his neck and the back of his head while another threw an unknown liquid on Lang and the crowd, and was seen bloodied when he finally broke free from the crowd. He was again mobbed at his vehicle as it was surrounded to prevent him from leaving. One attacker attempted to open the door to possibly drag Lang from the vehicle in a Reginald Denny fashion. Lang later posted that his body armor blocked the stabbings.

Don’t forget that the ICE Protests are not only happening in Minneapolis. The blood-thirsty raging violence has been appearing in nearly two dozen states.

How is it that Americans are willing to go to such demonic extremes? Is it possible this goes deeper than mere politics? Is it possible that the Cultural Marxism trying to transform our country is more than just the moves of a communist infiltration. Could the infiltration be something greater? Perhaps, demonic? Is it possible that this is not just politics, but a raging case of spiritual warfare?

As the revelations unfold, I don’t believe I will be alone in my thoughts about this for very long.

— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Supreme Court: Emergency Tariffs – History is on Trump’s Side

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The question is simple: Does the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 statute, authorize a President to unilaterally impose tariffs on foreign goods during a declared national emergency. Historically and constitutionally, the IEEPA does not matter, and whether or not there is an emergency doesn’t matter.

As President, Donald J. Trump’s duty is to execute the laws of the United States and the other duties of the presidency. As Commander in Chief, national security and diplomacy are among his duties.

Tariffs, argues his opponents, is a tax, and according to the Constitution the taxing power belongs to Congress so it must be legislated. The opposition of President Trump in the case before the Supreme Court, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (consolidated with Trump v. V.O.S. Selections), argue that Congress never delegated tariff authority through the IEEPA. Doing so would give presidents unlimited power regarding tariffs and the shaping of trade policies.

The Trump administration argues that the IEEPA’s language is broad enough to include tariff actions. National security and economic security are intertwined, according to Trump’s team. They also argue, Congress has historically repeatedly allowed presidents wide latitude in trade emergencies.

As a constitutionalist, I do not like the idea of “emergency powers,” per se. Opponents of the idea that the Constitution only grants limited authorities to government love to use the concept of emergency powers, arguing that emergencies temporarily suspend the Constitution, and to be honest, that’s just not true. Justice Amy Comey Barrett asked during oral argument, can labeling something an emergency fit the IEEPA’s verbs of “regulate,” “prohibit,” and “block?”

President Trump’s opponents argue tariffs are technically taxes, and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution is clear that Congress must clearly authorize them, first. They argue, the Constitution does not allow executive taxation without legislative approval. A Separation of Powers provides that tariffs require clear congressional authorization. Shall Congress, then, also micromanage the President’s duties regarding foreign affairs? If he believes he needs to reshape global trade policy, and it must be done quickly, must Congress constitutionally be involved in the process?

If the Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration regarding tariffs, the U.S. owes importers $168 billion in refunds. Global markets are watching, and tariffs influence supply chains, pricing, and international relations, and while Congress could write a new law clarifying limits, would that process occur fast enough to head off calamity?

One of the arguments given by the Trump Administration during oral arguments is that, “Congress has historically repeatedly allowed president wide latitude in trade emergencies.” While I am not so sure about the “emergencies” part of that argument, the historical record reveals that long before the IEEPA, even back to the Founding Fathers, presidents repeatedly adjusted tariffs, suspended tariffs, or negotiated tariff-based agreements without prior congressional approval. Congress often ratified these arrangements after the fact, or delegated broad authority in advance, but the initial action frequently came from the executive.

All five of the Founding Father Presidents (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe) adjusted tariffs or negotiated tariff-based agreements without Congress approving the specific tariff changes ahead of time. Later presidents did the same, revealing that the President taking the reins regarding tariffs was especially common during the 19th century. It was common for Congress to delegate broad reciprocal trade authority to the executive and presidents used diplomacy to alter tariff schedules before Congress acted. During this period Presidents raised or lowered tariffs, suspended tariffs, imposed retaliatory tariffs, and negotiated reciprocal tariff agreements, all without Congress approving each tariff change ahead of time. This was the norm, not the exception.

During the twentieth century, Presidents adjusting tariffs through diplomacy before Congress acted continued to be a normal duty of the executive. Theodore Roosevelt negotiated tariff reciprocity agreements with Cuba and several Latin American countries, often ratified by Congress after the terms were negotiated. Woodrow Wilson used executive agreements to adjust tariff treatments during World War I blockades and embargoes, never seeking congressional approval. Before the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA), presidents already had broad delegated authority to adjust tariffs in response to foreign actions – an authority both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt exercised a number of times. After the RTAA, presidents negotiated hundreds of tariff-reducing agreements without Congress pre-approving each one.

If one studies the Constitution, and the context of the debates, writings, and actions surrounding its establishment, we realize that the Founding Fathers recognized that while Congress sets the tariff schedules, the President conducts foreign negotiations and treaties or executive agreements that may modify tariff treatment. This dual structure means historically that presidents often acted first, or unilaterally, and Congress in response ratified the treaty later, passed implementing legislation later, or took no action allowing the executive action to stand and self-execute.

Tariffs have historically served as a central tool of foreign policy. Congress has repeatedly delegated tariff authority to the President throughout American History, which means this country has a long tradition of executive-driven tariff action, especially through negotiation. That practice accelerated since the RTAA in 1934, but it has been a continuation of a much older practice.

Presidents, including the Founders, have a long, well-established history of adjusting tariffs through diplomacy and negotiation without congressional pre-approval. This tradition predates the IEEPA by more than two centuries and reflects the constitutional design: Congress sets the framework, but the President executes foreign policy and negotiates the terms. The Trump administration should not only win the case before the United States Supreme Court, but they ought to win regardless of whether or not the IEEPA applies.

— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Tale of Two Climate Voices

By Douglas V. Gibbs

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Judith Curry: The Climatologist Who Refused to Bow to the Orthodoxy

In an era when climate science has been weaponized into a political bludgeon, Dr. Judith Curry stands out because she refuses to surrender scientific integrity to ideological pressure. Curry, an accomplished climatologist and Professor Emerita at Georgia Tech, built her career on the hard sciences: climate dynamics, hurricanes, and the complex behavior of polar systems. She chaired the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, published extensively, and earned the respect of her peers long before she ever became a public figure.

What makes Curry important today is not merely her résumé. It’s her willingness to say what many in her field whisper privately: the climate debate has drifted away from science and into the realm of political theater.

Curry’s shift didn’t come from politics, but from experience. After Hurricane Katrina, she stepped into the public conversation expecting a rational exchange of ideas. Instead, she found what she later described as “craziness”: a climate community increasingly intolerant of dissent, increasingly allergic to uncertainty, and increasingly eager to label any deviation from the approved narrative as heresy.

Rather than retreat, Curry did what real scientists are supposed to do. She questioned assumptions. She examined the data. She refused to treat computer models as sacred scripture. She insisted that uncertainty, an unavoidable feature of any complex system, must be acknowledged, not buried.

Curry’s central argument is simple: climate science is not settled, because the climate itself is not a settled system.

She doesn’t argue for complacency; she argues for clarity. She advocates risk‑based approaches rather than apocalyptic predictions. She calls for humility in the face of complexity. And she warns that when science becomes a political tool, both science and policy suffer.

This is precisely why she draws fire. Not because she is wrong, but because she refuses to play the role assigned to her by the climate establishment.

Curry runs the widely read blog Climate Etc., where she dissects climate research with the precision of a seasoned scholar and the candor of someone who no longer needs tenure committees to approve her existence. She has testified before Congress, spoken on major platforms, and has become a go‑to voice for those who believe climate policy should be grounded in evidence, not fear.

Predictably, the guardians of orthodoxy have tried to paint her as a contrarian, a skeptic, even a traitor to her field. The more they attack, the more obvious it becomes that their real grievance is not with her science, but with her independence.

Through the Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN), Curry has taken her expertise into the real world, helping industries and governments manage climate‑related risks with actual data rather than political slogans. It is the kind of practical, grounded work that exposes the gap between climate rhetoric and climate reality.

Judith Curry’s journey is not the story of a scientist who “turned against” her field. It is the story of a scientist who refused to let her field turn against science. She represents the kind of intellectual courage that once defined academia, before conformity became the price of admission.

In a debate dominated by absolutists, Curry reminds us that uncertainty is not weakness. It is honesty. And honesty, in today’s climate conversation, is the rarest commodity of all.

— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

One Year of Trump: First Year Accomplishments

By Douglas V. Gibbs

On the anniversary of one year in office, President Trump shared his top three accomplishments.

The building of a powerful military (that would include the strikes on Venezuela and Iran).
Economic Investments coming into the United States (about $18 trillion).
Lower drug prices by using most-favored-nation status.

I believe that’s a great list. But, let’s add…

The use of tariffs to reverse the trade deficit, cutting it to its lowest level since 2009.
Secured new and improved trade agreements.
Increased tariff revenues, collecting $300 billion under new policies.
Increased U.S. exports to their second-highest value on record.
Resumed construction of the border wall.
Reducing the number of illegal alien entries across the border to zero.
Targeted sanctuary jurisdictions, essentially negating unconstitutional sanctuary laws.
Improved emergency health by reducing the number of illegal aliens abusing hospital emergency rooms.
Removing hundreds of thousands of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.
Took on entry into this country by terrorists by pausing visas from 75 high-risk countries and restricting the entry of nationals from 39 terror-prone countries.
Audited benefits programs to ensure they were only going to lawful residents.
Expanded ICE through aggressive hiring and redeployment.
Expanded federal detention capacity nationwide.
Enforced English-language proficiency requirements for commercial truck drivers.
Rescued over 60,000 missing migrant children from human trafficking networks tied to illegal immigration.
Cut fentanyl trafficking by more than 50% and forcing Canada and Mexico to also take meaningful steps to address the issue. Overall drug overdose deaths dropped 21% over the last year.
Designated major Latin American cartels as terrorist organizations, expanding U.S. counter-terror authorities.
Encouraged beneficial legal immigration with $100,000 payment to accompany or supplement H-1B petitions.
Revealed and legally pursued Somali systemic fraud in Minnesota.
Signed Laken Riley Act into law, strengthening federal law regarding the apprehension and detainment of illegal alien criminals.
Anchored Supremacy Clause by filing lawsuits against states and cities obstructing federal immigration law.
Signed an executive order ending unconstitutional birthright citizenship policy.
Launched federal crime crackdowns in U.S. cities which has delivered the largest one-year decline in homicides in U.S. History, as well as driving down nationwide percentages of rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Oversaw 25% decrease in on-duty law enforcement officer deaths.
Dismantled foreign transnational gang-related criminal networks.
Oversaw reduction in nationwide traffic fatalities, largely by removing non-English speaking commercial truck drivers from the road.
Took on Antifa, designating the group as a domestic terror organization, and opened investigations into their funding sources.
Captured a record number of FBI Most Wanted List criminals.
Reduced gas prices to a five year low.
Increased private sector jobs by 654,000.
Achieved an increase of real GDP by 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, with the GDP predicted to be higher for the fourth quarter.
Oversaw largest increase of blue-collar wage growth in nearly 60 years and private sector real earnings by $1,100 annually. Overall nominal private sector weekly wages increased by 4%.
Reduced weekly jobless claims.
Reduced inflation to 2.4%, the lowest over the last five years.
Reversed runaway federal spending growth by eliminating much of the federal government’s wasteful spending, and by launching the largest deregulation initiative in U.S. History killing federal regulations at a 129-to-one rate.
Achieved lowest mortgage rates in three years.
Reduced rent growth to its slowest pace since 2021.
Oversaw increase of home sales at the strongest pace in three years.
Delivered historic stock-market rebound with major stock indexes all hitting new record highs.
Reduced taxes for middle-class workers, and delivered on his No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security promises.
Reduced small business and other key industry taxes.
Reduced most food prices like egg prices by 89%.
Working with credit card companies to cap interest rates at 10%.
Created Trump Accounts to empower the next generation of Americans through tax-advantaged savings accounts for newborns.
In addition to incoming investment, secured $10 trillion in domestic investment, on-shoring jobs and increasing domestic manufacturing.
Expanded skilled-trade training programs through Labor grants and executive direction.
Provided support for farmers and ranchers to recover after losses induced during the Biden Administration.
Negotiated massive soybean purchase agreements with China and Bangladesh, reopening critical export markets.
Approved $50 billion in rural healthcare funding.
Oversaw the strongest year for new vehicle sales since 2019, while also encouraging price declines for both new and used vehicles.
Reversed fuel economy standards to reduce the cost of the average new vehicle.
Approved major U.S. auto manufacturing expansions following reshoring incentives.
Approved new heavy-equipment and appliance manufacturing facilities across multiple states.
Increased commercial fishing by eliminating Biden-era restrictions, boosting economy of American Samoa and other Pacific islands.
Decreased seafood regulations so that the U.S. could combat unfair foreign trade practices, enhancing domestic seafood production, exports, and competitiveness.
Expanded domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Moved TikTok to U.S. ownership, protecting American data against Chinese leverage.
Stopped production of the penny, eliminating recurring loss for taxpayers.
Reduced, eliminated, or paused various leftist cash funneling programs moving federal tax dollars to leftwing advocacy.
Exposed USAID waste, fraud, and abuse, and shut down the agency.
Began the process of bringing U.S. company operations abroad to American soil.
Paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to better enable U.S. companies to compete abroad.
Took on foreign competitors to defend American companies from discriminatory foreign taxation and regulations.
Firmed up and hardened America’s food and agriculture supply chain with the USDA National Farm Security Action Plan.
Lowered energy costs with tax relief and investment.
Solidified U.S. as world leader in artificial intelligence, attracting $2.7 trillion in tech and A.I. investment.
Increased America’s stake in chipmaker Intel.
Expanded spectrum access to lower phone plan costs, while expanding competition and accelerating high-speed infrastructure buildout.
Relocated U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama which created 30,000 jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.
Launched plans through NASA to return to the moon during his presidency.
Reworked federal government’s relationship with crypto assets, ending Biden-era crackdown on digital assets.
Ended Israel-Hamas war.
Brokered peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Brokered peace between India and Pakistan.
Brokered peace between Congo and Rwanda.
Brokered peace between Cambodia and Thailand.
Brokered normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.
Brokered peace between Egypt and Ethiopia.
Established framework to end Ukraine-Russia war.
Ended Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.
Reduced strength of ISIS in Middle East by eliminating the Islamic State’s Chief of Global Operations Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai and arresting ISIS-K terrorist who orchestrated the murders of 13 U.S. service members at Abbey Gate.
Eliminated Al-Qaeda affiliate leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim in northwest Syria.
Achieved ceasefire with Houthi terrorists in Yemen, restoring Red Sea route for American ships.
Conducted U.S. strikes against Islamic leadership in Nigeria to protect Christian communities.
Rebuilt Indo-Pacific alliances, restoring U.S. deterrence with new security and trade agreements.
Secured the release of 85 detained Americans abroad.
Initiated process to build Golden Dome missile defense system.
Seized sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers, cutting off funding for Maduro regime.
Captured narco-terrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Secured agreement for NATO member nations to increase their defense spending to 5% of their GDP.
Encouraged Panamanian President to withdraw from China’s Belt and Road Initiative, protecting Panama Canal from Chinese Communist influence and control.
Initiated programs and agreements to counteract Russian influence in the Arctic.
Welcomed Afrikaner refugees from South Africa after the rise of racial discrimination in their home country.
Expanded Abraham accords to include Kazakhstan.
Secured safe return of NASA astronauts who were stranded for nine months during Biden Administration.
Through Maritime Action Plan has begun an increase in American shipbuilding.
Banned funding to United Nations’ UNRWA agency that employs hundreds of Hamas and jihad operatives.
Sanctioned International Criminal Court, halting its illegitimate intrusion into U.S. matters.
Eliminated use of taxpayer dollars used to support foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortion in other countries by reinstating the Mexico City Policy.
Ordered embassies worldwide to only fly the American Flag, eliminating the practice of American facilities flying activist flags.
Rejoined Geneva Consensus Declaration, promoting and strengthening opportunities for women and girls around the world and protecting the family as the fundamental unit of society.
Increased recruitment for all branches of the military.
Modernized military forces with cutting-edge technology and weapons development.
Rebuilt military stockpiles.
Improved overall military readiness, and improved U.S. defense planning and battlefield operations through A.I. integration.
Provided $1,776 Warrior Divident for 1.5 million service members, and improved VA benefits backlog by 60%.
Processed a record three million veterans’ disability claims at the VA.
Opened 25 new VA healthcare clinics.
Permanently housed 51,936 homeless veterans – the highest total in seven years.
Reinstated troops and restored benefits eligibility for service members discharged under Biden-era COVID vaccine mandates.
Barred transgender individuals from enlisting in the U.S. military.
Returned standards to highest level for physical and grooming guidelines for military members.
Stopped taxpayer funded sex-change surgeries among military personnel.
Eliminated DEI and WOKE ideologies from the armed forces.
Reformed VA home loan protections to prevent veteran foreclosures.
Strengthened military family support programs and benefits.
Reworked agreements to reduce U.S. military reliance on foreign suppliers.
Strengthened cyber defenses.
Restored the names or renamed various bases to their former names honoring war heroes.
Expanded U.S. space security to protect satellites.
Eliminated U.S. spending utilized by global terror networks.
Targeted Chinese companies for intellectual property theft.
Strengthened intelligence sharing with U.S. allies.
Unveiled the F-47 sixth generation fighter jet.
Increased leader-level meetings with foreign nations.
Increased recognition of America’s role in the two World Wars by declaring May 8 “Victory Day of World War II,” and November 11 as “Victory Day for World War I.”
Eliminated DEI in federal bureaucracy.
Dismantled federal censorship operations.
Ended federal funding for WOKE ideology, including sex-change operations for minors.
Ended allowance of biological men competing in women’s sports.
Made it U.S. policy that there are only two sexes.
Pardoned pro-life Americans wrongly targeted by the Biden Administration.
Established merit-based federal hiring practices.
Terminated tens of thousands of wasteful unnecessary contracts across federal agencies.
Revoked electric vehicle mandate.
Implemented nationwide election integrity measures.
Returned federal public buildings to classical architecture.
Began the process of ending the Department of Education, constitutionally returning education to the states.
Took actions to protect religious freedoms.
Took actions to safeguard gun rights.
Released Kennedy assassination records, as well as records related to the killings of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Released previously classified records regarding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
Worked to eliminated federal overreach against American’s natural rights.
Began challenge to anti-plastic policies, beginning with an executive order to end the use of paper straws.
Ended federal funding for gain-of-function research in foreign countries.
Improved Social Security Administration customer service.
Adjusted how colleges are allowed to use federal funding.
Canceled Biden-era “Climate Corps” work program.
Ended Federal Executive Institute – wasteful training ground for bureaucrats.
Held colleges accountable for DEI policies and for allowing anti-Semitism to flourish on their campuses.
Barred COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools receiving federal funding.
Reinstated “Mount McKinley” to North America’s highest peak.
Reversed IRS over-expansion.
Changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Designated English as the official language of the United States.
Upgraded paper records and storage of records in underground mine to digital storage.
Reduced the size of the federal government workforce, reducing waste and bloat.
Required bureaucrats back into the office, increasing the percentage of federal employees working in-office by 30%.
Revoked over 100 unnecessary security clearances in the deep state.
Initiated the modernization of the American workforce with programs designed to prepare citizens for skilled trade jobs of the future.
Reinstated farming reports canceled by the Biden administration supplying farmers needed data.
Fired WOKE and radical leftwing ideologues from various federal positions and members of the Trump-Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees.
Improved average disaster approval time so as to accelerate recovery for disaster-impacted communities.
Began overhaul of U.S. air traffic control system.
Increased public access to the executive branch through increased press events and other speaking events, and by increasing the scope of credentialed reporters in the White House press briefing room.
Reinstated press privileges for about 440 journalists silenced by Biden administration.
Declassified FBI files related to Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Sought to end WOKE and DEI practices in Corporate America.
Ended Climate Change automotive requirements such as the “stop-start” engine technology in cars, restrictive federal emission standards, allowing states to set their own emission standards, and electric vehicle sales mandates; reversed regulations disallowing the manufacture of “tiny cars.”
Ended Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness program.
Signed executive orders seeking to modernize banking, and disallow politically motivated “de-banking” policies.
Signed executive order ending anti-American propaganda at federal museums and national parks.
Halted Biden-era ban of fossil fuels in federal buildings.
Began work to reduce energy regulations, and to promote energy production and innovation.
Tackled fitness and nutrition, restored milk in schools, phased out artificial food dyes with natural replacements, expanded options regarding infant formula, and oversaw the updating of the food pyramid to a healthier condition through the Make America Healthy Again Commission to strengthen nutrition while also disallowing the use of chemicals with unknown safety data in food. Prioritized real food over processed junk.
Reclassified marijuana to Schedule III.
Modernized the foster care system.
Reduced vaccine recommendations to necessary vaccines, healthy vaccines and promoting parent conversations with their doctors and providing consent while also removing COVID-19 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy children and pregnant women.
Increased access to in vitro fertilization, doubled childhood cancer data initiative funding, approved 67 new drugs, and launched autism initiative.
Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
Directed full enforcement of the Hyde Amendment, barring taxpayer dollars from being used to fund or promote elective abortion.
Began process of domestic energy production, including reversing Biden-era drilling restrictions, reopening hundreds of millions of acres to oil, gas and coal production and expanding leasing and permitting.
Increased the export of liquefied natural gas.
Approved expanded nuclear energy projects.
Investing into and reinvigorating America’s clean coal industry.
Terminated Green New Deal projects and programs.
Empowered consumer choice regarding products restricted and water pressure standards based on Biden-era climate change legislation.
Withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Expedited infrastructure projects by slashing federal red tape.
Eliminated Diesel Exhaust Fluid requirement, benefiting farming operations by saving family farmers about $727 million annually.
Halted construction of offshore wind turbines.
Eliminated solar panel subsidies.
Reformed federal permitting, and pushed back on environmental regulations stalling growth and the mining of critical minerals.
Increased energy export deals.
Fast-tracked uranium mining.
Cut bureaucracy interference and red tape for building and purchasing of new Department of Energy laboratories.
Initiated process of strengthening the reliability and security of the electric grid.
Repealed Biden-era natural gas tax.
Overrode bureaucratic red tape limiting water availability in California.
Held geothermal lease sale while also scrapping Biden-era rules and regulations on greenhouse gases.
Increased U.S. production of critical minerals, reducing reliance on China.
Increased hunting opportunities across 87,000 acres of federal lands.

— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

ONLINE Constitution Class: Disability Clause

Tuesday Online Constitution Class

Online Mr. Constitution Class
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Ratified in 1967 in the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes clear procedures for presidential succession, vice-presidential vacancies, and presidential disability. It was designed to ensure there is always a functioning president and to resolve perceived ambiguities regarding incapacitated leaders.

Get the handout regarding the Final Amendments which includes the 25th Amendment at the following link: https://douglasvgibbs.com/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/21-Lesson-Final-Amendments.pdf

Untold History Channel – (locate the shows labeled “Learn the Constitution”): https://rumble.com/c/UntoldHistoryChannel