Leavitt: On his second day in office, the president signed a memorandum to immediately stop Biden DEI hiring programs, and return to non-discriminatory merit-based hiring.
Leavitt: To help lock up even more criminal illegal aliens, President Trump signed a memorandum this week to detain them at Guantanamo Bay. This action will expand the migrant operation center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, to full capacity, to provide critical extra detention space for high-priority criminal illegals.
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Leavitt: Rick Grenell has been instructed to identify a place, and ensure that repatriation flights of Tren de Aragua members, Venezuelan nationals who have broken our nation's laws, will land in Venezuela.
Leavitt: [President Trump] believes it's unacceptable that the [Panama] Canal is essentially run by the Chinese Communist Party. If you look at both ends of the canal, massive Chinese Communist Party linked companies run the canal. That's unfair to the American people.
They have no such ability.
Fire Chief [press conference]: We have recovered forty-one sets of remains, and twenty-eight of those victims have been positively identified. As of six am this morning, next of kin notifications have been made to eighteen families.
Fire Chief: For us to recover the rest of the remains, we are going to need to get the fuselage out of the water.