>Secretary of State Marco Rubio appointed as acting administrator of USAID
That's interesting, and sounds like a great way to confront rogue intelligence.
-State Department has been infested with CIA
-USAID is a CIA front
Secretary of State Rubia [speaking to press in El Salvador]: My frustration with USAID goes back to my time in congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency. It's supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so…the functions of USAID; there are a lot of functions of the USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy…USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that, and deciding that they're somehow a global charity, separate from the national interest..I've very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do, who gets the money, who are our contractors, who's funded, and that sort of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct the sort of mature and serious review that I think foreign aid at large should have.
Secretary of State Rubio: This is not about ending the programs that USAID does per say, there are things that it does that are good, and there are things that it does that we have strong questions about…they're completely uncooperative when you ask questions, when you try to go in and find out what does this program do, who's getting the money, why was this funded, why are we doing this, why aren't you coordinating with the embassy or the State Department. Their attitude is, we don't have to answer to you because we are independent, we answer to no one. Well, that's not true, and that will no longer be the case.
[sounds exactly how an intelligence front would act]
Secretary Noem [press conference on Super Bowl security]: The 'Know2Protect' campaign works to stop online child exploitation. That will work as well with the 'Blue Campaign'. We are going to have ports that will be hosting booths to inform folks that will be extremely visible. So if anyone suspects that there will be child exploitation, they will have somewhere visibly they can go to report that kind of activity that we can respond to.
"New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy revealed he is housing a immigrant at his home and dared the Trump administration to do something about it. Murphy made the admission during an interview this past weekend with Blue Wave New Jersey, a progressive grassroots organization.
"Tammy [Murphy] and I were talking about, I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there is someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what? Let's have her live at our house above our garage," the Democrat governor said. "And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her," Murphy added, seemingly hinting that the person may be an illegal immigrant. Fox News Digital reached out to Murphy's office for more information, but they did not immediately respond.
The revelation comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been conducting operations in New Jersey, most notably with a raid in Newark in late January. President Trump's border czar Tom Homan told Fox News in December that knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal immigrant from ICE is a "violation of the law."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-jersey-governor-houses-migrant-house-tells-feds-good-luck-trying-get-her
President Trump [Oval Office]: We've made a lot of progress on Russia/Ukraine. We'll see what happens. A lot of progress has been made. We've got to stop that ridiculous war.
President Trump: I sent him [Grenell] to California to turn on the water. We turned it on. It was not easy, because we had to go through a lot of environmentalists that are causing a lot of problems. We have billions of gallons of water…all we are doing is giving Los Angeles, and the entire state of California, virtually unlimited water, which they could have done five years ago, which I told them they should do, but the environmentalists stopped them. We opened it, and we did it regardless of the state. And now the state seems very happy. I spoke to Gavin Newsom, and he's very happy.
President Trump: As an example, Tik Tok; we're going to be something perhaps with Tik Tok, and perhaps not. If we make the right deal, we'll do it, otherwise we won't. I have the right to do that. We might put that in the Sovereign Wealth Fund…we have a lot of other things that we could put in the fund.
President Trump: I think we've lost two hundred thousand people on average a year [Fentanyl], for many years. Much higher than the hundered thousand. Could be even closer to three hundred thousand.
President Trump: China's involved with the Panama Canal. They won't be for long, and that's the way it has to be.
President Trump: We gave it away for one dollar [Panama Canal]. We gave it away essentially for nothing. And we either want it back, or; we're going to get something very strong, or we're gonna take it back. And China will be dealt with.
President Trump: The amount of money that was lost, and most importantly the lives lost, because of COVID is not something that anybody could ever imagine. It's probably sixty trillion dollars, and all the countries in the world don't have sixty trillion dollars. The amount of death, and the amount of destruction, and the amount of money lost, is probably sixty trillion dollars. I had it figured by people about three months ago.
Reporter: Would it take an act of congress to do away with USAID?
President Trump: I don't know. I don't think so. Not when it comes to fraud. If there's fraud; these people are lunatics. If it comes to fraud, you wouldn't have an act of congress. I'm not sure that you would anyway.
President Trump: We're looking to do a deal with Ukraine, where they're going to secure what we're giving them, with their rare Earth, and other things.
President Trump: The ten thousand [Mexican] soldiers are going to keep illegal aliens out, and they're going to keep 'em out, seriously out. Otherwise they're going to have a big penalty. Mexico is going to be penalized. They're not going to come through Mexico anymore, and they're not going to let the Fentanyl come in from China. And China, hopefully, is going to stop sending us Fentanyyl, and if they're not, the tariffs are going to go substantially higher.
President Trump: Who would have thought that the FBI could have been corrupted like they were corrupted? Who would have thought that would have happened? Who would have thought they would have been used to go after political opponents, essentially, me being the number one, and so many other things beyond that. And they've been hurt very badly, and we'll see what happens. Kash is the one to do it, and I hear he's doing very well. Kash will straighten it out. We have great confidence that we can Make The FBI Great Again.
Van Hollen [press conference]: This effort by Elon Musk, and so-called DOGE, to shut down the Agency for International Development is an absolute gift to our adversaries. To Russia, to China, to Iran, and others. Because AID is an essential instrument of US foreign policy and US national security policy.
[an instrument of rogue intelligence to covertly overthrow governments]
Raskin [angrily]: Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments system of the United States Department of Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people, the United States congress does that.
Raskin: He's trying to shut down USAID [Musk]. We're not going to allow this to happen. It will not stand!