Vance's CR Push on House GOP Works: 'We Have the Votes'
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-gop-cr/2025/03/11/id/1202325/
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 11:11 AM EDT
Acknowledging the one GOP "grandstander" holdout, Vice President J.D. Vance addressed House Republicans on Tuesday, pressing them to pass their "clean" continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the end of this fiscal year at last year's levels.
That first year of the Trump administration spending plan would be at the level of the last year of President Joe Biden's administration — a spending level that was fine to Democrats then — but Democrats now say they will all vote against it unilaterally, ostensibly voting against their own spending levels.
Vance's push was "very well-received," House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Politico leaving the private meeting before addressing the weekly House GOP news conference Tuesday.
"We'll have the votes; we're going to pass the CR," Johnson told reporters. "We can do it on our own. But what I am saying Democrats ought to do the responsible thing, follow their own advice in every previous scenario and keep the government open. It's their choice.
"I wish it could be a unanimous vote that the House chamber did that. That would be a great thing for America.
"But they're not going to do that," he added, "because they're on this — they're lost in the wilderness."
Johnson noted the "moment of clarity and great contrast" with Democrats "in panic mode right now," along with fiscal hawk Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who President Donald Trump rebuked as a "grandstander" Monday night in a Truth Social post and vowed to stir up a primary against him in the 2026 election, or Senate if he sought the seat of retiring former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"We already lost one vote, we can't lose another," Vance warned the GOP, referring to Massie's vow to vote against continued spending at the Biden-era level.
Johnson noted Democrats' opposition Friday to a clean CR came before they even saw the bill that was released for the first time Saturday.
"Every single word of that is a lie; they just made it up," Johnson told reporters of Democrats' public statements claiming the CR was coming with cuts laid out by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump.
"It's all a lie. This clean CR contains no poison pill riders."
A House GOP domestic policy bill would come after clearing the runway through September, Vance promised the House GOP members in the private meeting, sources told Politico.
Also, Vance vowed the massive policy spending cuts from DOGE would be able to move forward for the next time the can kicked down the road is reached in October, sources added to Politico.
The House CR vote is planned for 4 p.m. ET on the floor, and Senate Democrats have shown reluctance to stop it and forcing a government shutdown that would have begun Friday at midnight.
Univ. of Maine Funding Halted on Title IX Violations
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/maine-funding-donald-trump/2025/03/11/id/1202355/
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 01:50 PM EDT
The U.S. Department of Agriculture at least temporarily halted funding for the University of Maine after the government announced an investigation into the school for Title IX violations.
The government said in a statement that the university was found to be "blatant disregard for President Trump's Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports."
The USDA announced a compliance review of the school last month for failing to comply with Trump's executive order barring transgender athletes from competing in girls and women's sports.
Trump traded barbs with Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Mills at a White House event last month over the issue of transgender participants in women's sports, with Mills saying, "We'll see you in court."
The government announcement of the review of the university was posted the next day.
Maine news outlet WMTW-TV reported the university was notified of the funding cutoff in an email. The University of Maine received nearly $30 million last year in USDA funding, primarily used for research, according to reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces huge breakthrough in negotiations to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict:
"We've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable."
https://truthsocial.com/@ConservativeBrief/posts/114145245386477907
Damn! You caught us!
Ukraine Agrees to Accept Immediate 30-Day Ceasefire
https://www.newsmax.com/headline/ukraine-russia-war/2025/03/11/id/1202358/
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 02:32 PM EDT
Ukraine has agreed to accept a U.S. proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire and to take steps toward restoring a durable peace after Russia's invasion, according to a joint U.S.-Ukraine statement on Tuesday.
The two sides, meeting in Saudi Arabia, also agreed to conclude as soon as possible a comprehensive agreement for developing Ukraine's critical mineral resources, according to the statement.
In part, the joint statement read, "Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation. The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace."
Fucking activist judges have to be stopped.
Court Denies Trump Request to Restore His Birthright Citizenship Order
https://www.newsmax.com/us/executive-order-birthright/2025/03/11/id/1202331/
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 12:01 PM EDT
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Tuesday has denied the request by the Trump administration to lift multiple lower court judges' nationwide injunction on President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order.
The request was denied by the Chief Judge David Barron, who was former President Barack Obama's first acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. (2009-2010).
"We do not address the government's appeal of the preliminary injunction itself," Barron concluded in the 32-page ruling Tuesday. "We address only the government's stay motion, which asks us to decide whether the District Court's order granting a preliminary injunction should be stayed while this court takes up an interlocutory appeal of that injunction.
"Based on the arguments that the government presents in support of the stay motion, we deny it."
Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship will stay in place pending appeal.
The administration sought to stay the injunction, arguing the blue states 18 states that filed the lawsuit lacked standing.
But Barron said the government did not make a "strong showing" that the states lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution.
Judges Julie Rikelman and Seth R. Aframe also joined the opinion.
At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. That decision found that Scott, an enslaved man, was not a citizen despite having lived in a state where slavery was outlawed.
The Trump administration has asserted children of noncitizens are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States and therefore not entitled to citizenship.
Attorneys for the states argue that it does, and that it has been recognized since the amendment's adoption, notably in an 1898 U.S. Supreme Court decision. That decision, United States v Wong Kim Ark, held that the only children who did not automatically receive U.S. citizenship upon being born on U.S. soil were the children of diplomats, who have allegiance to another government; enemies present in the U.S. during hostile occupation; those born on foreign ships; and those born to members of sovereign Native American tribes.
Trump made a day one order to fulfill a campaign vow to review birthright citizenship, arguing that illegal migrants did not have the lawful permission to have a baby in the U.S. that would be automatically granted citizenship. Trump has strongly disagreed with "chain migration," saying illegal or even temporary migrants could effectively force their way to protected immigration status in the U.S. by merely coming on to U.S. soil.
"The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States," the Jan. 20 order read. "The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof.'
"Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States:
(1) when that person's mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or,
(2) when that person's mother's presence in the United States at the time of said person's birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth."
Democrat state attorneys general have fought the Trump administration's authority through executive order with lawsuits from 18 states.
Shit ton of bread gobbling there.
CANADA HAS BEEN RIPPING OFF AMERICANS AND OUR WORKERS
"A handy dandy chart here…shows the rate of tariffs across the board. It is about dang time we have a president that looks out for our interests." @PressSec
https://truthsocial.com/@realamericasvoice/posts/114145274344024802
I like the "hand-dandy"…wonder what she had on her mind…KEK!
They're used to being able to push republicans around.
Not getting my hopes up to much, but looks like the republicans balls are finally dropping.