US Judge Okays Cuts to Legal Guidance for People Facing Deportation

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-court-detention-legal-education/2025/04/15/id/1207041/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 06:49 PM EDT

A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to temporarily stop funding legal education programs for people facing deportation or immigration court while a lawsuit brought by the organizations that provide the service moves forward in court.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss in Washington, D.C., means a coalition of nonprofit groups that offer the education programs will lose their federal funding on Wednesday — and possibly, some access to potential clients inside detention centers.

Unlike criminal cases, people in immigration courts and detention centers don't have a right to an attorney if they can't afford one themselves. Proponents of the legal education programs say they ease the burden on immigration judges and help immigrants navigate the complicated court system more efficiently.

Congress allocates $29 million a year for four programs — the Legal Orientation Program, the Immigration Court Helpdesk, the Family Group Legal Orientation and the Counsel for Children Initiative — and those groups spread the funding to subcontractors nationwide.

The Justice Department first instructed the nonprofit groups to "stop work immediately" on the programs on Jan. 22, citing an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting illegal immigration.

The nonprofit groups about a week later, and the Justice Department then rescinded the stop-work order. But on April 11, the agency said it was terminating its contracts with the groups nationwide, effective at 12:01 a.m. on April 16.

During a hearing Tuesday afternoon, Moss told attorneys on both sides that he wanted more information about exactly how the Department of Justice came to its decision to end the contracts, any plans for spending the earmarked money in the future, as well as any problems the nonprofit groups run into as they try to provide legal information to detained non-citizens in the coming weeks.

The judge also said he wanted to issue a final decision in the case quickly, and set a hearing for a preliminary injunction and possible final decision for May 14.

A few blocks away from the federal immigration courts in New York City, a leader of the one affected program testified at a city council hearing on immigration fraud.

"We're often the first attorneys people are able to speak to about their immigration cases," said Hannah Strauss, an immigration lawyer who supervises a team working on the cases.

New York state is one of only six states in the U.S. where more than half of immigrants are represented by an attorney in pending immigration cases, according to government data compiled by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. That's thanks in part to state and city grants, as well as a large pool of lawyers who volunteer. But federal funding forms an important part of the system.

Strauss said the $1.2 million federal grant covering New York covered the helpdesk, a skeleton crew relied upon by other NGOs to screen immigration referrals and by immigration judges to explain the basics on laws regarding asylum and other forms of legal immigration.

"Unfortunately today marks the final day of both ICH and FGLOP, as the federal government has chosen to terminate our contracts as of midnight tonight," Strauss, referring to her organization and the Family Group Legal Orientation Program, run by Acacia Center for Justice.

The main reason for falling prey to immigration scams is the lack of legitimate legal help, said immigrants at the hearing. The immigrants testified without using their names, citing fear they could become targets of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for speaking out, but details they shared were representative of cases that have been investigated by federal prosecutors, costing immigrants thousands of dollars and sometimes ruining their cases.In the hearing, the city council discussed ways to crack down on immigration service providers advertising exaggerated or outright fraudulent services.

For example, it's considering increasing funding for civil enforcement of business laws through the city's consumer protection department. The agency uses investigators, sometimes undercover, to investigate violations that can lead to civil penalties, or referrals to criminal prosecutors.

Argentina Gets $20B IMF Bill Out, Lifts Currency Restrictions

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/argentina-currency-controls/2025/04/15/id/1207056/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 10:49 PM EDT

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The International Monetary Fund disbursed on Tuesday the first installment of Argentina's new $20 billion bailout after President Javier Milei removed most of Argentina’s strict capital and currency controls. For years, the restrictions had set the official exchange rate and barred companies and individuals from moving money freely.

The reserves in the Central Bank of Argentina reached $36.8 billion on Tuesday, their highest in two years, the monetary authority said, giving Milei the firepower he'd needed to lift the controls. The injection of fresh funds started the clock on Milei's high-stakes gamble to unwind a highly distorted currency market and steer the nation’s notoriously volatile economy toward the revival he’d promised would follow the pain of austerity.

At a news conference beside visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Milei was ebullient as he proclaimed on Monday, when the controls lifted, the Argentine version of President Donald Trump's “Liberation Day.”

“After 15 years of capital controls, we have cast off the anvil to which we were chained,” he said.

Argentines have been scrambling to understand what this means for them, their radical libertarian president and the wider world.

First implemented in 2011 during the populist administration of then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the half-dozen critical regulations limit access to foreign currency as a safeguard against capital flight.

Until Monday, the restrictions — popularly known as “el cepo” or “the trap" — made it almost impossible for companies to send profits abroad and for Argentines to purchase dollars. Foreign investment dried up. The central bank burned through its precious currency reserves to shore up the peso, creating multiple exchange rates and a vast black market.

Preferring to save in stacks of $100 bills stashed under mattresses than in their own chronically depreciating currency, middle-class Argentines sold their pesos on the black market rate, which was 1,375 pesos to the dollar last Friday, compared with an official rate of 1,097 pesos.

Milei retained the controversial exchange rate system with a so-called “crawling peg" which, up until Monday, had prevented the peso from falling more than 1% against the dollar per month.

“It was a way to keep the dollar in check so that a depreciation wouldn’t spill over into prices,” Carlos Pagni, a prominent political columnist, wrote Tuesday in Argentina's La Nación newspaper. “From a political perspective, Milei’s government made a commitment to a single issue — reducing inflation. This is the way to win votes, retain power, and eventually increase it."

The peso's artificial peg to the dollar had become increasingly expensive for the central bank to defend — since mid-March, it hemorrhaged some $2.5 billion.

“Maintaining that pattern increased Argentina’s vulnerability,” said Ignacio Labaqui, a senior analyst at risk consultancy Medley Global Advisors. “It no longer served as an anchor against inflation and it wasn't good for accumulating reserves.”

To prevent a possible run on the peso after scrapping the controls, Milei had to replenish the central bank's precariously low reserves. Despite the IMF's reluctance to increase exposure to its biggest debtor, Milei scored major new lines of credit after months of negotiations — an upfront $12 billion Tuesday from the IMF, billions more from multilateral banks and a $5 billion credit swap line with China.

Lifting the controls ended the system of parallel exchange rates, letting the peso float freely within an initial range of 1,000-1,400 pesos per dollar.

Markets closed Tuesday with far less volatility than expected, as the peso traded at 1,230 to the dollar — leaving a narrow 7% gap with the black market dollar that officials said boded well for Milei's efforts to unify the exchange rates.

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Milei ended a $200 monthly cap on dollar withdrawals, scrapped a 30% tax and unraveled other restrictions, allowing Argentines with bank accounts to buy dollars freely for the first time since 2019, when former center-right President Mauricio Macri reimposed the controls that he had triumphantly removed just a few years earlier.

Argentines rushed to log into their bank accounts Tuesday and traded pesos for dollars before the Argentine currency’s value could fall further, as feared.

Some squirreled away the U.S. currency while others snapped up dollars to sell straight away on the informal market at a slightly favorable rate. TV channels and news sites flashed with online banking instructions and branches pleaded with people to make appointments for big withdrawals to ensure they had enough bills.

But the many other Argentines who have no bank accounts or savings said the policy change meant little to them.

“I know that there are people here who are obsessed with buying dollars and are guided by its ups and downs,” said Lionel Almeida, 20, who was emptying trash cans downtown. “Not all of us have the money for that.”

While Argentines can now withdraw as many dollars as they want from banks, they still can't exchange pesos for over $100 per month in cash.

In a crisis-hardened nation of impassioned amateur economists, almost everyone interviewed on the streets of Buenos Aires had strong opinions about ending “el cepo."

“You can’t live by controlling exchange rates,” sad María Portela, 73, a doctor's office receptionist. “I like freedom.”

Most capital controls on companies in Argentina remain in place. Foreign firms will be able to repatriate profits from 2025, but not their trapped earnings from previous years.

“It's a very positive first step in the sense that exchange rate restrictions are a strong barrier to investment and growth," Labaqui said. “Companies should now have greater certainty when it comes to investing in the country.”

Ending the controls also boosts exporters, like grain and soybean farmers, who had been hobbled by an overvalued peso.

“Tell the farmers that if they need to sell (their goods) they should do it now,” Milei told El Observador radio station Monday.

Bessent traveled to Buenos Aires on Monday in the middle of global market turmoil over Trump's tariffs to shower Milei with praise.

Standing beside Milei after their meeting, the Treasury secretary said he had come to “convey the optimism we feel in the United States about this new Argentina." He added: “In many ways, Milei and the MAGA movement share a common path.”

Despite Milei's bond with Trump over their shared stake in the far-right’s global culture war against left-wing politics and “wokeness,” the Argentine leader's legacy depends far more on his power to deliver a miraculous outbreak of economic normalcy in crisis-stricken Argentina, after the 22 past IMF programs collapsed in disaster for the nation of 46 million and for bondholders and lenders the world over.

Economists agree that this week marks a milestone for Milei but they also say it’s far too soon to declare that the worst is over for South America's second-biggest economy.

“If investors continue to have the same favorable views of Argentina's prospects, things might continue to hum along,” said Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“But that’s always the problem with Argentina, isn't it?" she added. "It's completely dependent on how investors feel about the country. And you can’t run an economy like that.”

Trump Plans Stipends for Immigrants Who Self-Deport

https://www.newsmax.com/us/donald-trump-self-deportation-stipend/2025/04/15/id/1207050/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 08:26 PM EDT

President Donald Trump said he wants to give money and an airplane ticket to any immigrant who is in the country illegally who chooses to "self-deport" and work to get those who are "good" back in the U.S.

Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to carry out mass deportations, said in a taped interview with Fox Noticias that aired Tuesday that his administration is focused right now on getting "murderers" out of the country. But for others in the U.S. illegally, he said, he's going to implement "a self-deportation program."

Trump offered few details about the plan, including timing, but said the U.S. would provide immigrants airfare and a stipend.

"We're going to give them a stipend. We're going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we're going to work with them — if they're good — if we want them back in, we're going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can," Trump said.

Fox Noticias interviewer Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is married to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, played Trump a clip of a Mexican man who she said arrived in the U.S. illegally more than 20 years ago and has children who are American citizens.

It is not clear if the man now has legal permission to be in the country, but Campos-Duffy said the man said that even though he cannot vote, he would have supported Trump. She played a clip of the man saying he agrees that if someone commits a crime, they should be returned to their countries — including himself.

"I look at this man. I say, this is a guy that we want to keep," Trump replied. "I'll probably take heat for saying it."

The Republican president also said wants to help hotels and farms get the workers they need and recommend people to fill needed positions.

He said that would be "very soothing" to farmers and said he ultimately wants workers who are in the U.S. illegally to leave and come back with legal permission, but he did not outline any steps to do that.

"We're doing a self-deportation, and we're going to make it comfortable for people," he said. "And we're going to work with those people to come back into our country legally."

Fox Noticias said the interview with Trump was taped Monday.

Looks like we have setup a "DMZ" between US and cartels now, even though DMZ isn't quiet the right word.

"CKZ" might be more appropriate…Cartel Kill Zone.

US Transfers Southern Border Land to Army for National Security

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/army-border-security/2025/04/15/id/1207025/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 05:23 PM EDT

The Trump administration announced an emergency transfer of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Army to help prevent illegal immigration, the Interior Department said Tuesday.

The move is part of President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown. He declared illegal immigration a national emergency in January and tasked the U.S. military with aiding in border security.

The land will be transferred to the Department of the Army for three years, the agency said, allowing for patrols by federal personnel and construction of infrastructure to prevent illegal crossings.

The move is intended to help curb drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling, but is also aimed at protecting ecologically sensitive areas that can be harmed by foot traffic, Interior said.

"Securing our border and protecting our nation's resources go hand in hand," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement. "The American people gave President Trump a mandate to make America safe and strong again. This transfer reflects Interior's commitment to public safety, national security and responsible stewardship of our public lands."

Japan is coming in today to negotiate Tariffs, the cost of military support, and “TRADE FAIRNESS.” I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries. Hopefully something can be worked out which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!

Apr 16, 2025, 5:18 AM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114347128422370864

>>22918939

>What do anons want or want to see? Does anyone feel like they should be recompensated for any of the DS crimes against them or their family?

>>22918946

>What would be the dollar equivalent amount of your personal recompensation.

>>22918941

>journo

An IP hopping journo at that.

Everyone knows that Harvard has “lost its way.” They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to “teach” municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil. Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and “birdbrains” who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called “future leaders.” Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn’t take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Apr 16, 2025, 6:05 AM

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MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Apr 16, 2025, 6:06 AM

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Francey Hakes to Newsmax: Abrego Garcia Had Due Process

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/francey-hakes-kilmar-abrego-garcia-due-process/2025/04/15/id/1207054/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 09:19 PM EDT

Former federal prosecutor Francey Hakes told Newsmax on Tuesday that liberals' insistence that an illegal immigrant from El Salvador living in Maryland didn't receive due process is a "complete lie."

Hakes joined "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" to wade into the "complicated case" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

The White House asserts that he is a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which President Donald Trump has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

"I mean, the first thing to remember is that he is in the country illegally. And if you have crossed the border illegally, you are deportable by definition," Hakes said, noting that that alone didn't land Abrego Garcia in Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Terrorism Confinement Center), a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

It's what followed —that he admitted being a gang member, she said.

"When he was arrested or picked up in 2019, he had an immigration hearing. Lots of people are yelling online and on television that he hasn't received any due process. And that is a complete lie, because he did get the due process to which illegal aliens are entitled," Hakes said."And at that hearing, the judge found that the evidence presented by DHS was credible, that he was a member of MS-13, which also made him deportable.

"Now, after that,he got an appeal.So that's the second bit of due process that he got. He got appellate level … judge panel to look at his case and to agree with the initial federal judge who found that he was deportable," Hakes added, setting up Abrego Garcia's biggest problem.

"Now, when he went to court, the judge, however, had some sympathy forhis claim that if he were sent back to El Salvador, he might face violence from a rival gang.Now, what I've read, Greta, suggests that what that means is, if he was worried about violence from a rival gang in El Salvador,that he's effectively admitting he's part of a gang himself,"Hakes said.

"And now that President Trump has designated MS-13 a foreign terrorist organization, he's no longer entitled to that withholding of the deportation that a judge in some sympathy gave him in 2019 because he was no longer entitled to claim asylum," she added.

Hakes also pushed back on the assertion that Abrego Garcia hasn't been convicted of a crime. That's irrelevant, she said.

"I think what people miss about being in a gang, because they say that he was never convicted of an actual crime, is they forget the policies around conspiracy," Hakes said, likening gang membership to belonging to the mafia.

"Every member of the gang is a member of a criminal conspiracy. And without every member, the gang doesn't succeed. And that is why membership in these gangs represents a clear and present danger to this country and our citizens," she said.

Kevin Sorbo to Newsmax: The Left Wakes Up Every Day and Looks to Take Offense

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/kevin-sorbo-politics-hollywood/2025/04/15/id/1206980/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 01:40 PM EDT

Actor Kevin Sorbo told Newsmax Tuesday that those on the political left wake up every day and look for something to take offense to, whether it's the color of a character's costume or the language used when speaking, calling the search for outrage "ridiculous."

The "Hercules" actor said that the current controversy surrounding the 1990s children's show "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" — which recently came under scrutiny for casting a Black actor as the Black Ranger and an Asian actor as the Yellow Ranger — is "just silliness."

"I meet a lot of these guys," Sorbo said on Newsmax's "National Report." "I've met many of them in those roles at different comic cons we've gone to to sign autographs for fans around the country, around the world. They're all wonderful people. Not one of them has brought up anything like that to me. And once again, it's this whole craziness that goes on, that every day these people wake up and go, 'Gee, what can offend me today?'

"There's a great line in an old Marlon Brando movie called 'The Wild Ones,' where he plays a motorcycle gang leader, and there's an old guy at the general store and he says, 'What is it with you kids? What do you have to argue about and be upset about all the time?' He goes, 'I don't know, what do you got?'" he continued. "And that's pretty much what these people are doing today. I just get a kick out of the craziness of the left."

Sorbo said that his conservative politics and Christian faith have gotten him "blacklisted" from politically-correct Hollywood, adding that he can't get into some comic cons these days.

"Hollywood booted me out a dozen years ago," he said. "That's why we formed Sorbo Studios. I hope people go follow me at sorbostudios.com … I've got four movies coming up; I've got three documentaries coming out in theaters this year, so I'm still staying busy. I don't need Hollywood. It doesn't need me. I'm not upset that they blacklisted me. I just find it incredibly childish."

The actor also weighed in on a CBS host being scolded by a guest for using the word "mankind" to describe humanity when talking about who space travel benefits.

"I'm still a spokesman when I do my keynote speaking events, so I'm going to keep it going that way," Sorbo said. "I don't mind it going both ways. You can say womankind, that doesn't offend me. It's just weird to me because they're constantly looking for something to be offended by. I mean, it's been going on for a decade now, and it just gets worse and worse and worse. And I find it so childish and ridiculous."

This snake in the grass raised it's head again.

Gov. Newsom: California to Sue Trump Over Tariffs

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/california-tariffs-newsom/2025/04/16/id/1207099/

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 07:42 AM EDT

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's authority to impose tariffs that have set off a global trade war.

The suit will argue that Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China or a 10% tariff on all imports is unlawful. The act enables a president to freeze and block transactions in response to foreign threats.

The lawsuit, which will be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, will also argue that enacting such tariffs requires approval from Congress, Newsom's office said in a news release.

Trump has offered many justifications for increasing tariffs, including that they are designed to spur U.S. manufacturing and stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into the country. California's move follows rapidly changing tariff plans by the Trump administration.

Newsom says the tariffs in effect have resulted in inflated costs and billions of dollars in damage in California, which has the largest economy among U.S. states and is a massive exporter.

“President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy — driving up prices and threatening jobs,” he said in a statement. “We’re standing up for American families who can’t afford to let the chaos continue.”

Newsom will discuss the lawsuit alongside California Attorney General Rob Bonta later Wednesday in the farm-rich Central Valley. California is a farming powerhouse, with many of the nuts, fruits and vegetables the state grows destined for other countries.

The state will ask the court to immediately block the tariffs.

The announcement comes days after Newsom asked countries to exempt California exports from retaliatory tariffs. No deals have yet been announced.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is GREAT!!!

Apr 16, 2025, 6:50 AM

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Sleepy Joe Biden, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, has allowed millions and millions of Criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers, and people released from prisons and mental institutions from all around the world, to enter our Country through it’s very dangerous and ill conceived Open Border. Sorry, but it’s my job to get these killers and thugs out of here. THAT’S WHAT I GOT ELECTED TO DO. MAGA!

Apr 16, 2025, 6:26 AM

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Hummmm, chYna about to buckle under?

China Appoints New Top International Trade Negotiator Amid Tariff Tensions With US

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/china-us-trade/2025/04/16/id/1207077/

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 07:50 AM EDT

China appointed a new top international trade negotiator on Wednesday amid tariff tensions with the U.S.

The government said that Li Chenggang has been appointed to replace Wang Shouwen, who participated in the trade negotiations for the 2020 trade deal between the China and the U.S.

The world's two largest economies have been steadily increasing tariffs on each other's goods since the U.S. raised tariffs on dozens of countries. China faces 145% taxes on exports to the U.S., while other countries were given a 90-day reprieve for most duties.

Ukraine's Parliament Extends Martial Law Until Aug. 6, Lawmaker Says

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-ukraine-war/2025/04/16/id/1207084/

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 06:32 AM EDT

Ukraine's parliament voted on Wednesday to extend martial law until Aug. 6, a senior lawmaker said, as Russia's full-scale invasion of the country continues.

An overwhelming majority of 357 deputies supported the extension, which allows the country to continue mobilizing troops andsuspends the election cycle.One lawmaker voted against the bill.

>>22919109

>>22919186

>That's all we can do, until Q returns.

What makes you think Q is going to return?

After all, we have it all already.

>>22919202

>IMHO

Doesn't count.

None of the drops say anything about Q returning.

They do mention You have it all.

So, if having it all, means there is nothing else for Q to gives us.

No reason for a return.

News unlocks the map, and we are the news now.

>>22919209

Looking forward to 'free beer day', but none of those are HERE.

Those are events in real world.

We don't know who Q is so how can you say something like that?

>>22919218

Never really understood this chart.

Can you explain it?

>>22919235

Apologies, but I was just wondering why so many think Q will return.

>>22919243

My question is, isn't he violating the Logan Act?

Trying to set international policy by circumventing federal government.

>>22919266

I seem to remember a Q&A awhile back.

It was done over the board, not 8kun, but the last board we were on before migrating here.

Went from 1 to 2 now.

2 Top Pentagon Staffers Put on Leave in Leak Probe

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pentagon-leak-probe-caldwell/2025/04/15/id/1206997/

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 09:54 PM EDT

Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been placed on administrative leave and was escorted out of the Pentagon by security on Tuesday, two defense officials said, as confirmed by Newsmax Pentagon reporter Mike Carter.

Also, Pentagon's deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick was suspended and escorted out of the building, according to Politico.

The officials said Caldwell's sudden downfall was tied to an investigation into unauthorized disclosure of department information. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.

According to Politico, those disclosures centered on "military operational plans for the Panama canal, a second carrier headed to the Red Sea, Elon Musk’s controversial visit to the Pentagon and pausing the collection of intelligence to Ukraine."

Caldwell, who served in the Marine Corps, was one of several senior advisers who worked closely with Hegseth. He was the staff member designated as Hegseth's point person in the Signal messaging chat that top Trump administration national security officials, including Hegseth, used to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.

The chat, set up by national security adviser Michael Waltz, included a number of Cabinet members and came to light because Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was added to the group.

Caldwell's ties to the secretary go back to Hegseth's time as the head of Concerned Veterans for America, a nonprofit that fell into financial difficulty during his time there. Caldwell worked at CVA beginning in 2013 as policy director and later as executive director.

Selnick was also the under secretary of Defense for personnel and readiness earlier this year. He served in the White House and the Department of Veterans Affairs in the first Trump administration. He’s also a former senior adviser to CVA under Hegseth.

Caldwell's ouster was first reported by Reuters.

Hegseth's chief of staff, Joe Kasper, wrote in a March 21 memo that the Pentagon was investigating what it said were leaks of national security information. Defense Department personnel could face polygraphs.

The memo referred to "recent unauthorized disclosures" but provided no details. Kasper warned that the investigation would begin immediately and result in a report to Hegseth.

"I expect to be informed immediately if this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure, and that such information will be referred to the appropriate criminal law enforcement entity for criminal prosecution," Kasper said in the memo.

Caldwell, who graduated from Arizona State University in 2011, also worked as a public policy adviser at Defense Priorities, a think tank based in Washington.

Trump: Stop Federal Funds for 'Joke' Harvard

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-harvard-federal-funding/2025/04/16/id/1207111/

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:08 AM EDT

President Donald Trump tore into Harvard University early Wednesday, insisting that the Ivy League institution should receive no more federal funding and that it "can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning."

Trump, in a post on his Truth Social page, called Harvard a "JOKE," one day after his administration announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in grants to the nation's oldest university after it refused to comply with the president's demands on hiring, curriculum, and admissions.

In Wednesday's post, Trump attacked several of the University's hiring decisions, including bringing in former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, both Democrats, as instructors.

He also took on Claudine Gay, who last year resigned as Harvard's first Black female president over allegations of plagiarism dating back to 1993.

"Everyone knows that Harvard has "lost its way," Trump posted. "They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to "teach" municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil."

He further accused Harvard of hiring "almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and "birdbrains, and said they are "only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called 'future leaders.'"

Trump added that Gay, who he called Harvard's "plagiarizing President," embarrassed the school when she appeared before Congress.

"When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT," he said "Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place."

Gay remains at Harvard as the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and as a professor of African and African-American Studies.

Trump added that others, "like these Leftist dopes," continue to teach at Harvard.

"Because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges," Trump said. "Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Trump's comments follow suggestions he made Tuesday that the university should lose its tax-exempt status and instead be taxed as a political entity "if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting 'Sickness?'"

Earlier this week, Harvard University President Alan Garber told the Harvard community that "No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

Trump's administration said Monday that it would freeze more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard after the university defied demands to limit activism on campus, make broad leadership reforms, "merit-based" admissions and hiring policies, and conduct an audit of the student body, faculty, and leadership on their views about diversity.

In rejecting the demands, Harvard President Alan Garber said in a message to the university community: "No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

Then why you taking tax payer monies?

Strip them of those funds NOW!

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No doubt there.