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Venmo and PayPal users can now “donate” directly to the US government to help pay off the $36.7 trillion national debt. That’s not satire. That’s a real policy rolled out in 2025. You can now tip the Treasury like it’s a barista. The move was quietly authorized through the Bureau of Fiscal Service. It means …
Trump’s latest tax pitch isn’t new. It’s redundant. On July 22, he floated the idea of eliminating capital gains taxes on home sales. The problem? That tax already doesn’t apply to most sellers. Since 1997, federal law has allowed homeowners to exclude up to $250,000 in gains if single, or $500,000 if married filing jointly. …
Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving 20 years for sex trafficking, is reportedly willing to testify before Congress. Her legal team is pushing for immunity. Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, called her the “Rosetta Stone” of the case. The Department of Justice and FBI say there’s no client list. But insiders claim she’s documenting everything. The Trump …
MORE: Source close to DOJ says Kash Patel also wants Pam Bondi gone, and that he’d consider leaving if Bongino leaves. Also that there are more frustrations with other documents Bondi hasn’t released. https://t.co/e1WYXHxdRN — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) July 11, 2025 Confirming this from @ShelbyTalcott, per source close to Bongino: “Bongino in particular, one …
Republicans finally got their “big, beautiful bill” across the finish line. Now they’re turning to their next urgent tasks: codifying billions in spending cuts and avoiding a government shutdown. The Senate plans to vote no earlier than next week on President Donald Trump’s request for lawmakers to scrap $9.4 billion in previously approved funding for …
Treasury Secretary Bessent says he's ready to replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell if President Trump wants him to. pic.twitter.com/jHxpZ34RuB — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 5, 2025
The BBB got passed with the promise of mass deportations. 150 billion was given over to ICE. In less than a day Trump started talking about amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. This is a betrayal.No two ways about it. pic.twitter.com/Az2UkSgQfk — Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) July 4, 2025
The Trump-Bessent Treasury is not calling it yield curve control, but the structure is already in motion. No formal announcement. No coordination with the Fed. Just a sequence of moves that point in one direction. The long end of the curve is being starved. The short end is being flooded with T-bills. The Fed is …
The surveillance state is no longer theoretical. It’s operational. Three separate moves from three different corners of government just locked into place. The result is a biometric dragnet that touches every American, whether they’re crossing a border, walking through a protest, or just wearing a fitness tracker. Start with the executive order. On March 20, …
The $6.7 billion Legislative Branch bill is set for a full-committee markup Thursday. House appropriators released their committee report Wednesday for the Legislative Branch funding bill, which includes detailed guidance on how they’d like Capitol Hill offices and agencies to spend fiscal 2026 funding. Here’s a sampling of what’s on their minds ahead of …
NATO allies will meet in The Hague next week and are expected to agree to significantly boost military expenditure, but Madrid is reluctant. Spain wants a carve-out from NATO’s likely future defense spending goal of 5 percent of GDP, the country’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said ahead of next week’s high-stakes alliance summit in The …
She’s predicted 118 of the last 2 terror attacks. False flag incoming! byu/Decent-Flatworm4425 inconspiracy JUST IN: 🇮🇱🇺🇲 Netyanahu desperately wants to drag US in the war: "Iran wants to kill Trump" pic.twitter.com/PatQExuGSp — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) June 15, 2025 Mike Pence is urging President Trump to keep the U.S. military fully prepared to defend Israel by …
President of the Mexican Senate (TODAY): "We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico… Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland." pic.twitter.com/dvN6efNiSr — COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) June 9, 2025 Mexican …
"#Nobody wants to buy #US #treasuries."Sure thing bucko. pic.twitter.com/m1bcYQ66Pv — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) June 6, 2025 Fun fact: Yesterday BOE lent ~68bn GBP, a new ATH ⚠️ , through its ST-OMO “temporary” facility and “magically” yields across the board cooled off a little more on the back of the tailwind of BOJ manoeuvres Narrator: brrrrrrrr …
In Part Two of an undercover series, Project Veritas exposes DNC Vice Chair David Hogg slamming Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for suspiciously timed stock trades. “She gets better returns than almost every hedge fund,” Hogg reveals, hinting at insider knowledge behind Pelosi’s millions.
The possession of small quantities of cannabis for personal use should be decriminalised, a report backed by the London mayor has concluded. The report by the London Drugs Commission, chaired by former Labour cabinet minister Lord Falconer, makes 42 recommendations, including removing natural cannabis from the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA). Lord Falconer told BBC …
New Canadian PM Mark Carney wants to restrict your ability to travel by plane by hiking up taxes on air travel, despite jet-setting around the world in private jets himself. "We should be taking into account the impact of our flying on the planet." "You push up the tax on… pic.twitter.com/cjg80D1vNa — Wide Awake Media …
$AMZN wants suppliers to eat the tariffs pic.twitter.com/R19xrdGogA — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) April 29, 2025 AMAZON TO SHOW COST OF TRUMP TARIFFS ON EACH PRODUCT: PUNCHBOWL — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 29, 2025 🇨🇳TEMU SLAPS 145% IMPORT CHARGES AFTER TRUMP TARIFFS Temu just dropped a bomb on U.S. shoppers—adding “import charges” around 145% because …
TRUMP: IF WE DON'T REACH A DEAL WITH COUNTRIES, THEN IN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 WEEKS, WE WILL SET TARIFFS FOR THEM, INCLUDING CHINA DEALZ — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) April 23, 2025 🇺🇸 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP JUST SAID: – IF WE DON'T MAKE A DEAL WITH CHINA 🇨🇳, IT'S OK — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) April 23, …
BRUSSELS — Countries are ready to work with reliable trade partners in Europe after United States President Donald Trump’s blanket trade tariffs upended global markets, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told POLITICO. “In a more and more unpredictable global environment, countries are lining up to work with us,” the Commission president said without …
"US DEPLOYS B-1B LANCERS TO JAPAN" For the first time since the Vietnam War, U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers are being stationed in Japan for an extended period. US wants to send a message to China. pic.twitter.com/NtRe5CUzi7 — WORLD AT WAR (@World_At_War_6) April 18, 2025
🚨 “The US Government has the technology to infect people with fast moving Cancer” “Caused from Direct Energy Weapons” “My friends have fast moving Cancer & that’s the typical process the agency uses overseas when they want to get rid of someone” US Whistleblower blows the lid… pic.twitter.com/lvXTGPLH0X — Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) April 15, 2025
The problem, however, is that it’s unclear what exactly Trump would find acceptable — or if he even wants to make deals at all. Trump set a high bar on Sunday night, telling reporters that any agreements would need to eliminate bilateral trade deficits. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/frustrated-world-leaders-wonder-if-trump-even-wants-a-deal?embedded-checkout=true
Tech mogul Elon Musk, who has served as a close advisor to President Donald Trump, on Saturday broke with the president’s decision to impose expansive tariffs on most foreign nations, saying that he hopes to see a “zero tariff situation” between the United States and Europe. “I hope it is agreed that both Europe and …
Mayor Adams wants everyone to read Kash Patel’s book Government Gangsters! @Kash_Patel pic.twitter.com/u4BDiudCTd — Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) April 2, 2025
by notayesmanseconomics Today the focus switches to the Euro area and of course it is bracing itself for the imposition of a wave of Trump Tariffs tomorrow. We are in a phase where being a net exporter is not working out as well as it once did. However this morning attempts to get ahead of …
The President of George Soros's Open Society Foundation just admitted they're working behind the scenes to "redesign the world." pic.twitter.com/HY6dUGpqXg — Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) March 31, 2025 Thanks, but no thanks.
