Hey Patriots! | President Donald Trump has made a major economic move, nominating inflation hawk Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. | Trump praised Warsh as a proven leader with the experience to restore confidence at the central bank and help drive down costs for American families. A former Fed governor, Warsh is known for pushing discipline at the Fed and challenging bureaucratic excess. | The nomination comes as Trump ramps up pressure to cut inflation, lower interest rates, and jump-start economic growth. | With Powell's term ending soon, Trump is making it clear he wants a Fed that works for workers — not Washington insiders. | Catch up on the latest Trump news below! | —Nick | In today's email:
🔔 Trump Brokers Deal to Avert Shutdown
🌎 Trump Declares National Emergency Over Cuba
💊 Trump Signs Executive Order to Combat Drug Addiction
🛢️ Trump Eases Sanctions on Venezuelan Oil Industry
⚖️ Trump Files $10 Billion Lawsuit Against IRS | | | | | ✅TRACKING TRUMP✅ | Curated by Mike Luso | The U.S. Senate struck a deal to fund the government Thursday, averting a partial shutdown just hours before the Friday deadline as midterm elections loom large. Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed to split the Department of Homeland Security funding off from a package of five other major funding bills, setting up a two-week stopgap for DHS while negotiations continue over immigration enforcement reforms. Trump celebrated the deal in a Truth Social post Thursday night, urging both Republicans and Democrats to give a bipartisan yes vote. | Meanwhile, Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening launching the White House Great American Recovery Initiative to coordinate the federal government's response to drug addiction and substance abuse. The initiative will advise federal agencies on directing grants to support addiction recovery and increase awareness about drug addiction, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kathryn Burgum serving as co-chairs.
Check out all the latest developments and more below! | | | | | TRUMP STORIES: | 🌎 Trump Declares National Emergency Over Cuba
Trump declared a national emergency over Cuba on Thursday, citing its government as an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to U.S. national security and foreign policy. Through executive order, he authorized new tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba. The Commerce Department will determine whether a country is providing oil to the island, while the State Department, Treasury, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Trade Representative will decide tariff levels. Trump accused Cuba of supporting hostile actors including Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. The order claims Cuba hosts Russia's largest overseas signals intelligence base, which allegedly targets U.S. national security data. Citing Cuba's human rights abuses - including political repression, torture, and suppression of free speech - Trump stated the move holds Havana accountable for enabling terrorism and regional instability. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will monitor the emergency and report to Congress. The action follows Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's confirmation that Mexico continues to send oil to Cuba, and comes after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, cutting off Cuba's main oil supplier. | 💊 Trump Signs Executive Order to Combat Drug Addiction
Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing the White House's Great American Recovery Initiative, aimed at coordinating federal efforts to fight addiction. The panel will guide agencies on directing grants for prevention, treatment, recovery support, and re-entry programs, addressing the 40.7 million Americans with substance use disorders in 2024 - 95.6% of whom did not receive help or realize they needed it. The initiative is chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kathryn Burgum, a recovered alcoholic and wife of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Both attended the signing alongside Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, whose son died of an overdose. Trump called the program a bold effort to help Americans overcome dependency, citing that about 300,000 die annually from addiction - though drug overdose deaths dropped 21% last year. The order follows Trump's reversal of a proposed $2 billion cut to addiction and mental health services. Kennedy said the initiative unites government agencies, faith groups, law enforcement, healthcare, and the private sector to save lives and restore communities devastated by addiction. | 🛢️ Trump Eases Sanctions on Venezuelan Oil Industry
The Trump administration announced Thursday it is easing sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry, following the capture of dictator Nicolas Maduro. A new Treasury license permits transactions involving Venezuela's government and state oil firm PdVSA for refining, transporting, selling, or purchasing Venezuelan oil - provided they don't involve blocked vessels, Chinese-owned firms, or restricted countries like Russia, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba. Transactions using gold or cryptocurrency remain banned. Trump said major oil companies are scouting Venezuela and will soon bring "tremendous wealth" back to both nations. Commercial flights to Venezuela will resume after discussions with its acting president. On Thursday, Venezuela's lawmakers passed a historic reform allowing private companies to control oil production and sales, resolve disputes internationally, and cap government royalties at 30%, marking a significant shift from its socialist-era policies. The U.S. plans a $100 billion reconstruction of Venezuela's oil industry, expanding on a $2 billion crude export deal struck in January. The U.S. will manage Venezuela's oil sales indefinitely, shifting from a case-by-case exemption model to a broader general license. | ⚖️ Trump Files $10 Billion Lawsuit Against IRS
Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit Thursday against the IRS and Treasury Department, alleging they failed to prevent a former IRS employee from leaking his, his sons', and the Trump Organization's tax returns to outlets like The New York Times and ProPublica. Filed in Miami federal court in Trump's personal capacity, the suit claims reputational, financial, and emotional damages, accusing the agencies of negligence and politically motivated misconduct. Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn was sentenced in 2024 to five years in prison for leaking Trump's tax records, which revealed he paid only $750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017. Littlejohn also admitted to stealing tax data from thousands of wealthy Americans, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, in what prosecutors called an unprecedented breach. The lawsuit argues the plaintiffs had no reason to suspect an IRS leak because the original New York Times report didn't reveal its source. Under federal law, lawsuits must be filed within two years of discovering a breach. Trump's legal team says the IRS failed to stop a politically motivated insider from leaking confidential data. Days before the lawsuit, Treasury canceled contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, Littlejohn's employer during his IRS tenure. |
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| | | |  | President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to launch an initiative to address drug addiction. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kathryn Burgum, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's wife, will lead the effort. |
| | 🔔 Trump Brokers Deal to Avert Shutdown 🔔 | Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reached a bipartisan government funding agreement Thursday to advance five major spending bills while stripping out the controversial Department of Homeland Security funding bill from the package. The deal came after Senate Democrats blocked a $1.2 trillion funding package earlier Thursday by a vote of 45-55, with eight Republicans joining all Democrats in voting against it because it included funding for DHS amid outrage over federal immigration operations in Minnesota. | Under the agreement, five appropriations bills covering the Departments of Defense, State, Treasury, Transportation, Health and Human Services and others will be funded through September, while DHS will operate on a two-week continuing resolution through February 13 to allow time for negotiations on immigration enforcement reforms. Trump wrote on Truth Social that Republicans and Democrats had come together to fund the vast majority of the government while providing an extension to DHS including the very important Coast Guard, which he said the administration is expanding and rebuilding like never before. Senate Democrats had demanded the DHS bill be separated from the broader package, with Schumer declaring that until ICE is properly reined in and overhauled legislatively, the DHS funding bill did not have the votes to pass. | The funding standoff came as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Fort Sumter and the Civil War in an interview with The Atlantic, asking if federal enforcement of immigration law in his state might trigger another Civil War and calling it an armed force that is assaulting and killing his constituents. Walz brought up John Brown, the abolitionist who stormed a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, saying guns pointed American at American is certainly not where the nation wants to go. | Republican lawmakers called for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and arrest Walz, with Rep. Mary Miller saying the governor was threatening insurrection and Rep. Derrick Van Orden noting the last time states did that was at Fort Sumter which started the Civil War. Rep. Nancy Mace reminded Walz that Trump is the Commander in Chief and federal authority supersedes state authority, adding that what Walz was threatening has a name which is insurrection. Democrats have been directing enormous amounts of hate toward Trump and his deputies, portraying ICE officers as Nazi Gestapo and child killers while inciting violence against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and federal officers. | New video emerged Wednesday showing Alex Pretti confronting federal immigration officers on a Minneapolis street 11 days before he was fatally shot by Customs and Border Protection agents on January 24. The video shows Pretti yelling at federal vehicles, at one point appearing to spit and yell trash toward the driver's side of a dark Ford Expedition before kicking and shattering the taillight. Federal agents then emerged from the vehicle and tackled Pretti to the ground, with what appeared to be a handgun visible in his waistband though the videos never show Pretti reaching for the gun. | Trump commented on Truth Social that Pretti was an agitator and perhaps insurrectionist whose stock had gone way down with the just released video showing him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm ICE officer before crazily kicking a government vehicle so hard the taillight broke off in pieces. Attorney Steve Schleicher representing Pretti's family said that a week before Alex was gunned down in the street despite posing no threat to anyone, he was violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents, adding that nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified his killing. Donald Trump Jr. posted one of the videos on X and commented "just a peaceful legal observer" while Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said the footage showed Pretti was an angry person expressing his rage with assault. | Pop stars Ariana Grande and Katy Perry were among several celebrities urging their fans to call their representatives demanding they defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement following Pretti's fatal shooting. Grande shared with her 372 million Instagram followers a guide for people to contact their representatives along with a script for what they should say, while Perry urged fans to turn anger into action and write to their senators to oppose funding for ICE. Actress Kerry Washington told her 7.6 million Instagram followers that taxpayers pay lawmakers' salaries with their tax dollars so they should take action, while actress Natalie Portman wore a pin reading "Ice Out" at the Sundance Film Festival saying what's going on in the country is absolutely horrific. | Senate Democrats formally laid out three demands they must receive in exchange for their vote on permanent DHS funding including ending roving patrols and tightening rules about warrants, creating a uniform code of conduct for federal agents, and implementing a masks off and body cameras on policy. The two-week continuing resolution for DHS funding gives lawmakers time to negotiate these reforms while avoiding a broader government shutdown that would risk disaster response funding and other vital resources for the American people. | | |  | President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the premiere of her movie "Melania" at The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, Thursday in Washington. |
| | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 🏠 Trump vowed during Thursday's Cabinet meeting to block federal funding from going toward low-income housing in the Pacific Palisades, saying they want to build a project right in the middle of everything and he's not going to allow it to happen or let these people destroy the value of their houses. Trump tasked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin with ensuring those in need of permits obtain them. Newsom's office pushed back saying the funding is not limited to the Palisades but supports affordable housing in multiple wildfire-impacted communities including Altadena, with all projects required to stay affordable for 55 years under the initiative. | 🇬🇧 Trump warned the U.K. it is very dangerous to deepen ties with China after Prime Minister Keir Starmer met President Xi Jinping in Beijing to reset relations, also saying it's even more dangerous for Canada to get into business with China because Canada is doing very poorly and can't look at China as the answer. Trump's remarks came as Starmer and Xi called for a renewed strategic partnership following an 80-minute meeting in which the leaders sought to thaw relations after several years of diplomatic chill. Starmer had said before his trip that Britain would not have to choose between the U.S. and China and could continue to strengthen economic ties with Beijing without angering Trump or harming relations with the U.S. | 🇺🇦 Trump said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to not open fire on Kyiv for one week due to the freezing weather, with Trump personally asking Putin not to fire into Kyiv and the various towns and saying a lot of people told him not to waste the call but Putin agreed to do it. Russian strikes in Kyiv have hobbled the city's energy infrastructure in recent weeks with more than 1,300 apartment buildings without heat in the chilling temperatures, while the strikes also have left much of the population without electricity and running water. Special envoy Steve Witkoff said negotiations have moved along productively with five Russian generals meeting in Abu Dhabi last Sunday. | 🚌 Los Angeles Metro admitted it rerouted buses carrying ads for the new Melania documentary to mitigate potential vandalism, after members of the L.A. Republican Party Central Committee noticed more than 100 buses with the ads were being grounded in bus depots rather than traveling their regular routes. LA Metro initially claimed buses were not being pulled from service and routinely return to bus yards for refueling, operator changes, cleaning and maintenance, but later acknowledged they moved buses around to divisions and routes where they thought they could mitigate any potential vandalism. Bus shelters carrying the Melania posters have seen extensive vandalism by unhinged leftists in the city, with the film following the first lady's journey and the 20 days leading up to her husband's second term opening in theaters nationwide on Friday. | ⚖️ The Supreme Court scheduled Trump's petition seeking a review of the jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll for the justices' February 20 meeting, though the Supreme Court turns away the vast majority of petitions and only agrees to take up roughly 1 to 2 percent of them. A federal jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her by denying her story, ordering Trump to pay $5 million though Trump has maintained he didn't assault Carroll. Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan downplayed the likelihood the Supreme Court will intervene, while Trump has separately appealed the verdict from Carroll's second trial where she secured $83.3 million in damages over additional defamation claims. | God bless,
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