Happy Tuesday, Patriots! | The Trump administration just escalated its crackdown on corruption — with the Department of Justice officially launching an investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz following explosive fraud revelations. | White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday night that federal investigators are now probing Walz's knowledge and potential criminal liability tied to massive welfare, childcare, and Medicaid fraud schemes that have drained billions from taxpayers. | President Trump has made the issue a top priority, surging FBI and DHS agents into the state, freezing federal funds, and ordering sweeping audits. | "This is an all-hands-on-deck effort," Leavitt said, adding that Trump believes Walz will be held accountable. | After years of ignored warnings, the message is clear: the cover-up phase is over. | Catch up on all of today's must-see Trump headlines! | —Nick | In today's email:
🔔 Trump Promises Somali Deportations
💬 Trump Says Greenland Needed for Defense
📋 Trump Allies Lay Out GOP Battle Plan
🛢️ Trump on Venezuela Oil: We're Running Everything
⚖️ Trump NIH Funding Cuts Blocked By Court | | | | | ✅TRACKING TRUMP✅ | Curated by Mike Luso | President Trump is promising to cut off federal funding over Somali-related fraud and corruption in California, Illinois, and Minnesota. Trump told reporters that at least $19 billion was stolen from Minnesota and the federal government by Somalis, though he noted the actual number could be much higher. Non-citizen Somalians can be quickly deported by the federal government if they are found guilty of fraud. | Meanwhile, President Trump has proposed a plan to rebuild Venezuela's oil infrastructure following Maduro's capture with a timeline of less than 18 months. Trump said American oil companies could expand operations in Venezuela with U.S. financial support. He described the effort as requiring a tremendous amount of money. | Check out all the latest developments and more below! | | | | | 💬 Trump Says Greenland Needed for Defense
President Trump said the United States needs to annex Greenland absolutely for defense purposes. He told The Atlantic he doesn't know how other nations should interpret the Maduro apprehension but we do need Greenland for defense. Trump noted that Greenland is surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships. He previously refused to rule out military action to annex the territory. In May he said he wouldn't say he's not going to do it because we need Greenland very badly. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen issued a statement calling on the United States to stop threatening annexation. She said it makes absolutely no sense to talk about it being necessary for the U.S. to take over Greenland. She added that the United States has no legal right to annex any of the three countries in the Realm of the Kingdom. Greenland is the world's largest island and a self-governing territory of Denmark. It's largely covered with ice but has oil, natural gas, and mineral resources. The territory already hosts the United States' northernmost military base. | 🛢️ Trump on Venezuela Oil: We're Running Everything
President Trump said we're going to run everything when asked about Venezuela's oil reserves. The reserves are worth approximately $17.3 trillion according to the Kobeissi report. Trump corrected a reporter who said billion by emphasizing it's much more than that. He said we're going to run it, fix it, and have elections at the right time. Trump noted it's a broken country with no money and inflation like we would have had if he didn't win the election. American oil companies will go into Venezuela to repair badly broken oil infrastructure. Trump said he spoke with oil companies before and after Operation Absolute Resolve. They want to go in and do a great job for the people of Venezuela while representing us well. Trump noted the infrastructure is rusty, rotten, and most of it unusable. It's old and broken with pipes laying all over the ground and nothing invested for years. Chevron has been there doing a good job but hasn't been in a position to invest money. They're on a month-to-month basis only there because Trump wanted them to be. | 📋 Trump Allies Lay Out GOP Battle Plan
House Freedom Caucus leaders are drawing battle lines with a seven-page letter to Speaker Mike Johnson. The letter outlines proposed policy goals on topics from elections to immigration to federal spending. It comes ahead of a policy forum Johnson is hosting on Tuesday where Republicans will hear from President Trump. The conservative group's first policy goal is forcing the Senate to take up the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. They're also calling on Congress to pass legislation limiting early voting and reforming the census to only count American citizens. On fiscal year 2026 appropriations conservatives want to reduce or keep flat total federal discretionary spending levels. The Freedom Caucus is urging Congress to crack down on the Minnesota fraud scandal. They want to eliminate all programs exposed as rampant with fraud. Federal prosecutors estimate fraud in Minnesota tied to Somali programs could exceed $9 billion. The document called for the denaturalization and deportation of anyone who has committed fraud against taxpayers. | ⚖️ Trump NIH Funding Cuts Blocked By Court
A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration cannot carry out steep cuts to NIH research grants provided to universities. The three-judge panel in Boston upheld an injunction secured by 22 Democrat attorneys general, medical associations, and universities. The cuts announced in February 2025 sought to cap indirect costs at no more than 15% of direct research funding. Trump's NIH guidance targeted universities like Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins that charge over 60% for indirect costs despite having multibillion-dollar endowments. The court said the policy violated NIH's own regulations and Congressional funding language passed since 2018 designed to prevent across-the-board cuts. |
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| | | | | | 🔔 Trump Promises Somali Deportations 🔔 | President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Somalians have stolen at least $19 billion from Minnesota and the federal government, though he corrected a reporter who said billion by emphasizing it's actually trillions in potential losses when factoring in Venezuela's oil reserves and other related corruption schemes. Trump promised every Somali fraudster should be forced to leave the country, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, whom he called a total crook and one of the leaders of the fraud networks operating throughout Minnesota. | The fraud involves money laundering operations through fraudulent meal and housing programs, daycare centers, and Medicaid services, with prosecutors saying some of the money was used to buy luxury cars, real estate, jewelry, international vacations, and was sent overseas potentially into the hands of Islamic terrorists. Governor Walz announced he's stepping out of the governor's race to let others worry about the election while he focuses on defending the people of Minnesota against criminals and cynics, claiming Republicans' political gamesmanship is making the fight harder to win. Trump posted on Truth Social that Minnesota's corrupt governor will possibly leave office before his term ends because he was caught redhanded along with Ilhan Omar and others stealing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, predicting the facts will reveal a seriously unscrupulous and rich group of slimeballs. | HHS is freezing more than $10 billion in federal childcare and social services funding to five Democrat-led states, with the freeze affecting the Child Care Development Fund, TANF program, and Social Services Block Grant in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York over concerns benefits went to non-citizens. More than $7.3 billion in TANF funding will be withheld from the five states, along with nearly $2.4 billion from the CCDF and another $869 million from the Social Services Block Grant, according to officials who said the funding pauses were announced in letters sent to state officials citing concerns benefits were improperly directed to non-U.S. citizens. | Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand accused the administration of using the issue for political retaliation and wrote on X that Trump is threatening to freeze child care funding in New York and targeting our children for political retribution, calling it immoral and indefensible. More than 90 people from Minnesota's large Somali community have been charged since 2022 in what has been described as the nation's largest COVID-era scheme, with the U.S. attorney saying the scope could exceed $1 billion and rise to as high as $9 billion. | The Department of Homeland Security has deployed roughly 2,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in a 30-day immigration enforcement surge, with the operation including agents from Homeland Security Investigations and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations. An estimated 130,000 illegal migrants were living in Minnesota as of 2023 according to the Pew Research Center, about 40,000 more than in 2019 and roughly 2% of the state's population, with the state's Somali diaspora exceeding 100,000 people concentrated in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Walz launched his third-term bid in September but faced mounting pressure after citizen journalist Nick Shirley published videos showing deserted centers receiving public funding, including one that misspelled Learning as Learing on its signage, with Walz calling Shirley a delusional conspiracy theorist. | Trump predicted that Walz has destroyed the State of Minnesota, but others like Governor Gavin News cum, JB Pritzker, and Kathy Hochul have done an even more dishonest and incompetent job in his opinion, adding that no one is above the law. Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband Tim Mynett's venture capital firm Rose Lake Capital quietly scrubbed multiple advisers' names from its website in late 2025 as investigations escalated into connections between individuals and businesses under investigation. Federal officials said as many as 85 Somali migrants have been charged in relation to the alleged fraud with 60 convicted so far, with the Trump administration's response including freezing childcare payments to Minnesota and launching a national fraud-reporting hotline. | Walz took responsibility for the scandal telling reporters last month that this is on my watch, I am accountable for this and more importantly I am the one that will fix it, though he repeatedly pushed back against Trump's involvement by accusing the president of politicizing the investigations. Speculation has emerged about a possible political strategy involving Sen. Amy Klobuchar possibly running for governor and then appointing Walz to her Senate seat, which would allow Walz to remain in public office without appearing on the ballot according to columnist Dustin Grage. | The 61-year-old Walz was Kamala Harris's running mate in the 2024 presidential campaign that lost to Trump and JD Vance, with the ongoing fraud scandal and his decision to end his gubernatorial reelection bid seeming to put an end to Walz's recent tenure in national politics. | | | | | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 🇮🇷 President Trump issued a stark warning to Iran after the Maduro operation as anti-regime protests grow across the country. Trump told Tehran don't play games in a message that comes as demonstrators continue taking to the streets demanding change. The warning follows Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela and signals the administration's willingness to take decisive action against hostile regimes. | ⚖️ Two West Virginia students allege a trans athlete made sexual harassment comments and used intimidation tactics in a case now before the Supreme Court. Adaleia Cross quit track to avoid the biological male athlete in locker rooms while another student claims the athlete followed and stared at her. Oral arguments are set for January 13 with 130 congressional Democrats backing the trans athlete's right to compete on girls' teams. | 🏠 Police rushed to Vice President JD Vance's Cincinnati home with one person taken into custody as officers responded to an breaking and entering incident at the property. Secret Service agents physically detained the adult male shortly after midnight, the agency said. Law enforcement reported that the suspect had been identified as 26-year-old William DeFoor, who according to jail records, was booked on Monday and faces charges of vandalism, obstruction of official business, criminal damaging or endangering and criminal trespass. | 🚛 California Governor Gavin Newsom is defying Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy by extending migrant trucking licenses in California. Newsom's move allows migrants to continue obtaining and renewing commercial driver's licenses despite federal pressure to restrict such programs. The clash represents the latest in ongoing battles over immigration enforcement and state versus federal authority. | God bless,
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