President Donald Trump has officially fired Pam Bondi from her post as attorney general, and another administration official is expected to replace her.

Several reports indicated that Bondi's firing was imminent after months of prolonged scrutiny, particularly over her mishandling of the Epstein files, which quickly became an Achilles' heel for the administration. An administration official told Blaze News that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is Trump's top pick to replace Bondi after the two met and discussed the role on Tuesday.

'We love Pam.'

Bondi is expected to become the second Cabinet official to leave the administration, following the departure of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

"Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year," Trump announced in a Truth Social post. "Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900."

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"We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General," Trump added. "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Tensions over the attorney general's performance reached a fever pitch after Bondi apparently failed to adequately comply with the law, which Trump himself signed, requiring the release of all Epstein files, prompting calls for her removal.

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Critics noted that the release of these files was repeatedly delayed and that the files had been at times improperly redacted to protect potential co-conspirators while revealing the identity of alleged victims. In a heated House Oversight hearing back in February, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) ripped into Bondi over the Epstein files rollout, saying it was "literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors."

During this hearing, Bondi also attempted to argue that the Epstein files were just another Democrat ploy to distract from Trump's accomplishments, infamously noting that the Dow Jones had surpassed 50,000 points.

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Trump announces plan to pay DHS workers amid ongoing Democrat shutdown

President Donald Trump has announced plans to issue paychecks to Department of Homeland Security employees amid the ongoing partial shutdown, which has left Transportation Security Administration officers working without pay for weeks and jammed up airport security lines nationwide.

TSA agents’ last full paycheck was on Feb. 14. Nearly 500 workers have quit since the shutdown started, and the callout rate reached 11.83% as of March 26, CNN reported.

'Defund-the-police Democrats have kept @DHSgov closed in an attempt to slow down ICE’s efforts to remove murderers, rapists.'

Trump previously directed the DHS to work with the Office of Management and Budget “to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown, consistent with applicable law.”

As a result of Trump’s directive, on March 30, many TSA workers received at least part of their overdue pay after missing two full paychecks.

On Thursday, Trump announced additional steps to ensure all DHS employees receive their wages.

“Republicans are UNIFIED, and moving forward on a plan that will reload funding for our FANTASTIC Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement Officers,” Trump wrote in a post on social media.

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Trump criticized Democrats for being “fully and 100% committed to the Radical Left Policy of Open Borders and Zero Immigration Enforcement” that has allowed unvetted “Murderers and Criminals of all types” into the United States. He added that he hopes their actions will “cost them dearly in the Midterms!”

The president stated that he would take executive action to address the ongoing issue.

“I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security,” Trump wrote. “Their families have suffered far too long at the hands of the Extreme Liberal ‘Leaders,’ Cryin’ Chuck Schumer and Hakeem ‘High Tax’ Jeffries.”

Trump declared that “help is on the way for our Brave and Patriotic Public Servants who have continued to work hard, and do their part to protect and defend our Country.”

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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin thanked the president for his latest announcement.

“For over a month, the defund-the-police Democrats have kept @DHSgov closed in an attempt to slow down ICE’s efforts to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from our country and open our borders. Time and time again the Democrats have prioritized violent illegal aliens over American citizens,” Mullin wrote.

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Trump takes action to secure elections against voter fraud — Democrats already plan to shut it down

President Donald Trump has taken action to implement new policies to shut down mail-in voting fraud, and Democrats have wasted no time in announcing efforts to oppose it.

Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs the secretary of Homeland Security, with the aid of the Social Security Administration, to compile a list of U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote.

'The American people sent him back to the White House because they overwhelmingly supported his commonsense election integrity agenda.'

The order further asks the U.S. Postal Service to adjust its rules and send ballots only to people on the voter list for each state and that all mail-in ballots be sent in secure envelopes that include a unique tracking barcode.

Each state will receive a list of the eligible voters no fewer than 60 days prior to each regularly scheduled federal election. The order also directs the U.S. attorney general to prioritize investigating and possibly prosecuting anyone — including state and local officials, public and private entities, and individuals — involved in sending ballots to ineligible voters.

Democrats immediately accused the president of infringing on Americans' right to vote with the order as well as the right of states to run their elections.

"This is another desperate, illegal power grab that shows a total lack of respect for the American people and our Constitution," read a statement from Oregon State Secretary Tobias Read.

"The Constitution is clear: states run elections. Oregon’s gold standard vote-by-mail elections are secure, fair, and accurate," he added. "We don’t need decrees from Washington, D.C. My message to the president: We’ll see you in court."

"This Executive Order is a disgusting overreach from the federal government and shows how little the Trump administration understands about election administration," said Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D). Fontes likewise pledged to take Trump to court over the EO.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson released a statement to the Daily Caller about the order.

"Election integrity has always been a top priority for President Trump, and the American people sent him back to the White House because they overwhelmingly supported his commonsense election integrity agenda," she said.

Congress is currently debating the SAVE Act, also called the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. Democrats have promised to vehemently oppose the bill's passage.

"The president will do everything in his power to defend the safety and security of American elections and to ensure that only American citizens are voting in them," Jackson added. "Congress should also expeditiously pass President Trump’s SAVE America Act to protect elections for generations to come."

The president has threatened to veto any other bill the Congress passes until the SAVE Act is passed.

"It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else," he wrote on social media earlier this month.

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SCOTUS asks pointed questions as fate of Trump's birthright citizenship order hangs in the balance

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the case challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship.

Trump made history by being the first sitting president to attend a SCOTUS hearing. He attended for over an hour, departing shortly after the solicitor general, John Sauer, concluded his arguments.

'Why put it in if it's irrelevant?'

Shortly after noon on Wednesday, Trump wrote in a post on social media, "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow 'Birthright' Citizenship!"

Sauer previously claimed that lower-court rulings finding Trump's executive order unconstitutional were overly broad and incorrectly held that "birth on U.S. territory confers citizenship on anyone subject to the regulatory reach of U.S. law."

During Wednesday's arguments, Sauer contended that the 14th Amendment phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" requires parents of a child to be domiciled in the U.S. and have allegiance to it.

He explained that the citizenship clause was enacted after the Civil War to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children whose allegiance to the U.S. "had been established by generations of domicile here."

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"It did not grant citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens who have no such allegiance. This conclusion reflects the original public meaning of the clause," he stated.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called Sauer’s argument “very quirky.”

"Well, starting with that theory, you obviously put a lot of weight on 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof,'" Roberts stated. "But the examples you give to support that strike me as very quirky."

"Children of ambassadors, children of enemies during a hostile invasion, children on warships," Roberts continued. "And then you expand it to a whole class of, illegal aliens are here in the country. I'm not quite sure how you can get to that big group from such tiny and sort of idiosyncratic examples."

Sauer argued that birthright citizenship has generated "a sprawling industry of birth tourism," adding that "uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States."

American Civil Liberties Union legal director Cecillia Wang argued before SCOTUS against Trump's executive order.

Wang was pressed about U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese citizen parents was an American citizen. While the ruling set the precedent for anyone born in the U.S., Ark's parents were both legally domiciled in the U.S.

"Thirty years after ratification, this court held that the 14th Amendment embodies the English common law rule," Wang stated during Wednesday's hearing. "Virtually everyone born on U.S. soil is subject to its jurisdiction and is a citizen."

"The majority tells us six times in the opinion that domicile is irrelevant under common law," Wang added.

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Justice Samuel Alito pushed back on Wang's arguments, stating that he "might agree" with her "if 'domicile' had simply been sprinkled in the opinion," though it appeared 20 times.

"Why put it in if it's irrelevant?" Alito asked Wang.

"The first is that, again, it was a stipulated fact," Wang responded. "The second is that regardless of what the judgment in the case was … the rule of decision in Wong Kim Ark has binding precedential effect. Even if you think that Wong Kim Ark decided the case based on the stipulated facts, you have to follow that controlling rule of decision. And if you follow that rule, you get to the same result."

Justice Elena Kagan appeared to share Alito's concern, stating, "What are those 20 'domicile' words doing there? You can take some of them and say, 'I don't know; they were just summarizing the facts of the case,' but not all of them."

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Trump makes history at SCOTUS birthright citizenship hearing

President Donald Trump has made history at a Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday about his executive order to end birthright citizenship, reports say.

On Wednesday morning, Fox News reported that Trump arrived at the Supreme Court and that Attorney General Pam Bondi was expected to join him. With this attendance, Trump has become the first sitting president to witness Supreme Court oral arguments.

'One of the many Great Scams of our time!'

Trump’s Executive Order 14160, signed on Inauguration Day, could impact roughly 225,000 individuals born each year.

The executive action states that “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 … and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he plans to attend the Supreme Court hearing.

“Because I have listened to this argument for so long,” Trump stated.

He argued that birthright citizenship was not intended for “Chinese billionaires, or billionaires from other countries, who all of a sudden have 75 children … becoming American citizens.”

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“This was about slaves,” Trump continued, adding that birthright citizenship was implemented at the end of the Civil War.

“The reason was, it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves. It didn’t have to do with the protection of multimillionaires and billionaires wanting to have their children get an American citizenship,” he said. “It is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.”

When asked about the Supreme Court justices, Trump responded, “I love a few of them. I don’t like some others.”

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In a post on social media, Trump called birthright citizenship “one of the many Great Scams of our time!”

Around 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, Trump’s motorcade was spotted leaving the White House en route to the Supreme Court.

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'Delayed courage': Trump tells allies to fend for themselves amid oil crisis

President Donald Trump told America's allies to fend for themselves as the Strait of Hormuz continues to constrain the world's oil supply.

Trump called on countries like the United Kingdom to either buy American oil or to "build up some delayed courage" and go into the strait themselves. Trump also said that he had already done all the dirty work, telling other countries they need to start relying on themselves rather than the United States.

'The upcoming days will be decisive.'

"All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you," Trump said in the Truth Social post Tuesday. "Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT."

"You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us," Trump said. "Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!"

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Trump later called out another European ally for its lack of cooperation with the Iran strikes, warning that the United States will remember.

"The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory," Trump said in a Truth Social post. "France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the 'Butcher of Iran,' who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!!"

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The United States is officially on day 31 of the conflict with Iran, which is still within the four- to six-week timeline floated by Trump and members of the administration.

"Just one month in, only one month, we set the terms," Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said during a Tuesday press conference. "The upcoming days will be decisive. Iran knows that, and there's almost nothing they can military do about it."

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Trump issues grim threats against Iran if new, 'MORE REASONABLE' regime fails to strike a deal

President Donald Trump is publicly weighing his options to pressure Iran's new regime into making a deal to end hostilities.

As the conflict enters the fourth week, Trump reassured the America people that the United States is in the midst of "serious discussions" with Iran's new, "more reasonable" regime to end the war. Although Trump said great progress has been made, he also threatened to obliterate key Iranian infrastructure if the conflict is not resolved in the near future.

'This will be in retribution for our many soldiers.'

"The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran," Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday.

"Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately 'Open for Business,' we will conclude our lovely 'stay' in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet 'touched.'"

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As Trump noted, the United States has refrained from striking these facilities after the president first announced the negotiations last week. Trump originally gave the Iranians a five-day window to strike a deal but later extended it by an additional 10 days.

If the strikes were to take place, Trump said they would be in "retribution" for the hundreds of Americans who have died at the hands of the Iranian regime.

"This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime's 47 year 'Reign of Terror,'" Trump said.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio came short of naming these new negotiators, saying it would probably "get them in trouble."

"I'm not going to disclose to you who those people are because it would probably get them in trouble with some other groups of people inside Iran," Rubio told ABC News. "Look, there's some fractures going on there internally. And at the end of the day, I think that if there are people in Iran who now, given everything that's happened, are willing to move in a different direction for their country, that would be great."

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Ukrainian officials plotted to direct massive sums of US taxpayer aid to Biden's campaign: Intel report

Ukrainian government communications discussed a scheme to direct American taxpayer dollars to then-President Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee to boost Biden’s 2024 re-election bid against President Donald Trump, according to an intelligence report obtained by Just the News.

The newly unclassified documents summarize raw intercepts from U.S. spy agencies in late 2022. Officials who reviewed the files stated that there was a lack of curiosity to investigate the allegations under the Biden administration, the news outlet reported.

'In this manner, most of the US funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.'

The American tax dollars were intended to fund a clean energy project in Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia.

“The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s re-election campaign,” the report read, according to Just the News.

“They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” it added.

The report named two American subcontractors that could potentially receive the funds, officials told Just the News. However, those names were redacted in the report obtained by the news outlet.

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“The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track,” the report continued. “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.”

Just the News reported that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned about the intelligence intercepts. She reportedly asked USAID officials to review their records to ascertain whether the alleged scheme was executed and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI.

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An official told the news outlet that Gabbard’s team has not found substantive evidence indicating that the allegations were thoroughly investigated under Biden’s leadership. The official noted that the communications are not believed to be linked to Russian disinformation efforts.

Trump shared the Just the News article in a post on social media.

In a statement to Blaze News, a spokesperson for Gabbard confirmed the existence of related intelligence, adding that the director’s team is “working to review USAID holdings.”

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Senate approves DHS funding — but there's a catch

The Senate has partially funded the Department of Homeland Security following a 42-day stalemate — but there's a catch.

More than six weeks after DHS was first shut down in mid-February, the Senate agreed in the early morning hours on Friday to fund key agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and most notably, the Transportation Security Administration. Although the funding agreement was long overdue, the Senate continues to withhold funds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

'Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis.'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) called the supplemental funding "unfortunate," saying it is only prolonging policy disagreements Democrats continue to move their goal posts on.

“The Dems wanted reforms," Thune said. "We tried to work with them on reforms. They ended up getting no reforms, but, you know, we’re going to have to fight some of those battles another day."

The Senate greenlit this funding bill by a voice vote around 2:00 a.m. ET and is now headed into a two-week-long recess. The spending package is now on its way to the House.

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This funding was put through just hours after President Donald Trump ordered his new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to "immediately pay our TSA Agents."

"Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!" Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday evening. "Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports."

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"It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it!" Trump added. "I want to thank our hardworking TSA Agents and also, ICE, for the incredible help they have given us at the Airports. I will not allow the Radical Left Democrats to hold our Country hostage any longer."

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