MAGA BRIEFS - May 18, 2025
Beware of lies creating confusion to thicken the fog of war.
“Does Trump have to do everything?” Stephen K. Bannon
James Comey. In the 1st administration Comey dropped a file with the Russian Dossier . This time he communicates via shells and instagram
“ … the Transportation Department overhauls its approach to compliance, empowering challenges to enforcement actions and heightening scrutiny of those who carry them out … “
Budget. Here is what the Sunday shows and MSM say: Chip Roy ‘HAS TO’ vote for this budget because there are 10 moderate Republicans who want to continue to get $ in their districts or save Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act which is where the $$ came from. The Democrats were very smart to give red districts $ and now certain congressmen believe they have to keep that money.
We use to call this ‘pork.’ Now we call this the Republicans are saving Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act even if it means turning America into a communist or socialist country.
On a Sunday show it was stated that Chip Roy ‘HAS TO’ vote for this budget because there are 10 moderates who will not vote for his demands. So Chip has to give in to an increased deficit? Once again, the conservatives are being forced to sign a Budget that will increase the deficit and spends more money. And it still spends the $2 trillion they had to add during COVID.
“ … Measures under discussion include enforcing work requirements on Medicaid recipients earlier than the 2029 deadline in the bill and immediately revoking Medicaid benefits from … illegal alien enemies (my words - the article uses undocumented immigrants).
“It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits,” Roy said. “The fact of the matter is this bill has back-loaded savings and has front-loaded spending. … “
SOURCE: www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326?nname=politico-nightly&nid=00000170-c000-da87-af78-e185fa700000&nrid=00000160-5317-da9e-a17a-7337c029000
MEDICAID EXPANSION = OBAMACARE = UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
Keep saying it. Stop the Medicaid Expansion. People can buy their own insurance or even sign up for real Obamacare but the Expansion is allowing the government to implement universal healthcare through the back door.
And do not embrace the lie that MAGA votes want Medicaid Expansion.
DISMANTLING THE DEEP STATE - The Weaponization of Regulations.
The Trump administration is changing how Departments discipline employees suspected of breaking agency rules and empowers American citizens to complain when they feel they are unfairly targeted by the Government - in the realm of regulations.
“ … the Transportation Department overhauls its approach to compliance, empowering challenges to enforcement actions and heightening scrutiny of those who carry them out.
… On Thursday, the agency issued a proposal that would enable Transportation Department lawyers to recommend discipline against enforcement employees suspected of breaking agency rules. The blueprint also outlines a system for the targets of investigations to complain to the transportation secretary’s office, and seek to have evidence thrown out or a do-over of the investigation.
The proposal says it is designed to ensure that the department’s actions are “fair and free of bias.” …”
SOURCE: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
Kash Patel, F.B.I. Director is reorganizing the F.B.I.
In March Kash Patel announced the reorganization of the F.B.I. as was promised and pushing agents from D.C. into the field. The FBI will now have three regions, East, West and Central, each with a branch director in charge of field offices, and offices in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles.
The current F.B.I. structure was organized by Robert Mueller after the 9/11 attacks “ … to address administrative lapses and bolster efforts to deter terrorism. In Mr. Patel’s iteration, he has appointed a total of five branch directors, eliminating the executive assistant directors who previously managed the F.B.I. on a daily basis.”
SOURCE: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-deputy-director.html
“Look, the FBI is 38,000 when we are fully manned, which we are not. In the national capital region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, DC, there were 11,000 FBI employees. That’s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn’t happen here,” Patel told Bartiromo … So we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. … ‘We want to work at the FBI because we want to fight violent crime and we want to be sent out into the country to do it.” … “
SOURCE: Kash Patel announces FBI ditching DC headquarters, transferring 1,500 agents
MAGAbrat whiners alert!!!!
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino on Maria Bartiromo Sunday Morning Futures, May 18, 2025 make the following points:
he [Kash] is dealing with 38,000 employees, with 12 billion dollar budget and you expect us in 2 mths to dig up 8 yrs plus with all the multi layers of process, and personnal …
“Do you want it done right or done quickly.” Bongino. He proceeds to remind people of the investigations into those involved in Russia gate who pressed charges in court and won $$$.
“… we want accountability … ” Kash Patel
Bongino explains they have a portfolio of the top items and they are keeping New York from going Boom, preventing hacking into Fox News, etc.
Kash Patel explains there are cells in America – when you open the border, crime metastasizes …. they have formed Mexican street gang task forces to go after inner city gangs, where criminals have metastasized and taken over drugs, sex trafficking, gangs and been allowed to live and not be policed.
‘We’ve Got a F--king Spy in This Place’: Inside America’s Greatest Espionage Mystery
Deep State response to Kash Patel’s downsizing appears to begin with a long spy story that is quite interesting. This is an attempt to save the ‘counter intelligence’ division of the F.B.I. from being disrupted by the new Directors re-organization.
“Two former top spy hunters offer exclusive new revelations about their quest to solve America’s greatest espionage mystery and what’s at stake with Kash Patel in charge of the FBI… “
SOURCE: www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/16/cia-fbi-spy-russia-mystery-00317973?nname=politico-toplines&nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nrid=00000160-5317-da9e-a17a-7337c0290000
Downsizing Government: A ‘voluntary exodus’ increases in government.
National Institutes of Health, six directors are leaving or being forced out.
Federal Aviation Administration, nearly a dozen top leaders
Treasury Department 200+ experienced managers and technical experts
“ … But a second round, rolling out agency by agency through the spring, is seeing a sustained, swelling uptick that will dwarf the first, potentially climbing into the hundreds of thousands, the employees and the records show.” … “
SOURCE: www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/trump-administration-brain-drain-doge/
INFILTRATION OF MAGA
MAGA needs to keep fighting for policies and get their head around the fact they haven’t won anything yet.
MAGAbrats are continuing to whine and throw fits about the Trump administration (the best being ‘they’ got him elected) and just like brats they want candy, not understanding it will ruin their dinner. Kash Patel is the director of the F.B.I. with a mission to investigate crimes, child sex trafficking, fentanyl, cartels operating gang rings and drug rings, etc. He is busy and you don’t know how to cook dinner yet.
The enemy within is actively planting trolls in MAGA social media attacking the Trump administration through the department heads and now the focus is on F.B.I. director Kash Patel and DOJ director Pan Bondi. And the MAGAbrats fall for it — and then grift off of it.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary is a fighter not a whiner:
1798 Alien Enemies Act
Do not be sucked into the ‘due process’ discussion - that is a redirection play brought by the progressive liberals who brought the invasion.
The Supreme Court did not rule on the legality of using the ‘Alien Enemies Act of 1798’ but are throwing it back to the lower courts. This means the Venezuelan gang members will be held in the deportation center in Texas while this works through the courts. To be clear this ONLY applies to the illegal alien gang members in Texas. This is a roadblock to slow down Pres Trump and there are additional lawsuits in NY, CO, PA and other areas in Texas.
Two tidbits:
Justice Kavanaugh actually wanted to “dig into the legality of Trump’s Alien Enemies Act right away without waiting for the issue to be hashed out by lower courts”
Justice Samuel Alito (who did dissent with Clarence Thomas) said the Supreme Court ‘lacked jurisdiction to handle the case now and that the judge in Texas who did not immediately block the deportations acted “in an entirely reasonable manner.””
SOURCE: www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/supreme-court-extends-block-trump-deportations-00355210
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Do not think you have won and can now relax? Keep fighting, fighting, fighting.
The Woke State has regrouped and sends out Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a retired four-star Army general to save trans in the military. A military ‘team’ does not have team members who are treated ‘special’ with special accommodations and taking special drugs and are mentally ill.
“Gen. McChrystal took the first shot at Trump over his assault on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, then debated Maher about the issue of transgender people in the military, telling him “nobody cares” if a person is trans on the battlefield … “
SOURCE: www.mediaite.com/news/gen-stanley-mcchrystal-battles-bill-maher-over-trump-anti-trans-push/
CONNECT THE DOTS
Justice Department is considering making it easier to indict members of Congress by removing a step in the process.
SOURCE: www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
DOGE downsize of FEMA has not affected efficiency. - this is a Christine re-write of a headline. The Government is becoming more efficient! Instead of having FEMA staff waiting for a disaster they now move staff to work on disasters and if is working.
SOURCE: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/17/tornadoes-understaffed-jackson-kentucky-weather-office/
Efficiency continues across the States. Grant money is being clawed back from the States. Why am I paying for a library in Maine? Or anywhere but my town?
SOURCE: apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946
Comey and the shell message.
SOURCE: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/secret-service-comey-social-media-trump.html
Biden’s Autopen use investigation opened by Congress. “ … Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told the Republican National Lawyers Association’s policy conference yesterday that he believes they’ve “identified the staffer” who operated the autopen, … “
SOURCE: www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414106/james-comer-autopen-house-investigation-biden/
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Beware of misdirection plays and lies creating confusion to thicken the fog of war.
On a Sunday show it was stated that Chip Roy ‘HAS TO’ vote for this budget because there are 10 moderates who will not vote for his demands mainly because the Democrats were smart and gave their districts $$$. We use to call this ‘pork.’ Yes, the Republicans are saving Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Once again, the conservatives are being forced to sign a Budget that will increase the deficit and spends more money. And it still spends the $2 trillion they had to add during COVID.
“ … Measures under discussion include enforcing work requirements on Medicaid recipients earlier than the 2029 deadline in the bill and immediately revoking Medicaid benefits from undocumented immigrants illegal alien enemies (my words). …
“It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits,” Roy said. “The fact of the matter is this bill has back-loaded savings and has front-loaded spending. … “
SOURCE: www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326?nname=politico-nightly&nid=00000170-c000-da87-af78-e185fa700000&nrid=00000160-5317-da9e-a17a-7337c029000
And here it is. Republicans are ‘afraid’ to undo Biden’s budget and remove the pork from their districts.
“ … That is going to force dozens of rank-and-file Republicans like Ciscomani to make a difficult decision: resist Trump’s efforts to gut the IRA or incur the wrath of constituents who could lose billions of dollars in clean energy investments and tens of thousands of new jobs. But these lawmakers also risk drawing the ire of the president and his allies if they slow the final package or vote against it. The House Ways and Means Committee portion of the bill, released this week, would gut many of the IRA’s clean energy tax credits.
For Ciscomani, a rising star in the GOP who holds one of the most competitive House seats in the nation, the decision could be a pivotal one for his political future — and that of his party. ,,,”