Trump Says No Deal Should Be Made on DHS Funding Until SAVE Act Passed

President Donald Trump said that while Democrat lawmakers want to make a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he feels there should be no deal made “until they approve” the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.

“In a phone call just minutes ago President Trump told me Democrats want to make a deal on DHS funding but he doesn’t ‘think any deal should be made on this until they approve save America,'” Brandt wrote.

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“I don’t think any deal should be made on this until they approve SAVE America,” Trump told Brandt.

“I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass ‘THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,'” Trump wrote. “It is far more important than anything else we are doing in the Senate, and that includes giving these same terrible people, the Dems (who are to blame for this mess!), a Five Billion Dollar cut in ICE funding, a deal which, even when disguised as something else, is unacceptable to me and the American people – UNLESS it includes their approval of Voter I.D., (with picture!), Citizenship to Vote, No Mail-In Voting (with exceptions), All Paper Ballots, No Men In Women’s Sports, and No Transgender MUTILIZATION of our precious children.”

Trump Says ‘Good and Productive’ Talks with Iran Delivers Pause in Military Strikes

Trump says the U.S. and Iran have held talks on the “complete and total resolution of hostilities” in the Middle East driven by Operation Epic Fury.

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Trump touts ‘significant’ Iran ‘present’ linked to Strait of Hormuz as deal talks heat up

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced Iran wants to

“make a deal” with the U.S., noting the country’s leadership gave the U.S. a “significant prize” related to the Strait of Hormuz and the flow of oil.

While speaking to reporters in the White House Oval Office, Trump said Iranian leadership sent the gift on Monday, and it arrived on Tuesday.

“They’re going to make a deal. They did something [Monday] that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present,” Trump said. “The present arrived today, and it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.”

Trump added the unspecified present was “very significant.”

“That meant one thing to me we’re dealing with the right people,” Trump said. “… It was a very nice thing they did. … They said they were going to do it, and it happened. And they’re the only ones that could have done it.”

When asked about control of the Strait of Hormuz, he said the U.S. will “have control of anything we want.”

“They can’t have certain things,” Trump said. “It starts with no nuclear weapons, and they’ve agreed to that. … They’re not going to have enrichment any of those things. … We are in about the best bargaining position. We’re way ahead of schedule.”

Negotiations are being headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, according to the president.

Fetterman slams Democratic ‘mess’ as TSA workers miss paychecks during DHS shutdown

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is once again breaking ranks with his party, slamming his colleagues over the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers have remained at a standstill over funding for the Department of Homeland Security since mid-February. Fetterman said he opposes the shutdown and refuses to be part of the “mess” it’s created.

“I refuse to always vote to shut our government down, and I would never be a part of this mess,” Fetterman said Tuesday

Democrats have refused to support DHS funding bills without reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Instead, they’ve proposed a series of carve-outs to fund specific branches of DHS, including the TSA, a strategy Republicans have rejected.

“They earn, average, about $50,000 a year,” said Fetterman of TSA agents. “They rely on their paychecks. Now, even not being paid, they have to face those crowds.”

The shutdown has led to long lines at airports across the country, including hubs in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta and Houston. The lack of pay has led many agents to call out as some find temporary work elsewhere.

Trump energy czar says Iran conflict gas spike is ‘temporary blip’ as drilling push ramps up

Despite the ongoing conflict in Iran, President Donald Trump’s “energy czar,” Doug Burgum, is confident the “temporary blip up” in gas and energy prices facing Americans will come back down very soon as the president’s “drill baby drill” agenda takes effect.

Burgum, who leads the Interior Department and chair of Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, said: “It’s all about supply.”

“You want prices to go down? Supply has got to go up,” he said. To this end, he said his agency approved a record 6,000-plus drilling permits on U.S. soil, reversing the Biden administration’s trend of increased regulation that he said had stunted the country’s energy independence.

"We have a temporary blip up now because of the conflict in the Middle East, but as you heard the news earlier this morning, energy prices dropped a lot today, and stock markets [are] up and energy prices down; those are all positive things for working Americans to have those two things happening simultaneously," he said.

Despite criticism of the president’s actions on the global stage, Burgum said these moves, such as the military intervention in Venezuela and negotiations with leadership, are going to help reduce prices for Americans.

“What happened in Venezuela actually helps Americans a lot because now we’ve got Venezuelan oil flowing towards Gulf of America refineries in Louisiana and Texas,” he said.

Another major policy shift Burgum said he expects to make a big difference for Americans is the administration’s actions to “unleash Alaska.”

“The Biden administration had taken over 70 legal actions, executive orders from President Biden to regulatory actions, which were essentially sanctioning Alaska more than we sanctioned Iran during the last administration,” he explained.

Pressed on when Americans can expect to start seeing prices tick back down, Burgum said, “I think we started to see how they were happening and they happened quite effectively over the first year of the Trump administration.” He also pointed out that prices “vary a lot” depending on which state you live in and the extent of regulation and taxes placed on oil and gas production.

"Consumers need to understand that it is not just federal action, but it's state and local action that's often driving up the cost of your energy," he said. "It's not quite as simple as red state versus blue state. But if you take a look at gas prices before the war, red states were among all the lowest states in the country, blue states were among the highest in terms of that. And it was a reflection of the policies of those state legislatures and those governors that were driving energy prices up."

As an example, he said that just a month ago, gas prices in Iowa were under $2 per gallon, while the price in California was $5.

“California imports 63 percent of its oil from foreign countries,” he explained, adding, “At the time of this breakout with Iran … California, by their own data, provided by the state of California, the number one country they were importing oil from in California was from Iraq.”

“They always brag about, ‘Oh, if we were a country, we’d have one of the world’s largest economies.’ And if they were a county, they would have designed for themselves one of the most energy-dependent and energy-expensive economies,” he said of California.

“They’re not saving the planet by using foreign oil in California when you could have been getting clean, reliable, affordable energy, say from the Permian Basin in Texas or New Mexico,” he continued. “When you think you’re saving the planet by blocking U.S. infrastructure, you artificially raise the prices.”