DOGE now has 100 staffers as Elon Musk vows to find $1T in cuts, Trump says

 The Department of Government Efficiency now has about 100 staffers hunting for federal spending cuts, President Trump said Wednesday, as its leader Elon Musk plans to slash $1 trillion in expenditures.

“I want to commend Elon … They started off with 12. I call them 12 geniuses. They started off with 12, and they went to 20 and 25 and now they’re up to almost 100 people joining to help them,” Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office.

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President Trump said Wednesday that about 100 people are working on the DOGE initiative.AP

“Tomorrow, I’m having a news conference. I’m going to read to you some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to — and if you tell me that we should be giving money to those things, those entities, I think you probably have to leave as a reporter because you’re not very talented.”

The DOGE initiative’s internal functions have been shrouded in mystery and the Musk-led team’s size was not widely known even within the executive branch before Trump’s remarks.

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It’s unclear how many of the 100 helpers are, like Musk, unpaid special government employees. Some of the initial hires were reported to be in their early 20s or late teens and many are associated with Musk’s businesses.

Musk, 53, took questions from journalists Tuesday alongside Trump in the Oval Office and said that he hopes to halve the roughly $2 trillion federal deficit.

“With the support of the president, we can cut the budget deficit in half from $2 trillion to one,” the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla said.

“If you can cut the budget deficit by a trillion between now and next year, there is no inflation,” Musk said.

“And if the government is not borrowing as much, it means that interest costs decline. So everyone’s mortgage, their car payment, their credit card bills, any — their student debt, their monthly payments drop. That’s a fantastic scenario for the average American.”

Trump on Wednesday praised DOGE’s decision to revoke $80 million in FEMA funds to house migrants that had been in New York City’s bank accounts saying that hotels were “making a fortune” putting up recent arrivals, many of whom illegally crossed the southern border under former President Joe Biden.

Local officials protested had been appropriated by Congress for that purpose — and said they were weighing legal options.

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Musk says he hopes to cut about $1 trillion from annual federal spending.ZUMAPRESS.com

Musk’s initiative effectively shuttered USAID last week and began the process of firing most of the $50 billion-a-year foreign aid agency’s 10,000 employees and scrapping most of its grants to outside organizations.

DOGE, in cooperation with the White House Office of Management and Budget, this week closed the office of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and began the process of dismantling the 1,700-person agency.

CFPB operations are unusually funded by the Federal Reserve and DOGE is looking at possibly turning over about $712 million in bureau funds to the Treasury.

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Musk has blazed through federal agencies cutting expenses and terminating employees.Pool/ABACA/Shutterstock

The cost-cutting initiative on Monday canceled the Education Department’s nearly $900 million in contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences, which tracks academic performance, as DOGE leans into deep cuts at that department.

The Education Department, which Trump has announced plans to abolish, has an annual budget of about $268 billion.

Other early targets have included tens of millions of dollars in news outlet subscriptions, including $8 million for Politico, whose industry and policy newsletters were widely used by federal agencies.

DOGE has axed 62 contracts worth $182 million at the Department of Health and Human Services — including a $168,000 contract for an exhibit extolling Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health Museum, the initiative said on X, which Musk owns.

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Trump said that Musk is finding “massive fraud.”REUTERS

Trump said Wednesday that many more cuts will be made by Musk, who has said he intends to lead the fiscal crusade for about four months — as Democrats and array of opponents file lawsuits seeking to reverse his actions.

“There’s so many transactions, thousands and thousands of transactions, and if you don’t have people that care, you’re going to lose control,” Trump said.

“And that’s what’s happened, and we’ve caught it now. What we thought is billions and billions of dollars, but it’s a tiny fraction of the real number, because you can never catch the real number, because people have gotten away with tremendous amounts of money.”

https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-news/doge-has-100-staffers-as-musk-vows-to-find-1t-in-cuts-trump/

USAID, Soros Foundation Backed News Outlet That Spurred First Trump Impeachment

 The U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with the Open Society Foundations, the funding network established by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros, to bankroll a news organization that attacks conservatives and seems to have inspired the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.

USAID has received renewed scrutiny in recent weeks after Trump paused U.S. funding for foreign countries and appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio acting administrator at USAID. SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency, has helped the administration highlight USAID’s funding for woke projects. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has highlighted $1.5 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.

Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger has highlighted USAID’s funding for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a news outlet that also receives funding from Soros’ Open Society Foundations and that has attacked conservatives.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project does not hide its Open Society Foundations funding. Its 2023 annual report lists both Open Society Foundations and USAID as contributors.

Attacks on Conservatives

In 2017, the news organization attacked Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.; Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project published a story claiming that “Macedonia’s scandal-plagued nationalists” had “lobbied America’s right and pulled them into an anti-Soros crusade.”

Smith, Lee, and Gonzalez had made the mistake of noticing that the U.S. Embassy to Macedonia had selected Soros’ Open Society Foundations as the main implementer for USAID projects in the Eastern European country. In February 2017, USAID awarded a $2.54 million contract to the foundation for training in “civic activism,” “mobilization,” and “civic engagement.”

Speaking to The Daily Signal in a phone interview Thursday, Gonzalez called the attack “completely egregious.”

“Why am I paying through my tax dollars for a foreign operation to attack me?” he asked. “Why is a foreign operation attacking domestic political actors on behalf of the U.S. government?”

He said it attacked him “because we disagree with the Left.”

“They have set up this thing that targets us and we pay for it,” he added.

The First Trump Impeachment

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project also played a pivotal role in the first Trump impeachment.

As Shellenberger pointed out, the House of Representatives impeached Trump after a White House whistleblower claimed that Trump had abused his powers by threatening to withhold military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on a potential rival, then former Vice President Joe Biden. The whistleblower, a CIA analyst, claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to work with Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter.

The CIA analyst relied on reporting an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project report titled “Meet the Florida Duo Helping Giuliani Investigate for Trump in Ukraine.” Shellenberger cited a report from Drop Site News that the whistleblower’s complaint cited the report four times.

Shellenberger also cited a 2024 documentary from the German television broadcaster NDR. In that documentary, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves the crime and reporting project’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.”

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project vehemently denied the claim that USAID has control over the outlet.

“The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that,” Miranda Patrucic, the editor-in-chief of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, told Shellenberger.

Yet Shellenberger said the OCCRP did not provide evidence disproving the claim.

In a thread on X, OCCRP responded to a claim that USAID had paid for the Giuliani story.

“This is untrue,” the outlet stated. “OCCRP has over 40 separate donors who pay for our work.”

The outlet did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about its ties to USAID and Open Society Foundations. It did not respond to questions about its apparent anti-conservative bias or its role in the first Trump impeachment.

Open Society Foundations

As for Soros, the Hungarian American billionaire has funded a bevy of leftist causes, from DEI to gender ideology to climate alarmism. Open Society Foundations, the nonprofit organization he founded and which his son Alex currently runs, has a long history of partnering with USAID.

“[Former President Joe] Biden’s USAID and George Soros’ Open Society Institute frequently partnered by co-funding joint programs that promoted radical social agendas throughout the developing world,” Max Primorac, former acting chief operating officer at USAID, told The Daily Signal in an interview Tuesday. Primorac served at USAID from February 2018 to January 2021.

Former USAID Administrator Samantha Power met with Open Society Foundations at least twice and with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at least five times between 2021 and 2023, Fox News Digital reported. Foundations in the Open Society umbrella have worked with USAID for decades. In 2001, the Soros foundations network listed USAID among its “donor partners,” alongside other government aid agencies in countries such as Britain, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.

The Open Society Foundations’ connections with USAID run so deep, an Open Society nonprofit actually sued USAID not once but twice—and both cases reached the Supreme Court. Alliance for Open Society International sued to oppose a USAID funding requirement that nonprofits receiving tax dollars pledge to oppose prostitution.

As I expose in my book “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” the Open Society Foundations is part of the Left’s dark money network that funnels millions of dollars to the far-left nonprofits that staffed and advised the Biden administration. Biden awarded Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom last month.

Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/07/usaid-george-soros-foundation-bankrolled-news-outlet-spurred-first-trump-impeachment/

Musk’s Government Crusade Is Legal—and All-American

 Elon Musk’s latest frontier isn’t cars or rockets; it’s a “read-only” glimpse into the federal payment system. According to news reports, he and his team at the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency have reviewed a variety of payments, so far focusing on those coming from USAID and Medicare.

This review has sparked claims that Musk lacks the right to undertake government activities. More generally, Musk’s presence in the administration has been criticized as an undemocratic takeover. But the law, democracy, and precedents from the Obama and Biden administrations all support his new role.

Legally, Musk is a special government employee of the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE is just a renamed version of the previously extant United States Digital Service. President Obama created the USDS within the Executive Office of the President in 2014. He used it to hire outside talent to help improve digital services following the infamously glitchy rollout of Obamacare. 

Similarly, Musk and his team are outside talent brought temporarily into the Trump administration. The team is analogous to corporate consultants like those at McKinsey, who go over an institution’s operations exhaustively. Such consultants frequently begin with a data analysis of where corporate payments are going.

There is no doubt that Musk qualifies to be a special government employee—an individual hired for his special expertise for no more than 130 days. He surely has special skill in management and efficiency.

Critics nevertheless argue that Musk is acting illegally because he is only an employee, whereas taking action requires appointment as an officer of the United States. It is true, as the Court stated in Buckley v. Valeo, that only officers of the United States can exercise “significant authority under the laws of the United States.” But advice-giving does not constitute such authority, and the Supreme Court has made clear that advisors need not be officers. Musk’s access allows him to see government payments and make recommendations but not act on them himself. The president or the president’s subordinate officers can act, or they can ask Congress for assistance.

Early in the Biden administration, Democratic heavyweight Anita Dunn served as a senior advisor in the White House. Like Musk, she was a special government employee. She undoubtedly made a substantial difference to that administration’s decisions, though she did not sign any of its orders or regulations. To be sure, like Dunn, Musk cannot himself cut off funds or shut down programs. The legality of these funds and programs turns on the authority given to the president or other subordinates under organic statutes. That’s where objections, if any, to the administration’s actions should be directed.

But the Dunn example shows what’s wrong with court orders that limit what DOGE employees can see, assuming they have the relevant security clearances. As Dunn did, these officials work in the Executive Office of the President, which regularly reviews information throughout the government. The president has the constitutional authority to oversee the executive branch. He thus must be able to deploy the employees in his office to help him assess information and determine what is happening at the agencies under his control. Otherwise, we lose the “energy” in the executive that Alexander Hamilton said is one of its principal virtues.

Senator Adam Schiff and others have alleged that Musk has conflicts of interest. Musk certainly has potential conflicts—but so did Dunn, who, unlike Musk, had long worked as a lobbyist. We have no reason to believe that Musk has not managed his conflicts as well as Dunn. And it is especially hard to see where these conflicts would exist as regards his work on Medicare and foreign aid.

Beyond the questions of legality, some fear that Musk’s influence signals a move from democracy to plutocracy. But Musk’s standing as a political advisor is rooted not primarily in his wealth but in his reputation as a disrupter. His ventures epitomize technological audacity: revolutionizing the automobile industry with Tesla, pioneering private space exploration through SpaceX, or integrating the human brain with the digital world though Neuralink.

These innovations evoke a profound aspect of America’s national identity. Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American character was forged on the frontier, where the ethos of unbounded opportunity prevailed. Turner noted that the closure of the physical frontier posed a challenge to America’s self-conception. Musk’s work reopens the frontier—not by looking to a westward land mass, but by gazing outward to the stars and inward to the human mind.

Musk thus embodies the themes of Trump’s campaign. Trump rode back to the White House on a promise to disrupt entrenched dysfunction and restore American greatness rooted in individual opportunity and national ambition. In Musk, he has found a kindred spirit, whose career exemplifies these ideals. Musk’s frontier mindset will allow him to make novel recommendations.

Whether one admires or distrusts Elon Musk’s disruptive style, his appointment to review government expenditures and advise about them is clearly within U.S. law—and it reflects the vision that voters supported when they elected Trump president again.

John O. McGinnis is a contributing editor of City Journal and the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/elon-musk-doge-legal-democracy

House GOP approves bill to expand Congress’s power to undo Biden-era rules

 The House on Wednesday voted to dramatically expand Congress’s ability to roll back regulations passed by the prior administration, a move by the GOP to crush a number of new rules passed in the final year of the Biden administration.

The final vote was 212-208. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) were the only lawmakers to vote with the opposite side of the aisle.

Congress already has the power under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to do a case-by-case review of any regulation finalized since August, roughly the final six months of former President Biden’s term.

But under the legislation adopted Wednesday that power would extend to the final year of Biden’s term, while likewise allowing for a bill that would roll together a year of regulations, killing them in one fell swoop.

Dubbed the Midnight Rules Relief Act, the push by Republicans implies it would target rules and regulations done in the eleventh hour of the Biden administration.

But Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, noted that Republicans already have the power to disapprove of a suite of new regulations covering everything from protections against lead in drinking water to financial protections for consumers.

“All the regulations adopted in the final 365 days of the prior administration, an entire year. All the regulations adopted in the last year can be tied together in a bundle wrapped up together in a giant bunch and then voted down as the single jumbo resolution. This tactic could be used to try to get Congress to eliminate no fewer — by my count — than 355 major regulations from the last year of Joe Biden,” he said.

“Voting on completely different subjects at the same time is a moronic way to govern and an invitation to political manipulation of the will of the people.”

The CRA already gives Congress the power to review regulations, so long as they were finalized within the last 60 legislative days, in this case stretching back to mid-August. 

The GOP bill would only extend that timeline for “the final year of a president’s term,” giving them greater power to unwind a predecessor’s policy.

The CRA already blocks regulatory agencies from writing a substantially similar rule, however, another point of alarm for Democrats.

House Democratic leadership urged its members to vote against the measure. In a notice sent to members, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said if the legislation if adopted, “it would afford the Republican-controlled Congress and White House the ability to quickly undo wide swaths of agency rules while simultaneously preventing these agencies from issuing substantially similar rules ever again.” 

“At the very least, they should be accountable each time they attempt to undo policies that protect Americans from scams, pollution, and corporate greed,” she added.

Republicans, meanwhile, framed the move as a way for Congress to retake the power over policy given in the Constitution.

“In reality they would rather have nameless, faceless, unelected bureaucrats govern this country. That’s what they want. … If you want to preserve the separation of powers, it may be gone but we could reinstitute it,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), one of the bill’s sponsors.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) said Congress had to push back against executive branch overreach.

“I’d point out that there was no debate at all in this chamber for any of those regulations when they were imposed by the agencies. We had no role whatsoever. And so this act allows us to reclaim our legislative authority and our role in the policymaking process going forward,” he said.

Raskin, however, said Republicans were the ones overreaching by targeting such a lengthy period of regulatory work, saying Republicans weren’t just targeting so-called midnight rules but “twilight, midday and early-morning regulations.”

At stake if approved are a number of regulations finalized in the last year of the Biden administration.

One dealing with merit-based protections for workers was an effort by Biden to blunt a future effort from President Trump to reimpose Schedule F, an effort to make civil servants easier to hire and fire, akin to political appointees.

Under the Biden regulation, current civil service workers could only have their current workplace status — and protections against swift removals — switched with their consent. If that regulation is toppled by Congress, it would be easier to slot employees into the new status created by Trump, known under a new executive order as Schedule P/C.

And according to a list of potential CRA targets compiled by Public Citizen, a left-leaning group, other impacted regulations could include anti-money laundering regulations, limitations on selling cigarettes to anyone under 21, restriction on methane production in the oil and gas industry and more.

Wednesday’s vote marks the second time in as many months that House Republicans passed the legislation. The chamber cleared the measure in a largely party-line 210-201 vote in December, with Cuellar and Fitzpatrick crossing the aisle last year as well.

The measure never advanced in the Senate, given that it was controlled by Democrats and the fact that the House sent it over just days before the chamber broke for Christmas recess, ending the 118th Congress.

Biggs, the lead sponsor of the legislation, reintroduced the bill on Jan. 13, a week before President Trump’s inauguration, arguing that it would give Congress an ability to “clear the deck of America Last rules and regulations imposed by the Biden-Harris regime.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5141686-house-gop-bill-undo-biden-rules/

FEMA claws back migrant housing funds, drawing battle with NYC officials

 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) clawed back $80 million it gave to New York City to house migrants as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on the program. 

City officials, who said they discovered the revocation Wednesday, are threatening legal action as FEMA raises concerns that the grants were possibly funding “illegal activity.” 

“I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem wrote on the social platform X.  

“FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer. Mark my words: there will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people,” Noem continued. 

The new administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has looked to implement various freezes on federal funding. Musk has singled out the migrant housing grants in particular, writing on X that it “violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.”

The administration’s plans to freeze federal funding have quickly drawn legal challenges. A judge blocked an across-the-board pause and later said the Trump administration was failing to comply with the court’s order.

But those rulings still enable agencies to limit funding access based on authority from applicable statutes. With that exception, the administration has argued it can pause the FEMA migrant housing grants.

“As of today, the Department has paused funding to the Shelter and Services Program based on significant concerns that the funding is going to entities engaged in or facilitating illegal activities,” Cameron Hamilton, who is performing the duties of FEMA administrator, wrote in a sworn declaration.

The government went as far to ask the judge Tuesday to clarify that pausing the fund would be allowed under his order, but given the government’s rationale, the judge said he “sees no need.”

But New York City’s comptroller, Brad Lander, in a statement Wednesday claimed the $80 million revocation was “illegally executed” because Congress already appropriated the funding.  

Lander went on to attack New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for cozying up to Trump. A day earlier, Trump’s Justice Department directed prosecutors to drop Adams’s criminal charges. 

“New York City cannot take this lying down,” Lander said. “I call on the Mayor to immediately pursue legal action to ensure the tens of millions of dollars stolen by Trump and DOGE are rightfully returned. If instead Mayor Adams continues to be President Trump’s pawn, my Office will request to work in partnership with the New York City Law Department to pursue aggressive legal action.” 

Adams, who has pledged to work with Trump on addressing immigration and other issues impacting New York City, indicated support for getting the funding back. 

“While we conduct an internal investigation into how this occurred, our office has already engaged with the White House about recouping these funds and we’ve requested an emergency meeting with FEMA to try and resolve the matter as quickly as possible. The Corporation Counsel is already exploring various litigation options,” Adams wrote on X. 

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5141719-fema-funding-new-york-city-migrant-housing/

Ayatollah Responds To Trump's Big Stick Threats: 'Go Forward' With Military Growth

 President Trump kicked off the week saying in a Fox interview that "Iran is very concerned. Iran is very frightened, to be honest with you, because their defense is pretty much gone." He had provocatively laid out that "I think Iran would love to make a deal and I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them." 

How is Tehran's top leadership responding to the "big stick" threat? On Wednesday Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged his country to go forward with bolstering military development.

Khamenei said "progress should not be stopped" in the defense sector, amid ongoing threats from Israel and the US.  "We cannot be satisfied," Khamenei stressed. "Say that we previously set a limit for the accuracy of our missiles, but we now feel this limit is no longer enough. We have to go forward."

"Today, our defensive power is well known, our enemies are afraid of this. This is very important for our country," he added, at a moment Trump is warning no option is off the table to prevent the Iranians from achieving nuclear weapons status.

Trump had further said in that Fox interview that thwarting Iran's development of nuclear weapons could be achieved either "with bombs or with a written piece of paper." The warning came the week following his restoring 'maximum pressure' and new oil-targeted sanctions with an executive order.

Iran has meanwhile protested Trump's threatening remarks, saying in a letter submitted to the UN Security Council, "These reckless and inflammatory statements flagrantly violate international law and the UN Charter, particularly Article 2(4), which prohibits threats or use of force against sovereign states."

On Monday Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had charged that the US is not "sincere" about negotiations with Iran following last week's new sanctions.

"If the US were sincere about negotiations, why did they sanction us?" Pezeshkian posed in a speech in Tehran commemorating the 46th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution.

When Trump signed the maximum pressure order, he actually said something which will be welcomed by Tehran, and could be an opening for legitimate restored negotiations:

While signing a new presidential memorandum calling for maximum pressure sanctions on Iran, Trump poured cold water on it and openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the policy.

“So this is one that I am torn about,” he said during Tuesday’s signing ceremony. “I am signing this, but I am unhappy to do it.”

Yet, this was the least stunning moment of his comments about Iran during a gaggle with journalists in the Oval Office. Even more remarkable was what he said about the intent — or lack thereof — of decision-makers in Iran.

“There are many people at the top ranks of Iran that do not want to have a nuclear weapon,” he declared.

Trump is of course fully aware of recent CIA findings stating its belief Iran has not yet decided to pursue nukes. The Islamic Republic has long claimed its program is merely for peaceful energy development for domestic consumption.

Iran has been showing of its new toys of late...

But things in the Middle East have drastically changed and realigned - and not in Iran's favor - given Assad has fallen and Hezbollah's leadership was decimated by Israel. There are fears Iran could ramp up its Uranium enrichment to weapons grade. Hawks have maintained that this trajectory is assured at this point.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ayatollah-responds-trumps-big-stick-threats-go-forward-military-growth

DOJ announces lawsuit against New York, Hochul and state AG James over ‘sanctuary’ status

 The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was suing New York state over its policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, with Gov. Kathy Hochul, state AG Letitia James and DMV chief Mark Schroeder in AG Pam Bondi’s crosshairs.

“This is a new DOJ,” Bondi announced. “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today.”

“As you know, we sued Illinois,” Bondi added. “New York didn’t listen. So now, you’re next.”

Last week, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to immediately strike down sanctuary policies in Illinois and Chicago, arguing state and local officials “are an obstacle to the Federal Government’s enforcement of the immigration laws and discriminate against federal immigration enforcement.”

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-announces-doj-lawsuit-against-new-york-hochul-and-state-ag-james-over-sanctuary-status/