In order to reduce the deficit and control inflation, former President Trump promised to exercise the now-restricted presidential authority of impoundment.

“Through a process called impoundment, the president has had the legal authority to halt needless expenditure for over two centuries under our government system,” according to Trump.

Since the time of the Founding Fathers, presidents have utilized the impoundment authority, notably Thomas Jefferson, to halt congressionally allocated monies.

“An ‘impoundment’ is any action or omission by a federal official or employee that prevents the obligation or spending of budget power,” as defined by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

When fighting “one of America’s most liberal Congresses,” President Richard Nixon attempted “aggressively” to imprison expenditures. In response, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 1974, which gave them the majority of the budgetary authority.

In order to control inflation, Trump pledged to resurrect the historically-used presidential spending impoundment power:

“As soon as I return to the White House, I will make every effort to have the Impoundment Control Act struck down by a judge and, if necessary, by Congress. We’ll reverse it.”

“Then, I’ll apply the president’s well-known impoundment power to compress the overgrown federal bureaucracy in order to make significant savings. For you, this will take the shape of lower taxes. This will hasten the reduction of the deficit and the stopping of inflation.”

“I will issue an order to all government agencies on Day One to start identifying sizable portions of their budgets that may be saved via efficiency and waste reduction through impoundment in order to be ready for this scenario.”

When Trump suspended funding to Ukraine without informing legislators, Democrats charged him with breaching the impoundment Control Act. This charge was a minor factor in Trump’s first impeachment hearing.

43 governors have the authority to imprison spending, according to Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger, who also noted that presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lydon Baines Johnson, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama have either used or supported impoundment.

Impoundment is the only option to get back to a balanced budget, according to the 45th president:

“Also crucial, bringing back Impoundment would provide us a vital tool with which to destroy the Deep State, Drain the Swamp, as well as starve the Warmongers — these people who want wars everywhere; murdering, murdering, murdering, they love committing murder — and the Globalists out of government,” Trump writes.”

“The Globalists and Warmongers will be removed from our administration,” Trump declared.

He continued, “This policy is anti-Swamp, anti-inflation, anti-globalist—and it’s pro-growth, pro-American, pro-taxpayer, and pro-freedom.”

Protective Services Battalion (PSB), the Department of Defense’s Secret Service equivalency for the U.S. Army, now keeps an eye on social media to see whether anybody has posted unfavorable remarks about the nation’s highest-ranking officials.

The PSB is responsible for defending personnel against “embarrassment,” while also responding to more serious threats such as abduction and assassination, according to a report by the Intercept.

The PSB currently scans social media for “negative sentiment” about the officers it is tasked with protecting, in addition to looking for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats, according to an Army procurement document from 2022 that the Intercept was able to get.

The Army plans to locate posters as well as track down venues for “negative sentiment,” according to the article.

“The Army’s new toolbox goes well beyond social media monitoring provided by for-profit companies like Dataminr, which assists law enforcement and military organizations in identifying potential threats by scanning social media timelines along with chatrooms for certain keywords. Instead, it appears that the Army Protective Services Battalion’s investigators would blend social media data with a wide range of both public and private information, all of which could be accessed via a ‘universal search selector.'”

These information sources include “signal-rich talks from illegal threat-actor groups as well as access to 24/7 conversations inside threat-actor channels,” open research, CCTV feeds, broadcasting stations, news organizations, private information, hacked data, webcams, and — perhaps most intrusive — cellular location information.

The letter also discusses the use of “geo-fenced” data, a contentious technique in which a detective creates a shape on a digital map to concentrate monitoring on a particular region. It is also unknown how exactly this data may be used to identify hazardous social media postings or what significance other data categories, like radio stations or academic research, would have. App-based smartphone monitoring is a powerful surveillance technology, but it is still unclear how exactly this data might be used to reveal the identities of these posters.

The PSB, according to the Intercept, intends to examine not only well-known social media sites but also 4chan and Reddit discussion boards, chat services Discord and Telegram, and semi-anonymous social media websites.

Senate Democrats want to utilize government funding worth millions to educate medical professionals to perform abortions.

Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) filed a measure this week, titled “The Reproductive Health Care Training Act” which would allocate $25 million in government dollars over five years for a grant program that would be used toward teaching medical professionals how to conduct abortions.

According to a statement made by Murray’s office, the legislation will “help fulfill the current demand for additional women’s healthcare providers across the country, especially in states that enforce abortion restrictions.” In response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, medical students and teachers who are “being forced to make trips out of state for training” would benefit from the funding, according to Baldwin in a statement.

“Doctors must have the appropriate training in reproductive health care,” according to Baldwin, “in order for women to be able to exercise their right and freedom to manage their bodies. The Reproductive Health Care Training Act would help the medical programs that are witnessing an increase in the number of people who require training while lessening the load that out-of-state training entails.”

According to the text included in the bill, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services would set up a program that provides grants or agreements to qualified organizations, such as academic health centers, either public or private charitable healthcare security net providers, accredited schools for health professions, and providers of reproductive and sexual health services, according to criteria set by the secretary.

The funding would be given out to prepare and motivate each trainee in a covered state to begin working as an abortion service provider after completing appropriate training, in addition to “expanding and supporting education for pupils, people who live there, or advanced practice professionals in covered states that allow abortion training.”

According to the proposed legislation, which has the backing of pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, the program for grants would give preference to organizations in pro-abortion states in which “abortion care is allowed and/or thoroughly taught,” as well as groups in states where abortion instruction is restricted, “minority-serving institutions,” or “institutions that offer training to boost disadvantaged minority health professions.”

According to the bill’s “use of funds” section, monies may be used to “encourage or expand clinician training” for abortions or to “create and operate” abortion training courses. Additionally, the section highlights how award recipients might utilize the money to address “the difficulties to obtaining abortion care, which includes the necessities of racial and ethnic minority groups, individuals who have disabilities, and Tribal and medically disadvantaged communities.”

President Joe Biden boasts that his government is constructing one of the greatest solar power facilities in the world—in Angola, a country in Central Africa, rather than in the United States.

During his statements at the League of Conservation Voters Yearly Capital Dinner, Biden noted that Africa would soon have one billion inhabitants. Despite what Biden claims, Africa’s population surpassed one billion people in 2009, while he served as Obama’s vice president.

Biden boasted that “we have plans to construct one of the largest solar power facilities in the world in Angola. I could continue, but I’m not.”

In fact, the Export-Import Bank of the United States had just this month approved a $900 million direct loan to Angola, “in order to finance the building of two solar energy facilities in the country,” according to authorities.

Officials from the Export-Import Bank claim that the solar power facilities in Angola will aid in the sale of American solar panels.

Reta Jo Lewis, president of the Export-Import Bank, said in a statement, “We are happy to take part in this significant initiative, which will enhance access to power in Angolan villages utilizing sustainable energy technologies.”

The enormous multi-million dollar project comes as Biden opted to remove Section 201 taxes on solar imports to the United States that were initially enacted by former President Trump in January 2018 at a rate of 30% for foreign-made bifacial solar panels, the vast majority of which come from China.

Following that choice, LG Electronics stated it will close its Huntsville, Alabama, solar panel production facility, which would result in the loss of over 200 American jobs.

Additionally, Biden has consistently supported Chinese solar manufacturers by enforcing a tariff moratorium on imports of solar panels from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia despite the fact that the panels were manufactured in China, according to his Commerce Department, but were shipped through the four Southeast Asian countries to avoid American tariffs.

Bharat Ramamurti, the deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, responded to information provided by the National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB) indicating that small-company confidence is less than normal for the 17th straight month and worries that small firms will not be able to draw in workers exactly the same way large companies can by saying that more people are starting small companies.

Co-host Alix Steel questioned, “A big company that is capable to pass along some spending and is in a position to hire, retain, and pay more employees is great, but the NFIB information came out today and it was pretty bleak, The situation for small enterprises is not good. How do we proceed there? How can the government assist them?”

“Well, we have a very comprehensive small business strategy,” Ramamurti said in response. “The first thing is that, during the past two years, more people have established new small businesses than at any other time since we began compiling that data. In 2021 and 2022, there will be 10.5 million more applications for new small enterprises, which is a record-breaking number. Second, the president has made it plain that we must provide small firms access to credit so they may expand from where they are now. The American Rescue Plan has received considerable contributions, which are currently being disbursed around the states. In order to ensure that all of these small firms have greater access to financing, the Small Business Administration is extending several of its lending programs. But ultimately, I believe what you’re seeing is that the job market is really competitive for the first time in a long time, which means that firms of all sizes will have to wage a fierce battle to draw in and keep employees. In the end, we believe that’s a good thing.”