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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to restore the gender ideology webpages it deleted.

US District Judge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered Trump to restore the pages by midnight tonight.

Last month, President Trump scrubbed public health websites of all things related to “gender ideology.”

A group dubbed Doctors For America sued the Office of Personal Management and numerous government agencies, claiming the removal could prevent doctors from helping patients.

Judge Bates agreed with Doctors for America and ordered the extremist ideology to be restored.

“Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DFA members rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall, by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025,” Judge John Bates wrote in an order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.

Politico reported:

A federal judge ordered federal health agencies Tuesday to restore pages they removed from their websites last month to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology and extremism,” saying the decision to pull them down could be detrimental to public health.

The decision by U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, came after a testy Monday afternoon hearing in which he sharply questioned the administration about doctors’ claims that the removal of the pages damaged their ability to care for patients.

Bates said Tuesday that the pages’ removal appeared to harm some doctors’ ability to treat patients and was done without any public rationale, recourse or ability to challenge the decisions, despite laws and regulations that typically require them.

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By Wayne Allyn Root

With Donald J. Trump back in charge of America and the U.S. economy, I hear everyone talking about tax cuts. Tax cuts for corporations. Tax cuts for individuals. Tax cuts for the middle class. Tax cuts for everyone and everything- except small business.

And all of that is great. I’ve been fighting for lower taxes my whole adult life. Like my heroes Ronald Reagan and NFL quarterback-turned-New York Congressman Jack Kemp, I’ve never met a tax cut I didn’t like! Tax cuts are good for business. And like the old saying goes…

“The business of America is business.”

I was the original creator and cheerleader for “No Tax on Social Security Benefits” and “No Tax on OT.” I’m thrilled and honored that President Trump adopted both ideas after I sent him my columns in early 2024 (and then lobbied hard for him to adopt them as his campaign themes).

And President Trump has kept his campaign promises- he is pushing for the GOP House and Senate to pass both tax cuts. That’s what makes Trump so special.

These two ideas will serve double duty. They will bring tax relief to “the little guy and gal.” Which will put more money in the pockets of middle-class Americans. And what will they do with this money? They will spend it- a powerful boost to the economy.

That’s always what tax cuts do. People take the money and spend it. That creates more income for businesses, who create new jobs, and hire new employees. That creates higher revenue and therefore higher income taxes, higher payroll taxes, and higher sales taxes. Everyone wins.

But why is no one talking about tax cuts specifically for small business owners?

Small business is “the economic engine of America.” Small independent businesses create most of the private sector jobs and taxes in America. And they are the greatest form of opportunity for middle class Americans.

Starting a small business is the best way to move up in life and live the American Dream. I’m a witness.

I am a S.O.B. (son of a butcher). My grandfather owned the butcher store that my father worked at. That little butcher store turned my grandfather from a penniless immigrant into a self-made upper middle-class businessman, and respected leader of the community. It created jobs. It created income taxes, payroll taxes and sales taxes.

That little butcher store paid for a nice home, nice middle-class lifestyle, and paid for myself and my sister to attend Ivy League Columbia University.

That’s the American Dream.

And my grandfather took his profits from that little butcher store and plowed them right back into America. He bought stocks and held them until the day he died. Those small investments into American companies like IBM, Coca Cola and Exxon helped grow those companies and added millions of jobs to the US economy.

My grandfather and his small business were good for America.

Today we need to create and motivate millions of new small business owners. We need to make starting a small business so attractive that everyone wants to do it. Because if we double the number of small businesses, we will create the greatest economy in history! We will turn millions of Americans from poor to middle class, and from middle class to rich, and leaders in their community. Just like my grandfather.

So, let’s start talking about how to make that happen.

Let’s start thinking about ways to cut taxes specifically for small business owners and small business startups, instead of only talking about corporate tax cuts.

Let me get the party started. Off the top of my head, I can think of three ways to do this.

1. A specific small business startup tax credit. Anyone who starts a new business should get an instant $25,000 tax credit off this year’s taxes. This will encourage millions of Americans to invest in a startup.

2. A specific tax cut just for small business owners. Why not make the first $100,000 of income of any small business tax free? That is a fitting reward for the cost of undertaking the hardest job in the world- starting and running a small business. First, you have to be willing to give up your safe salary and benefits at a corporate job. Then you have to invest your life savings. And you have to be willing to work 24/7.

I’m 63 years old and I’m still a one-man army. I work and think about business 24/7. Ask my wife about that. Owning a small business is the hardest job in the world. It becomes your life 24/7 to take care of your restaurant, dry cleaner, gas station, real estate office, butcher store (or in my case, media business).

Why not give everyone who does this a tax break? The first $100,000 is yours, not governments. That’s a strong incentive for everyone in America to start thinking about starting a small business.

3. Finally, since the income of 90% of small business owners is “passed through” to them personally, let’s lower individual income tax rates dramatically- just like my hero Reagan did. If a 15% corporate tax rate is good enough for big companies, why not individuals? Why is a company more important than any individual American?

Let’s get individual tax rates down to Reagan-era numbers. Under Reagan there were only two simple flat tax rates- 15% and 28%. Not today’s ridiculous, socialist-like 39%.

If President Trump can turn these three goals into reality, he will go down in history as the not only the greatest economic president ever, who created the greatest economy in history, but the greatest president ever for small business and “the little guy and gal.”

That will be the most lasting and positive legacy of President Donald J. Trump.

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Border Czar Tom Homan spoke to reporters outside the White House Tuesday morning with updates on immigration enforcement operations.

Homan and President Trump face a herculean task of deporting the millions of illegal aliens, many of whom are violent criminals and rapists, that were let in under Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Over 11,000 illegals have been detained since Trump took office last month. However, the Trump Administration will need to arrest and deport far more in order to return the millions who came in over the last four years.

Homan confirmed earlier reports that he is not satisfied with these numbers. “There’s more criminal aliens that need to be arrested, hundreds of thousands, sanctuary cities are putting roadblocks up, we got leaks,” he said, noting that while the number of arrests is “three times higher than it was a year ago today,” it’s “not good enough.”

Homan then slammed the sanctuary city officials for jeopardizing the safety of ICE officers and citizens in order to provide “sanctuaries for criminals.”

The Gateway Pundit reported that Democrats in Illinois have prevented ICE officials from arresting illegal aliens from local jails and prisons, and they are even allowing illegal aliens to change their names to avoid detection by ICE. They would rather house these criminal aliens in jail at the expense of taxpayers and let them out into the street to terrorize law-abiding citizens than allow ICE to enforce the law. Additionally, the Maryland Attorney General has instructed local law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE, even threatening “civil liability.”

Other cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Denver have been harboring criminal illegal aliens for years with no consequences.

However, Attorney General Pam Bondi, as one of her first official acts, announced plans to pursue the criminal sanctuary city and state leaders for aiding and abetting illegal aliens and attempting to impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. Homan told reporters, “Bondi is going to investigate them, and we’re going to hold them accountable.”

He further responded to Pope Francis’ criticism of the Trump Administration in a letter to bishops Tuesday, where he said the mass deportation efforts “will end badly.” The Border Czar fired back, “I’ve got harsh words for the Pope.” He continued, “He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us.”

Before heading into the Oval Office, Homan also told this reporter to “watch and see what happens” when asked if ICE has plans to round up illegal aliens from leftist organizations who help them cross the border and evade deportation, as well as anti-ICE protests where leftists and illegal aliens are waving foreign flags.

WATCH:

I asked Border Czar @RealTomHoman if ICE has plans to do roundups on leftist groups aiding and abetting illegal aliens and at protests where illegals are flying their foreign flags:

“Watch and see what happens.”@gatewaypundit pic.twitter.com/Q427t859Nl

— Jordan Conradson (@ConradsonJordan) February 11, 2025

Watch the full press gaggle below:

Reporter: Is the President happy with the number of arrests?

Homan: I’m not. If you look at the arrests in interior enforcement, it’s about three times higher than it was a year ago today. Three times higher is good, but I’m not satisfied. There’s more criminal aliens that need to be arrested, hundreds of thousands, sanctuary cities are putting roadblocks up, we got leaks. So, we need to increase the arrests of illegal aliens, especially those with criminal convictions. So, we’re going to continue. So, three times higher is good. The numbers are good. For me, not good enough. We’ve got to get more.

Reporter: What’s your message for the sanctuary cities you just said we’re putting up roadblocks? Do you have a message for Chicago, for example?

Homan: Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to investigate them, and we’re going to hold them accountable. Sanctuaries are sanctuary criminals. End of story. They’re sanctuaries for criminals. Let us in the county jail to arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of a county jail. It’s safer for the alien. It’s safer for the officer. It’s certainly safer for the community. Any sanctuary city that purposely released public safety threats back in the public is stupid. I mean, let us arrest the bad guy in the jail because what the sanctuary cities are seeing, I already see the stories: non-criminals are being arrested at a higher rate, and they’re going to keep being arrested at a higher rate because if we can’t arrest that bad guy in the jail, we got to go to the community. And we go in the community, we’re going to find thr bad guy. When we find the bad guy, he’s probably with others that aren’t a criminal priority, but they’re going to get arrested too. We’re not going to tell ICE agents, ignore the oath you took, ignore the laws of immigration enforcement, just arrest the criminal alien. No, we’re taking everybody. So, sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want, more agents in the neighborhoods and more non criminals being arrested because they forced us in the community.

Reporter: The pope this morning had some very harsh words for the…

Homan: Well, I’ve got harsh words for the Pope. Pope, go and fix the Catholic Church. I’m saying this as a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized Catholic, First Communion as a Catholic, confirmation of Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us. He wants to attack us for securing our border? He’s got to walk around the Vatican, does he not? So, he’s got to walk around and protect his people and himself, but we can have a wall around the United States? So I wish he’d stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and leave border enforcement to us.

Reporter: What about your meeting with ICE about making sure that migrants don’t get back into the country. How did that go? You said you’d be talking with ICE.

Homan: No, it wasn’t back in the country. There’s a learning curve. I mean, I found out that ICE, some of the people they arrested, they released back in the community because there’s some of the personnel that are still acting on the last four years of non-enforcement and releasing people for various reasons. That ends. So, I’ve talked to ICE and the acting director of ICE has sent instructions out, and no one’s to be released after we arrest them without the clearance of headquarters. There’s going to be a significant medical issue we can’t take care of, and of course, there’ll be some but the number of releases were unacceptable, and that’s been fixed.

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