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President Donald Trump condemned Elon Musk’s newly-formed third party on Sunday while speaking to reporters in New Jersey.

Musk posted on X Saturday that he had just launched the “America Party” to restore “freedom” to Americans. When a reporter asked Trump for his reaction, the president immediately said it was a “ridiculous” move by Musk.

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“I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party. We have a tremendous success with the Republican party. The Democrats have lost their way, but it’s always been a two-party system,” Trump said. “And I think starting a third party just adds to confusion. It really seems to have been developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked. So he can have fun with it but I think it’s ridiculous.”

Trump also railed against Musk and his creation of the new party in a Sunday Truth Social post following his comments to reporters.

“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States – The System seems not designed for them,” the president wrote. “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!”

Musk started to repeatedly raise the notion of forming the “America Party” to appeal to disaffected fiscal conservatives and libertarians due to his frustration with Republican lawmakers backing Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — which the president signed into law on Friday.

However, political experts argue that it would be better for Musk to spend his billions to buy influence within the Republican Party’s existing structure instead of challenging America’s established two-party duopoly.

“Third parties are like honeybees — they sting and then they die,” Georgetown political historian Michael Kazin told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Musk posted an X poll on Friday asking if Americans “want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system” by forming “the America Party.”

Nearly two-thirds of X users voted in favor of the new party, while slightly over one third voted against it, prompting him to announce the creation of the “America Party” on Saturday.

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings also warned Musk on Sunday that the “America Party” could split right-leaning Americans and help Democrats win elections.

“My humble advice to Elon, who I admire very much, actually, is that you may be dividing the forces of people who want to save Western civilization to the benefit of the people who don’t,” Jennings said. “And so, to the extent that this effort would divide conservatives and Republicans against each other, that wouldn’t be helpful, because it would leave the country to people who want unfettered immigration, who don’t share your fiscal views, and so on and so forth.”

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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is coming under fire for his perceived anti-Trump coverage of the catastrophic flash floods that killed dozens in Texas on Saturday, reporting “significant staffing shortfalls” at federal weather stations.

During his “This Week” broadcast on Sunday, Stephanopoulos said to his correspondent Mireya Villarreal on the scene in Kerr County, Texas: “We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region.”

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Villarreal replied: “You know, George, as of right now, the local county officials really didn’t want to address that just yet. What they are telling us is they expected between four and six inches of rain. That is what weather experts told them. The National Weather Service as well.

“They also knew that in remote locations, they might get anywhere from eight to ten inches. But this amount of rain, in such a short amount of time, it was very difficult to navigate. And when the Department of Homeland Security secretary was here just yesterday, she acknowledged this was an issue. She was going to take these concerns to the White House as well and try and see if there was anything they could do to revamp the system. She says the president is committed to it.”

Cullen Linebarger at the Gateway Pundit noted of Stephanopoulos’ staffing claim: “This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again.”

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According to the NBC-TV affiliate in Dallas, there were actually “extra staffers” on duty: “NWS Meteorologist Jason Runyen said the National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storms.

“Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff.

“‘There were extra people in here that night, and that’s typical in every weather service office – you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over,’ Runyen said.”

Abigail Jackson, the White House deputy press secretary, blasted Stephanopoulos’ claim as “absolute fake news,” as she shared a news report from Wired, headlined: “Meteorologists say the National Weather Service did its job in Texas.”

This is absolute fake news and even Wired knows it. https://t.co/ZzGl0IWr36 pic.twitter.com/oUs7mNTP52

— Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) July 6, 2025

This is not the first time Stephanopoulos has been accused of major factual errors. In fact, ABC News was forced to pay President Trump $15 million last December after the anchor had claimed multiple times on air that Trump was “liable for rape” in former columnist E. Jean Carroll’s case against the president.

During a March segment of his morning show, ABC’s “This Week,” Stephanopoulos got into a heated exchange with the Republican lawmaker, with Mace calling him out for “shaming her.” At the time, Stephanopoulos questioned Mace about Trump being found liable for defamation and battery in Carroll’s case against him, refusing to listen to Mace as she repeated that she was a victim of rape herself.

Wow, this is what George Stephanopolous does. “Welcome to our show Nancy, now how do you justify your support of a rapist?” Good for Nancy Mace for refusing to allow him to get away with shaming her. pic.twitter.com/xiPlDItVOo

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“You’re idiots! Stephanopoulos is an idiot, and so are his producers,” Megyn Kelly of SiriusXM Radio said at the time. “Because let me tell you, in all my years at Fox, never mind my short stint at NBC, the producers have a couple of main jobs. One is to arm the anchor with facts. Fail. OK, fail there. And two is to protect the anchor. You protect the anchor. So if the anchor is out there saying something colossally stupid, usually if you have a great producer, they’ll get in your ear to say, ‘No, it’s this. No, it’s that. Be careful.’”

Kelly added about Stephanopoulos: “He’s been there a long time. It doesn’t make him any more respectable. He’s a partisan hack. He started off as a partisan hack, and he remains one. He’s just too ballless to own his partisan nature, wants us to believe that he’s straight and narrow now, notwithstanding all those years helping Bill Clinton.”

The death toll from the flooding across Central Texas climbed Sunday to nearly 70.

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A new, supercharged report is alleging the same Deep State forces that brought Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency are responsible for the meteoric rise of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who is now the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor.

The analysis Sunday by Ethan White at Gazetteller.com says: “Barack Obama was never just a president. He was a weapon – carefully installed, heavily protected, and strategically unleashed to dismantle the American Republic from within.

“Now, on July 6, 2025, the fruits of his deception are visible for anyone who dares to see through the smokescreen of media propaganda and elite manipulation.

“And the clearest product of his globalist-engineered legacy is Zohran Mamdani – a foreign-born, socialist radical openly advocating the destruction of capitalism, national identity, and constitutional law.”

The report says while President Donald Trump is still working to “undo the devastation” from the Obama years, “Mamdani emerges as the next key agent in the Deep State’s unrelenting war against America.

“Make no mistake – this is a continuation of the same covert operation. What Obama began in secret, Mamdani now carries forward openly. And that’s the most dangerous part.”

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White then probes into Obama’s pre-presidential background, claiming the politician “was groomed for decades by Marxists, foreign ideologues, and anti-American globalists.”

“His ‘father figure,’ Frank Marshall Davis, was a card-carrying Communist. His stepfather in Indonesia raised him in Islam. His early years were spent absorbing foreign ideologies, not American principles. By the time he returned to the U.S., he was already radicalized and fully embedded in anti-Western thought.”

White says Obama’s entry into U.S. politics was orchestrated with the help of George Soros’ network and elite think tanks such as the Brookings Institution to polish, script and market him like a corporate product.

“He wasn’t elected – he was installed,” says White. “His ties to the New Party, an offshoot of the Democratic Socialists of America, were buried. His sealed college records, the suspicious gaps in his personal history, and the sudden erasure of his Pakistani travel logs are not coincidences. They are redactions. And redactions only exist to hide truths too explosive for public exposure.

“Obama’s presidency was a Trojan horse operation. Under the guise of “hope and change,” he launched a campaign of systematic erosion – weaponizing federal agencies (IRS, FBI, DOJ), expanding surveillance, empowering Iran, defunding the military, and feeding racial division. He wasn’t leading America. He was softening it for conquest – economic, cultural, and spiritual.”

White then fast-forwards to 2025, writing: “Zohran Mamdani – born in Uganda, raised in post-colonial Africa, shaped by South African leftist movements – is now being positioned to assume the mayorship of New York City. That’s not a random rise. It’s a continuation of the Obama blueprint. But Mamdani is different in one key way: he no longer needs to pretend.”

He noted while Obama carefully hid his Marxist roots, Mamdani is out in the open with his support for socialism.

“He’s not interested in preserving the system. He wants to torch it,” White states. “He’s the next phase of the global elite’s endgame for America – raw, weaponized, and unleashed at full speed.”

“At a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America event, Mamdani said it plainly: the mission is ‘not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism.’ That’s not reform. That’s replacement. He’s not trying to adjust capitalism – he’s trying to eliminate it.”

White continues:

Mamdani doesn’t believe in racial equality. He believes in weaponizing race to divide and conquer. He supports taxing white people more. He promotes freezing rents to bankrupt landlords. He wants government-run grocery stores, forced wealth seizure, and the complete abolition of billionaires – while ignoring the elite billionaires who fund his rise.

Obama built the framework. Mamdani is enforcing it. And the collapse is no longer hypothetical.

If Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race this fall – which the mainstream media has already practically declared – brace for a violent acceleration of collapse. Private investment is drying up. Real estate moguls are already eyeing exits to Florida. Banks are issuing warnings about frozen capital.

Rent control and public housing mandates are driving landlords into default. Police morale is crumbling. NYPD sources have already leaked internal memos warning of a ‘mass resignation wave’ if Mamdani is elected.

This isn’t failure. It’s sabotage. And it’s working exactly as planned.

The global elites behind Mamdani and Obama don’t care about outcomes. They want collapse. Their agenda is depopulation, total surveillance, economic sterilization, and cultural annihilation.

They push radicals like Mamdani into power not because he’s competent – but because he will obey. Obey Soros. Obey Klaus Schwab. Obey the unelected World Government syndicate that is now being openly discussed under the cover of ‘climate treaties’ and ‘U.N. emergency frameworks.’

This is why they fear President Donald J. Trump. This is why they rigged elections, buried truths, and unleashed lawfare operations to stop him. He’s not just a political threat – he’s a systemic disruption to their entire engineered collapse.

Trump doesn’t bend to Soros. He doesn’t bow to Davos. He doesn’t accept the Obama legacy. He dismantles it. That’s why they spent eight years undermining him and are now doing everything to stop his second term from restoring the Republic.

And while the elites flood cities like New York with ideological bombs like Mamdani, Trump continues to rally patriots, rebuild sovereign economies, and expose the networks behind the curtain. On July 4, 2025, just two days ago, he reminded the nation in Philadelphia: ‘We are one nation under God – not under Schwab, Soros, or Beijing.’

White says we’re currently in the “final stage of a long, slow, and deliberate sabotage operation.”

“From Obama’s whispered socialist lies to Mamdani’s loud, unapologetic war against American capitalism, we are watching a timeline unfold that was written years ago in backrooms filled with elites who despise everything America stands for.

“Mamdani isn’t just another radical. He’s a signal. A siren. Obama was the blueprint. Mamdani is the execution. And if we don’t stop it now, there may not be a second chance.”

As WorldNetDaily reported in 2011, Donald Trump, five years before he was elected president, was among the major names in America suggesting Obama’s presidency could be “illegal” if legitimate proof were not provided demonstrating the commander in chief is indeed a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.

“To be honest with you, I want him to have a birth certificate,” Trump told Greta Van Susteren of Fox News at the time, “because [otherwise] that would mean that his presidency was, I guess you’d have to say, illegal. You have to be born in the United States. I hope that he was born in the United States. I hope – but I want to get rid of the word hope, I want to know for sure – I hope that he was born in the United States and I hope this doesn’t become a big issue.”

“He spent millions of dollars trying to get away from this issue. Millions of dollars in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. I brought it up just routinely. All of a sudden a lot of facts are emerging, and I’m starting to wonder myself whether he was born in this country,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”

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President Donald J. Trump’s energy plans to promote oil and gas production can reset the world stage, and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is on board. This month he signed into law a bill that prioritizes production of fossil fuels and nuclear power, rather than wind and solar power, in his state.

The new law, Act 462 (formerly HB 692), sponsored by Rep. Jacob Landry (no relation to Gov. Landry), requires the Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources to focus on production of domestic fuel, rather than energy sources that rely on foreign countries for materials. The law extends the definition of green energy to nuclear power and natural gas.

This law is so obvious that it is surprising that it needs to be passed at all, especially in Louisiana, which has no requirement to produce electricity from wind and solar power. Rates, at 13 cents per kilowatt hour, are below the U.S. average, but they have risen steadily from 9 cents per kilowatt hour in 2020.

The top 10 states for residential electricity prices (except Alaska, which has few residents spread out over a large geographic area) all have requirements to use wind and solar power to generate electricity. They would do well to copy Louisiana’s new law. Their lower electricity prices would benefit their residents and attract additional manufacturing, generating increased employment.

This month’s Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and Iran shows the wisdom of President Trump’s energy dominance agenda. Energy dominance means producing enough oil and natural gas to replace OPEC countries as the global price setter. The price of oil went up from $65 to $75 a barrel, then back down to $65. No longer is the U.S. at the mercy of OPEC, as it was in the 1970s.

With a U.S. energy dominance agenda, no longer must the U.S.—or the world—depend on corrupt governments as sources of oil, gas, and critical minerals, or renewables and electric vehicles. This has vast geopolitical implications.

Lower U.S. electricity prices will reduce manufacturing costs in America, attracting foreign investment and creating jobs. In emerging economies, more support for fossil fueled power plants will lower energy prices.

The U.S. has approximately 1.7 trillion barrels of technically recoverable oil and over 4 quadrillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas resources. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proposed increasing US production by 3 million barrels per year, potentially driving prices below $50 a barrel.

This represents a major change from the policies of President Joe Biden, who discouraged oil production by reducing federal land available for leases and banning offshore development. When he wanted additional oil in 2022, he asked Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to pump more.

With increased output, the North American energy platform, with its heavy crude from Canada and Mexico and its light crude and refineries in the U.S. will be able to set prices.

Sales of U.S. oil and natural gas give U.S. allies an alternative to Russian products and cut into Russian sales. Russian oil and natural gas revenues in 2024, the vast majority from oil, amounted to $120 billion, about 30 per cent of its total revenues, substantially lower than levels of 50 per cent between 2011 and 2014.

This will be even more important when fighting in Ukraine ends, with possible removal of Russian sanctions. President Trump would be able to pressure countries to use American oil rather than Russian oil, potentially using tariffs to encourage buyers.

President Trump is also taking on China, which controls 38 per cent of the reserves of global rare earth elements; 60 per cent of rare earth mining; 85 per cent of rare earth processing, and 90 per cent of rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing. This enables the production of 80 per cent of solar components, global battery production, and cobalt refining capacity.

Similarly, the new Louisiana law specifically calls for “minimizing reliance on foreign nations for critical materials or manufacturing by prioritizing infrastructure necessary to deliver energy to Louisiana customers.”

Cheaper energy caused by additional U.S. production and loans for fossil-fuel power plants would also benefit people in emerging economies, especially Africa and Latin America, without reliable electricity and cheap fuel. Lower oil prices empower countries with poor electricity distribution, lowering costs of diesel generators, used by businesses and households.

The federal government is shifting to energy dominance, but states can still stand in the way. Louisiana’s new law provides a model for other states to follow.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation, directs the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation.

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings warned Elon Musk on Sunday that his newly launched third party could divide the right and help Democrats win.

Musk posted on X Saturday that he had just created the “America Party,” asserting it would restore “freedom” to Americans. Jennings said on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash” that the effort could backfire by splitting conservatives and Republicans who otherwise share core goals.

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“It’s harder than it looks to start a political party. And, you know, we’ll see where they go with it. My humble advice to Elon, who I admire very much, actually, is that you may be dividing the forces of people who want to save Western civilization to the benefit of the people who don’t,” Jennings said. “And so, to the extent that this effort would divide conservatives and Republicans against each other, that wouldn’t be helpful, because it would leave the country to people who want unfettered immigration, who don’t share your fiscal views, and so on and so forth.”

“So, we’ll see where it goes. I sort of hope everybody puts the band back together the way they had it back in 2024, because when everybody was working together, things worked quite well,” he added.

Musk began to repeatedly float the idea of creating the “America Party” to cater to disaffected fiscal conservatives and libertarians after becoming frustrated by Republican lawmakers’ support for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — which the president signed into law on Friday.

However, political experts said that Musk’s billions would be better spent buying him influence within the GOP’s existing party structure instead of challenging America’s entrenched two-party duopoly.

“Third parties are like honeybees — they sting and then they die,” Georgetown political historian Michael Kazin told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Musk posted a poll to X on Friday asking whether Americans “want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system” by forming “the America Party.”

Nearly two-thirds of X users voted in support of the new party, while slightly over one third voted against it, leading him to announce the formation of the “America Party” the following day.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uncovered widespread instances of unaccompanied migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors with criminal backgrounds during the Biden administration, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Children who had no parents or legal guardians that were handed over to unvetted sponsors suffered from sexual abuse, forced labor, and neglectful living conditions, ICE stated in a press release in June. The findings stem from a months-long investigation by the agency to ensure the children were safe.

“In February 2025, the Department of Homeland Security and its federal and state partners launched a national child welfare initiative to locate and verify these at-risk kids’ safety,” according to the DHS announcement.

Agents found numerous instances where sponsors had previously been charged with serious crimes such as “hit-and-run, aggravated assault, larceny, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, prostitution and even attempted murder,” according to the release.

In some of the most extreme cases, girls were found to be “pregnant with children fathered by their alleged sponsors,” with some minor being forced into labor, the release stated. Some sponsors also had images of child sex abuse material.

ICE and DHS did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Children’s safety and security is nonnegotiable. The previous administration’s failure to implement meaningful safeguards has allowed vulnerable kids to fall into the hands of criminals. Our special agents are working tirelessly to locate these alien children, ensure their protection, and hold accountable those who have abused the system,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson Laszlo Baksay said in a prepared statement.

ICE agents are “doing what should’ve been done all along: protecting children,” Baksay continued, adding that this “is the responsibility of any government, Republican or Democrat, but it was the Trump administration that insisted on rigorous sponsor screening and biometric verification.”

Currently under the Trump administration, zero illegal immigrants were released from the southern border into the U.S. in May. Activity along the U.S.-Mexico has fallen to historic lows, with only 6,070 encounters being documented in June 2025.

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The Supreme Court should resolve the “chaos” caused by lower court judges continuing to order reinstatements of fired executive officials, the Trump administration argued in a Wednesday filing.

President Donald Trump asked the justices to immediately let him fire three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and to finally resolve questions surrounding the president’s ability to remove officials without cause by adding the case to their fall docket.

“The ongoing dysfunction at the agency has put career employees in the untenable position of deciding which Commissioners’ directives to follow, has distracted the agency from its mission of protecting consumer safety, and has done serious harm to the President’s policy agenda,” the application explains. “Put simply, the district court’s decision and the court of appeals’ refusal to stay it have left the CPSC at loggerheads with the President and with itself.”

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision on Tuesday preventing the president from removing the three CPSC members.

Two days after the district court ordered the members’ reinstatement, the officials “annulled a host of agency decisions,” the application notes.

The lower court’s decision also challenges the Supreme Court’s authority, the administration argues, noting the justices’ allowed them to move forward with firing officials in a similar case in May.

In Trump v. Wilcox, the Supreme Court granted Trump’s emergency request to dismiss National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) members, finding the government “faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty.”

While the Trump v. Wilcox decision “did not definitively resolve the merits,” it is still “binding precedent,” the administration said.

“This Court should step in to stop lower courts from treating Wilcox like the proverbial excursion ticket—good for one day and trip only,” the administration argued.

District court judges also blocked removals of Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and the United States Institute of Peace officials after the Wilcox decision, though their orders were paused by the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals.

“Those decisions have subjected the President to ongoing intrusions on his exercise of executive power, have exposed agencies to the disruption of repeated removals and reinstatements, and have required federal courts to continue to resolve emergency applications concerning the removal of executive officer,” the administration wrote. “This Court should grant certiorari before judgment now, hear argument in the fall, and put a speedy end to the disruption being caused by uncertainty about the scope of Humphrey’s Executor.“

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In a time when Americans face mounting student debt, stagnant wages and increasing job competition, a little-known government program continues to certify hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs for foreign workers, even when qualified U.S. citizens are available, willing and able.

The labor certification process known as “PERM” (Program Electronic Review Management) allows employers to sponsor foreign nationals for green cards only if no qualified U.S. worker is available. According to federal law, employers must first complete a good-faith test of the U.S. labor market, which includes specific recruitment steps such as two Sunday newspaper ads, internal postings and three additional recruitment methods from a Department of Labor-approved list.

But in practice, employers can exploit the outdated list of approved recruitment methods by avoiding major online platforms and even their own company career sites. Instead, they often use limited-access alternatives such as obscure job boards, local or ethnic newspapers, or short-duration radio ads that technically satisfy the rules on paper, but drastically reduce the chances that qualified U.S. workers will ever see or apply for the position.

In 2024, the Department of Labor processed 116,427 PERM applications to hire foreign workers, approving nearly 88% of them. Only 5.4% (6,364) were denied. This means tens of thousands of U.S. jobs were certified for foreign workers without a transparent or fair recruitment process. The Department of Labor publishes quarterly data on employer applications to sponsor foreign workers, including both H-1B and PERM filings, which offers insight into the hiring and immigration practices of U.S. employers and their immigration attorneys.

An analysis of PERM filings from 2020 to 2024 reveals how major U.S. technology companies use the green card sponsorship process to secure foreign labor for high-paying roles, often without conducting genuine or competitive hiring searches. The data show consistent reliance on minimal recruitment efforts, including outdated tactics like requiring U.S. applicants to submit paper resumes by mail.

These methods, previously flagged by the Department of Justice as barriers to American workers, were often used even by large tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Workday.

For example, PERM-required job ads published in the May 9, 2021, print edition of the Mercury News instructed jobseekers to apply via postal mail, despite the fact that these companies already had digital hiring systems in place.

Similar tactics triggered a high-profile federal investigation involving Facebook – now Meta. In 2021, the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor reached a settlement with Facebook after alleging it had intentionally implemented PERM recruitment in a way to deter U.S. applicants. According to the complaint, Facebook did not post PERM roles on its public careers page and it required submission of resumes by physical mail, methods the DOJ concluded discouraged American workers from applying:

“Facebook created a separate hiring process for PERM positions that intentionally discouraged U.S. workers from applying. For example, while Facebook typically accepts applications online, it required that applications for PERM positions be submitted by mail only.”

“Facebook used recruitment methods for PERM positions that were less effective than those it used for other positions, intentionally deterring U.S. workers from applying to positions that the company sought to fill with temporary visa holders.”

As part of its settlement, Facebook was required to change its PERM practices, posting jobs on its public website, accepting electronic applications and using the same hiring processes for PERM roles as for other jobs. The company also agreed to federal oversight, employee training and regular reporting on its hiring activity.

Since then, industry reports on the platform Blind show that Meta has seen a rise in PERM denials, suggesting that when forced to conduct fair recruitment, companies do in fact encounter qualified American candidates.

The evidence is overwhelming that companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others, despite consistently lobbying for more foreign-worker visas on the basis of a so-called “talent shortage,” are fully capable of finding qualified Americans when they are actually required to recruit them.

Indeed, when employers go to such lengths to avoid recruiting qualified U.S. workers, even under a program like PERM that explicitly requires a good-faith labor market test, their own actions contradict claims of a shortage. The evidence suggests it is not that they can’t find qualified Americans, it’s that they are deliberately avoiding them.

If this is happening in a program like PERM, which includes at least some legal safeguards and penalties, the risks are far greater under programs like H-1B and STEM OPT, which contain no such protections for U.S. workers. Without enforcement or accountability, these visa channels allow companies to bypass the domestic workforce entirely, undermining both the integrity of the labor market and the future of American employment.

As Texans continue to deal with Saturday’s flash flooding that has claimed dozens of lives, the lieutenant governor of the Lone Star State is urging citizens not to give up hope for those missing.

“Do not give up,” said Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “Miracles can happen.”

The death toll Sunday morning rose to 59, with 27 girls missing from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas.

Five girls staying at the camp have been confirmed dead. There were 750 attendees when floodwaters rose 26 feet in abut 45 minutes, slamming into the camp.

“The miracles that have happened,” Patrick continued, “it’s hard for me to talk about that because I’m also taking to the families of those who are missing. And right now they’re focused on that. Miracles are tough. They expect and they hope and they pray. We stand on the rock of our faith through now.”

“But there have been dramatic stories … Camp Mystic where camp counselors smashed a window open, we know this story from the girl who was telling her parents because they drove her back to Dallas.

“And they went out the window in their nightgowns. They walked in bare feet in neck-high water. These are little girls. They swam for about 10 or 15 minutes. Can you imagine? In the darkness and the rushing waters, and trees coming by you and rocks coming by you? And then they get to a spot on the land. They don’t even know how they got to the next spot. And the helicopter came picked them up.

“Incredible stories of a young man saved his fiancée and her children and his mother. But he cut his arm through the glass that he broke. And we don’t know what happened to him. But he said to the family, ‘I can’t go on. You have to go.’ We’re are gonna have a book of stories of incredible heroic actions.”

JUST NOW: Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick talks about the miracles currently happening in Kerr County, TX where search and rescue personnel are still actively looking for 27 missing people, many of which are children. 50+ now dead.

“Don’t give up..miracles can happen!” pic.twitter.com/x2gXAKwbk9

— Fire Newz (@FireNewz) July 6, 2025

Patrick noted, “Of all of these camps along this river, Camp Mystic was in the worst spot where the water came and hit it [from] multiple directions coming down. And that’s where the 27 are missing.”

He also praised the efforts of those involved in search and rescue, saying, “They will not give up. They will keep working beyond their shift.”

This video of the Guadalupe was shot in Kerrville, Tx from the Center Bridge. Watch how fast these flood waters were traveling & washing everything in front of it out.
It goes from low & barley flowing to over the top of the bridge in around 35 minutes.
I sped the video up to… pic.twitter.com/NcQe4UAQBa

— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) July 6, 2025

In a post on X, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott detailed the destruction of Camp Mystic, saying: “It, and the river running beside it, were horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I’ve seen in any natural disaster.”

“The height the rushing water reached to the top of cabins was shocking.”

“We won’t stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins,” Abbott stressed.

President Donald Trump said on Truth Social: “The Trump Administration is working with State and Local Officials on the ground in Texas in response to the tragic flooding that took place yesterday.”

He noted Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is among the federal officials handling the catastrophe, and he and the first lady are praying for all those affected.

“Melania and I are praying for all of the families impacted by this horrible tragedy. Our Brave First Responders are on site doing what they do best. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!”

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYERS#TexasFlood pic.twitter.com/hOG1L7umdr

— USMarine4Life (@WarVeteranUSMC) July 5, 2025

Trump has agreed to send “all available resources” to Texas in the wake of the flooding.

“The president’s been engaged since everything started happening,” James Blair, White House deputy chief of staff, said on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

“The federal government led by President Trump is there for the state of Texas,” Blair said. “He has agreed to send all available resources that are requested down to Texas.”

Here in Kerville, Texas on the banks of the Guadalupe River after the devastating flood that hit yesterday. @GoingRoguewLara #HillCountryFloods #PrayForTexas pic.twitter.com/GeuEqN6dRk

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) July 6, 2025

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Democrat policies and new regulations hiked California’s gas prices on Tuesday, and a slew of green energy initiatives has led to refinery closures and lofty gas prices in the Golden State that may soon spiral into a full-blown crisis.

California is teetering on the brink of a gas crisis due primarily to Democrats’ green energy policies, as multiple major refineries prepare to shutter in the coming years and more stringent regulations on the oil and gas industries take effect. Democratic leadership and regulators enacted adjustments to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program on Tuesday, resulting in a gas price increase that may be the beginning of further pain at the pump for the state’s consumers.

“Not every Californian is a millionaire like our governor is … and these regulations are bearing down on the average Californian and making California unaffordable,” Republican California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I’m addressing the cost of gasoline in California and trying to do everything I can to repeal the regulations that are causing it to go up, while at the same time alerting Californians of the impending cost of gasoline.”

I just filed a public records request to expose how Newsom’s deceptive 65-cent gas price hike was crafted in secret.

We believe the real goal is to jack up gas prices so high that Californians are forced to buy EVs.

The public deserves the truth. #FixCalifornia pic.twitter.com/UVpzs1Qt7k

— Brian W. Jones (@SenBrianJones) May 21, 2025

California has the highest tax on gasoline in the nation, and its cap-and-trade program for emissions has also been connected to high energy prices in the state. The combination of these stringent regulations and the forthcoming closures of the Phillips 66 and Valero refineries in the state could result in gas shooting up to $8 per gallon as soon as 2026, according to one study from the University of Southern California.

Moreover, state regulators have suggested increasing state involvement in refinery management, including the possibility of what critics have derided as state-owned refineries to address the possible surge in gas prices.

Though gas prices have been hitting a four-year low across the U.S. ahead of Independence Day, Californians paid an average of about $4.57 per gallon as of Thursday, about $1.40 more than the national average, according to AAA gas price data. Prices increased in California by a few cents on Tuesday as adjustments to the state’s LCFS came into effect.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom set a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2045, and he has fought to enact numerous green energy initiatives in his state, including an aggressive electric vehicle (EV) agenda.

California regulators planned to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in the state and numerous others by 2035 before President Donald Trump signed Congressional resolutions to block the de facto EV mandate. California and ten other Democrat-led states immediately sued the Trump administration after the president terminated the Golden State’s de facto national EV mandate.

“The founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they ever thought the government would be in the business of dictating the type of transportation that Americans can choose,” Tom Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER) told the DCNF previously about California’s EV mandate. “The public is behind President Trump and the effort to preserve our ability to choose the types of cars that best suit our needs as consumers.”

Jones suspects the possible gas crisis is part of a broader effort by some Democrats to steer consumers to ditch conventional cars, noting that his office filled out a records request for emails between Newsom’s administration and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

“The goal here is to show by their communications that they are purposefully trying to drive up the price of gasoline so that people are forced into EVs, public transportation or bicycles,” Jones told the DCNF.

The records request Jones filed has gone unanswered, the lawmaker told the DCNF, who noted that he has demanded an audit on the LCFS to find out if CARB comprehensively estimated the policy’s economic impacts or “concealed or downplayed costs.” CARB and Newsom’s office did not confirm to the DCNF whether or not they responded to the records request, though Newsom’s office referred the DCNF to several press releases that address some of Jones’ claims and noted that gas prices in the state are at a three-year low for July.

CARB initially cited estimates that the amendments to the LCFS could spike gas prices by 47 cents per gallon in 2024, according to multiple reports. The agency later walked back that projection in June, citing estimations that prices may only experience a per gallon hike of only five or six cents.

Newsom’s office also recently released a statement referencing a gasoline cost increase projection of eight cents per gallon. Jones described this shift in estimates as a “defensive scramble,” and cited a different estimate forecasting that the regulation shift could spike gasoline prices by as much as 65 cents per gallon in the near term.

Jones argued that if California Democrats plan to drive up fuel costs to force consumers to adopt EVs or ditch gasoline vehicles, it would be impossible to implement anyways. The state’s electrical grid is increasingly reliant on green energy technology, and “wind and solar is not going to cut it here in California,” Jones said. Building more EV infrastructure and charging the EVs would take power the state does not have, Jones argued.

“I’m focused on raising awareness and holding Governor Newsom, legislative Democrats, and unelected bureaucrats accountable for these costly and ineffective policies,” Jones said, railing against “unelected” regulators that have implemented strict energy policies that may necessitate a net-zero transition. “They’re out of control.”

Notably, California imports mass amounts of oil despite being “a very oil rich state,” Jones said. “We have plenty of oil in the ground, we just need to extract it,” he continued.

Citing the over 40,000 signatures on his petition to repeal the recent regulation change, Jones argued that he is witnessing an ideological shift in California.

“After Republicans and the media exposed the truth, Californians were outraged … [and they] are waking up. They’re starting to see that the reason for sky-high gas prices is irresponsible policies pushed by the majority party,” Jones said, referencing Newsom’s policies that seem to be driving up gas prices for the sake of “arbitrary climate targets.”

CARB did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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