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It seemed to take only seconds. And it probably was no more than minutes. But when the Senate on Thursday approved Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, one recurring message appeared on social media:

“Deep State is COOKED!”

Or another way, “Deep State’s days are over.”

Democrats long have expressed vigorous opposition to Patel’s nomination to the point it bordered on what appeared to be fear.

After all, Patel already is on record criticizing the bureau. And he was a key investigator that uncovered the false claims of the Democrats’ “Russiagate” scandal that involved the FBI during Trump’s first term.

Ranking Member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., claimed Patel’s confirmation would be “inviting a political disaster,” and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., issued a kind of threat, telling his GOP colleagues, “Mark my words, this Patel guy will come back to haunt you.”

Durbin had claimed he had been told that Patel already was directing a “purge of career civil servants” at the FBI.

Patel’s spokeswoman pointed out that was sourced by the media with “anonymous” informers and “second-hand gossip.”

Durbin also had argued, unsuccessfully, that Patel didn’t’ have “the temperament” for the position.

But Patel also declined to explicitly promise he would not investigate possible criminal activity among former officials who have been critical of Trump.

This after Democrats spent much of Trump’s first term, and the four years he was out of office, creating a long list of lawfare cases against Trump, which now have fallen by the wayside.

Some of them obviously were pushed by politics, such as the armed FBI raid on Trump’s home in a dispute over presidential records over which his team already was negotiating. Coincidentally, Joe Biden also was found to have government records in his possession, but prosecutors gave him a pass.

Patel did confirm he’s dedicated to restoring the public’s trust in an agency that harbored anti-Trump activists who claimed they had an insurance policy to prevent Trump from becoming president in 2017.

Patel, a lawyer, worked briefly served in the Justice Department during the Obama administration, then worked in the U.S. House. He was senior counsel to former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 and 2018.

He is credited with work debunking the FBI’s Russia investigation and writing a memo that explained missteps at the bureau.

He later held positions in Trump’s first administration.

BREAKING: Kash Patel has been CONFIRMED by the Senate as FBI Director

Winning! pic.twitter.com/gzjCF3cw7v

— MAGA Resource (@MAGAResource) February 20, 2025

#BREAKING: Kash Patel has been CONFIRMED as FBI Director by the U.S. Senate

The Deep State is COOKED!

CONGRATS Director @Kash_Patel pic.twitter.com/Ycds1p9KU6

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 20, 2025

Mike Davis, of the Article III Project, said, “Kash Patel is exactly the kind of leader we need as America’s new FBI director. With his impressive background in law, intelligence, and national security, he’s uniquely qualified to assume the responsibilities of this important role for President Trump. Kash has proven time and again that he’s committed to protecting our country and upholding the rule of law, along with rooting out decades-long corruption within the FBI.”

He continued, “Kash will identify and hold accountable those within the FBI who put their partisan politics ahead of the rule of law and targeted their political opponents in the most anti-democratic abuse of law enforcement in our country’s history. As Democrats say, ‘no one is above the law.’ In spite of a smear campaign from Democrat media and the uniparty in Washington, Article III Project ran an historic shock-and-awe grassroots campaign that engaged tens of thousands of America First conservatives to support Kash’s nomination. Kash’s opponents failed, and America won. Kash Patel is the right choice to restore integrity and accountability to the FBI, and he will serve this nation with dedication and strength while removing the deep rot from the Bureau.”

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chief of the House Judiciary Committee, said, “Kash Patel is the right man at the right time to lead the FBI. After years of weaponization and abuses under the Obama and Biden administrations, Kash will remove politics from the FBI and refocus the agency on doing what it’s supposed to do: stopping crime and protecting the public. We congratulate Kash Patel on his confirmation as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and look forward to working with him to achieve results for the American people.”

There’s a very obvious reason why Adam Schiff is panicking outside the FBI building this morning…

Kash Patel: “Adam Schiff is the worst criminal in Congress in the last 250 years.” pic.twitter.com/9yiQBzHMEN

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 20, 2025

The acting U.S. Attorney in Washington already had confirmed plans to review threatening words by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to members of the Supreme Court.

Schumer had said, if they did not vote the way he wanted on an abortion case, “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you!”

A report from the Gateway Pundit reveals that the prosecutor, Ed Martin, now is adding Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., to the investigation because he advocated for bringing “real weapons” to be used against Elon Musk, who heads President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.

BREAKING

President Trump’s top prosecutor Ed Martin has launched ‘Operation Whirlwind’ with the goal of investigating Democrats for potentially threatening public officials – Sen. Chuck Schumer & Rep. Robert Garcia have already received inquiry letters for past remarks. pic.twitter.com/EcHEM1ok17

— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) February 20, 2025

The report explained Martin’s “Operation Whirlwind” is a “sweeping investigation into Democrats who have made inflammatory statements that could be construed as threats against public officials.”

Martin has made his plan clear: “Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees. We are in contact with the FBI and other law enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing.”

The report noted the “reckless statements” by both Schumer and Garcia now are under review.

Garcia’s comments came in an interview on CNN when he said that Musk is “harming the American public in an enormous way.”

He added, “What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons against Elon Musk to this bar fight. This an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.”

That prompted Martin to write that he would like Garcia to explain what “sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk – an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a ‘d—‘ – and government staff who work for him. Their concerns have led to this inquiry.”

Martin explained to Garica that “threats against public officials” are taken “very seriously.”

“I look forward to your cooperation with my letter of inquiry after request. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Please respond by February 24, 2025. Should you have further questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to call my office or schedule a time to meet in person.”

#BREAKING: Dem. Rep. Robert Garcia just called for “ACTUAL WEAPONS” to be used against Elon Musk in this “fight for democracy.”

This comes after an ad popped up in DC today, CLEARLY calling for the ass*ssination of Musk

Democrats are VlOLENT. The events of this week have… pic.twitter.com/MOX5TiKZIu

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 12, 2025

Schumer’s comments came during a pro-abortion rally at the Supreme Court.

He named Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and said, “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you!”

At the time, Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Schumer for his “dangerous” and “irresponsible” comments.

The report said now Martin’s team is even looking into whether Schumer’s rhetoric contributed to the attempt assassination of Kavanaugh when a left-wing activist was caught outside the justice’s home, armed with weapons.

Martin noted he’s twice asked Schumer to cooperate with an investigation, and has not gotten a response.

“You have now received three letters as well as public discussion. Your cooperation is more important than ever to complete this inquiry before any action is taken. I remind you: no one is above the law,” Martin wrote.

Previously, WorldNetDaily reported how a Tennessee pastor used his Sunday sermon to threaten Musk.

Steve Caudle of the Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga said: “In this nation I am worried we are on the verge of bloodshed. This is an attempt to take us back to a day we do not want to go and we will not go. Therefore there will be conflict.

“I pray that the peace of God will win out and overcome the madness that is attempting to take over this nation. And I will say to you beloved no one likes violence. But sometimes violence is necessary.”

 

The Senate confirmed Kashyap “Kash” Patel as the new FBI director on Thursday in a Senate vote that largely fell along party lines.

51 Senators voted in favor of Patel’s confirmation, against 49 no votes, cementing him as the director of the nation’s leading federal law enforcement agency.

Two high-profile Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, notably voted against his confirmation.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader, who announced Thursday he will not be seeking re-election in 2026, voted in favor of Patel’s nomination. This move came as a surprise to many, especially as McConnell had previously opposed three of Trump’s key picks. McConnell was against having Pete Hegseth as the Defense Secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as the director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Watch final confirmation vote in U.S. Senate:

In a bombshell revelation, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed a shocking level of federal spending abuse, revealing that the U.S. government has over 4.6 million active credit cards in circulation, processing a staggering 90 million transactions worth nearly $40 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 alone.

DOGE, the new federal watchdog agency established under President Donald Trump, posted its findings on X on Tuesday, accompanied by a breakdown of federal agency expenditures.

“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24. DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs – we will report back in 1 week,” the account wrote.

Leading the charge in spending? None other than the Department of Defense (DOD), which boasts roughly 2.4 million individual accounts and a jaw-dropping 27.2 million transactions in just one fiscal year.

In response to DOGE’s report, President Trump issued a scathing memo on Tuesday, ordering all government agencies to implement “radical transparency” when it comes to spending taxpayer money.

The statement reads:

The United States Government spends too much money on programs, contracts, and grants that do not promote the interests of the American people.

For too long, taxpayers have subsidized ideological projects overseas and domestic organizations engaged in actions that undermine the national interest.

The American people have seen their tax dollars used to fund the passion projects of unelected bureaucrats rather than to advance the national interest. The American people have a right to see how the Federal Government has wasted their hard-earned wages.

I therefore direct the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to take all appropriate actions to make public, to the maximum extent permitted by law and as the heads of agencies deem appropriate to promote the policies of my Administration, the complete details of every terminated program, cancelled contract, terminated grant, or any other discontinued obligation of Federal funds.

Agencies shall ensure that such publication occurs in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the underlying contract, grant, or other award.

DOGE’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg, and as Musk and Trump continue to dig deeper, expect more shocking disclosures about how Washington elites have been abusing YOUR tax dollars.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.

Joe Biden, while in the White House, attacked America’s energy in multiple ways: Canceling pipelines, limiting exports, banning exploration and drilling.

The result wasn’t hard to predict. Gasoline prices for consumers exploded to as high as $6 and $7 a gallon at times, contributing to the massive inflation Americans suffered under his Democratic regime.

President Donald Trump wants to change that.

And one of his plans is to work to cut taxes on domestic oil products, lowering their costs.

The Daily Mail reports there’s still instability in the world market for energy, so Trump plans to work with Republicans in Congress to lower taxes for individuals and companies.

“The national average price for a regular gas in the U.S. Thursday morning sat at $3.165 per gallon, according to AAA. This is up from $3.160 last week and $3.125 a month prior. The most expensive state for gas in the country, California, has an average price of $4.849 per gallon,” the report said.

But those prices ranged in the low to mid $2 range when Trump last was in the White House.

Trump has promised to work on the “largest tax cuts” in U.S. history, and some details already have been released, including that he wants to eliminate taxes on tips, Social Security and overtime.

He also said, for business, he wants to allow 100% expensing for new factory construction, and a reduction in prices for the production of domestic iol and gas.

He has not yet offered details on cuts to reduce the cost of domestic oil and gas, but he also said he wants to refill the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which Biden drained to try to lower fuel prices as the election approached.

“The world runs on low-cost energy, and energy-producing nations like us have nothing to apologize for,” Trump said. “We have more energy than any other nation in the world, and we’re going to use it.”

 

Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men

“My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends,… pic.twitter.com/JKWuX9cQhn

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 20, 2025

The presidency of Donald Trump is developing into a constitutional crisis, as claimed by Democrats all across Washington. But it’s because judges are inserting themselves into the power the Constitution gives to the executive branch, not because of anything being undertaken by Trump.

And one of the most egregious, “Frankensteinian,” campaigns is being undertaken by those judges who are demanding that the government continue funding the body mutilations on children of the transgender ideology.

That’s according Tyler O’Neil, the senior editor at the Daily Signal, who said in a commentary, “Activists use the gaslighting term ‘gender-affirming care’ to hide the ugly truth. In the name of medicine, doctors are altering the chemistry of boys and girls to prevent them from undergoing the natural process of puberty. They’re using the very same drugs that prisons use to chemically castrate sexual offenders and they’re calling it ‘care.’”

He followed with an explanation of the drugs used, “Gonadatropin-releasing hormone agonists,” which former Food and Drug Administration commissioner on policy and drug safety adviser David Gortler explained are used to help treat certain cancers that depend on estrogen or testosterone.

“Removing estrogen and testosterone from cancer patients to prolong their lives makes sense. But giving these drugs to physiologically and genetically healthy kids is a completely different story,” the commentary noted.

He said what’s stunning that Democrat attorneys’ general sued to keep using the drugs that harm children, and “judges ordered the administration to keep funding these Frankensteinian ‘treatments.’”

Gortler cited an FDA database that showed 2,510 children 14 and younger have documented, while taking those drugs, “hallucinations, bone disorders, cardiac arrest, abdominal pain, a clot in the heart, seizures, blindness, and more.”

“Horrifyingly, the database included 30 records noting the death of a minor between zero and 14 where a ‘puberty blocker’ was the primary suspect drug,” O’Neil reported.

Gortler has charged that the Joe Biden White House was “selectively turning a blind eye” to the dangers, even though the drugs are “objectively unsafe.”

O’Neil’s publication already documented that a top FDA official admitted the drugs are associated with a higher risk of suicidal thoughts.

A step beyond the chemicals, he noted, is “the most controversial and grotesque aspect of gender-affirming care, the Frankensteinian rejection of biological sex via the surgical removal of sex organs and the attempt to replace them with facsimiles of the organs of the opposite sex.”

He noted even advocates admit there’s no definitive research proving such mutilations “have positive outcomes.” And a vast majority, 72%, of Americans want to outlaw the activities.

The current situation is that Trump issued an executive order declaring his administration will operate on the basis that biological sex overrides vague “gender identity” ideologies.

“This means the U.S. government will no longer endorse the ideology that says it’s good to mutilate a child’s body to make it appear like the opposite sex.”

It’s worse, however, because Democrats now are trying to force taxpayers to fund “these transgender atrocities with Americans’ tax dollars.”

Two lawsuits were filed to force taxpayers to continue to funding the agenda.

U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson, a Biden appointee in Maryland, issued a 14-day temporary restraining order to block Trump’s directive applying the Hyde Amendment’s rationale to gender-affirming care, and U.S. District Judge Lauren King, another Biden appointee in Washington state, also issued a 14-day temporary restraining order to block the Trump rule, the report said.

As the fights move forward, the Department of Justice has pointed out that a judge halting Trump’s orders is “a remarkable intrusion on a separate branch of government, in conflict with Article II” of the Constitution.

 

Dozens of Christians have been slaughtered, and dozens more kidnapped, in a string of attacks by Islamists across the expanses of Nigeria, according to a new report.

It is Baptist Press that described the massacre that has been documented by Christian Daily International-Morning Star News across Nigeria since just late last month.

“At least three pastors were killed in attacks in Kaduna in north-central Nigeria and Gombe in northeastern Nigeria. In the most recent attack, Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is accused of killing Bala Galadima, an Evangelical Church Winning All pastor, in an attack at his home in Lubo, Gombe, on Feb. 9,” the report documented.

The violence that is estimated to have cost at least 50 lives so far is being blamed on Boko Haram, an Islamist gang, as well as Islamist Fulani tribesmen, with the violence being described as extreme.

Galadima, for example, reportedly was shot to death at point-blank range in his back while he was in his own bed at 1 a.m.

Another ECWA pastor, Bitrus Saleh Africa, was killed Feb. 5, with three other Christians, the report said.

Yet another ECWA pastor, “identified only as Rev. Ezekiel,” was killed Jan. 30 by attackers identified as Fulani bandits in Kaduna.

In what probably was the deadliest single attack, the report said, 16 people in The Lord Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry were murdered Feb. 2 when Fulani militants reportedly stormed a village in Ebonyi state.

International Christian Concern reported that attack culminated when the attackers burned down many homes.

Another six Christians were killed, eight kidnapped, and more homes were burned in three villages in Benue state.

A series of attacks from Jan. 27-Feb 1 in Plateau state left at least 11 Christians dead and more kidnapped.

“Dear God, please come to our aid. We need you here in Mangu, Plateau State. My heart bleeds,” CDI-Morning Star reported local resident Nanbam Denan texted to news outlets.

Another resident, identified as Bankat, said, “Terrorists we know to be Fulani herdsmen invaded Lightitlubang village and killed five Christians – a man, his wife and a child, alongside another Christian couple. The victims were slaughtered by the terrorists.”

Fulani tribespeople are predominantly Muslim and comprise numerous clans totaling millions in Nigeria.

Open Doors, the report said, ranked Nigeria as the 7th most dangerous country for Christians in its 2025 World Watch List.

It, in fact, remains the deadliest country for Christians, with 3,100 murdered during 2024.

 

President Donald Trump’s inspection of all of American government to root out wasteful spending, fraud and even criminal behavior has resulted in confirmation from the Department of Energy that its officials have eliminated $124 million in “wasteful” spending.

That was what was being spent on “ridiculously expensive” subscriptions and more.

A report from Fox News explained that department spokesman Ben Dietderich told the network in an interview that the total of $124 million included, “millions of dollars of DEI contracts to ridiculously expensive multi-million-dollar Politico news subscriptions” and other nonessential line items.

He pointed out, “We are just getting started.”

Some identified expenditures already have been obligated, so there will be an “immediate” savings of about $65 million.

But there will be “more to come in the coming months and years,” he said.

“President Trump and Secretary [Chris] Wright are fully committed to making government more accountable, efficient, and restoring proper stewardship of the American taxpayer’s dollars.”

He said the cuts so far come from “needless expenditures.”

He charged that the corrections are coming after Joe Biden’s failed leadership.

“The previous administration was not a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars: In just four years, the Biden administration expanded the Department of Energy’s federal workforce by more than 20% – adding more than 3,000 federal employee positions,” he said. “In the last year alone, the Biden administration increased the size of the Energy Department federal workforce with 1,000 new employees. Delivering on President Trump’s mandate supported by more than 77 million Americans, the Energy Department began last week dismissing a portion of recently hired federal employees classified in the federal government as ‘probationary employees.’”

Wright also said, according to the report, that the Biden administration’s Green New Deal is in the process of being “killed off” as Trump’s plan is to lower energy and oil costs for Americans.

 

A new executive order from President Donald Trump, among the latest in his long list of dozens of actions he’s taken to protect America from illegal aliens and the transgender ideology, and to cut government waste and fraud, puts a bull’s-eye on the taxpayer money being used to “incentivize or support” illegal immigration.

The idea is to make certain “taxpayer resources are used to protect the interests of American citizens, not illegal aliens,” said the order, which also cited statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

That group said American taxpayers are being forced to pay at least $182 billion a year to cover the expenses of 20 million illegal aliens and their children, including more than $66 billion in federal expenses and $115 billion paid by states and local governments.

Further, the Center for Immigration Studies reported 1 million illegal aliens could cost American taxpayers $3 billion a year through welfare programs to which they are not supposed to have access under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

But illegal aliens who are granted parole become “qualified aliens,” allowing access to various benefits.

Further, the Congressional Budget Office reported federal and state taxpayers handed over more than $16.2 billion to give Medicaid-funded emergency services to illegal aliens.

A report from the Washington Examiner said the order directs all federal agencies and departments to identify benefits funded by taxpayers that illegal immigrants get and “take corrective action.”

Eligibility verification also will be stepped up to block benefits being distributed to those in the nation illegally.

The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee reported earlier that illegal aliens have drained some $450 billion from public funds over the past four or five years, and FEMA has delivered more than $1 billion to illegals over the say time period.

“My administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans,” Trump said.