🧵BREAKING: Trump Admin Launches the Biggest Shake-Up ‘In Decades’ at the State Department
Things are about to get a lot clearer -- and a lot less anti-American -- at Foggy Bottom
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1/ Trump's eliminating a whopping 132 wasteful offices and 700+ positions.
Why? Because the State Department has become a bloated bureaucracy that serves the DC swamp instead of the American people.
2/ Let's be clear: This isn't about "cutting diplomacy" like the Enemedia wants you to believe.
It's about eliminating Democrat slush funds masquerading as "human rights" and "democracy" programs. 🎯
3/ First Phase:
- 17% reduction in total offices
- Eliminating redundant positions
- Consolidating overlapping programs
- Getting rid of leftist slush funds
The Democrat full-employment program ends now!
4/ USAID? Gone by July 1st. This corrupt agency -- with THREE TIMES the budget of the CIA -- funded forced sterilizations of native women in Peru, transgender ideology in India, abortions in Africa, and the overthrow of multiple governments.
5/ USAID claimed it wasn't accountable to anybody: not the President, not Congress. WRONG.
Now its legitimate humanitarian assistance programs will be folded into the reorganized State Department to create accountability while eliminating the Marxist fraud.
6/ Why are Democrats panicking? Because Trump is cutting off their globalist funding streams. These "democracy promotion" programs have been nothing but ATMs for leftist organizations.
7/ Redundant = Democrat Full Employment Program
“Nobody is really sure what they do,” one senior official said of the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, now on the chopping block. "When I ask them, they seem to not really be sure what they’re supposed to be doing."
Ridiculous!
8/ In its place, Trump is creating an actual useful office with a clear mission - Bureau of Emerging Threats - focused on REAL threats like cyber attacks.
No more waste!
9/ Remember: Every "expert" crying about these cuts is probably someone who's been feeding at the government trough for years. Follow the money, folks! 💰
10/ @bariweiss published a great article on this today at @TheFP. You should read it.
Bottom line: This is what draining the swamp looks like. Trump promised to streamline government and put America First. That's exactly what's happening.
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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has canceled his upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping and announced 100% tariffs on Chinese goods starting Nov. 1.
His reason? Beijing just imposed global export controls on rare earths — the materials that power the modern world. 🧵👇
2/ China controls 92% of rare earth refining — metals essential for EVs, semiconductors, fighter jets, & submarines.
Beijing is weaponizing that — sending letters to nations warning it’ll restrict exports on “virtually anything.”
Trump called it “sinister and hostile.” ⚠️
3/ “They’re holding the world captive,” Trump said.
But he’s striking back:
💥 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports starting Nov. 1
💥 New U.S. countermeasures against Chinese trade blackmail
💥 Full economic response to defend U.S. supply chains & sovereignty 🇺🇸
🇮🇱🇺🇸 BREAKING: Celebrations erupt across Israel and Gaza.
Trump’s 20-point peace plan has reached its first major breakthrough: agreement for Hamas to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners — with a ceasefire to follow.
History is happening. 🧵👇
2/ After talks in Egypt, both sides agreed to the first phase.
📦 All 48 remaining Israeli hostages will be freed within days.
💥 Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be released.
🕊️ A formal ceasefire follows Israel’s ratification tomorrow.
Families are calling Trump a peacemaker.
3/ One hostage’s wife wrote on X:
“My heart is overflowing with gratitude... Thank you, President Trump.”
At Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, Israelis chanted “Thank you Trump! Thank you Netanyahu!”
That's EIGHT peace deals in eight months for Donald Trump.
New York AG Letitia James — who spent years failing to destroy Donald Trump for mortgage fraud — has now been indicted by a federal grand jury for...mortgage fraud.
The same woman who weaponized the law now faces justice herself. 🧵👇
2/ The indictment stems from an investigation into fraudulent mortgage filings.
James falsely claimed her Norfolk, Virginia home was her primary residence — to score a lower interest rate on a government-backed loan.
She allegedly lied on bank documents and property records.
3/ Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Bill Pulte first blew the whistle, alleging James may have also misrepresented a Brooklyn property to qualify for federal assistance.
He wrote:
“Letitia James falsified documents to obtain favorable terms and government-backed loans.”