Trump sent Congress a bill to cut $9.4 BILLION in Biden-era waste — no filibuster needed. It's the first of Trump's rescission bills.
The RINOs are trying to kill it. Of course.
Here’s what’s happening (and why it matters): 🧵
2/ Trump’s rescission bill would slash:
❌ $3M for Iraqi television
❌ $3.6M for male prostitutes in Haiti
❌ $67K to feed insect powder to kids in Madagascar
❌ $1.1B for NPR and PBS
And a HUGE amount of graft from USAID.
All Biden-era waste. All gone — if the Senate acts.
3/ This is what Trump promised:
💥 Expose the swamp
💥 Cut the waste
💥 Use rescissions to stop Biden spending without needing 60 votes
It passed the House on party lines. It only needs 50 in the Senate.
No filibuster. No excuses. First of many making the DOGE cuts permanent.
4/ So what’s the holdup?
Senator Susan Collins — the RINO running Senate Appropriations — says she’s “concerned” about cutting just $400 million from PEPFAR, a 22-year-old AIDS program in Africa.
We spend $7 billion a year on it.
5/ Even if you like PEPFAR, this is nuts:
📉 AIDS deaths in Africa have fallen by 70%
🩺 Most countries can run it themselves now
💰 That $400M will cost us $4.26 billion over 10 years with interest
This isn’t compassion. It’s just stupid. The $400M is identified waste.
6/ And Collins isn’t just a random RINO.
She’s the one in charge of spending. And she’s blocking the Republican President’s bill, in a Republican Senate, less than two weeks before the deadline.
Why is she still Appropriations Chair? Paging @LeaderJohnThune.
@LeaderJohnThune 7/ The Senate GOP leader gave her that job.
And now he’s letting her sabotage Trump’s agenda — again.
Coming of the Big Beautiful Bill victory, we'd expect better.
He has to make her stop.
@LeaderJohnThune 8/ John Kennedy’s right: this is a layup.
The Impoundment Act gives Trump the power to stop the spending madness — but only if Congress passes the rescissions.
This first one cuts $9.4 billion in waste.
More rescissions are coming.
This is just the start.
@LeaderJohnThune 9/ If Thune doesn’t whip the votes and push this over the finish line…
❌ The waste stays
❌ The RINOs win
❌ Trump’s power to govern is crippled
❌ Elon's point is made
And conservatives will know exactly who to blame.
@LeaderJohnThune 10/ Congress has until July 18 to pass the rescission bill.
No excuses. No delays. No RINO games.
Pass it. Now.
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Many Christians wrestle with Romans 13 (“obey the authorities”) and wonder if the Founding Fathers rebelled against God when they broke with King George.
The answer is no — and here’s why. 🧵
2/ Romans 13 requires obedience to lawful commands.
Unlawful orders — even from duly constituted authority — may never be followed.
In Acts 5, the Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop preaching Christ. Their reply: “We must obey God rather than men.”
The same principle applies when a king commands tyranny.
3/ Anglo-American government is, and certainly then, was by covenant, and after the upheavals of the 17th century was well understood to be so.
The colonies were in covenant with the King, not subject to absolute rule by Parliament in London. Their people had the same rights as any other Englishmen.
When King George allowed Parliament to impose taxes without representation, quartering of troops, blockades, and other abuses, he broke that covenant.
Trump just scored huge victories: the biggest trade deal in history with the EU, a Lebanon-Israel peace deal, and more.
The world is being reordered in America’s favor — and it’s only getting better.
🧵
2/ Just 11 months ago, Trump signed the largest trade deal ever with the EU.
This week, the EU ratified it. For the first time in history Europe charges us ZERO. And we charge them 15%!
Europe buying $600 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investment and $750 billion in American energy over three years.
The establishment on both sides of the Atlantic said it would never happen, that the whole world would isolate and gang up on America.
Kind of like they told you Hillary would win by 12 points.
3/ At the same time, Marco Rubio negotiated peace between Israel and Lebanon.
Iran gets booted out. Hezbollah gets removed. Lebanon takes full control of its territory for the first time in 51 years.
Mutual recognition of sovereignty. Which is a bigger deal than it sounds, because Lebanon declared war on Israel in 1948 and has legally been at war against them ever since!
This could mean full diplomatic relations and Lebanon joining the Abraham Accords.
🧵Treasury @SecScottBessent just laid out Trump’s vision for 21st-century American economic statecraft.
It remakes the global order of the last 80 years.
It’s a masterclass in disciplined power: using America’s economic strength to serve our sovereignty — not globalist elites. 🧵
@SecScottBessent 2/ For decades, we assumed openness had no downside.
We tolerated massive imbalances, supply chain dependence on adversaries, and unfair practices — all while believing integration would magically align interests.
Those assumptions failed. Bessent is correcting them.
3/ Bessent’s five core principles:
1. Economic security begins with national capacity — building what we need at home in semiconductors, AI, shipbuilding, critical minerals, and more.
2. Openness must be matched by reciprocity — no more one-way access to our markets.
3. America must write the rules of the next economy — standards for digital assets, AI, and emerging tech.