USDA slashing DC staff by 56%
Thousands of bureaucrats GONE.
Jobs moved OUT of the Swamp and INTO real America.
Last time? Nearly all of them quit! Trump got to replace them. You know, the jobs still there.
Here’s what’s coming 🧵
2/ President Trump’s team is executing a full-scale overhaul of the USDA.
👉 Over 2,600 Washington jobs cut
👉 Five new regional hubs:
• Raleigh
• Kansas City
• Indianapolis
• Fort Collins
• Salt Lake City
They’re draining the Swamp—literally.
3/ This has three effects:
- HUGE reduction in headcount
- Remaining workers closer to the people they "serve"
- When faced with moving out of the Beltway, most quit
That means Trump replaces them.
4/ DC isn’t where the farmers are.
“American agriculture feeds and fuels this country,” said Sec. Brooke Rollins. “It’s time USDA actually served farmers—not federal employees.”
Trump’s mandate: serve the PEOPLE not the Deep Staters. And do it where they actually live.
5/ The DC facilities are overbuilt, underused, and cost billions in deferred maintenance. The South Building alone has a $1.3B backlog—and it’s 1/3 empty.
Waste!
And it's not just USDA.
DOGE is already cutting deep at:
• IRS
• EPA
• USAID
• Dept. of Education
• Many more
6/ This is bigger than any one agency.
It’s about breaking the back of the Deep State and restoring fiscal sanity.
Less D.C. power.
More local control.
Lower costs.
Better service.
And no more career bureaucrats "resisting" the leaders we the people sent to Washington!
7/ USDA will continue critical functions:
✅ Food safety
✅ Wildfire response
✅ National security roles
But they’ll do it from outside DC, where the people actually live and work.
Trump is building a leaner, accountable, America-First government.
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Pro-independence activists needed 177,732 signatures. They just delivered nearly 302,000.
Alberta’s Brexit moment is here. Ottawa can no longer dismiss Western alienation as fringe noise.
A reckoning is coming.
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2/ Alberta isn’t just another province with political gripes. It is the productive, energy-rich, conservative West — treated by Ottawa like a colony.
Equalization payments siphon billions east (mostly to Quebec). Pipelines are blocked. The energy sector is sabotaged. Values are mocked. Ottawa extracts wealth and demands gratitude.
This isn’t Confederation. It’s subjugation.
3/ Mark Carney makes it even worse.
Carney is the textbook globalist: hostile to energy, at home in Davos and Brussels, and now pivoting hard to Communist China.
He just announced a “new strategic partnership” with Beijing.
For Alberta, that isn’t a future. It’s a prison sentence.
While the media obsesses over tariffs, Trump is quietly executing a masterclass in dollar dominance — and yanking real power away from the IMF and various globalist institutions.
This isn’t crisis aid. It’s strategic financial statecraft.
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2/ You may have never heard of currency swap lines. They aren’t new. But Trump & Bessent’s use of them is revolutionary.
They’re extending direct dollar facilities to Gulf states & Asian partners — creating a U.S.-controlled dollar network for nations China wants to peel away.
3/ Normally this is IMF turf: multilateral crisis finance with surveillance, conditionality, and endless meetings.
The U.S. has ~16.5% voting power — enough to block, but not enough to run the show. Europe, China, Japan and others hold real sway.
Trump rejects that trap. Why let others veto American power?
🧵The Iranian regime’s “oil storage clock” is ticking down to zero — and the U.S. Navy just turned up the dial.
Tankers are bottled up. No exports means no cash. With no revenue, even the mullahs can only last so long.
But it's even worse than that. ⏰🇺🇸
2/ Since Trump’s blockade began, 1.5+ million barrels per day have nowhere to go. Storage is nearly full.
Analysts say forced shut-ins hit mid-May to mid-June. $13 billion a month in regime revenue — gone.
And shut-in fields are damaged fields. Some may not recover.
3/ When storage runs out, wells get shut in and may never recover. Corrosion, “wax” oil solidifying, water coning — possibly permanent loss of 300,000–500,000 barrels per day.
That’s $9–15 billion a year the mullahs would NEVER get back. 💥
And how do we turn our rich, freeloading “allies” into real partners instead of welfare dependents?
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2/ NATO was born in 1949 to stop the Soviet Empire. Stalin had a massive army pointed at Frankfurt, Paris, London. We didn’t want Soviet armies on the Atlantic coast aimed at New York and Virginia.
Better to fight them there than here, and save Europe in the process.
3/ Fast-forward: the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Today’s Russia can’t even conquer Kiev after four years.
Yet Germany (3rd largest economy on Earth) and Britain (6th) still can’t defend themselves.
🚨 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 🇺🇸