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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) It literally only took days for the threat of President Trump's tariffs to force change in Canada and Mexico. Both nation's leaders called Trump, backed down, agreed to engage in substantial beefing up of border security. The 10% tariff on Chy-na remains in place and thus Xi hustled to get a meeing with Trump. Meanwhile, El Salvador, with its brilliant young president Nayih Bukele, has agreed to accept violent illegal American criminals in its jails in a sort of international outsourcing. Hey, if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos are successful with their space rockets, maybe we can turn Mars into Prison Planet? You know, we'll keep working on that oxygen thing . . . .

2) By far the most explosive thing to happen in the young Trump II administration is the uncovering of the rat's nest at USAID. For now, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in charge. I never dreamed he'd be this good in his SoS position---and I'm sure those who confirmed him easily didn't either and now regret it. Anyway, USAID expenditures are revealing a massive U.S. gubment slush fund that not only was bribing our "allies" but was giving huge kickbacks to Americans in gubment. And (see picture below) funding terrorist enemies. This will go down as a bigger gument scandal than Teapot Dome, the Tweed Ring, or the Gold Corner. And almost as YUGE in impact President Trump expected to sign an exec order abolishing the Department of (UN) Education. Homeschoolers unite! You have nothing to lose except your wokeness! Musk says Trump will succeed in dismantling this agency.

3) Wonderful! The Trump administration told 1,000 EPA employees they may be hitting the bricks soon. Hey, I hear there are good blueberry-picking and landscaping jobs available. Speaking of jobs or joblessness, about 20,000 federal employees (you certainly can't call most of them "workers") have accepted President Trump's early buyout. Good. Add at least one zero to that, then multiply by four.

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