President Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting

President Trump spoke about Fentenyl: “We’ve lost millions of people due to fentanyl. It comes mostly from China, but it comes through Mexico, and it comes through Canada. I have to tell you that on April 2nd, the tariffs go on… We lose 300,000 people a year to fentanyl. Not 100,000, not 95,000, not 60,000… I’ve known many people who have lost children to fentanyl… and those people are never the same.”

From RFK Jr. “We are following the measles epidemic every day… Last year, there were 16 outbreaks. So, it’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year.” He also is initiating an investigation into the potential risks associated with the prescription of SSRIs.”

From SecDef Pete Hegseth: “We’re doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability.”

We are One Nation Under God- Prayer held before the Cabinet Meeting.

The entire Cabinet Meeting:

Declassified Epstein Files Released

Find them here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-releases-first-phase-declassified-epstein-files See this post for further information.

New Gold Card Immigration Program

Happening now: “Gold Cards” Trump is meeting with his cabinet (first meeting) and along with Howard Lutnick (Commerce Secretary) just described how America’s new $5 million “Gold Card” program for immigration will work (replacing the current EB5 Program). Here’s the math, as referenced by Trump and Lutnick: 200,000 “Gold Cards” would bring $1 trillion into the US (there’s a line of 250,000 waiting to immigrate under EB5 today). 1 million gold cards = $5 trillion 10 million gold cards = $50 trillion And should 10 million gold cards be acquired, our national debt would be eliminated (and then some). Absolutely BRILLIANT! https://x.com/KHerriage/status/1894801371993645079

“Want to make sure they are people who love our country and are capable of loving our country. “

Here is our new Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explaining how Gold Card Immigration will work.

Elon Musk Emails

Elon Musk put out a survey to government employees asking them to detail 5 things they did in the past week. It caused a great stir. We know that there has been a great deal of fraud happening with our government employees working from home. Many weren’t even working anymore but still receiving a paycheck. Many had one or two other jobs at the same time. The survey was simply this:

This is Elon Musk’s explanation for why it was an important thing to have done. It is ‘Outright FRAUD’ if dead and fake people are collecting government pay checks.

The news wasn’t all bad either, Elon was impressed with many of the responses he received and recommends those should be promoted. This is how merit will be promoted and rewarded.

Many people do not find this out of the ordinary. Being accountable is part of the workday. If we embrace it, it can be a very good tool for one’s own tracking for productivity and growth.

Doesn’t any job require a review of how we are doing and how we can improve? The announcement has been made that Federal Agencies should prepare for layoffs starting March 13, 2025. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1894788467105673691

Transparency is Coming

Counselor to the President, Alina Habba says, transparency is coming. “The days of American government hiding from American people are over… Transparency is coming.”

The Judicial Branch is going to be restored as the separate branch of Constitutional Government.

Government Intelligence employees caught destroying records as soon as they found out Kash Patel was being confirmed and Dan Bongino was his deputy.

Government Intelligence employees caught participating in a s*x chat are now having their security clearances revoked and are being fired.

New Voting System- Back to Paper Ballots

President Trump just told a group of governors that using paper ballots are 8% the cost of using machines and are much safer. Paper has gotten very sophisticated and it is impossible to cheat- “it’s called watermark and it’s impossible to cheat.”

President Trump is thanked by the Governor of the State of Nebraska.

Making Improvements in Health

President Trump signed the Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information. For too long Pharma has been playing with prices against the American People’s best interest. As we’ve all been experiencing, we get the medical treatment, then it goes round and round between doctors and insurance companies until we later find out how much it will cost us. Well, no more. This EO directs the Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to act within 90 days to enforce and enhance existing price transparency regulations. Key actions include:

Requiring Actual Prices, Not Estimates: Hospitals and insurers must disclose the real costs of services and items, rather than vague approximations, giving patients a clearer picture of what they’ll pay.

Standardizing Pricing Information: Updated guidance or regulations will ensure pricing is presented in a consistent, comparable way across hospitals and health plans, making it easier for patients to understand and compare options.

Strengthening Enforcement: New policies will hold healthcare providers and insurers accountable for fully complying with transparency rules, addressing past failures where data was incomplete or not shared.

     The Executive Order can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/making-america-healthy-again-by-empowering-patients-with-clear-accurate-and-actionable-healthcare-pricing-information/

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: 

     Section 1.  Purpose.  During my first term, my Administration took historic steps to correct a fundamental wrong within the American healthcare system.  For far too long, prices were hidden from patients and employers, with inadequate recourse available to individuals looking to shop for care or obtain pricing information from a healthcare provider in advance of a visit or procedure.  These opaque pricing arrangements allowed powerful entities, such as hospitals and insurance companies, to operate with insufficient accountability regarding their pricing practices, resulting in patients, employers, and taxpayers shouldering the burden of inflated healthcare costs.  

     Pursuant to Executive Order 13877 of June 24, 2019 (Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First), my Administration issued paradigm-shifting regulations to put patients first by requiring hospitals and health plans to deliver meaningful price information to the American people.  These regulations require hospitals to maintain a consumer-friendly display of pricing information for up to 300 shoppable services and a machine-readable file with negotiated rates for every single service the hospital provides; health plans to post their negotiated rates with providers as well as their out-of-network payments to providers and the actual prices they or their pharmacy benefit manager pay for prescription drugs; and health plans to maintain a consumer-facing internet tool through which individuals can access price information. 

     One economic analysis from 2023 estimated the impact of these regulations, if fully implemented, could result in as much as $80 billion in healthcare savings for consumers, employers, and insurers by 2025.  Another report from 2024 suggested healthcare price transparency could help employers reduce healthcare costs by 27 percent across 500 common healthcare services.  Recent data has found the top 25 percent of most expensive healthcare service prices have dropped by 6.3 percent per year following the initial implementation of price transparency during my first term.  

     Unfortunately, progress on price transparency at the Federal level has stalled since the end of my first term.  Hospitals and health plans were not adequately held to account when their price transparency data was incomplete or not even posted at all.  The Biden Administration failed to take sufficient steps to fully enforce my Administration’s requirement that would end the opaque nature of drug prices by ensuring health plans publicly post the true prices they pay for prescription drugs. 

     The American people deserve better.  Making America healthy again will require empowering individuals with the best information possible to inform their life and healthcare choices.  By building on the historic efforts of my first term, my Administration will make more meaningful price information available to patients to support a more competitive, innovative, affordable, and higher quality healthcare system. 

New Investments in America

As part of this package of U.S. investments, Apple and partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps users write, express themselves, and get things done. Apple will also double its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, create an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers, and grow its research and development investments in the U.S. to support cutting-edge fields like silicon engineering. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

Apple is the 5th Investor to make major investments in American manufacturing.

President Trump is getting resources for America for better costs, new innovation and to make America more self-sufficient. He has just negotiated a deal with Ukraine for their rare Earth metals.

President Trump is fighting for American companies and strong business relationships.

Corporations are also investing in America. Eli Lily announces a $27 billion manufacturing investment in the U.S. https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1894788173026238768

I an effort to strengthen the U.S. economy, President Trump is making adjustments where necessary to make up the difference in the vast trade deficit. According to Econovis, the U.S. trade deficit with major trade partners was China ($295B), EU ($236B), Mexico ($172B), and Canada ($63B). Where Venezuela is concerned, U.S. goods exports to Venezuela totaled $4.2 billion, while imports from Venezuela reached $6.0 billion. This resulted in a goods trade deficit of approximately $1.8 billion for the year. These figures reflect a significant increase from 2023, with exports up by 69.7% and imports up by 66.6%, driven largely by trade in goods. The deficit widened by about 59.7% compared to the previous year, highlighting a growing imbalance in trade between the two countries. President Trump has decided to terminate the “Concession Agreement” with Venezuela as of March 1st, 2025. Additionally, Venezuela has not kept up their end of their agreement to repatriate their citizens from the U.S.

DOGE AUDIT

A federal judge granted DOGE the ability to abolish USAID. This was so important. USAID wasn’t really foreign aid at all, but a cover for funding CIA programs against the people. It funded a number of things that were against our Constitution and were performing crimes against humanity. USAID was found to have funded the creation of COVID-19 in a lab. It was also used to fund a number of NGOs that are linked with child and human trafficking.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is explaining how they could not find all the waste, fraud and abuse that Elon Musk and DOGE are finding because the expenditures were hidden. Elon and his team have designed algorithms that go through and find them and pull them out. This is a very sophisticated forensic accounting reporting being done. Elon Musk has put together a team of geniuses to run these algorithms to analyze and find waste, fraud and abuse.

This is an interview with one of DOGE’s analysts who skillfully works with the data to produce reports that finds the waste, fraud and abuse. Her name is DataRepublican. She has a brilliant explanation of NGOs and how they have been working to hide and funnel money with sitting politicians controlling the pursestrings. This is amazing.

Try to see it from another perspective. Here is Congressman Thomas Massie describing how he uncovered waste, fraud and abuse at a local government level and was able to save taxpayers thousands. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894409963256320281

Where is all this leading?

This seems too good to be true, doesn’t it? Can that really happen? Abolish the IRS? Have we been paying money to the government under false pretenses? Can the U.S. fund itself through tariffs and not need to take money from its own people? Wouldn’t that be a much better way for the government to serve the people?

There is so much promise in store for us, if we are willing to change our perspective just a little bit and be willing to learn from the Trump Administration, and not blindly follow the mainstream media. What the Trump Team is doing is dismantling the old system that was rife with fraud and abuse, making corrupt individuals rich and keeping us limited.

We are free to think differently now, and to make greater ways possible. That is why a merit-based system is what we need. It is time to put our head and our hearts and our hands to good use, and make use of all the plentiful resources that the Trump Administration is gathering for us. America will soon be booming. Let’s go!

Peace Progress

President Trump has been working diligently performing diplomacy to negotiate Peace between Ukraine and Russia. He has negotiated a return of the American People’s money through a rare earth minerals deal. Trump says that there is more to the deal than just the rare earth minerals, and that the American People will be “getting our money back, plus”. Regardless of the money, peace is around the corner. He said that Ukraine will not be joining NATO. Thank you President Trump and his great Team.

Fireworks in the Oval Office on Friday during the meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. Watch here:

President Trump’s response immediately following the meeting. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has no choice. He needs to commit to Peace.

President Trump meets with French President Macron at the White House ensuring that we have cooperation in Europe.

President Trump is very positive and confident about Peace in Europe. He mentions an possible agreement between a number of countries and that we will be happy about the outcome.

This is true promise for our future. A Peace economy is much stronger than a war economy. Peace through strength.

The Media

One of the real main problems was that the media has not been accurately reporting to us. We’ve found out from the DOGE audit that the media was being paid by the U.S. government through USAID. The mainstream media has not been honest with us, people are seeing it clearly now, and they trust President Trump more than the media. It’s clear that we need accurate reporting separate from the government. We The People, and the world are having our rights for a Free Press diminished. The Trump Administration with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt are working hard to restore that through press pool reforms. The Trump 2.0 Administration is moving fast and we need the press to report accurately to us what is going on and not report mistruths like they have been doing according to their own political agenda.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explains:

2/25/2025 White House Press Conference

The media, who has been paid by the government, is going to have to stop spreading lies and start reporting the truth. Not only is the Trump Administration going to hold them accountable, legally, but we the American people have been denied free speech rights and protections. By telling lies to the world, without any accountability or transparency, the media has done us a grave disservice.

King Abdullah of Jordan said to President when they met Trump: “I finally see somebody who can take us across the finish line to bring stability, peace, and prosperity to us in the region”

Think about it

We Thank our Lucky Stars for this New Administration now.

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