Pro-Trump lawyers are reportedly trying to persuade President Trump and his team to go all-out to secure America’s elections this year by invoking an unprecedented executive order, and they may soon get their wish.

As The Daily Mail reported, attorneys with ties to Trump are talking with the White House over an election plan, citing “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

From The Daily Mail:

Attorneys close to Donald Trump are urging the President to declare a national emergency that would allow him to take sweeping powers over the crucial midterm elections.

Peter Ticktin, who has known Trump since they attended New York Military Academy together and represented him in court, is part of a group of pro-Trump lawyers in communication with the White House over the election plan.

He and his allies argue in a 17-page draft of a presidential executive order that supposed Chinese interference in the 2020 presidential election allows Trump to declare such an emergency.

‘There is now clear and compelling evidence from court cases and forensic analysis that these threats have not been mitigated but instead have intensified,’ the draft reads. ‘This constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.’

As The Mail notes, this order would allow President Trump to mandate voter ID nationwide, ban vote-by-mail, and require ballots to be counted by hand.

ABC News reports that Trump has reviewed the order, and the lawyers expect executive action soon.

This news also comes as the SAVE Act, a critical election security bill Trump is backing, has stalled in the Senate thanks to a handful of RINOS sabotaging the MAGA movement in its quest to stop Democrats from stealing any more federal elections.

A White House official responded to the report about an election executive order, telling ABC that “a variety of outside advocates who want to share their policy ideas with the President. Any speculation about policies the President may or may not announce is just that — speculation.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson also issued a non-denial when asked for comment.

“President Trump is committed to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of elections, and that includes totally accurate and up-to-date voter rolls free of errors and unlawfully registered non-citizen voters,” Jackson told The Washington Post.

“The President has urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals that would establish a uniform standard of photo ID for voting, prohibit no-excuse mail-in voting, and end the practice of ballot harvesting,” she added.

One question that remains unanswered is how such an order can survive legal challenges. Changes to voting laws have generally been implemented via the legislative process.

One exception to this rule was during COVID, when states ignored their own constitutions to push mass mail-in voting via executive action in some cases.

But Ticktin remains undeterred, citing the critical moment our nation faces.

“We have a situation where the President is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin explained to The Washington Post. “That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it.”

“That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it.”

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The age of AI is in full swing, but for some workers, it is ushering in uncertainty rather than opportunity.

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and now CEO of Block, has announced that Block will lay off nearly half its employees to implement more AI tools across its tech platforms.

Block, which owns Cash App and Square, will cut 4,000 employees, which makes up 40% of its employees.

In a memo issued by Dorsey, he wrote, “We’re reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000.”

Block CFO Amrita Ahuja followed up on Dorsey’s memo by adding, “We see an opportunity to move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work.”

we’re making @blocks smaller today. here’s my note to the company.

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today we’re making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we’re reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are…

— jack (@jack) February 26, 2026

Per The New York Times:

Block, the financial technology company that owns Square, Cash App and Tidal, said on Thursday that it was cutting 40 percent of its work force as it embraced new artificial intelligence tools.

About 4,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs, Jack Dorsey, the company’s top executive, said in a social media post.

The cuts, made as Block reported strong financial results for its most recent quarter, are perhaps the most striking example so far of a technology company’s making plans to eliminate employees because of A.I.

Mr. Dorsey wrote in his post that he wanted to act decisively rather than “cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out.”

Despite Block announcing cuts, Wall Street saw the move as a buy signal, and stocks surged 20%.

Block just cut 40% of their workforce because of AI and were rewarded with a massive stock surge. Other companies are going to want to recreate this. Job loss could get very ugly, very quick. https://t.co/ScdtQKHIcW

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) February 26, 2026

Harvard Business Review reported that CEOs from Fortune 500 companies, such as Ford, Salesforce, Amazon, and JPMorgan Chase, have stated that in the near future, many white-collar jobs at their companies will be replaced with AI.

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Billions of dollars of fraud occurred under Tim Walz’s watch, and now it turns out that autism centers did not even require licensing and that state officials were not allowed to conduct unannounced inspections.

The question now is whether Tim and other Minnesota officials were simply ignorant of what was happening, or whether they actively supported, enabled, or even participated in this fraud of epic proportions.

Money tied to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program surged from about $1.7 million in Medicaid reimbursements in 2017 to nearly $229 million in 2024 through late November, with cumulative spending approaching $700 million. That amounts to roughly a 300-fold increase in less than a decade, or about a 30,000 percent rise. While officials cite expanded autism diagnoses and broader access to services, the scale and speed of the increase have raised serious concerns.

Critics argue that a significant portion of this explosion in spending reflects fraud and lax oversight, noting that the growth occurred under Democratic governors. They contend that unchecked fraud drives long-term spending obligations higher, ultimately pressuring the state to raise taxes.

The figures come from Minnesota Department of Human Services data reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune following FBI raids on multiple autism centers as part of investigations into alleged large-scale fraud schemes.

The investigation overlapped with the Feeding Our Future case, in which 70 people were charged with defrauding a federal child nutrition program, and at least a dozen defendants were connected to autism centers.

Prosecutors allege that some parents received kickbacks, which became central to the scandal. Companies such as Smart Therapy LLC in Minneapolis and Star Autism Center in St. Cloud were accused of paying parents between $300 and $1,500 per month in cash to enroll their children.

In exchange, centers billed Medicaid for more than 40 hours per week of one-on-one therapy that was either not provided or performed by untrained 18-year-old relatives with no background in autism care. Authorities also allege widespread billing for “ghost” services, including therapy sessions that never occurred or for implausible numbers of hours.

In the Smart Therapy case, owner Asha Farhan Hassan pleaded guilty in December 2025 to a $14 million autism fraud scheme, admitting to using unqualified high school graduates as behavioral technicians and billing for maximum allowable hours even when no care was provided.

A state-commissioned Optum report later flagged 90% of the claims reviewed as problematic, including those from companies lacking basic operational details such as phone numbers or websites.

The latest development centers on licensing. Before the scandal, Minnesota did not require autism centers to hold a specific state license; providers only had to enroll as Medicaid providers. Under Minnesota Statute 256B.0949, individuals could serve as Level III providers with minimal qualifications: being 18 years old, holding a high school diploma or GED or fluency in a non-English language, completing brief online training modules, and being hired by an enrolled agency.

Lawmakers raised concerns that oversight relied on Qualified Supervising Professionals, but investigations revealed that supervision sometimes existed only on paper. Level III workers were allegedly left alone with children or were relatives billing Medicaid for time spent providing little or no therapeutic services.

After the Feeding Our Future scandal, Gov. Tim Walz and the Department of Human Services identified 14 Medicaid service categories as high risk due to explosive spending growth. Of those 14 programs, six still do not require licensing, a gap lawmakers say made fraud easier to commit. And yet, prior to DHS designating EIDBI as high risk, the state was not legally permitted to conduct unannounced site visits at roughly 500 autism centers statewide.

Now that licensing is required, committee members have expressed frustration over the slow pace of compliance. Of more than 500 previously unlicensed centers, only six have applied ahead of the May 31 deadline.

So far, it does not appear that Tim Walz has been implicated. However, one has to ask how such rampant fraud could be occurring under his nose and expanding at exponential rates under his watch without him knowing. Furthermore, while the state claims to have launched investigations, the lid was blown off this mountain of fraud by content creator Nick Shirley when he uncovered billions in daycare fraud, which brought national attention to the rest of it.

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has been clear that pushing DEI will not be tolerated in the military or among groups hoping to maintain relationships with the Pentagon. Now, Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, will alter several policies to maintain its relationship.

On February 3rd, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced that Scouting America was working with the Department of War on reforms to end DEI and woke gender ideology.

Parnell wrote, “From Day One at the War Department, we have made it very clear: No more DEI at DoW. Zero tolerance.”

“As a result, over the past several months, the Department of War has been reviewing its relationship with Scouting America—formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. A great organization, that has — in many ways — lost its way.”

“On January 21st, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14173: “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” terminating radical DEl preferencing in federal contracting. All of our affiliations must meet this standard.

But, for more than a decade now, Scouting America’s leadership has made decisions that run counter to the values of this administration and this Department of War, including an embrace of DEl and other social justice, gender-fluid ideological stances. This is unacceptable.”

“Our review of the DoW’s financial assistance and partnership with Scouting America, including its quadrennial National Jamboree celebration, has been rigorous and ongoing. Scouting America remains far from perfect, but they have firmly committed to a return to core principles. Back to God and country—immediately!”

“Scouting America and the Department of War are near a final agreement where we believe we can continue our partnership with Scouting America, as long as the organization rapidly implements the common-sense, core value reforms. They are on the clock, and we are watching.”

STATEMENT:

From Day One at the War Department, we have made it very clear: No more DEI at DoW. Zero tolerance.

As a result, over the past several months, the Department of War has been reviewing its relationship with Scouting America—formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America.…

— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) February 3, 2026

On Friday, Secretary of War Hegseth announced that Scouting America will alter several policies, including a requirement that members use “biological sex at birth and not gender identity.”

Hegseth shared on X, “For more than a century, Boy Scouts of America prepared over 130 million American boys to make moral and ethical choices, not just during their formative years, but for a lifetime as they grew into men. The first few words of the Scout oath exemplify this, quote, ‘On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country.’”

“The Boy Scouts are embedded in our communities. They’re sponsored by community organizations, service clubs, and churches. Many Boy Scouts have gone on to senior leadership positions in their communities and business in our nation’s military and has elected representatives in local, state, and national office.”

“Six Boy Scouts have been elected President of the United States. Eleven of the twelve men to walk on the moon? Boy Scouts. Boy Scout training focused on responsible citizenship, character and leadership development, patriotism, personal fitness, self-reliance, faith, and a wide range of outdoor skills. It was a great program, and this department had a close relationship with the Scouts almost since its inception, as many troops meet on military bases.”

“After 2012, however, the Boy Scouts lost their way, and a once great organization became gravely wounded. Diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, crept in. The name was changed to Scouting America. Girls were accepted. The focus on God as the ruler of the universe was watered down to include openness to humanism and Earth-centered pagan religions. Scouting became an organization that no longer supported and celebrated boys.”

“They even welcomed the destructive myth of gender fluidity and transgenderism to infiltrate their membership. Along the way, standards were lowered and merit destroyed in favor of an insidious, radical, woke ideology that is anti- America and anti-American.”

“The result? Membership cratered. Americans didn’t want this. In 1970, 10 million boys participated in Boy Scouts. Currently, less than 1 million boys and girls participate. Further, many of these community organizations that once supported Scout troops withdrew their support. And Scouting America, the parent organization, filed for bankruptcy protection.”

“The changes Scouting America made since 2012 have also jeopardized the relationship with this department. And I was very seriously considering ending our support of scouting altogether. We have a Department to protect, after all. Beyond that, the policies Scouting America have in place violate President Trump’s executive order, 14173, entitled ‘Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-based Opportunities.’ But before making this big change, I decided to meet with the current scouting leadership to convey our deep concerns.”

“Based on that face-to-face conversation and subsequent conversations, Scouting America agreed to make several key reforms. Let me briefly highlight a few of them.”

“First, Scouting America has agreed to comply immediately with the provisions of Executive Order 14173. This includes reviewing and replacing politicized, divisive, and discriminatory language throughout the organization, programs, and all publications. No more DEI, zero.”

“Second, the quote, ‘Citizen in Society’ merit badge that encouraged scouts to explore diversity, equity, inclusion, and identity, they always mask it under a name that sounds great, but it’s doing something else, and then ask those scouts to engage in activism on those topics. That badge has been discontinued.”

“Third, Scouting America Scouting will modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity. That means that the application, any application, will have only two sex designations, male and female, and the application must match the applicant’s birth certificate. Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces together, toilets, showers, tents, anywhere like that.”

“Fourth, Scouting America will honor those who serve by waiving the registration fees for children of active duty, guard, and reserve families. Should have happened a long time ago.”

“Fifth, in partnership with the War Department, Scouting America will introduce a new military service merit badge. These and other changes that Scouting America’s leadership committed to, in that room right over there, will hopefully result in a rededication to the foundational ideals that have defined scouting for generations. Duty to God and country, leadership, character, and service. However, as President Reagan famously said, ‘trust but verify.’”

“This agreement is new, and the Department’s support for Scouting America is contingent on them making substantial progress toward reaching these and many other positive changes in the next six months. At that time, we’ll vigorously review progress and decide whether or not to continue our support.”

“The onus is squarely on Scouting America to deliver. If we’re unsatisfied with Scouting America’s progress toward and commitment to the agreed upon reforms, we will find them in violation of the President’s Executive Order and cease our support. We hope that doesn’t happen, but it could.”

“Ideally, I believe the Boy Scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts, as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men, maybe someday. There are also additional youth and boys organizations, groups like Trail Life USA and Awana Clubs, that are already compliant with President Trump’s Executive Order that the department may eventually support as well.”

“But we’re watching and we’re watching closely. We look forward to providing you with updates after our six-month review, and wish the best to Scouting America.”

Watch:

The Department of War has officially put Scouting America on notice.

It’s time to get back to basics — and DoW is leading the charge. pic.twitter.com/EnY9mvaFLX

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) February 27, 2026

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Former President Bill Clinton on Friday released his opening statement ahead of his testimony on deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Clinton is testifying before the House Oversight Committee on his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

On Friday morning, House Oversight Chairman James Comer said that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s jet dubbed ‘Lolita Express’ 27 times. Comer also said that Epstein visited the Clinton White House 17 times.

Clinton was all over the Epstein files. Numerous photos shows Bill Clinton with alleged Epstein sex-trafficking victims.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of Clinton’s connections to Epstein, the former president remained defiant in his opening statement and insisted he did nothing wrong.

“First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing,” Clinton said.

“No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that at the end of the day matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos. I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn’t see,” Clinton said.

“I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do,” he added. “I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.”

“As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,” Clinton added.

Bill Clinton also defended his wife Hillary.

“I have to get personal. You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him,” he said.

As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals. pic.twitter.com/0rX8cat5Pu

— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) February 27, 2026

Hillary Clinton was reportedly screaming and unhinged during her testimony on Epstein on Thursday.

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