A major announcement from John Deere is giving more hope for a future with a prosperous economy.

According to the company website, John Deere will invest $20 billion in the United States over the next decade, with hometowns where these investments will go seeing a projected $25 billion impact.

Factories in Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois will see new expansions, new assembly lines, or new factories altogether. Additionally, the company boasted a majority of the raw steel used in these factories will be from the United States.

A more specific breakdown showed new assemble lines in Waterloo, Iowa; an expansion to the factory in Greenville, Tennessee; a new excavator factory in Kernersville, North Carolina; a 60,000-square-foot expansion to the factory in Moline, Illinois; and a 120,000-square foot expansion in Missouri.

John Deere included in their release that 75 percent of all products sold domestically are manufactured here, as well, with a workforce of 30,000 people in 60 factories with offices or factories in 16 states.

According to USA Today, John Deer eliminated its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies last July.

The company announced via social media platform X it would not “participate in or support external social or cultural awareness parades, festivals or events.”

It further promised efforts would focus on the workforce with recruiting, hiring, networking, mentoring, and professional development.

That is to say, John Deere has reversed course with DEI and plans to invest further in America. It’s all for the better.

In the bigger picture economically, this is not a one-off victory for a recovering economy under President Donald Trump.

Memorial Day saw the lowest gas prices when adjusting for inflation since 2003.

Egg prices recently saw the steepest monthly drop in forty years.

John Deere is not alone in its decision to invest at home as companies like Johnson & Johnson and Apple announced $55 billion dollar and $500 billion dollar investments respectively, according to a March report in Newsweek.

In another reality where former Vice President Kamala Harris is in office, would we see these companies keeping their investments in the U.S.?

It’s doubtful as her time in the vice presidency did not inspire confidence in her ability to be decisive and take action amidst mounting criticism.

Mounting criticism does seem like the apt characterization of the reaction to what actually caused these investments under Trump — tariffs.

Although a divisive step by Trump, we should let the results speak for themselves.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday that a longtime USDA employee and five others were busted in one of the largest food stamp frauds in U.S. history.

A short time ago, Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI revealed a superseding indictment was unsealed charging six people in connection with a $66 million-plus fraud and bribery scheme under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aka food stamp program.

Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh, and Arlasa Davis have been hit with multiple charges, including conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate USDA benefits. Davis, a USDA employee who worked as a program specialist, was employed in the division of the agency responsible for identifying SNAP fraud.

As the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York explains/a>, Kehoe started a network in 2019 that handed over roughly 160 illegal EBT terminals to stores across the New York area to steal more than $30 million in EBT transactions. With the help of his co-conspirators, Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Obaid, and Emad Alrawashdeh, Kehoe submitted approximately 200 fraudulent USDA applications, misappropriated USDA license numbers, and even forged application documents to acquire EBT terminals for unauthorized stores.

The stores included smoke shops and other businesses not eligible for USDA funds.

Davis was critical to the scheme. The Southern District of New York Attorney’s office notes that she took advantage of her position to sell hundreds of EBT license numbers.

“Michael Kehoe and his co-conspirators misappropriated tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds meant to help low-income families put food on the table,” Carbone explained. “This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch.”

All told, Davis’s actions allowed over $36 million in fraudulent SNAP redemptions at unauthorized stores. Davis also photographed handwritten lists of license numbers intended for qualifying stores with her personal cell phone.

She then sent these numbers to an intermediary who proceeded to sell them to the other co-conspirators.

“Their actions undermined a program that vulnerable New Yorkers depend on for basic nutrition,” Carbone added. “These charges should be a reminder that those who exploit anti-poverty programs for personal gain will be held accountable for their crimes.”

The six culprits have each charged with one count of conspiracy to steal government funds and misappropriate USDA benefits, which can result in a maximum five year prison snetence prison, one count of theft of government funds, which could mean 10 years behind bars, and one count of misappropriation of USDA benefits, which carries a potential 20 year prison sentence.

The 56-year-old Davis has also been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, one count of bribery, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, and one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. If she were convicted on all charges, she could face a lifetime behind bars.

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What happened to the DOGE cuts? Why is Congress ignoring the massive saveings? Congress’s failure to codify DOGE-related budget cuts is a direct assault on the people that voted not just for President Trump, but for the DOGE cuts Trump promised.

Plus recent interviews with FBI Director Kash Patel and Assistant Director Dan Bongino have conservatives concerned. What really happened with Epstein? Will people pay for the Russian Collusion hoax? It appears we may never know. I’ll Explain why.

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On Tuesday, Democrat Governor of Hawaii Josh Green signed the first climate change tax in the United States into law.

The new law is being deemed as a “green fee” and will be placed on Hawaii Island tourists in an effort, lawmakers claim, to make tourists pay their share for their carbon footprint.

Green, while signing the new law, stated, “It’s important so people see that where we have shoreline erosion near hotels, we’re able to protect these incredible assets.”

”Where we have people being displaced, we’re able to help them, where we see sea level rise coming up, we can adapt and we can actually have these resources from the hard monies and also likely bonds from these dollars to help us go forward with large projects as the legislature sees fit as the people across our state express need,” added Green.

The new law will begin in January of next year and will consist of placing a 0.75% tax on visitors staying at hotels and rentals.

Hawaii to become first state to charge visitors a climate fee @JeremyYurow https://t.co/CeTuQMSYqP

— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) May 28, 2025

Per Hawaii News Now:

Gov. Josh Green on Tuesday signed into law the country’s first-ever lodging tax to get tourists to pay their share of the impacts of climate change.

State officials and environmentalists touted the first-of-its-kind “green fee” as landmark legislation that other states can model for building disaster resiliency.

“It’s important so people see that where we have shoreline erosion near hotels, we’re able to protect these incredible assets,“ Green said.

”Where we have people being displaced, we’re able to help them, where we see sea level rise coming up, we can adapt and we can actually have these resources from the hard monies and also likely bonds from these dollars to help us go forward with large projects as the legislature sees fit as the people across our state express need.“

Starting Jan. 1, visitors staying at Hawaii hotels and short-term rentals will have to pay an added 0.75% to the existing transient accommodations tax (TAT).

Hawaii now penalizes tourists. https://t.co/IgMrrBtEN2

— Sean Curran (@SeandeLanza) May 28, 2025

The new law will also be aimed at cruise ship passengers who will pay a prorated tax for the number of days their cruise ship is in a Hawaii port.

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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s mass cancellation of the Biden-era parole program that had ushered in hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Excerpt from Fox News:

A U.S. federal judge has inflicted another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to end a multiple Biden-era parole program for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to resume processing applications from those migrants who are seeking work permits or renewing their status.

Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, rejected the Trump administration’s claim that suspending the parole programs was within its broad discretion to direct immigration policy.

Talwani also certified a nationwide class, temporarily protecting all individuals in several humanitarian parole programs while the case proceeds.

“This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country, such that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families,” the judge wrote.

“Nor is it in the public interest for individuals who enlisted and are currently serving in the United States military to face family separation, particularly where some of these individuals joined the military in part to help their loved ones obtain lawful status.”

US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee in Boston, previously said Trump’s decision to cancel the parole program was premised on legal error.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston halts Trump administration’s mass cancellation of CHNV (Cuba/Haiti/Nicaragua/Venezuela) parole. Indira Talwani (Obama) says it was premised on legal error & lacked required individualized assessment. Doc: https://t.co/mO9LOtD4q3

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) April 15, 2025

In April, Judge Talwani blocked the Trump Administration from revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program.

Judge Talwani said the DHS did not interpret the law properly and asserted the migrants have a right to be in the US.

The DOJ argued that the parole programs were discretionary and it is up to the government to decide when it can cut the program.

Earlier this year it was reported that President Trump was set to strip the status of 532,000 migrants living in the United States who were flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program.

Recall that Joe Biden brought in more than a half a million migrants Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela on his CHNV program.

CBP data found that over 1 million illegal aliens have been allowed into the US through what the Biden Regime defined as “legal” means.” The Biden-Kamala admin used the CBP One App and the CHNV program to allow illegals entry into the US.

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