A “neocon” bloodbath occurred at the National Security Council on Thursday, and we may have conservative journalist Laura Loomer to thank for this.

As CNN reported, President Trump fired at least three National Security Council staffers at the agency. The terminations occurred one day after Loomer visited the Oval Office and met with the president.

During Loomer’s meeting with Trump, CNN reported she asked Trump to fire several National Security Council staff members, including his principal deputy national security adviser, Alex Wong. Axios notes she was livid that multiple “neocons” had made it through the vetting process and obtained jobs in the administration.

CNN reported that one firing came as a direct result of Trump’s meeting with Loomer. It’s unknown whether the others were related or already in the works.

Per CNN, here are the names of the three known terminated officials and their titles:

Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence and a former lead staffer for now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs who formerly served as NSA Director Mike Waltz’s legislative director in Congress.

David Feith, a senior director overseeing technology and national security. He previously served in the State Department during Trump’s first administration.

CNN reports that it’s unclear whether Wong was also let go. Axios says up to 10 members of the NSC staff may have been fired.

News of these firings come as Waltz has been blasted for adding Trump-hating ‘reporter’ Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio where attack plans against Houthi terrorists were discussed.

Since the incident, The Gateway Pundit has revealed Waltz and an aide allegedly used Gmail for communication and more questions have emerged regarding his relationship with Goldberg. Moreover, we have learned that Waltz’s staffers set up at least 20 other Signal chat groups to discuss Ukraine, China, Russia and more.

Loomer responded to today’s news with a statement on X, which she later gave to CNN.

“Out of respect for President Trump and the privacy of the Oval Office, I’m going to decline on divulging any details about my Oval Office meeting with President Trump,” she wrote. “It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings.”

“I will continue working hard to support his agenda, and I will continue reiterating the importance of, and the necessity of STRONG VETTING, for the sake of protecting the President of the United States of America, and our national security,” she added.

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In a fiery clash on Fox News, host Martha MacCallum went head-to-head with Democrat Senator Chris Coons in a must-watch segment that exposed the Left’s complete detachment from fiscal reality—and their blatant indifference toward the impending collapse of Social Security.

The segment, originally intended to address a damning new report uncovering widespread fraud and waste in the Social Security Administration, quickly unraveled as Senator Coons did what Democrats do best: deflect, distract, and defend dysfunction.

When confronted by MacCallum about shocking statistics from whistleblowers and oversight panels exposing mismanagement within Social Security, Coons smugly dismissed the findings.

Sen. Coons:
Martha, not only do I not believe some of what was just shared there, but the Trump administration’s acting administrator of Social Security has said that less than one-tenth of one percent of the payments put out by the Social Security Administration are fraudulent or in error. Let’s be clear about some of the things that were just played. There are people whose names are on the rolls as having been born 150 or 200 years ago. They’re not receiving Social Security payments. So the statement that there’s all these people…

As MacCallum repeatedly tried to ask simple, pointed questions—like what the Biden administration has actually done to combat Social Security fraud—Coons pivoted into a bizarre tirade about Elon Musk and even accused Musk of trying to “get into the systems” because he once compared Social Security to a Ponzi scheme.

Martha MacCallum:
Sir, you sound like you’re pretty okay with all the agencies and how they function. You say all those millions of people depend on Social Security, so you don’t care about the ones that are going to never get it because it’s going to be insolvent in 10 years. What have Democrats done? What did Joe Biden’s administration do to find the waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security to try to shore up this important agency? What did they do? Can you tell me?

Sen. Coons:
Sure. First, Martha, you are presuming widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security. You haven’t offered any credible evidence to support that. I don’t believe what Doge says about virtually any federal agency, but I will believe what the GAO says or the Inspector General, or the Administrator of Social Security.

Martha MacCallum:
Why? Can I ask you why?

Sen. Coons:
Because I’ve had senior folks from DOGE lie to my face about other federal agencies where they claim they have found widespread waste, fraud, and abuse, where previous audits did not find that waste or abuse. This administration, Martha, fired the Inspector General of USAID when he filed complaints about the waste of huge amounts of food aid left rotting on docks. Rather than dealing with that fraud, they fired him.

Martha MacCallum:
I’m amazed by… You’re saying that I’m assuming that there’s waste, fraud, and abuse. I think it’s equally surprising that you are assuming that the government is functioning in an efficient way when we all know—

Sen. Coons:
That’s not what I said.

Sen. Coons:
Martha, there are Inspectors General in every single agency that are there to find waste, fraud, and abuse.

Martha MacCallum:
Oh, I know. They’ve done a fantastic bang-up job. When you look at the number—

Sen. Coons:
To start the administration by firing all of them does not suggest a deep interest in listening to these career, non-partisan Inspectors General about waste.

Martha MacCallum:
No, you can’t just put your fingers in your ear and go “blah, blah, blah—it’s not happening.” We all know that the government is not well run. The government is not well run.

Sen. Coons:
That’s not at all what I’m doing, Martha. Let me repeat the point.

Sen. Coons:
If Elon Musk says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and this president has fired the relevant Inspectors General—who are the people most capable—not a bunch of 20-year-old software engineers with no previous government experience…

Martha MacCallum:
They are most capable. These people—did you watch this interview, Senator? Did you watch the interview? Did you watch this? Did you watch the interview?

Sen. Coons:
Which interview?

Martha MacCallum:
The one I just played you from.

Sen. Coons:
I don’t know what you’re talking about. You are yelling too much.

Martha MacCallum:
No, I can’t because I can’t get a word in edgewise. I’m trying to ask you a question. That’s my job.

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And here’s where it gets even more unbelievable.

In the middle of the interview, Coons smugly declared:

“I don’t believe what DOGE says about virtually any federal agency, but I will believe what the GAO says or the Inspector General, or the Administrator of Social Security.”

Well, guess what, Senator—the GAO (Government Accountability Office) has reported that our federal government loses up to $521 billion every year to fraud.

That’s more than half a trillion dollars—gone. Wasted. Stolen. Year after year.

And yet, Democrats like Chris Coons are still putting their fingers in their ears, defending the bureaucracy, and attacking the messengers.

According to GAO’s report in 2024:

No area of the federal government is immune to fraud. We estimated that the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.

Given the scope of this problem, a government-wide approach is required to address it. The Office of Management and Budget, working with agencies and the oversight community, should develop guidance to improve fraud-related data—providing a more uniform approach to what data is collected and how.

Also, Treasury should identify methods to expand government-wide estimates of fraud—prioritizing higher-risk program areas.

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The Uniparty is determined to severely undermine President Trump’s efforts to rebalance trade agreements worldwide and bring back millions of jobs from overseas.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025. The worst offenders will be hit with even tougher measures on April 9.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump proclaimed April 2 as “Liberation Day,” marking a new era of economic independence. He emphasized that this measure is essential to protect American jobs and revitalize domestic manufacturing.

The White House also released a detailed chart showing how badly many countries have been ripping off American workers, charging high tariffs on U.S. goods while benefiting from America’s generosity in return.

However, on Thursday morning, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a bill with far-left Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), which would almost certainly put Trump’s new tariffs entirely on ice. The legislation’s stated purpose is to ‘reassert’ the legislative branch’s power over tariff policy.

“The Trade Review Act of 2025” requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing new tariffs. The president must also present a detailed rationale and analysis of the potential consequences for American businesses and consumers.

Moreover, the legislation will require ALL tariffs to be approved by Congress within 60 days, or they will automatically expire.

Should this bill ever become law, Trump would no longer have the power to impose tariffs on ANY nation indefinitely unless he gets a permission slip from a potentially hostile Congress.

Even duties imposed on China, America’s most significant geopolitical adversary, would need congressional approval. This leads one to wonder which side Grassley and Cantwell are on.

Seeing Grassley’s name attached to this bill is incredibly disappointing, considering he has been a stalwart ally of Trump’s, particularly on illegal immigration and fighting the Deep State.

However, he has also long been allied with Big Agriculture, which supports globalist trade policies. Did he get an earful from them following Trump’s trade announcement?

Should “The Trade Review Act of 2025” ever become law, it would mark one of the most significant transfers of power from one branch of government to another in recent memory. And if the stock market continues to slide, all bets are off regarding a showdown between the president and Congress on tariffs.

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On Wednesday, Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon the author of the best-selling book, “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women” joined Piers Morgan, Kari Lake and others in a panel discussion on President Liberation Day announcements including reciprocal tariffs for US trading partners.

For the first time in a generation, the US has a president who prioritizes the American worker and middle-class families.

Piers Morgan dedicated his show to Trump’s tariff programs that were introduced on Liberation Day.

Batya Ungar Sargon, author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women, didn’t hold back.

A former Democrat-turned-populist champion, Batya explained how Trump’s economic nationalism is finally putting the brakes on Wall Street’s unchecked control over American life.

Batya emphasized that Trump’s tariff policies aren’t theoretical—they’re already working.

Batya is always someone you want to stop and listen to. This former Democrat really gets Trump.

Batya Ungar Sargon: What I find so frustrating about the conversation around tariffs is that we all agree on the problem. We all agree that the deindustrialization of America led to the downward mobility of the American working class, deaths of despair, people working multiple jobs, and not being able to afford the American dream.

We all agree that it is deeply unfair for the American middle class to be bearing the burden of unfair tariffs from other countries. We all agree that it is great for the President to have leverage in order to demand reasonable things like that country stop allowing Fentanyl to murder 100,000 Americans every year, and that Mexico do its part to police its own border.

And yet when somebody has the courage to show up and say to Wall Street, “Screw you, I’m waging class warfare on behalf of the American working class, and you, elites in Wall Street, you do what you need to do because I’m not going to stop fighting for the American working class!”

Suddenly, everybody is sitting around going, Oh, no, the stock market. Yeah, the stock market looks like that because the rich are punishing Trump for siding with the neglected and humiliated American working class over them.

We have already seen these tariffs work, Pierce. The number of people crossing the Southern border is at zero. Fentanyl is at record lows for For the last 10 years, we have already seen $1. 2 trillion in manufacturing invested in this country since January 21st.

So they have already worked. Now, how long is Wall Street going to keep trying to punish this President for standing for the American working class?

I don’t know, but I can tell you that the view from the street is people cannot believe that there is a President who is working for them, who is putting them first and telling Wall Street to go screw itself. Wall Street, which picked the Democrats for the last three election cycles in a row. That’s what the real story is here.

Kari Lake was completely on board with Batya, as you see in the video.

Video via DC Draino:

Here’s the truth about tariffs: For 60 years they destroyed the American working class to funnel money upwards into the pockets of the rich. Donald Trump is the first president in generations to tell Wall Street to screw itself—he’s for the working men and women of this country. pic.twitter.com/sCZRFeITYh

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 3, 2025

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Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission.

The corrupt Biden DOJ pressured at least two Jan 6ers to lie about Ray Epps and then punished them when they refused.

Stewart Rhodes and Ryan Samsel were targeted and pressured by the corrupt Obama/Biden DOJ to lie and say that Ray Epps was a good man and patriot on Jan 6. Neither would do it, and as a consequence, both were severely punished.

Stewart was with the Oath Keepers and hadn’t seen Epps for years. The corrupt DOJ wanted Rhodes to lie and make statements about Epps that were not true.

Jan 6er Stewart Rhodes from the Oath Keepers on DOJ efforts to cover up for Ray Epps pic.twitter.com/igqQKeYESH

— Joe Hoft (@realJoeHoft) April 1, 2025

You can help Stewart Rhodes here: givesendgo.com/GAF5B

Ryan Samsel was pressured by the DOJ to say nice things about Ray Epps and he was punished when he refused. Six men beat him so bad that he received a broken eye socket and broken jaw!

Ryan Samsel on DOJ beating him and breaking his jaw and eye socket for not claiming Ray Epps was a good guy pic.twitter.com/VveEnCzQRc

— Joe Hoft (@realJoeHoft) April 3, 2025

You can help Ryan Samsel here: givesendgo.com/defendersofliberty

The Biden/Obama regime is the closest this country has ever been to becoming a communist regime. Many good Americans suffered under its wrath.

Justice must be served.

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