End Of Day - 2/26/2025 - A Huge Win, Trump Makes A Deal, The Deep State Danger

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary Bauer

A Huge Win

Kudos to Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans! They were able to unite and pass the budget resolution that advances all of President Trump’s America First agenda. But it wasn’t without drama.

The leadership held open a vote on an unrelated bill for an hour to buy more time to persuade several holdouts. It wasn’t going well, so the leadership announced that the vote on the budget resolution was canceled.

Ten minutes later, they announced that the vote was back on. President Trump called the holdouts and got it done. The vote was 217 to 215. Every Democrat voted no, while every Republican but one, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted yes. Massie voted no because he wanted more spending cuts.

By the way, this vote means that every House Democrat voted to raise taxes on every American taxpayer. The budget resolution renews the 2017 Trump tax cuts that expire at the end of this year. So, they want your taxes to go up.

For example, under the Trump tax cuts the standard deduction, which most people claim, is $29,200 for a married couple. If the Democrats had won it would have dropped to $14,600. The child tax credit would be cut in half from $2,000 to $1,000.

This critical victory is a tribute to the skills and leadership abilities of Donald Trump, who pulled this out of the fire. He turned what was about to be a big defeat into a huge win.

Trump Makes A Deal

For nearly three years, the Biden/Harris administration never made one attempt to stop the carnage, destruction, and suffering of the Ukraine/Russian war. In four weeks, Donald Trump has brought us to the brink of peace. As the Bible says, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

A whole lot of people were angry after President Trump said something publicly about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump’s remarks came after Zelensky royally insulted the president.

President Trump sent Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine with a proposal regarding access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, which are extremely important.

These minerals are essential to every piece of technology you will use today and to fighting a war against communist China. But we don’t have them, and we just spent $180 billion subsidizing a war in Ukraine.

So, yes, any president worth his salt would try to secure such a deal.

Zelensky not only said, “NO,” he symbolically threw the deal in Bessent’s face and didn’t even make a counteroffer. He totally disrespected the president of the United States, and America, and U.S. taxpayers.

So, Trump pinned his ears back. That was a little reality check, and Zelensky made a counteroffer. Now, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, we’re very close to a rare earth metals deal, which, by the way, is an essential element to achieving an overall peace deal.

There are reports that Zelensky is coming to Washington, D.C., Friday to sign the deal. Things are moving fast, and it could still be blown up. Vladimir Putin certainly could blow it up.

But we should all be hoping and praying that does not happen and that a peace deal is eventually reached, even though it is unlikely anyone party to the agreement will be pleased.

The Deep State Danger

There is a vicious war going on inside the Deep State that ought to terrify every American. While our military is trying to defend us from enemies abroad, enemies of America inside our most important agencies are waging a battle to the death against the duly elected president and his appointees.

Investigative journalist Michael Schellenberger says whistleblowers are warning that the shredding machines are running nonstop at the CIA, FBI, and NSA.

At least one reason why is because FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino are “auditing” the tenure of former FBI Director James Comey.

They’re trying to identify two female FBI agents who Comey used as “honeypots” to infiltrate the Trump campaign.

To be clear: This wasn’t part of the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane Russia collusion hoax. This was an “off the books” operation Comey ordered in 2015, hoping to find dirt on Donald Trump.

This is the real threat to our constitutional Republic! Not Trump’s presidency.

The real “danger to our democracy” is corrupt people in our most important law enforcement and intelligence agencies using their power to manipulate our elections.

It is beyond unacceptable! I believe, in its own way, it’s a form of treason.

Internal Intel War

Speaking of treason, Deep State operatives in the CIA are so incensed at the reforms the Trump administration is putting in place to get them in line that a threat was broadcast through CNN.

The threat is that fired leftist CIA agents might be so disgruntled that they may actually give America’s secrets to our enemies. Now that is treason!

Meanwhile, there will soon be many disgruntled former NSA employees.

We told you about the bizarre “sex chats” that NSA employees were having on an interagency network. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said yesterday that more than 100 people in 15 agencies were involved in these “chats,” and they have been identified.

She issued orders to have their security clearances revoked and their employment terminated.

It turns out that they were not only chatting about bizarre sexual topics. These left-wing ideologues were also mocking conservatives. They were excoriating Tulsi Gabbard, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok, and Christians. In fact, they celebrated the death of Pat Robertson.

These people are the exact opposite of what Democrats and the media are claiming. They are not “non-partisan, dedicated civil servants.”

They are radical neo-Marxist deviants who despise at least half of the country. These people would have cheered if the Butler assassin had succeeded. And they have extraordinary power to ruin you!

Thankfully, they have been exposed. The Swamp is being drained!

Enforcing Our Laws

The Trump administration just announced a migrant registration program requiring all illegal immigrants to register with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and provide fingerprints. This should have been done all throughout the Biden years.

Joe Biden stopped taking DNA samples from illegal aliens crossing the border, which the first Trump administration was doing. It was vital to confirming whether the Venezuelan man claiming to be the father of a young girl with him really was the child’s parent. It’s also good information to have in order to identify criminal suspects.

So, President Trump is requiring migrants to register. If they don’t, they are breaking yet another law and potentially subject to deportation.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said, “The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration laws. We must know who is in our country for the safety and security of our homeland and all Americans.”

Start the countdown to leftists setting their hair on fire that a great nation should try to identify the 10 to 15 million people who walked into our country. How dare we?!

By the way, this is not a radical new idea. Anyone who wants to visit the United States or emigrate legally has to register with the government in order to get visas and green cards.

Good News

Here’s a happy story to end on.

Some people on the religious, evangelical left often say that when Christianity gets identified with populist conservatism, it drives people away from the cause of Christ.

I believe that as President Trump puts more avowed Christians in key positions in our government, many Americans who have lost interest in their Christian faith may rediscover it. Others who may have never thought of themselves as Christians but agree with Trump’s policies might actually discover Jesus.

Charlie Kirk started his activities on college campuses as a secular conservative, even though he was a Christian. Then he noticed a funny thing.

Many left-wing students who came to his events wanted to talk about religion. So, he started talking about religion. Now, there have been events where he and others working together had baptisms on various campuses.

That brings me to Nicole Shanahan.

For many years, she was a major donor to left-wing causes and candidates, including Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden. Over time, she grew disillusioned with the increasingly radical left. Last year, she became Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s running mate before he dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump.

Has anybody else noticed, as I have, that Kennedy is speaking more openly about his faith? He believes God has prepared him throughout his life for this moment to help make America a healthier nation through the opportunity President Trump offered him. He also believes that America is suffering from a “spiritual crisis.”

On Sunday, January 19th, the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Nicole Shanahan became a baptized Christian. I want to share some of her testimony with you. She wrote:

“. . . I never seriously considered whether demons were real -- until recently. Honestly, my last year in politics changed that. Learning just how far some will go to inflict atrocities on innocent Americans has shocked me awake. . .

“Many people shy away from acknowledging the reality of spiritual warfare. But anyone who has seen addiction up close or lived through deep trauma and witnessed how evil takes hold in this world knows that the battle of good versus evil isn’t just theoretical --it’s real and all around us. . .

“Faith is not about having all the answers but about trusting in the One who does. And when you find Him, you will know you are finally home.”