A new NBER working paper claims to show that tariffs reduce trade, output, and manufacturing. But the paper's findings are being oversold.
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As President Donald Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday, a look back at some of the most memorable, surprising, and closely watched moments from his previous speeches highlights how the annual address has provided a stage for legislative priorities, guest tributes, economic milestones, and widely watched exchanges.
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At the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words. He told European leaders that mass migration is not, was not, and will not become “some fringe concern of little consequence.” It was and remains a crisis that is transforming and destabilizing societies across the West.
Rubio also made the point that should be obvious but too often goes unsaid: Controlling who enters a country — and how many people enter it — is not xenophobia. It is not hatred. It is a basic act of national sovereignty. Failing to do it is not merely a policy mistake. It is an abdication of one of government’s first duties to its own people and an urgent threat to social order and civilizational stability.
We need to confront sanctuary employers, sanctuary farms, and sanctuary factories.
That is bold. It is also correct.
Yet special interests continue to pressure President Trump to abandon his promise to “carry out the largest deportation operation in American history” into a much smaller project focused only on “the worst of the worst.”
Violent criminal illegal aliens must be removed, and the administration was right to begin there. Public safety comes first.
But that was always the opener. It was never the endgame.
The American people did not vote for President Trump because he promised a narrow immigration enforcement strategy. They voted for the restoration of the rule of law. They voted for what the president himself promised: to deport the illegal aliens Joe Biden unlawfully allowed to enter the United States.
The mas -deportation coalition, of which I am a proud member, exists to help the president accomplish that goal.
Two hundred thousand or even 300,000 interior removals per year may sound significant. Put it beside an illegal population that could approach 20 million, however, and the number shrinks fast. At the current pace, the math does not get you to the largest deportation operation in American history over four years.
President Trump needs help keeping his promise, and he needs a strategy calibrated to the scale of the problem.
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When President Eisenhower enforced immigration law in the 1950s, he did not limit enforcement to select criminal categories. The message was clear: Unlawful presence would not be tolerated. That clarity changed behavior. People left because they knew they had broken the law and would face consequences if they stayed.
That is the kind of clarity we need now.
It means expanding worksite enforcement, not merely fighting over sanctuary cities. We need to confront sanctuary employers, sanctuary farms, and sanctuary factories.
It means taking on industries that rely on and exploit illegal labor at the expense of American workers and their families. It means making clear that unlawful presence in the United States carries consequences — not selectively imposed, but consistently and uniformly applied.
As someone who led ICE and CBP under President Trump in his first term, I can say this with confidence: The machinery and capability exist to achieve 1 million interior removals by the end of 2026.
The real question is political will.
Opponents of the president’s campaign promise are trying to box him into a narrower and narrower enforcement lane. Special interests, campaign consultants, and media talking heads want enforcement to stall — and then to end in amnesty.
If enforcement remains confined to this narrow lane and eventually grinds to a halt, amnesty will come next.
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The State of the Union is the president’s golden opportunity to make clear to supporters, detractors, and, above all, the American people that he intends to fulfill the promise he made on the campaign trail.
It is time to move to phase two: enforcement at scale, without fear or favor.
That may sound bold to some. I know firsthand that it can be done — and must be done.
The American people returned President Trump to the White House after he made that promise. They will reward him with a historic legacy if he keeps it.
Actor Mark Ruffalo, who has an estimated net worth of $35 million, is demanding that New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) "tax the rich," claiming that a majority of "New Yorkers like me" agree with him.
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The six Democrats who participated in a video calling on military members to refuse illegal orders will likely no longer face the possibility of prosecution, according to sources who spoke to numerous news outlets.
President Donald Trump excoriated the Democrats and accused them of committing "sedition" over the video they posted in Nov. 2025.
'It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime.'
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a longtime Trump ally, decided against seeking the indictments, according to the sources, after a Washington, D.C., grand jury refused to indict the Democrats earlier this month. Whether federal prosecutors will attempt to indict in another district is unclear though unlikely.
"The traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain what they said was OK," Trump wrote after Democrats released the video.
"It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said!" he added.
CBS News reported that Pirro's spokesperson declined to comment.
Sec. of War Pete Hegseth threatened one of the Democrats involved, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, with a court martial and suspension of his military retirement benefits. That effort was also blocked by a federal judge, who said such official consequences violated Kelly's constitutional right to free speech.
"This will be immediately appealed. Sedition is sedition, 'Captain,'" Hegseth wrote in response on social media.
The Democrats have denied allegations that they were encouraging disobedience and argued that they were merely reiterating military rules allowing troops to deny orders they believe to be illegal.
"President Trump continues to weaponize our justice system against his perceived enemies," Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) previously said about the investigation into the video.
"It's the kind of thing you see in a foreign country, not in the United States we know and love," she added. "No matter what President Trump and Pirro continue to do with this case, tonight we can score one for the Constitution, our freedom of speech, and the rule of law."
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President Donald Trump added two of Breitbart News’s top editors to the annual pre-State of the Union off-the-record lunch with news anchors on Tuesday.
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Writing in For the Win, a media property of USA Today, Mary Clarke charged Team USA men's hockey with failing "utterly" to rise to what she calls the "cultural moment" by accepting President Trump's invitation to attend the State of the Union (SOTU) address.
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Sens. Mike Lee and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation Monday that would protect Americans from warrantless government surveillance.
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