Verdict with Ted Cruz - ActBlue Pleads the Fifth on Hiding Foreign Campaign Donations, SPLC Dodges on Funding the KKK & DHS Finds 146,000 Missing Children

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00:02:06.560 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

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00:02:22.160 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about today on the show.

00:02:24.840 including some very interesting moves by ActBlue.

00:02:29.160 We've got to remind people exactly who they are.

00:02:31.780 Well, ActBlue is the principal online funding arm for the Democrats nationally.

00:02:37.700 It is the website that left-wing donors go to to give money to Democrats.

00:02:42.320 It raises hundreds of millions of dollars for Democrats.

00:02:45.940 It funnels in, in the aggregate, billions of dollars for Democrats.

00:02:50.440 And there have long been serious allegations that ActBlue was essentially laundering foreign contributions, that foreign nationals, in particular Chinese nationals, were making illegal campaign contributions through ActBlue to fund Democrats running for office.

00:03:09.500 And this week, the CEO of ActBlue testified before Congress, and Congress, the House, is examining whether ActBlue was deliberately covered up the illegal foreign contributions that they were receiving, whether ActBlue lied to Congress over it.

00:03:26.780 And the ActBlue CEO, over and over and over again, pleaded the fifth.

00:03:31.800 Her answer to just about every question was, I can't answer because that may incriminate me in criminal conduct.

00:03:38.360 It was stunning. We're going to break it down and give you all the facts on that.

00:03:42.300 Yeah, it really is incredible.

00:03:43.880 I also want to talk to you real quick about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

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00:04:57.700 All right, so let's get back into this AgBlue.

00:04:59.860 So there are many people that they've heard the name.

00:05:03.720 You described this perfectly, Senator.

00:05:05.840 This is the arm and the power, the muscle of the Democratic Party pushing agenda, ideology, campaigns, ad campaigns, advocacy campaigns for radical left things.

00:05:19.480 But when they were asked about their funding and this is why it matters, they wouldn't answer the question of, hey, is this money coming in that you guys are raising from outside the United States of America?

00:05:31.840 That would be a huge deal, because if I remember correctly, Democrats were obsessed with foreign interference in our elections.

00:05:38.400 They were obsessed with if Russia was involved in Donald Trump's campaign.

00:05:42.420 Remember that that was like something they wanted to impeach him over.

00:05:45.200 And now, like you asked him a question like, hey, where's your guys funding coming from?

00:05:49.480 they're literally not saying a word. Yeah, it's not just that they wanted to impeach him over it.

00:05:55.320 They did impeach him over it. They impeached him. The House voted to impeach him when the

00:06:00.000 Democrats had control. And then the Senate acquitted President Trump. But look, the facts

00:06:07.200 here are really concerning on their face. Here's what the New York Post reported.

00:06:13.440 ActBlue CEO pleads the fifth as House probes illegal foreign donations to Dems.

00:06:17.940 The CEO of the largest Democratic fundraising platform pleaded the Fifth Amendment Wednesday

00:06:22.680 rather than testify before Congress about allegations that her firm

00:06:26.700 illegally funneled foreign donations to federal campaigns.

00:06:31.520 Quote,

00:06:31.760 On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:06:37.780 ActBlue boss Regina Wallace-Jones said in response to the first question posed during the House hearing.

00:06:44.680 House Administration Committee Chairman Brian Stile from Wisconsin said in his opening remarks that there was, quote,

00:06:51.580 significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress, and withheld responsive documents from a congressional subpoena.

00:07:01.960 All three of those actions are illegal.

00:07:06.420 The panel issued a subpoena compelling Wallace's Jones testimony after ActBlue lawyers indicated

00:07:12.080 she wouldn't answer questions on a voluntary basis.

00:07:15.440 Stile and other Republican committee chairmen looking into ActBlue have claimed that Wallace

00:07:19.600 Jones also misled Congress about the strength of fraud safeguards on its platform.

00:07:25.980 Representative Joe Morrell, the top Democrat on the administration committee, dismissed

00:07:30.240 the hearing is a partisan exercise and accused his GOP colleagues of refusing to investigate

00:07:36.040 possible illegal foreign donations on their party's biggest platform, WinRed. Well, the

00:07:41.580 difference is WinRed does not have multiple serious credible allegations of foreign donors,

00:07:47.160 in particular Chinese donors, funneling vast amounts of cash into campaigns. And I want you

00:07:54.240 to listen to this exchange. This is an exchange with the ActBlue CEO and the House Committee.

00:07:59.500 Give a listen.

00:08:00.100 On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:08:11.260 On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:08:20.360 I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to the attorney-client privilege and my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:08:29.500 On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth

00:08:34.920 Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:08:37.160 On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to

00:08:42.700 my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:08:45.160 On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question pursuant to my Fifth

00:08:51.280 Amendment rights under the Constitution.

00:08:53.940 Senator, that goes on for another like two minutes.

00:08:56.460 You get the point.

00:08:57.240 She practiced and rehearsed and did it perfectly, right?

00:09:01.300 I'm not going to answer any questions.

00:09:03.360 I'm not going to do anything that can incriminate myself.

00:09:06.160 I'm not going to answer if, in fact, there's countless dollars.

00:09:10.240 We're talking about millions and millions coming in from foreign adversaries that might be influencing the Democratic Party.

00:09:16.360 Okay, the one word you said that was inaccurate there was millions.

00:09:19.780 Just in 2024, ActBlue raised over $2 billion with a B.

00:09:24.100 we're talking a massive amount of money coming in online typically in smaller donations but lots and

00:09:31.420 lots and lots of them and and there are literally three minutes of nothing but her pleading the fifth

00:09:37.740 over and over and over again we only played the first minute of that for you but it just goes on

00:09:42.860 and on and on she wouldn't answer anything uh and and and here i want you to listen uh now to uh

00:09:49.900 to Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan questioning her. Give a listen. Your board chairman said

00:09:57.060 Act Blue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin.

00:10:02.680 How much fraud is too much fraud? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the

00:10:09.280 question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. How many foreign 0.73

00:10:15.740 contributions did Act Blue accept? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer

00:10:22.400 the question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. How much money

00:10:28.460 did Act Blue accept from Russia? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the

00:10:36.720 question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. Why did your entire legal

00:10:43.100 team quit, in-house legal team. On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer the

00:10:50.740 question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. Senator, it wasn't just,

00:10:57.620 by the way, Act Blue that was having a bad week on Capitol Hill. The Southern Poverty Law Center,

00:11:03.400 well, things weren't going well for them either, and we should definitely talk about that.

00:11:07.940 Yeah, so the Southern Poverty Law Center also testified in the House of Representatives this

00:11:12.560 week, and their testimony went abysmally bad. The ActBlue CEO sounded like a mafioso just pleading

00:11:19.760 the fifth over and over and over again. That's the same thing typically mafia bosses have done

00:11:24.080 when they've been in congressional testimony, and that apparently is what Democrat fundraisers do

00:11:28.580 as well. Well, Southern Poverty Law Center didn't plead the fifth, but here's how the

00:11:34.140 New York Post covered it. Southern Poverty Law Center CEO grilled at testy hearing about DOJ

00:11:39.740 charges for secretly funding the KKK. The embattled Southern Poverty Law Center's CEO,

00:11:47.180 Brian Fair, appeared Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee for a grilling over Justice

00:11:52.160 Department allegations that the ostensibly anti-racism group secretly funded the extremism

00:11:59.880 it claims to oppose. Fair broadly defended the center while declining to answer for specific

00:12:05.940 alleged wrongdoing. After the DOJ in April filed fraud and conspiracy charges alleging millions of

00:12:15.740 dollars in donor funds flowed to hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations,

00:12:23.180 and National Socialist Party of America, otherwise known as the Nazis. All of the allegations in the

00:12:29.460 indictment will be addressed in the Middle District of Alabama, Fair said repeatedly through nearly

00:12:33.860 four hours of testimony. So rather than say I plead the fifth, he just said, well, that's going

00:12:38.300 to be addressed in court. Representative Wesley Hunt, a Republican from Texas and a good friend,

00:12:44.880 he asked, were donors informed that contributions were actually funding members of the KKK?

00:12:51.720 Fair gave the same deflection saying that'll be addressed in court. Hunt, one of four Black House

00:12:58.500 Republicans recounted allegations that Legacy Civil Rights Group paid a KKK leader a salary

00:13:05.540 and even approved an expense report for a cross-burning. Let me repeat that. Wow. The

00:13:13.440 Southern Poverty Law Center, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, paid a KKK leader a salary

00:13:20.200 and approved an expense report for a cross-burning. Quote, according to a superseding indictment,

00:13:27.560 the SPLC paid more than $4.1 million to informants tied to extremist groups,

00:13:34.860 including the KKK, from 2010 to 2023, Hunt said. In two cases, informants who were active members

00:13:42.440 of the local KKK chapter reportedly told the SPLC that they wanted out because they feared

00:13:48.360 for their safety. Instead of supporting their exit, the SPLC employee allegedly encouraged

00:13:54.080 them to remain involved and offered them a monthly salary of $1,200 to do so. As a result,

00:14:03.160 one informant rose into a leadership role within the KKK, recruited other new members,

00:14:08.720 purchased KKK materials, and were even reimbursed for expenses related to cross-burning events.

00:14:14.620 Hunt added, quote, I can't make this up. This is not just ironic, sir. It's quite outrageous.

00:14:21.400 Fair gave a big picture denial during another member's grilling, saying, quote,

00:14:25.400 we don't fund the KKK and we don't fund hate groups, while deferring to the outcome of litigation on the specifics.

00:14:32.040 Now, I want you to listen to this exchange in particular with Congressman Brandon Gill when he's questioning the CEO of the SPLC.

00:14:40.800 Here, give a listen.

00:14:42.380 Do you have an opinion on this tattoo?

00:14:45.900 I'm not an expert on tattoos. No, I don't.

00:14:48.200 Okay. I can give you a little bit of background. This is a tattoo on main Democrat Senate candidate Grand Plattner's chest. That's the Nazi SS death head tattoo. Do you have any opinions on that?

00:15:06.240 If it's what you say, if it's a Nazi symbol, we oppose Nazis.

00:15:14.040 we oppose. I agree we do oppose 0.99

00:15:17.140 Nazis. Do you think if somebody

00:15:18.740 got a Nazi tattoo

00:15:20.940 on their chest, that's indicative

00:15:22.860 that they might be a Nazi?

00:15:25.780 You'd have to ask

00:15:26.800 Mr. Plattner why he

00:15:28.960 has that symbol. I've already said that

00:15:30.840 if it is a symbol of Nazism,

00:15:33.220 we oppose Nazis. You don't think that

00:15:34.980 that's indicative that perhaps

00:15:36.840 he holds Nazi sentiments? 0.97

00:15:39.160 It may well be. It may well be. 0.82

00:15:41.180 I think, do people who aren't 0.89

00:15:43.100 Nazis normally get Nazi tattoos on their chest? Again, I, I assume they don't. You assume they

00:15:50.700 don't? I, I would assume so too. I don't know anybody who's not a Nazi. I don't know anybody

00:15:56.900 who has a Nazi tattoo on their chest, but is not a Nazi. Do you? Do you think that somebody who has

00:16:04.980 a Nazi tattoo on their chest should serve in the United States Senate? I wouldn't vote for that

00:16:09.900 person. I certainly wouldn't either. Do you think that this should disqualify him politically from

00:16:18.520 serving in the Senate? Again, I'm not sure where the line of questions is going. The SPLC, if

00:16:26.780 you're asking me, I'm sorry. Go ahead. If you're asking me if the SPLC opposes Nazis and Nazi

00:16:33.160 symbols the answer is yes the SPLC is referred to this same tattoo as a racist uh skinhead

00:16:42.680 symbol and tattoo you can see the resemblance there you wouldn't want somebody with a tattoo

00:16:48.540 like that in the senate no no I wouldn't I wouldn't either um I appreciate your candor there

00:16:57.400 um i i love that that's how hard it is to get the southern poverty law center to denounce a guy with

00:17:07.120 a nazi tattoo that you have to spoon feed it to them center and then these are the same people

00:17:12.060 that were actually funding and and approving expense reports for cross-burning of people

00:17:17.920 they were paying a salary to in the kkk that is the part you can't make up and nazis to be clear

00:17:24.040 It wasn't just the Klan. They were also funding Nazis. But look, the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hardcore left-wing Democrat partisan. The SPLC is entirely in the tank for the Democrat Party. They hate Republicans. 0.57

00:17:38.880 it is fairly striking that the CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center was forced to say about Graham

00:17:46.180 Plattner, the commie Nazi oyster farmer in Maine, quote, I wouldn't vote for him. 0.54

00:17:54.740 And to follow up, should the guy with the Nazi tattoo be in the Senate? No. That tells you just 0.78

00:18:02.460 how indefensible it is when even their most extreme partisans are forced to say, of course 0.99

00:18:07.900 not if you got a frigging Nazi tattoo on you. You're a Nazi, and we should not be electing 1.00

00:18:14.180 Nazis to the Senate. This shouldn't be hard, and yet every single Democrat senator except 0.97

00:18:18.760 John Fetterman is unwilling to say what the CEO just said there.

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00:19:58.540 Senator, I want to move into another story that we highlighted here months ago.

00:20:03.140 It's an important story about the children that were lost by the prior administration.

00:20:10.780 There were kids that were let into this country.

00:20:13.120 They were not vetted, but with the adults that were with them, they were then given

00:20:17.640 out to different people to, quote, take care of them in this country, and they disappeared.

00:20:22.320 These children, many of them have been abused.

00:20:25.140 Many of them have been abused sexually.

00:20:26.720 Many of them have been abused even in work conditions, and they were lost by the prior

00:20:31.680 administration. And now, luckily, many of them are being found because of what Donald Trump and

00:20:36.960 the administration are doing. So perhaps the biggest lie about Joe Biden and the Democrats'

00:20:44.160 immigration policies is the lie that they embrace open borders because of compassion.

00:20:51.040 The reality is it is precisely the opposite. The Democrats had zero compassion for the Americans

00:20:57.500 who were murdered by the violent criminal illegal aliens they released. They had zero compassion

00:21:02.120 for the women who were raped by the violent criminal illegal aliens they released. They had 1.00

00:21:07.560 zero compassion for the kids who were brutalized and sexually assaulted by the violent criminal 0.99

00:21:13.960 illegal aliens they released. Another aspect of this tragedy is specifically the kids. During

00:21:20.640 four years of Joe Biden's administration, the Biden administration lost over 300,000 children.

00:21:31.740 Yeah. Verdict has covered this at length. This is a topic we talked about throughout the Biden

00:21:37.400 years, but it was staggering. These are kids, often kids that come across the border unaccompanied.

00:21:43.560 We had over 12 million illegal immigrants come into this country during the Biden years.

00:21:47.800 And in many instances, you'd get a little boy, you'd get a little girl, they'd be in government

00:21:51.360 custody. And what the Biden administration would do is they would hand it over to adults that came

00:21:57.100 to pick them up, but they wouldn't check to see if those adults were family members. They wouldn't

00:22:01.680 do DNA tests to see if they're related. They'd hand them over to adults and then they simply

00:22:06.580 lost them. And they would end up with random adults that have kids. And the Biden administration

00:22:12.060 said, we don't know where they are. We have no contact for them. And a significant number,

00:22:18.540 we don't know how many, but a significant number of those kids were put into forced child labor.

00:22:24.640 A significant number of those kids were put into sex slavery, were sexually abused. And no one in

00:22:32.400 the Biden administration gave a damn. When Alejandro Mayorkas, who ran the Department of Homeland

00:22:37.860 Security would testify before the Senate. I would question him about it. He was defiant.

00:22:43.280 Well, thankfully, one of the very top priorities the Trump administration came in with is we're

00:22:49.100 going to find those kids. And they've already found over 146,000 of them. They're still looking.

00:22:56.060 I want you to listen to current DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen at a press conference this week.

00:23:02.100 Give a listen. We're going to enforce our nation's laws, and we're going to right the wrongs that the

00:23:07.620 Biden administration turned a blind eye to is because of President Trump's leadership. It's

00:23:12.900 horrific to what's happening right in our own country because of four years of a blind eye

00:23:20.920 that allowed unvetted sponsors to come pick up 450,000 kids on our borders, knowing their reports

00:23:31.420 While the Biden administration was in office, their own reports was reporting that over a third of the females, regardless of age, was sexually assaulted before they made it to their border.

00:23:46.480 They knew it was human traffickers that were trafficking these young kids to the border, and then they were unvetting or refusing to vet the so-called sponsors, and there was zero wellness checks.

00:24:02.020 And they want to claim that Republicans, because we're enforcing the laws, is inhumane somehow?

00:24:07.680 What's inhumane about taking care of our kids?

00:24:09.760 As a father of six with three young girls, I will do whatever I have to do.

00:24:14.960 I will move heaven and hell to go find these kids.

00:24:19.220 You know, I love the commitment there.

00:24:21.080 And I want to remind people of the vote center that have taken place, the Democrats.

00:24:25.380 You had 145 Democrats that vote against mandating deportation for illegal aliens who commit sex crimes.

00:24:34.400 You have 160 Democrats vote against mandating deportation for illegal aliens with DUIs.

00:24:41.480 You have 186 Democrats who voted against mandating deportations for illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud.

00:24:51.300 And you have 190 Democrats who voted against mandating deportation for illegal aliens who harm police animals.

00:25:01.060 I think it's clear. Democrats have literally never met an illegal alien.

00:25:04.880 They're not willing to feed, protect, defend, and allow to then take children and unvet them. 0.55

00:25:10.360 there's nothing they won't do to have an open border policy. 0.69

00:25:14.100 Yeah, look, that's right.

00:25:16.040 And those votes were all in this past year.

00:25:18.820 If you go back to during the Biden administration in the Senate, 100 percent, every single Senate

00:25:25.280 Democrat voted in favor of open borders over and over and over again.

00:25:29.680 We would tee up the votes.

00:25:31.520 I led the fight on many of these.

00:25:33.800 And the Democrats' straight party line would vote in favor of open borders.

00:25:37.960 It was, and when you asked them about the kids, they didn't have a response.

00:25:43.180 They don't dispute these figures.

00:25:46.120 They just don't talk about them.

00:25:48.200 And it's, look, I want you to listen to Secretary Mullen talking about the kids they found so far and what they continue looking for.

00:25:58.980 You know, I tell people that I haven't quit smiling since I've been Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:26:04.320 But I have to take that back because when we start digging into these cases and you start hearing the absolute horrific things that took place underneath the Biden administration under true neglect at best and criminal at worst to allow 450,000 kids to go missing throughout this country, President Trump has made it a point to go find these kids.

00:26:32.760 And because of our partnership with HHS and DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, truly using the best of the best, which the Democrats sometimes want to demonize, because a lot of times this is ICE, this is HSI, this is CBP.

00:26:49.720 These individuals that the Democrats seem to want to defund, but because of President Trump, we finally funded them for three years, were able to push and go find these kids.

00:27:01.540 We found 146,000 kids so far, 146,000 kids.

00:27:06.140 We still have nearly 300,000 missing.

00:27:09.440 We're investigating reports to where some of these kids claim that they were raped six to 700 times.

00:27:17.540 I don't care who you are.

00:27:19.960 I don't care if you have kids.

00:27:21.020 If you don't have kids, I don't care if you're a liberal, you're independent, you're a Democrat, you're Republican.

00:27:24.840 If you can't stand for law enforcement to go find these kids, who are you?

00:27:31.540 Who are you? Every leader should understand what's going on.

00:27:35.940 And do you know where we're finding the most of them? Sanctuary cities, because they know they're safe.

00:27:40.320 If you think about sex trafficking, a child center, you would go to a sanctuary city.

00:27:45.720 That is the safest place for you to operate. You and I have talked about this bluntly. 0.69

00:27:50.880 Well, and it's worth explaining why, because in a sanctuary city, you have Democrat elected officials.

00:27:56.620 You have Democrat district attorneys who won't prosecute the human traffickers, who won't prosecute the sex traffickers, who have decided as a political matter that their party, the Democrat party, is for open borders.

00:28:10.600 You know, you remember Chris Murphy when he said on TV, the very liberal Democrat from Connecticut, he said, the people we care about most, illegal immigrants.

00:28:20.720 That was his phrase, the people we care about most. 0.91

00:28:23.600 And by the way, that's a lie also. 0.99

00:28:26.620 He doesn't care about the little girls and little boys being raped and turned into sex slaves. 1.00

00:28:32.200 He doesn't care about them at all. 0.98

00:28:33.660 What he cares about is letting in as many illegal immigrants as possible who will then vote Democrat and keep the party in power. 0.55

00:28:40.800 I want you to listen to Secretary Mullen making this point, that as there were multiple reports of kids being trapped in sex slavery, no Democrat gave a damn.

00:28:50.260 It was being reported at the time it was happening, and there was no outrage, and no one tried to hold these people accountable.

00:28:55.860 and kids now have been paying for it. They've been getting raped over and over and over again 0.75

00:29:01.300 because this previous administration chose not to enforce our nation's laws and protect the

00:29:07.980 most vulnerable. That is shameful. Six to 700 times. That is a number that I do believe should

00:29:15.200 haunt everyone listening. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I want you to remember when Alejandro Mayorkas

00:29:20.740 testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I showed him the plastic bracelets,

00:29:27.520 the colored bracelets that traffickers would put on every illegal they brought into this country,

00:29:32.780 and they were color-coded for how many thousands of dollars they owed them. And it was literally,

00:29:36.720 they were treating human beings like cattle. And when you stand on the border down by the Rio

00:29:42.140 Grand River, you see hundreds of these in the grass. And I asked him what the colored wristbands

00:29:47.220 were. And his answer was, I have no idea. I've never seen them before, which I get a bit made

00:29:52.900 me really angry because it means he hadn't bothered to go to the border at all. He did not

00:29:58.760 care about the children being trafficked. And I view those colored wristbands as modern day 0.95

00:30:04.940 leg irons. This is slavery today in America. And the Democrats were responsible for it. And one of 0.54

00:30:11.360 the most important things the Trump administration is doing is stopping this horrific abuse of

00:30:17.200 kids that the Democrats allowed to have happen. All right, Senator, I want to get into another

00:30:21.540 story that is getting like no news at all. It's the reason why we love doing this show together.

00:30:26.520 We get to talk about issues like that. The Green New Deal, which is the Green New Scam, 0.99

00:30:32.300 has been exposed yet again for exactly what it is. And we've got some very interesting 1.00

00:30:38.920 data and ties to different green scam deals that your tax dollars were involved with.

00:30:45.260 Well, this week, the Department of the Interior announced that they were cutting off

00:30:50.380 millions of dollars that were flowing to radical left-wing groups that were using that money to

00:30:56.860 actively fight against the Trump administration, to undermine the policies they were supposed to

00:31:03.040 be implementing. And here's how Fox News reported it. Trump administration acts as ties to dozens

00:31:09.480 of progressive groups in, quote, direct opposition to mission, decisive action. The Department of

00:31:16.580 the Interior is cutting 43 partnerships with outside groups, it says, no longer align with

00:31:21.440 the Trump administration's priorities, eliminating more than $4 million in planned funding for

00:31:27.280 programs tied to DEI, environmental justice, and support services for illegal immigrants.

00:31:33.960 Led by Secretary Doug Burgum, the department determined that the agreements were operating,

00:31:38.220 quote, in direct opposition to its mission, according to a press release obtained by Fox

00:31:43.960 News. Under Secretary Burgum, the Department of the Interior is ending partnerships with groups

00:31:49.520 that no longer represent the priorities of the American people, the department said.

00:31:55.320 In response, DOI said it is terminating all agreements with the identifying groups and

00:32:00.640 removing references to them from its websites. The terminated agreement supported internship

00:32:05.580 programs, conservation initiatives, research projects, and cooperative partnerships.

00:32:10.920 A department-wide review launched in March uncovered nearly 3,000 active agreements

00:32:18.040 with about 2,000 outside groups, ranging from NGOs and non-profits to private entities and

00:32:24.400 educational institutions. The review later found multiple groups, quote, did not appear to provide

00:32:29.780 a clear benefit or, quote, did not align with the department's mission, according to the department.

00:32:34.400 Among the groups targeted were the Hispanic Access Foundation, which offers scholarships for illegal immigrant Latino students, and Latino Outdoors, which the department said provided instructions on avoiding detention by ICE.

00:32:50.800 Latino Outdoors has advocated against oil and gas development, while Hispanic Access Foundation has worked with the National Park Service to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities, according to the department.

00:33:04.400 The department cited the American Alliance of Museums, which it said had a contract with the National Park Services to build DEI programs across national parks as a part of the agency's community engagement initiative.

00:33:17.460 The department pointed to the group's previous Facing Change initiative, which promoted DEI efforts at museums.

00:33:24.980 Conservation International, an environmental group, the department said, advocates a total phase-out of fossil fuels.

00:33:33.240 The department noted the organization's statement describing fossil fuels as the

00:33:37.220 quote, leading culprit of planet warming carbon emissions and its support for environmental

00:33:42.040 justice and equity focused climate policies. Another group on the department's list was the

00:33:48.420 Cultural Landscape Foundation, which it said has a master cooperative agreement with the National

00:33:54.520 Park Service to conduct a variety of educational and cultural support activities. The organization

00:34:01.180 has opposed several administration initiatives, including suing over changes at the Kennedy

00:34:05.740 Center, criticizing plans for the White House ballroom, and highlighting cultural landscapes

00:34:11.100 and historic sites it said are threatened by administration action through its Landside

00:34:17.000 2026 Erasing American History initiative. And look, understand, these are left-wing activist

00:34:24.420 groups. They're entitled to have their political views. They're entitled to disagree with the

00:34:28.440 Trump administration. We are a free country and they have a free speech right to say they think

00:34:33.540 everything that the Trump administration does is wrong. What they don't have is an entitlement to

00:34:39.320 get taxpayer dollars to do it, to pay them to fight the Trump administration. This is a pattern

00:34:46.160 that the Democrats do a lot, which is when they take over government, they begin funneling

00:34:52.680 millions and sometimes billions of dollars to their left-wing supposedly non-profit allies who

00:35:01.660 then use that money to support their agenda and by the way to hire all of them and funnel the cash

00:35:07.140 off it it is just naked corruption yeah you are making a ton of money off the money being donated

00:35:13.960 let's be clear no no it is a very lucrative business when when you can turn on the spigot

00:35:20.060 and have, as the EPA put it at the end of the Biden administration,

00:35:26.280 basically throwing gold bars out the window.

00:35:28.800 That's how bad it was.

00:35:29.820 That was the Biden administration describing what they themselves were doing.

00:35:34.780 But this is a pattern.

00:35:36.960 I got to say, normally Republican administrations are not very good at unwinding this.

00:35:41.900 So the Democrats dump a bunch of money.

00:35:45.540 And when Republicans get in, typically they don't do anything about it.

00:35:48.160 They don't funnel the money another direction.

00:35:50.840 They don't stop it. 1.00

00:35:51.640 They just are typically blissfully ignorant. 0.99

00:35:55.360 I'm very glad the Trump administration is going after and cutting off this cash cow. 0.99

00:36:01.220 Senator, you're talking about the cash cow, and that's obviously part of it.

00:36:04.600 We saw how many lefties and friends of Obama, for example, got massive amounts of cash before they filed for bankruptcy with things like—

00:36:14.260 Stacey Abrams, with her left-wing nonprofit, got $2 billion, with a B. 0.95

00:36:20.600 Yeah, with a B.

00:36:21.800 So not only is this a cash cow, but then there's a second aspect of this. 0.83

00:36:24.880 I am still a little bit surprised that Democrats are pushing the Green News scam, 0.78

00:36:29.720 especially with all their deadlines that the world was going to end.

00:36:32.700 Al Gore put timelines out there that obviously never happened.

00:36:36.520 And yet they are still so committed to this indoctrination, this religion,

00:36:41.600 the Green New Deal, the Green News scam. 0.87

00:36:43.440 And they're making it clear coming in these midterms, we're not backing down.

00:36:47.260 One, we make too much money off of it and we funnel it to our friends.

00:36:50.040 But two, this is like our religion as a party.

00:36:53.940 Look, and there's a revolving door between these supposed nonprofits, these NGOs and

00:37:01.500 a Democrat administration.

00:37:03.340 And by the way, Democrat offices on Capitol Hill and people go back and forth and back

00:37:07.580 and forth and they get paid.

00:37:09.360 They make money.

00:37:10.580 You may remember during the Biden administration, when I went to visit an attention facility on the border, and this was at a time when the Biden administration was locking out all reporters, would not let any reporters see the kids in cages, and the cages, this was during COVID, the cages were packed.

00:37:28.180 And I went in, and by the way, the ludicrous explanation that the Biden administration had

00:37:34.320 at the time is they said, well, if ABC's reporter or Fox News's cameraman came in,

00:37:39.900 they might spread COVID to the thousands of illegal immigrants housed in these cages.

00:37:44.100 Well, I went in with my cell phone and filmed it and took a picture. 1.00

00:37:47.340 And if you may remember, there's this young left-wing woman who gets in my face and begins 0.89

00:37:52.080 yelling at me and saying to stop filming him. 0.88

00:37:54.980 She was someone who had come straight from a left-wing, open-border NGO

00:37:59.700 and had come into the Biden administration to implement their open-border policies.

00:38:04.740 That's what happens over and over and over again.

00:38:08.120 And so cutting off their money is key to stopping this constant lawfare and this constant attack.

00:38:14.920 Yeah, it's a great point.

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