Trump claims he employs many people on ‘great’ H-1B visas as MAGA civil war over program grows: Live updates

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary praised the newly elected president Donald Trump continuing fascination with annexation Canada as an American state, saying there was “something great” about it because it would form “the most powerful country in the world”.

Having spent ridicule over the past few weeks Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offering him to become the “governor” of the “51st state”, the future president upped the ante with a Christmas message to the United States’ neighbor to the north. In addition to recommending that hockey great Wayne Gretzky run for “governor of Canada,” Trump also claimed that Canadians’ taxes would drop massively if they joined the American union.

In 2013, during the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, that number dropped to 42 percent. Back in 2006, it was 69 percent.

The annual survey on health and healthcare was conducted between November 6 and 20. The same survey showed that fewer Americans positively evaluate the coverage and quality of health care in the US.

Gustaf Kilander it has details.

According to the industry group The Toy Association, nearly 80 percent of American toys are made in chinaone of the countries The newly elected president he threatened with immediate charges on exports.

“There’s an absolute flood of interest,” Republican fundraiser said ABC News.

The donations included a number of big names in the world of technology and finance.

Amazon, Meta, Uber and Ford are all allegedly are planning million dollar donations, as is a hedge fund manager Ken Griffin and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Josh Marcus it has details.

Mike Bedigan it has a story.

Donald TrumpThe new border czar says the administration’s plans for a mass deportation operation will include locking immigrant families together in detention centers before they are forced out of the country.

“We will have to build family facilities,” Tom Homan said The Washington Post in a recent interview. “How many beds we need will depend on what the data says.”

While cable news CNN and MSNBC continue to see massive post-election declines in their television ratings, and a new Associated Press poll reveals that most Americans are worn out since then Donald Trump electoral victory and are excluded from political news.

A survey conducted by the AP and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in early December found that roughly two-thirds of respondents said they had “recently felt the need to limit their media consumption of politics and government because of overload.” Some participants explained why they felt tired and had to walk away.

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Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said her agency would have to begin taking “emergency measures” or special accounting maneuvers aimed at preventing the nation from reaching the debt ceiling as early as Jan. 14, in a letter to congressional leaders Friday afternoon.

“The Treasury expects to reach the statutory debt limit between January 14 and January 23,” Yellen wrote in a letter to the House and Senate leadership, at which point emergency measures would be used to prevent the government from breaching the national debt ceiling — which is suspended until January 1, 2025.

The department has in the past used what are known as “emergency measures” or accounting maneuvers to keep the government running. But when those measures expire, the government risks defaulting on its debt unless lawmakers and the president agree to lift limits on the U.S. government’s ability to borrow.

“I respectfully urge Congress to act to protect the full faith and credit of the United States,” she said.

Donald Trump is claiming victory after a judge ruled that the Biden administration must turn over purchase records representing the $1.4 billion Congress appropriated to build a wall on the border with Mexico, a federal judge in Texas said Friday.

The records will help track materials that Texas claims the federal government auctioned off in violation of a court order, Bloomberg Law reports.

Judge Drew Tipton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, requested the records at the end of a virtual hearing requested by Texas to determine whether the federal government illegally disposed of wall material in anticipation of Trump’s re-election.

The President-elect wrote on Truth Social:

ISSUE: In a major, key WIN for America and our national security, a federal judge in Texas, based on documents we filed just days ago, has BANNED the Biden administration from selling any materials intended for the border wall, which was destroyed by Biden and his friends, and which I will rebuild to protect our country from violent migrant crime, fentanyl smuggling, sex trafficking, terrorist attacks, and other heinous, nation-ending disasters. The judge also ordered an investigation into the illegal sale of the materials, which will reveal how corrupt and anti-American the radical Democrats are. I am honored to be joined in this vital case by the Great States of Texas and Missouri, and I applaud Judge Drew Tipton for doing the right thing for our country. We must protect our borders and save America. MAGA!

Another burst was fired into the ongoing MAGA civil war it played out online between “America First” hardliners and Silicon Valley oligarchs who support Trump over the immigrant worker visa program — and now Elon Musk was accused of personally punishing his critics.

Laura Loomer and other far-right activists who railed against the owner of X (formerly Twitter) and his DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy for supporting the H-1B visa and criticizing American work culture, allege that Musk removed their X verification badges and the ability to monetize their accounts in an act of retaliation.