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The Trump administration has officially rebranded the U.S. Institute of Peace as the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, installing the president’s name on the D.C. headquarters just ahead of a Rwanda–DRC peace signing ceremony.
The State Department hailed the move on X, saying the institute is now named for “the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history.”
But the renaming follows months of turmoil. The administration cut the institute’s funding, fired most of its board, terminated staff, and even attempted a forcible takeover of the building — a move a federal judge later ruled illegal, though the decision is on hold during appeal.
Former USIP leaders blasted the rebrand as adding “insult to injury,” while the White House insisted the old institute was “bloated and useless.”
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đź”” Trump Wages War on Fentanyl
đź’° Trump Rolls Back Biden-Era Fuel Economy Standards
🏛 Trump Admin Pauses Immigration from 19 Countries
🏛 Trump Institute of Peace Officially Renamed
đź—ł Top Democrat Credits Trump for Securing Border
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President Trump is going all-in on his war against fentanyl, and he's not playing around. The cartels have been poisoning American communities for far too long, and Trump is making it crystal clear that their days of free reign are over. Venezuela's narco-terrorist regime remains squarely in his crosshairs, and the president isn't backing down despite mounting pressure from critics who seem more concerned about protecting drug smugglers than American lives.
On the home front, Trump is delivering real relief to American families by scrapping Biden's insane fuel economy standards that sent car prices through the roof. It's just another example of Trump systematically dismantling the disastrous policies of the previous administration and putting America first. Every single day, this president is fighting to restore prosperity, security, and common sense to our nation.
Check out all the latest developments and more below!
đź’° Trump Rolls Back Biden-Era Fuel Economy Standards
President Trump announced that his administration is resetting Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards that increased car prices. Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the reset in the Oval Office while flanked by Republican lawmakers and auto industry leaders. Trump said that "we're officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdensome, horrible, actually, CAFE standards that impose expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems to auto makers." The president noted that the CAFE standards imposed by the previous administration impacted both domestic and foreign manufacturers making cars for the American market and, in turn, consumers. Trump added that "it put tremendous upward pressure on car prices, combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate. Biden's burdensome regulations helped cause the price of cars to soar more than 25 percent, and in one case, they went up 18 percent in one year."
🏛 Trump Admin Pauses Immigration from 19 Countries
The Trump administration announced that it would be pausing immigration from 19 countries that were already under full or partial travel restrictions. The impacted nations are Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. The immigration pause, which is effective immediately, applies to nationals from the 19 listed nations who entered the U.S. on or after Jan. 20, 2021, the date of former President Joe Biden's inauguration. It also affects all green card and citizenship applications for anyone hailing from one of the now-restricted countries. A memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services outlining the new restrictions referenced the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., with the suspect being a 29-year-old Afghan national.
🏛 Trump Institute of Peace Officially Renamed
The U.S. Institute of Peace has been formally rebranded as the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, marking the latest step in the president's monthslong effort to dismantle the congressionally created agency. The name change comes after a turbulent year for the organization, which the Trump administration has sought to shut down while shifting its authority to the Department of Government Efficiency. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly defended the renaming, stating the former institute had been "a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace." Kelly added Trump "ended eight wars in less than a year," framing the institute's new name as recognition of his "peace through strength" approach. The U.S. Institute of Peace was created by Congress in 1984 as a nonpartisan organization supporting conflict-prevention and peace-building efforts abroad.
đź—ł Top Democrat Credits Trump for Securing Border
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that President Trump deserves credit for solving the border crisis. Jeffries spoke with the hosts of CNN's "The Situation Room" about whether the president has fulfilled his campaign promises. Jeffries claimed that the Democrats support a strong and secure border, but argued that Republicans have angered many Americans by deporting illegal immigrants who have otherwise been law-abiding residents. When CNN's Pamela Brown pressed him on whether Trump deserves credit for securing the border, Jeffries responded, "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It's happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it. Of course, he'll get credit for that." The White House responded to Jeffries' comments, saying "even a broken clock is right twice a day."
Standing behind President Trump in the Oval Office, an Anchorage mother helped push forward the fight against fentanyl, years after her son died in an overdose.
đź”” Trump Announces War on Fentanyl đź””
The Trump administration unveiled its "Fentanyl Free America" anti-trafficking plan as Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole told the media that strikes on suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean are helping stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. President Trump said that the U.S. is preparing to take its campaign against narco-terrorism directly "on land" inside Venezuela, warning that the Nicolás Maduro regime has already sent "killers, murderers … gang members" and other violent offenders into the U.S. during past years of mass migration.
Speaking in the Oval Office during a Q&A session with reporters, Trump said U.S. forces are escalating operations against the trafficking networks behind the synthetic opioids and narcotics he blames for hundreds of thousands of American deaths. Trump told reporters that "very soon we're going to start doing it on land too," adding that American intelligence agencies have mapped the routes, safe houses and production sites used by narcotics manufacturers operating inside Venezuela.
Trump has repeatedly accused the Maduro government of weaponizing migration, repeating his claim that Venezuela "sent us killers, murderers … drug dealers at the highest level … gang members and people from their mental institutions," alleging the country had "emptied their prisons into our country." President Trump is on board with releasing the video footage of the second strike targeting an alleged drug boat, which has faced heightened scrutiny from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle amid confirmation from the White House that the U.S. military conducted a second strike against one of the vessels after the first strike left survivors.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters that he watched the first strike live, but left for a meeting and did not learn of the second strike until later. The White House said that Hegseth had authorized Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley to conduct the strikes, and that Bradley was the one who ordered and directed the second one. Some congressional Republicans are making the argument that President Trump is under far more scrutiny for his strikes in the Caribbean Sea than former President Barack Obama ever experienced for his drone strikes in the Middle East.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued that a precedent for strikes was set under Obama, and that the former president didn't receive near the level of scrutiny that Trump is. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said that China opposes "external interference" in Venezuela's affairs amid rising tensions between the South American country and the United States.
China is one of dictator Nicolás Maduro's most crucial allies and has provided numerous forms of support to the rogue socialist regime, especially in recent years. Venezuela will continue accepting deportation flights from the U.S. at the request of President Trump's administration, the country announced.
Trump threatened to declare the airspace "above and surrounding" Venezuela to be "closed in its entirety," causing Venezuela to cancel the twice-weekly flights of migrants from the U.S., but Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that, at the request of the Trump administration, those flights have now resumed. Trump has proven once again that he will not tolerate threats to American lives, and his administration is prepared to take the fight to the cartels wherever they operate.
🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟
⚖️ Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, accused the Biden-era Department of Justice of weaponizing its prosecution after his pardon from President Trump. Cuellar told the media that "I did speak against the Biden administration about open borders. … Absolutely it was weaponized." President Trump announced he would be granting the Texas Democrat and his wife Imelda a "full and unconditional" pardon as they awaited trial for alleged bribery and money laundering.
🔥 The Small Business Administration is investigating a network of Somali groups in Minnesota that it says is tied to a massive COVID fraud scandal. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced that "numerous individuals and nonprofits indicted in the $1 billion Minnesota COVID fraud scandal, including Feeding Our Future, received SBA PPP loans in addition to other state and federal funding." She added that "despite Governor Walz's best efforts to obstruct, SBA continues to work to expose abuse and hold perpetrators accountable, full stop."
🏛 An Albuquerque man was sentenced to roughly 10 months in federal prison for using social media to issue violent threats against the president. Tyler Leveque, 38, was sentenced after admitting to posting a series of threats targeting President Trump over several days in early January 2025. Prosecutors said the threats began on Jan. 2, 2025, when Leveque posted a TikTok video in which he voiced hatred toward multiple groups, warned followers they should be "f---ing scared" and declared his willingness to die.
đź’¬ Former President Barack Obama suggested there was a "resistance" in the military preventing its "politicization" by the Trump administration. Obama remarked that there have been "pretty big breakdowns" of major institutions and claimed that the military is being used in "partisan politics," arguing that resistance within the ranks has helped hinder its complete politicization. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell called out Obama's comments, saying Obama "remained silent" over the Biden administration allegedly targeting conservatives in the military.
⚖️ Attorney General Pam Bondi pushed back after being sued by a former immigration judge who claims she was wrongfully fired. The lawsuit, filed by former Ohio immigration Judge Tania Nemer, accuses the Justice Department of discrimination based on sex, nationality and political affiliation. Bondi dismissed the discrimination allegations at a White House Cabinet meeting with President Trump, saying "last I checked, I was a woman as well." Bondi also highlighted that "we have been sued 575 times," adding "more than every administration going back to Reagan combined."
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