Trump Administration Triples Payment for Migrants to Self-Deport

The media is laser-focused on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens through enforcement, but the truth is that the vast majority of illegal aliens who have left the country have done so voluntarily through the CBP Home App. The administration is tripling its incentive. Homeland Security: The Department of Homeland Security is continuing to deliver this holiday season on its promise to help illegal aliens in the United States return home.  Illegal aliens who sign up to self-deport through the CBP Home app by the end of the year will receive a $3,000 stipend in addition to a free flight home. Using the CBP Home app also qualifies recipients for forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties for failing to depart the country.  “Since January 2025, 1.9 million illegal aliens have voluntarily self-deported and tens of thousands have used the CBP Home program. During the Christmas Season, the U.S. taxpayer is so generously TRIPLING the incentive to leave voluntarily for those in this country illegally- offering a $3,000 exit bonus, but just until the end of the year,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “Illegal aliens should take advantage of this gift and self-deport because if they don’t, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return.”   (Homeland Security)

Heritage Still Bleeding Employees After Tucker Carlson Flap

The Kevin Roberts/Tucker Carlson controversy will not go away. Over the weekend, a significant but unspecified number of staffers resigned, signaling that Roberts’ apology for sticking by Carlson after his friendly podcast with Nick Fuentes ignited a firestorm of criticism. National Review: Staffers in the Heritage Foundation’s economic, legal, and data centers resigned over the weekend to join a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, National Review has learned, adding to the list of employees who have departed in recent weeks over disagreements with the conservative think tank’s leadership. The organization’s president, Kevin Roberts, sent an email to staff Sunday evening informing them of the departures. “We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes,” he wrote. Roberts also told staff in the email that the organization’s chief economist, EJ Antoni, will now serve as acting director of the organization’s Center for Data Analysis and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and that policy expert Cully Stimson will now lead the organization’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies on an “interim basis, with assistance from Hans von Spakovsky.” “Any personnel change is difficult, but we look forward with great anticipation to the important objectives Heritage will accomplish in 2026 and to be adding new talent to our great team,” Roberts wrote. A Heritage spokesman did not specify how many staffers resigned. Following National Review’s report on staff resignations in Heritage’s economic and legal centers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that more than a dozen of those staffers were leaving Heritage to join Advancing American Freedom, an advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. (National Review) Reason: More than 30 employees at the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government, Ed Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Center for Data Analysis, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget have resigned or were fired in the last few days. Those departing include Amy Swearer, who told Roberts he had lost her confidence as a leader during an all-staff meeting in November that leaked to the press, and John Malcolm, a Heritage vice president and the foundation’s top legal scholar, who was fired last Thursday after Roberts caught wind of the plan to leave for AAF, according to multiple sources. E.J. Antoni—who was briefly President Donald Trump’s nominee for Commissioner of Labor Statistics—is staying on and will serve as acting director of several of the aforementioned teams. (Reason)

Outgoing D.C. Police Chief Uses F-Bomb on Critics

Classy. Outgoing D.C. police Chief Pamela A. Smith had a choice message for her critics: F-you to my haters,” after she was forced to resign for juking the crime stats in the nation’s capital city. Washington Times: Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said “F you” to her critics during her farewell address, as the District’s top cop exits at the end of the month amid allegations she fudged crime statistics. Chief Smith launched into a fiery defense of her reputation following a congressional report that accused her of coercing command staff to alter statistics so the city would appear less crime-plagued. “Let’s be really clear about one thing: Never would I, never will I ever compromise my integrity for a few crime numbers,” Chief Smith said Friday in a speech delivered in front of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Metropolitan Police Department’s command staff. “Never would I compromise my love for God, the faith that I had in this city,” she said. “Never would I compromise my integrity; never would I compromise 28 years in law enforcement for a few folk who couldn’t stand to be held accountable. And if I had to do it all over again, I’d do it again.” (Washington Times) Do what? Fudge the numbers?

Leftist War on Bari Weiss at CBS Amps Up

Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes story of the El Salvador CECOT prison at the last minute, saying that it needed more reporting before being ready to air. All the usual suspects are claiming that she did so at the behest of the Trump administration, which on its face is absurd. Ed Morissey: Weiss issued a last-minute order to yank a 60 Minutes exposé on Donald Trump’s decision to partner with El Salvador on deporting criminal illegals, citing the need for more reporting and better balance. All of the usual suspects have been losing their minds ever since: CBS News pulled a segment on Trump administration deportations of Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison from “60 Minutes,” causing staffers and media onlookers to question whether the decision was politically motivated. …Driving the news: “60 Minutes” announced on social media around 4:30pm ET Sunday that it was dropping the segment, called “Inside CECOT,” from that evening’s broadcast lineup, but said that it would air at a later date. Sharyn Alfonsi, the segment’s correspondent, alleged in an email to colleagues that she learned Saturday that new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss had “spiked our story” after Trump officials refused to be interviewed, per multiple reports. “Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Alfonsi wrote, per a copy of the email that journalist Liam Scott shared on X. I’ve watched 60 Minutes and CBS News’ practical application of “standards and practices” for decades. This is not the flex that Alfonsi thinks it is. Twenty-one years ago, CBS News and 60 Minutes II ran a prime-time hit piece on George W. Bush based on fabricated documents in an attempt to influence a presidential election. “Rathergate” only cost CBS some embarrassment and retractions, and perhaps a momentary blip in sponsor support. Almost exactly twenty years later, they botched a re-edit of their softball interview with Kamala Harris so badly that the manipulation was once again easily exposed by critics and commentators. That escapade cost Paramount $16 million to settle in a lawsuit Trump filed, who most definitely preferred direct action more than Bush did at the time. (Hot Air) (Axios)

Massachusetts Mayor Needs a Translator Because He Can’t Speak English

Nothing says “diversity is our strength” more than the mayor of a Massachusetts city requiring a translator to understand his constituents. Not the Bee: How does this happen in an American city with nearly 90,000 residents? Welcome to Lawrence, Massachusetts: The city in northern Massachusetts has gone from 60% Hispanic in 2000 to 82% Hispanic in 2020. Just down the road from where the Pilgrims landed, there is no longer any need to speak English to talk to most of your neighbors. Mayor DaPena was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He came to the United States, according to his website, in the early ’80s. More than 40 years later, he still struggles with English, showing no interest in assimilating to American culture or language. (Not the Bee)

Bernie Sanders Kills Pediatric Cancer Bill to Get ‘Leverage’ on Obamacare Subsidies

Bernie Sanders decided to play the Grinch for children with cancer this Christmas season, killing a unanimous consent motion to send a bill on pediatric cancer straight to President Trump’s desk. New York Post: Lefty Sen. Bernie Sanders is facing a storm of backlash for blocking the Senate from fast-tracking legislation aimed at helping pediatric cancer patients by giving them access to comprehensive drug treatments. The bleeding-heart liberal from Vermont was the sole vote against passing the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act on Wednesday, demanding a quid pro quo be attached to it for more funding for other efforts such as community health centers. A unanimous vote in the chamber would have allowed the bill to bypass several steps, which typically involve the committee process and rules for debate, to move it straight along. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ team indicated he’d revisit the issue when the Senate reconvenes in the new year.Sanders’ vote ensured the bipartisan cancer package won’t clear the Senate before Christmas and forces the upper chamber to now undergo the more procedurally intensive process to make the bipartisan bill law. (New York Post)

Museum: Santa Is Too White, Too Male, and Needs to Be ‘Decolonized’

It’s not exactly clear what it would mean to actually decolonize Santa, since he is the product of an entirely white European culture, but a British museum is recommending that it be done. The Sun: Brighton and Hove Museums has released a bizarre guide to “decolonising” the man in red. A blog post on its website suggests Santa should work alongside his elves on the presents production line to show that they are equals. The group, granted £900,000 of taxpayer cash in October, says Santa’s “naughty and nice” list teaches kids that the “coloniser has the power to judge all people”. The post was written by the museum’s Joint Head of Culture Change, Simone LaCorbinière. (The Sun) Perhaps the new depiction of Santa should look like a black transgender Karl Marx wielding a hammer and sickle.

Welfare Payments Amount to $70,000 Per Family

Former Senator Phil Gramm and former assistant commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics John Early wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal pointing out the other great fraud of welfare in the United States. Gramm and Early: Something is profoundly wrong with the U.S. welfare system—a problem that runs far deeper and is more dangerous than the shocking fraud in Minnesota that has been making headlines. Across the past half-century, America has seen what in any other country would be considered a golden age, in which lower-income households have made incredible progress. Despite the end of our postwar economic dominance around 1975, the country’s real per-capita gross domestic product grew by 142% from 1974 to 2024. More than two-thirds of U.S. households have inflation-adjusted incomes today that would have put them in the top one-fifth of households in 1967. Sixty-two percent of the children who grew up in the poorest fifth of all households in the ’70s and ’80s worked their way up to a higher income bracket as adults, some all the way to the top quintile. Yet even as our economy has experienced broad-based growth, real federal welfare spending has soared by 765%, more than twice as fast as total federal spending, and now costs $1.4 trillion annually. Were that money simply doled out evenly to the 19.8 million families the government defines as poor, each household would receive more than $70,000 a year. The source of this dramatic mismatch is a fraud built into how various programs determine welfare eligibility: The government doesn’t count any refundable tax credits or benefits that aren’t paid in cash as income to the recipients. (Wall Street Journal)

Michigan US Senate Candidate Says She Would Assault Supreme Court Justices if She Met Them

A current Democrat Michigan State Senator and candidate for US Senate, Mallory McMorrow, admits that if she met Supreme Court Justices at a tailgating party, she would throw beers at them and get violent. Fox News: A Michigan Democratic Senate candidate is facing backlash after a clip went viral Thursday revealing what she would do if she saw Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh out in public. Mallory McMorrow, who is running in the crowded Democratic Senate primary, ignited social media backlash from conservatives after her comments to supporters last month surfaced. McMorrow was asked by a female attendee at a Huron Valley Indivisible event on Nov. 12 whether there “was any sense in dealing with the Supreme Court,” adding that she “blame[s] them for a lot.” “So, I’m a Notre Dame grad, and Amy Coney Barrett coming out of my university makes me furious. Just on a personal level. I talked to somebody yesterday who said they saw her and Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend,” McMorrow said last month. “I would not have been able to control myself. That would be bad. There would be beers thrown in peoples’ faces.” (Fox News) It’s a good thing that the Democrats are the party of “norms,” or candidates for Attorney General would be fantasizing about killing people they dislike.

The Conservative ‘Split’ on Israel Is a Mirage

After all the talk about a growing divide among conservatives over the issue of Israel, it turns out that the straw poll at TPUSA shows that the vast majority of attendees agree that Israel is either the best, or one of the best allies that the United States has. Brent Scher: For those who think Tucker and Candace are winning… 87 PERCENT of the TPUSA audience thinks Israel is an ally. One third said Israel is America’s TOP ALLY. This is the one issue Tucker talks about. They’ve convinced nobody. (Brent Scher on X) David Reaboi: If you look on social media or listen to most podcasts on the Right, the result of this poll is shocking. But it would make sense, as it reflected the loud applause Ben Shapiro got, and the awkward silences when Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon took their shots. But it’s even more curious then, that JD Vance seems to believe that that running cover for that 13% is a political winner. Based on the poll, 33% of TPUSA attendees would be described as “pro-Israel hard liners”—and an additional 54% describe the Jewish State as an ally—so you’d think that the discussion about this issue would roughly reflect that reality. But it doesn’t; it’s exactly the opposite. People like Carlson and Vance are trying very hard to change the facts on the ground when it comes to US relationship with Israel before 2028. (X)