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PoliticusUSA is independent news that you can trust. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now The majority of the American people have turned on Trump’s immigration policy, and no longer support it. The administration is not taking it well that the issue on which Trump thought he got elected is now a major weakness. Trump border czar Tom Homan went on Fox News and first tried to blame the media for the public turning against the right-wing deportation agenda. Homan said: The working men and women of ICE are doing is incredible. We are looking for over 300,000 missing children. We have already found 10,000. Have you heard that anywhere? No, the media is simply not covering it. Look, this should be a nonpartisan issue. Arresting public safety threats and national security threats, everybody be on the same page on that. Rescuing children, I mean, it should be a nonpartisan issue. Everybody should be in lock step on that. But they’re not. The media is lying. The Democrats are — they don’t want President Trump to be successful. I got news for them. We are being successful. Every illegal alien, public safety threat we arrest makes this country safer. Every national security threat we take off the street and deport makes us safer. Video: The problem is that the bulk of those being arrested and deported aren’t criminals or national security. They are average people who have done nothing criminally wrong. Remember, illegal entry into the country, overstaying a visa, is a civil offense, not a criminal offense. According to Homan, the problem is that everybody wants Trump to fail, and that is why America has gone sour on the Trump immigration policy. There is a group of people who do appear to be violating the law, and Homan admitted that it is the Trump administration. Read more

PoliticusUSA is news that puts readers first, because readers are the sole source of support for our work. To support PoliticusUSA, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Democrats have changed tactics and it seems to be paying off. One of the lessons that Democrats learned from 2024 is running a bunch of ads and assuming the voters understand and get it is not the most effective strategy. In 2025, with Trump back in the White House, Democrats and their progressive allies have been taking their message to the voters face-to-face. Democrats aren’t just staying in blue or purple areas, they are heading to some of the most conservative states and districts in the country to deliver the message that the Republican controlled federal government isn’t working for them. Rep. Ro Khanna is taking this message to one of the reddest states in the country by visiting South Carolina. Axios reported: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is taking his “benefits over billionaires” tour to South Carolina next week, holding town halls in GOP districts in the deep south. … Khanna will also use the trip to troll Republicans and talk directly to some of their voters, including those who rely on Medicaid. Khanna will participate alongside Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.) in town hall meetings in the districts of Republicans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and William Timmons (R-S.C.). Timmons’ district is more solidly Republican, but Democrats are eyeing Mace’s seat. “The Mace one is a winnable district, light red,” Khanna said. “That’s exactly the type of district which we could win if we put in the effort, but it’s not a give-me.” PoliticusUSA is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It was very nice of Republicans to put the most significant issue of the 2026 and maybe 2028 election in policy terms by passing a massive tax cut for the rich that is in part paid for by cuts to services for everyone else. The divide among the electorate should not be red versus blue, but the billionaires versus everyone else. A lot of people in South Carolina are going to be harmed by the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, and Democrats are showing up in the state to tell Republican voters what their representatives have done to them. The most impactful contact that can be made with voters is in-person contact, and Democrats are going to be in Republican districts through election day 2026, spreading the message. What do you think of Rep. Khanna’s South Carolina town halls? Join the conversation in the comments below. Leave a comment

PoliticusUSA can only stay independent with the support of readers like you. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now After a tragedy like the flash flood in central Texas that has now killed hundreds of people, there are always questions about what happened, what could have been done differently, and if such a tragic event could be prevented in the future. Any president visiting the site where such a loss of life occurred should be prepared for those types of questions. They aren’t unusual or out of line. A reporter asked Donald Trump, “Several families we’ve heard from are obviously upset because they say that those warnings, those alerts, didn’t go out in time, and they also say that people could have been saved. What do you say to those families?” The question was especially appropriate because the reporter who asked it was CBS Texas. A local reporter asked a question of the president that was very important to the families. Trump immediately got defensive and melted down by answering, “Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was, I guess as Kristi said, a one in 500, once-in-1,000-year event. And I just have admiration for the job that everybody did. There’s this admiration. Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you. I don’t know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that.” Video: Read more