"America's least popular politician is the mayor of a large, economically critical city in a blue state -- but not the one who was, until recently, under federal indictment.

Nearly 800 miles west of New York City, where Mayor Eric Adams is fighting to keep his job after the Justice Department moved to drop his corruption case, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has seen his reputation collapse.

A recent poll from M3 Strategies, conducted between February 20 and 21, showed the Democrat -- who just two years into his tenure -- with a 6.6 percent approval, one of the worst showings for any major political figure in the country's history."

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"Despite broadly circulating left-wing narratives that the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was causing a cataclysmic drop in support for President Donald Trump's administration, a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll has substantially undercut that assertion.

"The survey, released Monday, showed Trump with a 50% approval rating, compared to a 43% disapproval figure. That number largely aligns with the RealClearPolitics polling average, which gives Trump a 49.3% approval rating and a 47.5% disapproval.

"Eighty-three percent of voters expressed a preference for cutting government spending to raising taxes, while 77% supported a broad review of government spending. Sixty percent of voters, moreover, believe that DOGE is currently helping the government to make major cuts."

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"DOGE wants to see where our tax dollars go, and we should let them. No surprise that the 'government industrial complex' will resist every effort to bring transparency and accountability to how those funds are spent when the system is ripe with problems.

"I've had first-hand experience with USAID and other international aid organizations, such as the World Bank, UNESCO, and even the Red Cross, during my 40-plus trips to Haiti after being invited by then Haitian President Rene Preval to help rebuild the nation following the devastating 2010 earthquake.

"And I've seen how USAID, along with other NGOs, delivered on very few of their promises, failed to coordinate relief activities, and even skimmed money off the top."

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"DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.

"The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure -- it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.

"Power Forward Communities' grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government's oversight of the program."

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"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior military officials to develop a budget plan that would slash defense spending by 8%, a dramatic cut which could reshape military end-strength and readiness for decades.

"In a memo first obtained by the Washington Post, Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be compiled by Feb. 24. Seventeen categories would be exempt from the budget reductions, including military operations at the southern U.S. border, nuclear weapons and missile defense programs, and acquisition of certain drones and munitions.

"The idea of steep defense cuts, originally reported by Bloomberg last week, is certain to draw opposition from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where Republicans in recent weeks had been discussing major increases in defense spending in upcoming years -- not significant cuts."

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"The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News to members of Congress, Vance (and anyone who supports his speech) was accused of using Nazi tactics. It is the demonization of dissent.

"In one of the most bizarre examples, CBS anchor Margaret Brennan confronted Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vance's support for free speech given the fact that he was 'standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.'

"The suggestion that free speech cleared the way for the Holocaust left many scratching their heads, but it is an old saw used by the anti-free speech community, particularly in Germany."

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"The federal government is racing toward a fiscal cliff, with a new report citing a mind-numbing $838 billion cash shortfall just for the first four months of the fiscal year.

"Yet Democrats are losing their minds over Team Trump's efforts to trim fat and waste. Do they want the Uncle Sam to go belly up?

"Per the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, that $838 billion hole is a whopping 15% higher than last year's October-through-January gap."

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"In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington's permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump's acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday informing it that the Justice Department will no longer defend the constitutionality of federal laws that limit the ability of the president to remove the heads of 'multimember regulatory commissions.'

"Those are the so-called independent agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

"This effort to implement accountability is long overdue."

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"Under the Constitution, 'the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion.' For his decisions, 'he is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.' His choices cannot be questioned in court because 'the subjects are political. They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive.'

"Who penned these outrageous words? Democrats and many pundits might answer Vice President J.D. Vance. Over the weekend, Vance provoked an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges 'aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.'

"But the usual suspects would be wrong. The right answer is John Marshall, the greatest chief justice in Supreme Court history. And he did not squirrel this view away in a private journal. Instead, Marshall publicly explained that courts could not review presidential decisions on 'political' subjects 'entrusted to the executive' in a Supreme Court opinion."

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"The White House on Wednesday night said that approximately 75,000 federal workers have decided to accept the Trump administration's buyout offer by its deadline, which has now closed.

"Trump's White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent the offer to millions of employees last month, which allowed employees to retain benefits and be paid through September if they agree to resign by a certain deadline, which was initially set for Feb. 6, but was delayed because of court rulings. ...

"The deadline comes after a judge lifted the pause on the program on Wednesday, ruling that the unions who sued to stop the program did not have the legal standing to bring the case forward."

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