While certain documents remain locked away, the government has kept quite busy! Join us as we count down recent controversial actions from the halls of power. Our countdown includes an FBI purge, federalizing National Guard units, mass civil servant layoffs, and media crackdowns. What do you think these priorities reveal about transparency in government? Let us know in the comments below!
03:23Critics said the rebrand wasn't about readiness.
03:25It's about macho optics, punctuated by a last-minute, chest-thumping speech for every flag officer in the military.
03:32We won the First World War, we won the Second World War, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to change the name.
03:44The move stunned allies and officers alike, who warned it glorified aggression over service.
03:50Supporters called it patriotic correction, a reminder that America should stop apologizing for its power.
03:56I thought it would be met with fury on the left, but they're sort of giving up, I must be honest with you.
04:03Number seven, shutting down the government and lying about why.
04:07The spin called it budget discipline and a fight against free health care for illegal immigrants.
04:13The reality was something else.
04:15Republicans in Washington let the government shut down and then walked away.
04:19But the far left's determination to oppose anything President Trump has ever said or done is not a good reason for subjecting the American people to the pain of a government shutdown.
04:29The Senate adjourned as a third week loomed and military paychecks hung in the balance.
04:34The administration scrambled to get soldiers paid while laying off thousands of federal workers.
04:39The damage was serious.
04:41A private payroll gauge said the U.S. lost 32,000 jobs in September.
04:46That's according to the payroll company ADB.
04:53Then news broke that a newly elected Democratic congresswoman couldn't be sworn in.
04:58Speaker Johnson blamed the shutdown, though he had no problem swearing in Republicans.
05:03Perhaps, coincidentally, Congresswoman Grijalva would be the deciding vote in the House to release the Epstein files.
05:09It has nothing to do with that at all.
05:11We will swear her in when everybody gets back.
05:14Number six, ICE raids everywhere.
05:16The raids came fast and furious across dozens of American cities.
05:20In summer 2025, ICE launched one of the largest coordinated immigration crackdowns in U.S. history.
05:27Agents stormed factories, courthouses, and homes nationwide.
05:31What we have seen now on a much larger scale is federal agents indiscriminately stopping and arresting individuals without warrants.
05:40Under the Rescissions Act of 2025, funding for immigrant legal aid and sanctuary programs was slashed.
05:47Tens of thousands of immigrants and refugees were left with no real legal recourse.
05:52Local officials called the raids militarized, especially after Trump authorized National Guard deployments to assist immigration arrests.
06:00Videos from across the country showed masked agents detaining people without identifying themselves.
06:06Supporters said it restored order to quote-unquote, lawless cities.
06:10Critics called it fascistic state terror.
06:13Mass arrests meant to frighten immigrant communities into silence.
06:17This is about authoritarianism.
06:19It's about stoking fear.
06:21It's about breaking the Constitution.
06:23Number 5.
06:24The Big Beautiful Bill is anything but.
06:26When President Trump unveiled his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, he promised it would quote,
06:31simplify everything and put America first.
06:34But the bill was overstuffed with hidden, highly controversial provisions.
06:38Behind the patriotic branding, it slashed taxes for corporations and the wealthy.
06:49It weakened climate and labor protections.
06:52It expanded oil drilling on public lands.
06:54It also limited oversight of private prisons and rolled back consumer safeguards.
06:59All of these wildly unpopular policies were buried deep within hundreds of pages of legislative fine print.
07:06And with that, we are watching now.
07:08The Big Beautiful Bill has passed on the vote breaking the tie of the Vice President of the United States.
07:15Critics called it a wish list for lobbyists.
07:17While supporters touted it as bold deregulation.
07:21Either way, the administration wasn't exactly forthcoming about what was really inside this beautiful bill.
07:27The most recent estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds the bill will add about $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit over 10 years.
07:37Number 4.
07:38Mass Layoffs of Civil Servants.
07:40President Trump enlisted Elon Musk to help lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
07:47Their mandate? To take a chainsaw to the federal workforce.
07:50Within months, the administration initiated sweeping layoffs across nearly every agency.
07:56He spoke about his crusade to cut government spending and downsize the federal workforce.
08:01The effort was framed as an attempt to trim the fat.
08:04According to multiple news agencies and fired workers, the layoffs caused massive bureaucratic paralysis.
08:10Infrastructure projects stalled, public health initiatives collapsed, and lawsuits piled up.
08:16Even conservative allies admitted the cuts went too far, as many positions were later reopened and offered to political loyalists.
08:23Some fired workers were even asked to later return to their jobs.
08:27The efficiency experiment ultimately proved far more chaotic than cost saving.
08:32The General Services Administration is asking hundreds of employees whether or not they want to come back and work for the federal government.
08:38Number 3.
08:40Promised tariffs are raising prices.
08:42Despite warnings from Democrats and free-market Republicans alike, America elected a man with tariffs as the centerpiece of his economic vision.
08:50Trump scoffed at critics who claimed American consumers would pay the price.
08:54They have come up with some kind of sum that they say represents the totality of the tariffs that American goods are faced when they are being exported into China or Cambodia or the EU or the UK, for instance.
09:07Cut to summer 2025, new tariffs on China, Mexico, and the EU sparked a fresh wave of inflation.
09:14Groceries, coffee, and everyday goods all surged in price.
09:18Businesses passed costs straight to shoppers.
09:21And economists warn the policy could erase wage gains from the past two years.
09:26This is, I would say, incredibly concerning because what we're seeing is that this pricing pressure is building farther back in the supply chains,
09:35yet to reach the consumer at the fullest extent.
09:38The White House calls it economic nationalism.
09:41But it looks more like a self-inflicted wound.
09:44Farmers face higher equipment costs.
09:46Retailers face supply shocks.
09:48And families face bigger bills at the checkout line.
09:51Proof that tariffs hit hardest at home.
09:54I think the sharp reaction to this news shows how priced for perfection markets have become.
09:592. Federalizing the National Guard and sending them into U.S. cities
10:03The line between policing and the military has grown dangerously thin.
10:07First, President Trump asserted direct control over Washington, D.C.
10:11He wrested the city from the hands of local officials, activating the D.C. National Guard.
10:16This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back.
10:22We're taking it back.
10:23Despite all the crime stats pointing at a reduction, the administration cited crime and disorder as their justification.
10:29Then came plans to push troops into blue cities, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Portland, over local objections.
10:36If you look at the top 25 cities for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.
10:43Courts, at least initially, balked at parts of the plan.
10:47Local leaders called the need for federal troops zero.
10:51Legal scholars warn the approach blurs the very line the Posse Comitatus Act was meant to hold.
10:57Troops in the streets can erode Democratic guardrails, inviting more and more authoritarian abuse.
11:03There is no reason a president should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge consent or cooperation.
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11:241. FBI purge and alleged Epstein cover-ups
11:31Under new director Kash Patel, the FBI has been hollowed out.
11:35Veteran counter-terrorism and public corruption agents were fired or reassigned, replaced with loyalists and political appointees.
11:42Critics say the purge crippled the Bureau's ability to investigate extremism and white-collar crime.
11:48Cases tied to Trump allies have, unsurprisingly, disappeared.
11:52Then came fresh allegations that Patel's team stalled or buried evidence linking prominent figures to Jeffrey Epstein.
11:59And so the information we are releasing now is historic, and it is also to the maximum capacity that the law allows.
12:05At the same time, amidst a shutdown, a swearing-in delay for newly elected Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva ignited suspicions.
12:13A lot of talk about me being the 218th signer for the discharge petition for the Epstein files, which I will do as soon as I am sworn in.
12:22Political pressure could be blocking her confirmation to prevent a House vote to release Epstein-related files.
12:28To be clear, none of this is proven, but between partisan firings and withheld documents, the pattern feels like power protecting itself.
12:36He's dead for a long time.
12:38He was never a big factor in terms of life.
12:42Why do you think there is such a fight to prevent the release of the Epstein files?
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