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3/14/2025 Domestic Concerns of Fraud, Free Speech, and Women's Sports
March 16, 2025 · 59 min
A dive on President Trump's speech at the DOJ, money laundering in ActBlue, censorship in the Maine State legislature, and a biblical perspective on women's sports and Oregon's Abortion Pandering.
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A dive on President Trump's speech at the DOJ, money laundering in ActBlue, censorship in the Maine State legislature, and a biblical perspective on women's sports and Oregon's Abortion Pandering. ...more Show the full description Show less A dive on President Trump's speech at the DOJ, money laundering in ActBlue, censorship in the Maine State legislature, and a biblical perspective on women's sports and Oregon's Abortion Pandering.
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In this video 0:00 Government Shutdown and Political Maneuvering1:53 Legal Battles and Judicial Activism3:34 Political Investigations and Allegations4:43 Courageous Stands and Cultural Battles8:38 Biblical Worldview and Current Events
1:32 later in the year.
1:34 This is a good clean fair CR for the American people to keep the federal business government business open and operating, so we can pass a balanced budget and a good budget reconciliation
1:46 package later this year. And so we're pleased with Chuck Schumer, and we hope every Democrat will get on board and do what's right for the American public.
Legal Battles and Judicial Activism
1:54 And in other domestic news, 2 federal judges have ruled that thousands of probationary employees laid off by the Trump administration must be reinstated to their jobs. Judge James
2:05 Bradar, an Obama appointee, ruled that probationary employees from 18 federal agencies must be temporarily reinstated to their jobs. Brader agreed with plaintiffs that the
2:17 Trump administration had violated a 6 days notice requirement when they laid off probationary employees as part of a doge effort to reduce the federal workforce. But the Trump
2:29 administration has argued that no such notice was required for the layoffs because federal law allows the government to terminate probationary employees under certain circumstances without any heads
2:41 up. In a separate lawsuit, a federal judge in California also reversed the mass layoff of probationary employees ruling that Trump's office of management and budget does not have the
2:53 authority to conduct layoffs. The White House has vowed to fight both of these lawsuits.
2:59 You cannot have a low level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the president of the United States. That is completely absurd. And as the executive of the
3:10 executive branch, the president has the ability to fire or hire. In 1 month in February, there have been 15 injunctions of this administration in our agenda. In 3 years under the Biden
3:22 administration, there were 14 injunctions. So, it's very clear that there are judicial activists throughout our judicial branch who are trying to block this president's executive authority. We are going to fight back.
Political Investigations and Allegations
3:34 And in other Trump administration news, the Department of Education is investigating 45 colleges over allegations they participate in race based admissions, preferences, and
3:46 scholarships. Department said in a statement that these schools were being investigated for potentially violating title 6 of the Civil Rights Act of 19 64, which banned
3:58 schools that receive federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race or sex. Department is also investigating 6 colleges for allegedly awarding race based scholarships
4:10 and another for administering a program that segregates students on the basis of race. This announcement comes after the Supreme Court in 20 23 overturned affirmative action in college
4:22 admissions. And those are today's headlines. I'm Victoria Marshall. For more news and commentary, be sure to check out the Washington Stand at washington stand dot com. And find this
4:33 and other news on the stand firm mobile app. Up next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. We'll see you next week with more news.
Courageous Stands and Cultural Battles
4:51 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers,
5:03 all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
5:11 Well, good afternoon. I hope you have had a fantastic week. Welcome to this Friday edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heise, senior vice president here at the Family Research Council and president
5:23 of FRC Action. Thank you so much for joining us today. We've got a lot coming your way. We are now less than 7 hours away from a potential government shutdown
5:35 unless the funding deadline is met. So what are the Democrats in the senate going to be doing? Well, minority leader in the senate Chuck Schumer surprised his party
5:46 yesterday when he announced his decision to back the house GOP's continuing resolution.
5:54 I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government
6:05 open and not shut it down.
6:10 Surprise. Surprise. That was, of course, senate, senator Schumer yesterday on the senate floor, and I will be discussing the latest of all of this when I'm joined here in just a few minutes by congressman Mark Harris
6:22 of North Carolina. And he and I, by the way, will also be discussing the address that president Trump delivered just moments ago, literally, at the Department of Justice.
6:33 Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice, but I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back.
6:45 They're never coming back.
6:48 Wow. So how significant was the president's visit to the Department of Justice, and, what were all the takeaways from his speech? We'll be talking about that here in just a little bit. And
7:00 speaking of justice, house Republicans want the Trump administration to look into the Democratic online funding platform, ActBlue. They say there's some potential
7:12 money money laundering and perhaps even worse, some terror financing that's been taking place through ActBlue. And I'll be discussing this later in the program when I'm joined by Will Chamberlain, of the article
7:24 3 project. And a state representative in Maine, some of you have seen this already, but she's refusing to be silent. She's refusing to be bullied by Democrats in
7:36 her state who have literally stripped her of speaking and voting privileges. And what in the world did she do to earn that? Well, she spoke up for female
7:48 athletes. Athletes who lost to a young man who decided to compete against girls.
7:55 I will not apologize for speaking the truth. And the truth is, there are biological males who are taking the place of biological females. I think about those 2 girls who should have been first place in the
8:07 state championship pole vault and the disappointment that they faced when a biological male took the podium instead of them. I will not apologize for speaking up on behalf of Maine girls.
8:20 That was Maine state representative Laurel Libby, and she was speaking to reporters, of course, this weekend. She herself will be joining me today a little bit later in the program. And then to close
8:32 out the show for the day and the week, we'll be joined by David Clawson for our weekly Biblical Worldview segment. Well, we have a lot to discuss today, headlines from the news from this week. And among them, by theShow more
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