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It seems we have reached an inflection point in the fight to adopt what President Trump has called an “America First Investment Policy”: Last week, two influential Wall Street financiers, Kevin O’Leary and Larry Fink, appear to have broken with their colleagues’ determination to continue investing in China first.  Read More.

Illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Allegedly a member of MS-13, he was deported to El Salvador and has resided in El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Center for more than a month. Abrego Garcia’s case has become a cause célèbre on the Left, where Democrats and their open borders allies have peddled the fake news that he was “mistakenly deported.” Read More.

Our friend Robert Romano, writing for Americans for Limited Government explains the good news that producer prices dropped 0.4 percent in March, following consumer prices dropping 0.1 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The continued drops in food and energy prices, particularly on the producer side, which saw 2.1 percent and 4 percent drops, respectively are good news for consumers. Read More.

In May 2019, the Chinese Communist Party publicly declared a “People’s War” on the United States after decades of “unrestricted warfare” against us. Throughout, it has been building up the power and reach of its military, incredibly with American funding and technology.  Read More.

Back during the 2024 presidential campaign then-candidate Donald Trump devoted time during several campaign speeches to articulating the need to use the military to secure the southern border. On Friday, April 11, 2025, President Donald Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-4, directing the federal government to undertake a “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions.” Read More.

The cost of government is not what it taxes, it is what it spends. We're hearing some Republicans in Congress and some economic advisers in the White House want to raise the highest rate to 40% (or even slightly higher) to punish the wealthy. Apparently, they've been attending Bernie Sanders rallies. Read More.

This Holy Week, Melania and I join in prayer with Christians celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ—the living Son of God who conquered death, freed us from sin, and unlocked the gates of Heaven for all of humanity. Read More.

United House Republicans approved their budget framework Thursday, a political turnaround after Speaker Mike Johnson worked into the night to conclude a deal with House conservatives who had refused to advance trillions of dollars in tax breaks without deeper spending cuts. Passage of the bill clears the way to begin the “reconciliation” process with the Senate to achieve passage of President Trump’s agenda free from the threat of a Democrat filibuster. Read More.

The City Council of Jacksonville, Florida, has passed a first of its kind ordinance criminalizing illegal entry and allocating funds for 25 portable fingerprint scanners. Jacksonville’s Democrat Mayor Donna Deegan objected to the bill but allowed it to become law without her signature because she did not see a clear path to sustaining a veto. We urge CHQ readers and friends to demand similar legislation from their city government. Read More.

Yesterday’s Consumer Price Index report revealed inflation fell to 2.4% in March, smashing expectations for the second straight month, posting the first drop in consumer prices in several years. Even CNN was forced to admit, “This was actually a DROP of .1% — that's the first time we've seen that since COVID." Year-over-year, the annual inflation rate was at 2.4%. Read More.

Antonio Gracias, an official with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that millions of migrants had received social security numbers, and Medicare, and thousands of those were already on the voter rolls and voted in the last election because Obama and Biden changed the rules to create a new base of fully dependent voters. Read More.

It appears that President Trump’s confrontation with Communist China over its unfair trade practices and the resulting increase in tariffs constitutes what is known as a “material change” in the environment for the CATL initial public offering (IPO) that must be disclosed to potential investors. Such a disclosure might very well kill the deal. Read More.

Seventy countries have responded to President Trump’s insistence on reciprocity in bilateral trade relations by seeking to negotiate with the United States. Communist China is not among them. While the Chinese Communist Party left the door to negotiations open a crack, its overwhelming response is belligerent retaliation. Read More.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Iran next Saturday in a last-ditch effort to rein in the country’s nuclear program. As President Trump told Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business in early March 2025, "We’re down to final strokes with Iran. . . we’re down to the final moments. Final moments. Can’t let them have a nuclear weapon…" Read More.

Monday evening, the Supreme Court (in Trump v. J.G.G.) ruled by a vote of 5 to 4 that a district judge in D.C. did not have jurisdiction to issue temporary restraining orders that barred the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan nationals that it believed to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang. However, as is often the case with the Roberts Court, the ruling did not resolve the core issues in the case. Read More.