Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! If you blinked yesterday, you might have missed the North American Tariff war. President Trump hadn’t even cracked open his lunchtime Diet Coke before the leaders of Mexico and Canada folded and agreed to major concessions in exchange for the U.S. pausing tariffs for 30 days.

Doesn’t it feel good to have someone fighting for the American taxpayer for a change?

• 🪪 77% say Voter ID is reasonable to protect elections

• 🏈 Bret Baier will interview Trump for Superbowl pregame

• ✅ 80% of New Yorkers, including 71% of Latinos, back deportations

• 🇺🇸 On this day in 1789, Washington was elected 1st US president

^{Sources: Rasmussen, The National Pulse, Sienna, History}

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USAID Exposed

USAID staffers were told not to come to work on Monday as President Donald Trump’s administration moves to dissolve the corrupt agency and have its responsibilities absorbed by the State Department.

What USAID does: It was created in the 1960s to administer humanitarian aid abroad on behalf of the United States, using taxpayer money.

What USAID actually does: After Elon Musk’s DOGE team looked at the agency’s books, it discovered millions [possibly billions] in degenerate spending of taxpayer funds. Here are some examples:

• $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia

• $70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland

• $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam

• $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia

• $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru

• $2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala

• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

• $27 million on gift bags for deportees

• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which funded the Wuhan lab

• $20 million to produce an Arabic-language version of Sesame Street

…and this doesn’t even touch on how the CIA uses USAID to fund its objectives abroad. Scroll through Mike Benz’s X page if you’d like to go down that rabbit hole.

Zoom out: USAID’s budget in 2024 was roughly $40 billion.

Shutdown shuffle: USAID staffers were instructed by e-mail that its D.C. office would be closed Monday, and some were locked out of computer systems.

• Shutdown: During a conversation on X spaces, Elon Musk told listeners that President Trump agreed that USAID should be shut down.

• Shuffle: Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed yesterday that the derelict agency had been moved under the State Department and that he is now its acting director.

What Trump thinks: He told the press yesterday: " They have tremendous fraud… I love the concept [of USAID], but they turn out to be radical left lunatics... It's all about the people [at the top]."

The last word goes to Sec. of State Rubio, who cut to the core issue yesterday: “It’s supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so… there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be a part of American foreign policy.”

Rubio is right. There are good projects being funded by USAID. Unfortunately, bad apples spoil the bunch.

Trump orders a Sovereign Wealth Fund to invest in America

President Trump signed an executive order Monday to create a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) to be used as a diplomatic and economic development tool — and it may allow for the purchase of TikTok.

What is a SWF? It’s essentially a country’s investment account. The nation takes excess revenue and invests it in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other assets. As those assets grow, the profits are used to fund projects like infrastructure or reduce taxes.

The details: Trump’s order directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce to deliver a SWF plan within 90 days “to invest in great national endeavors for the benefit of all of the American people.”

What will it be used for? The order says it will “promote fiscal sustainability, lessen the burden of taxes on American families and small businesses, establish long-term economic security, and promote U.S. economic and strategic leadership internationally.”

• One major benefit: A SWF would create a pot to pull from in times of emergency [think Covid] for cash rather than adding to our national debt.

Where will the money come from? Critics at the globalist Wall Street Journal point out that nations usually fund their SWFs with budget surpluses, but the U.S. “has significant budget and trade deficits.”

• This is true. However, Trump has floated using tariff revenues and his executive order suggests using U.S. natural resource reserves as collateral.

TikTok: While signing the executive order, Trump floated having the U.S. government purchase TikTok and using the SWF to fund it: "We're going to be doing something, perhaps with TikTok... We might put that in the sovereign wealth fund."

Zoom out: The largest SWF currently belongs to Norway, with $1.74 trillion in assets. China is not far behind with $1.33 trillion. Back in September, Trump suggested the U.S. should approach $2 trillion.

Geopolitics: China uses its SWF as a weapon — funding infrastructure projects in third-world countries to expand its global influence and access to key resources like raw materials.

Big picture: As usual, Trump is thinking five steps ahead. A SWF would not only give the U.S. a financial security blanket. Above, I highlighted that the order specifically says, “promote U.S. economic and strategic leadership internationally.” Trump is building acountermeasuree to China’s predatory influence.

[Source: The Guardian, CNBC]

⚧️ Trump's executive order banning trans procedures for minors is already saving children — with medical facilities from New York to Colorado canceling scheduled procedures. Read more.

🇻🇪 U.S. Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem removed Temporary Protected Status against deportation for roughly 348,000 Venezuelan non-citizens. Read more.

🤡 Despite forgiving more student debt than any other president, education debt still grew to record highs under Joe Biden. Read more. Shocker. Because instead of penalizing the universities and banks that prey on 18-year-olds with predatory loans, Biden punished the American taxpayer.

🌫️ Kanye West and Bianca Censori were escorted out of the Grammys after she appeared naked on the red carpet. Read more.

🆘 Mexican drug cartels are ordering members to target U.S. Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives as the Trump admin cracks down on the southern border. Read more.

🇲🇽 Mexican law enforcement arrested 'El Ricky' a leader of Cartel del Noresete, one of the most violent cartels in Mexico. Read more.

🇸🇻 El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered for illegals – of any nationality – facing deportation to be booked in his prison system in exchange for a fee. Read more.

⛓️ The Texas National Guard has been empowered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to make immigration-related arrests. Read more.

🎥 Liberal Bill Maher defends Trump's response to dumb journalist. Watch.

🎥 Aerial footage of the moment the Trump admin killed a senior ISIS leader and other terrorists in Somalia. Watch.

🎥 My weirdo Governor from NJ, Phil Murphy, admits he's harboring an illegal in his home. Watch.

🎥 NHL champs, the Florida Panthers, visit President Trump at the White House. Watch.

🎥 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks at home with our troops. Watch.

🎥 Press Sec. reads off some of the INSANE ways USAID wastes your money. Watch.

🎥 Hollywood celeb shows up to the Grammys wearing some nonsense on his head. Watch. Does he not have a single friend willing to tell him he looks like an idiot?

🎥 Flashback: RFK Jr. exposed USAID months ago to Tucker Carlson. Watch.

🎥 This genius kid is on the DOGE team. Watch.

🎥 Go long: UFC’s Dana White sits down with Tucker Carlson. Watch. [34min] I enjoyed Dana’s insight on Trump & his role at META.

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