The United States has now gone 13 consecutive months with zero illegal aliens released into the country at the border, according to the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. The post Trump Hits Historic Border Milestone: 13 Straight Months with Zero Illegal Aliens Released into the U.S. appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Economist Peter Schiff is warning that the federal government's yawning budget gap will be papered over with a flood of newly printed money, and that ordinary Americans will pay for it through prices that could eventually double.The chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management laid out the math in a post on Saturday. In May, he wrote, the government spent $628 billion while collecting just $335 billion in taxes, a shortfall so large that balancing the budget would require tax revenue to nearly double. Schiff does not believe that will happen, and his prediction for what comes instead is blunt. "Since that won't happen," he wrote, "massive money printing will cover the shortfall, sending consumer prices doubling instead."In other words, Schiff is arguing that the administration faces a politically impossible choice and will take the path of least resistance. Rather than impose a tax increase steep enough to close the gap, which he later estimated at roughly 50 percent once seasonal revenue is accounted for, he expects the government to monetize the debt. The cost of that decision, in his telling, does not disappear. It simply shows up at the grocery store and the gas pump instead of on a tax bill.The thread drew agreement from others who share Schiff's hard-money outlook.Where Schiff went further than some observers was on the political fallout. When one user argued that doubling taxes was "virtually impossible" and would "absolutely cause massive unrest," recommending spending cuts instead, Schiff agreed the unrest is coming either way. "Yes, but they won't" cut spending, he replied, predicting that the government "will still get unrest, but they will blame it on inflation." The implication is that the administration will treat rising prices as an external force to be managed rather than the predictable result of its own fiscal choices.
'You Close It And You Won't Have A Country': Trump Reportedly Says US Could Become 'Guardian Angel' Of Strait Of Hormuz
After issuing a plethora of fresh threats Sunday morning, President Donald Trump was issued a warning of his own from Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who hours later warned Trump to “be careful” with his words amid the delicate ceasefire between the United States and Iran.As relayed by Fox News’ Trey Yingst, Trump threatened to “take over” both Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, while also issuing a vague threat that appeared to suggest he may order the assassination of Iranian peace negotiators, Ghalibaf included. In a statement published on social media, Ghalibaf hit back at Trump and urged him to tread carefully.“Don't they think to themselves that if their threats had any effect, they wouldn't have reached the point of despair today? We don't count on the threats of the Americans,” Ghalibaf wrote in his statement, according to an English translation from Hebrew by Google Translate.“They better be careful with their statements, our armed forces are ready to respond in another way. Whatever they say, we are the ones who will act.”Trump’s threats Sunday morning have already had an impact on the negotiations being held in Switzerland. An Iranian news outlet reported that the Iranian delegation left the negotiation venue in protest of Trump’s threats, and MeidasTouch, a progressive media outlet, argued that Trump was “single-handedly destroying the entire peace process.”🚨🚨 BREAKING: Iran's negotiators have LEFT the venue in protest of Trump's threats, per Tasnim.Trump is single-handedly destroying the entire peace process.— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 21, 2026
President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States will take control of the Strait of Hormuz, collecting tolls and 20% of the oil that flows through the waterway if negotiations between Washington and Tehran in Switzerland fall through. Vice President JD Vance is meeting with Iranian officials on Sunday to finalize the terms of […]
A right-leaning national security commentator is openly questioning President Donald Trump's stability and motives after he threatened to resume strikes on Iran, even asking whether the president is "bipolar" on foreign policy or being pressured into it.The reaction followed a Truth Social post in which Trump demanded that Tehran rein in its allies in Lebanon. "Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble," Trump wrote. "If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!" The threat landed days into a fragile arrangement meant to wind down the conflict, and it struck some of Trump's own ideological allies as a reckless reversal.David Pyne, an America First analyst who posts under the handle @AmericaFirstCon, argued the threat amounted to a betrayal of the agreement Trump had just signed. He accused the president of violating "the armistice agreement by refusing to stop Israel from bombing Lebanon" while simultaneously threatening Iran if it does not order Hezbollah to stand down. Pyne warned that restarting the war would return Trump to being what he called a "Deep State America Last president," then floated a darker explanation for the whiplash. "Is Netanyahu threatening to release the Epstein Files again," he asked, "or is Trump just bipolar when it comes to foreign policy?"That suggestion of blackmail is Pyne's own speculation, presented as a rhetorical question rather than backed by evidence, and it taps into a recurring conspiracy theory among some on the right about leverage over the president. It is worth noting that neither Pyne nor anyone else quoted is in a position to diagnose Trump's mental health, and the "bipolar" framing functions as a rhetorical jab rather than a clinical assessment.Pyne was amplifying military analyst Daniel L. Davis, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and senior fellow at Defense Priorities, a think tank that advocates for foreign-policy restraint. Davis, an early Afghanistan war whistleblower whose "Daniel Davis Deep Dive" commentary reaches a substantial audience, offered his own stark characterization of the president's posture. "President Trump simply does not know how to exit this war he started," he wrote, arguing that the abrupt shift "reveals something close to schizophrenia." Davis pointed to the apparent contradiction in Trump's recent maneuvering, noting the president had spent roughly 48 hours trying to box in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pressure him to halt attacks in Lebanon, only to pivot immediately to threatening Iran over the same conflict.The criticism is notable because it comes from the anti-interventionist wing of the right rather than from Trump's usual opponents. Both Pyne, who posts under an "America First" banner, and Davis, a vocal critic of "forever wars," built their followings opposing the kind of escalation Trump is now threatening, and their alarm reflects growing frustration in that faction that his Iran policy has lurched between threats, deals, and renewed threats without a coherent endgame.The episode underscores the strain Trump's handling of the Iran conflict has placed on his coalition. After a war that ended in a memorandum widely panned across the political spectrum, even allies who share his stated aversion to "America Last" foreign policy are now publicly wondering whether the president has a strategy at all, or is simply reacting from one post to the next.Trump violates the armistice agreement by refusing to stop Israel from bombing Lebanon and threatening to hit Iran "very hard" with bombing strikes if they dont tell Hezbollah to stop defending themselves against Israeli attacks. If he restarts the war, he will go back to being… https://t.co/J3U9YZiMss— David Pyne 🇺🇸 (@AmericaFirstCon) June 21, 2026
“Lots of Killing going on in Chicago…Why isn’t [Illinois] Governor [JB] Pritzker calling me for help?” President Trump wrote on Truth Social early Sunday.
Talks in Switzerland between the US and Iran were still ongoing despite Iranian media reports that negotiators had left the venue, according to people familiar with the matter.