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What Happened Today – August 16

🦅🚔 Trump’s takeover is accelerating.

Today, he doubled down on his Washington takeover with hundreds more troops from red-state governors. Meanwhile, the Post got internal ICE maps and charts showing plans to double detention capacity in just months. America is now blocking medical visas for sick Gazans. New analysis shows $500B in mandatory Medicare cuts start in months. The pattern is clear: power grabs today, permanent cruelty tomorrow.

This is what he is building. Today, we still call Germans who liked Hitler’s economic moves but not his cruelty and racism what they were: Nazis.

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All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days.
The State Department's post on X/Twitter, August 16.
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Bessent ousts three senior IRS executives as Trump administration installs seventh commissioner this year and agency reels from mass resignations.

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