Tulsi Gabbard on Holding the Deep State Accountable and Securing the Border

National Security and Border Control

• 🎯 Tulsi Gabbard congratulates the President on his first 100 days, emphasizing leadership in delivering the American people's mandate.
• 🛂 She highlights immediate actions taken to prioritize threats from cartels and gang members attempting to enter the country, especially in light of the Biden administration's border policies.
• 🔍 Collaboration with the Attorney General's team and DHS/FBI is underway to identify and stop cartel members at the border and those already within the country.
• ⚠️ Recent findings include 700 alien terrorists with ties to MS-13, Trende Aaru, and the Sinaloa cartel, and nearly 600 individuals with terrorist ties who entered illegally and were paroled under the previous administration.

Reforming the Intelligence Community

• ✂️ The ODNI has been made 25% smaller and more lean to eliminate waste and abuse.
• 🚫 A human capital office, identified as a slush fund for DEI initiatives, was shut down, saving taxpayers $150 million.
• 💰 Further savings of $2.6 billion are anticipated from other programs and contracts that do not serve national security interests.

Accountability and Transparency Measures

• ⚖️ Efforts are ongoing to hold the deep state accountable and end the politicization and weaponization of the intelligence community.
• 📰 Three criminal referrals have been made for illegal and unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence to the media, with 11 more under investigation.
• 🔒 67 security clearances have been revoked, and work continues on declassifying documents related to historical assassinations (JFK, RFK, MLK).
• 🔍 Extensive investigations are also focused on exposing issues related to election integrity, illegal abuses of FISA, and Crossfire Hurricane.