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Libs and pundits TRIGGERED by AG Pam Bondi’s bada** first orders after her swearing-in

February 6, 2025 | | Print Article

Newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi spent her first day defunding sanctuary cities and ordering an investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s anti-Trump probe.

Shortly after being sworn in as AG on Wednesday, Bondi ordered all  Department of Justice (DOJ) funding to be stripped from sanctuary city jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities.

“[T]he Department of Justice will ensure that, consistent with law, ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ do not receive access to Federal funds from the Department,” Bondi wrote in a first-day memo.

“Consistent with applicable statutes, regulations, court orders, and terms, the Department of Justice shall pause the distribution of all funds until a review has been completed, terminate any agreements that are in violation of law or are the source of waste, fraud, or abuse, and initiate clawback or recoupment procedures, where appropriate,” she added.

The jurisdictions most likely to be affected by Bondi’s order are all controlled by Democrats and include New York State, New York City, California, Connecticut, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, several DOJ offices forked over $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023 alone.

Bondi also ordered the DOJ to identify and review any funding agreements it has with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to illegal aliens.

And she ordered the DOJ to one, investigate instances of sanctuary cities obstructing law enforcement, and two, prosecute any officials caught doing exactly that.

In taking these actions, the AG helped push forward President Donald Trump’s agenda.

During his first day in office, the president signed an executive order directing his future AG and Homeland Security Secretary “to the maximum extent possible under law, evaluate and undertake any lawful actions to ensure that so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, which seek to interfere with the lawful exercise of Federal law enforcement operations, do not receive access to Federal funds.”

Bondi is backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who in 2023 told the New York Post that he supported pushing legislation that would permanently defund sanctuary cities.

“The idea that you would maintain a sanctuary city status and then cry out to the federal government for assistance in what you’ve done is, to me, unconscionable,” he said at the time.

Trump for his part tried during his first term in office to defund cities that were lax on crime, but his plan was later scrapped by his successor, former President Joe Biden.

All this comes about a week after House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer announced an investigation into sanctuary city policies and how they affect both public safety and immigration enforcement.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions and their misguided and obstructionist policies hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, making Americans less safe,” he said in a statement at the time.

In addition to targeting sanctuary cities, Bondi also spent her first day initiating an investigation into all the anti-Trump probes that were launched during the Biden administration.

“That review will cover cases brought by former special counsel Jack Smith over Trump’s handling of classified documents and 2020 election interference, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case that led to a conviction, and a case from New York Attorney General Letitia James, in which she won a $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump,” according to CNN.

Bondi also issued another memo warning career DOJ employees to not place their own political beliefs over their work for the Trump administration.

“The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election,” the memo reads.

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