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November 14, 2025
Supporting Foster Youth Aging Out Of System, Historic Trade Deal Proposals, Presidential Pardon Granted To US Citizens, Lawsuits, 23rd Amendment, And More
On November 13, 2025, the Office of the First Lady published the statement First Lady Melania Trump Announces Executive Order on Fostering the Future, Opens New Opportunities for Public-Private Partnershipsannouncing the First Lady's involvement with the EO Fostering the Future for American Children and Families to unite Federal resources with public- and private-sector partnerships to create pathways for foster youth who are aging out of the foster care system. The EO will establish the First Lady's Fostering the Future program to include securing pledges & future commitments, online resource and planning hubs, increasing access to Federal support, expanded educational opportunities. The HHS, US Department of Treasury, HUD, and OPM are committing resources to assist in achieving these goals. The First Lady invites private-sector organizations to sign the pledge to Fostering the Future for American Children and Families on the Be Best Fostering The Future page on the White House website.
On November 13, 2025, President Trump signed the EO Fostering the Future for American Children and Families. Section 1 identifies the need of the Nation's foster care system to be improved. Caseworkers are overburdened, technology is outdated, future foster or adoptive parents are discouraged or even prohibited because of their religious beliefs or adherence to basic biological truths.
Section 2 Modernizing the Child Welfare System gives the Secretary of HHS 180 days to take appropriate actions in updating regulations, policies and practices to improve collection, publication, utility, and transparency of data; promote technological modernization in the foster care system; use tech solutions to increase caregiver recruitment and retention; use tech improve caregiver and child matching; and maximize funding to ultimately benefit the children.
Section 3 Fostering the Future states that within 180 days, the Secretary of HHS will coordinate with the Office of the First Lady as well as heads of other relevant executive departments and agencies to: develop partnerships; launch an online platform to help youth transitioning out of foster care; develop a strategy to reallocate funds returned by States to promote educational success, occupational advancement, and financial literacy and self-sufficiency for these youth; increase Education and Training Voucher flexibility; and work with the Secretaries of Treasury & Education to facilitate State use of educational scholarships for transitioning youth.
Section 4 Maximizing Partnerships with Americans of Faith directing the Secretary of HHS to coordinate with the Director of the White House Faith Office and the Director of White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to take appropriate action to address State and local policies and practices that prohibit participation by qualified individuals or organizations based on religious beliefs or moral convictions and to take appropriate action to increase the partnerships between agencies and faith-based organizations and houses of worship to serve foster care youth and potential foster care youth.
The accompanying Fact Sheet President Donald J. Trump Fosters the Future for American Children and Familiesexpounds on the EO noting the EO launches the Fostering The Future initiative, establishes the Fostering the Future platform, creates a strategy to reallocate underutilized Federal Funds, increases Education and Training Vouchers flexibility, strengthens partnerships with faith-based organizations and houses of worship, updates regulations and improves data collection, promotes modernization of information systems, and requires an annual report to evaluate State performance. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are focusing efforts on supporting ALL the children in our Nation while recognizing that children in our foster care programs need additional assistance both while in the program as well as when transitioning out of the program.
On November 13, 2025, the White House published the Fact Sheet President Donald J. Trump Announces Historic Trade Deals with Western Hemisphere Trading Partnersannouncing trade deals with El Salvador, Argentina, Ecuador, and Guatemala creating greater and more streamlined market access to and from these countries. These agreements secure commitments on economic and national security issues; help US farmers, ranchers, fishermen, small businesses, and manufacturers increase import/export opportunities to these countries; and underscores the Trump Administration's commitment to fair and balanced trade that protects and strengthens our economic and national security. In addition, each agreement includes country-specific commitments:
El Salvador has committed to addressing a range of non-tariff barriers, including by streamlining regulatory requirements and approvals for U.S. exports, such as accepting vehicles and automotive parts built to U.S. motor vehicle safety and emissions standards and accepting FDA certificates and prior marketing authorizations for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
El Salvador will also break down non-tariff barriers for U.S. agricultural products in its market, including ensuring that U.S. agricultural exporters will not be restricted due to the mere use of certain cheese and meat terms.
Argentina will provide preferential market access for U.S. goods exports, including certain medicines, chemicals, machinery, information technology products, medical devices, motor vehicles, and a wide range of agricultural products.
Argentina has also committed to addressing structural challenges cited in the Office of the United States Trade Representatives 2025 Special 301 report, including patentability criteria, patent backlog, and geographical indications, as well as to working towards aligning its intellectual property regime with international standards.
Guatemala has committed to facilitating digital trade, including by refraining from imposing digital services taxes or other measures that discriminate against U.S. digital services or U.S. products distributed digitally, ensuring the free transfer of data across trusted borders, and supporting a permanent multilateral moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Guatemala has committed to protect internationally recognized labor rights. In furtherance of this commitment, Guatemala will prohibit the importation of goods produced by forced or compulsory labor and strengthen its labor laws and their enforcement.
Ecuador has committed to adopt and maintain high levels of environmental protection, take measures to improve forest sector governance and combat illegal logging, and fully implement the obligations of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.
Ecuador will remove or decrease a range of tariff barriers across key goods sectors, including tree nuts, fresh fruit, pulses, wheat, wine, and distilled spirits, and fully eliminate a variable tariff on many agricultural products it had imposed through the Andean Price Band System. These actions will create commercially meaningful market access opportunities for U.S. exports, supporting high-quality American jobs.
The Fact Sheet goes on to state that these agreements reinforce our trade relationships while fostering more reciprocal conditions that prioritize American workers and industries, protect US national security, and strengthens Western Hemisphere supply chains.
However, theseagreements with El Salvador, Argentina, Ecuador, and Guatemala are not yet finalized. It is anticipated that over the coming weeks, the agreements will be finalized to include Most Favored Nation tariff treatment for goods from these countries that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the US in sufficient quantities needed.
The Fact Sheet concludes that these agreements liberate the US from unfair trade practices as a continued practice by President Trump and his administration to bring fair and balanced reciprocal trade between the US and other countries.
85 Presidential Orders, Memoranda, Determinations, Permits, and Notices
On November 14, 2025, the FR published the following 3 Proclamations:
1.Proclamation 10989 Granting Pardons for Certain Offenses Related to the 2020 Presidential Election signed November 7, 2025 was sent straight to the FR for publication. This proclamation "ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation." Using the authority granted via the US Constitution Article II, Section 2, President Trump grants
afull, complete, and unconditional pardontoall United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.
In addition, Proclamation 10989 specifically calls out the following individuals to receive this pardon:
Mark Amick, Kathy Berden, Christina Bobb, Tyler Bowyer, Joseph Brannan, Carol Brunner, Mary Buestrin, Darryl Carlson, James Ken Carroll, Brad Carver, Robert Cheeley, Kenneth Chesebro, Hank Choate, Jeffrey Clark, Vikki Consiglio, Nancy Cottle, James DeGraffenreid, John Downey, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn, Amy Facchinello, Bill Feehan, Carolyn Fisher, Harrison Floyd, Clifford Frost, Kay Godwin, Edward Scott Grabins, Stanley Grot, Rudolph Giuliani, John Haggard, Scott Hall, Misty Hampton, David G. Hanna, Mark Hennessy, Mari-Ann Henry, Durward James Hindle III, Andrew Hitt, Jake Hoffman, Burt Jones, Anthony T. Kern, Kathy Kiernen, Timothy King, Trevian Kutti, James Lamon, Cathleen Latham, Jesse Law, Stephen Lee, Michele Lundgren, Meshawn Maddock, Michael McDonald, Mark Meadows, Shawn Meehan, Robert Montgomery, Daryl Moody, Samuel I. Moorhead, Loraine Pellegrino, Sidney Powell, James Renner, Eileen Rice, Mayra Rodriguez, Mike Roman, Rose Rook, Kelly Ruh, Greg Safsten, David Shafer, and Marian Sheridan.
Proclamation 10989 specifically states it does not apply to President Donald J Trump. The US AG, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall issue the Certificates of Pardon to eligible applicants.
For all these reasons, the government's motion for astay pending appeal is denied in part. (A number of local governments, states, and former governorshave moved for leave to file amicus curiae briefs in support ofthe plaintiffs-appellees. We grant the motions, and the proposedbriefs are accepted as filed. We consider these briefs onlyinsofar as they concern legal issues and positions raised by theparties. See Ryan v. U.S. Immigr. & Customs Enf't, 974 F.3d 9, 33n.10 (1st Cir. 2020)).
This ruling was immediately appealed to SCOTUS. In the lawsuitRollins v. Rhode Island State Counsel of Churches et al.docket # 25A539 Appeal of 25-2089filed at SCOTUS on November 7, 2025 about suspension of SNAP benefits, the application was withdrawn on November 13, 2025.
With the reopening of the Federal government, and the SNAP program now fully funded for FY2026 by Congress, the lawsuit is "moot" (but, I think they should still answer the question of whether or not the judicial branch can tell the executive branch to spend appropriations in a manner not designated by the congressional branch); therefore, the lawsuit was withdrawn.
Plaintiffs request that the court order full payment of SNAP benefits is denied without prejudice where the D.R.I District Court has already ordered that relief in its First TRO, the Defendants request for a stay of the First TRO was denied on the merits, and any stay of the First TRO is currently before the Supreme Court, and where the D.R.I. District Court also ordered that relief in the alternative in its Second TRO, and the Defendants request for a stay of the Second TRO was granted only so long as the First TRO remains in place.
Plaintiffs request that the court order indemnification as to partial payments is denied but the court grants as alternative relief a stay of any enforcement of the October 10, October 24, November 4, November 5, and November 8 Letters against the Plaintiffs as to partial payments made or withheld.
Plaintiffs request that the court order USDA to fund SNAP programs at least up to the amounts covered by the Contingency Funds is GRANTED in part. The USDA is ordered to release to SNAP/EBT processing vendors by noon on November 13, 2025, at least the SNAP Contingency Funds that the USDA previously assured the court were being released. As to the States that submitted full issuance files that Defendants argue must now submit revised issuance files for 65% of the maximum allotment, Defendants shall show cause at a hearing on November 12, 2025, at 3:30 p.m., to address why Defendants is unable to release the Contingency Funds without requiring States to submit new issuance files. In light of Plaintiffs Further Update Regarding Supplemental Facts [Doc. No. 98] filed earlier today, Plaintiffs will promptly inform the court should this hearing no longer be necessary.
In staying enforcement of the November 8 Letter, the court also stays the USDAs directive that States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025 and shall advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum, to the extent such steps were taken between the time the D.R.I. District Court issued its TROs on November 6, 2025, and the USDA issued its November 8, 2025 Letter.
In the lawsuit United States v. McIver docket # 2:25-cr-00388 filed in District Court D New Jersey on June 10, 2025 about the indictment of Representative LaMonica McIver, a motion to dismiss was denied on November 13, 2025. The original indictment charged McIver with 2 counts(the linked document has plenty of pictures of her doing the following):
Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding Certain Officers or Employees On or about May 9, 2025, in Essex County, in the District of New Jersey, and elsewhere, the defendant, LaMONICA McIVER, did forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, and interfere with a person designated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114, namely, a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent (V-1), as described in this Complaint, while V-1 was engaged in and on account of the performance of his official duties, involving physical contact with V-1. In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1).
Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding Certain Officers or Employees On or about May 9, 2025, in Essex County, in the District of New Jersey, and elsewhere, the defendant, LaMONICA McIVER, did forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, and interfere with a person designated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114, namely, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deportation Officer (V-2), as described in this Complaint, while V-2 was engaged in and on account of the performance of his official duties, involving physical contact with V-2. In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1).
The indictment filed on June 10, 2025 with Crim. No. 25-388 18 USC 111(a)(1) and 18 USC 2 charged McIver with:
Assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with a Federal Officer Victim 1
Assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with a Federal Officer Victim 2
Assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with a Federal Officer Victims HSI Special Agents and ICE Deportation Officers
ORDERED that Defendants motion to dismiss (ECF 19) is DENIED as to Counts One and Three, and the Court reserves judgment on Count Two; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants motion to dismiss (ECF 20) is DENIED; and it is finally
ORDERED that an in-person status conference is scheduled for November 20, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. in Newark Courtroom 3 of the Frank R. Lautenberg, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse.
Now Representative McIver has to meet with the court on November 20, 2025 to do the best she can to defend her actions at the ICE facility the entire world viewed via social media.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 706 and 28 U.S.C. 2202, vacate and set aside Defendants termination of all previously-awarded TQP and SEED grants;
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2201, issue a judicial declaration that Defendants termination of all previously-awarded TQP and SEED grants, including through issuance of the Termination Letter and the Termination GAN, was an unlawful act that violated the APA;
Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants from implementing, giving effect to, maintaining, or reinstating under a different name the termination of any previously awarded TQP or SEED grants for recipients in Plaintiff States, including but not limited to through the Termination Letter, Termination GAN, and any other agency actions implementing such terminations, such as suspension or withholding of any funds approved and obligated for the grants, and restore recipients in Plaintiff States to the pre-existing status quo prior to the termination;
Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants from terminating any individual TQP and SEED grant for recipients in Plaintiff States, except to the extent the final agency action is consistent with the Congressional authorization and appropriations, relevant federal statute, including the requirements of the APA, the requirements of the relevant implementing regulations, the grant terms and conditions, and this Courts order;
Award Plaintiff States their reasonable fees, costs, and expenses, including attorneys fees, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2412; and
Grant other such relief as this court deems appropriate, just, and proper.
When all is said and done, grants to fund certain educational programs were terminated. Todays holding indicates this Court lacks any power to bring these grants back. However, Plaintiffs are not without remedy. If this Court finds Defendants actions were unlawful under the APA and the Constitution, the grantees in Plaintiff States can file suit in the Court of Federal Claims to request their money damages under the contract. This two-track litigation framework preserves binding authority and upholds the systemic stability intended by the doctrine of stare decisis. Whether or not Plaintiffs are successful on the merits of their claims will be taken up later in this litigation. For the foregoing reasons, Defendants Motion to Dismiss [Dkt. 128] is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. The Court lacks jurisdiction over Plaintiff States terminated grants. The Court retains jurisdiction over all remaining claims.
Twenty-Third Amendment covering Washington, D.C., about suffrage, was ratified March 29, 1961. It has 2 sections:
Section 1
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Those are some of the exact words used by Googles censors, aka 'Orwelliancontent police,' in describing many of our controversial stories.Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
