April 29, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump marks his first 100 days in office with a rally in Michigan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-ease-auto-tariffs-faced-us-automakers/16277133/
— Trump pushes back against economic anxieties in ABC interview
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-abc-interview-president-pushes-back-economic-anxieties-says-china-will-eat-tariffs/16279517/
— Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-hannah-dugan-judge-arrested-accused-helping-eduardo-flores-ruiz-evade-ice/16280292/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of Republicans. Further, those who are anti-conservative, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time.
https://abc7.com/post/trump-100-days-america-faces-woke-divide-president-donald-says-history/16276880/
— Federal workers on DOGE impact during Trump’s first 100 days: ‘We want to come back to work’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-100-days-look-elon-musks-doge-plan-cut-down-government-waste-lay-off-federal-workers/16278493/
— Montgomery Trump loyalists believe tariffs will improve economy, support mass government layoffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/voters-red-montgomery-illinois-express-support-donald-trump-tariffs-government-cuts-dept-veterans-affairs-more/16280034/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago joins lawsuit to block Trump’s dismantling of federal bureaucracy. The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of exceeding presidential authority and violating the constitutional separation of powers that gives Congress control of the federal purse strings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/chicago-lawsuit-trump-musk-downsize-federal-bureaucracy

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration joins lawsuit against Trump to block federal worker firings
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— Trump cuts federal programs that promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, programs that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, that is, he cuts programs that discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/hegseth-ending-woke-program/

WGN RADIO
— John Kass: Sounds like Pritzker is ready for a donnybrook
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-sounds-like-jb-pritzker-is-ready-for-a-donnybrook/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Johnson joins lawsuit seeking to prevent Trump’s federal government overhaul
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-mayor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-government-cuts

CHALK BEAT
— Trump administration launches investigation into Chicago Public Schools’ Black Student Success Plan. Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. nevertheless, I got an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class, and got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/29/trump-administration-investigates-cps-black-student-success-plan/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-295/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS GOP
— 100 Days of WINS
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois appellate court justice James Knecht says the arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan was “reminiscent of King George, Hitler and Mussolini.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa9631af-36a1-417b-abba-623d07b32a51.html
https://www.ktbs.com/news/national/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-as-reminiscent-of-hitler/article_9cbd0816-9042-52d5-b83e-7ff3bdc66b4e.html
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-wisconsin-193700543.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— House Republicans propose fees for electric, hybrid cars
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/house-republicans-propose-fees-electric-hybrid-cars/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker: The angriest Democrat in the room
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3395273/angriest-democrat-jb-pritzker-in-the-room/

BREITBART
— Trump’s Labor Department to Revoke Federal Funds from States Giving Unemployment Benefits to Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/28/trumps-labor-department-to-revoke-federal-funds-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-illegals/
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UW-Madison lecture to explore how ‘White Innocence’ leads to death of black infants.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/uw-madison-lecture-explore-white-innocence-leads-death-black-infants/27887

DAILY SIGNAL
— Pritzker Calls for ‘Disruption’ to ‘Punish’ Republicans. Hate-filled Democrat and RINO Trump-hating leaders have their operatives and their dupes punish Republicans. They have had their operatives and dupes take many adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/29/jb-pritzker-calls-disruption-punish-republicans/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Delivers 100th Day Achievement Speech in Michigan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-6pm-april-29-trump-delivers-100th-day-achievement-speech-in-michigan-5848903
— White House Responds to Mexican President After She Calls US Ads ‘Discriminatory’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/white-house-responds-to-mexican-president-after-she-calls-us-ads-discriminatory-5846987

NEWSMAX
— 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
–The Democrat Party is the party of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. It is the party of hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5272478-jb-pritzker-democratic-party-agenda/

NEW YORK TIMES
— White House Attacks Amazon Over Idea of Showing Tariffs’ Cost
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.