This week’s updates from around the district:
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WOW! What President Trump and his team have accomplished and uncovered since he took office at noon on January 20 is nothing short of extraordinary. Remember when it was a big deal to summarize the accomplishments of a new Administration in its first 100 days? Let’s recap a few highlights from the first 16 days of Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office.
President Trump has been busy!
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, with the full support of President Trump, is causing Democrat heads to explode across America. With the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk has been tasked with cutting costs, and in the process, he is exposing fraud. Over the weekend, Musk dug into USAID and found some shocking examples of waste. Much of the media immediately jumped into the fray to insist that USAID provides humanitarian aid worldwide, and if President Trump cuts funding, women and children will starve. Yesterday, it was announced that USAID spent $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia; $2.5 million on electric vehicles for Vietnam; $2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala; $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt; hundreds of millions of dollars to support poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan; and $32,000 for distribution of a trans comic book in Peru. Does this sound like humanitarian aid? Check out more outrageous USAID expenditures here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/
Not only are President Trump and DOGE ending wasteful use of taxpayer dollars, he is cutting off an essential lifeline for progressive NGOs and activist organizations. Progressives have turned government agencies like USAID into money laundering operations, using taxpayer dollars to fund progressive NGOs and activists to execute progressive priorities. In effect, progressives use government organizations to subsidize progressive activism with your tax dollars. If you are wondering how progressives have time to protest all day, block roads, and holler at people trying to go to work, this is how. President Trump has no interest in funding the next generation of otherwise unemployable grievance studies majors. Under the Trump Administration, the Progressive Industrial Complex will have to find its funding elsewhere.
In 2016, President Trump promised to Drain the Swamp, and eight years later, he obviously has a coordinated strategy to accomplish that goal. His four-year “intermission” made President Trump tougher, wiser, and more focused. He is a different man than he was at the beginning of his first term in 2017, which is to be expected, considering what he’s been through since then. Two impeachments, bogus lawsuits, sham trials, gag orders, excessive fines, lawfare, and two assassination attempts are in the rearview mirror. Donald Trump is back in the White House, and based on his first 16 days, it’s clear he is on a mission to save America. Let’s pray he is successful.
Rosie Oakley
11th District Chairman
Fairfax County School Board Budget Hearing TONIGHT, Tuesday, Feb. 4
The Fairfax County School Board will hold a Public Hearing on its FY 2026 proposed budget TONIGHT, Tuesday, February 4, 2025 in the Luther Jackson Middle School Auditorium at 6:00pm.
It’s important that “We the Taxpayers” attend this meeting and register our opposition to an ever-increasing budget and bureaucracy, despite declining attendance, test scores, and achievement. We cannot change the make-up of the School Board that is currently 100% Democrat-controlled until 2027, but we should object to how they waste our money at every opportunity and lay the foundation for a challenge in 2027.
Join Winsome Sears and her campaign team for a special Meet & Greet this Saturday, February 8, beginning at 4:00pm at the Knights of Columbus at 8592 Richmond Highway, Alexandria 22309. This is your chance to meet Winsome in person and help her secure a spot on the ballot by signing her petition. Virginia requires 10,000 signatures statewide, so every signature counts!
Details and RSVP here. Details in the flyer pictured.
The Greater McLean Republican Women’s Club (GMRWC) awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a graduating high school senior who resides in Fairfax County, VA. The student must be planning to attend an accredited college, technical or vocational school. The award is based on the student’s involvement in Republican activities as well as, academic and other achievements.
The St. Thomas a Becket Catholic Church will be hosting an important presentation on combatting human trafficking with Detective Bill Woolf, a veteran law enforcement expert with deep experience in how to identify and stop human trafficking. Bakhita Kids, a non-profit focused on helping children in poverty and increasing awareness of human trafficking, is sponsoring the event. It will be held at the St. Thomas a Becket Church, 1241 Wiehle Ave., Reston 20190. The weekday Mass will begin at 9:00am and the breakfast and presentation will begin at 10:00am. Details in the flyer pictured.
Join the Victory in Virginia group for dinner with Mercedes Schlapp, Senior Fellow at the CPAC Foundation, on Monday, February 10, at 6:30pm. It will be held at the Metro 29 Diner, 4711 Langston Blvd., Arlington 22207. Please RSVP to sandy@sandybushue.com. Details in the flyer pictured.
Come help our Republican candidates get on the ballot by signing their ballot access petitions at the Braddock-Springfield petition signing event on Saturday, Feb. 15 from 8:30-10:30am. Hear from special guest Saundra Davis, candidate for delegate in House District 15. The event is free and will be held in the Kings Park Shopping Center Community Room, 8944 Burke Lake Road, Springfield.
The next City of Fairfax GOP Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, February 20, at 7:00pm. The social period begins at 7:00pm and the business meeting will begin at 7:30pm. Guest speaker will be RPV Chairman Rich Anderson. This special meeting will be at a private home in the City of Fairfax. RSVP to FairfaxCityGOP@gmail.com for address and planning purposes. Please Venmo contributions to cover food and wine to @Anahita-Renner or bring cash.
