Overview

• The annual National Conservatism Conference in downtown Washington featured senior Trump officials including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, budget chief Russell Vought, border czar Tom Homan, and multiple senators, underscoring tight alignment with the governing apparatus.
• Russell Vought dismissed a Government Accountability Office finding that his latest rescissions push is illegal and vowed to keep using clawbacks of previously approved funds to advance the agenda.
• Associated Press reporting notes the administration has targeted universities by cutting funding, echoing JD Vance’s earlier calls to confront higher education.
• Programming highlighted the movement’s cultural priorities with panels such as “Overturn Obergefell” and speeches advancing themes of limited immigration, Christian identity, and critiques of “white guilt.”
• Supportive commentary in The Daily Signal argues the movement has “won” on the Right and credits the administration with threatening university and public media funding and intensifying immigration enforcement and deportations.