Trump BANS Gain-of-Function Research | The Mandate | 5/5/25

Blaze News Tonight

BlazeTV host Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson discuss President Trump’s ban on gain-of-function research, his decision to pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to “self-deport” with the CBP Home app, Trump’s 90-minute interview with "Meet the Press," his order for Alcatraz to be restored, and a recent revelation that a State Department budget analyst pled guilty to stealing over $650,000. Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford joins to discuss the fight in the Senate over D.C. U.S. Attorney nominee Ed Martin and Trump’s decision to defund NPR and PBS. Inez Stepman, senior legal analyst for the Independent Women’s Forum, joins to explain what else Pete Hegseth can do to reform the United States military and Trump’s war on Harvard. Finally, Jill and Matthew poll the audience on how they celebrate Cinco de Mayo and the controversy surrounding an AI Image of Trump as the pope.

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