The Trump administration has stripped California of $160 million in federal funding after the state refused to revoke commercial driver’s licenses issued to thousands of foreign nationals whose legal status could not be verified. The move is a direct rebuke of California’s sanctuary-style policies and a wake-up call to states that put political ideology above federal law and public safety.
On the Fourth of July, 1826 — precisely fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence — two of its most distinguished authors died. John Adams in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, each within hours of the other, as if Providence itself had drawn a curtain on the Founding generation. Neither lived long enough to know with certainty whether the experiment they had launched would endure.
