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Chapter 1: What deal did Trump make with Zelensky?
Trump hammers out a deal with Zelensky designed to pay back Americans for years of financial and military support.
The American taxpayer now is going to get their money back plus.
We break down the latest on the negotiations.
Chapter 2: How will the new U.S. 'Gold Card' immigration program work?
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, February 27th, and this is Morning Wire. President Trump announces a new fast-track immigration program at his first cabinet meeting.
You have a green card. This is a gold card. We're going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million.
Will this help pay down our national debt?
Chapter 3: How are media outlets misleading the public on DOGE?
And several legacy media outlets are caught misleading their audience on viral anti-Doge protests.
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Chapter 4: What are the specifics of the Ukraine mineral deal?
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has been tracking this story and joins us now. Hey, Cabot. So Trump and Zelensky are finally ironing things out here. We'll get to the specifics of what's included. But first, how did we get to this point?
Yeah, it's been a turbulent three years, John. So last year, as Trump campaigned on a promise to cut back funding for Ukraine and end the war quickly, Vladimir Zelensky threw out the idea of a minerals deal where the U.S. would get a piece of Ukraine's natural resources and in exchange for continued military support and security guarantees after the war ended.
Now, once Trump won, he took him up on the idea, saying America deserved to be paid back to the tune of $500 billion in the form of oil, gas, and rare earth mineral contracts. Zelensky initially balked at those figures, saying he would not, quote, sell his country. But the two kept negotiating, as Trump loves to do, and ultimately reached a deal.
Trump says that he will meet with Zelensky on Friday to sign the final terms. Here he is at the White House Wednesday.
It could be a trillion dollar deal. It could be whatever. But it's rare earths and other things. We want to get that money back. We're helping a country through a very, very big problem.
So the big question, what exactly is in this deal? Well, both sides have been tight-lipped on these specific numbers, but according to Ukraine's prime minister, it would establish a, quote, reconstruction investment fund that would be jointly managed by the two countries. Moving forward, 50% of revenues from new oil, gas, and mineral projects would go into that fund.
The deal is also expected to grant American companies more direct access to the country's mineral reserves. which is crucial. Remember, Ukraine has some of the world's largest deposits of graphite, lithium, uranium, and titanium, all of which are critical for producing high-tech batteries, electronics, and weapons.
Now, at the moment, China is responsible for around 90% of rare earth mineral production. So this deal could make the U.S. far less reliable on Beijing. Yeah, another key priority of the Trump administration. And what did the Ukrainians get from this? Trump says they've already gotten their part of the deal in the form of $100 billion-plus in military and financial aid. But it does appear the U.S.
will also agree to some form of security guarantee. According to the New York Times, the agreement says that in exchange for mineral rights, the U.S. would, quote, "...support Ukraine's effort to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace."
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Chapter 5: What is Trump's approach to ending the war with Russia?
And VP Vance had some strong words in response.
We're not going to do the negotiation in public with the American media. He's going to do it in private with the president of Russia, with the president of Ukraine and with other leaders. Every single time the president engages in diplomacy, you guys preemptively accuse him of conceding to Russia. He hasn't conceded anything to anyone. He's doing the job of a diplomat.
So we'll be watching for that reported meeting between Trump and Zelensky on Friday. A lot going on between these two countries.
And it would be huge if they could make a deal to end this war. It's been three years now. Kevin, thanks for reporting. Anytime. President Trump previewed a new immigration program at the first cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday. The Trump administration plans to offer a gold card that grants permanent U.S. residency for $5 million.
Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the high-priced express pass to U.S. citizenship. So, Tim, what are the details of the new program?
Well, the aim is to use it to replace the EB-5 program. That's a program that was launched in the 90s to spur job creation and investment from foreigners in exchange for a green card. Here's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explaining it during Wednesday's cabinet meeting.
So the EB-5 program, which has been around for many years, had investment of a million dollars into projects in America. And those projects were often suspect. They didn't really work out. There wasn't any oversight of it. And so for a million-dollar investment, you got a visa, and then you came into the country and ended up with a green card. So the idea is we will have a proper business.
We will modify the EB-5 agreement. Christy and I are working on it together.
So the idea is this would give better oversight than the current EB-5 program.
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Chapter 6: What changes are proposed for the EB-5 program?
The president said the money made from this program will be used to pay down some of the United States' nearly $37 trillion debt.
Now, another immigration initiative is the Illegal Alien Registry. What would that look like?
Sure. So the Trump administration wants to create a criminal penalty for those illegal aliens who are in the country and have never interacted with the government. Here's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Fox News.
The Alien Registration Act says that within 30 days of being in this country illegally, someone must register with the federal government. They will be fingerprinted. They must announce that they are here. And if they do so, they can avoid criminal charges and fines, and we will help them relocate right back to their home country.
And what this does is provide them an opportunity to come back someday and to be a part of the American dream.
Now, is it actually legal to create a registry like that?
The Trump administration would go to a law passed in 1940. That law created an immigration registry to help catch suspected communists. The authority fell out of use in the 60s, though, after lawmakers found the program to be too costly and not of much benefit.
Well, interesting to see what happens with that. Tim, thanks for reporting.
Good to be on.
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