CV NEWS FEED // Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Senate confirmed her Feb. 4 as the nation’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi ordered the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to freeze federal funding for so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Bondi also issued a directive to “work with the Department of Homeland Security to ‘completely eliminate’ cartels and transnational criminal organizations,” FOX News Digital reported.
FOX noted that the new attorney general said in a memo that attorneys who work for her department are responsible for “aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress” as well as “vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges.”
Bondi’s memo added: “The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.”
“Any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination,” she emphasized in the memo.
BREAKING: @PamBondi takes immediate action.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2025
The Attorney General just *FROZE* all federal funding for sanctuary cities pic.twitter.com/v68dvCYT5I
On her first full day at the helm of the DOJ, Bondi also set up the “Weaponization Working Group,” which seeks to “identify instances of ‘politicized justice’” by federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), FOX indicated. The FBI is an agency of the DOJ.
Among other things, the group will “review any potential prosecutorial abuse” regarding “the FBI’s targeting of Catholic Americans; the Justice Department’s targeting of parents at school board meetings; and abuses of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act,” FOX outlined.
As CatholicVote previously reported, “During her Senate confirmation hearing last month, Bondi declared that the DOJ’s ‘targeting of Catholics, concerned parents, and pro-life Americans’ under the Biden administration ‘must stop.’”
“Beyond those directives, Bondi is directing the DOJ to confirm the termination of all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at the department by March 15,” FOX further noted.
Sen. Ashley Moody, R-FL, who is a friend of Bondi and a fellow previous attorney general of Florida, praised her on X (formerly Twitter), writing that she “isn’t wasting any time.”
“It’s great to have an AG who puts #AmericaFirst,” Moody stressed.
Our new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi isn’t wasting any time. Immediately after being sworn in, AG Bondi signed several orders to restore integrity and credibility at the DOJ. The new orders:
— Senator Ashley Moody (@SenAshleyMoody) February 5, 2025
Defund sanctuary jurisdictions;
Open up a review of previous investigations into… pic.twitter.com/t1qHI8cgNB
The Senate confirmed Bondi Tuesday night by a vote of 54-46. Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA, joined all 53 Senate Republicans in voting to confirm Bondi. in what ended up being a near-party line vote.