Trump announces executive order creating task force to 'eradicate anti-Christian bias'

President Donald Trump announced astatine the National Prayer Breakfast successful Washington, D.C., connected Thursday that helium volition motion an enforcement bid instructing the Justice Department to make a caller task unit to "eradicate anti-Christian bias." 

Trump praised caller Attorney General Pam Bondi arsenic a "great person," saying she would pb the caller task force. 

"About time, right? Anti-Christian bias. Yeah, I ne'er heard of that 1 before, right? But determination is," Trump said. "The ngo of this task unit volition beryllium to instantly halt each forms of anti-Christian targeting and favoritism wrong the national government, including astatine the DOJ, which was perfectly terrible. The IRS, the FBI, terrible, and different agencies." 

The president said the task unit volition besides "work to afloat prosecute anti-Christian unit and vandalism successful our nine and to determination eden and world to support the rights of Christians and spiritual believers nationwide." 

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President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast astatine the Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"While I'm successful the White House, we volition support Christians successful our schools, successful our military, successful our government, successful our workplaces, hospitals and successful our nationalist squares, and we volition bring our state backmost unneurotic arsenic 1 federation nether God, with liberty and justness for all," Trump said. "Throughout history, those who person sought power and domination implicit others person ever tried to chopped the radical disconnected from the transportation to their creator. At the aforesaid time, each federation with large dreams and large ambition has recognized that determination is nary recourse much precious than the religion successful the hearts of our people. It's the happening that makes our federation large and makes different nations great. When you don't person it, you don't spot large nations. Without God, we are isolated and alone, but with God, the Scripture tells us, each things are possible," Trump said. 

Fox News Digital is told that Trump volition motion the enforcement bid Thursday day to "end the warfare connected Christians" and support Americans’ "fundamental close to spiritual freedom." 

The White House said what volition beryllium known arsenic the "Task Force to End the War connected Christians" volition beryllium comprised of members of the president’s Cabinet and cardinal authorities agencies, and the bid seeks to "end the anti-Christian weaponization of government." 

The White House told Fox News Digital that the task unit volition reappraisal activities of each departments and agencies to "identify and destruct anti-Christian policies, practices, oregon conduct." The task unit volition besides stitchery input from assorted stakeholders to guarantee "broad perspectives are considered," including faith-based organizations and Americans affected by "anti-Christian conduct."

The task unit is besides directed to place and code gaps successful instrumentality enforcement that person "contributed" to that conduct.

The enforcement bid volition besides guarantee that national instrumentality enforcement remedy immoderate "failures" to afloat enforce the instrumentality against acts of anti-Christian hostility, vandalism and violence.

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast astatine the Capitol successful Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"The erstwhile medication engaged successful an egregious signifier of targeting peaceful Christians portion ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses," the White House said.

"President Trump volition not tolerate this maltreatment of authorities and is taking enactment to guarantee that immoderate unlawful and improper anti-Christian conduct, policies oregon practices are identified, terminated, and rectified."

The enforcement bid comes aft astir 2 twelve pro-life Christians were charged and sentenced for demonstrating extracurricular termination facilities during the Biden administration.

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It besides comes aft an FBI memo asserted that accepted Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches arsenic "threat mitigation." The House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee connected the Weaponization of the Federal Government archetypal discovered and investigated that memo.

Speaking astatine the Washington Hilton Hotel, Trump invoked his ain religion successful discussing the July 13, 2024, assassination effort successful Butler, Pennsylvania. 

"Well, look astatine me. I'm lasting earlier you today. I shouldn't beryllium here. I shouldn't beryllium here. A batch of radical said I shouldn't person been here," Trump said. 

"It was God that saved me," Trump added, garnering applause. 

President Donald Trump speaks astatine the National Prayer Breakfast astatine the Capitol, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Earlier, the president spoke astatine different supplication meal Thursday astatine the U.S. Capitol, wherever helium announced that helium would motion an enforcement bid to make a caller nationalist parkland called the "National Garden of American Heroes." 

"The stories of legends similar Washington, Winthrop, and Williams punctual america that without religion successful God, determination would beryllium nary American story," Trump said. "Every national should beryllium arrogant of this exceptional heritage. We person an unbuilt, livable heritage, and we person to usage that and marque beingness amended for everyone." 

As the United States approached the 250th day of its founding adjacent year, Trump said helium would motion an enforcement bid to "resume the process of creating a caller nationalist parkland afloat of statues of the top Americans who ever lived." 

"We're going to beryllium honoring our heroes, honoring the top radical from our country," Trump said. "We're not going to beryllium tearing down. We're going to beryllium gathering up." 

Trump besides remembered the 67 lives mislaid during the fatal midair collision betwixt a Black Hawk chopper and a rider pitchy landing astatine Reagan airdrome successful D.C. past week. The president said helium would beryllium speaking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to travel unneurotic connected a "single bill" to upgrade U.S. aerial postulation power systems successful the aftermath of the disaster.

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"It would person conscionable ne'er happened if we had the close equipment," Trump said. "When I onshore successful my level privately, I usage a strategy from different state due to the fact that my skipper tells maine – I'm landing successful New York and I'm utilizing a system. I won't archer you what country, but I usage a strategy from different state – due to the fact that the skipper says, 'This happening is truthful bad, it's truthful obsolete,' and we can't person that. So we're going to person the champion system."