Trump Tightens the Screws: Cuba’s Castro Family & Figurehead ‘President’ in the Crosshairs

The U.S. State Department announced a new round of sanctions Thursday on the crème de la crème of Cuba’s communist Castro family dynasty, including multiple Castro family members and figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel.

President Donald J. Trump holds a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Trump Tightens the Screws: Sanctions Target Cuba’s Castro Family and Figurehead ‘President’

Diáz-Canel’s wife and stepson, who has been romantically linked to Hollywood actress Ana de Armas, and several nefarious communist regime organizations were also on the list of designated actors on Thursday. In addition to blocking their ability to do business with American people and businesses, the particular designations handed down on Thursday could also result in foreign third parties being sanctioned under U.S. law for dealings with them.

The State Department announced that it would be imposing designations on five people and five “entities” on Thursday, all under the authority of Executive Order 14404, which allows for expanded sanctions on the Cuban communist regime. In addition to over half a century of extreme human rights abuses against its own people, the Castro regime is a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism, linked to a host of anti-American criminal actors including jihadist terror organizations such as Hezbollah and narco-terror groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

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Trump Slams Deep State Protections: Signs DOGE Order to Fire 8,000 Rogue Federal Bureaucrats

Trump promises to clean up Deep State corruption….

Donald Trump‘s purge of the federal bureaucracy escalated Wednesday with an executive order making it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers.

The order reclassified the workers as at-will employees, meaning the government can now terminate them without offering a reason.

President Donald Trump delivered another major blow to the unaccountable Washington swamp on June 3, 2026, by signing a powerful executive order under the Department of Government Efficiency. This move reclassifies about 8,000 senior policy-making federal positions, stripping away outdated civil service shields that have let incompetent or disloyal employees undermine America First priorities for years.

The order targets high-level roles like policy directors, chiefs of staff, senior advisors, program managers, and those drafting regulations or overseeing grants—mostly GS-15 positions. These bureaucrats will now face real accountability, just like workers in the private sector.
In the signing video, Trump laid it out plainly: “It’s been almost impossible to fire a federal employee.”
A senior official explained the core problem: “It has been a longstanding problem that it is almost impossible to fire a federal employee, even in cases of serious misconduct… If you have employees who are trying to undermine the wishes of the American people by pushing their own agenda or [who] are just incompetent at what they’re doing, agencies have a long-standing difficult time getting rid of them. And that’s particularly a problem if you are in a senior policy-influencing role where you’re controlling the policies in an entire agency.”
He continued: “What this does is basically treats those employees like private sector workers. They can be hired on the basis of merit and competence, but if they’re messing up, then they can be removed quickly rather than taking a year or longer to get rid of them.”
Trump nodded in agreement as the details were presented, emphasizing the goal of making the federal workforce responsive to the elected president and the voters who put him in office.
This isn’t about politics—it’s about performance. Merit-based hiring stays intact, but endless appeals and protections that let bad actors sabotage policy or waste taxpayer dollars are gone. No more rogue employees slow-walking or blocking the agenda Americans voted for.
For too long, the Deep State hid behind rules that made removal a nightmare, even for misconduct or outright subversion. Trump is draining that swamp, delivering on promises to restore efficiency, cut waste, and put government back on the side of the people.
DOGE is working. Accountability is here. The bureaucracy’s free ride is over.