But looking back over some of the key moments, one was particularly jaw-dropping:
According to Bessent, over one-third of the 1.5 billion payments issued by the Treasury Department in the past year cannot be traced back to a corresponding appropriation. That's 500 million payments (not dollars — individual disbursements) that cannot readily be matched for auditing or accountability purposes.
Watch this exchange between Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Bessent:
In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization. The move was presented as progress, but it ultimately caused nationwide devastation.
“The year China joined the WTO, the U.S. imported $102 billion in goods from China. In 10 years that number has more than tripled to $365 billion,” says Glenn.
Our trade deficit with China suffered tremendously as well.
“[It] tripled over the same period to $273 billion. Last year the deficit was $295 billion — by far our largest trade deficit with any nation,” Glenn adds.
The DEI judges (Latino, Lesbian and Black) dissented.
Previously, President Trump stopped allowing transvestites to participate in military service for obvious ‘mission critical’ reasons. A lower court said that was unconstitutional and blocked the ban.
The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that stopping psychologically unstable trans-identifying people, was within the scope of authority of the commander in chief.
As President Donald Trump dismantles the deep state, angry Democrats desperately defend their Jan.6, 2021 Capitol riot narrative but beam with pride that they locked up so many Americans.
Mike Romano, a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Integrity Section...“Thanks to the work of our team, the Justice Department charged more than 1,500 people with crimes and obtained criminal convictions against almost 1,300 people,” Romano said. “We ensured that the rioters would face accountability, no matter how short-lived. Our work created a public record of the crimes committed that day.”
Sometimes prosecutors forget their job is not to see who can secure the most convictions, but to seek justice within the bounds of the law.
It is scary to hear a prosecutor brag about the number of charges and convictions he had...
A man who formerly swam against males is now dominating women's swimming.
Ana Caldas, who has formerly been known as both "Hugo" and "Hannah," trounced his competition at the U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship in San Antonio, Texas, over the weekend.
According to event records, Caldas competed in the women's 45-49 category and took home first place in five events: 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard breaststroke, and the 100-yard individual medley.
Caldas won three of the races by more than three seconds.
Its editors either don’t realize they’ve built an abjectly partisan political operation, or, more likely, they’ve been at this so long, they believe ideological uniformity is truth, and by extension, just “the news.”... ...the CPB would properly be shut down overnight if it was as near-exact a mirror of Fox or the RNC press page as NPR is to Democrats.Org.
Even if one stipulates it’s too small to need squashing, NPR has come to represent that far larger system of subsidized conformity, infused in everything from Internet search algorithms to AI to academia, whose scale is only beginning to become visible...
Under the "a picture is worth a thousand words" category, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative posted a chart on X Saturday showing the steep decline in the percentage of apparel sold in America that is also manufactured in America.
Part of President Trump's tariff strategy is to make it more economically feasible for clothing manufacturers to make their products in the United States.
“It means that a president cannot govern unless you can basically run the course with 677 district court judges, any one of which can issue a national injunction.
So you’ve gotta win every case 677-0 if you want to implement policy.
Well, the justices have said, including liberal justices like Justice Kagan, that this is truly insane, and this is just the latest such lawsuit to try to limit what this president can do.”
The two old geezers would like their death certificates to reflect reality, not politics.- Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson A recent scientific report in Nature reported that, among 530 in-hospital deaths registered as COVID-19 deaths in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave of the pandemic, a COVID-19-associated death was defined as ‘any death occurring in a person with positive testing for SARS-Cov-2 at the time of death.’ The researchers categorised deaths into two groups: (a) deaths “due to” COVID-19, where the infection was a direct cause or led to death, and (b) deaths “with” COVID-19, where the infection was unrelated to the cause of death.
They used three sources for classification: the death certificate, the patient’s medical chart, and interviews with the attending physician using a structured questionnaire. The reanalysis reported that 290 (55%) of deaths were classified as “due to” COVID-19....
Plaintiffs who sued the state of Alabama over its new law, a few years ago, that protects children from harmful drugs and surgeries, have given up.
Jonathan Scruggs, of the ADF, explained the American Civil Liberties Union and others sought the dismissal of Boe v. Marshall, where "politicized interest groups worked alongside the Biden administration" challenged the state's protections for children.
"Alabama rightly enacted a law that protects children's welfare—supporting their natural development and ensuring that children experiencing gender dysphoria have a chance for healing and compassionate mental-health support," he said in a prepared statement.
It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed... In recent years, however, that has changed.
Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population...
By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal.
We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals. An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America...
Paterson, N.J., City Council President Alex Mendez faces new charges in a superseding indictment related to the May 2020 municipal election.
Alongside his wife, Yohanny Mendez, and campaign workers Omar Ledesma and Iris Rigo, Mendez is accused of orchestrating a scheme involving the theft and forgery of ballots and voter registrations to secure his council seat.
The indictment alleges that the group unlawfully collected and tampered with vote-by-mail ballots, including destroying ballots not cast for Mendez and submitting fraudulent ones in their place.
As President Donald Trump dismantles the deep state, angry Democrats desperately defend their Jan.6, 2021 Capitol riot narrative but beam with pride that they locked up so many Americans.
