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He’s proven himself in these fights,” DeSantis said in Orlando. “I think he’s got big shoes to fill, but I think he’ll do a good job doing that.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“So you can anticipate that,” he continued. “I’m not going to make any appointment before it’s available, but I think that’s something that will happen.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWhile Uthmeier waits for the appointment to become official — which will happen after Rubio is confirmed by the U.S. Senate — he did release a statement thanking the governor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 351px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;\" title=\"X Post\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EJeanette Nuñez, the Lieutenant Governor of Florida, praised the pick, saying that Uthmeier “will be a fantastic Attorney General.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Floridians can count on you to protect our state, defend the rule of law, and uphold the Florida Constitution,” she added.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/7097682408919676984\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/desantis-taps-his-chief-of-staff-to-be.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/7097682408919676984"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/7097682408919676984"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/desantis-taps-his-chief-of-staff-to-be.html","title":"DeSantis Taps His Chief Of Staff To Be Florida’s New Attorney General"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-1661495055237927254"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-17T08:44:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-17T08:44:00.791-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Kid Rock Has A Message For Michelle Obama After She Decides To Skip Trump’s Inauguration"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EKid Rock\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;had a message about respect for former first lady Michelle Obama after she announced she’s skipping the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EDuring the rocker’s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Eappearance on Thursday on\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jessebwatters\/status\/1880070807873024082?s=46\u0026amp;t=yVg_AIbZC0FnyCtU4qPVYw\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFOX News\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the host asked the 53-year-old singer about performing at Trump’s second inauguration and if this was his first one.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; 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font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I was actually listening to your show a little bit before I got in the truck here. And I heard Michelle Obama’s not attending,” Kid Rock said. “I would kindly remind her that years back, when Obama was first elected, I did not vote for him, but they asked me to play the inauguration, and I played it, and I went, had a good time.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1880070807873024082\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;features=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%3D%3D\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1880070807873024082\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fkid-rock-has-a-message-for-michelle-obama-after-she-decides-to-skip-trumps-inauguration\u0026amp;sessionId=6be123a763bdef16dfb27f82621cef0639ee5814\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716\u0026amp;width=550px\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 539px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;\" title=\"X Post\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I went for — out of respect to the presidency,” he added. “So I would kindly remind Ms. Michelle about that.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWatters then asked the singer why he thought the former first lady wouldn’t be attending “when all the other first ladies are.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I don’t know,” Kid Rock replied. “She seems a little angry. She might be — wow. I don’t know. If you can’t say something nice, let me hear it.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EOn Wednesday, the Trump-Vance\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EInaugural Committee\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;announced that superstars\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ECarrie Underwood\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Jason Aldean, along with the “Cowboy” hitmaker, will be just a few of the singers participating in the various inauguration events.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAt a rally before the inauguration,\u0026nbsp;Kid Rock and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus\u0026nbsp;will perform along with the American disco band the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EVillage People\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E, who will also sing at one of the inaugural balls.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ESpeaking on Watters, Kid Rock said he was putting together\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;something very special for the rally.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I mean, I have spent so much time on this, when I was first asked to do it, and it was kind of a thing where they’re like, can you show up and play the track, do a couple songs?” Ritchie said.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“And I was like, respectfully, I’m not interested in that at all. I’d rather help you any way I can. I’m a supporter,” he added. “And so I came up and I put something together, put it all down on paper to the minute, everything choreographed — this, this, and this. They loved it.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EOf course, we get into it. And we’re going through the due diligence to get it done. And God bless them,” Kid Rock continued. “Here comes the Secret Service and they’re like, yes, we can’t — we can’t light off fireworks and have big pyrotechnics … but we still got something very special planned.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe breakdown of all the performances can be found\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-vance-inaugural-committee-announces-performers-for-presidential-inauguration\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/1661495055237927254\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/kid-rock-has-message-for-michelle-obama.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/1661495055237927254"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/1661495055237927254"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/kid-rock-has-message-for-michelle-obama.html","title":"Kid Rock Has A Message For Michelle Obama After She Decides To Skip Trump’s Inauguration"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-6467162236994367759"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-17T07:35:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-17T07:35:19.667-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"‘We Cannot Stand For That’: Ashley Moody Lays Out Her Agenda In U.S. Senate"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EFlorida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) expressed excitement on Thursday after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) named her as the replacement for Sen. 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Every day I go to work, every decision that I make, every person I hire, I do so with the understanding that the people of Florida gave me this opportunity, and I want to deliver on what I assured them, and that was we were going to protect their rights.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EShe said that she believes that her highly energetic nature could help change the culture in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EPresident-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, sparred with Sen. Elizabeth (D-MA) on Thursday during his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe exchange happened when Warren asked him to follow up on a question Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) had asked him about taxing billionaires.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“It was Senator Warnock who asked you about, is there any billionaire rich enough who you wouldn’t support a tax cut for going forward,” Warren said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“I think it’s unwise to single out any–,” Bessent began to respond before Warren cut him off.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Rich people?” she snapped back.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Any individual,” he responded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Oh okay,” Warren replied. “Is there a group of billionaires, you can just pick a dollar figure and there can be more than one above that?”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“I could give you a glib answer, but I won’t,” Bessent responded. “But you know again, that’s not where the money is. At one point when President Obama was debating Mitt Romney, the moderator said, ‘But sir, that would make collections go down.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but it’s about fairness.'”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“And I have to tell you some Warren, I’m about collection,” he continued.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWarren seemed to miss the entire point that he was making as she proceeded to give the same answer as Obama, saying: “I understand, but I like to think that fairness is about billionaires actually paying their fair share too.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWATCH:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; 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caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;\" width=\"1200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe British government has announced a “rapid national audit” to expose Muslim grooming gangs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIn what appears to be a victory for a\u0026nbsp;campaign led by Elon Musk, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that her department would take additional steps to try and bring justice to the victims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“Under new plans, more victims will be given the power to have their cases re-examined, allowing police forces to pursue offenders and secure justice for victims and survivors,” the Home Office wrote in a post on the X platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\" id=\"tgp-1878256256\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1737051361359144436=\"true\" style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBREAKING: Home Secretary\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YvetteCooperMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003E@YvetteCooperMP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has announced an action plan to expose grooming gangs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EUnder new plans, more victims will be given the power to have their cases re-examined, allowing police forces to pursue offenders and secure justice for victims and survivors.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u3XBrma8Fz\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Epic.twitter.com\/u3XBrma8Fz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukhomeoffice\/status\/1879908162746171786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EJanuary 16, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe review will be conducted by Baroness Louise Casey and is expected to be completed within three months and aims to provide a comprehensive national overview of the situation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWhile the announcement stops short of a full-blown inquiry into the issue, which Musk and the likes of Nigel Farage have demanded, the move undoubtedly represents a victory for the pressure campaign exerted against the government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I hope this is a proper investigation,” Musk wrote on X.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1737051361359144436=\"true\" style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EI hope this is a proper investigation\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r8dP3mAFDt\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/r8dP3mAFDt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1879920878424916035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EJanuary 16, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cyv43zpr4pjt\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EBBC political reporter Alex Forsyth\u003C\/a\u003E, the announcement is “\u003Cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit;\"\u003Eclearly a shift in the government’s position.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EShe explained:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe issue of grooming gangs shot up the agenda again after it emerged that the Home Office had refused a request for an inquiry from Oldham council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EYet now the Home Secretary has agreed to provide government support for local inquiries with some funding and the expertise of the KC who led the investigation in Telford.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThere’s also going to be a “rapid national audit” of the scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country, which will also look at the “cultural drivers”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe government’s insisting it’s not a new national inquiry, but it has clearly decided there’s a need for further action.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe last national inquiry into grooming gangs, which\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/iicsa-report-of-the-independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Econcluded\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 2022, determined that thousands of white British girls had been abused by Pakistani-heritage men over the past 20 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAs well as failing to protect these vulnerable children, it also found that the police and other institutions had refused to act on reports of grooming for fear of being labeled racist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIn some cases, they even attempted to cover the crimes up so as to protect so-called community relations.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/5239909422039221007\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/britains-leftist-government-announces.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/5239909422039221007"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/5239909422039221007"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/britains-leftist-government-announces.html","title":"Britain’s Leftist Government Announces ‘Rapid National Audit’ to Expose Muslim Grooming Gangs – Victory For Elon Musk"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-3770464115126409923"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-16T10:30:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-16T10:30:03.702-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JUST IN: House Passes Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Sexually Assault Women and Abuse Children – 145 Pro-Illegal Alien Democrats Vote NO"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1292165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_1292165\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1190px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"size-facebook wp-image-1292165\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"630\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/house-1200x630.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/house-1200x630.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/house-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/house.jpg 624w\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;\" width=\"1200\" \/\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-1292165\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13.5px; opacity: 0.8; padding-top: 5px;\"\u003ECredit: C-SPAN\/@GregPrice\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe Democratic Party continues to put the well-being of criminal illegal aliens above the safety of the American people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003EThis morning, the House of Representatives passed a commonsense bill called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/30\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EH.R. 30\u003C\/a\u003E, the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.). The legislation amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to enhance restrictions on illegals who have committed serious felonies, especially those against women, children, or related to sexual offenses.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EUnder the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.quiverquant.com\/news\/Representative+Nancy+Mace+introduces+H.R.+30%3A+Preventing+Violence+Against+Women+by+Illegal+Aliens+Act\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Ebill\u003C\/a\u003E, these aliens would not be permitted to enter America and would be deported if they committed a sex offense. These include domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, neglect, or abandonment, and a violation of a protection order regarding threats of violence or harassment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\" id=\"tgp-378320414\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBut what should have been a unanimous vote broke partly along party lines.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/202517\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003E145 pro-crime\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Democrats decided to vote to let illegals stay in America even if they sexually assaulted or beat women.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EHow sick does one have to be?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003ERepublicans, of course, voted unanimously to protect women and get tough on illegals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBefore the vote, Mace went off on the Democrats for opposing her common-sense legislation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWATCH:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1737051365706189676=\"true\" style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBREAKING: Nancy Mace just eviscerated Democrats who are opposing H.R. 30 Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“My bill makes it very clear, and if an illegal alien commits a s*x crime or an act of domestic violence, they are inadmissible and deportable.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“We…\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FS5PR4SrKg\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Epic.twitter.com\/FS5PR4SrKg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1879911870020141560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EJanuary 16, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMace continued her righteous rant against the Democrats for opposing her bill after she walked off the floor, saying they had a lot of explaining to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1737051365706189676=\"true\" style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EJust walked off the floor – after HR30 passes the House for a second time – 145 Democrats have a lot of explaining to do after being given a second chance to protect women and girls from illegals who r*pe, m*lest and m*rder them.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lm9oP6ibcr\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Epic.twitter.com\/lm9oP6ibcr\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepNancyMace\/status\/1879928466247974963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EJanuary 16, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThis continues a pattern for Democrats who want to protect violent illegal aliens. Just last week, the House of Representatives\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/01\/just-house-passes-laken-riley-act-159-america\/\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Epassed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the Laken Riley Act in a 264 – 159 vote. The bill mandates ICE to arrest and detain illegal aliens like Laken Riley’s killer until they are deported.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EUnsurprisingly, all of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/01\/just-house-passes-laken-riley-act-159-america\/\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Eno\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Evotes came from Democrats.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/3770464115126409923\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/just-in-house-passes-bill-to-deport.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/3770464115126409923"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/3770464115126409923"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/just-in-house-passes-bill-to-deport.html","title":"JUST IN: House Passes Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Sexually Assault Women and Abuse Children – 145 Pro-Illegal Alien Democrats Vote NO"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-4175941728164330218"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-16T08:52:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-16T08:52:50.694-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"EXCLUSIVE: Energy Experts Urge Incoming Trump Administration To Stop EPA Abuse"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EA coalition of energy experts on Thursday urged the incoming Trump administration to take dramatic action to ditch regulations imposed by the Biden\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EEnvironmental Protection Agency\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003Eand unleash American energy, according to a memo exclusively shared with The Daily Wire.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ELed by the American Energy Institute, a group of energy experts sent a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Top-10-EPA-Fact-Sheet_v2.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ememo\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to Trump EPA nominee and former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin ahead of his Senate hearing, outlining 10 steps they think he can take to roll back EPA abuse. The memo was also sent to Trump’s transition team and co-signed by the Energy \u0026amp; Environment Legal Institute, Truth in Energy and Climate, and the American Lands Council.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“For over five decades, the EPA has amassed a troubling record of overregulation, political abuse, and mission drift, often stifling innovation, burdening the economy, and undermining public trust,” American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told The Daily Wire. “This plan lays the groundwork for realigning the agency’s focus to maintaining a safe environment while bolstering America’s energy and industrial production, reducing consumer costs, and promoting government accountability.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe recommendations include freezing all EPA activities pending further review, prohibiting EPA staff from communicating with outside groups about agency activities, terminating all external science advisors, revising air quality and emissions standards, ending President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, ending policies based on climate alarmism, reforming EPA risk assessment procedures, eliminating the Office of Environmental Justice, and settling litigation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMany of the memo’s recommendations entail rolling back policies the Biden administration has implemented over the last four years. For example, the memo says that the Trump administration should “reduce pointlessly burdensome air quality” regulations imposed by Biden.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Reforming the EPA’s process toward risk assessment would help it to focus on real-world scenarios,” the memo says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Require data used as a basis for regulating be made publicly available during rulemaking,” the experts recommended. “Require cost-benefit analyses based on actual and demonstrable vs. imaginary costs and benefits.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“The EPA needs more draining than just about any other part of the Swamp,” Myron Ebell, chair of the American Lands Council and former leader of Trump’s EPA transition told The Daily Wire. “Biden’s greenhouse gas regulations on power plants are raising electric rates and making the grid less reliable, so Trump’s EPA must start undoing them immediately.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAnother former Trump EPA transition team member who signed onto the memo was Steve Milloy, now a senior fellow at the Energy \u0026amp; Environment Legal Institute. He predicted that the agency would be one of the most resistant to the president’s agenda.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“EPA has a 54-year history of junk science-fueled, job killing environmental overregulation. It is chock-full of anti-Trump ‘resistance’ and will be the toughest agency for President Trump to rein in,” he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EZeldin’s hearing before the Senate Committee on Public Works and the Environment is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. EST.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/4175941728164330218\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/exclusive-energy-experts-urge-incoming.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4175941728164330218"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4175941728164330218"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/exclusive-energy-experts-urge-incoming.html","title":"EXCLUSIVE: Energy Experts Urge Incoming Trump Administration To Stop EPA Abuse"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-4563480344373432367"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-16T08:52:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-16T08:52:10.359-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"EXCLUSIVE: Trump Team Hypes President-Elect’s Promise To ‘Make America Strong Again’"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EDonald Trump’s transition team released a video Thursday hyping the president-elect’s promise to “Make America Strong Again.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe video is part of a series that the transition team is releasing every day ahead of Trump’s Inauguration Day, on Monday, January 20, to hype Americans up as Trump prepares his return to office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThursday’s edition features Trump meeting with world leaders as a voiceover of the president-elect promises: “We will return the world to peace through strength, and it will happen very quickly.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“I will revive American strength abroad, and we will restore American strength at home, we will respect it … we will restore world peace, and it will be again peace through strength.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 382.15625px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Co1e3-XKyLA?feature=oembed\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; height: 382.15625px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 680px;\" title=\"MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EMaking America “the strongest and most powerful” nation “in the world” has been one of Trump’s most often repeated campaign promises. He has frequently criticized President Joe Biden’s image on the world stage, pointing to meetings with world leaders where Biden has looked weak or confused.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWhen Biden met with world leaders at the G7 summit in June, for example, he wandered away from the group as they were taking pictures and watching a parachuting presentation outdoors. That group\u0026nbsp;included Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, EU Council President Charles Michel, and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EIn February, the outgoing president\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4457527-biden-mistakenly-calls-egyptian-leader-president-of-mexico\/\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Econfused the leaders\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Mexico and Egypt during a press conference, prompting Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita to write on X, “Weak and sad.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ETrump has also said that the horrific October 7 Hamas attack on Israel would not have happened if he was president instead of Biden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“What is needed is more than ever unwavering American leadership,” he\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/07\/trump-7-october-israel-biden-harris\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Esaid on the anniversary of the attack\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in October. “The dawn of new, more harmonious Middle East is finally within our reach. I will not allow the Jewish state to be threatened with destruction. I will not allow another Holocaust of the Jewish people. I will not allow a jihad to be waged on America or our allies, and I will support Israel’s right to win its war.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EMonday, January 20, is Inauguration Day. Trump will attend church service at the historic St. John’s Church, then tea at the White House, before heading to the United States Capitol to be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. He will bid farewell to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before his departure ceremony, and then participate in the president’s “Signing Room Ceremony,” before heading to three inaugural balls on Monday evening.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/4563480344373432367\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/exclusive-trump-team-hypes-president.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4563480344373432367"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4563480344373432367"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/exclusive-trump-team-hypes-president.html","title":"EXCLUSIVE: Trump Team Hypes President-Elect’s Promise To ‘Make America Strong Again’"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Co1e3-XKyLA\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-5125107039714380794"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-16T07:40:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-16T07:40:44.871-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Iran’s President Denies Country Has Repeatedly Tried To Kill Trump"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Iranian\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EPresident Masoud Pezeshkian claimed in an interview this week that the Islamic regime, which is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, has “never” tried to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EPezeshkian’s claims come despite Iran having attempted\u0026nbsp;at least twice to assassinate Trump\u0026nbsp;last year — both of which were foiled by federal law enforcement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHe made the remarks during an NBC News interview with Lester Holt, who traveled to Tehran for the interview.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“This is another one of those schemes that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia,” Pezeshkian claimed. “Iran has never attempted to nor does it plan to assassinate anyone. At least as far as I know.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWhen asked if there was ever a plan to assassinate Trump, Pezeshkian claimed: “None whatsoever.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWATCH:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 382.15625px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rw3YBKurGjA?feature=oembed\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; height: 382.15625px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 680px;\" title=\"Exclusive: One-on-one with Iran's president\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe U.S. Department of Justice\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/feds-disrupt-iranian-assassination-plot-on-trump\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eunsealed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;an indictment in November against multiple individuals who were involved in plots to murder an Iranian dissident, two Jewish Americans, and Trump on U.S. soil.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EProsecutors indicted Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, on multiple charges, including murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, money laundering conspiracy, conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sanctions against the Government of Iran.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EShakeri remains at large and is believed to be inside Iran. If convicted on all counts, he could face 100 years in prison.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Shakeri is an [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] asset residing in Tehran, Iran,” prosecutors said. “Shakeri immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported in or about 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction. In recent months, Shakeri has used a network of criminal associates he met in prison in the United States to supply the IRGC with operatives to conduct surveillance and assassinations of IRGC targets.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EProsecutors said that he hired two individuals to kill the Iranian dissident and the two Jewish Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHowever, with the elections approaching, the IRGC told Shakeri to pause his efforts to kill the dissident and the two Jewish Americans because they wanted him to focus on killing Trump.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“SHAKERI indicated to IRGC Official-1 that this would cost a ‘huge’ amount of money,” the indictment said. “In response, IRGC Official-1 said that ‘we have already spent a lot of money [s]o the money’s not an issue,’ which SHAKERI understood to mean that the IRGC previously had spent a significant sum of money on efforts to murder Victim-4 and was willing to continue spending a lot of money in its attempt to procure Victim-4’s assassination.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EDuring a meeting in October with the IRGC official, Shakeri was instructed to have a plan in place to assassinate Trump within a week and that if he could not do it, Iran would put the plan on hold because they believed Trump “would lose the election and, afterward, it would be easier to assassinate” him after losing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EFederal authorities arrested Carlisle Rivera, also known as Pop, 49, of Brooklyn, New York; and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, of Staten Island, New York, for their alleged involvement in the plots to murder the Iranian dissident and the two Jewish Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target U.S. citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump, other government leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a designated foreign terrorist organization — has been conspiring with criminals and hitmen to target and gun down Americans on U.S. soil and that simply won’t be tolerated.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe other\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pakistani-with-close-ties-to-iran-charged-in-scheme-to-assassinate-trump-others\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Eattempt\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;involved a Pakistani national who FBI Director Christopher Wray said had “close ties to Iran” and was allegedly sent to the U.S. to assassinate Trump.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAccording to court documents, in April 2024, Asif Merchant, 46, who revealed he has a wife and children in both Iran and Pakistan, came to the U.S. after spending time in Iran. He contacted someone about his alleged scheme; that person, who became a confidential source (CS), then contacted the FBI. In early June in New York, Merchant met the CS and outlined his alleged plot to commit a series of assassinations in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Merchant explained that his plot involved multiple criminal schemes: (1) stealing documents or USB drives from a target’s home; (2) planning a protest; and (3) killing a politician or government official,” the Department of Justice stated. “Merchant stated that the assassination would occur after he left the United States and he would communicate with the CS from overseas using code words. The CS asked whether Merchant had spoken to the unidentified ‘party’ back home with whom Merchant was working. Merchant responded that he had and that the party back home told him to ‘finalize’ the plan and leave the United States.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EOn June 21, Merchant met with undercover U.S. law enforcement officers in New York, giving them $5,000 in advance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“After Merchant paid the $5,000 to the UCs, one of the UCs stated, ‘now we’re bonded,’ to which Merchant responded ‘yes.’ The UC then stated ‘Now we know we’re going forward. We’re doing this,’ to which Merchant responded ‘Yes, absolutely,’” the DOJ stated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EMerchant was arrested on July 12, 2024, the day he planned to leave the country.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/5125107039714380794\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/irans-president-denies-country-has.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/5125107039714380794"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/5125107039714380794"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/irans-president-denies-country-has.html","title":"Iran’s President Denies Country Has Repeatedly Tried To Kill Trump"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/rw3YBKurGjA\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-461700942586351567"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-16T07:39:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-16T07:39:54.129-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Speaker Johnson Removes Mike Turner As House Intel Committee Chairman"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EHouse Speaker\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EMike Johnson\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E(R-LA) removed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) from his role on Wednesday just several days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EJohnson told reporters that he made the decision because it was a new Congress and Republicans needed some “fresh horses in some of these places, but I’m a Mike Turner fan.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“He’s done a great job. He performed valiantly in a difficult time under difficult circumstances,” Johnson said. “So I have nothing but positive things to say about my friend.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWhen asked if Trump had any role in the decision, Johnson said that it was not Trump’s decision, it was his.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“This is a House decision. This is no slight whatsoever to our outgoing chairman,” he said. “He did a great job, but we just, the intelligence community and everything related to HPSCI, it needs a fresh start and that’s what this is about, nothing else. So I have nothing negative say about Mike Turner at all. He’s a good man, a good colleague. I respect his work.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHe added that Turner would continue to be his appointee for everything involving NATO.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1879680588313219487\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;features=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%3D%3D\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1879680588313219487\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fspeaker-johnson-removes-mike-turner-as-house-intel-committee-chairman\u0026amp;sessionId=cc52fa72f65a1d91bb0e486517102222579ab13b\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716\u0026amp;width=550px\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 585px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;\" title=\"X Post\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ETurner released a statement following the announcement in which he said that he was “very proud to have served on the House Intelligence Committee and as its chairman.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“There are great members on the Committee, and I’m honored to have served with them,” he said. “Under my leadership, we restored the integrity of the Committee and returned its mission to its core focus of national security. 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color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EChristians around the world are facing increased violence and threats because of their faith, according to a new watchdog report shared with The Daily Wire.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoors.org\/en-US\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOpen Doors\u003C\/a\u003E, an organization dedicated to aiding persecuted Christians, released its annual report on persecution on Wednesday, finding that 380 million believers worldwide face high levels of persecution or discrimination for their faith. This was a steep increase from its 2024 report, which found that 365 million Christians faced intense levels of persecution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe report found that in 2024, 4,476 Christians were killed for their faith, including 3,100 in Nigeria; 3,944 were sexually assaulted, or forcibly married; 54,780 Christians were physically or mentally abused; 209,771 were forced to leave their homes; and 4,744 were sentenced to prison for their beliefs.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EFor the last 32 years, the organization has ranked the top 50 worst countries for persecution of Christians. The top offender this year was again communist North Korea, where the state aggressively cracks down on religious expression.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe other countries rounding out the top ten include Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“At one level, it shouldn’t be a surprise at all there is persecution,” Open Doors President Ryan Brown told The Daily Wire. “When you take a look at the very birth of the church, if you read the New Testament, you see that the majority of the New Testament was written to those experiencing persecution or written by those experiencing persecution.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBrown said that while persecution in Malaysia increased in the last year, it still fell out of the top 50 because the targeting of Christians had increased even more in other countries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“The things that, even just a year ago, were severe enough to have a country on that list on top 50, this year it wasn’t enough,” Brown said. “That global picture actually worsened.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWhen ranking countries, Open Doors considers a number of factors including government policies, community practices, and whether Christians are able to do things like go to church and own a Bible.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe two countries that were new to the top 50 this year were Chad and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EKyrgyzstan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E, which saw the most dramatic increase in persecution of any country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBrown also noted that violence against Christians is trending upward in sub-Saharan Africa, where Christians are often targeted by Islamic extremists. He urged people to join the “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoors.org\/en-US\/getinvolved\/arise-africa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EArise Africa\u003C\/a\u003E” campaign, which seeks to bring awareness to the widespread persecution in the region.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIn Mexico, Brown said the situation for Christians had worsened because of cartel violence directed at churches upset they were undermining their illicit activities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“As folks move away from drugs and become engaged in the church, it’s bad for their business,” he said. “So the church has come under direct attack from the cartels in Mexico.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBrown said the situation for Christians in Yemen has been “bleak” due to the country’s ongoing civil war.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“Civil war obviously creates all sorts of instability in these areas,” he said. “We have seen some of the Islamic militants, specifically the Houthi rebels, that have been more than willing to step into some of those vacuums and perpetuate the instability. One of the ways that they can do that most effectively is targeting Christians. They are often able to do so with impunity.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe report features anecdotes from Christians around the world, including in Burkino Faso, where a man referred to as Pastor Sore said he had to flee with his family because of attacks from Islamic militants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“When the terrorists come to churches and find Christians, they tell them that Christianity’s time is over, and they should turn to Islam,” he said. “They warn Christians to stop conducting services. After warning, when they come back later and find you in the church, they kill you.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“I do believe that we are displaced, but Jesus is not and will never be displaced from our lives,” he added. “He is always with us.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWith the incoming Trump administration, Brown said he saw a “tremendous opportunity” to advance religious freedom abroad. He said that religious freedom helps create stability in countries and can aid in other foreign policy objectives.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“During Trump’s first term he articulated, and I think in many ways, demonstrated that freedom of religious belief would be central to a lot of their approaches to foreign policy,” he said, adding he hoped that policy would continue into his second term.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWhen running for president, Trump promised to protect persecuted Christians, specifically Armenians.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh,” Trump posted on Truth Social in October. “Christians around the World will not be safe if Kamala Harris is President of the United States. When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/8864385011104956944\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/watchdog-finds-global-increase-in.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/8864385011104956944"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/8864385011104956944"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/watchdog-finds-global-increase-in.html","title":"Watchdog Finds Global Increase In Violence And Discrimination Against Christians"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-6084782286026348046"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-15T10:14:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-15T10:14:42.677-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AWESOME: Pam Bondi Turns the Tables on Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse With a Masterful Response When He Snidely Suggests She Will Weaponize the DOJ (VIDEO)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1291310\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_1291310\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1190px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1291310\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"630\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/pam-bondi.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/pam-bondi.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/pam-bondi-300x158.jpg 300w\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;\" width=\"1200\" \/\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-1291310\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13.5px; opacity: 0.8; padding-top: 5px;\"\u003ESheldon Whitehouse gets scorched by Pam Bondi when he suggests she will weaponize the DOJ.\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAs \u0026nbsp;Jordan Conradson\u0026nbsp;reported, Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing questions from Senators this morning during a confirmation hearing for the U.S. Attorney General.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBondi, the former Florida Attorney General, was nominated after Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name as Trump’s pick for AG.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Trump Department of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s first confirmation hearing was held yesterday, and he passed the test with flying colors. Now, Bondi is shining as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\" id=\"tgp-25017012\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAfter thoroughly humiliating Dick Durbin when he tried to embarrass her with a question regarding the 2020 election, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) then stepped in it when he tried to imply she would weaponize the Department of Justice on behalf of President Trump. Of course, Biden’s DOJ is the one that has not made the weaponization of government against MAGA nation a prime priority.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003ETrump, on the other hand, has vowed to ensure equal justice for all Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EKnowing this, Bondi masterfully turned the tables on Whitehouse. She pointed out how Trump was victimized for the past four years, including targeting his presidential campaigns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMoreover, they launched numerous bogus investigations against Trump and sought to throw him in prison for bogus crimes just for having the audacity to run in 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWATCH:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1736963192485323486=\"true\" style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EJUST IN: Pam Bondi totally flips the script on Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) who tried to make it seem like she will weaponize the DOJ.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMasterclass.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWHITEHOUSE: The DOJ cannot just start with a name, and then look for a crime. You must start with a crime and look for a…\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Edzzf5Eibt\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Epic.twitter.com\/Edzzf5Eibt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1879559732551200881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EJanuary 15, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003ESHELDON WHITEHOUSE: And it would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime. It’s a prosecutor’s job to start with a crime and look for a name. Correct?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBONDI: Senator, I think that is the whole problem with the weaponization that we have seen the last four years and what’s been happening to Donald Trump. They targeted Donald Trump. They went after him, actually, starting back in 2016. They targeted his campaign.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThey have launched countless investigations against him. That will not be the case if I am attorney general. I will not politicize that office. I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered evenhandedly throughout this country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIt’s safe to say this was not a fair fight.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/6084782286026348046\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/awesome-pam-bondi-turns-tables-on.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/6084782286026348046"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/6084782286026348046"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/awesome-pam-bondi-turns-tables-on.html","title":"AWESOME: Pam Bondi Turns the Tables on Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse With a Masterful Response When He Snidely Suggests She Will Weaponize the DOJ (VIDEO)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-2062064505274175634"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-15T08:32:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-15T08:32:22.965-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Pharmacy Benefit Managers Marked Up Specialty Drugs By Over 1,000%: FTC Report"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/01\/ftc-releases-second-interim-staff-report-prescription-drug-middlemen\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003Epublished Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) hiked the costs of many important prescription drugs by over 1,000%.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe three largest PBMs — which are owned by CVS Health, Cigna, and UnitedHealth Group — generated over “$7.3 billion in revenue from dispensing drugs in excess of the drugs’ estimated acquisition costs from 2017-2022,” according to the FTC. The report found that more than one in five “specialty drugs” dispensed by pharmacies affiliated with PBMs were marked up by over 1,000%. Another 41% of drugs were marked up between 100-1,000%. The “Big 3” PBMs control between 60-80% of the prescriptions in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“The FTC staff’s second interim report finds that the three major pharmacy benefit managers hiked costs for a wide range of lifesaving drugs, including medications to treat heart disease and cancer,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC should keep using its tools to investigate practices that may inflate drug costs, squeeze independent pharmacies, and deprive Americans of affordable, accessible healthcare—and should act swiftly to stop any illegal conduct.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EPBMs act as the middlemen between drug manufacturers, insurance companies, pharmacies, and patients and were originally designed to maintain affordable drug prices for patients while helping drug manufacturers keep their profits. According to the FTC report, however, PBMs have turned into money-making machines while “squeeze[ing[ independent pharmacies, and depriv[ing] Americans of affordable, accessible healthcare.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAustin Ownbey — who represents the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which in turn represents PBMs — spoke during the open commission meeting Tuesday. Ownbey argued, “PCMA has significant concerns that a second interim report regarding specialty drugs is unlikely to be anything other than a piece of advocacy without substantiating evidence.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Specialty drugs offer the most effective and, in some cases, the only treatment for illness and conditions that historically had few treatment options, including multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, cancer and autoimmune disorders,” he added, according to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5085119-ftc-report-pharmacy-benefit-managers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Hill\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAlong with hiking prices for vital prescription drugs, the FTC found that the “Big 3 PBMs also reimbursed their affiliated pharmacies at a higher rate than they paid unaffiliated pharmacies on nearly every specialty generic drug examined.” As\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-little-known-health-care-middleman-is-becoming-more-powerful-independent-pharmacies-say-that-spells-disaster-for-patients\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Daily Wire reported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;last July, independent pharmacies across the country are subject to the dictates of PBMs, which give an unfair advantage to large pharmacy corporations such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth Group. Independent pharmacists such as Brent Talley, Blake Lamm, and April Lamm Blackford in North Carolina have been sounding the alarm on the rise of PBMs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“We have lost customers either because the PBM is requiring them to use another store or financially incentivizing them to do so,” Talley told The Daily Wire in July. “But at the same time, the quality of care we’re able to provide has far exceeded Walgreens’ and CVS’.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EOften, local pharmacies will lose money on prescription drugs because the reimbursements they get from a PBM are less than what it costs them to fill a prescription.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“We have to buy bottles to put the medicine in, the caps, the labels, the machines, the printers, all that kind of stuff that are the cost of business, but when I say I’m losing money on prescriptions, I’m losing money on what it cost to get the drug on the shelf,” Blake Lamm said. “That doesn’t even factor in filling the prescription.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe second interim report was released with bipartisan support in Congress, including from Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), along with Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN).\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/2062064505274175634\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/pharmacy-benefit-managers-marked-up.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/2062064505274175634"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/2062064505274175634"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/pharmacy-benefit-managers-marked-up.html","title":"Pharmacy Benefit Managers Marked Up Specialty Drugs By Over 1,000%: FTC Report"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-3252301589552277119"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-15T08:30:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-15T08:30:24.228-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As Trump 2.0 Approaches, NGOs Continue To Fund Mass Migration With U.S. Tax Dollars"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EAUSTIN, Texas – The large, organized constellation of United Nations and nongovernmental organization (NGO) agencies sees a rosy future for itself even under Donald Trump, having already directed billions of mostly U.S. taxpayer dollars into supporting millions of illegal southern border crossing trips during President Joe Biden’s term.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EPerhaps, in part, to keep the migratory pressure on America’s southern border, using U.S. taxpayer money, as Trump mounts a planned border crackdown this year.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe U.N.-organized conglomerate recently released its 2025-2026 “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.r4v.info\/en\/rmrp2025-2026\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ERegional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E,” which is a budget needs analysis for Latin America migration support developed during the U.S. presidential campaign but recognizes in its published iteration that Trump was re-elected.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_858393\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 366px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Credit: r4v.info\/en\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858393\" class=\"wp-image-858393 size-full\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/woman-and-child.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/woman-and-child.png 356w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/woman-and-child-209x300.png 209w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: auto;\" width=\"356\" \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-858393\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ECredit: r4v.info\/en\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe document calls for maintaining spending levels as high as when a mass migration torrent was at full throttle in recent years. It wants $1.4 billion to support 2.3 million foreign nationals from throughout the world who will be on the move toward the U.S. southern border through 17 Latin American countries, and $1.2 billion in 2026. That’s down from 2024’s $1.6 billion and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/United-Nations-Hand-Out-Hundreds-Millions-Cash-USBound-Immigrants-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E2023’s $1.72 billion\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe 14 U.N. and 230 NGO agencies (\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.r4v.info\/en\/rmrp2025-2026\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ea list of these agencies can be found on page 434\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E) will use the funding in 2025 to support 14 different forms of migration or refugee assistance in the hemisphere, including, for instance, $259 million in “cash, voucher assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance” to 390,000 foreign nationals during 2025. That money will be dished out as\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-11\/FY_2021_MPCA_Sector_Update_1.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Erechargeable cash debit cards\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E, “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/emergencymanual.iom.int\/cash-based-interventions-cbi\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ecash in envelopes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E,” bank transfers, and mobile transfers for whatever migrants might need on the road.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThey also call for $134 million in food provisions for 851,600 people, $13.5 million in “humanitarian transportation” to 94,800 foreign nationals, $297 million to 735,000 people for shelter such as hotels and longer-term rental properties, $150 million in health services to 1.4 million people, and millions more for a half dozen other kinds of migration needs on the trails.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_858405\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 306px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Credit: Todd Bensman\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858405\" class=\"wp-image-858405 size-full\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"394\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/card-image.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/card-image.jpg 296w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/card-image-225x300.jpg 225w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: auto;\" width=\"296\" \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-858405\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ECredit: Todd Bensman\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ESpearheaded in 2019 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM), which receive the bulk of their money from the United States, the coordinated RMRP migration support effort initially started to meet the needs of more than seven million Venezuelans who emigrated out of their failing home country. But RMRP planning documents openly acknowledge mission creep to support migrants of all “other nationalities…engaging in transit and onward movements” to the U.S. southern border. In 2023, the U.S. contributed $1.9 billion to the UNHCR, compared to a mere\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reporting.unhcr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Flexible-Funding-in-2019.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E$377 million in 2019\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_858409\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 522px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Credit: r4v.info\/en, page 15\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858409\" class=\"wp-image-858409 size-full\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"90\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/scale-it-money.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/scale-it-money.png 512w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/scale-it-money-300x53.png 300w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: auto;\" width=\"512\" \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-858409\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ECredit: r4v.info\/en\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe new document notes Trump’s reelection but does not explicitly discuss its 2025-2026 needs in conjunction with Trump’s plans to immediately halt more than three years of an illegal immigration border surge that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/11\/briefing\/us-immigration-surge.html\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;recently concluded in an analysis\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;was the “largest in U.S. history” and was directly caused by “President Biden’s welcoming immigration policy during his first three years in office.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe group’s chief U.N. bureaucrat makes an oblique reference to a new negativity in “receiving nations” without naming the United States.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“It is essential to change the narrative that underscores the prevalent negative conception of migration agendas as only a source of problems and difficulties and keep striving for bringing to the fore the positive narrative of the contributions they can provide to receiving communities,” wrote Eduardo Stein, the UN’s Joint Special Representative for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in the document’s introduction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ELeft unsaid is exactly how the U.N. and NGOs proposing these large ongoing expenditures really view them in light of the anticipated\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-trump-effect-2-0-illegal-border-crossings-set-to-plummet-on-one-condition\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Ereduction in migration flows\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;expected after Trump’s January 20, 2025 inauguration, when his “detain-and-expel” policies quickly replace Biden’s incentivizing catch-and-release policies.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAlready, just the prospect of a Trump administration has vastly reduced international migration flows\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/migrant-flow-through-darien-gap-drops-40-panama-closes-trails-wired-fences-570442\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Eby more than 40 percent\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;through the Colombia-Panama Darien Gap, while many immigrants in Mexico say\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14175103\/mexico-migrant-crisis-trump-biden-todd-bensman.html\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Ethey’ll return to their home countries\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe omission of straightforward references to the coming U.S. political pivot on illegal immigration suggests that the group likely assumes funding would be used to sustain migrants while Trump policies compel them to wait in third countries, perhaps waiting for – or even facilitating – Trump policy failure or for a future friendlier U.S. presidency.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"TOPSHOT - Migrant people of different nationalities seeking asylum in the United States travel on freight cars of the Mexican train known as \u0026quot;The Beast\u0026quot; as they arrive at the border city of Ciudad Juarez, in Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 24, 2024. (Photo by Herika Martinez \/ AFP) (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858425\" class=\"size-large wp-image-858425\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2149448157-933x576.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2149448157-933x576.jpg 933w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2149448157-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2149448157-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2149448157.jpg 1024w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: auto;\" width=\"933\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_858425\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 943px;\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-858425\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHERIKA MARTINEZ\/AFP via Getty Images\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ERegardless of U.N. intent, in the meantime, a potential – even probable – consequence of this continuing level of migration trail support would be to sustain steady pressure on Trump’s border for at least the next two years, perhaps even enough to induce policy failure.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe document seems to suggest some money might fund legal and propaganda operations.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EFor instance, one activity the group promotes as a high priority is to provide $204 million toward “protection,” topping the list is “legal assistance and counseling” that can counter a regional “shift towards more restrictive and security-focused approaches of managing migration and asylum…,” the document notes on page 77 in a category section titled “Protection.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe legal assistance and counseling will, it says, reduce risks related to migrant returns to home countries that their advocates would argue were too dangerous, known as “refoulment,” as well as “deportations, and arbitrary and prolonged detentions.” The group will call on academics and human rights organizations in migration trail nations “to ensure visibility of key protection issues affecting refugees and migrants in the region.” Those might include countries the Trump administration plans to diplomatically coerce into helping slow flows.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre Franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.15; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EA Point Of Contention And Potential Republican Action\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIn recent years, the UN-led conglomerate’s migration support efforts along the migration trails have become politically controversial because of the record-smashing traffic flows, especially among Trump supporters and some hardline border security-minded Republican lawmakers. Some saw the U.S. tax money funding the program as driving a self-destructive mass migration crisis that broadly damaged American national interests and advocated that U.S. money for that be pared back.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ERepublican lawmakers such as Texas Rep. Lance Gooden even\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/6155\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Efiled a bill to defund the U.N. of U.S. donations\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E, which did not advance when congressional chambers were split between Republicans and Democrats.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Representative Lance Gooden, a Republican from Texas, speaks to members of the media outside of a House Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Representative Tom Emmer dropped his bid for House speaker Tuesday after criticism from Donald Trump, becoming the third GOP nominee for the leadership post to be dragged down by seething divisions within the party. Photographer: Al Drago\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858413\" class=\"size-large wp-image-858413\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1743011003-864x576.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1743011003-864x576.jpg 864w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1743011003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1743011003-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1743011003.jpg 1024w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: auto;\" width=\"864\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_858413\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 874px;\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-858413\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ERepresentative Lance Gooden. Photographer: Al Drago\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBut with the trifecta of a White House and both chambers of Congress in Republican hands as of January 20, the prospects for some kind of funding rollback for this kind of U.N. and NGO support seem more likely. Rep. Gooden told The Daily Wire he would try again under the more favorable new circumstances.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“Under the Biden administration, U.S. dollars are being funneled through the United Nation’s IOM into programs that facilitate and encourage illegal migration into our own country,” Rep. Gooden told The Daily Wire for this report. “I will work with President Trump to ensure that no one cent of American money supports the erosion of our sovereignty. We will end this taxpayer funded invasion.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre Franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.15; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJOIN THE MOVEMENT IN ’25 WITH 25% OFF DAILYWIRE+ ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS WITH CODE DW25\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EDr. Nayla Rush, Senior Researcher at the Center for Immigration and a refugee policy expert, noted that the IOM and UNHCR mission is to assist migrants and refugees in need wherever they are. But as their top funder, the United States has a right to ensure neither organization is encouraging or guiding migrants to illegally enter the United States or submit false asylum claims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“The U.S. government should ask for complete transparency and accountability as to where and how both organizations spend US taxpayer money.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre Franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.15; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ECreating Migration Pressure On Trump Or Reducing Suffering?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIn early 2022, UNHCR spokeswoman for Mexico\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/Mexicos-Deep-South-United-Nations-Explains-Handing-Cash-USBound-Migrants\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ESilvia Garduno explained\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ethat her agency does not look for or consider evidence of illegal immigration but, rather, regards individuals it helps who are moving through as “vulnerable asylum seekers.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“UNHCR assistance is based strictly on the humanitarian need of individuals in need of international protection,” she said. “UNHRC supports the authorities by providing individuals information on the right to seek asylum and assists individuals while their asylum applications are in process by, for example, referring them to shelters operated by civil society, providing legal assistance, or providing humanitarian support for food and basic needs for the most vulnerable.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"A migrant caravan walks into the interior of Mexico after crossing the Guatemalan border on October 21, 2018 near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico The caravan of Central Americans plans to eventually reach the United States.\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-816347\" class=\"size-large wp-image-816347\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-43-1024x576.jpg\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: auto;\" width=\"1024\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_816347\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 1034px;\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-816347\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E(Photo by John Moore\/Getty Images)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EBut the group’s own document repeatedly acknowledges knowing that those it helps are moving ever forward over international borders without authorization.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe group is clearly not planning any retreat.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWhen it started operations in 2019, the conglomerate provided its aid via a network of ad hoc way-stations along known\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Video\/Cartels-UN-and-NGOs-Fuel-US-Border-Crisis\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Esmuggling routes\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from South America to the northern U.S.-Mexico border.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIn recent years, however, the U.N. group has plowed investment funds into large multi-purpose structures like a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/OneStop-Shop-Illegal-Migration\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003E75,000-square-foot mega-mall\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;just built in Tapachula, Mexico just north of the Guatemala border.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe UNHCR, IOM, and dozens of private often religion-based NGOs scattered around Tapachula, will work alongside one another under one massive roof here – evidently planning a years-long collaboration.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/3252301589552277119\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/as-trump-20-approaches-ngos-continue-to.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/3252301589552277119"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/3252301589552277119"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/as-trump-20-approaches-ngos-continue-to.html","title":"As Trump 2.0 Approaches, NGOs Continue To Fund Mass Migration With U.S. Tax Dollars"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-8768131471890408219"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-15T07:36:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-15T07:37:15.832-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Uses Loophole To Put Kamala Transition Aide In Trump Workforce"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EA Democrat operative who worked for the Biden White House personnel office, as a political appointee to the Department of Labor, and for the Kamala Harris transition team, has been hired by the Department of Labor in a role that will continue in the Trump administration using a loophole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EElizabeth Peña was a Biden political appointee to the Labor Department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, where she worked from October 2021 to October 2024, first as a Special Assistant and then as Policy Advisor, according to her LinkedIn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EFrom October to December 2024, she served as senior manager of vetting for the Harris transition team. Then in January, she returned to the Labor Department — this time as International Relations Officer, not a political appointee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EIn a LinkedIn post announcing her new position on Monday, she said she planned to use it to promote “equity,” a left-wing policy opposed by the incoming president.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“I’m thrilled to announce that I have returned to the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) as an International Relations Officer! This new role marks a continuation of my journey to protect and promote labor rights globally. Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of working on issues that matter deeply to me and at ILAB, I look forward to collaborating with partners at home and abroad to uphold the principles of dignity, equity, and justice in the workplace,” she wrote.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EPeña knows the importance of having people with the right political leanings in the right jobs — and the rules around it — because placing Democrats in key posts has been a large part of her career in politics. From September 2020 to January 2021, she worked on the Biden transition team as it selected Democrats to fill top jobs. From January to September 2021, she worked in the White House’s influential Presidential Personnel Office, which does the same thing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EPrior to that, she worked for Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign, where she “authored over 500 vetting reports analyzing employees,” according to her\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabeth-pe%C3%B1a-jd\/details\/experience\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELinkedIn\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EFederal ethics rules frown on “burrowing,” as the effort to embed political appointees into the next administration is known. According to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a political appointee can only be converted to a permanent position with special permission from the Office of Personnel Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe Congressional Research Service said that’s because of concerns about whether the person was hired because they were close to top leaders instead of being the best-qualified, that it takes a job away from an existing civil servant who may have wanted a promotion, and “that the individual who is converted to a career position may seek to undermine the work of the new Administration.” All of that, the Congressional Research Service says, “may increase the tension between political and career staff.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EDemocrats have lashed out at Trump’s suggestion that government employees are often liberals who may seek to thwart him — a suggestion that the Biden PPO alum’s appointment makes harder to dispute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ERep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the incoming ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, previously condemned the idea of political operatives moving into the federal workforce,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/connolly.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4747\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003Esaying\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;he was “committed to protecting the civil service from partisan attacks and attempts to replace qualified experts with political loyalists.”\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-858539\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/hispanic-heritage.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/hispanic-heritage.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/hispanic-heritage-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/hispanic-heritage-768x432.jpeg 768w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: auto;\" width=\"800\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe Labor Department appears to have used a loophole to avoid Peña showing up on a list of “burrowed” employees, which under the law must be furnished to Congress. A Labor Department spokesperson told The Daily Wire “Peña was hired as a Term employee at the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. A Term employee is a time-limited position that does not confer career status, distinguishing it from both political appointee roles and permanent career positions.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAn International Relations Officer job with “term” status was\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/820877000\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from November 26 through December 3. It showed a salary of $117,962 to $153,354 and a term of three years, meaning she would serve for the bulk of the Trump administration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAlso in November, a permanent International Relations Officer job was posted, then\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/819155500\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecancelled\u003C\/a\u003E. The Labor Department did not answer a question about whether the term-limited job was created for Peña and displaced a standard permanent position. A Daily Wire review of federal job ads showed that the bureau listed International Relations Officer jobs more than 80 times since 2019, and none of them were “term” jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe job ad tracks closely with Peña’s resume, saying the successful applicant must have experience “developing labor-related policy or program recommendations for senior leadership” and speak Spanish.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe Labor Department spokesperson indicated that the “term” classification sidestepped typical anti-burrowing procedures, saying “If Ms. Peña applies for and is selected to transition into a career position in the future… her application will undergo the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) review process required for all former political appointees.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe Biden administration has taken other personnel measures that could make it more difficult for Trump to identify and remove partisan operatives from the workforce. That includes hiring permanent employees to work on DEI initiatives — roles Trump is likely to abolish. Federal agencies may change their titles in an attempt to hide the target.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EA source close to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that the agency has taken steps to change the title of its Chief Equity Officer, Dia D. Harris, to Senior Adviser. HHS did not return a request for comment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe Chief Equity Officer job is not listed in the Plum Book, implying it is a career position. Yet employees originally hired to do DEI are likely partisan in ways that directly contradict Trump’s agenda, and are likely to remain that way regardless of title.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHarris’s LinkedIn says “I allow, permit, \u0026amp; encourage U 2 b as authentic as possible… I authentically live as an Unapologetically Blackity Black Black Man!”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAs Chief Equity Officer “I direct the implementation of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives, assist in the establishment of DEIA goals, and execute agency-wide action plans,” his LinkedIn says, adding that he was previously a self-employed “Inclusion Equality \u0026amp; 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color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EPresident\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EJoe Biden\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003Efaced backlash on Tuesday after he lifted the designation of state sponsor of terrorism off of communist Cuba.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“The Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period,” Biden claimed in a certification lifting the designation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EBiden added: “The Government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ERep. Micheal McCaul (R-TX), Chairman Emeritus of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, responded to the news by saying that Biden’s move would “only embolden the country’s brutal communist regime as it seeks to destabilize the globe and undermine democracy.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Under his watch, the Castro regime has brutally repressed and starved its own people, sent its citizens to help Putin’s army destroy Ukraine, and hosted a Beijing spy base, from which the CCP can surveil Americans and expand its malign influence,” he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ESen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) compared Biden to former President Barack Obama, saying that he is finishing out his final days in office “with rank appeasement of the Cuban regime.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“They push these policies both because they believe in them and to undermine the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress,” he said. “These moves do incredible damage to American national security and send a message to our adversaries that they can rely on outgoing Democrat administrations – and wait out pressure from Republican administrations – to continue engaging in terrorism and other aggression against Americans.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Today’s decision is unacceptable on its merits,” he added. “The terrorism advanced by the Cuban regime has not ceased. I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to immediately reverse and limit the damage from the decision.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EOther notable responses included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1879354024132264162\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;features=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%3D%3D\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1879354024132264162\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-slammed-for-lifting-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-designation-on-cuba\u0026amp;sessionId=552ae470b7fe557c0af0d0bcea7f1096319ed3e6\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716\u0026amp;width=550px\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;\"\u003EThe CAN Bill: a radical agenda flying under the radar\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe climate change cult are taking over the UK. After years of insane proposals, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/expose-news.com\/2025\/01\/12\/bill-will-write-extreme-demands-into-law\/\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003EUK’s Climate and Nature (CAN) Bill\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is poised to become law, embedding extreme Net Zero demands into the nation’s legal framework. Spearheaded by supporters like Labour MP Ed Miliband and promoted by figures such as Dr. Roz Savage MBE, the Bill mandates rapid decarbonization, the phasing out of natural fuels, and sweeping changes to agriculture and industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bills.parliament.uk\/bills\/3460\/stages\/17675\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003EScheduled for its second reading on January 24, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E, the Bill has quietly gained significant parliamentary support, despite concerns about its feasibility, scientific basis, and potential to upend traditional ways of life. With its roots in campaigns like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, the CAN Bill represents a radical shift in policy—one that critics argue threatens not only energy security and food production but also fundamental freedoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thelightpaper.co.uk\/\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003EThe CAN Bill’s objectives are truly transformative\u003C\/a\u003E. It requires the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero to achieve Net Zero emissions \"as rapidly as possible,\" effectively ending the exploration, extraction, and use of oil, coal, and gas. Industries deemed high-emission would face closure, with workers retrained for \"green\" jobs. The Bill also mandates the creation of a Climate and Nature Assembly, tasked with recommending measures to achieve these goals. However, critics argue that the Assembly’s independence is questionable, as its \"expert advice\" is likely to be cherry-picked to align with the Bill’s preordained outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EDr. Roz Savage, a prominent supporter of the Bill, has framed it as a necessary step to \"lock the science into law.\" Yet, this very assertion has drawn sharp criticism. Opponents argue that the Bill assumes a scientific consensus on man-made climate change that does not exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EOne of the most contentious aspects of the CAN Bill is its emphasis on \"rewilding\" and nature recovery. The Bill could require large swathes of farmland to be converted back to wilderness, reducing domestic food production at a time when global supply chains are already strained. Combined with the phasing out of natural fuel-powered shipping, this could lead to food shortages, rationing, and even starvation, critics warn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EMoreover, the Bill’s focus on \"ecosystem recovery\" could result in authorities shutting off vast areas of countryside, confining people to cities and controlled communities. \"This isn’t just about climate change; it’s about control,\" said one farmer. \"They’re taking away our land, our livelihoods, and our freedom—all in the name of saving the planet.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Roboto Condensed\u0026quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;\"\u003EA flawed process and a dangerous precedent\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe CAN Bill’s path to becoming law has been marked by a lack of transparency and public debate. Despite its far-reaching implications, the Bill has garnered little media attention, and many MPs appear unaware of its details. The Zero Hour campaign, which backs the Bill, has been accused of using alarmist propaganda to sway lawmakers. Its website features images of “Extinction Rebellion protests” and lists an impressive array of supporters, including 188 MPs, 54 Peers, and 799 organizations. However, critics argue that this support is built on a foundation of biased information and fear-mongering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\"The Zero Hour campaign is marking its own homework,\" said one parliamentary insider. \"They’re presenting MPs with a one-sided narrative and expecting them to fall in line. It’s a dangerous precedent for how policy is made in this country.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EAs the CAN Bill moves closer to becoming law, its implications are becoming increasingly clear. For supporters, it represents a bold and necessary response to an alleged \"climate crisis.\" For those who understand the propaganda, this law represents a radical and reckless overhaul of energy, farming, and freedom—one that threatens to upend the lives of millions. The Bill’s reliance on alarmist narratives, its bypassing of genuine scientific debate, and its potential to cause widespread disruption have sparked a growing backlash. Yet, with its second reading fast approaching, time is running out for those who wish to challenge it.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/316581003156546470\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/uk-on-verge-of-passing-radical-net-zero.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/316581003156546470"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/316581003156546470"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/uk-on-verge-of-passing-radical-net-zero.html","title":"UK on the verge of passing radical “Net Zero” climate change law that would threaten the livelihood of millions"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-7735377534935854471"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-14T10:52:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-14T10:52:58.308-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"While Advocation for Women to Serve in Combat, Senator Gillibrand MELTSDOWN During Hegseth Hearing (Video)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1290422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_1290422\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1190px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"size-facebook wp-image-1290422\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/screen-shot-2025-01-14-at-12.36.52-pm_16x9-1200x630.png\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;\" width=\"1200\" \/\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-1290422\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13.5px; opacity: 0.8; padding-top: 5px;\"\u003ESenator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)\/Image: Video screenshot.\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003ESenator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) had a complete meltdown during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EGillibrand, rather than addressing Hegseth’s exemplary qualifications, instead went on a virtual signaling tirade during which distorted his common sense position on women in combat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EGillibrand screeched, “So women, you have denigrated. You have also denigrated members of the LGBTQ community. Did you know that when ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was in place, we lost so many crucial personnel, over a thousand in mission critical areas. We lost 10% of all our foreign language speakers because of a political policy.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\" id=\"tgp-1451996086\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“You said in your statement, you don’t want politics in the DOD. Everything you’ve said in these public statements is politics. ‘I don’t want women, I don’t want moms.'”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“What’s wrong with a mom, by the way? Once you have babies, you, therefore, are no longer able to be lethal?”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I mean, you’re basically saying women, after they have children, can’t ever serve in the military in a combat role. It’s a silly thing to say. It’s a silly thing to say beneath the position that you are aspiring to. To denigrate LGBTQ service members is a mistake. If you are a sharpshooter, you’re as lethal, regardless of what your gender identity is, regardless of who you love. So please know this to be a true statement.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWhy does Gillibrand so desperately want mothers of small children to be put in harm’s way?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAnd does a woman breaking down into an emotional mess while sitting in the safety and comfort of a Senate hearing really help advance the cause of putting women into combat?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWatch:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhxQkgra6tk?si=jnRwvvJlStRvb7YB\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003ETo be clear, Hegseth’s position about women in combat underscores that they need to perform at the same standards as men for the safety of everyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EHegseth told the committee, “In those ground combat roles, what is true is the weight on your back doesn‘t change.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“The weight of the bravo machine gun you might have to carry does not change. Whether it is a man or woman, they have to meet the same high standards. In any place where those things have been eroded or course criteria have been changed in order to meet quotas, racial quotas or gender quotas, that is putting a focus on something other than readiness standards, meritocracy, lethality.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“That is the kind of review I am talking about.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1736880161495186126=\"true\" style=\"border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EHegseth says women in combat need to perform at the same standards as men.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAnyone who opposes this opposes the safety of America.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fe80tmgXTI\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003Epic.twitter.com\/fe80tmgXTI\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bubblebathgirl\/status\/1879196881320071601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;\"\u003EJanuary 14, 2025\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/7735377534935854471\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/while-advocation-for-women-to-serve-in.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/7735377534935854471"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/7735377534935854471"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/while-advocation-for-women-to-serve-in.html","title":"While Advocation for Women to Serve in Combat, Senator Gillibrand MELTSDOWN During Hegseth Hearing (Video)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/fhxQkgra6tk\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-2364950531223730947"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-14T08:44:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-14T08:44:16.558-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"DeSantis Orders Special Session To Enact Trump Agenda Immediately"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EOn Monday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis announced he would call a special session of the Florida state legislature starting the week of January 27 so that the state can help the Trump administration enforce the nation’s immigration laws by implementing legislation that would impose additional duties on local officials, hold people accountable who are violating Florida’s anti-sanctuary policies, and eliminate any incentives for illegal immigrants to travel to Florida.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“We have worked very hard over the last four years to overcome a lot of obstacles that the federal government has put in our way across a wide variety of issues as they’ve borrowed and spent and driven costs up higher,” DeSantis began. “We’ve acted to reduce burdens on Floridians. whether it’s tax relief, toll relief, you name it, as they tried to throw roadblocks into education freedom; we worked hard and overcame it.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHe immediately turned to illegal immigration, stating, “And of course, the issue that was maybe the most significant over the last four years, the fight against illegal immigration.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“When President Trump takes office again on January 20 we are going to see a sea change in policies, particularly with respect to the border and illegal immigration. And this is an issue that has been festering in this country for many, many decades although the first Trump administration was much more successful than others have been,” he declared. “This is the time to get it right once and for all. … We’ve been working with the transition team; I’ve been speaking with the president. We had the governors down in Mar-a-Lago. There’s going to be some ambitious policy changes that are going to be instituted on day one, particularly with respect to illegal immigration and major, major executive orders that are going to unwind the bad policies of the Biden administration.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“We are not a state sanctuary state; we banned sanctuary cities my first year as governor,” he noted, “but we have a responsibility to be in this fight. State and local officials in Florida must help the Trump administration enforce our nations’ immigration laws, and we are going to need, in order to do that effectively… legislation to impose additional duties on local officials and provide funding for those local officials. There also need to be measures to hold people accountable who are violating our anti-sanctuary policies and then Florida needs to make sure that we don’t have any lingering incentives for people to come into our state illegally.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Therefore I’m going to call the legislature into special session starting the week of January 27,” he announced. “We have the next president taking office January 20. We anticipate executive orders to be issued immediately after the swearing in, in the inaugural address; we’re gonna have some time to process to make sure we’re doing what we need to do, but then we need to act and we need to act quickly. We don’t have time to waste.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“So it will require new legislation in Florida to ensure that the duties of both state and local officials are very clear and that those duties require them to be assisting the federal government in this regard,” he said. “We’re going to do it because I’m going to order that the state does it. Local, I think you’re going to have some different views on that and we’re not a sanctuary state, we banned sanctuary cities, but you have to have effective accountability to hold those folks accountable if they choose to go in a different direction … I have a lot of sheriffs out there that are chomping at the bit; they want to be able to help and they just need a little bit of funding so we have responsibility to provide that funding and we’re going to be calling upon the legislature to do that.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“If you think back to the hurricanes we just had, they had looters in Pinellas county; I think it was like 45 of them that were arrested over a period of time, and I think 40 of them were in this country illegally,” he recalled. “I’m just thinking to myself, how the hell is this happening here on the head of a natural disaster? You’ve got people that come here without authorization and they go out and try to loot the place? Give me a break. Those people need to be sent back immediately.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“If those duties are clear in law, I have the authority with respect to certain officials to suspend them from their office if they are neglecting their duties,” he asserted. “That is an authority that I have invoked when it’s been appropriate in the past. We also need to make sure that we don’t have incentives for people to come illegally… \u0026nbsp;We really did probably the strongest legislation in the country in 2023, so I think Florida has really done a great job — with one lingering exception.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Back in 2014 the legislature enacted and the then-Governor signed legislation providing preferential tuition for illegal immigrants, in-state tuition. … You were rewarding somebody for being here illegally; that in-state tuition has been on the books now for over a decade. We’ve tried to work with the legislature to get that repealed in the past. It’s something that always seems to fall out of the bill. No more excuses on this.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“We need to remove all incentive to come to the state of Florida illegally, and that is one of them,” he concluded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 382.5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iCW1EF0mNw?si=dH4ZDQAEcqLYaE_B\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EA top employee for the\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EAssociation of American Medical Colleges\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E(AAMC) said that he had dedicated his career to unpacking people’s “invisible knapsacks” of white privilege, and blamed problems with American health care on “isms” like “cisgenderism.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EPhilip Alberti, the founding director of the AAMC’s Center for Health Justice, made these comments during\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/do\/10.1377\/hp20241015.75857\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ean appearance\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;last month on HealthAffairs’ “Research and Justice for All” podcast. The December 18 appearance comes as the AAMC, which facilitates medical education in the United States, has\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ecome\u0026nbsp;under fire\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;for its promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and leftist ideology.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EDuring the podcast, Alberti told host Rhea Boyd that “isms” are a foundational cause of sickness in the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“My training was around social conditions as fundamental causes of disease,” he said. “What social conditions am I talking about? I’m talking about racism, classism, sexism, cisgenderism, all the isms. That’s what we’re talking about.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“And these are fundamental causes for a couple of reasons. One is that they’re clever. So if you close off one pathway for racism to operate, that’s cool, it’s just going to find some other pathway,” he added, saying\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the “isms” control resources, power, voice, money, and beneficial social relationships.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EEarlier in the podcast, he said that his interest in DEI-related issues began when leftist academic Peggy McIntosh came to his high school and encouraged students to consider the “invisible knapsack of white privilege” that they had.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“That was a very early moment for me to say, I don’t know what I’m gonna do or how it’s gonna be, but I’m gonna dedicate myself to unpacking my own and others’ invisible knapsacks to really create pathways of opportunity wherever I can,” he said.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe AAMC administers the MCAT, a test used for admission to medical colleges, and sponsors the accrediting body for allopathic medical schools. It counts as members all 158 American medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the organization it co-sponsors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EDo No Harm senior director of programs Laura Morgan criticized Alberti’s comments, saying he was “the product of a politicized higher education system that taught him illogical concepts that do not have a legitimate place in medical schools like ‘the invisible knapsack of white privilege.’”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMorgan pointed out that the Alberti-run Center for Health Justice put out an “Advancing Health Equity”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/system\/files\/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Elanguage guide\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 2021 in partnership with the AAMC and the American Medical Association that suggested infusing agenda-driven commentary into health care discussions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe guide recommends changing a sentence like “Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States” to “People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies, real estate developers gentrifying neighborhoods, and corporations weakening the power of labor movements, among others, have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-857557\" class=\"size-full wp-image-857557\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1170\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2060px) 100vw, 2060px\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM.png 2060w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-1014x576.png 1014w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-1536x872.png 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-13-at-11.18.35-AM-2048x1163.png 2048w\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: auto;\" width=\"2060\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_857557\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 2070px;\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\" id=\"caption-attachment-857557\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-style: italic; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHealth Equity language guide\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMorgan was also critical of Alberti’s assertion during the podcast that health equity “should infuse everything that we do.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“The work should pervade both kinds of organizational equity, diversity, and inclusion as well as what I see as the complementary field of population health, health equity, science, policy. Right? That should infuse everything that we do,” Alberti said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMorgan told The Daily Wire that she’d “rather see the AAMC put its time, effort, and resources into infusing excellence – not to mention scientific fact – into everything they do.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EDo No Harm released a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/donoharmmedicine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Activism-over-Meritocracy-How-the-AAMC-is-Corrupting-Medical-Education-with-Endless-DEI-Ideology.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;last month that exposed the AAMC’s embrace of DEI.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EA report from The Daily Wire last week\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-how-much-medical-schools-pay-for-membership-in-woke-academic-association\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erevealed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the membership costs of being a part of the AAMC, which has 171 members in both the United States and Canada. An invoice obtained by Do No Harm showed that the University of Utah School of Medicine paid over $75,000 for a full year of membership.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/4509851269280088909\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/top-medical-association-academic-blames.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4509851269280088909"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4509851269280088909"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/top-medical-association-academic-blames.html","title":"Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-6994884174067174900"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-14T08:06:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-14T08:06:05.303-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden: I Built ‘Most Competent Foreign Policy Team’ In U.S. History"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003EPresident Joe Biden claimed during the final week of his presidency that he built one the most competent foreign policy teams in history despite all evidence to the contrary.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EBiden made the puzzling remarks on Monday evening at the State Department alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams, I would argue, in American history,” Biden claimed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EHis remarks come after his disastrous withdraw in Afghanistan in August 2021 that humiliated the U.S. around the world and became the catalyst for a resurgence in Islamic terrorism in the region and around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ESeveral months later, in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in-part because he believed that the Biden would not respond strongly to the invasion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe administration has allowed Russian forces, combined with local forces, to push the U.S. out of countries in Africa where the U.S. had a small presence that was key for fighting terrorism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EIranian-backed Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering more than 1,200 people and taking hundreds hostage. Other Iranian-backed terrorist groups later joined in the fight against Israel, sparking a regional war in which Iran has directly fired hundreds of ballistic missiles inside Israel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EThe U.S. has also faced the largest cyberattack in history from communist China —\u0026nbsp;which is still ongoing and which the administration still has not punished China for.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“In these four years, we faced crises that we’ve been tested,” Biden claimed. “We’ve come through those tests stronger, in my view, than we ended those tests.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EFirst Lady-elect\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMelania Trump\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;opened up about where she will spend her time during President-elect Donald Trump’s second presidency, making it clear that her priority is to be a mom first.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ESpeaking to Fox News “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6367025633112\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EFox and Friends”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;on Monday, the first lady-elect said she will be spending time in three places, New York, Palm Beach, and Washington, D.C. — with the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue being her primary residence.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I will be in the White House, and when I need to be in New York, I will be in New York,” Melania told the host. “When I need to be in Palm Beach, I will be in Palm Beach.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; 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font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EMelania and Trump’s son, Barron Trump, is currently enrolled in New York University’s Stern School of Business and she will be staying at Trump\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ETower triplex penthouse in Manhattan when she’s in the city.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe first lady-elect also has responsibilities in Florida where she and Trump have made their primary residence at the Mar-a-lago resort, since 2019.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWhen pressed further about how much time Barron will spend in D.C., the first lady-elect said that their son will “come visit” the White House as much as he would like to.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“I feel that children, we have them ’til they are like 18, 19 years old,” Melania said. “We teach them, we guide them. and then we give them the wings to fly.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“And I always respect Barron’s yes and no and what he likes to do, where he would like to be,” she added.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EDuring the interview, the first lady-elect said, this second time around, she’s more prepared to move and live in the White House than the last time in 2017, following Trump’s election victory.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“The difference is I know where I will be going. I know the rooms, where we will be living, I know the process,” Melania said. “The first time was challenging. We didn’t have much of the information.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E“But this time I have everything,” she added. “I have the plans, I could move in, I already packed, I already selected, you know, the furniture that needs to go in. So it’s a very different transition this time, second time around.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EThe first lady-elect also talked about how last time she didn’t “feel that people” accepted, understood, or supported her. And she said she’s looking forward to this second time in the White House, those things being different.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/2867681968770057085\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/melania-shares-where-she-will-spend-her.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/2867681968770057085"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/2867681968770057085"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/melania-shares-where-she-will-spend-her.html","title":"Melania Shares Where She Will Spend Her Time During Second Trump Presidency"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-4945449400641999362"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-13T11:25:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-13T11:25:05.489-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Zuckerberg’s meeting with Trump preceded fact-checking policy shift, GOP senator reveals"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2025\/01\/09\/revealed-zuckerberg-met-with-trump-before-ending-biased-fact-checking-program\/\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #009999; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003Emet with former President Donald Trump just one day before\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003Eannouncing a major policy shift that would end fact-checking protocols on his social media platforms, according to a Republican senator. The revelation comes as Meta faces mounting scrutiny over its business practices and political maneuvering, including an ongoing antitrust lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003ESenator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), speaking during an interview with Benny Johnson,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/mark-zuckerberg-met-with-trump-just-before-announcing-and-end-to-fact-checking-per-gop-senator\/\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003Edisclosed that Zuckerberg had met with Trump on multiple occasions\u003C\/a\u003E, including the day before the tech executive announced the pivot to a “community notes” model of content moderation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E“Mark met with President Trump the day before he announced that they were going to change the way that they do censorship, essentially,” Mullin said. “The big announcement that he made the other day, President Trump, and spoke about that, and Mark had been down to see the president several times already.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe timing of the meeting has raised questions about whether Zuckerberg’s decision to abandon fact-checking was influenced by his discussions with Trump. The move has been widely interpreted as an effort to appease conservative critics who have long accused Meta’s platforms of bias against right-leaning voices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Roboto Condensed\u0026quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;\"\u003EZuckerberg’s political pivot and GOP ties\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EZuckerberg’s outreach to Trump appears to be part of a broader strategy to improve relations with Republican lawmakers and conservative figures. The National Pulse recently reported that Zuckerberg has elevated Joel Kaplan, a Bush-era Republican strategist, to the role of Meta’s Head of Global Policy. Kaplan replaces Sir Nick Clegg, the liberal former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, signaling a shift in the company’s political alignment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EKaplan’s appointment follows the hiring of establishment GOP consultant Brian Baker late last year, who was brought on to help Zuckerberg navigate the increasingly contentious political landscape. These moves suggest that Meta is actively working to shore up support among conservative leaders as it faces regulatory challenges and public criticism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EMullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter, also revealed a more personal side to Zuckerberg’s outreach efforts. The senator said Zuckerberg had texted him multiple times, inviting him to spar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E“Mark has actually reached out to me, texted me a couple times,” Mullin said. “The guy’s gotten into jujitsu rehab. He wants me to come down there and roll with him. He wants to try and actually get in the cage and fight. He said, ‘I’d love for you to come down and spar if we can.’ I think that’d be great to go down there and do that.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EWhile the invitation to spar may seem unrelated to Meta’s political strategy, it underscores Zuckerberg’s efforts to build personal connections with influential figures across the political spectrum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Roboto Condensed\u0026quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;\"\u003EMeta faces antitrust trial amid policy shifts\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EZuckerberg’s policy changes and political maneuvering come as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/4988461-meta-antitrust-case-ftc\/\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003EMeta prepares to face trial in an antitrust lawsuit\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;brought by the FTC. A federal judge ruled that the case, which alleges Meta illegally maintained a monopoly through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, must proceed to trial.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EU.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied Meta’s request to dismiss the case, though he did dismiss one portion of the lawsuit. In a 92-page opinion, Boasberg wrote, “In the end, while the parties’ legal jousting is both impressive and comprehensive, it leaves no clear victor. This case must go to trial. Under the forgiving summary-judgment standard, the FTC has put forward evidence sufficient for a reasonable factfinder to rule in its favor.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe FTC initially sued Meta in 2020, accusing the company of stifling competition by acquiring Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. The case has been mired in pre-trial proceedings for years, with the FTC filing an amended complaint after an earlier dismissal in 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EMeta has denied the allegations, arguing that its acquisitions have benefited competition and consumers. “We are confident that the evidence at trial will show that the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp have been good for competition and consumers,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EAs Zuckerberg navigates these legal and political challenges, his recent actions suggest a concerted effort to align Meta more closely with conservative interests. Whether these moves will help the company weather its antitrust trial and repair its public image remains to be seen.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/4945449400641999362\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/zuckerbergs-meeting-with-trump-preceded.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4945449400641999362"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/4945449400641999362"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/zuckerbergs-meeting-with-trump-preceded.html","title":"Zuckerberg’s meeting with Trump preceded fact-checking policy shift, GOP senator reveals"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-7679689501028482087"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-13T11:24:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-13T11:24:15.790-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"U.S. imposes additional sanctions on Russian oil giants to curb revenue from energy exports"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe U.S.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EDepartment of the Treasury\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003Ehas announced a\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/610703-us-sanctions-russian-oil\/\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #009999; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003Enew round of sanctions on the Russian oil industry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003Eto constrict further the country's ability to generate revenue from its oil exports.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe sanctions, implemented in conjunction with the U.K., specifically target\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/russiareport.news\/\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003Etwo major Russian oil producers\u003C\/a\u003E: Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz, along with their subsidiaries and service providers. Gazprom Neft, a subsidiary of Russia's state energy giant Gazprom, is responsible for oil and gas field development and extraction. Meanwhile, Surgutneftegaz, founded in 1993, is a significant player in Russia's energy sector and was listed among the country's top 100 companies in 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EIn addition to these companies, the sanctions also extend to over 20 subsidiaries, more than 180 oil tankers linked to what the U.S. describes as a \"shadow fleet\" of Russian operators and over 30 Russian oilfield service providers. These targeted entities play crucial roles in Russia's oil production, transportation and export infrastructure. (\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe U.S. Treasury has also issued a determination allowing American authorities to impose sanctions on anyone determined to operate or have operated in Russia's energy sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\"The United States is taking\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy2777\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003Esweeping action against Russia's key source of revenue\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for funding its brutal and illegal war against Ukraine,\" Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said along with the announcement on Jan. 10. \"This action builds on and strengthens our focus since the beginning of the war on disrupting the Kremlin's energy revenues, including through the G7+ price cap launched in 2022. With today's actions, we are ratcheting up the sanctions risk associated with Russia's oil trade, including shipping and financial facilitation in support of Russia's oil exports.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThis latest round of sanctions is part of a broader strategy by the U.S. and its allies to curb Russia's economic growth and limit its ability to finance military operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Roboto Condensed\u0026quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;\"\u003EOil prices surge as U.S. Treasury imposes sanctions against Russian oil industry\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThat same day,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/other\/oil-jumps-4-brent-breaks-80-as-traders-worry-about-tougher-russia-sanctions\/ar-BB1remEw?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" style=\"color: #009999; text-decoration: none;\"\u003Eoil prices surged\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;following the announcement of comprehensive sanctions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EFor instance, Brent crude oil gained $2.84 (3.69 percent) to close at $79.76 per barrel, while U.S. crude oil advanced $2.65 (3.58 percent) to settle at $76.57 per barrel. Both benchmarks closed at their highest levels since October.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThe sanctions are expected to disrupt the global oil supply chain, as Indian and Chinese refiners that have been importing Russian oil may now have to seek alternative sources from the Middle East, according to Bob Yawger, executive director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003EThis decision to impose these sanctions, just before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, has caught the market off guard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"\u003E\"The Biden administration opted for more robust energy sanctions, which caught the oil market especially complacent about sanctions risks,\" said Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group. The impact on oil prices is expected to last until signals are received from the incoming Trump administration regarding their stance on these sanctions.\u0026nbsp; \"Therefore, we expect today's material risk premium in Brent to stick pending signals from the Trump team as to whether they will continue these sanctions,\" McNally added.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/7679689501028482087\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/us-imposes-additional-sanctions-on.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/7679689501028482087"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/7679689501028482087"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/us-imposes-additional-sanctions-on.html","title":"U.S. imposes additional sanctions on Russian oil giants to curb revenue from energy exports"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349580839831674483.post-2223702490086243501"},"published":{"$t":"2025-01-13T08:36:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2025-01-13T08:36:54.482-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"GOP Senator Says He Thinks All Of Trump’s Nominees Have Votes Needed To Be Confirmed"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003ESen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said on Sunday that he believes all of President-elect\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EDonald Trump\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E‘s nominees will receive enough votes to be confirmed by the GOP-led\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESenate\u003Cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px;\"\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EDuring an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo pressed Marshall for his expectations ahead of confirmation hearings that are\u0026nbsp;set to begin\u0026nbsp;next week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"dw-mm-player-container\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“So, you met with President Trump this week, along with your colleagues. Did you have a chance to speak with your colleagues? Do you believe you have the votes in the Senate to actually confirm all of his nominees?” Bartiromo asked.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 500px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1878466749156237665\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;features=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%3D%3D\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1878466749156237665\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fgop-senator-says-he-thinks-all-of-trumps-nominees-have-votes-needed-to-be-confirmed\u0026amp;sessionId=69f4de4da2dc6fd39eb23d50e17ef445746c4c2c\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 624px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;\" title=\"X Post\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“Look, you know I hate to count my chickens before they hatch, but, yes, I do,” Marshall replied. “I think that they need to go through the hearing process. They’re going to get beat up by the legacy media and the Left as well, but I think the votes are there.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ETrump’s more controversial picks for Cabinet positions face some uncertainty in the confirmation process, including Robert F. Kennedy, the nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services; Pete Hegseth, the nominee to become secretary of defense; and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), the nominee to become director of national intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EMarshall, like other senators, has conducted meetings with Trump’s nominees over the past few weeks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003E“And as I have interviewed these people one-on-one, they have been great communicators,” he told Bartiromo. “They’re great leaders. They’re very accomplished. Yes, some of them are outside the box, but I do think we have the votes.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003ENominees for Cabinet roles and other top positions in a presidential administration need only a simple majority of voting senators to be confirmed by the Senate. The vice president can serve as tie-breaker, if needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EWith the 2024 election, Republicans won a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/history\/partydiv.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E53-seat majority\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the upper chamber, though JD Vance (R-OH) just\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/vice-president-elect-jd-vance-submits-resignation-from-senate\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eresigned\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the Senate ahead of his inauguration as vice president. Ohio GOP Governor Mike DeWine is expected to pick Vance’s replacement. And Jim Justice (R-WV) is set to be\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2024\/12\/27\/jim-justice-senate-west-virginia\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esworn in\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on Monday — 10 days after his newly-elected Senate peers — upon the inauguration of his successor as West Virginia governor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: \u0026quot;Libre franklin\u0026quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;\"\u003EAt least one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), has met with some of Trump’s nominees. Fetterman\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fetterman-signals-hes-voting-for-trumps-nominees-thats-the-way-democracy-works\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Etold\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Fox News anchor Bret Baier last week that he plans to vote to confirm at least a handful of them.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/feeds\/2223702490086243501\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/gop-senator-says-he-thinks-all-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/2223702490086243501"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6349580839831674483\/posts\/default\/2223702490086243501"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2025\/01\/gop-senator-says-he-thinks-all-of.html","title":"GOP Senator Says He Thinks All Of Trump’s Nominees Have Votes Needed To Be Confirmed"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Your Destination"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17043670821617405877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});