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#1 FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, Under Pressure From Trump, Resigns - Liz Essley Whyte and Natalie Andrews for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner,
Maryanne Demasi, PhD, Anna Baxter, Defender of the Republic, and Catherine Herridge on X
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary resigned Tuesday after months of policy fights with top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House. His departure became official after President Trump signed off last week on a plan to fire Makary, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Makary offered his resignation, effective Tuesday...
#2 Republican Jen Kiggans Faces Calls to Resign for Agreeing With Racist ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark - Chris Stein for The Guardian, Virginia News Vanguard, Popular Liberal, L.A. Daily News, Axios, and Watching Trending on X
Jen Kiggans, a Republican congresswoman, is facing calls from Democrats to resign for agreeing with a radio host after he said the top US House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, should get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia”. Kiggans, who represents a swing district in southeastern Virginia, has said she was agreeing with the host that Jeffries – who is the first Black American to lead a party in Congress – should stay out of the state’s politics. She also said she did not condone the host’s language, which multiple Democrats criticized as racist. The term “cotton-picking” is widely considered offensive due to the US history of slavery, when enslaved people – the overwhelming majority of whom were Black – picked cotton...
#3 ICE Uncovers MASSIVE Student Visa Fraud Scheme - New York Post, Breaking 911, Official Layoff/POLITICO, Senator Eric Schmitt/Ali Bradley, Patricia, and Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS on X
ICE says it has identified more than 10,000 potential fraud cases tied to the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which allows foreign students to work in the U.S. after graduation. ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons said the investigation focused on abuse of the program, which lets student visa holders remain in the country for up to two years and can serve as a pathway to employer-sponsored H-1B visas.
#4 Paxton Sues Chinese Childcare Center Owner for H-1B Visa Fraud - Bloomberg Law, Attorney General Ken Paxton, TheBlaze, Brandon Waltens, Texas Scorecard, and The Dallas Express News on X
A Chinese citizen in Texas opened two fake childcare centers for the purpose of selling H-1B visas to employees he says he hired to work there, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said in a new lawsuit Tuesday. Yuan Yao and his company, Golden Qi Holdings LLC, filed 20 applications to hire foreign workers, certifying positions like software engineer and business intelligence analyst, then sold the visas to women in China, the lawsuit alleges. The scheme supports a lavish lifestyle, it says, including luxury cars, at least six cell phones, and several businesses in the Dallas area...
#5 All Tenn. Dem Reps Have Been Removed From Every House Committee Possible as Punishment for Redistricting Chaos - Bryan Chai for The Western Journal, KimL, Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social, FoxNashville, The Patriot Oasis™, and Helen Ann on X
Actions and behaviors can have consequences — sometimes dramatically so. Just ask the Democratic caucus members in Tennessee. Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton dropped a bombshell on them Tuesday, announcing that the Democrats faced imminent expulsion from all committees and subcommittees. In a letter to House Democratic Leader Karen Camper, Sexton didn’t mince words about the Democrats’ behavior during last week’s contentious redistricting talks...
#6 GOP Scores Another Gerrymandering Victory With Missouri Supreme Court Win - Aaron Pellish for POLITICO, #TuckFrump, Big Daddy digital, CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT, George Duffy Jr, and All Patriots Network A.P.N. on X
The Missouri Supreme Court enacted the state’s Republican-drawn gerrymander on Tuesday, allowing it to likely take effect for the midterms by handing the GOP victories on two major redistricting cases. The court ruled that the state’s new map — which Republicans in the Legislature drew to break up a Kansas City-area Democratic seat and shift the delegation from 6-2 Republican to a 7-1 advantage — did not violate the state constitution’s redistricting clause. The court also ruled against Democrats in the state who filed a petition seeking to force a referendum on the map, declaring the filing of the petition does not automatically suspend the new map...
#7 Washington Manufacturer Leaving State After 48 Years, Citing Crime, Taxes, Political Climate - Rachel del Guidice for Fox News, Underboss, @4U2C1More/AriHoffman, Seattle Channel/Curly Poodle, James, and Governor Bob Ferguson/Luke on X
A Washington manufacturer is leaving the state after nearly five decades, with its owner citing rising crime, taxes, and a worsening political climate. Jon Bodwell, whose family founded Delta Camshaft in 1977, said he has been forced to live inside his business because the cost of operating in Washington has become too high. "A majority of it is the constant battle with the city over the graffiti and the crime stuff here, the constant massive tax increase, everything is increasing," Bodwell told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday...
#8 Harvard’s $100M Reparations Program Backfires - Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com/MSN, The Free Press, The Post Millennial, miles e drake, and Dionysus on X
Harvard University's $100million reparation program fell apart after it allegedly told its hired expert not to find too many slave descendants over fears it could bankrupt the Ivy League school. In 2022, Harvard announced it had established a $100million reparation initiative after releasing a report that the school had been involved in the slave trade for two centuries. As part of the recommendations released by those working on the initiative, the school was supposed to identify direct descendants of the slaves affected by Harvard. Harvard hired Richard J Cellini, 62, for the job. He had previously mapped out more than 10,000 descendants of the 272 enslaved people affected by Georgetown University in 2015. Although Georgetown did not commission Cellini for the work, it did use his work to make changes...
#9 Trump Demands McConnell Aide Be Fired - Charlie McCarthy for NEWSMAX, Eric Daugherty, Mediaite, Newsweek, Kev, and JohnTitor17
President Donald Trump called for a staffer to be "immediately fired" for making Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., "look foolish and completely out of it" near the end of a Tuesday committee hearing. The incident occurred during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing featuring War Secretary Pete Hegseth. As McConnell appeared ready to adjourn the session, a staffer approached the chairman and informed him that additional senators still had questions...
#10 CIA Whistleblower Will Allege ‘Deep State Still Hiding Origins’ of COVID at Hearing, Says Sen. Rand Paul - Steven Nelson for New York Post, Rand Paul/Daily Wire, MAHA Action, NEWSMAX, and The Will Cain Show on X
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told The Post that a longtime CIA employee will allege an ongoing “deep state” conspiracy to cover up the origins of COVID-19 during a public hearing Wednesday. The two-decade CIA veteran was detailed to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where he worked on a recently disbanded “director’s initiative group” that studied the how the pandemic started in Wuhan, China, Paul said in an interview. “He believes that there are people still within the CIA that were trying to obscure the truth, trying to withhold documents, and he will also testify that the CIA actually were spying on his group and eavesdropping on his group,” Paul said...
