"To unleash the power of the federal government on this today, I am declaring a national emergency." Trump says this will clear up $50 billion
"The ability to waive laws to enable tele-health," Trump says, which he describes as "incredible." The "ability to waive requirements" about hospital beds and a 3-day hospital stay. "The ability to bring additional physicians on board or obtain additional office space."
"We'll remove or eliminate every obstacle necessary to help our people," Trump promises. All the same, it is unnerving to hear him talking about "waiving laws."
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The Girl Scouts expelled NJ mom Alexandra Bougher, a @Moms4Liberty chapter chair, after she refused to promote LGBTQ "Pride" to her troop.
She also got swatted after she attacked a church's decision to raise an LGBTQ flag.
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Bougher's daughter had been in Girl Scouts since Kindergarten, but the mom started noticing a very liberal bias in Girl Scouts amid the BLM riots of 2020.
She says she remembers troops going to BLM protests. That's plausible. Here's GSUSA's statement on BLM
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In June, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey posted an LGBTQ graphic. Bougher responded by saying, "WE DO NOT talk about this with our troop."
Lt. Gov. @winwithwinsome spoke at Stone Bridge High School, slamming Loudoun County Public Schools for punishing 3 boys who complained about a girl in the locker room.😲
One boy's dad spoke, and so did the lawyer representing him.
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First, @TFFVA Prez Victoria Cobb explained what happened.
Loudoun County punished three boys after they saw a girl in their locker room. This at the same school where a boy sexually assaulted a girl in the girls' room four years ago.
@DNIGabbard and @FBIDirectorKash released more declassified info on Russiagate and the Intelligence Community's efforts to strangle the Clinton Foundation probe in its crib.
Here are 3 major docs you should know about.
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First, then-National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers sent a Dec. 2016 email to then-DNI James Clapper on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia.
Rogers suggested his team had neither "sufficient access" nor "sufficient time" to prepare the document.
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Crucially, Rogers added, “I know that you agree that this is something we need to be 100% comfortable with before we present it to the President—we have one chance to get this right, and it is critical that we do so.”👀
The Family Research Council @FRCdc keeps a tally, and the 415 churches that got attacked last year didn't even represent the worst year for churches in America😲
Here's more from the report.
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As @CatholicVote has recorded, attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers skyrocketed after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The record high, according to FRC's data, was 2023 with 485 attacks on churches.
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The report counted acts of vandalism, arson attempts, gun-related threats, and bomb threats.
In August, four churches in southern Ohio caught fire, and authorities suspected one person may have set all four fires.🔥
After the Biden administration refused to release the data on how much taxpayers foot the bill for unions, the OPM under President Trump has finally released its report on "taxpayer-funded union time," and it's a doozy.
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OPM gave me the report, and the numbers are staggering:
1⃣Federal employees spent 3.2 million hours working for a union.
2⃣They billed the taxpayer $207 million for this work.
3⃣This represented about 11% of their work hours.
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What is "taxpayer-funded union time?"
Bureaucrats get paid by the taxpayer for the work they do for the union, as opposed to the work they are hired by the American people to do.
AFGE, the largest federal employee union, has filed at least 9 lawsuits against Trump.