Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday that she wishes she could ignore former President Trump, but cannot because he still poses a &#8220;real danger.&#8221;
During an appearance on &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; host Chris Wallace asked Cheney why she does not simply ignore Trump rather than attacking him.
&#8220;Well, you know, I wish we could do that Chris, but unfortunately, as I said over the course of the last several weeks, former President Trump continues to be a real danger,&#8221; Cheney responded.
&#8220;What he&#8217;s doing and what he&#8217;s saying — his claims, his refusal to accept decisions by the courts. His claims continued as recently as yesterday that somehow this election was stolen,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You know, what he&#8217;s doing is he&#8217;s causing people to believe that they can&#8217;t count on our electoral process to actually convey the will of the people.&#8221;
Cheney was ousted last week as House Republican Conference Chair, the no. 3 Republican in House leadership. On Friday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was elected to replace Cheney as GOP conference chair.
Cheney responded in the affirmative when asked whether she thinks House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Stefanik are &#8220;complicit&#8221; in Trump&#8217;s lies.
&#8220;They are, and I&#8217;m not willing to do that,&#8221; Cheney said. &#8220;I think that there are some things that have to be bigger than party, that have to be bigger than partisanship. Our oath to the Constitution is one of those.&#8221;
The congresswoman said that the last thing she told House Republicans as their conference chair was, “if they were looking for leaders who would be complicit in spreading the big lie, I wasn’t their person, that there were plenty of other people who would do that.”
&#8220;Those millions of people that you mentioned, who supported the president, have been misled. They&#8217;ve been betrayed,&#8221; Cheney said, later adding: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get voters back so that we can get Republicans back into position, where our positions are the ones that are in place.&#8221;
Stafanik on Friday called Trump “an important voice” in the Republican Party, a view Cheney called &#8220;wrong.&#8221;
Earlier this month, McCarthy was <a href="https://www.axios.com/iz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-hot-mic-9ac0f8b7-c4ab-4c26-9d1d-1466505ae10b.html">caught</a> on a hot mic saying he had “had it” with Cheney and had “lost confidence” in her, adding that she had “real problems.” McCarthy predicted that she would soon face a vote to remove her as conference chair.
Hours after ousting Cheney from her leadership role on Wednesday, McCarthy denied that Republicans are questioning the results of the November election, an issue on which Cheney criticized them.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. I think that is all over with,&#8221; McCarthy told reporters.
Also last week, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) urged House Republicans to focus on combatting Democrats&#8217; agenda instead of on internal dissension.
“We, as a conference, must remain focused on stopping Speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s socialist agenda. We stand with hard-working Americans,” Scalise wrote to fellow lawmakers on Wednesday.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday defended her agency&#8217;s decision to update its guidance to allow vaccinated people not to wear face masks in most situations.
During an appearance on Fox News, host Chris Wallace pressed Walensky on the reasons behind the CDC&#8217;s &#8220;abrupt shift&#8221; in policy.
“On Wednesday night, you were still arguing, still making the case that people who are fully vaccinated needed to wear masks indoors,” Wallace posed to Walensky. “And then Thursday, less than 24 hours later, you said, no, it changed, now you don’t need masks if you’re fully vaccinated either indoors or outdoors. Would you agree that this abrupt shift was not handled as well as it might have been?”
Walensky responded that the agency had recently received involved new, &#8220;evolving data on the science&#8221; and said that “things in this pandemic are starting to turn around.”
As recently as Tuesday, Walensky testified before a Senate health committee and defended the administration&#8217;s previous mask guidelines.
Wallace also asked Walensky whether she could &#8220;state flatly to the American people&#8221; that no political pressure had factored into the CDC&#8217;s sudden decision.
&#8220;Yes, I can,&#8221; Walensky responded.
&#8220;I can tell you it certainly would have been easier if the science had evolved a week earlier and I didn&#8217;t have to go to Congress making those statements, but I&#8217;m delivering the science as the science is delivered to the medical journals,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And, you know, it evolved over this last week. The cases came down over the last two weeks. And so that&#8217;s — I delivered it as soon as I can when we had that information available.&#8221;
The Fox host also questioned whether the CDC is relying on an &#8220;unrealistic honor system&#8221; when it comes to people saying they have been vaccinated and opting not to wear a mask.
“The honor system is to be honest with yourself,&#8221; the CDC director said. &#8220;If you are vaccinated, we are saying you are safe, you can take off your mask, and you are not at risk of severe disease or hospitalization from Covid-19. If you are not vaccinated, you are not safe. Please go get vaccinated or continue to wear your mask.”
On Friday, the CDC issued updated <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html">guidance</a> with a major shift in its face mask recommendations. Vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask indoors or outdoors or physically distance, even in large groups, the agency said, except where required by law or workplace guidance. Vaccinated individuals may also resume travel and do not need to get tested for the coronavirus around the time they travel or self-quarantine after they travel.
The sudden policy shift raised eyebrows among Biden&#8217;s critics, who felt that the decision smacked of politics and that the administration may have timed the positive announcement to offset a difficult week for Biden, with long gas lines, a dismal jobs report, and unrest in Israel.
Following the CDC&#8217;s announcement, several major retailers including Starbucks, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, and Cosco <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/starbucks-other-retailers-lift-mask-requirement-for-vaccinated-customers">announced</a> that they are lifting their face mask requirements for vaccinated customers.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday defended her agency&#039;s decision to update its guidance to allow vaccinated people not to wear face masks in most situations.

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Starbucks, Walmart and several other retailers announced over the weekend that they will no longer require face masks for vaccinated customers.
The coffee giant wrote that &#8220;facial coverings will be optional for vaccinated customers beginning Monday, May 17, unless local regulations require them by law&#8221; in updated <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/what-customers-need-to-know-about-starbucks-response-to-covid-19/">guidance</a> posted on the company&#8217;s website.
The change comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a major change to its <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html">guidance</a> on face masks for fully vaccinated adults, saying they do not have to wear masks indoors or outdoors or even social distance, even when in larger groups.
&#8220;You can do things you stopped doing because of the pandemic,&#8221; CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday in announcing the new recommendations.
Starbucks said that some of its health precautions will remain in place. Restrooms at Starbucks locations will &#8220;generally remain temporarily closed to the public in stores where the café or café seating is unavailable,&#8221; the company said, indicating locations will continue to adhere to enhanced cleaning measures.
The coffee chain added that it is &#8220;strongly encouraging&#8221; employees to receive the COVID vaccine as soon as they are eligible and will provide two hours of paid time off for employees to receive each dose of the vaccine. Employees are also eligible for up to four hours of paid time off if workers experience vaccine-related side effects and miss a scheduled shift within 48 hours of receiving each shot.
Other major retailers including Walmart, Trader Joe&#8217;s, and Cosco announced similarly updated guidance over the weekend.
&#8220;Beginning today, vaccinated customers and members are welcome to shop without a mask, and we will continue to request that non-vaccinated customers and members wear face coverings in our stores and clubs,&#8221; Walmart said in a <a href="https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2021/05/14/new-guidance-to-walmart-u-s-field-associates-regarding-masks-and-vaccinations">letter</a> to employees. &#8220;We will update the signage in our facilities to reflect this.&#8221;
However, face masks will &#8220;continue to be required by some city and state ordinances, and we will follow those requirements,&#8221; Walmart said, and &#8220;there may also be local conditions, regulatory changes or laws that affect our guidance.&#8221;
Trader Joe&#8217;s announced Friday that vaccinated customers may shop without a mask, but employees are still required to wear masks.
&#8220;We encourage customers to follow the guidance of health officials, including, as appropriate, CDC guidelines that advise customers who are fully vaccinated are not required to wear masks while shopping,&#8221; the grocery store chain said.
Costco, one of the first stores to require shoppers to wear masks, announced that vaccinated shoppers may go mask-less in Costco locations where there is no state or local government mask mandate.
&#8220;We will not require proof of vaccination, but we ask for members’ responsible and respectful cooperation with this revised policy,&#8221; Costco wrote in a letter to members. &#8220;Face coverings will still be required in healthcare settings, including Pharmacy, Optical, Hearing Aid. Costco continues to recommend that all members and guests, especially those who are at higher risk, wear a mask or shield.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trader-joes-costco-walmart-to-end-mask-requirement-for-vaccinated-customers">Trader Joes, Costco, Walmart To End Mask Requirement For Vaccinated Customers</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cdc-issues-new-mask-guidelines-for-fully-vaccinated">CDC Issues New Mask Guidelines For ‘Fully Vaccinated’</a>
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A Tennessee restaurant owner is suing the Biden administration, claiming that white males have been &#8220;pushed to the back of the line&#8221; for pandemic aid from a multi-billion dollar restaurant stimulus fund.
Antonio Vitolo, who owns Jake’s Bar and Grill in Harriman, Tennessee, <a href="https://www.fox17.com/news/local/lawsuit-challenges-restaurant-aid-priority-to-women-minorities">filed</a> the <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Vitolo-v-Guzman-Complaint-Stamped.pdf">lawsuit</a> in federal court in Tennessee after he applied for a grant from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion pandemic fund targeted at the hard-hit restaurant industry. The aid program was approved in March as part of Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill and began accepting applications from restaurants around the country on May 3, the day Vitolo submitted his application.
“I do not want special treatment. I just want to be treated equally under the law. I am opposed to race and sex discrimination, and I would hope my government lived up to the same principle,” Vitolo said, according to a <a href="https://will-law.org/will-sues-biden-administration-for-race-sex-discrimination-in-allocation-of-covid-relief-funds-for-restaurants/">press release</a> from conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty, which filed the lawsuit on his behalf.
The program bars white male restaurant owners from applying for aid for three weeks, by which time the money may run out. The fund is experiencing extremely high demand, but the Small Business Administration (SBA) <a href="https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/restaurant-revitalization-fund">said</a> it will initially only select applications from restaurants and other eligible small businesses that are at least 51 percent owned by “women, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.”
As a white male, Vitolo did not qualify for the priority application period. However, Vitolo&#8217;s wife is Hispanic and owns 50% of their business, according to the lawsuit, which names SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman as a defendant.
&#8220;Vitolo’s application has been put on hold because he is a white male,&#8221; the lawsuit states. &#8220;Other restaurant owners’ applications, however, have been and are being processed because they are not white males.&#8221;
The program places &#8220;white male restaurant owners behind certain minority or female applicants, regardless of when they filed an application,&#8221; the lawsuit claims. &#8220;Given the limited pot of funds, this puts white male applicants at significant risk that, by the time their applications are processed, the money will be gone.”
The lawsuit calls the program &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; and asks the court to halt grants to restaurants and other eligible businesses until the SBA stops &#8220;discriminating on the basis of race and gender.&#8221;
Hans Bader, a longtime civil rights lawyer who worked in the federal Office for Civil Rights, previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-restaurant-relief-program-excludes-white-male-owners">told</a> The Daily Wire that prioritizing minority groups in a broad manner, as the program does, is unconstitutional.
“To legally give minority groups a preference in an area, the government has to be seeking to remedy the present effects of its own past discrimination against those particular minority groups, in the area where they are being given a preference,” Bader said, adding that the government discrimination must also be “recent” and “widespread.”
In this case, the American Rescue Plan, which launched the restaurant aid program, did not make any such finding that all minority-owned restaurants have been recently discriminated against by the federal government. A federal appeals court ruled nearly three decades ago that discrimination even <a href="https://casetext.com/case/brunet-v-city-of-columbus-3">14 years</a> old is too old to justify affirmative action and that isolated instances of discrimination <a href="https://casetext.com/case/middleton-v-the-city-of-flint-michigan">do not justify</a> a racial preference.
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A Tennessee restaurant owner is suing the Biden administration, claiming that white males have been &quot;pushed to the back of the line&quot; for pandemic aid from a multi-billion dollar restaurant stimulus fund.

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The U.S. Army has released a series of cartoon recruitment ads saturated with woke themes, such as advocating for LGBT issues, just days after the CIA caught flack for a similarly woke recruitment ad campaign.
One of the Army&#8217;s new <a href="https://www.goarmy.com/the-calling.html">video ads</a> features an LGBT rights march as well as a lesbian wedding.
“This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation’s Patriot missile Defense Systems. It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms,” a woman says as the video, titled &#8220;Emma,&#8221; begins.
&#8220;Although I had a fairly typical childhood — took ballet, played violin — I also marched for equality,&#8221; the woman says as the ad shows a cartoon of an LGBT rights march.
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Wow.
First it was the woke CIA ad, now it is a super-woke woke animated army recruitment ad featuring a lesbian wedding, an LGBT rights parade and women &quot;shattering stereotypes&quot; by joining the world&#39;s largest killing machine. <a href="https://t.co/xDqP39EQei">pic.twitter.com/xDqP39EQei</a>
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She adds that when she was six years old, &#8220;one of my moms&#8221; had an accident that left her paralyzed but recovered, &#8220;eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom.&#8221; She praises her moms as &#8220;powerful role models.&#8221;
The woman, later identified as Cpl. Emma Malonelord, says she joined the Army after college because she &#8220;needed my own adventures, my own challenge, and after meeting with an Army recruiter, I found it, a way to prove my inner strength and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.&#8221;
A summary of the ad reads, &#8220;Raised by two supportive mothers, Emma felt lucky to have such powerful role models in her life. Inspired by their courage and conviction, she was determined to face challenges of her own and shatter stereotypes along the way.&#8221;
Malonelord is currently active duty and serves as an air defense enhanced early warning system operator, according to the description accompanying the ad.
Other videos in the Army&#8217;s cartoon ad series, aimed at high school and college-aged Americans, highlight the personal struggles of recruits.
Earlier this month, the CIA released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-releases-new-woke-recruitment-video-after-previous-ads-mocked">the latest</a> in its series of new recruitment ads aimed at millennials, despite the scoffs and criticism with which the previous installments were met.
The latest “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvkiDqYBHUw&amp;list=PLb9QRVXYyLdqCUl95ecfapl9dyxiqVvqV&amp;index=2">Humans of CIA</a>” video ad features a man who says he is an agency librarian for the CIA and describes his struggles with being gay and the acceptance he encountered at the CIA.
“Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family. I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work,” the man in the CIA ad says. “Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at the CIA and I noticed a rainbow on then-Director Brennan’s lanyard.”
One of the agency’s previous ads prompted ridicule on social media.
“I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” a woman in the earlier ad said.
Several GOP members of Congress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-releases-new-woke-recruitment-video-after-previous-ads-mocked">accused</a> the CIA of working to develop its wokeness credentials rather than focusing on its intelligence operations. However, the agency <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cia-pushes-back-against-critics-attacking-new-recruitment-ad">defended</a> the ad campaign this month, saying it has been successful at attracting new recruits to the CIA.
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White House Senior Advisor for Coronavirus Response Andy Slavitt on Thursday answered a question that has dogged the Biden administration lately, saying President Biden wears a mask indoors &#8220;because he’s a very important person.&#8221;
Slavitt was asked by CNN’s John Berman why Biden wore a face mask during an Oval Office meeting Wednesday with congressional leaders, all of whom are vaccinated against the coronavirus. In a White House <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzsWK3YI0bk">video</a> of the meeting, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can be seen wearing a face mask as well.
&#8220;Part of getting people vaccinated is to tell them that their lives will be different, changed, better, if they get the vaccine,&#8221; Berman remarked during Slavitt&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;New Day,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s morning program. “So why were they all wearing masks? And what message does that send?”
Berman responded that he thinks vaccinated people are &#8220;starting to get a little bit impatient&#8221; in wondering what they can do safely, such as taking masks off indoors.
“I think the CDC is getting there step by step,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So right now you can do pretty much everything outdoors without a mask, you can do everything indoors if you’re around vaccinated people without a mask.”
&#8220;So why were they all wearing masks in there yesterday?&#8221; Berman interjected.
“I’m not too sure that the president is the average person. I personally think there’s a lot of protections around the president,” Slavitt replied. “Why does he need lots of Secret Service agents? Why do you they belt and suspender everything with the president? Because he’s a very important person.”
The Republican National Committee quickly mocked Slavitt&#8217;s response, tweeting the CNN clip along with a caption saying Biden &#8220;violates CDC guidance&#8221; in always wearing a mask &#8220;because he&#8217;s &#8216;very important,'&#8221; according to Slavitt.
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On Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper quizzed Jeff Zients, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, on the same issue, asking whether Biden’s mask-wearing is “overly cautious” and sending the wrong message.
Zients responded that Biden is going to &#8220;continue to follow the CDC guidance.&#8221;
Senior Biden advisor Anita Dunn gave Tapper a similar answer earlier this month, saying the White House does “take some extra precautions” for Biden because he is the president.
Biden himself was asked by a reporter on Friday about his preference to wear a face mask even around other vaccinated people.
“Because when we’re inside it’s still good policy to wear the mask,” Biden responded.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) current guidance says that a vaccinated person need not wear a face mask in small groups of people who are also vaccinated.
The U.S. has administered about 2.2 million coronavirus vaccine shots per day over the past week, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/covid-19-cases-deaths-vaccinations-daily-update.html">according</a> to federal data. Daily shots have ticked up over the last several days after declining for weeks.
Meanwhile, the number of daily new coronavirus cases across the country has dropped to below 40,000 per day this week, the lowest since September.
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White House Senior Advisor for Coronavirus Response Andy Slavitt on Thursday answered a question that has dogged the Biden administration lately, saying President Biden wears a mask indoors &quot;because he’s a very important person.&quot;

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During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra refused multiple times to acknowledge that current federal law outlaws partial-birth abortions, at one point claiming that no such law exists, using semantics as his rationale for making the claim.
&#8220;Do you agree that partial-birth abortion is illegal?&#8221; Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-on-the-fiscal-year-2022-hhs-budget">asked</a> Becerra during a hearing of the House Energy &amp; Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health to discuss the 2022 HHS budget.
&#8220;There is no medical term like &#8216;partial-birth abortion,&#8217; and so I would probably have to ask you what you mean by that to describe what is allowed by the law,&#8221; Becerra responded. &#8220;But Roe v. Wade is very clear, it&#8217;s settled precedent, and a woman has a right to make decisions about her reproductive health, and we will make sure that we enforce the law and protect those rights.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no law that deals specifically with the term &#8216;partial-birth abortion,'&#8221; the HHS secretary added.
In 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/3?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22partial+birth+abortion%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1&amp;s=6">law</a>, which prohibits abortions in which the abortionist &#8220;deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother&#8221; and kills the partially-delivered living fetus. The Supreme Court upheld the ban on the late-term abortion procedure in 2007.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepGusBilirakis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepGusBilirakis</a>: Will you uphold the law banning Partial-Birth Abortions?<a href="https://twitter.com/SecBecerra?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecBecerra</a>: There is no such law…
Stop lying.
The law passed &amp; Supreme Court upheld it.
This law bans killing a child when it is already partially born.
You voted AGAINST this law.
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Later in the hearing, Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), who is a physician practicing dermatology, again pressed Becerra on the issue of partial-birth abortion.
&#8220;It didn&#8217;t seem clear that you understood what my colleague Mr. Bilirakis meant by the term &#8216;partial-birth abortion,'&#8221; Joyce began.
&#8220;Section 1531 of Title 18 U.S. Code is literally titled, &#8216;Partial Birth Abortions Prohibited.&#8217; That statute very clearly defines this inhumane procedure,&#8221; Joyce said. &#8220;So now with that clarification, could you please recognize that that does exist in statute, and I would ask you, do you agree that this law is correct?&#8221;
Becerra responded that while &#8220;the term partial-birth abortion may be recognized in politics and by politicians,&#8221; it is &#8220;not a medically recognized term.&#8221; However, &#8220;dilation and extraction,&#8221; the procedure used in surgical abortions, is recognized in the medical community, Becerra said.
The <a href="https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/intact+dilation+and+extraction">medical term</a> for the procedure that &#8220;partial-birth abortion&#8221; commonly refers to is &#8220;intact dilation and extraction.&#8221;
Becerra also claimed that the dilation and extraction procedure used in late-stage abortions is employed &#8220;to protect the health and life of that woman.&#8221; However, some late-term abortions are performed for <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/later-abortion">other reasons</a>, including serious fetal diagnoses, the mother&#8217;s mental health, and disruptive life events.
Joyce pressed Becerra several more times on whether he recognized that partial-birth abortion is prohibited under current federal law and whether he would enforce it, and Becerra assured that he &#8220;will do everything I can to make sure we comply with precedent and the law when it comes to protecting a woman&#8217;s right to her reproductive health.&#8221;
&#8220;I know that this is a very sensitive issue for a lot of folks, but I think most medical practitioners will tell you they understand what a dilation and extraction procedure is. I doubt that most of them could give you a medical definition of what partial-birth abortion is,&#8221; Becerra said.
&#8220;As a physician myself, Mr. Secretary, I think I clearly understand what a partial-birth abortion is,&#8221; Joyce responded.
Pro-life groups criticized Becerra&#8217;s remarks on Wednesday, noting that the secretary himself <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2003530">voted against</a> the partial-birth abortion ban in 2003 when he was a freshman congressman from California.
&#8220;Now the top health official in America, Becerra outright denies the existence of a law banning partial-birth abortion since 2003,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, adding that Becerra&#8217;s testimony on the matter is &#8220;standard for the most radical pro-abortion administration in history.&#8221;
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Becerra Repeatedly Denies ‘Partial-Birth Abortion’ Ban Exists During Hearing

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During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra refused multiple times to acknowledge that current federal law outlaws partial-birth abortions, at one point claiming that no such law exists.

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A new study analyzing Medicaid data casts doubt on the notion that abortion is &#8220;essential&#8221; for spacing children, as abortion advocates have insisted.
Among nearly five million Medicaid-eligible women who had at least one pregnancy, only 1% may have used abortion to space their children, according to a peer-reviewed <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21501327211012182">study</a> by scholars at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the Susan B. Anthony List.
Out of 4,875,511 Medicaid-eligible women and girls over 13 included in the study, only 50,012 or 1.02% had undergone an abortion between live births, after their first child but before their last.
The study also found a racial disparity among women who had abortions between children — those who had an abortion between births are more likely to be black than white, but less likely to be Hispanic than white. Black women made up 19% of the study population but represented 37% of women with one or more abortions.
The study examined data from 1999 to 2014 in the 17 states where state funding covers all or nearly all abortions performed under their Medicaid programs, and identified abortions that occurred between births within up to 5 consecutive pregnancies.
Notably, women who had abortions between births did not lack access to counseling on contraception and were in fact more likely to have received such counseling, the study said.
&#8220;Birth spacing via abortion is uncommon among a low-income population for whom the financial barriers to abortion are somewhat alleviated,&#8221; the paper concluded.
The study, published Thursday in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, contradicts the line pushed by groups that promote abortion that abortion is an important means of spacing children.
The American Public Health Association has <a href="https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2014/07/24/10/48/protecting-abortion-coverage-in-health-reform">promoted</a> &#8220;safe, legal, and affordable abortion care&#8221; as &#8220;essential&#8221; for &#8220;enabling healthy spacing of pregnancies.&#8221;
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has also promoted this notion, writing in a committee <a href="https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2020/12/increasing-access-to-abortion">opinion</a> on increasing abortion access that, &#8220;ACOG supports women’s right to decide whether to have children, the number and spacing of their children, and to have the information, education, and access to health services to make these choices&#8221;
&#8220;Policymakers would do well to look at the data and dispense with the old myth that abortion helps women &#8216;plan parenthood,'&#8221; said Charlotte Lozier Institute President Chuck Donovan. &#8220;For too long this line has been used to excuse abortion on-demand, through birth, funded by taxpayers. These pro-abortion policies fatten the abortion industry’s bottom line at the expense of vulnerable women and their children.&#8221;
James Studnicki, the study&#8217;s lead author, noted that not all women who had an abortion between children did so in order to space births, so the number of women using abortion for that purpose is likely even smaller than 1%.
“Despite the advocacy and promotion of abortion as essential to family planning and healthy birth spacing, the data proves it is extraordinarily rare when it is used that way,&#8221; Studnicki said.
In 2018, more than 619,500 abortions were performed in the U.S., <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/ss/ss6907a1.htm">according</a> to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. About 11 abortions were performed per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 and about 189 abortions per 1,000 live births.
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Study: Medicaid Data Casts Significant Doubt On Abortion As ‘Essential’ For Birth Spacing

A new study analyzing Medicaid data casts doubt on the notion that abortion is &quot;essential&quot; for spacing children, as abortion advocates have insisted.

Study: Medicaid Data Casts Significant Doubt On Abortion As &#039;Essential&#039; For Birth Spacing

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The Biden administration is segregating restaurant owners by race in prioritizing pandemic financial aid, barring white male restaurant owners from applying to a multi-billion dollar restaurant stimulus fund for three weeks, by which time the money may run out.
A lawyer said the move may be unconstitutional since the preferences are not remedying losses caused by government racial discrimination, but rather offsetting losses from a virus that ravaged the industry as a whole.
The Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion pandemic fund targeted at the hard-hit restaurant industry, was approved this year in Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill and began accepting applications from restaurants around the country on May 3.
The fund is experiencing extremely high demand, but the Small Business Administration (SBA) <a href="https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/restaurant-revitalization-fund">said</a> it will initially only select applications from restaurants and other eligible small businesses that are at least 51 percent owned by &#8220;women, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.&#8221;
Socially disadvantaged individuals are defined as &#8220;those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity.&#8221; Economically disadvantaged individuals are defined as a subset of socially disadvantaged individuals &#8220;whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same business area who are not socially disadvantaged.&#8221;
Some industry experts expect the $28.6 billion fund could run out before the initial 21 days are up.
The National Restaurant Association expressed concern that the demand for relief is so high that the money would be depleted &#8220;in a matter of weeks — possibly only a few.&#8221;
&#8220;We will continue to work with the SBA and our members to ensure the application process goes smoothly, even as we&#8217;re alerting Congress to our concerns about the limits of the current funds,&#8221; Sean Kennedy, the association&#8217;s executive vice president for public affairs, <a href="https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/286b-restaurant-relief-fund-has-a-cash-shortage-problem/598452/">told</a> Restaurant Dive.
The program will not be able to grant aid to all eligible restaurants, Patrick Kelley, associate administrator for the SBA&#8217;s Office of Capital Access, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSTwcVKVcY">told</a> the Independent Restaurant Coalition last week. He recommended that owners apply on the first day.
Over the first two days of the program, 186,200 restaurants in all 50 states applied for relief. Of those, 97,600 were businesses owned by women, veterans, or &#8220;socially and economically disadvantaged individuals,&#8221; the White House said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/05/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-supports-hard-hit-restaurants-and-bars/">fact sheet</a>. Some of the country&#8217;s smallest restaurants applied for aid, including 61,700 businesses with under $500,000 in annual pre-pandemic revenue.
Hans Bader, a longtime civil rights lawyer who worked in the federal Office for Civil Rights, said prioritizing minority groups in a broad manner, as the program does, is unconstitutional.
&#8220;To legally give minority groups a preference in an area, the government has to be seeking to remedy the present effects of its own past discrimination against those particular minority groups, in the area where they are being given a preference,&#8221; Bader told The Daily Wire, adding that the government discrimination must also be &#8220;recent&#8221; and &#8220;widespread.&#8221;
In this case, the American Rescue Plan, which launched the restaurant aid program, did not make any such finding that all minority-owned restaurants have been recently discriminated against by the federal government. A federal appeals court ruled nearly three decades ago that discrimination even <a href="https://casetext.com/case/brunet-v-city-of-columbus-3">14 years</a> old is too old to justify affirmative action and that isolated instances of discrimination <a href="https://casetext.com/case/middleton-v-the-city-of-flint-michigan">do not justify</a> a racial preference. 
In addition, Bader said, the Supreme Court has ruled that &#8220;societal discrimination&#8221; is not a <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/488/469/">valid reason</a> for the government prioritizing a particular group — only government discrimination can be cited.
Furthermore, women and minorities do not appear to be severely underrepresented in the restaurant industry.
The National Restaurant Association has said that the majority of restaurants were either owned or co-owned by women. “There are more women in restaurant management and ownership positions than virtually any other industry,” its CEO, Dawn Sweeney, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171224021753/http://www.restaurant.org/News-Research/News/What-impact-do-women-have-on-the-restaurant-indust">said</a> in 2017.
&#8220;Between 2007 and 2012, the number of Hispanic-owned restaurant businesses increased 51 percent, African American-owned restaurant businesses increased 49 percent, and the number of Asian-owned restaurants rose 18 percent,&#8221; the group <a href="https://restaurant.org/restaurant-careers/diversity">said</a>.
&#8220;It is not a white old-boy network, compared to most industries, so even if affirmative action were justified in other industries, it&#8217;s not in the restaurant industry,&#8221; Bader said.
The SBA did not respond to a request for comment.
In another twist, Asian-Americans are included in &#8220;socially disadvantaged individuals,&#8221; while elsewhere Asian-Americans have <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/fewer-asians-need-apply-14180.html">filed</a> lawsuits alleging anti-Asian prejudice at elite universities due to their academic success.
One restaurant owner, Eric Nelson, owner of Crudo Nudo in Norfolk, Virginia, did not qualify for the priority period and <a href="https://www.pilotonline.com/food-drink/vp-db-prem-restaurant-revitalization-fund-grants-hampton-roads-20210508-rcd6jsok2fhe5mxswyxc5hha7q-story.html">told</a> the Virginia-Pilot that he is &#8220;definitely wondering if there will be money after the 21 days.&#8221;
“That money will go to past due rent, bills, unpaid invoices, and keeping the employees paid. &#8230; It’s going to help get us back on our feet,” he told the paper.
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Biden’s Restaurant Relief Program Excludes White Male Owners

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Sexism

The Biden administration is segregating restaurant owners by race in prioritizing pandemic financial aid, barring white male restaurant owners from applying for aid for three weeks from a new restaurant stimulus fund.

Biden&#039;s Restaurant Relief Program Excludes White Male Owners

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The CIA is plowing ahead with its series of new recruitment ads aimed at millennials, releasing a new video ad last week despite the scoffs and criticism with which the previous installments were met.
The latest “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvkiDqYBHUw&amp;list=PLb9QRVXYyLdqCUl95ecfapl9dyxiqVvqV&amp;index=2">Humans of CIA</a>” video ad features a man who says he is an &#8220;agency librarian&#8221; for the CIA and describes his struggles with being gay and the acceptance he encountered at the CIA.
“Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family. I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work,” the man in the CIA ad says. “Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at the CIA and I noticed a rainbow on then-Director Brennan’s lanyard.”
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“Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work. Imagine my surprise when I noticed a rainbow on CIA Director Brennan’s lanyard.”<a href="https://t.co/fZ9rgCUkLJ">pic.twitter.com/fZ9rgCUkLJ</a>
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“Officers from the top-down work hard to ensure that every single person, whatever their gender, gender identity, race, disability, or sexual orientation, can bring their entire self to work every day,” the man continues.
One of the agency&#8217;s previous ads was mocked on Twitter, including by several GOP members of Congress.
&#8220;I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,&#8221; said a woman in the earlier ad.
&#8220;I did not sneak into CIA,&#8221; the woman says, adding that she &#8220;earned my way in, and I earned my way up the ranks &#8230; I am educated, qualified, and competent, and sometimes I struggle.&#8221;
The CIA also has an Instagram <a href="https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/02/12/is-the-cia-is-secretly-a-great-place-to-find-love/">series</a> called “Love at Langley,” part of the &#8220;Humans of CIA&#8221; campaign, where it has been documenting the stories of three couples who work together at the agency.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) accused the CIA of working to develop its wokeness credentials rather than focusing on its intelligence operations.
&#8220;Instead of focusing on the real international threats from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea or the crisis he created on the Southern border, President Biden is diverting CIA resources to support radical leftists in their woke culture war that is tearing America apart,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cia-republicans-criticize-woke-video">said</a>.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped the ad in a tweet, saying, &#8220;If you’re a Chinese communist, or an Iranian Mullah, or Kim Jong Un&#8230;would this scare you? We’ve come a long way from Jason Bourne.&#8221;
&#8220;If China plans on attacking the United States with misgendered pronouns and microaggressions, the CIA will be ready to fight back,&#8221; Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) said, calling the ad an &#8220;embarrassment.&#8221;
The CIA has pushed back on the criticism of its new approach to recruitment, telling Fox News that the ads have actually been working and attracting new recruits to the agency.
&#8220;2020 was a standout recruitment year for CIA despite the pandemic. Our 2021 incoming class is the third-largest in a decade,&#8221; the agency <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cia-pushes-back-against-critics-attacking-new-recruitment-ad">said</a>.
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CIA Releases New Woke Recruitment Video After Previous Ads Mocked

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The CIA is plowing ahead with its series of new recruitment ads aimed at millennials.

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Washington, D.C., is treating residents to more than coronavirus immunity at vaccination sites, offering free beer to those who get the jab at at least one pop-up site.
On Thursday, more than 100 residents were vaccinated during a &#8220;Shot and a Beer&#8221; pop-up vaccination event DC Health held at the Kennedy Center.
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the event, which offered residents 21 and up the opportunity to receive the one-shot Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine. Those who got the shot were offered a free beer from Solace Brewing Company.
&#8220;Our goal is to provide vaccination opportunities for every Washingtonian that wants them. That&#8217;s why, we are introducing our new pop-up, walk-up vaccination sites. Be on the lookout for vaccination events like this week’s, ‘Take A Shot &#8211; Get A Beer,’” Bowser wrote in a tweet announcing the event.
“The more we can encourage people to get vaccinated, the better,” said Solace Brewing Company co-owner, Jon Humerick, who <a href="https://www.localdvm.com/news/washington-dc/over-100-people-took-advantage-of-d-c-free-beer-with-a-shot-event/">told</a> WDMV he was hospitalized with the coronavirus earlier this year.
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Our goal is to provide vaccination opportunities for every Washingtonian that wants them. That&#39;s why, we are introducing our new pop-up, walk-up vaccination sites. Be on the lookout for vaccination events like this week’s, &quot;Take A Shot &#8211; Get A Beer&quot;.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DCHOPE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DCHOPE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeTheShotDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TakeTheShotDC</a> <a href="https://t.co/pkgiCmOXBX">pic.twitter.com/pkgiCmOXBX</a>
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Patrick Ashley, DC Health&#8217;s senior deputy director, remarked that the event could encourage those who are hesitant to get the shot.
“We know that individuals have different reasons to get vaccinations at different times, and we know different incentives work for different people,” Ashely said. “The reality is that we see young people that die or end in the hospital from COVID.”
“Always down for free beer so it doesn’t take much more than that to get me to come somewhere, and luckily they were giving out vaccines down here, too,” law student Jacob Nagy <a href="https://wtop.com/dc/2021/05/cheers-dc-offers-free-beer-after-covid-19-vaccine-shot-at-kennedy-center/">told</a> WTOP.
D.C. also teamed up with Uber to provide free round-trips for those who wished to come to the vaccination and beer event.
A slew of companies, celebrities, and local governments have recently begun offering incentives to people who get the vaccine. The trend appears to have been started in March by Krispy Kreme, which started giving out free donuts to anyone who had received a coronavirus vaccine. On Saturday, celebrity Chef José Andrés <a href="https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1390679082380238849">announced</a> that he would give a $50 gift certificate for any of his Think Food Group restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area to anyone who shows their vaccine papers proving they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
As of Sunday, about 36% of D.C. residents were partially or fully vaccinated. Of that group, about 22% have been fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, only 16 new cases of the virus were announced in D.C. on Sunday, and no new coronavirus deaths were recorded. About one-third of Americans have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus so far.
Last week, President Biden <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/biden-announces-new-goal-70-percent-of-us-adults-vaccinated-by-july-4-210740148.html">announced</a> a goal of having 70% of Americans vaccinated by July 4. The pace of daily vaccinations has dropped since last month. In April, about 3.3 million Americans were receiving daily vaccinations. This month, only 2.29 million Americans are receiving shots per day.
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‘Take A Shot – Get A Beer’: D.C. Offers Free Beer At Vaccination Sites

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Washington, D.C., is treating residents to more than coronavirus immunity at vaccination sites, offering free beer to those who get the jab at at least one pop-up site.

&#039;Take A Shot – Get A Beer’: D.C. Offers Free Beer At Vaccination Sites

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that other countries must &#8220;chip in&#8221; to aid India as the country groans under a surge in coronavirus cases.
“They’ve got to get their resources, not only from within but also from without, and that’s the reason why other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supplies for the Indians to make their own vaccines or to get vaccines donated,” Fauci told ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopoulos during an appearance Sunday on the network.
Fauci, who serves as chief medical advisor to the president and heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, emphasized that India must &#8220;do really what the Chinese did&#8221; a year ago and set up field hospitals.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to get that. You can&#8217;t have people out on the street not having a hospital bed,&#8221; he said, adding that the oxygen supply situation in India is also critical.
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&#8220;The end game,&#8221; though, is to get people vaccinated, Fauci said.
Fauci noted that one way to get India more vaccines would be to have large drug companies &#8220;scale up in a great way&#8221; the production of vaccines in order to get &#8220;hundreds of millions of doses&#8221; to the Indian people.
India is the largest producer of vaccines in the world, but the country is currently suffering from a shortage in medical supplies and hospital space as it sees record numbers of new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Fauci also recommended shutting down the Indian government in order to combat the latest coronavirus surge, saying that the move would help slow transmission of the deadly pathogen.
“There are other ways too, like shutting down the government,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;I have advised them in the past that you really need to do that. You’ve got to shut down,” Fauci said. “I believe several of the Indian states have already done that. But you need to break the chain of transmission.”
On Tuesday, President Biden&#8217;s restrictions on travel to the U.S. from India went into effect. Shortly beforehand, the Biden administration, private companies, and nonprofits began sending aid to India including oxygen and raw materials for vaccines.
Last week, the Biden administration expressed support for waiving the patents for coronavirus vaccines, which would allow entities that did not invent the vaccines to begin producing them.
&#8220;You said the companies should be scaling up, but many of those companies say that President Biden’s plan to have these patent waivers is going to prevent them from scaling up. It’s going to hamper the supply chain and actually set back the vaccine production effort,&#8221; Stephanopoulos remarked to Fauci.
&#8220;I don’t think that’s the case, George. They can scale up.&#8221; Fauci said. &#8220;They’ve done an extraordinary amount. You’ve got to give them credit. They’ve really just really done something that is really quite impressive in the way they’ve gotten their vaccine supply up and out for the rest of the world.&#8221;
Stephanopoulos also asked Fauci about the CDC&#8217;s mask guidance, asking whether it is &#8220;time to start relaxing the indoor mask mandates&#8221; now that more than 151 million Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
&#8220;We do need to start being more liberal as we get more people vaccinated,&#8221; Fauci responded.
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Fauci Says ‘Other Countries Need To Chip In’ To Help India With Coronavirus

Anthony Fauci

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that other countries must &quot;chip in&quot; to aid India as the country groans under a surge in coronavirus cases.

Fauci Says &#039;Other Countries Need To Chip In&#039; To Help India With Coronavirus

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