Los Angeles mayoral candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-spencer-pratt-went-from-villain-to-hero">Spencer Pratt</a> has essentially run his entire campaign by saying the things that everyone is thinking but has been too afraid to say out loud — and his recent interviews are a fair indication that he plans to keep that up.
Pratt, during an interview on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; last month, explained that some parents in Los Angeles often encourage their children not to look out the window as they drove to and from school, sports practices, or grocery stores. The reason? &#8220;Naked zombies&#8221; — drug addicts — wandering the streets and sometimes engaging in behaviors that parents would rather their children not see.
His comments on the issue have gone viral this week.
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&#8220;There&#8217;s parents that — when they drive to school — all across the city, this is not just one unique area, they have to have their kids in the back seat staring at an iPad and not to look out the window because meth addicts will just be having sex on the side of the street,&#8221; Pratt explained to host Joe Rogan.
&#8220;There&#8217;s just naked people everywhere now,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Naked zombies. And the DEA will tell you, 90% of these homeless people have a drug problem. We have a drug addict problem. These aren&#8217;t people that just, like, missed a paycheck and we need to get them help and get back — this is a drug problem that needs mandatory treatment, not handing people needles and pipes and saying, &#8216;Oh, here&#8217;s a million-dollar bed.&#8217; If you&#8217;re a fentanyl zombie hanging upside down, you don&#8217;t care about a million-dollar empty bed because you&#8217;re just high, you sober up, and you go get high again.&#8221;
Pratt made a similar point during a televised debate with two of his opponents — incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and Democratic socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman — who have argued in favor of providing more beds and voluntary treatment for the homeless.
Pointing out that the vast majority of L.A.&#8217;s homeless had drug problems, Pratt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reality-tv-star-spencer-pratt-obliterates-leftist-policies-in-heated-l-a-mayoral-debate">challenged Raman</a> directly and said he&#8217;d even go with her to offer aid to the homeless — but warned her that they were far more likely to attack her than to accept her help.

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Spencer Pratt Says What Parents Have Been Thinking About ‘Naked Zombies’

Spencer Pratt Just Said What Parents Have Been Thinking About 'Naked Zombies'

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Karen Bass

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that his current job is different from any position he&#8217;s ever held, and he credits President Donald Trump for making that difference.
During a brief interview aboard Air Force One, en route to Beijing for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-set-to-land-in-china-for-high-stakes-talks-with-xi">President Trump&#8217;s summit</a> with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Rubio explained that Trump was different because he was willing to actually do the things that most politicians only paid lip service to.
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Fox News host Sean Hannity, aboard the presidential plane, spoke with Rubio on a number of issues — but zeroed in on his jacket as they began to wrap things up: &#8220;I think just to be Secretary of State, that’s a pretty cool jacket they gave you.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, it was a gift that somebody gave me, and it’s good to wear it on the plane,&#8221; Rubio agreed.
&#8220;Are you in – look, you were a senator for all these years. I’ve known you for so many years. We’ve had a friendship for so many years,&#8221; Hannity said, asking, &#8220;How do you compare this job to everything else you’ve done? &#8221;
&#8220;Well, it’s quite different, right?  The work of a legislator involves constituent service, and it involves writing of legislation, committee meetings, oversight.  And I enjoyed doing all of that, and it was an important era in our life,&#8221; Rubio said of his previous experience in the Senate before pivoting to address his current role.
&#8220;This was a very different opportunity. This is in the Executive Branch. Here you’re actually executing on laws, and you’re – basically, you’re executing the President’s foreign policy. So I enjoy the role, I enjoy the job, and I enjoy working for this President because he’s willing to do what others talk about but don’t do,&#8221; Rubio added. &#8220;When you say, &#8216;Well, we can’t do that,&#8217; and you’ll say, &#8216;Why?&#8217; That’s his question. Why? Why can’t we do that? Why hasn’t this been done before? He is willing to do what others are not willing to do.  He is willing to solve unfinished business and not leave it for the next guy or gal. And I admire that, and it’s a lot of fun to be a part of it.&#8221;
Hannity also joked about the fact that Rubio has worn a number of hats within President Trump&#8217;s second administration — prompting a flood of memes and jokes as well as the open question whether he will be the one to at least temporarily fill any job that opens up in the future.
The former Florida senator has leaned in to the joke himself, popping into the briefing room to pose as acting White House Press Secretary the day after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marco-rubio-adds-another-job-title-to-his-resume">Karoline Leavitt</a> signed out to begin her maternity leave.

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Rubio Reveals Why His Role Under Trump Is Unlike Any Job He’s Ever Had

Why Rubio Says Working For Trump Is Unlike Any Job He's Ever Had

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Sen. Rand Paul&#8217;s (R-KY) son, William Paul, said Wednesday he is seeking treatment after unleashing a drunken antisemitic tirade at Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who is not Jewish.
&#8220;Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don’t represent who I really am. I’m sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem,&#8221; William Paul <a href="https://x.com/TastyBrew1776/status/2054658199840559352?s=20">posted on X</a>.
The scene unfolded on Tuesday evening at a Washington, D.C. bar, where Lawler was speaking with News Of The U.S. (<a href="https://www.notus.org/congress/william-paul-mike-lawler-confrontation-antisemitism">NOTUS</a>) reporter Reese Gorman.
The younger Paul interrupted to inform Lawler that if Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) loses his upcoming primary, it will be because of &#8220;your people.&#8221;
&#8220;My people?&#8221; Lawler asked.
&#8220;Yeah, you Jews,&#8221; was Paul&#8217;s response.
Lawler was taken aback: &#8220;Do you think I&#8217;m Jewish? I&#8217;m not.&#8221;
Paul apologized for the assumption, but continued making antisemitic remarks, claiming Jewish people were &#8220;anti-American&#8221; and accusing Lawler&#8217;s supposed Jewish supporters of prioritizing Israel over the United States.
The New York congressman recounted the conversation for <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-news/sen-rand-pauls-son-erupts-in-drunken-tirade-against-gays-and-the-jews/">The New York Post</a>, explaining that Paul had already appeared to be pretty &#8220;drunk&#8221; and was behaving in a &#8220;belligerent&#8221; manner when he first approached — and had immediately launched his tirade.
&#8220;So Rand Paul’s f*cking son is sitting next to us at the bar … And he just like chimes in on our conversation, f*cking drunk and belligerent, and then starts going off about, you know, if [Rep. Thomas] Massie [R-KY] loses [his primary], it’s because of my people,&#8221; Lawler said, adding, &#8220;I’m like, ‘What people?’ He goes, ‘Jews,’ and I’m like, ‘Do you think I’m Jewish? … I’m Irish-Italian Catholic, buddy.'&#8221;
Lawler said that Paul claimed the United States was trying to steal land from Iran in order to give it to Jewish people, at which point he said he asked the younger Paul what he was talking about.
&#8220;This war, it’s all about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don’t care if they die,&#8221; Paul reportedly told Lawler before advising him to watch more Tucker Carlson.
Lawler said he attempted to end the conversation, saying, &#8220;Well, you just seem to hate Jews, so there’s no point arguing anymore.&#8221;
Paul then accused Lawler of putting words in his mouth and gave him the middle finger before admitting that he was &#8220;really drunk&#8221; and making a quick exit.
Paul has had previous legal troubles stemming from a 2013 assault charge that was dropped and a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/22/politics/rand-paul-son-dui">2015 DUI</a>, to which he pleaded guilty.
When asked about the situation, Sen. Paul told NBC News reporter Frank Thorp, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything for you on it.&#8221;

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Rand Paul’s Son Rants Against ‘Gays’ And ‘Jews’ During Alcohol-Fueled Tirade

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Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined the rest of the Democrats in skipping a Wednesday on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic — but he also took it a step further, walking by while the hearing was going on and appearing to mock it.
Not one of the Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security &amp; Governmental Affairs Committee — to include Gallego — attended the hearing, where CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified that Dr. Anthony Fauci had intentionally worked to cover up information regarding the pandemic&#8217;s origins.
But while most Democrats on the committee stayed away from the hearing entirely, Fox News Congressional Correspondent Bill Melugin reported that Gallego — accompanied by at least one staffer — walked by while the hearing was still ongoing.
&#8220;Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is on this committee, just walked by the hearing room and saw all the media cameras and said something along the lines of, &#8216;Wow, what’s going on here?&#8217; A staffer walking with him replied &#8216;I don’t know.&#8217; Unclear if they were trolling or not,&#8221; Melugin said in an <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2054574539611205713">X post</a>.
He later relayed the story to Fox News host Harris Faulkner, saying, &#8220;Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat from Arizona, actually walked by us about 15 minutes ago. He saw the media cameras here, and we couldn’t tell if he was joking or trolling or not, but he said, &#8216;Hey, what’s going on here?&#8217; And his staffer said, &#8216;I don’t know,&#8217; and they walked past us. He is on that committee. He’s not in the room.&#8221;
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Fox’s Bill Melugin just exposed the stunning no-show by Senate Democrats at the CIA whistleblower hearing on Covid.
Not a SINGLE Democrat was in the room — even though several sit on the Homeland Security Committee.
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Gallego has been under increased scrutiny of late because of his close ties to disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) — who resigned after several accusations of sexual misconduct, harassment, and even rape — and has claimed that the former California congressman had succeeded in hiding his &#8220;double life&#8221; even when the two were roommates.
At the hearing Gallego and the other Democrats missed, Erdman laid out the complex web of experts — most of whom were previously linked to Fauci — who had worked to control what information was eventually revealed to the American people.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) called out the federal agencies that had a part in handling the information, saying they had essentially given &#8220;the big middle finger&#8221; to the American people by not being more transparent at the time.
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Swalwell’s Best Buddy Didn’t Just Skip The COVID Hearing, He’s Accused Of Mocking It

Swalwell's Best Buddy Didn't Just Skip The COVID Hearing, He Mocked It

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Eric Swalwell

Virginia Democrats are gaslighting the American public after losing big on their redistricting gamble by attempting to sell a big lie to save face.
Prominent Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are publicly complaining that because the Virginia Supreme Court issued its ruling — invalidating the newly-gerrymandered congressional map — after the referendum was over, the court should be under scrutiny for overturning the will of the people. What they are not saying is that Virginia Democrats demanded — in litigation filed with the court — that no ruling be issued until after the referendum was over.
&#8220;What is extremely disturbing about what has happened in Virginia is this court overturned the will of three million Virginians,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. While 3 million Virginians did vote on the referendum, only a little over half (1.6 million) voted in favor of the measure.
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AOC: What is extremely disturbing about what has happened in Virginia is this court overturned the will of three million Virginians. They can say what they want about the ballot initiative, but they explicitly chose to issue this ruling after the election happened. They had all… <a href="https://t.co/NC7kUsMikB">pic.twitter.com/NC7kUsMikB</a>
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&#8220;They can say what they want about the ballot initiative, but they explicitly chose to issue this ruling after the election happened. They had all the time in the world to issue an opinion or an injunction before allowing this election to happen,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They did not overturn a map — they overturned an election &#8230; It is the power of the American people that should be the ultimate check on all three branches.&#8221;
<a href="https://x.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/2052823708662649095">Adam Parkhomenko</a>, who served as an adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, amplified a Bluesky account making the same argument. That argument was that the court, in waiting until after the election, was making its ruling — and thus invalidating the new map — after gaining only one new piece of information: how the people would vote on the issue.
&#8220;The best argument re: Virginia decision I’ve heard is this,&#8221; he said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) issued a statement immediately after the ruling, trashing the Virginia Supreme Court for overturning the will of the people.
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But as Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote in his May 8 opinion, the delay had been the Democrats&#8217; idea. In fact, they had presented several legal arguments in favor of it, citing precedent and saying that the court could not lawfully rule on the validity of the measure until it was adopted.
&#8220;It is fair to ask whether we could have or should have reviewed the constitutionality of the proposed amendment prior to it being presented to the voters,&#8221; Kelsey wrote. &#8220;Throughout this litigation, the Commonwealth has insisted that we cannot lawfully decide this case prior to the referendum. In its motion for a stay in this case, the Commonwealth argued that longstanding Virginia precedent, Scott v. James, was &#8216;virtually indistinguishable&#8217; from this case and that it clearly held that &#8216;courts cannot interfere to stop any of the proceedings while this permanent law is in the process of being made,&#8217; and &#8216;[o]nly ‘upon the completion of the proceedings, [if] the validity of the amendment is assailed[] on the ground that the several provisions of the Constitution have not been complied with, then the courts can pass upon the validity of the amendment.'&#8221;
Kelsey also made it clear that the court was well aware that Democrats would attempt to turn the argument back on itself if they did not get their way, adding, &#8220;Having successfully insisted (over the objection of the Claimants)13 that we postpone judicial review of the constitutional amendment until after the election process, it might be tempting for the Commonwealth to think that the final vote implicitly stacks the deck in its favor — perhaps enough so that the exercise of any judicial review could be viewed as an ultra vires effort to overturn the will of the people.&#8221;
He concluded that Democrats were essentially attempting to set up a situation in which precedent prohibited the court from ruling before the referendum passed and &#8220;the will of the people&#8221; barred the court from ruling afterward — thus nullifying the court&#8217;s ability to act at all.
And Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez are quickly proving him right.

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Democrats Try To Gaslight America After Redistricting Faceplant

Democrats Attempt To Sell Big Lie In Virginia

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Virginia Democrats

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) accused federal agencies of giving Americans &#8220;the big middle finger&#8221; in refusing to come forward with information concerning the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Johnson and other Republicans questioned a CIA whistleblower during a Wednesday hearing, who claimed in his opening statement that Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s role in the COVID cover-up &#8220;was intentional.&#8221; Not a single Democrat attended the hearing.
James Erdman III appeared before the Senate Homeland Security &amp; Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday morning to testify on what the federal government did to hide information from the public on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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&#8220;Public health policy would be very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for an emergency-use authorization mRNA products being mandated by the former administration,&#8221; Erdman began, adding, &#8220;Dr. Fauci&#8217;s role in the cover-up was intentional.&#8221;
No Democrats showed up for the hearing on the CIA whistleblower&#8217;s revelations.
Erdman went on to describe how Fauci — who served as former President Joe Biden&#8217;s top COVID adviser — had been a part of the process at every level.
&#8220;Dr. Fauci influenced the analytical process and findings by leveraging his position to ensure that the IC (Intelligence Community) consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject-matter experts, public health officials, and scientists,&#8221; Erdman explained, arguing that Fauci&#8217;s influence controlled which sources of information were accepted as reliable — and by extension, controlled what information the public would ultimately see.
&#8220;This included some of the authors of the paper &#8216;The Proximal Origin of SARS-COV2&#8217; and other public health experts who have been in his orbit for the last 20-plus years,&#8221; he said.
Erdman went on to argue that Fauci operated almost entirely without &#8220;oversight&#8221; that might have held him accountable.
&#8220;There was no oversight monitoring how this web of relationships influenced research, policy, and public health any holistic way,&#8221; he said, adding that some of those involved had worked with Fauci years earlier to rewrite the accepted definition of &#8220;gain-of-function&#8221; research in order to open doors — and gain access to funding — to more dangerous research.
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BOMBSHELL: Here is the entire opening statement from CIA whistleblower James Erdman lll. He testifies that Dr. Fauci&#8217;s role in the COVID cover-up was INTENTIONAL.
He stacked the intelligence community&#8217;s analysis with conflicted scientists funded by NIAID who pushed the natural… <a href="https://t.co/S1ZP9FlZGl">pic.twitter.com/S1ZP9FlZGl</a>
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Virginia Democrats are desperate to grab onto anything that could potentially resurrect their gerrymandered 10-1 congressional map before the 2026 midterm elections — and the panic is really starting to show.
In the days since the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the map — over irregularities in the process by which it was adopted — Democrats have explored several avenues by which they might make their fever dream a reality.
An attempt to appeal to the United States Supreme Court, for example, was so rushed that the first page of the filing listed the wrong court.
&#8220;Good News: Dems managed to spell Virginia correctly. Bad News: They sent their emergency application to SCOTUS to the wrong court. Baby steps,&#8221; former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA) posted via X, sharing a screenshot of the page.
Although the &#8220;Supreme Court of the United States&#8221; was named at the top of the page, across the bottom of the frame, it read, &#8220;ON EMERGENCY APPLICATION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA.&#8221;
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Good News: Dems managed to spell Virginia correctly. Bad News: They sent their emergency application to SCOTUS to the wrong court. Baby steps. <a href="https://t.co/Izi5FeKgbo">pic.twitter.com/Izi5FeKgbo</a>
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Others pointed out that the word &#8220;senator&#8221; was misspelled as &#8220;sentator&#8221; and even the name of the state was misspelled as &#8220;Virgnia&#8221; in the rushed filing.
The case was ultimately filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, and Chief Justice John Roberts has instructed Republicans to file a response to the Democrats by Thursday at 5 p.m. ET.
In addition to their appeal to the highest Court, Democrats in Virginia have also considered an even more dramatic move to force their map on the people: a complete dismantling of the state Supreme Court.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-float-dramatic-shakeup-that-could-force-out-virginias-entire-supreme-court">previously reported</a>, Virginia Democrats have considered lowering the mandatory retirement age for judges on the state&#8217;s highest court just enough to force the entire bench to retire. Then, with a Democratic governor and a Democratic super-majority in the legislature, they could ensure an entirely new bench that would be far more likely to rule in their favor.

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Dems Desperate To Force New Map On Voters Mark Case For Wrong Court

President Donald Trump was ready to rumble when he crossed paths with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, calling out several directly over what he considered to be stupid questions.
In one instance, Trump responded to a question about the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — which showed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-rises-to-highest-level-in-three-years">uptick</a> in inflation largely driven by higher energy costs — and pushed back immediately on the suggestion that his policies might be causing it.
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&#8220;You promised to bring inflation down. It&#8217;s now at its highest level in three years. Are your policies not working? What&#8217;s happening?&#8221; the reporter asked (3:45 mark).
&#8220;If you go back to just before the war, for the last three months, inflation was at 1.7%,&#8221; Trump pushed back, arguing that his policies had been working well before the launch of Operation Epic Fury — and that the cost of the war was what was reflected in the latest reports. That cost, he insisted, was worth it.
&#8220;Now, we had a choice. Let these lunatics have a nuclear weapon. If you want to do that, then you&#8217;re a stupid person, and you happen to be, I mean, I know you very well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Anybody that wants them to have a nuclear weapon is a stupid person.&#8221;
Trump went on to say that he expects to see oil prices drop — and inflation along with it — when the war with Iran is over.
Another reporter <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2054262466582851800">challenged the president</a> about the projected cost of the White House ballroom currently under construction, asking how he accounted for the fact that the cost had increased dramatically.
&#8220;We have a ballroom that&#8217;s under budget, it&#8217;s going up right here,&#8221; Trump said, pointing across the White House lawn. &#8220;I&#8217;ve doubled the size of it because we need that, and we&#8217;re right now on budget, under budget, and ahead of schedule.&#8221;
&#8220;The price has doubled!&#8221; one reporter exclaimed.
&#8220;I doubled the size of it, you dumb person!&#8221; he shot back. &#8220;I doubled the size. You are NOT a smart person.&#8221;
He went on to explain that he had decided to double the size in part because of things that had happened &#8220;in the last year,&#8221; likely a vague reference to at least one of the three assassination attempts against him.
Trump was leaving the White House on Tuesday to head to China for several days of meetings with President Xi Jinping.

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Trump Rips Into Reporter Outside White House: ‘YOU DUMB PERSON’

Trump Rips Into Reporter Outside White House: 'YOU DUMB PERSON'

President Donald Trump is reportedly planning a pause in the federal 18-cent gas tax to bring pump prices under control.
CBS News reported on Monday that Trump wanted to pause the federal gas tax as the national average price per gallon has risen to $4.52, with states like California, where gas prices average around $6.15 per gallon, driving the average higher. Most have attributed that dramatic spike in prices to the ongoing war with Iran, and Trump has predicted that prices would return to normal levels, if not lower, before the end of the year.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a great idea,&#8221; the president said in a <a href="https://x.com/nancycordes/status/2053849805185548395">phone interview</a> with CBS&#8217;s Nancy Cordes. &#8220;Yup, we&#8217;re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we&#8217;ll let it phase back in.&#8221;
Cordes said that she also asked whether the Trump administration was considering a bailout for the airline industry as fuel costs continue to rise — and the president did not appear to think that was necessary.
&#8220;In our interview, Trump did not embrace the idea of a bailout for US air carriers as they contend with jet fuel costs that have doubled since the start of the war. A bailout proposal &#8216;hasn&#8217;t really been presented,&#8217; he said. &#8216;The airlines are doing not badly,'&#8221; Cordes posted.
Trump also made it clear that the United States was not closer to a deal with Iran to end the war and bring down the gas prices that way, telling Cordes that the Iranian regime&#8217;s latest offer was &#8220;a bad proposal, a stupid proposal, actually &#8230; done by people that have no clue as to the danger they&#8217;re in. Very stupid proposal. Badly written, badly delivered.&#8221;
Suspending the gas tax — which is 18.4 cents per gallon for regular and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel — cannot be done by executive order, however, and would require Congress to act.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that he was ready to move on that, however, and <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/2053851177079484834">posted</a> on X Monday, &#8220;I’m introducing legislation today to suspend the gas tax.&#8221;
When faced with a similar situation in the spring of 2022, former President Joe Biden opted instead to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/while-biden-brags-about-releasing-oil-from-emergency-oil-stockpile-reserve-plunges-to-lowest-level-since-1985">drain resources</a> from the strategic oil reserves — to the tune of about 200 million barrels — dropping the reserves to their lowest levels since the mid-1980s.

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Leftist special interest groups ran an ad that was supposed to make former MTV reality TV star-turned-Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt look bad, and they appear to have stepped in it.
The ad, sponsored by L.A. Unions Opposed to Spencer Pratt for Mayor 2026 and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, lays out a number of things that Pratt has either supported or opposed — and accidentally paints him as an entirely reasonable person with an agenda that veers dangerously close to the dictionary definition of &#8220;common sense.&#8221;
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The LA County Federation of Labor has a new committee lined up to go after Spencer Pratt, and they are dropping an initial $221k on this video &amp; an additional digital ad. <a href="https://t.co/vJnHCDunPb">pic.twitter.com/vJnHCDunPb</a>
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&#8220;Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor,&#8221; the voiceover began. &#8220;Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it&#8217;s time for the homeless to get help or get out. Pratt thinks L.A. needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers.&#8221;
&#8220;And Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more,&#8221; the ad continued. &#8220;L.A. is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt.&#8221;
Pratt <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2053535640277709257">responded</a> to the ad, saying, &#8220;Wait. Unions are mad that I want firefighters and city workers to get better pay and safer working conditions? What are they actually … for?&#8221;
The majority of those responding commented on the fact that the unions, in attempting to paint Pratt as an extreme Republican, had only helped him to outline his positions in ways that would sound entirely reasonable — even good — to the average person.
RedState&#8217;s Jennifer Van Laar had a <a href="https://x.com/jenvanlaar/status/2053492048922296546">similar reaction</a>, saying of the ad, &#8220;Do these people know nothing of branding and sales? I get that the point of it is to make sure everyone knows that Spencer is Republican (since it&#8217;s a nonpartisan race that isn&#8217;t on the ballot) but damn. Saying his name so many times can really backfire. And they&#8217;re associating him with getting rid of homeless encampments and adding cops. Oh, the horror!&#8221;

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt took time out on Mother&#8217;s Day to honor his wife and the mother of his two boys, Heidi Montag.
Pratt shared video of the family as they returned to the Pacific Palisades for the first time after their home burned to the ground, praising his wife for everything she did to make things better for the boys even when she was very clearly hurt and struggling herself.
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&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day is every day,&#8221; he captioned the video, which began on a scene that showed smoke, flames, and flying ash.
&#8220;Heidi and I have been through hell together. No mom should ever have to for through what she&#8217;s been through,&#8221; Pratt narrated as they showed the boys where their home used to be and the Airstream trailer that was to be their new home, at least for the time being.
&#8220;Are you okay?&#8221; Heidi asked one of the boys, and her face fell along with his when she heard him say, &#8220;No.&#8221;
&#8220;I am constantly in awe of Heidi. She&#8217;s the most incredible mom to our boys. She&#8217;s why I fight,&#8221; Pratt said.
Pratt has made no secret about the fact that losing his home in the Palisades Fire — and seeing how poor leadership in Los Angeles was making a devastating situation even worse — was what drove him to join the race to become the city&#8217;s next mayor. He has repeatedly and publicly blamed current Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and others in city leadership for failing to make the proper preparations before the fire and for failing to take steps to correct course once the fire was underway.
Bass, in response, claimed that Pratt was &#8220;exploiting&#8221; the victims of the Palisades Fire for political purposes. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spencer-pratt-hits-back-after-leftist-mayor-claims-hes-exploiting-palisades-fire-victims">Pratt pushed back</a> with video of himself comforting his mother — who also lost her home, the home in which he&#8217;d grown up, in the deadly fires.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview that he wanted to see U.S. military aid to Israel reduced to $0 within ten years.
Netanyahu spoke with CBS News&#8217;s Major Garrett in an interview that aired on Sunday, and he said that his goal was to see an Israel no longer dependent on aid from the United States.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants Israel to eventually stop relying on U.S. military aid: “It&#8217;s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.” <a href="https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW">https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW</a> <a href="https://t.co/LIwJKrfMOQ">pic.twitter.com/LIwJKrfMOQ</a>
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&#8220;Do you believe it&#8217;s time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship with the United States — meaning what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis?&#8221; Garrett asked.
Netanyahu&#8217;s reply was unequivocal: &#8220;Absolutely. And I&#8217;ve said this to President Trump, I&#8217;ve said it to our own people. Their jaws dropped, but I said, &#8216;Look.'&#8221;
Garrett prompted Netanyahu to elaborate, asking, &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221;
&#8220;I want to draw down to $0 the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have, because we receive $3.8 billion a year, and I think that it&#8217;s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support,&#8221; Netanyahu said.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-israel-does-not-want-americas-military-aid-money-anymore">Why Israel Does Not Want America’s Military Aid Money Anymore</a>
Garrett asked whether the Israeli Prime Minister was able to give him &#8220;a timetable&#8221; or an estimate as to when he thought that could be accomplished.
&#8220;I said let&#8217;s start now and do it over the next decade, over the next ten years, but I want to start now,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to wait for the next congress, I wasn&#8217;t to start now, and it could go down very fast.&#8221;
Netanyahu also weighed in on the state of the ongoing war in Iran, saying that he believed much of what the United States and Israel set out to accomplish had come to pass, but that it wasn&#8217;t over yet.
&#8220;I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over,&#8221; he said.
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“I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes about the war in Iran. Netanyahu says highly enriched uranium must be removed from Iran and believes “it can be done physically.” <a href="https://t.co/N5XbvzpYa0">pic.twitter.com/N5XbvzpYa0</a>
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href="https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/2053482816134955065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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