<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump have both promised to foster and lead a United States Military that is less woke and more lethal than it has been in recent years, and reports published on Tuesday indicated that they have been hard at work on both fronts.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html">Military.com</a> reported on Tuesday that Hegseth had ordered the U.S. Navy to strip the name of Harvey Milk from an oiler class ship. The ship was named for Milk, a gay rights activist, in 2016 by former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship <a href="https://t.co/qPM9uoz6mu">https://t.co/qPM9uoz6mu</a></p>
<p>— Military.com (@Militarydotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/Militarydotcom/status/1929949512790863954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>According to that report, a Defense Department official also confirmed that the timing of Hegseth&#8217;s order — just days into PRIDE Month — had been intentional.</p>
<p>Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) lashed out at Hegseth over the move, saying, &#8220;Erasing Harvey Milk’s name is disgusting, blatant discrimination—and during Pride Month to boot. He served the U.S. Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the public and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. Hegseth should be ashamed of himself and reverse this immediately.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Erasing Harvey Milk’s name is disgusting, blatant discrimination—and during Pride Month to boot.</p>
<p>He served the U.S. Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the public and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.</p>
<p>Hegseth should be ashamed of himself and reverse… <a href="https://t.co/qc6pGh9chE">pic.twitter.com/qc6pGh9chE</a></p>
<p>— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1929994333186650240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>On the same day that the news broke regarding Milk, the U.S. Army announced that it had already surpassed recruiting goals for the entire year, four full months ahead of schedule.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The U.S. Army has met its 2025 recruiting goal FOUR MONTHS EARLY…</p>
<p>This is what happens when we have STRONG leadership at the top. <a href="https://t.co/Uykifax2pP">pic.twitter.com/Uykifax2pP</a></p>
<p>— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1929966696955015466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Army Secretary Dan Driscoll responded to the news in a statement, saying, &#8220;Today the U.S. Army met our FY25 recruiting goals a whole four months ahead of schedule. I want to thank the Commander in Chief, President Trump, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth for their decisive leadership and support which helped make this feat possible. I’m also extremely proud of the recruiters, leaders, and other advocates who helped us smash this goal. America’s young women and men are proud of our country and want to serve in the U.S. Army and the results speak for themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the U.S. Army has met its <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/06/03/army-hits-recruiting-goal-of-61000-soldiers-4-months-early/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=tw_at">retention goals</a> for the last seven years, 2025 marks just the second year in a row that it also met recruitment goals for new enlistees.</p>

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LESS WOKE, MORE LETHAL: Military Hits Major Milestones Under Trump And Hegseth

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<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid into a reporter who asked why he hadn&#8217;t specifically congratulated the female pilots who had been a part of the United States&#8217; recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities after they stated: &#8220;The early messages that you sent out only congratulated &#8216;the boys.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Hegseth, in the hours after the mission had been completed, touted the success of &#8220;our boys on those bombers&#8221; – and The New York Times, among others, complained that not all of those involved had been male.</p>
<p>Times Pentagon reporter John Ismay, most notably, wrote, &#8220;In the briefing, Hegseth referred to B-2 pilots as ‘our boys on those bombers,’ yet both men and women have been trained to fly them.&#8221;</p>
<p>When that topic came up during Thursday morning&#8217;s briefing, Hegseth bowed his head slightly, laughing, before responding.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">. <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> gave the PERFECT response when asked</p>
<p>&#8220;Why not acknowledge female pilots that participated, early messages congratulated the boys?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BAqwj6bfdV">pic.twitter.com/BAqwj6bfdV</a></p>
<p>— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1938223290931143052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Why not acknowledge the female pilots that also participated?&#8221; the reporter asked. &#8220;The early messages that you sent out only congratulated &#8216;the boys.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So, when I say something like &#8216;our boys in bombers&#8217; — see, this is the kind of thing the press does,&#8221; Hegseth replied. &#8220;Of course, the Chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. Fantastic. She&#8217;s fantastic. She&#8217;s a hero. I want more female bomber pilots.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I hope the men and women of our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But when you spin it as because I say &#8216;our boys in bombers&#8217; as a common phrase – I&#8217;ll keep saying things like that, whether they&#8217;re men or women. I&#8217;m very proud of that female pilot, just like I&#8217;m very proud of those male pilots.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s a male or a female in the cockpit, and the American people don&#8217;t care,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;But it&#8217;s the obsession with race and gender in this department that&#8217;s changed priorities, and we don&#8217;t do that anymore. We don&#8217;t play your little games.&#8221;</p>

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‘We Don’t Play Your Little Games’: Hegseth Smokes Reporter Asking Why He Didn’t Mention Female Pilot

<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth once again dragged the media as he described what really happened when the United States launched targeted strikes over the weekend on Iranian nuclear facilities, saying that the targets had absolutely been destroyed and media outlets didn&#8217;t say so only because they were &#8220;rooting against Trump.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hegseth held the Thursday morning press conference, announced one day prior by President Donald Trump, to correct the record after CNN and other outlets ran with early reports — apparently based on leaked intelligence — that the strikes had not been as successful as the Trump administration said.</p>
<p>Hegseth began by explaining that the leaked intelligence report had been what was called &#8220;low confidence&#8221; — meaning that those who had evaluated it believed it to be at best premature and at worst wholly inaccurate — and that they fully expected more complete and accurate reports to follow. Still, multiple media outlets ran with the early intel.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The fake news has turned to LEAKS from a preliminary low-confidence report that will continue to be REFINED as additional intelligence becomes available.</p>
<p>HERE ARE THE FACTS: <a href="https://t.co/OFJVeIVvB4">pic.twitter.com/OFJVeIVvB4</a></p>
<p>— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1938211836991816063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Even the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which initially issued the report, referred to it as &#8220;preliminary&#8221; and &#8220;low confidence,&#8221; Hegseth noted, and then pointed to the slew of updated assessments that had not made it into the New York Times and other outlets&#8217; coverage.</p>
<p>&#8220;Before I pass to the Chairman, because you and I mean specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard, like in your DNA and in your blood, to cheer against Trump. You want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of the strikes,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;You have to hope they were not effective. Let’s take half-truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">. <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> JUST CALLED OUT THE FAKE NEWS:</p>
<p>&#8220;I mean specifically you, the press core, because you cheer against Trump so hard, it&#8217;s like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump.</p>
<p>Because you want him not to be successful so badly, you have to cheer against the efficacy… <a href="https://t.co/wgb8g4J35X">pic.twitter.com/wgb8g4J35X</a></p>
<p>— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1938213341803012593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don’t know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is? Have we done it two or three times?&#8221; Hegseth asked. &#8220;So that American people understand about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from an F-15 or 16 or F-22 or F35? Or what it’s like to man a Patriot battery. Or how hard it is to refuel midair, giving the American people an understanding of how complex and sophisticated this mission really was?&#8221;</p>
<p>“There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn’t successful,&#8221; Hegseth continued. &#8220;It’s irresponsible. Folks in this room are privy to that information because of the proximity here in the Pentagon. It’s an important responsibility.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hegseth went on to point out that while the goal might be to paint President Trump as ineffective or worse, the consequence was that it &#8220;undermined&#8221; the complex and dangerous work being done every day by men and women in uniform on behalf of the American people and their interests worldwide.</p>
<p>“And time and time again, classified information is leaked or peddled for political purposes to try to make the president look bad. And what’s really happening is you’re undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission, set back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents would have dreamed,&#8221; Hegseth explained. &#8220;How about we celebrate that? How about talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it’s too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news, so we’re used to that.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">. <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> &#8220;Time and time again classified information is leaked or pedaled for political purposes to try to make the president look bad.</p>
<p>What really is happening You are undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and F-35 Pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air… <a href="https://t.co/z1ICGSJeJj">pic.twitter.com/z1ICGSJeJj</a></p>
<p>— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1938214834492801091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>“But we also have an opportunity to stand at the podium and read the truth of what’s happening. And the reality is you want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated, choose your word,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;This was an historically successful attack. We should celebrate it as Americans, and it gives us a chance to have peace, chance to have a deal, and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear Iran, which is something President Trump talked about for 20 years and no other presidents had the courage to actually do.&#8221;</p>

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‘Choose Your Word’: Hegseth Says Iranian Nuclear Facilities Were ‘Obliterated,’ ‘Destroyed’

<p>President Donald Trump delivered a scathing rebuke of the state of Israel over the &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a case that began in 2020 — is set to move forward on Monday.</p>
<p>Trump made it clear in his <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114746355912265245">post</a>, shared first via his Truth Social platform, that both he and the United States would have Netanyahu&#8217;s back — and he called for the case to be dropped immediately, praising the Prime Minister&#8217;s recent actions with regard to the conflict with Iran.</p>
<p>&#8220;BREAKING NEWS … I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister!&#8221; Trump began.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">President Trump just posted a long, strong defense of Netanyahu regarding his trial.</p>
<p>“It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.” <a href="https://t.co/sRUZVEWn4F">pic.twitter.com/sRUZVEWn4F</a></p>
<p>— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1938004014399889804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The president then pivoted to address Iran and argued that Netanyahu had handled the situation perfectly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu,&#8221; Trump said, turning his attention to the legal case against the Israeli Prime Minister. &#8220;Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this &#8216;Horror Show&#8217; since May of 2020 – Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, &#8216;concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges&#8217; in order to do him great harm.&#8221;</p>
<p>Using similar language to what he&#8217;d used to describe the legal cases against him in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump continued: &#8220;Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States, ME, than Bibi Netanyahu,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF &#8216;JUSTICE&#8217; CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!&#8221;</p>

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‘Travesty Of Justice’: Trump Goes Scorched Earth On ‘Witch Hunt’ Targeting Netanyahu

<p>Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the ongoing dispute between media outlets and the Trump administration regarding the recent military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — specifically, over whether or not the strikes were successful in destroying the intended targets.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio — declared the strikes a success and pushed back on reports citing an intelligence report that said otherwise. Vance shared a clip of that exchange and explained what he thought was truly telling about the whole scenario: the leaked intelligence report and the media coverage of the strike on Iran.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is such a revealing clip,&#8221; Vance began his lengthy post on X. &#8220;The American media is full of the least curious, least insightful people in our country. To recap, an out of context, &#8216;low confidence&#8217; and incomplete intelligence report was selectively leaked to the media. The media reported on the findings without any real effort to figure out whether they represent any part of (much less the full) truth. The way the media has presented the report is contradicted by the IAEA, the Iranians themselves, and the administration&#8217;s political and defense leadership. More importantly, the media&#8217;s reports are contradicted by common sense.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This is such a revealing clip. The American media is full of the least curious, least insightful people in our country.</p>
<p>To recap, an out of context, &#8220;low confidence&#8221; and incomplete intelligence report was selectively leaked to the media. The media reported on the findings…</p>
<p>— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1937894288886489267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Vance went on to describe what actually happened during the strikes on Iran, saying, &#8220;To summarize: a dozen 30,000-pound bunker busters were dropped on Iran&#8217;s main nuclear site. (The other two sites that were targeted suffered heavy damage too). No one disputes they hit their targets. No one disputes the explosive or destructive power of the weapons. No one disputes that a week ago, Iran could have easily assembled a nuclear weapon and now they can&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>Everyone stipulated that the United States military had, in fact, struck the intended targets and done damage, Vance explained, noting that the only element in question was how much damage was done — and how quickly, if they were so inclined, could the Iranians rebuild?</p>
<p>&#8220;The entire debate — even accepting the press&#8217;s dishonest framing — is not about whether Iran can now build a nuke. They can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s about how much rebuilding the Iranians would have to do in order to achieve a nuclear weapon,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;In other words, after a wildly successful military operation with no American casualties, the American media is trying to blame Donald Trump for the existence of facilities *that haven&#8217;t even been built yet.* (Set to the side Iran&#8217;s willingness to rebuild their program. As the President himself said, they now know there are serious consequences for rebuilding. They also learned that we can very easily set their progress back.)&#8221;</p>
<p>The vice president concluded by pointing to the one story that he believed should be covered, though it was clear that he held out little hope in American media outlets doing so.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is actually an interesting story here, if the media was interested in telling it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why are members of the intelligence community leaking incomplete reports against the elected leadership of the country? Why have the same reporters who have gotten so much wrong learned so little? What is the purpose of these leaks — who is behind them, and what are they trying to achieve? The media won&#8217;t investigate that story, though it would be in the public interest to do so.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So pay attention to the reporters who are laundering talking points from junior careerists in the intelligence community,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;President Trump has obliterated the Iranian nuclear program. The American media seems destined to obliterate their own credibility on this fake story.&#8221;</p>

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Vance Obliterates Media Over Iran Strike Coverage, Tells The One Story They ‘Won’t Investigate’

<p>President Donald Trump laid into New York City Democrats in a Wednesday afternoon post to Truth Social, saying they&#8217;d finally &#8220;crossed the line&#8221; when Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani pulled out a Democratic primary win in the New York City mayoral election.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line,&#8221; Trump began in the first of two posts. &#8220;Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he’s not very smart, he’s got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Yes, this is a big moment in the History of our Country!&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="ro">President Trump on Zohran Mamdani. <a href="https://t.co/0vcKDkLH9E">pic.twitter.com/0vcKDkLH9E</a></p>
<p>— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1937953398630060430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In the second post, Trump offered some advice to the Democratic Party moving forward, suggesting they should go all in and nominate Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) for the presidency in 2028. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), he said, should be her vice presidential candidate.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have an idea for the Democrats to bring them back into &#8216;play.&#8217; After years of being left out in the cold, including suffering one of the Greatest Losses in History, the 2024 Presidential Election, the Democrats should nominate Low IQ Candidate, Jasmine Crockett, for President, and AOC+3 should be, respectively, Vice President, and three High Level Members of the Cabinet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Added together with our future Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, and our Country is really SCREWED!&#8221;</p>
<p>Mamdani edged out disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) for the nomination, but may still face him again in the general election as Cuomo has not ruled out the possibility of a third-party run.</p>
<p>Based on his campaign website, Mamdani would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-mayoral-hopeful-would-go-all-in-on-transing-the-kids-to-the-tune-of-65-million">dump millions of dollars</a> of city funding into transgender procedures and treatments — for adults and children — and challenge the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to restrict such procedures for minors.</p>

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Trump Labels NYC’s Mamdani A ‘100% Communist Lunatic’

<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that the United States would not donate to Gavi, a global vaccine alliance, unless and until the organization took steps to &#8220;re-earn the public&#8217;s trust.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kennedy&#8217;s criticism of the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/rfk-vaccine-donations-gavi-00422705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global body</a> was rooted primarily in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he made that abundantly clear in a video he sent to the Gavi pledging summit – in which he accused the organization of silencing dissent over the highly controversial COVID vaccines and pushing them despite concerns about their safety, per <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/rfk-vaccine-donations-gavi-00422705">POLITICO</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;When the science was inconvenient, Gavi ignored the science,&#8221; Kennedy said, arguing that if the United States was going to continue funding the organization, they would have to do better in the future. He also accused Gavi of coordinating with the World Health Organization (WHO) to &#8220;recommend best practices for social media companies to silence dissenting views, to stifle free speech and legitimate questions during that period.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I call on Gavi today to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion that America has provided in funding since 2001. And I’ll tell you how to start taking vaccine safety seriously: Consider the best science available, even when the science contradicts established paradigms,&#8221; Kennedy declared. &#8220;Until that happens, the United States won’t contribute more to Gavi.&#8221;</p>
<p>The pledging summit, which is being held in Brussels, hopes to raise $9 billion in funding for the next five years — 2026-2030, but the approximately $300 million the United States provides on an annual basis is what is in question.</p>
<p>&#8220;When vaccine safety issues have come before Gavi, Gavi has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem,&#8221; Kennedy said in his video presentation. &#8220;Business as usual is over, unaccountable and opaque policymaking is over. I invite all of you to join us in a new era of evidence-based medicine, old-standard science and integrity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kennedy&#8217;s announcement follows earlier reports that suggested President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration planned to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/usaid-cuts-gavi-bird-flu.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut funding</a> to Gavi — although they planned to continue funding key grants for things like natural disaster response, HIV, and tuberculosis medications.</p>

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RFK Jr. Nixes U.S. Funding For Vaccine Alliance Until It ‘Re-Earns The Public’s Trust’

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A pro-queer Muslim socialist wins big in New York, the Liver King is arrested after threatening Joe Rogan, and NATO calls President Trump "daddy."

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The Michael Knowles Show

Ep. 1763 - The Pro-Queer Muslim Socialist Victory In New York EXPLAINED [Member Exclusive]

With Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, big name Democrats fall into line; President Trump excoriates leakers and liars who try to undermine his gigantic Iran win; and Trump does NATO.

The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2226 - It’s Bernie’s Party, You Can Cry If You Want To

With Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, big name Democrats fall into line; President Trump excoriates leakers and liars who try to undermine his gigantic Iran win; and Trump does NATO.

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Ep. 2226 - It’s Bernie’s Party, You Can Cry If You Want To [Member Exclusive]

Trump secures increased funding from NATO members, Senate Republicans consider the One Big Beautiful Bill, and a therapy student blows the whistle on mandatory training in smut. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.

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