A coalition of free market advocates urged lawmakers to reject a pro-union bill they warn would create a “dangerous” new power for federal bureaucrats that has the backing of some Republicans. 
The <a href="https://norcross.house.gov/_cache/files/f/9/f9d6776b-2d3a-472c-bcbe-c4040a8fd4b8/77C8E6BDE7FD695BC9C678680EB984933BBA6A66466177E02C69BA329B6A0C42.norcro-010-xml.pdf">bill</a>, known as the Faster Labor Contracts Act, would allow either side in a labor dispute to call in federal mediators if a contract agreement is not reached within 90 days. A House vote on the proposal is expected in the coming days, setting up a fight between some Republicans and free market advocates that oppose government intervention in the economy. 
More than two dozen organizations led by Advancing American Freedom demanded that GOP members of Congress vote against the proposal, saying that it would create a “dangerous new power” for the federal government to intervene in labor disputes, according to a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1045628652/AAF-FLCA-Coalition-Letter?_gl=1*1d3o3wo*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTI5NTkwMDEuMTc4MDMyOTk0NQ..*_ga_Z4ZC50DED6*czE3ODAzMjk5NDQkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODAzMjk5NDQkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_8KZ8BV0P5W*czE3ODAzMjk5NDQkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODAzMjk5NDQkajYwJGwwJGgw">letter</a> obtained by The Daily Wire.
“Even with the best of intentions, government arbitrators could never wield this abuse-prone power effectively,” the coalition wrote in the letter. “At a time when Congress and the White House are working to rein in the federal bureaucracy and reduce government overreach, this legislation would move in the opposite direction by inserting Washington directly into private workplace negotiations.”
The proposal moved to the floor after a majority of Democrats and several Republicans signed onto a discharge petition last month. 
Republicans in the House who signed on to a discharge petition included Mike Lawler (NY), Nick LaLota (NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA),  Don Bacon (NE), Max Miller (OH), Riley Moore (WV), and Rob Bresnahan (PA). Republican supporters of the proposal argue it is pro-worker and will help blue-collar workers get back to work quicker. 
The Daily Wire reached out to their offices for comment on their support for the proposal. 
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The bill has been pushed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who argue that it would prevent management from prolonging contract negotiations in an effort to wait out workers. 
“Delays in the processing of collective bargaining contracts primarily benefit employers opposed to representation by the labor organization,” the text of the proposal says. “The employers can use those delays to sap labor organization resolve and secure more favorable terms for the employer.”
In previous interviews, Fitzpatrick <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_21eb5e24-3adf-4465-9d4f-c7871e550d2b.html">told</a> union members that it would be the “most imminent piece of legislation that’s going to have the biggest impact on you all.” He said last month that he believed it would pass in the House. 
“And then our job is to find a way to navigate the Senate on that,” he said. “But if that emerges out of the House, there&#8217;s going to be a lot of pressure for them to put that up for a vote, and it&#8217;s a two party bill, so I actually feel quite good. And in a town where it&#8217;s hard to get things done, I actually feel quite good about the prospects, and that&#8217;s going to be a huge win for the Teamsters.”
Advancing American Freedom President Tim Chapman said that the proposal would undermine the negotiation process by involving government bureaucrats. 
“The Faster Labor Contracts Act should be dead on arrival under a Republican trifecta, but labor union leadership and populist pundits are telling members that this legislation is ‘pro-worker&#8217;,” Chapman told The Daily Wire. “Conservatives shouldn’t be fooled. Putting workers’ jobs in jeopardy by subjecting their workplaces to terms written by uninformed federal ‘arbitrators’ is anti-worker.”
The letter was also signed by representatives from organizations like the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Americans for Prosperity, the Eagle Forum, the Institute for the American Worker, the Goldwater Institute, and others. 
Akash Chougule, the President of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, told The Daily Wire that Republicans supporting the legislation are “making a catastrophic policy and political mistake.”
He said that the bill would cut workers out of the process and primarily benefit union leaders, not workers. 
Vinnie Vernuccio, the president of the Institute for the American Worker, also said that it would give “unprecedented power” to federal bureaucrats. He said that his organization was “proud to stand for union democracy by joining the larger coalition and sounding the alarm on this harmful legislation.”
The Senate version of the proposal was introduced by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and also supported by Republican Senators Roger Marshall (Kansas) and Bernie Moreno (Ohio) and 12 other Democrats. 
After the discharge petition advanced in the House, Hawley told The Daily Wire that the proposal would give workers more power against “woke corporations.” 
“We need real labor reform that puts workers first. For too long woke corporations have blocked workers’ rights while sending jobs to China,” he said. “I’m glad to see the House doing the right thing by American workers. Congress needs to pass my bill and get this done.”

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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will transfer control of the Kennedy Center to Congress, after a judge ordered the removal of Trump&#8217;s name from the iconic Washington venue and blocked his plans to close it for renovations.
Trump said on social media that he instructed the U.S. Commerce Department to &#8220;make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution&#8221; and give lawmakers responsibility over its operation, maintenance and management.
It was not immediately clear how Trump&#8217;s directive could be carried out. The Kennedy Center was created by Congress in 1958 and is run by a board of trustees that the president has packed with allies in his second term.
Trump&#8217;s announcement came after a judge on Friday ruled that the performing arts center, which Trump renamed the &#8220;Trump Kennedy Center,&#8221; cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington directed the Trump administration to take down all physical signage bearing Trump’s name and to eliminate any references to a &#8220;Trump Kennedy Center&#8221; from official materials within 14 days.
&#8220;The Kennedy Center&#8217;s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board&#8217;s unilateral say-so,&#8221; Cooper wrote. &#8220;Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.&#8221;
Cooper&#8217;s order also stopped the Trump administration’s planned two-year closure of the Kennedy Center for major renovations, though the judge said &#8220;sorely needed&#8221; repairs to the aging building could move forward.
The judge said his decision &#8220;does not purport to dictate how the Center should be run, nor does it prescribe any particular plan for the institution — construction, closure, or otherwise — moving forward.&#8221;
In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump said large-scale renovations set to begin next month would be impossible without a closure and that Cooper&#8217;s order to keep the center open would be dangerous.
&#8220;I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight,&#8221; Trump said.
Cooper ruled in a lawsuit brought by Ohio Democratic U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty, a member of the Kennedy Center&#8217;s board by virtue of her position in Congress. Beatty in a statement after the ruling said the &#8220;Kennedy Center is an institution that belongs to the American people, not to Donald Trump.&#8221;
PUSH TO REMAKE WASHINGTON
Trump&#8217;s plan to renovate the center is part of a broader push by the Republican leader to reshape Washington&#8217;s monumental core. He also intends to erect a 250-foot (76-meter) arch and to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the site of the demolished East ​Wing of the White ​House.
Those efforts also face court challenges. A federal appeals court has allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with building the ballroom as ​it considers a lawsuit seeking to block it.
Beatty sued the Trump administration in December, calling the renaming of the building “a flagrant violation of the rule of law&#8221; that &#8220;flies in the face of our constitutional order.”
Her lawyers in a statement applauded Cooper&#8217;s decision. &#8220;This is a powerful blow against the Trump administration’s corruption,” attorneys Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky said.
The board could still close the Kennedy Center, Cooper wrote, “should it come to this decision anew after independently balancing its multiple obligations to the Center in a prudent fashion.&#8221;
The Kennedy Center opened in 1971 as a living memorial to the late President John F. Kennedy.
(Reporting by Mike Scarcella; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Edmund Klamann and Andrea Ricci )

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A Democrat known for his State of the Union stunts will be exiting Congress after more than two decades following a crushing primary defeat on Tuesday. 
Longtime Democratic Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was crushed by Rep. Christian Menefee (D-TX) in a runoff election for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, which represents parts of Houston. Menefee earned nearly 70% of the vote to Green’s 30%. Both ended up in the same district after Texas redrew its election maps last year. 
In his concession speech, Green, 78, rambled on about how he would continue to support abortion. 
“I’d like to indicate to you that this effort has been one that was sincere. It&#8217;s something that I have done as a labor of love. I have enjoyed all of my time as a member of the Congress of the United States of America,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHBKgIEsYbo">said</a>. “And I want to assure you that when I go back to Congress next week, I still plan to take up the cause of women in this country. I still will fight to make sure a woman has a right to choose. This is something that we cannot allow men to deprive women of.”
Green, who was first elected to Congress in 2004, has become <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-democrat-moves-to-impeach-trump-over-dastardly-deeds">known</a> for his opposition to President Donald Trump, introducing articles of impeachment just two weeks after Inauguration Day in 2025. 
During Trump’s State of the Union in March 2025, House Speaker Mike Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deported-dem-rep-al-green-booted-from-trump-address-to-congress">removed</a> Green from the House chamber after he started yelling during the speech and refused to remain quiet. Green was later <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/189/text">censured</a> by the House for his protests. 
Green was again kicked out of the State of the Union in February 2026 after he disrupted Trump’s speech while holding up a sign reading “Black People Aren’t Apes.” 
Menefee, 38, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/tx-18-house-runoff-primary-election-winner-menefee-beats-green-rcna346549?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=6a163d9f42698e0001d2c0f1&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">received</a> about $5 million from Protect Progress, a pro-cryptocurrency political action committee that supports Democratic candidates. The PAC ran one pro-Menefee ad featuring failed Texas Democrat Senate candidate and outgoing Rep. Jasmine Crockett. 
“We need a new generation of fighters who are ready to throw down for what&#8217;s right,” Crockett <a href="https://host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/1a24214d-3fcc-4d4f-84e6-b8c617a83393/">said</a> in the ad. “My friend Christian Menefee is that fighter. Christian Menefee took on MAGA in Texas and won.”
Green has been a skeptic of crypto during his time in Congress. 
Menefee, facing off against Republican Ronald Whitfield in November, is expected to win in the heavily Democratic district.

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America’s most hated time ritual may finally be clocking out.
Twice a year, Americans collectively stumble through the same bizarre routine: forgetting how microwaves work, showing up early to church, late to brunch, and spending three straight days wondering why they suddenly feel exhausted.
Now, Congress is finally inching toward ending the clock-changing madness for good.
The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee just advanced <a href="https://trackbill.com/bill/us-congress-house-bill-7389-motor-vehicle-modernization-act-of-2026/2808412/?utm">legislation</a> that could eventually make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, pushing the long-running “lock the clock” movement closer to reality than it has been in years.
The proposal, known as the Sunshine Protection Act, was folded into a larger transportation package this week and passed out of committee by a massive 48-1 vote.
In other words, Washington may have finally found the one issue capable of uniting exhausted Americans.
Florida Republicans Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Vern Buchanan have been leading the charge after years of public frustration over changing clocks twice a year. The effort was previously championed by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose version famously passed the Senate in 2022 before dying in the House.
Buchanan celebrated the latest momentum this week, calling the twice-a-year clock change “outdated and unpopular.”
At this point, changing clocks feels like one of those strange traditions Americans continue mostly because nobody in Washington can quite figure out how to stop it.
If the legislation eventually becomes law, most Americans would remain on the brighter summer-style schedule year-round. That means sunsets after 5 p.m. during winter instead of darkness arriving before many people even leave work.
Of course, there’s a catch.
Sunrises in some parts of the country would drift past 8 a.m. — and in certain areas, even closer to 9 a.m. Critics argue that could create problems for children heading to school in darkness and potentially affect sleep and health.
Some Democrats and sleep experts are already pushing back. During Thursday’s markup, Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-CA) warned about possible health concerns tied to permanent daylight saving time.
But honestly, Americans increasingly seem willing to accept almost any trade-off if it means never having to manually reset the clock in a car dashboard again.
Nineteen states have already passed laws supporting permanent daylight saving time if Congress approves it federally. Maine and Texas joined the list last year.
There are still several hurdles before anything changes nationally. The full House would need to pass the package, the Senate would need to agree, and President Donald Trump would ultimately need to sign it.
Until then, Americans can look forward to once again pretending they totally remembered the time change when clocks roll back this November.

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America’s Clock-Change Nightmare May Finally Be Running Out Of Time

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House Republicans are ramping up efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud after the Department of Justice charged 15 individuals in a sprawling Medicaid fraud scheme involving more than $90 million in stolen taxpayer funds.
The effort is championed by Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN), who says it&#8217;s time for Congress to increase oversight and enforcement across Medicare, Medicaid, and federal healthcare programs. 
“For far too long, fraud has run rampant through our federal health care programs, stealing billions of taxpayer dollars from hardworking Americans,” Finstad told The Daily Wire. He said his resolution “commits congressional Republicans to continue investigating and prosecuting fraud schemes bleeding taxpayer dollars.” 
The Minnesota Republican’s proposal comes as federal investigators uncover what officials describe as increasingly sophisticated fraud operations siphoning taxpayer money from government healthcare programs.
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) praised the effort and vowed Republicans would continue pursuing criminals exploiting the system.
“This is theft, plain and simple,” Pfluger said. “I am proud to cosponsor this resolution and support the Trump administration’s aggressive actions to hold bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
Pfluger added that Republicans are committed to “cracking down on every criminal who robs taxpayers through Medicare and Medicaid fraud.”
The resolution has already drawn support from a dozen House Republicans.
The renewed GOP push also commits to supporting the Trump administration’s expanding investigations into suspected Medicaid abuse across multiple states.
Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-oz-names-5-states-fraud-crackdown-trump-admin-targets-medicaid-abuse">told</a> Fox News Digital, &#8220;We&#8217;ve written letters to Minnesota, California, a letter to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/southeast/florida">Florida</a> because we&#8217;re worried about the durable medical equipment fraud … New York, Maine, and there are more coming.” Oz added that while several states have already been flagged, federal officials are monitoring all 50 states. 
Despite one of the letters going to Florida, a red state, Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills <a href="https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/state-maine-responds-cms-medicaid-letter-highlights-steps-taken-under-mills-administration">labeled</a> the Medicaid investigation a predetermined “political cudgel.” 
“Addressing alleged fraud has become a political cudgel that he [President Trump] is using to desperately distract from his failing agenda,” Mills said. “And let’s be clear about who he is using that cudgel against: Democratic-led states, and people like me who dare to stand up to him.” 
Finstad’s resolution pledges House Republicans will pursue Medicaid fraud wherever it exists, in red states or blue states, arguing that taxpayer theft has no party affiliation.

Capitol Building of the United States. It houses the chambers of the House of Representatives and the Senate I

‘This Is Theft’: Republicans Escalate Medicaid Fraud Crackdown After $90M Bust

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House Democrats joined with six Republicans on Thursday to block legislation advancing the long-awaited Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, tanking the bill after Republicans added language limiting the museum to celebrating biological women and barring exhibits portraying males as female.
The measure failed on a 216-204 vote after every Democrat voted against it, joined by a small bloc of Republican defectors, halting what had previously been a bipartisan effort to establish the museum on the National Mall. The legislation was led by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY).
The collapse of the bill came after Democrats abandoned legislation many of them had previously supported, once Republicans amended it to explicitly define the museum around biological women.
New language added by Republicans stated the museum would be dedicated to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States,” while also prohibiting the museum from depicting “any biological male as a female.”
Democrats immediately denounced the changes, arguing they excluded transgender-identifying individuals and handed too much authority over the museum to President Donald Trump. Republicans countered that a women’s history museum should, by definition, focus on women.
“The addition of the word biological made them all run for the hills,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Wednesday. “If that&#8217;s controversial in the Democratic Party, we&#8217;re in serious trouble.”
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Malliotakis similarly blasted Democrats for withdrawing support over the added language. 
“A women&#8217;s history museum is supposed to be dedicated to women, period,” Malliotakis told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-revolt-over-biological-wording-womens-history-museum-bill">Fox News</a>. “And the fact that they&#8217;re going to pull their support after overwhelmingly co-sponsoring this bill because the word biological was inserted, to me, is ludicrous.”
Democrats insisted the issue extended beyond transgender inclusion. The revised legislation also gave Trump authority to select an alternative site for the museum on the National Mall and included language calling for “equal representation of the diversity of the political viewpoints and authentic experiences held by women in the United States.”
Leaders of the Democratic Women’s Caucus accused Republicans of turning a bipartisan project into a political fight. 
“They amended the bill to give Trump and his allies unregulated power over what content and which women can be included in the museum, and the museum’s location,” caucus leaders said in a statement. “A museum about women, fought for and supported by women, should not be controlled by one man.”
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum was initially authorized by Congress in 2020 alongside the planned National Museum of the American Latino, but construction has remained stalled pending congressional approval of a permanent site.
House Republicans widely viewed Thursday’s vote as an opportunity to force Democrats into a politically uncomfortable position on gender after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-finally-admit-what-went-wrong-in-2024">party’s struggles during the 2024 election cycle</a> over questions involving transgender-identifying athletes and definitions of “woman.”
But Republicans also faced internal resistance from fiscal conservatives and lawmakers skeptical that another Smithsonian museum was necessary. Several GOP lawmakers reportedly objected that women were already represented across existing Smithsonian institutions and raised concerns that the institution could ultimately become a platform for left-wing causes rather than a celebration of women’s achievements throughout American history. A source familiar with Republican concerns told Fox that lawmakers feared the museum could evolve into “a shrine to abortion activists like Margaret Sanger or the latest progressive cause” without stronger guardrails written into the legislation.
In the end, those Republican defections combined with unanimous Democratic opposition were enough to sink the legislation, leaving the future of the women’s history museum uncertain and construction plans once again stalled indefinitely.

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If there were any doubt that Democrats are ecstatically lining up to echo the radical antisemitic rhetoric of hard-left zealots such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, and New Yorkers — even left-wing Jews — who are only too happy to support them, former New York City comptroller Brad Lander, a Jew who is running against incumbent Democrat congressman Dan Goldman, has made it abundantly clear.
Speaking at a mosque where the imam reportedly prayed for the “killing of infidels by [the] sword,” Lander not only vilified the state of Israel with the usual lies but also spoke of his hope for a “partnership” with Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib before concluding with a verse from the Quran praising Allah.
“I believe, as a proud Jewish New Yorker, that Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza is a desecration,” he began, resorting to the malicious lie about the Jewish state, before continuing, “is a violation of the understanding that everyone is created in God&#8217;s image — every one of those Palestinian kids in Gaza, just as divine as my beloved children.”
“And so, yes, in Congress, I will not vote for any more U.S. military aid to Israel, not the bombs that are destroying the hospitals and schools in Gaza, not the occupation in Lebanon, which is now, I believe, unfortunately, on its way potentially to being a genocide as well,” he blathered.
Then he turned to his hoped-for “partnership” with the most vehement anti-Israel members of Congress, declaring, “The kind of partnership I developed with Zohran. I hope to come to have with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and others in Congress to show we can build a city and a country and a world that everyone can afford and where everyone is welcome and where everyone&#8217;s humanity is respected.”
He later recited from the Quran in Arabic, “In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate, say he is Allah, who is one, Allah, the eternal refuge, he neither begets nor is born, nor is there to him any equivalent.”
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An Emerson poll showed Lander with an enormous 34-point lead over Goldman.
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Senate Democrats are inviting an anti-gambling activist who was disbarred after stealing nearly $2 million from clients to finance his own gambling habit, still owes nearly all that money, and appears to falsely represent himself as a therapist, to testify on integrity in sports. 
Harry Levant, a self-styled gambling addiction expert who has become the go-to expert for the campaign against legalized betting, is a Democrat witness for a congressional hearing to weigh the social costs of legalized sports betting. Levant’s own history, however, raises serious questions about whether he belongs in front of Congress as a neutral authority at all.
Levant, now director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), has become a favored media source for outlets eager to highlight the dangers of online wagering. He has appeared in major national publications and alongside lawmakers pushing federal restrictions on sports betting, often presenting himself as a reformed addict turned counselor and public health advocate.
But Levant’s public rehabilitation story omits a key fact: he is a disbarred former attorney who pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $2 million from his own legal clients to finance his gambling addiction. His victims reportedly included a family member and a double amputee. 
&#8220;My world crumbled in May of 2014 when I was informed that all my money no longer existed,” a victim of Levant <a href="https://whyy.org/segments/after-dodging-jail-in-theft-of-2m-lawyer-back-in-court-for-lagging-on-restitution/">told</a> a judge. “I will never forgive Mr. Levant for what he has done to me. He needs to be punished and pay for what he has done.”
Though he avoided prison after facing dozens of criminal charges, court records <a href="https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/Report/CpDocketSheet?docketNumber=CP-51-CR-0012640-2014&amp;dnh=oz%2FCyF06OFNZ596KkWz7wA%3D%3D">reviewed</a> by The Daily Wire show he still owes roughly $1.9 million in restitution more than a decade later. Public records indicate he has maintained access to high-end housing while making only minimal monthly payments to the victims he defrauded. At the current payment rate ordered by the court, full repayment would take 316 years.
Levant now publicly markets himself as a “therapist” and “gambling counselor,” offering in-person services in Philadelphia and telehealth sessions online. Yet available state licensing databases in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts do not appear to show an active professional counseling license under his name. 
In a phone interview, Levant said he doesn’t run a therapy practice.
“I host a coaching program, not a therapy practice. I host group coaching,” Levant said. “If someone in the group needs therapy, I refer them to a licensed therapist.”
Despite this, Levant’s website still <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260518235643/https://www.harrylevant.com/about">describes</a> him as a “mental health therapist” and contains a page titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260518235537/https://www.harrylevant.com/gambling-counseling">“Therapy,”</a> where he says, “I offer a comprehensive approach to therapy,” invites visitors to “become a patient,” and advertises “in-person services in the Philadelphia area and virtual telehealth services for all ages.”
Levant added that he is “very upfront” that his use of the title “Dr.” refers to his doctorate in law and public policy from Northeastern University, which is consistent with his public biography.
Levant also said he continues his “restitution payment each month,” but did not comment on the amount. He remains under court-ordered restitution stemming from the theft case and said he is “in full compliance with those obligations,” according to an email from PHAI Executive Director Mark Gottlieb, who described himself as Levant’s supervisor. 
Gottlieb wrote to The Daily Wire to “memorialize” Levant’s answers in his phone interview with The Daily Wire, emphasizing the organization’s awareness of the questions surrounding his criminal history’s pertinence on his current work.
Regarding the “therapy” claims, Gottlieb said he stopped treating patients after moving to Massachusetts because he would need new state licensure to continue practicing there. Gottlieb said PHAI had kept Levant “very very busy” and that he had not yet completed that licensing process, adding, “I’m quite sure he will be treating individual patients again soon.” 
He said Levant had been treating patients in Pennsylvania through mid-2025 at Ethos Treatment, but 
That history matters because Levant is not merely a recovering addict sharing a personal testimony. He is now positioned as an expert witness before the United States Senate while simultaneously helping build a legal and political campaign against the sports betting industry that could generate significant financial benefit for his organization and its allies.
Levant and colleagues at PHAI recently incorporated a nonprofit called <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-family-and-friends-of-gamblers-ffog-is-launched-to-advocate-for-comprehensive-public-health-regulation-of-the-online-gambling-industry-the-ffog-movement-will-officially-begin-with-lifting-the-fog-day-on-november-6th-in-wa-302599936.html?tc=eml_cleartime">Families and Friends of Gamblers</a>, which seems to be laying the groundwork for mass litigation against gambling companies. The model resembles the public-health litigation strategy used against “Big Tobacco” in the 1990s — not coincidentally, one of Levant’s close collaborators, Richard Daynard, helped architect that litigation. 
If successful, the effort could create an enormous legal payday for the advocacy ecosystem Levant now inhabits.
That creates an obvious conflict: the same man testifying before lawmakers about the alleged public harms of sports betting is also involved in efforts that may directly profit from expanded legal action against the industry.
None of this means Congress should ignore the issue of gambling addiction, but it does raise a straightforward question: why is the Senate relying on a witness whose professional brand, political advocacy, and personal financial interests all depend on portraying sports betting as a national crisis — and one whose own past includes defrauding vulnerable people to sustain the very addiction he now monetizes as an expert?

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Voters in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District ousted embattled Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Tuesday in the most expensive House primary in American history, marking the latest incumbent to fall amid President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge Republicans he views as disloyal to his agenda.
With 95% of the vote reported, Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL and farmer, leads with 55% of the vote. <a href="https://x.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/2056883139234979997?s=20">Decision Desk HQ called the race at 7:41 p.m. ET.</a>  
It’s a stunning political collapse for the libertarian-minded fiscal hawk who rode the Tea Party wave into Congress in 2012 and remained politically untouchable ever since.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-trump-machine-takes-on-thomas-massie-georgians-choose-their-nominees-for-senate-gov?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Trump+Machine+Takes+On+Thomas+Massie+While+Georgia+Braces+For+Primary+Showdowns" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LIVE UPDATES: Republican Primary Voters Go To The Polls In Kentucky, Georgia</a>
Massie’s defeat delivers another political win for Trump, who in recent weeks has exacted revenge against Indiana Republicans who bucked his redistricting effort and Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy for voting to convict Trump on impeachment charges. 
Few Republicans, if any, have provoked more ire from the president than Massie.
In October 2025, Trump recruited and endorsed Gallrein, throwing the full weight of his MAGA political machine to remove Massie from the halls of Congress. In a Truth Social Post rallying his base, Trump called Massie, long a thorn in his side, a &#8220;bum&#8221; and the <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116589795851243755">“worst Republican Congressman in history.”</a>
The president’s frustration with Massie traces back to March 2020, when Trump called Massie a “third rate Grandstander” and urged the GOP to kick him out of the party after he tried to stall a $2.2 trillion COVID aid package. Two years later, Trump endorsed Massie in his primary, hailing him as a “Conservative Warrior” and a “first-rate Defender of the Constitution,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-backs-navy-seal-in-bid-to-knock-off-gop-rep-thomas-massie">The Daily Wire previously reported</a>.
But during Trump’s second term, the Kentucky Republican has stepped up criticism of the administration over a range of foreign and domestic issues. He voted against Trump&#8217;s signature tax cut and spending bill and has accused the administration of <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5658597-doj-releases-epstein-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“flaunting the law,”</a> and said Republicans opposed to his discharge petition, forcing the release of Epstein files, were voting to <a href="https://x.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1990185676810137991?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“protect pedophiles.&#8221;</a>  
Massie has also supported resolutions to curb Trump’s authority to launch military strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran and has criticized the U.S.-backed operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, who is sitting in a federal jail pending criminal charges. 
“Wake up MAGA. VENEZUELA is not about drugs; it’s about OIL and REGIME CHANGE. This is not what we voted for,” <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2007855570447913358?s=20">Massie said in a social media post.</a> 
On the campaign trail, Massie defended his record and insisted on voting independently of the White House. 
“It&#8217;s a question of whether you can have even the slight bit of a dissenting vote on any day at all. Because I vote with the party 90% of the time,” Massie told a local news outlet. “It&#8217;s a referendum, I do believe, on whether the legislative branch works for the executive branch or if we are co-equal branches.”
The campaign drew unprecedented third-party spending, amassing more than $32.6M and becoming the most expensive House primary on record, <a href="https://x.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/2056399251890926063?s=20">according to AdImpact. </a>Pro-Gallrein spending accounted for $18.8M compared to $13.2M Pro-Massie fundraising. 
In addition to the <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?committee_id=C00908723">MAGA KY super PAC</a> founded by former Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, pro-Israel groups, including AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition, have spent millions opposing Massie, <a href="https://x.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/2056404117908570294?s=20">according to Decision Desk HQ.</a> 
Massie, on the other hand, mostly accepted out-of-state money from anti-war progressives, Muslim-American activists, and left-aligned PACs, including Integrity Political Action Committee (IPAC), which recently partnered with a chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to undermine ICE, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massie-fight-political-life-leftists-islamist-donors?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Massie+Enters+Fight+For+Political+Life+Flanked+By+Islamists%2C+Left-Wing+Donors">The Daily Wire previously reported.</a>
Money aside, the race drew political heavy-hitters into Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, which stretches along the Ohio River and includes much of the suburban and exurban corridor between Cincinnati and Louisville.
Over the weekend, Trump threatened to support a primary challenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) after she hit the campaign trail to support Massie. 
In Saturday night Truth Social posts, Trump railed against Republicans backing Massie for “parading around like fools,” calling Boebert “weak-minded.”
“Boebert is campaigning for the Worst ‘Republican’ Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!” <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116586609402311469">Trump said.</a>  “Even though I long ago endorsed Boebert, if the right person came along, it would be my Honor to withdraw that Endorsement and endorse a good and proper alternative,” he said.
“Yes, I saw the president’s post. No, I’m not mad or offended. I knew the risks when I agreed to stand by my friend Thomas Massie. I was, and will be, America First, America Always, and MAGA,” Boebert said in response.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday hit the stump for Gallrein.
“At some point, being against everything becomes an excuse for accomplishing nothing,” Hegseth said at a Kentucky campaign event. “President Trump does not need more people in Washington who are trying to make a point, especially from his own party. He needs people willing to help him win, to vote with him when it matters the most.” 
In response, Massie said, “Dogs don’t bark at parked cars.” 
“The fact you got cabinet secretaries that may be coming to my district to campaign against me, during a war, shows how serious this is to the global elites that I lose,” <a href="https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/2055282383406993911?s=20">he said.</a>

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Jewish members of Congress and political candidates are facing an unprecedented barrage of direct and violent antisemitic threats that have drastically altered their day-to-day lives and personal security.
Lawmakers from both parties say that the traditional era of veiled dog whistles has been replaced by a shocking level of hate speech delivered through official office lines, social media platforms, and direct mail.
Lawmakers have shared graphic communications, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/18/antisemitism-politics-congress-2026-midterms-jews">Axios</a> revealed. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) reportedly received a letter praising Adolf Hitler alongside a drawing depicting him being shot in the head. Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) said callers told his office that he &#8220;should just go die,&#8221; while Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) received voicemails warning that &#8220;a real holocaust will take effect&#8221; and threatening that Jewish lawmakers would be &#8220;shot dead every f*cking day.&#8221;
The growing concern was punctuated by the recent arrest of John Kevin Lipinski near the home of Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). Authorities <a href="https://rollcall.com/2026/03/19/becoming-a-target-hits-home-for-rep-jared-moskowitz/">discovered</a> an arsenal of weapons, tactical gear, and 3,000 rounds of ammunition, along with a hit list targeting Moskowitz, Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, and &#8220;bar mitzvah halls.&#8221;
In response to the threat, Moskowitz now requires private security, metal detectors at indoor events, and police stationed outside his family home.
Political figures across the spectrum warn that extreme rhetoric has broken into mainstream American politics, emanating from factions on both the far-right and the far-left.
&#8220;Both ends of our parties are wackadoos who hate Jews,&#8221; Rep. Miller observed, while California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D), a hard-Left congressional candidate, acknowledged that &#8220;horrific&#8221; and &#8220;very violent&#8221; rhetoric has deeply infiltrated corners of the Left.
On the Right, traditional conservative figures have faced criticism for failing to aggressively police antisemitism within their ranks. A political action committee supporting Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) drew intense condemnation after running an ad featuring a Jewish donor alongside a rainbow Star of David—an incident Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) labeled &#8220;the most brazen example of an antisemitic political ad that I have seen in years.&#8221;
Massie declined to denounce the ad, instead characterizing his race as a &#8220;referendum&#8230; on whether the Israeli lobby can buy a seat in Kentucky.&#8221;
Additional incidents have heightened tensions on Capitol Hill. William Paul, the son of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), engaged in an antisemitic tirade against Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) at a Washington bar, blaming &#8220;you Jews&#8221; for political opposition to Massie and calling them &#8220;anti-American.&#8221; Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson has been normalizing conspiratorial anti-Zionist narratives that echo historical antisemitic tropes regarding hidden global manipulation.
On the Left, anti-Israel rhetoric has frequently crossed into overt prejudice, occasionally protected by party establishment figures prioritizing electoral coalitions. In Texas, Democratic congressional primary frontrunner Maureen Galindo was exposed for posting rants about &#8220;Jews who own Hollywood&#8221; and the &#8220;synagogue of Satan.&#8221; Galindo openly campaigned on plans to introduce legislation to try any American official who has accepted Israeli funding for treason.
Furthermore, mainstream Democratic leadership has faced backlash for embracing controversial figures. In Maine, the party establishment has <a href="applewebdata://743D9E40-0294-42B1-A7CF-3DA6B7B9A14D/v">rallied</a> behind Senate candidate Graham Platner, despite disclosures regarding his Nazi tattoo and a history of antisemitic commentary. While Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America expressed &#8220;deep concern&#8221; over Platner, other prominent party strategists insisted the party would remain firmly on the &#8220;Platner train.&#8221; Prominent progressives, including California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna, have similarly faced criticism for publicly defending and boosting controversial left-wing commentators accused of popularizing dangerous rhetoric.
Ultimately, moderate lawmakers warn that the failure of both party establishments to forcefully excoriate their own internal extremists has allowed naked Jew-hatred to move from the fringes of American political life directly into the mainstream.

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Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak is set to testify before a Senate panel this week after his scoop on Ohio&#8217;s Medicaid payment system triggered renewed scrutiny from Republican lawmakers over government waste and fraud.
Rosiak, whose recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">“Medicaid Millionaires”</a> series uncovered what he described as billions in questionable taxpayer-funded home health payments using newly released federal billing data, is scheduled to appear before a panel convened by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), the longtime Republican watchdog who has made rooting out federal waste, fraud, and abuse a signature issue. 
The hearing is expected to feature testimony not only on Ohio’s Medicaid system, but on broader failures in state-administered welfare programs that rely heavily on federal dollars.
Rosiak&#8217;s reporting generated national attention after detailing how hundreds of little-known home health companies clustered in the Columbus area, many receiving millions in taxpayer reimbursements for loosely defined “personal services” such as homemaking, companionship, and conversation. The series also highlighted that providers appeared to operate out of near-empty office buildings while billing Medicaid enormous sums.
Joining Rosiak on the Republican witness list are two Minnesota whistleblowers who raised alarms about fraud inside that state’s Department of Human Services. 
Faye Bernstein, a longtime DHS contract specialist and compliance officer, is expected to testify that she faced retaliation after flagging contracting practices she believed created serious risks for fraud. Bernstein has said DHS officials removed her from her workplace and barred her from department property after she challenged leadership over compliance failures.
Also scheduled to testify is Jay Swanson, a retired investigator who spent years probing Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program. Swanson has claimed that beginning in 2014, he uncovered an extensive fraud scheme involving childcare reimbursements that may have exceeded $100 million annually. According to Swanson, the scheme involved a network of daycare operations run by Somali immigrants.
Swanson has further alleged that his warnings were met not with enforcement action but institutional resistance, including efforts to suppress his findings and restructure his office to limit investigations.
Democrats will call Donald Sherman, the head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, as their witness, setting up a partisan clash over how best to tackle fraud in public programs while preserving social safety nets.
The hearing marks a major escalation for Rosiak’s Ohio investigation, which has already prompted public reactions from Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-medicaid-investigation-triggers-a-1-4-billion-spending-freeze?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Medicaid+Investigation+Triggers+A+%241.4+BILLION+Spending+Freeze">JD Vance</a> and Ohio GOP gubernatorial nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-reckoning-vivek-is-vowing-after-dw-exposed-the-medicaid-money-trail">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>. Both Republicans said they would look into potential abuse following The Daily Wire series, which found that Ohio’s Medicaid waiver system created a vast, lightly monitored industry built around billing taxpayers for in-home services that are difficult to verify.
For Republicans, the hearing offers a chance to frame state welfare fraud as emblematic of a broader federal spending crisis. Democrats will likely attempt to make the hearing a battleground over whether investigators are unfairly targeting immigrant communities while seeking cuts to entitlement programs.
A hearing date has been set for Wednesday, with testimony expected to center on whether federal and state agencies failed to detect — or ignored warnings about — fraud schemes that whistleblowers say operated in plain sight for years.
Rosiak will also testify in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday before state lawmakers about his investigative findings. While in Ohio, he&#8217;ll appear at an anti-fraud event alongside Ramaswamy.
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Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) announced Friday that he is suspending his reelection campaign, ending a nearly two-decade run in Congress after Tennessee Republicans redrew his Memphis-based district into a seat that now heavily favors the GOP.
Cohen, who has represented Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District since 2007, said he signed paperwork requesting that his name not appear on the ballot for the August 6 Democratic primary. The 76-year-old congressman said the newly redrawn district is “nothing like the 9th district that I’ve represented,” signaling that the GOP’s recent redistricting push had effectively ended his path to reelection.
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The Tennessee legislature, controlled by Republicans, approved a new congressional map last week that dramatically altered the longtime Democratic stronghold centered in Memphis. The new 9th District stretches beyond Memphis into more rural areas of southern Tennessee, and transforms what had been a majority-black Democratic seat into one that is expected to go to the Republicans in November. The new district would&#8217;ve been a <a href="https://x.com/VoteHub/status/2055308184873480499">Trump +21</a> in the 2024 election.
Cohen, Tennessee’s only Democrat in Congress, called the decision the most difficult moment of his political career. He said he considered running in one of the new districts but ultimately decided against it, arguing that the redrawn lines erased the constituency he had represented for nearly 20 years. A fourth-generation Memphis resident, Cohen had long been a fixture in city politics before coming to Congress, and his exit marks a major generational shift for Democrats in west Tennessee, who now face an uphill battle to hold a seat that was once considered safely theirs.
His departure opens up a crowded Democratic primary. Still running for the nomination are Justin Pearson, the left-wing state lawmaker who rose to national prominence after his expulsion and reinstatement fight in the state House; M. LaTroy Alexandria-Williams; and community organizer DeVante Hill, who has been associated with Black Lives Matter organizing efforts in Memphis.
On the Republican side, Charlotte Bergmann and Kevin Young are competing in the GOP primary as Republicans eye a rare pickup opportunity in a district Democrats have held for decades. The reshaped district could become one of the clearest examples yet of how aggressive mid-decade redistricting is already reshuffling the 2026 House map, particularly in states where lawmakers moved quickly after recent court rulings opened the door to redrawing seats previously protected under Voting Rights Act precedent.
Friday is the final day for candidates to file for the race, with the deadline extended due to the redistricting overhaul.

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