WASHINGTON — The White House is encouraging Democrat mayors across the United States to follow the lead of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who shared Tuesday that the nation&#8217;s capitol will continue to partner with President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Safe and Beautiful Task Force&#8221; going forward.
In a Tuesday press release, the D.C. mayor announced she had issued an order continuing the work of the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center and task force, sharing that &#8220;during and after the Presidential emergency, the SBEOC will manage the District’s response, coordinate centralized communications, and ensure coordination with federal law enforcement to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.&#8221;
&#8220;The mayor’s fellow Democrats should take note, working with President Trump means safer communities and less crime – no one in their right mind could seriously oppose that,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stressed on Tuesday.
Trump&#8217;s efforts to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., have been hugely successful: every night, the federal force in Washington has arrested around 70-80 criminals, many of whom are illegal immigrants.
<div id="attachment_967953" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-pushes-democrats-to-follow-dc-mayors-lead-in-bending-knee-to-trump/trump-increases-federal-law-enforcement-presence-deploys-national-guard-in-nations-capital-10" rel="attachment wp-att-967953"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-967953" class="wp-image-967953 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2231913084-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2231913084-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2231913084-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2231913084-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/GettyImages-2231913084.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; AUGUST 24: National Guard Members patrol 14th street, working with Washington DC Metro police on August 24, 2025 in Washington, DC.   (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)</div>
On Monday evening, for example, authorities made 70 arrests, 27 of whom were illegal aliens. That brought the city&#8217;s total arrests to 1,669 since the beginning of operations on Thursday, August 7. One of those arrests was an individual who assaulted a 77-year-old woman and stole her purse, another was for assault with a dangerous weapon, another for assault during a domestic dispute in which the subject choked the victim, and more.
The total D.C. arrests include 16 known gang members, including MS-13 and TDA gang members, rescues of 5 missing children, 168 firearms seized, and 50 homeless encampments cleared by multi-agency teams.
“President Trump’s efforts to crack down on crime in D.C. have yielded tremendous results in such a short time &#8212; violent crime has plummeted and dangerous criminals are being removed from the streets every single night,&#8221; Leavitt said Tuesday.
&#8220;The Trump administration is grateful to continue partnering with Mayor Bowser to make D.C. the safest city in the country,&#8221; she added.
Trump has set his eyes on Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois, for federal enforcement next.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going in,&#8221; he told reporters on Tuesday, asked about deploying federal troops to Chicago and Baltimore. He did not specify when, exactly, the deployments would take place. He also said he would &#8220;love&#8221; if JB Pritzker called and asked for his help with the National Guard.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to do it anyway,&#8221; he said on Tuesday. &#8220;We have the right to do it.”

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White House Pushes Democrats To Follow DC Mayor’s Lead, Partner With Trump

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Washington, D.C., has officially lost its status as an illegal alien sanctuary city amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital.
Attorney General Pam Bondi stripped the city’s Chief of Police Pamela Smith of her power this week, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14333-declaring-crime-emergency-the-district-columbia">executive order</a>, instead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bondi-strips-d-c-police-chief-of-power-names-new-emergency-police-commissioner">naming</a> Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as the new emergency police commissioner.
Bondi also rescinded three orders from the city government limiting law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Attorney General <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/ag-pam-bondi-declares-dc-will-not-remain-a-sanctuary-city-under-trump-cops-must-alert-ice-to-illegal-migrants/">pledged</a> that the district will not be a safe haven for illegal aliens in an interview in which she accused the city’s leadership of “shielding” illegal aliens from the law.
Bondi went on to assert that D.C. politicians are “trying to protect criminal aliens” and that “criminals are going to flee to DC” if the nation’s capital maintains its sanctuary city policies. “We’re not going to let that happen.”
The most recent of the three orders rescinded by Bondi prevented D.C. police from using databases to inquire about the immigration status of people in the nation’s capital.
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“Members shall not make inquiries into any person’s immigration status for the purpose of determining whether they have violated the civil immigration laws or for the purpose of enforcing civil immigration laws,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-police-announce-major-action-immigration-enforcement-after-trumps-crime-crackdown">read</a> the order, which was implemented just last week.
“To the extent that provisions in this Order conflict with any existing MPD directives, those directives are hereby rescinded,” Bondi wrote.
“So, yes, you must comply. You must give the information to our ICE, to our Homeland Security officers,” Bondi said, addressing police officers in the nation’s capital. “If they have information of an illegal alien living in DC, they must give us that information.”
Now the city’s leadership must obtain approval from Cole before issuing new directives. Leaders in the city government have pushed back, with Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser’s attorney general, Brian Schwalb, issuing a legal opinion contesting the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime in the city.
“It is my opinion that the Bondi Order is unlawful, and that you are not legally obligated to follow it,” Schwalb wrote in a memo to D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith.
The nascent legal fight comes as federal authorities and the National Guard have begun patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital in an effort to curtail the “out of control” crime that Trump seeks to end.

DC Crackdown

It’s Official: D.C. No Longer A Sanctuary City As Trump Cracks Down On Crime

Washington D.C. Officially Loses Its Illegal Alien Sanctuary City Status Amid Trump Crackdown

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WASHINGTON—Building off President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order targeting crime and disorder on American streets, Senator Tom Cotton is introducing legislation aimed at cleaning up the nation&#8217;s capital.
The Daily Wire can first report that the Arkansas Republican will introduce the Prohibiting Encampments on Public Grounds Act on Tuesday. The bill would make it unlawful to set up, maintain, or establish camps or temporary abodes on public property in Washington, D.C.
“Our nation’s capital should be a point of pride, not littered with homeless encampments that endanger visitors like the thousands of Arkansans who visit each year,&#8221; Cotton told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This bill would clean up D.C.’s public property and allow law enforcement officials to maintain order in the streets of our nation’s capital.&#8221; 
Those who violate the terms of the bill would be fined $500, imprisoned for up to 30 days, or both.
<div id="attachment_953593" style="width: 838px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-tom-cottons-new-bill-supercharges-trumps-efforts-to-make-d-c-safe-again/president-trump-signs-executive-order-urging-cities-to-remove-homeless-off-streets" rel="attachment wp-att-953593"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-953593" class="wp-image-953593 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2227000494-828x576.jpg" alt="" width="828" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2227000494-828x576.jpg 828w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2227000494-300x209.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2227000494-768x534.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2227000494.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px" /></a>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JULY 25: A person sleeps in Freedom Plaza on July 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)</div>
The president&#8217;s executive order, signed July 24, directs the Attorney General to reverse judicial precedents and end consent decrees that are block state and local governments from committing &#8220;individuals on the streets who are a risk to themselves or others.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s order was aimed at &#8220;making America safe again,&#8221; one of the president&#8217;s major campaign promises. It also requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to work with other administration officials to prioritize grants for both states and municipalities that enforce bans on &#8220;open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering, and urban squatting, and track the location of sex offenders.&#8221;
The executive order focuses attention on providing both shelter and mental health resources to the homeless, and, in addition to allowing programs to exclusively house women and children — as opposed to men who identify as transgender women — it blocks sex offenders who are receiving homelessness assistance from being housed with children.
The Trump administration has argued that shifting the homeless into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment is the best way to restore public order, pointing to the highest number ever recorded of individuals living on American streets on a single night during the last year of the Biden administration: 274,224.
Most of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have mental health disorders, or both, according to a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/">fact sheet</a> from the White House, which argues that federal and state governments have spent billions seeking to address homelessness without addressing the root causes.
Asked last week about homeless individuals sleeping outside the gates of the White House, the president responded: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s terrible and we&#8217;ll have them removed immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve gotta get the mayor to run this city properly,&#8221; he told reporters.

Donald Trump Meets With Republican Senators At The NRSC

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cotton’s New Bill Supercharges Trump’s Efforts To Make D.C. Safe Again

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has issued nearly 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children, a DOJ official announced on Wednesday. 
The Justice Department&#8217;s Chad Mizelle made the announcement during the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop on the “Dangers of ‘Gender Affirming-Care’ For Minors” in Washington, D.C. Mizelle shared that DOJ has issued nearly 20 subpoenas against clinics who are engaged in transgender transition attempts, noting that the DOJ&#8217;s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more. 
Mizelle urged Americans to come forward if they could provide information about deceptive practices in the transgender medicine industry, saying Wednesday: &#8220;If you are someone who has been harmed please come forward and let us know.&#8221;
Immediately following his announcement, Mizelle introduced a panel of detransitioner survivors and parents, including Prisha Mosley, Soren Aldaco, Beth Bourne, Forrest Smith, Helen Spiegel Lee, and Gwen Turecki, individuals who emotionally shared their experiences as they navigated gender transition attempts or helped — or lost — a family member who attempted to transition.
The workshop signals the FTC’s interest in combatting the transgender medicine industry, following the directives of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on protecting children from transgender procedures and combatting radical ideology. 
During Wednesday&#8217;s event, doctors, medical ethicists, whistleblowers, detransitioners, and parents of survivors focused on the deceptive practices often found within the transgender medicine industry. One mother, Elvira Syed, broke down sobbing as she described how her daughter ultimately committed suicide.
&#8220;I lost my 18-year-old daughter,&#8221; she sobs. &#8220;To gender ideology.&#8221;
The FTC notes, in a description of the event, that &#8220;Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act gives the FTC broad authority to protect consumers from unfair or deceptive acts or practices.&#8221;
&#8220;This authority could be implicated if there is evidence that medical professionals or others omitted warnings about the risks or made false or unsupported claims about the benefits and effectiveness of gender-affirming care for minors,&#8221; the description notes. &#8220;The workshop will help the FTC to understand whether consumers are being or have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; and to gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing.&#8221;

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DOJ Subpoenas Transgender Clinics And Doctors For Transitioning Children

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump made it clear last week that he wanted Ed Martin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. And Martin believes he would have been confirmed to the position, despite Democratic opposition and media outrage, if Senator Thom Tillis had not intervened. 
“I was surprised, and I think the president was too, that Thom Tillis took the position he took,” Martin shared in a Monday interview with The Daily Wire. “I believe we had the votes if we could get to the floor, I really do…I was confident we could make an argument, but ultimately, Thom Tillis decided it was the stand he wanted to make, for reasons that defy good sense to me.”
Tillis, who&#8217;s up for re-election in North Carolina, a swing state, had reservations about Martin&#8217;s defense of people imprisoned for their role in the January 6 Capitol Riot. Tillis intimated that he represented a group of senators who also would not back Martin, and the White House decided there was nothing to do but move on. Up to the last minute, right-wing commentators and prominent Trump supporters, including Charlie Kirk and Vince Coglianese, held out hope that Martin would still be confirmed. 
But on May 8, Trump announced that he had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-former-da-and-fox-news-host-for-acting-d-c-u-s-attorney-in-a-class-by-herself">chosen</a> Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim D.C. attorney general.
Still, White House officials were annoyed with Tillis and frustrated by the failure of the nomination. Martin had practiced law for the past two decades and held senior positions at the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, as well as chaired the Missouri Republican Party and served as a member of the Republican National Committee.  
They also thought Martin was well-suited to tackle one of Trump&#8217;s top priorities: cleaning up Washington, D.C. After all, Martin had served as acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. since early spring, and under his watch, D.C. saw a 25% drop in violent crime, including significant decreases in robberies, assaults, and homicides.
Martin isn&#8217;t too beat up about the role change.
“President Trump always turns these kinds of moments into opportunities,” Martin said on Monday, eager and excited as he spoke with The Daily Wire, sharing that Pirro has repeatedly told him that Trump encouraged her to talk to Martin on various projects. &#8220;Talk to Ed, work with Ed on this, he’s got things lined up.” 
Martin has been given an arguably more prestigious placement: he’ll now serve as the director of the Justice Department&#8217;s &#8220;Weaponization Working Group,&#8221; as well as associate deputy attorney general and pardon attorney at the Justice Department. 
<div id="attachment_919325" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/?attachment_id=919325" rel="attachment wp-att-919325"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-919325" class="wp-image-919325 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2213764770-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2213764770-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2213764770-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2213764770-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2213764770.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Sen. Thom Tillis on May 6, 2025 (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)</div>
“I never expected six months ago that Donald J. Trump would be talking about Ed Martin with such familiarity,” he added. “I had met him a few times, but now you know, ‘He’s a good guy, Ed’s a good guy.’ That&#8217;s kind of shake-your-head, surreal, but awfully kind of him.” 
Tillis hasn’t responded to a number of requests for comment from The Daily Wire. But the senator, who hails from the &#8220;the heart of the deep state,&#8221; as Martin supporter Mike Benz<a href="https://x.com/Bannons_WarRoom/status/1919876482601529714"> argued on Bannon&#8217;s War Room</a>, has drawn the wrath of top conservative podcasters and commentators like Kirk and Coglianese. 
During a fiery episode of the Charlie Kirk Show on Wednesday, Kirk tore into the senator, reminding him that he is up for re-election and castigating him for voting for former President Joe Biden’s nominations. 
&#8220;We saw this in the Hegseth fight, in the Tulsi fight, in the Bobby Kennedy fight,&#8221; said Kirk of the Republican defectors. &#8220;Did they learn nothing? And the answer is yes&#8230;There is no excuse where you go and vote for Biden&#8217;s D.C. U.S. attorney and Biden&#8217;s United States Attorney General, and you will not vote for Trump&#8217;s U.S. attorney.&#8221;
Kirk has<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlie-kirk-has-thoughts-on-which-republicans-need-a-primary-challenge"> repeatedly threatened</a> Republican senators with primary challenges if they buck Trump&#8217;s agenda, but specifically told The Daily Wire in December that he did not want to go after Tillis&#8217;s seat. On Wednesday, he reiterated his desire to protect Tillis&#8217;s seat, arguing: &#8220;I wanna hold on to the North Carolina Senate seat. I&#8217;ve been pulling for Thom Tillis to find his inner MAGA. But when someone violates this, you gotta call him out.&#8221;
&#8220;Man, Thom Tillis, I&#8217;m begging for you to give Trump voters an excuse to vote for you, but you are actively hostile against us,&#8221; Kirk warned. &#8220;You&#8217;ve declared war on us. And because of that, the chance of you getting elected in a general election is going down tremendously…You might think you&#8217;re being all sanctimonious and uppity and a good person, but you are now jeopardizing this hard won Senate seat in North Carolina for being principled.&#8221;
Meanwhile, Coglianese was eviscerating Tillis on his show &#8220;VINCE,&#8221; where he directed his formidable audience to flood Tillis&#8217;s office with demands to back Martin — &#8220;especially if you are from North Carolina.&#8221;
&#8220;Be honest about what you want here,&#8221; he urged his following. &#8220;You want Ed Martin confirmed.&#8221;
&#8220;As of this hour, Thom Tillis&#8217;s office is hiding from you,&#8221; Coglianese told his audience. &#8220;Senator Tillis has not agreed to an interview on this show or on our nationwide radio broadcast. They&#8217;re laying low. They&#8217;re trying to hide from that accountability.” 
Since Trump’s Thursday announcement that Pirro would replace Martin, Tillis has repeatedly posted praise of Trump on social media, touting the president’s border wins and arguing, “The Golden Age is just beginning.” 
“He’s definitely spent the last week sucking up to Trump all over X,” Coglianese said in a text message to The Daily Wire. “He’s trying to tweet his way through this.”
Why did Tillis object to Martin’s confirmation? According to Martin, and friends of the acting U.S. Attorney for D.C., Tillis is passionate about the January 6 Capitol Riot. Martin says he spent 90 minutes talking with the senator in preparation for the judiciary committee. During that meeting, Martin said, Tillis made it very clear that he was frustrated with Trump’s pardons of the January 6 prisoners, as well as frustrated with Martin and others who defended “J6 folks.” 
“I have no tolerance for anybody that entered the building on Jan. 6, and that’s probably where most of the friction was,&#8221; Tillis shared with reporters on Tuesday evening last week. 
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“He seemed to me to be someone who has completely accepted what I would call the mainstream hoax of J6,” Martin said, reflecting on his conversations with Tillis. “Obviously, when there&#8217;s a policeman hit by a protester, that&#8217;s not acceptable, ever. But most people agree that January 6 had a lot of things going on that really don&#8217;t make a lot of sense and especially the prosecution of hundreds of people with a fake charge, the 1512 charge that the bipartisan Supreme Court threw out.” 
According to Martin supporter Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch, Tillis &#8220;mocked the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt&#8221; in discussions about Martin’s confirmation. Those present were surprised at how &#8220;heated and overwrought&#8221; Tillis became, Fitton shared with The Daily Wire. 
&#8220;If I were Senator Tillis I would apologize to Ashli family for mocking the circumstances of her death,&#8221; Fitton said, adding that, &#8220;the charitable interpretation is that he doesn’t have all the information about what happened.&#8221;
Martin was bothered by Tillis’s analysis of what happened at the United States Capitol that day, sharing that Tillis went “on and on and on” about how anyone who went into the Capitol at any time, for any reason that day, was “morally, legally, and ethically wrong,” and characterized Ashli Babbitt as wrong, “dramatically.” 
“This is a guy that isn&#8217;t really catching onto reality,” Martin said he thought at the time. “He&#8217;s locked in a hoax and once you meet somebody in that space it&#8217;s sometimes very difficult to get them to break out of it.” 
During that meeting, Tillis allegedly told Martin that he would support the next steps toward a vote, but not necessarily that he would vote for Martin.
“He had told me, and I think the president, and others, that he would give us a chance to get forward and then suddenly he decided not to,” Martin said, adding that he does not know “whether someone got to him,” or “whether he decided something that he didn&#8217;t tell us.” 
Tillis also told press that he would vote for Martin in any other district, a remark that particularly bothered the acting U.S. attorney for D.C.
“That means he doesn&#8217;t think I have a character problem to serve as U.S. attorney [and] doesn&#8217;t think I have a skill problem to serve as U.S. attorney,” Martin pointed out. “Remember, there&#8217;s a lot of people and a lot of interests that are overlapping in my office. Our office is the office that is investigating the massive transfers of wealth to organizations and entities, whether it&#8217;s USAID or others, that&#8217;s all in our jurisdiction.” 
“I&#8217;m excited to go over to lead the weaponization working group, but we’ve already been working on that in our office,” he noted. He’s had experience with pardons, since President Trump pardoned almost 1,600 J6-ers and over 30 pro-life activists targeted by the previous administration, as well as some police officers. 
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And he’s excited to follow through on the president’s promise to end the weaponization of government. Martin noted that the American people greatly distrust what’s going on in Washington, given many of the events of the last four years, and he argued that the first thing “we have to do is to let the sunshine in and let people see what went on.” 
“One of the ways is just to name them, name and shame them, but also to prosecute as much as we can,” he explained. “And the last thing we have to do is heal people.” 
He just finished hanging up the pictures in his D.C. office, he joked, so now he’ll have to take them all down. But he’s looking forward to being freed up to be in the fight against weaponization.
“I’ve been promoted to being a general instead of being kind of a commander of a unit in the battle, so I kind of feel freed in that way,” he joked.
&#8220;It’s all good. Life is good, God is good, and you just gotta keep going forward and try to do good things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This president has given us lots of opportunities.”

Interim United States Attorney for DC Edward Martin attends Anacostia Coordinating Council meeting

Ed Martin Planned To Clean Up DC. Now, He’s Setting His Sights On The Whole Country.

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WASHINGTON—Two Republican congressmen are calling on FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate &#8220;the case of five aborted children&#8221; whose deaths were covered up during President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, The Daily Wire can first report.
Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Andy Biggs of Arizona argue to Patel in the Tuesday letter first obtained by The Daily Wire that, under the Biden administration, the FBI &#8220;departed from its core public safety mission, suffered from senior leadership failures, and refused any real transparency or accountability for its actions.&#8221;
The premie-sized baby bodies were discovered by pro-life activists Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac outside a Washington, D.C. area abortion clinic in 2022 shortly before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-went-to-the-clinic-of-the-dc-abortionist-accused-of-gruesome-crimes-heres-what-i-saw">extensively reported</a>. Though advocates and Republican lawmakers have sounded the alarm for years about these babies, warning that they appear to have been brutally and illegally aborted in violation of federal law, D.C. and the Biden administration took no steps to properly investigate the matter, instead targeting the women who recovered the bodies.
&#8220;As Chairs of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government and the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, we remain concerned about the Biden-Harris Administration’s refusal to investigate the circumstances of the case of five aborted children, also known as the D.C. Five, whose remains were allegedly discovered at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in March 2022 by a pro-life advocacy group,&#8221; the congressmen wrote.
&#8220;As we continue to conduct our investigation into the District of Columbia’s enforcement of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, serious questions remain surrounding the deaths of these children.&#8221;
The letter specifically requests that the FBI review the decision not to move forward with an investigation into the baby bodies, as well as the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;apparent decision not to enforce the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.&#8221;
&#8220;While MPD maintained that the unborn children were &#8216;aborted in accordance with the law,&#8217; 5 pro-life advocates noted evidence that the children were victims of partial-birth abortions,&#8221; the lawmakers write. &#8220;Aborting a child through a partial-birth abortion is a crime under federal law. The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortions in 2007.&#8221;
The lawmakers note that a violation of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is a &#8220;serious accusation,&#8221; and not one to be &#8220;taken lightly.&#8221;
&#8220;Despite this significant claim, both the MPD and the Biden-Harris Administration chose to ignore any potential evidence of a crime for two years,&#8221; they write. &#8220;The Biden-Harris Department of Justice at one point allegedly directed the D.C. Medical Examiner to dispose of the bodies because &#8216;there [was] no reason to keep those babies anymore.'&#8221;
Roy and Biggs emphasized President Donald Trump&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;protect and respect every life—born and unborn,&#8221; and argued that medical experts have previously alleged that these aborted children &#8220;showed signs of being victims of partial-birth abortions.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_907845" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fbi-must-investigate-biden-coverup-of-aborted-babies-found-in-dc-lawmakers-say/anti-abortion-activist-group-hold-news-conference-surrounding-the-recently-discovered-fetuses-in-d-c-home" rel="attachment wp-att-907845"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-907845" class="wp-image-907845 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1389723564-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1389723564-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1389723564-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1389723564-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/04/GettyImages-1389723564.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Pro-life activist Lauren Handy listens during a news conference on the five babies she found in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;Yet no independent examination outside the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office has been conducted,&#8221; the lawmakers argue. &#8220;Based on evidence collected at the time of recovery, including the disturbing photos of the children, all five of these children appear to have developed well past the point of viability and likely suffered severely painful abortion procedures. However, without an independent and unbiased medical examination, it is not known how each child died.&#8221;
&#8220;Serious questions remain about the circumstances of these children’s deaths,&#8221; they continued. &#8220;If partial- birth abortions were conducted on these unborn children, that is a violation of federal law and should be investigated accordingly.&#8221;
The lawmakers request that Patel and the FBI review the evidence related to the &#8220;D.C. Five&#8221; by 5:00 p.m., on April 29, and that Patel arrange for &#8220;appropriate FBI officials to provide a staff level briefing related to the FBI’s review and potential investigation regarding the D.C. Five.&#8221;
The call to action is consequential. This is the first time that Republicans have held power since the baby bodies were discovered — and an FBI investigation may expose that D.C. abortionist Cesare Santangelo has been committing gruesome crimes just miles from the White House. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-went-to-the-clinic-of-the-dc-abortionist-accused-of-gruesome-crimes-heres-what-i-saw">reported in April 2022</a> that pro-life <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-authorities-wont-autopsy-recovered-bodies-of-these-aborted-babies-police-are-hiding-barbaric-crimes-pro-lifers-say">medical professionals and experts</a> estimated that the babies were at the end of the 2nd trimester or in the 3rd trimester when they were aborted.
(Warning: Graphic and disturbing images described below.)
Pro-life activists, like those with the Progressive Anti Abortion Uprising, believe that Santangelo has been allowing babies born alive through his botched abortions to die in his clinic. Their claims stem in part from undercover videos in which Live Action <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxOWyumLufA">recorded Santangelo discussing</a> how he would allow babies to die if they were accidentally delivered during abortions.
“Very strong evidence suggests the ‘DC Five’ unborn children were killed within miles of our US Capitol building,&#8221; Roy told The Daily Wire on Tuesday. &#8220;I have sent a friendly letter to our Department of Justice aiming to get answers about why the Biden Administration did not investigate this brutal and likely illegal act, as well as the apparent decision not to enforce the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.&#8221;
&#8220;I am confident the current leadership at the DOJ and FBI will take action to defend life in our nation’s capital and to ensure that these five babies receive justice,&#8221; he added.
The activists who found the babies told The Daily Wire in 2022 that Santangelo has a history of “sloppy,” “cheap” abortions. They emotionally described to The Daily Wire how they discovered the bodies, detailing opening a large bucket in which &#8220;Baby Boy #1&#8221; was lying. They named him &#8220;Christopher X,&#8221; and Bukovinac described him as “a beautiful 30+ week baby boy with hair on his head,&#8221; saying that she believes he was most likely born alive.
Handy, who was prosecuted by the Biden Justice Department for protesting outside abortion clinics and jailed until Trump pardoned her in January, said that the injuries that another one of the babies has are “consistent with what we’d expect from a partial-birth abortion — which is a federal crime.”
“Santangelo has a history of being sloppy, facing wrongful death lawsuits, and ignoring the law,” she said.

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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering stepping an and rescuing the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Washington, D.C.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/business/donald-trump-eyes-deal-for-waldorf-astoria-dc-hotel/">reported</a> that the hotel is &#8220;failing&#8221; and the incoming president is considering once again rebranding it as a Trump International Hotel, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
&#8220;Our family has saved the hotel once,&#8221; Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, told the Post. &#8220;If asked, we would save it again.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s company, the Trump Organization, is &#8220;weighing options that include a licensing deal or even possibly buying back the lease on the government-owned, 125-year-old Old Post Office building,&#8221; the report said.
A source told the publication that it was still &#8220;to be determined&#8221; which of the two options the Trump Organization wanted to pursue.
Trump and his family took part in a grand opening and ribbon-cutting event for the hotel when they took it over in October 2016.
The hotel was a popular destination for insiders and Republican officials during Trump&#8217;s first term in office.
Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html">sold</a> the hotel in 2022 to a Miami investor group that reopened it as a Waldorf Astoria hotel.
The hotel&#8217;s numbers &#8220;dropped off&#8221; after Trump sold the hotel, the Post said.
News about the potential buy or lease deal generated excitement online among conservatives.
Attorney and conservative columnist Kurt Schlichter posted on X: &#8220;I was there many times and its glory days and it was the most fantastic hotel ever. Trump absolutely needs to take it back over.&#8221;
&#8220;Good idea,&#8221; wrote former Trump official Ezra Cohen.

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Four hospitals that promote irreversible transgender procedures for children will be the target of an ad campaign launching this week, The Daily Wire has learned.
The American Parents Coalition will launch a six-figure campaign Tuesday targeting Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Children’s Minnesota, Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The numbers used in the campaign are from the <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/">Stop The Harm Database, </a>which identifies the number of child sex change patients, surgeries, prescriptions, and financial stakes of the extremely controversial gender intervention procedures.
“Parents deserve to know the truth about the irreversible damage these hospitals are doing to children through gender interventions right in their own backyards,&#8221; American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones are not treatments – they are interventions that create lifelong patients and customers,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Hospitals are allowing activists and politics to cloud the indisputable data showing the risks and damage associated with these procedures.”
The campaign will include mobile billboards at each of the hospitals that highlight how many children are being harmed by these procedures, as well as targeted digital ads in each of the states.
In D.C., for example, the campaign will highlight that Children&#8217;s National Medical Center has allegedly harmed 49 children: the hospital has had two surgery patients, 47 total hormone and puberty blocker patients, and 402 total prescriptions written, amounting to $67,293 in total submitted charges, according to the &#8220;Stop The Harm&#8221; database.
Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, dubbed the number-one offender by the American Parents Coalition, has had an alleged total of 122 kids harmed, five surgery patients, 117 hormone and puberty blocker patients, and 768 total prescriptions written, according to the group — totaling at $230,784 in submitted charges.
<div id="attachment_827161" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-DC-MBB.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-827161" class="wp-image-827161 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-DC-MBB-1024x576.jpeg" alt="Photo courtesy of the American Parents Coalition. " width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-DC-MBB-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-DC-MBB-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-DC-MBB-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-DC-MBB.jpeg 1280w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Photo courtesy of the American Parents Coalition.</div>
<div id="attachment_827173" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-PA-MBB.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-827173" class="wp-image-827173 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-PA-MBB-1024x576.jpeg" alt="Photo courtesy of the American Parents Coalition." width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-PA-MBB-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-PA-MBB-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-PA-MBB-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Childrens-PA-MBB.jpeg 1280w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Photo courtesy of the American Parents Coalition.</div>
The American Parents Coalition will send a &#8220;lookout&#8221; text alert to parents across the country that showcases the campaign and the dangers to children that these procedures represent.
The campaign is timely, given the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-exposed-kamalas-radical-stances-on-gender-americans-voted-against-it">massive emphasis</a> that Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign placed on transgender issues. Though Kamala Harris tried to distance herself from her past support radical stances, such as tax-payer transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners, Trump and his campaign effectively used her remarks to show the American people how out of touch she was on this topic.
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_calendars/MonthlyArgumentCalDecember2024.pdf">will hear oral arguments</a> on December 4 in U.S. v. Skrmetti, which revolves around the constitutionality of laws protecting children from transgender interventions, such as hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries. The case arose when the American Civil Liberties Union sued Tennessee, arguing that the state&#8217;s law protecting kids violates the equal protection rights of minors who believe they are transgender.

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Socialist agitators are enlisting children to skip school on May 24 as part of a &#8220;School Strike for Gaza.&#8221;
Organizing materials viewed by The Daily Wire show that a group of self-described &#8220;politicized&#8221; and &#8220;militant&#8221; teachers is urging students at high schools in and around Washington, D.C. to march to the White House. The group plans to gather at McPherson Square blocks away from the White House to  &#8220;demand that the Biden administration and Congress 1) End unconditional military aid to Israel 2) Call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire.&#8221;
Though the materials portray it as an event run by students — &#8220;children, just like us, murdered,&#8221; it says —  they also suggest that the event is actually planned by adults using children as props. &#8220;We have planned this action alongside veteran organizers who have planned numerous peaceful, unescalated, and legal protests at the exact same locations,&#8221; it says.
The event materials, obtained by the watchdog group <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/school-strike-for-gaza-toolkit-promotes-high-school-students-taking-an-absence-from-school-to-strike-and-not-participate-in-business-as-usual/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents Defending Education</a> and shared with The Daily Wire, say that free lunch will be provided and &#8220;we are not anticipating any legal troubles or arrests, but we do have lawyers, police liaisons, and marshals on deck in the off-chance the police escalate against us.&#8221;
The organizers say &#8220;There are multiple pathways to striking from school, and only you make the call on what&#8217;s best for your situation.&#8221; It provides a form letter for students to submit to their school saying, &#8220;I will join a peaceful march/rally alongside hundreds of students across the DMV who will be striking from school and joining a rally instead&#8230; I can no longer stand by idly and do business as usual as our government funds the slaughter of tens of thousands.&#8221;
The event was promoted by <a href="https://www.angryeducationworkers.com/student-strike-dmv-high-school-strike-for-gaza-may-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angry Education Workers</a>, &#8220;a community of revolutionary education workers who want a new society,&#8221; which creates what it calls &#8220;agitprop&#8221; saying &#8220;black trans lives matter.&#8221;
The group boasted that &#8220;a politicized core of militants is emerging among the rank-and-file of mainstream teachers&#8217; unions — the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association&#8221; and &#8220;we hope to push this as far as we can.&#8221;
It said Solidarity Not Silence, a group of &#8220;anticapitalist&#8221; educations who successfully agitated for the reinstatement of anti-Semitic teachers in Montgomery County, Maryland, is also involved with the student strike.
In November, pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized the McPherson Square Metro station and vehicles around it, as well as covered a statue of Benjamin Franklin with a Palestinian flag, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-palestinian-dc-protest-yields-just-1-arrest-vandalism-protesters-trying-scale-white-house-fence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported.
The group also has connections to a network of liberal nonprofit groups.
One of the individuals editing the Google Doc where organizers collaborated was Jamison Ford, who is on the <a href="https://1billion4blackgirls.org/girls-united-black-girl-freedom-week-calls-for-investment-in-gen-z/">Grantmaking Council</a> at a group called The Black Girl Freedom Fund. It did not return a request for comment on whether it was involved with the march.
According to tax records, the Black Girl Freedom Fund is sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers and funded by billionaires including the the Marguerite Casey Foundation, real estate developer John Picerne&#8217;s foundation, the Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, the Raikes Foundation — led by the former CEO of the Gates Foundation — and the Foundation for a Just Society, which says it is dedicated to &#8220;the liberation of women, girls, and LGBTQI people.&#8221; Women and gays are subject to severe oppression under Hamas.
In D.C. where the protest is being planned, only 23% of eighth graders are proficient in reading, according to the <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/geography/2018/">Nation&#8217;s Report Card</a>. That test last evaluated geography in 2018, finding that only 25% of eighth graders in the United States were proficient in geography, and 10% couldn&#8217;t even remember if they learned geography in school.
Alex Nester, an investigative fellow for Parents Defending Education, said children are &#8220;encouraged to be mindless, hateful activists.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s bad enough that the protest’s organizers are encouraging students to forgo vital classroom time for a political demonstration, especially while proficiency rates in D.C. schools remain abysmal,&#8221; Nester said. &#8220;What’s far worse is the fact that the protest organizers ignore critical facts about the conflict and instead encourage kids to blame and hate Israel. Nowhere does it acknowledge that Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7, or that Hamas leaders have repeatedly denied Israel’s offers for a ceasefire. Instead, kids are encouraged to be mindless, hateful activists, and that is shameful.&#8221;

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‘Angry Education Workers’ Ask High Schoolers To Go On ‘Strike’ From School For Gaza

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-committee-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Committee (RNC)</a> headquarters in Washington, D.C., briefly went under lockdown on Wednesday morning as law enforcement responded to a package found to have contained vials of blood.
In a statement after the <a href="https://x.com/jparkABC/status/1793271534011707581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;all clear&#8221;</a> had been given, the U.S. Capitol Police said officers responded to the 300 block of First Street SE — the RNC&#8217;s Capitol Hill address — over the report of a suspicious package at around 7:45 a.m.
&#8220;The package was just cleared by our Hazardous Incident Response Division,&#8221; the U.S. Capitol Police said. &#8220;It contained two vials of blood. The source of the package and its contents will be further investigated.&#8221;
At 8:29 a.m. local time, NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns <a href="https://x.com/DashaBurns/status/1793257867257970977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the news</a> in a post to X, saying that the RNC&#8217;s building went under lockdown &#8220;until further notice&#8221; and that sources had told her a hazmat team was on site.
The U.S. Capitol Police told congressional offices they were investigating a &#8220;suspicious substance&#8221; at the RNC&#8217;s address, according to a notice <a href="https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1793262797595324553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained by Axios</a>. &#8220;Staff and other personnel are directed to AVOID THIS AREA until further notice.&#8221;
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Sam Lister, a Capitol Hill producer for Scripps News, <a href="https://x.com/slisker/status/1793262892126515308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> on X how there was &#8220;Yellow caution tape everywhere to block the street and lots of folks standing outside on the sidewalk near the RNC.&#8221;
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By 9:30 a.m., the U.S. Capitol Police had <a href="https://x.com/ChadPergram/status/1793273072146939996" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given</a> the <a href="https://x.com/jparkABC/status/1793271534011707581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;all clear.&#8221;</a>
John Parkinson, a reporter and producer for ABC News, <a href="https://x.com/jparkABC/status/1793271534011707581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a post to X</a> that an officer told him that &#8220;nobody is messing around&#8221; after a pair of pipe bombs were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-still-looking-for-d-c-pipe-bomb-suspect-3-years-later" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found outside</a> the RNC&#8217;s and Democratic National Committee&#8217;s offices in Washington, D.C., in January 2021.
More than three years later, federal officials have yet to say they have found a suspect linked to the pipe bomb scare. A bulletin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-still-looking-for-d-c-pipe-bomb-suspect-3-years-later" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued by the FBI</a> in January said a $500,000 reward, which would be given in exchange for information leading to an individual’s arrest and conviction, “remains in effect.” The bureau also said “identifying the perpetrator of this attempted attack remains a priority” for law enforcement and offered information on how to contact investigators.

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RNC Briefly Put On Lockdown Because Of 'Suspicious Package' Containing Vials Of Blood, Authorities Give All-Clear

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The head of human resources for the District of Columbia&#8217;s library system, whose six-figure job entails ensuring that fellow government employees followed employment rules, was herself in massive violation of those rules — holding a second full-time job with a private company, which she did while supposedly working for taxpayers.
Lauren Graves lied to government investigators to cover up the fact that she had one full-time job and one part-time job, both of which she focused on while neglecting her government duties, according to the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA). She was forced to pay a fine of $17,500, a small fraction of the money she earned while neglecting her taxpayer-funded job, and has resigned from her government post, according to the Washington Post.
Graves has worked as the DCPL&#8217;s Human Resources Director since November 2021, being paid $148,000 a year. Apparently the fact that she continued to work full-time for Blackstone Consulting as Senior Human Resources Manager — where she was paid an additional $144,000 a year — went unnoticed. She also worked part-time delivering babies as a doula, with a website where people could make appointments with her during the workday.
&#8220;Witness testimony revealed that the Respondent frequently could not be reached throughout the workday regardless of whether she worked in the office or virtually,&#8221; a <a href="https://bega.dc.gov/sites/bega/files/publication/attachments/23-0100p%20L.%20Graves.NEGOTIATED%20DISPOSITION.executed%204.4.24_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BEGA document</a> from this month stated. &#8220;Our investigation revealed that Respondent misused her District government email by communicating with her outside employers from her District government email address. Respondent also forwarded various internal District government documents to her outside job at Blackstone such as technology agreements.&#8221;
Graves told investigators she worked the other jobs outside of her work hours, but this was false, they said. Their evidence included emails, contracts, and presentation schedules.
&#8220;Respondent acknowledges that her conduct was an egregious violation of the Code of Conduct. Respondent agrees to pay a fine in the amount of $17,500.00 to resolve this violation&#8230; Respondent agrees to payments in the amount of $383 bi-weekly, via automatic deduction from Respondent&#8217;s paycheck,&#8221; said the agreement, signed by Graves and Director of Government Ethics Ashley D. Cooks.
It would not have been hard to find out about Graves&#8217; other work. The Blackstone job is on her LinkedIn, which says she stopped the job in February 2024. It says she still works as CEO of &#8220;Cass &amp; Tree, LLC,&#8221; an HR firm, and as a doula.
The $17,000 penalty may amount to only a fraction of the taxpayer money that she squandered. Two-and-a-half years of a $148,000 salary is $370,000.
Her LinkedIn says her speciality is &#8220;DIVERSITY, EQUITY &amp; INCLUSION &#8211; Training, facilitation, climate assessments, project and change management; employee engagement. Anti-racism, Anti-bullying, sexual harassment training compliance; Allyship. Gender pay equity. LGBTQ ally training facilitation. Workplace gossip and victim shaming, Retaliation, Labor Relations and Union mediation.&#8221;
The case raises questions about how many other government employees are simply AWOL while &#8220;working remotely,&#8221; and how any of them could reasonably face consequences given the fact that the HR director who was supposed to be enforcing such rules was doing the same thing.
At the federal level, federal agencies have dragged their feet at returning to the office, despite repeated admonishments from President Joe Biden and his chief of staff that they must do so. Last month, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wrote to the Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor to note that members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) had finally &#8220;<a href="https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/telework_protest_letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed up</a> to the office&#8230; to protest for more telework.&#8221;

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High-Paid Government Official Had Second Job While ‘Remote Working’

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> have introduced a long-shot bill that would rename one of the major airports in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area after former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), who is the chief deputy whip of the House GOP, announced on Tuesday that he was leading the endeavor to rename Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the Donald J. Trump International Airport.
“As millions of domestic and international travelers fly through the airport, there is no better symbol of freedom, prosperity, and strength than hearing &#8216;Welcome to Trump International Airport&#8217; as they land on American soil,&#8221; Reschenthaler <a href="https://reschenthaler.house.gov/media/press-releases/reschenthaler-introduces-bill-to-rename-the-washington-dulles-international-airport-as-the-donald-j-trump-international-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The <a href="https://reschenthaler.house.gov/imo/media/doc/donald_trump_international_airport_bill_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two-page bill</a> has several GOP <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7845/cosponsors?s=1&amp;r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-sponsors</a>, including Reps. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Andy Ogles (R-TN), Barry Moore (R-AL), and Mike Waltz (R-FL).
Other than the name designation, the bill says any &#8220;reference in any law, regulation, map, document, paper, or other record of the United States&#8221; to the airport shall be considered a reference to &#8220;Donald J. Trump International Airport.&#8221;
Trump is in the middle of seeking another term in the White House and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-locks-up-gop-nomination-after-racking-up-4-more-primary-victories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">garnered</a> enough delegates to clinch the GOP nomination after his last primary rival, Nikki Haley, suspended her campaign.
Although the GOP is largely rallying behind Trump&#8217;s candidacy, the bill faces long odds. In the House, Republicans have a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/slim-house-gop-majority-takes-a-hit-with-dem-winning-contest-to-replace-santos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slim</a> majority. Democrats control the Senate, while President Joe Biden, who is also running for a second term, is the current occupant of the White House.
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&#8220;This idea is ridiculous, but sadly real,&#8221; Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat running for Virginia governor, <a href="https://twitter.com/SpanbergerForVA/status/1775166784963805627" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;Congress must act on pressing issues like reauthorizing the FAA and passing the national security supplemental. Yet this is what a Member of House Republican leadership focuses on — renaming Virginia’s Dulles airport after Trump.&#8221;
Dulles Airport, which <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/dulles-airport-celebrates-60-year-anniversary-john-f-kennedy-dedication-groundbreaking-airport-jet-airplanes-architect-eero-saarinen-metro-silver-line-extension-richard-golinowski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> its 60th anniversary in 2022, was <a href="https://www.flydulles.com/about-airport/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named after</a> Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is one of three major airports in the D.C. area, along with Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

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