The Trump administration unveiled a new plan last week to ramp up offshore drilling off the coasts of Alaska, California, and Florida as the president seeks to usher in a U.S. energy boom. But some members of President Donald Trump&#8217;s party, including the Florida governor, aren&#8217;t thrilled about the administration&#8217;s goal to drill for oil near the Sunshine State&#8217;s beaches and military bases.
The U.S. Department of the Interior <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-launches-expansive-11th-national-offshore-leasing-program-advance-us-energy">directed</a> the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management last Thursday to open up seven additional lease areas in the Eastern Gulf for offshore drilling, an area in the Gulf of America around 100 miles off of Florida&#8217;s coast. The Trump administration also plans to open up 21 areas for lease off the coast of Alaska and six areas off the Pacific coast.
Florida Republicans, including Governor Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, and Sen. Ashley Moody, are urging the administration to pump the brakes on the new plan. The Florida leaders want the federal government to reconsider the policy President Trump enacted during his first term, which banned offshore oil leasing off the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina through 2032.
&#8220;President Trump’s 2020 memorandum protecting Florida’s eastern Gulf waters represents a thoughtful approach to the issue. The Interior Department should not depart from the 2020 policy,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://x.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1991648106254069903">said</a>. The governor&#8217;s office added that the Gulf coast of Florida does &#8220;not have the same oil and gas reserves as other states in the region&#8221; and that the state &#8220;has active sites where drilling occurs on land.&#8221;
Florida politicians argue that the new oil leases threaten Florida&#8217;s pristine beaches, which attract millions of tourists each year, while also interfering with &#8220;critical&#8221; U.S. military bases on the state&#8217;s coast.
Scott, Florida&#8217;s senior senator and former governor, echoed DeSantis, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RickScottSenOffice/posts/floridas-beautiful-beaches-and-coastal-waters-are-so-important-to-our-states-eco/1386895662794430/">arguing</a>, &#8220;Florida’s beautiful beaches and coastal waters are so important to our state’s economy, environment, and military community, which is why I have fought for years to keep drilling off Florida’s coasts and worked closely with President Trump during his first term to extend the moratorium banning oil drilling off Florida’s coasts through 2032.&#8221;
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&#8220;I have been speaking to Secretary Burgum and made my expectations clear that this moratorium must remain in place, and that in any plan, Florida’s coasts must remain off the table for oil drilling to protect Florida’s tourism, environment, and military training opportunities,&#8221; Scott added.
Senator Moody said the Trump administration&#8217;s move was &#8220;HIGHLY concerning,&#8221; adding that she &#8220;will be engaging directly with the [Interior Department] on this issue.&#8221;
The Interior Department&#8217;s move to free up more areas for offshore drilling is a response to former President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;restrictive&#8221; oil and gas policies, according to the Trump administration.
“Offshore oil and gas production does not happen overnight. It takes years of planning, investment, and hard work before barrels reach the market,” said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “The Biden administration slammed the brakes on offshore oil and gas leasing and crippled the long-term pipeline of America’s offshore production. By moving forward with the development of a robust, forward-thinking leasing plan, we are ensuring that America’s offshore industry stays strong, our workers stay employed, and our nation remains energy dominant for decades to come.”
Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-027-8408?originationContext=knowHow&amp;transitionType=KnowHowItem&amp;contextData=(sc.Default)&amp;firstPage=true">2020 memorandum</a> prevented areas off the Florida coast from being considered for &#8220;leasing for purposes of exploration, development, or production&#8221; until 2032. After signing the memorandum in 2020, Trump was criticized by some people who believed the president was seeking to gain political favor among Floridians ahead of the 2020 election.
During his 2024 presidential campaign and after returning to the White House in early 2025, Trump vowed to ramp up American energy production and bring down energy costs for Americans. To accomplish this, Trump said it was time for the United States to &#8220;drill, baby, drill,&#8221; and on his first day back in the White House in January, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-energy-emergency/">declared</a> a national energy emergency.
&#8220;A major focus of our fight to reduce inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy. The previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt, and closed more than 100 power plants,&#8221; Trump said during his address to Congress in early March.
A group of Florida GOP representatives, including some of Trump&#8217;s most loyal supporters in Congress, also <a href="https://x.com/FBSaunders/status/1991623831610618051/photo/1">signed</a> a letter urging the president to reconsider the Interior Department&#8217;s latest directive.
&#8220;While we wholeheartedly support your push for American energy independence and expanded oil and gas production, the [Eastern Gulf Test and Training Range] is critical to advanced weapons development, flight testing, and joint exercises essential to maintaining America&#8217;s military superiority,&#8221; the letter states.

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Florida has accused two massive proxy advisor firms of politicizing American retirement accounts by promoting DEI and ESG, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.  
The suit from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier accuses Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis of pushing companies to adopt race and sex-based quotas and embrace climate activism. The two firms comprise about 97% of the market for proxy advice in the United States, providing investment managers with guidance and research on how to vote on shareholder proposals. 
“Defendants have used this enormous influence to push their own dogmatic agenda,  one that seeks to require publicly traded companies to strictly adhere to highly controversial—and,  in some cases, illegal policies,” Uthmeier wrote in a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Daily Wire. 
“Quotas for outright racial balancing, gender ideology that promotes genders beyond male and female, and an insistence that concerns about global climate change should influence every company&#8217;s decision-making are Defendants&#8217; basic requirements,” the suit added. 
Uthmeier&#8217;s suit, filed in the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida, accuses the companies of two counts of violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and state antitrust laws. Both firms <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/proxy-advisers-iss-and-glass-lewis-are-facing-antitrust-probes-22f0ff38?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqc1i9ZlMDA8f3aZJiR2l7fRxLMEzpcyYRtsfyc4o8X1sQlk3u_hSRE9vvDqiKE%3D&amp;gaa_ts=691f1ec8&amp;gaa_sig=xwAM0c1b63ROAM2TrL-DyCp8Kzu_81NHpUXhlHCKKdp1uc0l_r4sb2vXNv1yUslNLkGqWHiK6ScdxjQHeJ7Tgw%3D%3D">are currently</a> under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over how they direct clients on social and climate issues. 
Together, both firms work with hundreds of thousands of Florida employees’ retirement plans worth billions, according to the suit.
The suit states that the firms have pushed left-wing ideology by “recommending votes against corporate board members who are not the right gender or do not fall in line and affirmatively voice support for Defendants&#8217; ideological agenda.”
Examples cited in the suit include Glass Lewis providing <a href="https://perma.cc/9JFW-HKEM">guidelines </a>that include recommending against boards with less than one member of “an underrepresented community” on it. It defines “underrepresented” as non-white people or sexual minorities. It will also generally recommend against a board “that fails to provide explicit disclosure concerning the board’s role in overseeing [climate change] issues.”
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ISS has adopted similar <a href="https://perma.cc/N9TG-B7X9">guidelines</a>, noting that it will generally vote against companies with no women on the board, against boards with no racial or ethnic diversity, and vote against companies it says have not taken &#8220;minimum steps” to address “climate change” risks. 
“Florida is done allowing two unaccountable foreign-owned private corporations to manipulate shareholder votes behind closed doors,” Uthmeier told The Daily Wire. “ISS and Glass Lewis claim to be neutral advisors, but they use their near-total control of the proxy-voting market to push divisive political mandates that threaten retiree savings, distort corporate governance, and undermine the rule of law. That ends now.”
The suit was supported by Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research. 
“We will continue to encourage and support aggressive enforcement action until ISS and Glass Lewis stop their abuses and commit to transparency, neutrality, and true accountability to the investors and consumers they are supposed to serve,” he said. 
In August 2023, the House Judiciary launched an <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/letters.pdf">investigation</a> into ISS and Glass Lewis, probing their partnership with climate activist groups and pushing to &#8220;decarbonize&#8221; corporations.

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EXCLUSIVE: Florida Sues Major Financial Firms Over DEI And ESG Push

EXCLUSIVE: Florida Sues Major Financial Firms Over DEI, ESG Push

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A Democratic congresswoman from Florida is facing decades in prison after the Justice Department accused her of stealing more than $5 million in FEMA funds. Prosecutors allege that she diverted the disaster-relief money to support her congressional campaign and enrich her associates.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a Miami grand jury had indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick for fraudulently obtaining federal disaster funds, laundering the proceeds, and putting the money toward her 2021 congressional race. According to the Justice Department, Cherfilus-McCormick conspired with her brother, 51-year-old Edwin Cherfilus, to steal a $5 million FEMA overpayment that was sent to their family’s health care company.
“Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice.”
The $5 million payment was made in July 2021 after the siblings had a contract with FEMA for COVID vaccinations. The money was routed through multiple accounts to Cherfilus-McCormick’s 2021 congressional campaign and other personal accounts, according to the Justice Department. 
“This individual and her family allegedly stole money from FEMA and then laundered it through friends toward her own personal benefits &#8211; including her campaign accounts,” FBI Director Kash Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1991306995366756653">said</a>. “Today the FBI and partners at [the Justice Department] took action. No one is above the law.”
The indictment also accuses 46-year-old Nadege Leblanc, Cherfilus-McCormick’s district chief of staff, of working with the Democrat representative to funnel some of the stolen money to straw donors who then donated back to the campaign.
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An additional defendant is 41-year-old tax preparer David Spencer, who is accused of working with Cherfilus-McCormick to file a false federal tax return. The indictment says that they falsely claimed political spending and personal expenses as business deductions and inflated her charitable contributions. 
Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison; Edwin Cherfilus faces up to 35 years; Leblanc faces up to 10 years; and Spencer faces up to 33 years, according to the Justice Department. Cherfilus-McCormick&#8217;s legal team <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-stealing-fema-funds-campaign-rcna244889">said</a> she was &#8220;a committed public servant&#8221; and that they would &#8220;fight to clear her good name.”
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) is expected to file a motion on Thursday to censure Cherfilus-McCormick and remove her from all committees. She currently sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Veteran Affairs. 
“This is one of the most egregious abuses of public trust I have ever seen. Stealing $5 million in taxpayer disaster funds from FEMA of all places is beyond indefensible,” he <a href="https://x.com/RepGregSteube/status/1991317294870392922">said</a>. “Millions of Floridians have relied on FEMA after devastating hurricanes, and that money was supposed to help real disaster victims.”
Cherfilus-McCormick is also under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.

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One of the world&#8217;s largest banks was notified on Monday morning that its cooperation with the Biden administration&#8217;s partisan Arctic Frost probe is now under investigation by Florida&#8217;s attorney general, The Daily Wire can first report.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told JPMorgan Chase in a Monday morning letter reviewed by The Daily Wire that it had &#8220;grave concerns&#8221; about the bank&#8217;s actions relating to Trump Media, the Florida-based company that operates Truth Social.
The investigation was prompted by information released by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/new-jack-smith-subpoenaed-records-for-over-400-republican-targets-as-part-of-arctic-frost">disclosed last month</a> that Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s Arctic Frost investigation into Donald Trump had targeted hundreds of Republican individuals and entities with subpoenas.
&#8220;I write to express grave concerns about the explosive revelations regarding the Biden Administration’s pursuit of its political adversaries, and [JPMorgan Chase&#8217;s] ensuing actions in the shadow of this operation, codenamed &#8216;Arctic Frost,'&#8221; Uthmeier wrote in a letter to JPMorgan Chase, first obtained by The Daily Wire.
In the letter, which was sent Monday to JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, Uthmeier notes that the Biden DOJ subpoenaed JPMorgan on March 28, 2023. That subpoena called for any and all records of Trump Media Group including &#8220;records covering a time period before [Trump Media] existed,&#8221; the Florida attorney general noted. 
&#8220;In addition to spying on Republican Senators,&#8221; the letter states, &#8220;the Biden Administration subpoenaed sensitive banking information from several Florida individuals, organizations, and business entities including Trump Media &amp; Technology Group Corp. (TMTG), a Florida corporation.&#8221; 
Uthmeier suspects that JPMorgan Chase was providing sensitive banking information to the Department of Justice and Smith as part of the &#8220;malicious prosecutions&#8221; into the president, the attorney general told the Daily Wire. He also said the bank was &#8220;asking many questions of Trump Media, its client, questions seemingly unrelated to its business.&#8221;
JPMorgan did not directly address the Monday letter, but spokeswoman Lauren Bianchi told The Daily Wire on Monday afternoon that the company will &#8220;follow the law in responding to subpoenas from the government and will continue to do so.&#8221;
JPMorgan alerted shareholders last week that it was &#8220;responding to requests from government authorities and other external parties regarding, among other things, the firm’s policies and processes and the provision of services to customers and potential customers,&#8221; an apparent reference to debanking. President Trump signed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-prepares-executive-order-targeting-politicized-debanking">executive order in August</a> demanding that regulators look into “politicized or unlawful debanking” by the big banks.
JPMorgan says it supports the executive order on debanking.
“This is a step in the right direction,” a JPMorgan spokesman told The Daily Wire in August. “Preventing regulatory overreach and reforming laws that have led to debanking are welcome efforts. The industry has been involved in identifying solutions to this problem for years and looks forward to continuing to work this Administration and Congress to get this right.”
Dimon himself has been vocal in his support of the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to end debanking, noting that JPMorgan and other financial institutions were strong-armed into debanking individuals by the Biden administration.
“The rules and requirements are so onerous and it does cause people to be debanked who, in my opinion, should not be debanked,” Dimon <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/02/jamie-dimon-regulators-pretty-much-to-blame-for-debanking-00204094">told reporters</a> in February.
Bianchi, the spokeswoman, reiterated Dimon&#8217;s statement that it&#8217;s against any discrimination in the banking industry based on politics.
&#8220;It’s terrible that people can lose their bank accounts because of broken policies that encouraged banks to be overly cautious,&#8221; Bianchi told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It’s not fair and it shouldn’t happen, and it’s great that this administration is finally brining needed regulatory change we’ve been requesting for years.&#8221;
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<div id="attachment_998153" style="width: 923px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-florida-ag-probes-jpmorgans-cooperation-with-arctic-frost-as-it-debanked-trump/us-news-fla-ag-trump-endorsement-os" rel="attachment wp-att-998153"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-998153" class="wp-image-998153 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/11/GettyImages-2239430764-913x576.jpg" alt="" width="913" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/11/GettyImages-2239430764-913x576.jpg 913w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/11/GettyImages-2239430764-300x189.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/11/GettyImages-2239430764-768x485.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/11/GettyImages-2239430764.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px" /></a>Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in St. Cloud, Florida, on Aug. 19, 2025. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)</div>
The Florida attorney general&#8217;s letter also states that immediately after the &#8220;Biden DOJ’s fishing expedition began,&#8221; JPMorgan Chase started questioning Trump Media about its transactions from years prior. &#8220;[JPMorgan Chase] insisted this fact-gathering was merely &#8216;due diligence,'&#8221; the Florida attorney general said. &#8220;These inquiries, however, appear to be pretextual and unrelated to their stated purpose.&#8221;
Immediately after Trump Media closed a merger in March 2024, the letter says, JPMorgan Chase notified Trump Media that it was closing its bank accounts — timing that raises &#8220;obvious, troubling questions,&#8221; according to the Florida attorney general.
&#8220;This activity may implicate numerous Florida criminal and civil anti-fraud laws and de-banking prohibitions, as well as a breach of the basic, fundamental duties owed to your banking customers,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;Rest assured, this office will be investigating to ascertain the nature of these secret and suspicious circumstances.  I have directed my Office of Statewide Prosecution and Enforcement Division to begin investigating this matter immediately.&#8221;
JPMorgan is asked in the letter to initiate a litigation hold to preserve all documents relevant to the matter.
Uthmeier told The Daily Wire that he&#8217;s committed to protecting Florida-based companies, especially when it believes there was &#8220;intent to harm.&#8221;
&#8220;We think it&#8217;s wrong that companies were just coughing things up to the Department of Justice when there was not real probable cause, and we think it&#8217;s wrong that companies are debanked, especially at such important times,&#8221; Uthmeier said. 
&#8220;So we&#8217;re going to investigate further,&#8221; the attorney general said. &#8220;We protect Florida-based companies like Trump Media Group. We protect our consumers and where there&#8217;s discriminatory banking practices taking place, especially those with intent to harm, we will fight back and hold wrongdoers accountable.&#8221;
Uthmeier also pointed out to The Daily Wire that the matter also appears to be related to Jack Smith&#8217;s January 6 investigation, and he noted that Trump Media Group&#8217;s Truth Social was launched in in February 2022, more than a year after January 6, 2021.
&#8220;Any notion that this company was somehow involved in whatever criminal activity that the Department of Justice alleged, wrongfully alleged, surrounded the J6 events,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Clearly, Truth Social would not have been a part of that.&#8221;
&#8220;It shows the full scope of the weaponization and the efforts to go after anybody related to Trump or the conservative cause.&#8221; 
Devin Nunes, the former congressman who’s now CEO of Trump Media, appeared on Fox News on Sunday <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFo4R24PSHs">where he also raised questions</a> about JPMorgan Chase&#8217;s treatment of Trump Media in relation to Arctic Frost.
&#8220;One would think that Trump Media would not have been caught up into Arctic Frost at all, largely because&#8230;we just became a public company in 2024 and we were nowhere around in 2021 on January 6. So why would Trump Media be subpoenaed at that time during this investigation? It doesn&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;
&#8220;Should [JPMorgan Chase] have complied with this, knowing that we weren&#8217;t around? They had to know that our company wasn&#8217;t around on January 6. We were never notified&#8230;did this break laws in the state of Florida?&#8221;
JPMorgan &#8220;inexplicably&#8221; debanked Trump Media &#8220;right at the time we were going public,&#8221; he argued, &#8220;right at the height of the campaign,&#8221; a move that &#8220;looked political at the time,&#8221; but now looks even more suspicious.

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A Florida real estate agent says the rumors are true: wealthy New Yorkers are already fleeing the city in droves following the election of Zohran Mamdani to the office of mayor on Tuesday.
Kourtney Pulitzer, a Sotheby&#8217;s International Realty agent based in Palm Beach, Florida, described the phenomenon on her TikTok.
“I’m not gonna lie, I did not think exactly this was going to happen – I thought this guy was gonna win in New York City. I thought that our market was going to pick up. But I didn’t think it was going to happen the next morning,” Pulitzer said in the clip.
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“It’s 3 or 4 o’clock … I’ve literally been on the phone since 7 a.m. Nonstop, back-to-back calls. I had showings scheduled for listings that haven’t had showings in a month. And yeah, I was wrong, because it literally turned on like a light bulb. Literally blew off like a firecracker. And the post-socialist New York City political market is here on our shores, in Palm Beach.”
This anticipated mass exodus to the Sunshine State is being reported across news outlets nationwide, from local affiliates to The New York Times.
Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer didn’t mention Mamdani by name while speaking with WPBF News, but he did allude to NYC’s upcoming changes under the new mayor, saying people were drawn by lower taxes and safer streets.
&#8220;Even this morning, I’ve gotten inbound calls of businesses looking to leave New York to come to our low-tax, safe, vibrant community,&#8221; Singer <a href="https://www.wpbf.com/article/new-yorkers-move-florida-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani/69266997">said</a>.
Stuart Elliot, editor in chief and CEO of The Real Deal, a national real estate publication, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/south-florida-real-estate-mamdani.html">told</a> NYT that the topic was “all that people are talking about” at a forum event Wednesday morning.
Developer Isaac Toledano of Miami-based BH Group <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/nyc-election-fears-drive-100m-florida-real-estate-surge-nervous-new-yorkers-flee-south">told</a> Fox News Digital that the trend started before Mamdani won and is expected to continue.
&#8220;If this thing is going to happen and we’re going to see this big wave of New Yorkers and companies relocating, across our portfolio we have a lot of branded residences, luxury condos, mixed-use projects. … We welcome our friends and investors and buyers from New York to come to Florida,&#8221; he told the outlet, echoing what others have said about finances and safety being the main draws.
&#8220;We offer stability, the freedom to grow,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The fact that you can walk at night with [an] expensive watch on your hand, driving an expensive car, go to a restaurant, walk on the street, have a coffee at 11 o&#8217;clock at night and nobody will disturb you. … The law is very strong here. People feel safe.&#8221;

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Just a few years after waltzing across the border illegally, Indian national Harjinder Singh allegedly killed three people while making an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike as he sat behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler in August.
Singh came into the country in 2018 and was handed a Commercial Driver&#8217;s License (CDL) in Washington in 2023, according to the Department of Transportation. He received his license despite having &#8220;failed his written exam 10 times, and he took his behind-the-wheel training course at a private CDL school in Washington,&#8221; Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier recently <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1981535048063938692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> as part of his ongoing investigation into California&#8217;s issuance of trucking licenses to illegal immigrants.
Singh also failed an English language proficiency test in the aftermath of the fatal collision, &#8220;providing correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs,&#8221; according to the Department of Transportation.
The incident brought national attention to a string of crashes involving illegal immigrant drivers, some of whom barely speak English. The Trump administration has pledged to crack down on these drivers, but Americans have been left wondering: how does this keep happening?
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Trucking industry experts told The Daily Wire that while federal law requires that the road testing needed to obtain a CDL has to be done in English, the regulation is often not enforced. The written portion of the testing is offered in many languages in some states.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no good checks and balances to be perfectly honest with you,&#8221; Lewie Pugh, Executive Vice President of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said.
&#8220;A lot of states allow third party testing to do the CDLs and I would say that&#8217;s how most of these people get through,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;These people should&#8217;ve never gotten a license in the first place,&#8221; Pugh said.
The Trump administration has already taken steps to ensure the pattern of crashes stops.
&#8220;Until Trump said we&#8217;re gonna enforce it &#8230; no one was taking that seriously, there was no enforcement there, there was no audit there,&#8221; said John Esparza, president and CEO of the Texas Trucking Association.
Non-domiciled CDLs were introduced in 2019 to allow truck drivers to work out of their home states while the industry faced a need for drivers with a high turnover rate, Pugh said.
&#8220;Unfortunately, it&#8217;s opened the floodgates to allow all these folks to come in from all over the world and get CDLs very easily,&#8221; Pugh said.&#8221;This mess has just gotten bigger and bigger.&#8221;
California then granted Singh a non-domiciled CDL in 2024, allowing him to work across state lines. The California State Transportation Agency, however, defends that Singh was &#8220;entitled to receive&#8221; his CDL &#8220;given the federal government&#8217;s confirmation of his legal status,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7.com/post/pomona-high-school-coach-wife-among-3-killed-chain-reaction-crash-10-freeway-ontario-suspect-jashanpreet-singh-expected-court/18062397/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC7.
&#8220;It all comes down to cheap labor, they want the cheapest people behind the wheel and unfortunately by doing that &#8230; what we are getting now is carnage on the highway,&#8221; Pugh said.
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The alleged semi-truck driver who killed three people while making a U-turn at an “Official Use Only” turn on the Florida Turnpike is an ILLEGAL MIGRANT who was granted a commercial driver’s license by the State of California. 
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Indian national Jashanpreet Singh, 21, crossed into the United States illegally in 2022 and received his work permit the next year, which allowed him to obtain a commercial driver&#8217;s license in California in 2024, <a href="https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1981811109939286059" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security.
Illegal immigrants can apply for a work permit 180 days after they apply for asylum. Their asylum claims don&#8217;t have to be granted or denied in order to have received work authorization, even if they crossed into the United States illegally.
Earlier this month, while driving a semi-truck on an Ontario, California, freeway, Jashanpreet allegedly caused a multi-car pile up that killed Pomona High Red Devils assistant basketball coach Clarence Nelson, his wife, Lisa, along with another unidentified victim, <a href="https://abc7.com/post/pomona-high-school-coach-wife-among-3-killed-chain-reaction-crash-10-freeway-ontario-suspect-jashanpreet-singh-expected-court/18062397/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC7. Jashanpreet was allegedly under the influence of an unnamed drug when the crash occurred.
The crash left six-year-old Dalilah Coleman in a coma for three weeks, according to Homeland Security. When Coleman awoke, she was unable to walk, talk, eat orally.
While hospitalized for six months, Coleman underwent a craniectomy, which left her without half of her skill for four months. She also had a broken femur, skull fractures and now has diplegic cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, and will need therapy for the rest of her life.
Coleman&#8217;s stepfather was also hospitalized for critical injuries, along with several others.
Dalilah&#8217;s father, Marcus Coleman, a truck driver himself, has called for more industry regulations and enhanced punishments on trucking companies that hire illegal immigrants since the collision.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot that we&#8217;ve been robbed of and United States citizens are getting robbed of it everyday and these car accidents are behind it, these trucking accidents,&#8221; Marcus Coleman <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1982856583190049139" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Newsmax Monday. &#8220;And there are easy fixes, it&#8217;s not difficult to fix this, it&#8217;s super easy. There&#8217;s laws that can be put into place, there&#8217;s regulations that can be put into place, a lot of these truck drivers that are operating illegally &#8230; the trucks need to be seized. The trucking companies need to understand that the United States isn&#8217;t gonna play around.&#8221;
&#8220;They need to take the truck away &#8230; for 30 days, they need to be fined, the broker for hiring them needs to be fined, everybody needs to be held accountable for this,&#8221; he said.
The Trump administration has already taken steps to stop illegal immigrants from obtaining CDLs, including by requiring English proficiency, launching an audit of states issuing non-domiciled CDLs. The worst offender is California, where more than 25% of non-domiciled CDLs reviewed by the feds were improperly issued, <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-takes-emergency-action-protect-americas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Transportation.
“California’s reckless disregard is frankly disgusting and an affront to the millions of Americans who expect us to keep them safe,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
“California must get its act together immediately or I will not hesitate to pull millions in funding. To every other state around the country – find all improperly issued CDLs and revoke their licenses now. We owe it to the American people to ensure only lawful, qualified drivers are operating big rigs on our highways,&#8221; Duffy added.
Duffy gave California 30 days to stop issuing CDLs to illegal immigrants, threatening to withhold nearly $160 million in the first year and doubling it the next if Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom fails to comply.
Newsom&#8217;s office <a href="https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1978642641656177126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> that California CDL holders have a lower fatal crash rate than the national average.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently limited the issuance of non-domiciled CDLs to foreigners, only if they possess either an H-2B, H-2A or E-2 visa.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also targeted illegal <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/06/washington-us-department-homeland-security-dhs-today-released-following-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immigrant</a> truckers as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s historic mass deportation campaign, arresting 91 of them in a recent operation along I-40 in Oklahoma.

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With a strong possibility that New York City might elect anti-police candidate Zohran Mamdani as mayor, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis made a pitch directly to NYPD officers, asking them, “Do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you?”
In 2020, Mamdani <a href="https://news.meaww.com/zohran-mamdani-slammed-as-old-defund-police-stance-resurfaces-after-ny-cop-killed-in-manhattan-shooting?utm_source=chatgpt.com">wrote</a> on social media, &#8220;No, we want to defund the police,&#8221; &#8220;Queer liberation means defund the police,&#8221; and accused the NYPD of being &#8220;racist, anti-queer &amp; a major threat to public safety.&#8221; He later wrote, &#8220;There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked and corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence.&#8221; In 2023, he declared that the “boot of the NYPD is on your neck.”
“If he’s elected, I think it’ll be an example of voters of New York City committing an act of ballistic podiatry because it is going to come back and bite the city,” DeSantis told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum. “He is so far Left and he mixes his leftism with Islamism. He’s going to make the (former NYC Democratic Mayor Bill) de Blasio years look like the golden age.”
“And I can tell you, in Florida we’re affected by this, just with the law enforcement alone,” he continued. “If you’re working in NYPD, do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you? No, a lot of them are not going to want to do that, and in Florida, we’ve established a $5,000 recruitment bonus. So if you are somebody that doesn’t want to serve under that guy as mayor, you come to Florida, any state or local law-enforcement agency, you get $5000 right at the top.”
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“I will tell you: If you say you’re going to disband the NYPD, if you put the criminals back on the street, if you engage in far-Left policies that would make George Soros blush, people do respond to that,” DeSantis said of the possibility that New Yorkers may leave the city if Mamdani is elected. “And of all the people that have migrated to Florida since I’ve been governor, I would say the number one reason they’ve left places — like New York City under De Blasio, like they’ve left Chicago under this mayor and the previous mayor, like leaving San Francisco and Los Angeles — is public safety. Those leftist politicians turn their backs on the police, turn their backs on the rule of law, and then the citizens were the ones that paid the price.”
“And I will tell you the disproportionate impact on those far-Left policies that do help the criminal element is actually not even the wealthy people — though they’re affected to a certain extent — it’s the working class people; it’s the middle class. Those are the folks that get affected the most. I do think that he will spark migration out of the city, particularly if he follows through on his far-left, anti-law enforcement policies,” he concluded.
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Authorities have arrested the man accused of threatening to kill Babylon Bee founder Seth Dillon.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the development on X, <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1980421106524672425">stating</a>: “Last week, our Office of Statewide Prosecution was notified of multiple death threats made to Jewish conservative media members who live in Florida.”
Following the notification, prosecutors secured an arrest warrant, which law enforcement then executed. The suspect, now in custody, faces “charges of extortion, written threats to kill, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.”
User &#8220;zionistarescum,&#8221; who authorities now identify as 28-year-old Nicholas Ray, allegedly posted a disturbing message directly threatening Dillon.
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The Daily Wire reviewed Ray’s alleged account and uncovered disturbing posts criticizing Israel and President Trump, as well as Republican lawmakers.
Ray’s arrest comes at a time plagued by a troubling surge in political violence. On Monday, Dillon published an article with the Free Press urging both sides, Right and Left, to take an introspective look at the ideology and policies they promote.
Dillon launched his satirical news site in 2016 in an effort to “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-foundation-awards-babylon-bee-ceo-seth-dillon-the-2025-salvatori-prize-american">speak truth through humor</a>.”
The outlet grew into a major force with 2.2 million followers on Instagram and more than 5 million on X.
However, the company’s rise brought conflict. Before Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, the company <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-has-shut-down-the-bee">suspended</a> Dillon’s account over a post poking fun at USA Today’s “Woman of the Year.”
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Elon Musk reinstated the account seven months later when he assumed ownership of Twitter and rebranded it as X.
Most recently, the Babylon Bee found itself in court arguing over a bill signed by Gavin Newsom limiting the use of “deep fake images.”
After the court sided with the Babylon Bee, their attorney commented, “The court was right to rein in California’s blatant censorship. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates.”
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) <a href="https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-to-chair-judiciary-subcommittee-hearing-on-politically-violent-attacks/">announced</a> on Tuesday that he will host a hearing on politically violent attacks to address the disturbing upward trend. This summer alone saw the murder of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and the assassination of Turning Point Founder Charlie Kirk.
Schmitt stated, &#8220;The rise of political violence on the left is deeply disturbing and antithetical to American values, disturbs the free exercise of our constitutional rights, and is a threat to our constitutional order.&#8221;

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Florida is suing California over its sanctuary policies and decision to issue commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the Sunshine State filed a lawsuit Wednesday night, citing a fatal crash on a local turnpike caused by an illegal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-given-commercial-drivers-license-by-californias-newsom-charged-in-fatal-semi-truck-crash">immigrant</a> truck driver who had a California-issued Commercial Driver’s License (CDL).
The man behind the wheel of the semi tractor-trailer, Indian national Harjinder Singh, 28, made an illegal U-turn in August and killed three people.
“It’s a shame, and that’s why we’re taking Gavin Newsom to the Supreme Court,” Uthmeier told Sean Hannity Wednesday night.
He said Florida intends “to hold them [California] accountable for the carnage that their sanctuary illegal immigration policies have caused to states like Florida across the country.”
“Here in Florida, we can do everything right, we can back the blue, we can enforce the law, we can combat illegal immigration, but we still suffer when Gavin Newsom and liberals on the west coast allow these illegals in, encourage them, enable them to get these driver&#8217;s licenses and then they cross the country and ultimately take lives,” Uthmeier said.
“They care more about their love affair with illegals than protecting American citizens,” he added.
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Tonight, we filed a lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and California in the US Supreme Court because their so-called “sanctuary” policies for illegal aliens are harming states like Florida.
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— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1978641628157055306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Trump administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-nabs-illegal-immigrant-truckers-with-blue-state-drivers-licenses-let-in-by-biden?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=ICE+Nabs+Illegal+Immigrant+Truckers+With+Blue+State+Driver%E2%80%99s+Licenses+Let+In+By+Biden">commenced</a> a crackdown on the issuance of CDLs to illegal immigrants. Several Republican lawmakers, led by Kentucky Congressman Andy Barr, are this week expected to introduce legislation that would enable the Secretary of Transportation to stop blue states from issuing commercial licenses to illegals, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-bill-takes-aim-at-democrat-states-giving-truck-licenses-to-illegal-aliens?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Republican+Bill+Takes+Aim+At+Democrat+States+Giving+Truck+Licenses+To+Illegal+Aliens">reported</a>.
During a recent three-day operation in Oklahoma, ICE agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-nabs-illegal-immigrant-truckers-with-blue-state-drivers-licenses-let-in-by-biden">arrested</a> 91 illegal immigrant truck drivers, most of whom had California CDLs, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Department of Transportation has also launched an audit of states issuing CDLs, while instituting an English-language requirement for truck drivers.

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An Update On The Shocking Crime That Democrats Don’t Want You To Know About

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In a grim reminder of a justice system gone adrift, Ronald Exantus — the man who killed 6-year-old Kentuckian Logan Tipton in the dead of night — has been <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15179267/ronald-exantus-killer-arrested-logan-tipton.html">rearrested</a>, this time in Florida, after a controversial early parole release that sparked public outrage.
Exantus, now 42, was convicted in 2018 of multiple assaults after he broke into the Tipton family’s home in Versailles, Kentucky, in 2015. Though he wasn’t convicted of murder — thanks to a jury’s “not guilty by reason of insanity” verdict — the facts were clear: he crept into the family&#8217;s home and repeatedly stabbed a sleeping child in the head with such force that the butcher knife bent.
And yet, after serving just seven years of a 20-year sentence, Exantus <a href="https://www.wkyt.com/2025/10/09/ronald-exantus-arrested-florida-officials-working-send-him-back-kentucky-ag-says/">walked free</a> on October 1 under Kentucky’s Mandatory Reentry Supervision law, bolstered by education and “good behavior” credits. The parole board had recommended he remain locked up. The Department of Corrections overruled the board.
Exantus’ brief taste of freedom ended with handcuffs in Florida. Marion County deputies arrested him for violating his parole and failing to register as a convicted felon, a requirement under Florida law within 48 hours of relocating. He was found living across from an elementary school — the same kind of innocent environment he once shattered.
Sheriff Billy Woods didn’t mince words: “The fact that he was living right next to an elementary school is even more repulsive&#8230; I have no tolerance for this type of dangerous person flaunting our laws and thinking he would hide out in our county.”
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier echoed the outrage, saying officials are already working to send Exantus back to Kentucky. “This dangerous individual who murdered a child by repeatedly stabbing him in the head was in Florida. We are not tolerating that,” he stated.
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Breaking: Ronald Exantus arrested in Florida; officials working to send him back to Kentucky, AG says: <a href="https://t.co/5jCkLK9Cmn">https://t.co/5jCkLK9Cmn</a> <a href="https://t.co/4HKn0kx3GG">pic.twitter.com/4HKn0kx3GG</a>
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The release ignited a public firestorm. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaking for President Donald Trump’s administration,<a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/05/white-house-looking-into-ronald-exantus-logan-tipton-kentucky-boy-killing/86535555007/"> stated</a> bluntly: “It’s wholly unacceptable for a child killer to walk free after just several years in prison.”
The facts of the case are not in dispute. On the night of the killing, Exantus — a dialysis nurse from Indianapolis — drove to Kentucky for no discernible reason. He entered the Tipton home through an unlocked door and attacked the family in their sleep. Logan was killed. His father and two sisters were stabbed. The court acknowledged that Exantus was mentally disturbed. That didn’t make the blood any less real.
Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, gave voice to the anguish, declaring, “I’ve told the court — if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man.”
His mother, Heather Tipton, said the justice system offered no protection, not even a courtesy call when Exantus was released, offering, “It just feels like a 6-year-old’s life is worth more than ten years in prison.”

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A jury on Tuesday found Ryan Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last year.
After the verdict was read, Routh <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1970561076249891141">attempted</a> to stab himself in the neck with a pen, prompting law enforcement to restrain and shackle him.
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🚨🚨BREAKING: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh tries to stab himself in the neck with a pen after guilty verdict read in court.🚨🚨 <a href="https://t.co/bnpYKeerVp">pic.twitter.com/bnpYKeerVp</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1970568361517158886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Florida jury spent roughly two hours in deliberations after the two-week trial wrapped up earlier Tuesday. Routh represented himself at the close of the trial, giving closing remarks for less than an hour before he was stopped by Judge Eileen Cannon, who previously admonished Routh for moving off topic, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-routh-verdict-trump-assassination-attempt-florida-golf-course-rcna232946">NBC News</a>.
Routh, 59, faced five counts, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault of a federal officer, and multiple firearms offenses. Routh pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The convicted attempted assassin made the decision early on in his trial to forgo the court-appointed attorneys provided to represent him. Routh struggled throughout the trial to make a viable defense of himself or even navigate the court process.
Over the course of the two week trial, prosecutors called on dozens of witnesses and introduced evidence from cell phone data, DNA matches, bullets found in a “sniper’s nest” at the golf course, and other materials to build their case.
&#8220;This was not a publicity stunt,&#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Browne said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jurors-begin-deliberations-trump-golf-course-assassination-attempt-trial">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The evidence has shown one thing and one thing only — the defendant wanted Donald Trump dead.&#8221;
Routh is not a lawyer, nor does he have any legal training. He asked Cannon in July if he could represent himself after claiming to have irreconcilable differences with the court-appointed attorneys tasked with representing him. Cannon agreed, but told Routh that representing himself in the case is a “bad idea.”
During his closing argument, Routh meandered from the charges against him and the assassination attempt to topics such as the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, Ukraine, the Revolutionary War, broadcaster Edward Murrow, and other issues. He said during his closing that the only charge he could be guilty of is caring “deeply for this country,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/trump-ryan-routh-trial-florida.html">The New York Times</a>.

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