In recognition of President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive actions aimed at increasing transparency in health care pricing, a patient group is sponsoring mobile billboards in front of the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services to say thank you.
PatientsRightsAdvocate.org told The Daily Wire that the campaign was inspired by Trump&#8217;s push to make the cost of treatments and procedures more readily available to the public. In February, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/making-america-healthy-again-by-empowering-patients-with-clear-accurate-and-actionable-healthcare-pricing-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> meant to require &#8220;hospitals and health plans to deliver meaningful price information to the American people.&#8221;
The billboards feature graphics of Trump in a Superman-style outfit with the words &#8220;President Trump Delivers Healthcare Price Transparency&#8221; and &#8220;Trump To Give Americans Real Prices In Healthcare!&#8221; PatientsRightsAdvocate is an <a href="https://www.patientrightsadvocate.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organization</a> that seeks to improve the healthcare industry by promoting competition and efficiency.
The same campaign was previously rolled out in Times Square on Monday, and is expected to run until May 4.
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&#8220;The magnitude of President Trump&#8217;s delivering &#8216;radical&#8217; price transparency in healthcare is historic. Patients soon will have access to actual prices, not estimates, before they receive care,&#8221; said Cynthia Fisher, the founder and chairman of PatientsRightsAdvocate.org. &#8220;Prices create a functional market where the consumer benefits from competition and choice to lower costs. Soon, patients will be able to shop for the best quality of care at the best price.&#8221;
In his executive order, Trump directed his administration to ensure that hospitals make &#8220;more meaningful price information available to patients to support a more competitive, innovative, affordable, and higher quality healthcare system.&#8221; Trump directed the secretaries of Treasury, Labor, and HHS to come up with guidance to enforce the transparency regulations.
Melissa Dietrich, an Indiana resident who was recently charged $1,300 for a routine checkup, told The Daily Wire she was supportive of Trump&#8217;s actions.
&#8220;I went for my annual checkup, which my insurance had always covered. I received both a clean bill of health and a massive bill of over $1,300. My insurance said the visit was covered,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The hospital clinic said it wasn’t. I eventually got the bill down to $300, still a lot more than my $35 copay. I never got an explanation. This is why we need healthcare price transparency, which President Trump is making a reality through his executive order.&#8221;
Part of Trump&#8217;s executive actions include making hospitals state more explicitly how much specific tests and treatments will cost.
<div>&#8220;When healthcare prices are hidden, large corporate entities like hospitals and insurance companies benefit at the expense of American patients. Price transparency will lower healthcare prices and help patients and employers get the best deal on healthcare,&#8221; the White House said in a fact sheet on the order.</div>
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<div>Trump signed another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-moves-to-increase-competition-in-pharma-lower-cost-of-prescription-drugs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> this month aimed at improving Medicare&#8217;s price negotiating system, increasing the “competition for high-cost prescription drugs,” and leveraging “current programs to deliver meaningful cost saving.”</div>

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a press conference on Wednesday that the autism epidemic is caused by environmental toxins, and is commissioning a series of studies on numerous toxins.
Kennedy specifically cited mold, pesticides, other food chemicals, and medicines as potential toxins contributing to the epidemic. He also suggested ultrasound scans could be a factor, given the timing of such technological advances.
&#8220;This is a preventable disease,&#8221; the secretary said. &#8220;We know it&#8217;s environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. It can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to announce a series of new studies to identify precisely what the environmental toxins are that are causing it,&#8221; Kennedy added. &#8220;This has not been done before. And we&#8217;re going to do it in a thorough and comprehensive way, and we&#8217;re gonna get back with an answer to the American people very, very quickly.&#8221;
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RFK JR: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to announce a series of new studies to identify precisely what the environment toxins are that are causing [autism]. This has not been done before&#8230;&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/rOzWHkd5KU">pic.twitter.com/rOzWHkd5KU</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1912557979133485298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm9k7q43e00003b6ofcu5wxqc@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true" data-analytics-observe="off">Dr. Walter Zahorodny, an associate professor at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, joined RFK at the presser and emphasized that the rise in autism cases cannot be attributed to better diagnosis alone.
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm9k88o2p000v3b6odujp2jlu@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true" data-analytics-observe="off">“I would urge everyone to consider the likelihood that autism – whether we call it an epidemic, a tsunami or a surge of autism – is a real thing that we don’t understand, and it must be triggered or caused by environmental or risk factors,” Zahorodny <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/health/rfk-autism-epidemic/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We need to address this question seriously because, in my opinion, for the last 20 years, we’ve collected data but not made real progress in understanding what causes autism or how to effectively prevent it or treat it effectively.”
Last week, Kennedy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-sets-tight-deadline-to-announce-cause-of-autism-epidemic?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=RFK+Jr.+Sets+Tight+Deadline+To+Announce+Cause+Of+Autism+Epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to announce the specific causes of the epidemic by September.
“The autism rates have gone from 1 in 31 from 1 in 10,000 when I was a kid,” RFK said to President Donald Trump. “At your direction, we’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.”
“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures,” he added.
The Autism Society of America <a href="https://autismsociety.org/statement-on-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-comments-regarding-the-cause-of-autism-and-misleading-deadline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> Kennedy over the announcement, calling it &#8220;harmful, misleading, and unrealistic.&#8221;
&#8220;Autism is a complex developmental disability shaped by genetic, biological, and environmental factors,&#8221; the organization said. &#8220;It is neither a chronic illness nor a contagion, that qualifies harmful language like &#8216;epidemic,&#8217; and to do so is both inaccurate and stigmatizing.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-sets-tight-deadline-to-announce-cause-of-autism-epidemic?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=RFK+Jr.+Sets+Tight+Deadline+To+Announce+Cause+Of+Autism+Epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RFK Jr. Sets Tight Deadline To Announce Cause Of Autism Epidemic</a>

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at slashing out-of-control health care costs by attempting to remove inefficient government practices and encourage more competitive drug pricing.
The executive orders take a wide swath of actions that are intended to improve the Medicare negotiating system, increasing the &#8220;competition for high-cost prescriptions drugs,&#8221; and lowering the cost of insulin for low-income individuals. In a press call attended by The Daily Wire, a White House official said that &#8220;every action&#8221; laid out in the executive order is &#8220;meant to improve the efficiency of drug pricing in the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;My first term included numerous significant actions, including some of the most aggressive in recent history, to deliver lower prescription drug prices to American patients,&#8221; Trump wrote in the executive order. &#8220;The message was clear:  no longer would the executive branch sit idly by as pharmaceutical manufacturers charged patients in our Nation more than those in other countries for the exact same prescription drugs, often made in the exact same places.&#8221;
While House officials said that the executive order was intended to leverage &#8220;current programs to deliver meaningful cost saving.&#8221;
One of the goals of the executive order is to ensure that Medicare is getting the same prices that various providers are paying.
&#8220;Hospitals often get heavily discounted drugs, sometimes it&#8217;s as low as 35% lower, below what Medicare is paying,&#8221; a White House Official said. &#8220;There will be instructions in the EO to do a survey and then contemplate rule-making on how to align Medicare payment with the costs of acquisition.&#8221;
Part of the order includes updating the Medicare drug price negotiation program, and White House officials say they expect to &#8220;eclipse&#8221; savings from the Biden administration during the same time frame. The administration&#8217;s goal is to have 22% savings in the program&#8217;s first year, according to a fact sheet from the White House.
The administration also hopes to standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs, including cancer treatments, &#8220;regardless of where the treatment is administered,&#8221; the White House said.
The Food and Drug Administration is also directed in the order to &#8220;streamline&#8221; approval of generic drugs and facilitate more importation of drugs from other countries like Canada. The executive order also commissions a report on &#8220;anti-competitive&#8221; behavior from pharmaceutical companies.
Another one of the key provisions of the executive order is resurrecting a program from the first Trump administration that officials say will allow low-income individuals and people without health insurance to get insulin as low as three cents a vial and $15 for injectable epinephrine from qualified providers through the 340b program. This program allows certain health care providers to purchase drugs at significantly reduced rates.
&#8220;What the executive order does is resurrect something that we had pursued last term, which is to ensure that those 340b discounts are being passed through for insulin and epipens to low-income individuals,&#8221; a White House official said on Tuesday. &#8220;I think that many of you are familiar with the fact that in some cases the 340b program, the acquisition cost of things like insulin are literally pennies on the dollar.&#8221;
That 340b program for insulin and epinephrine was <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/06/16/2021-12545/proposed-rescission-of-executive-order-13937-executive-order-on-access-to-affordable-life-saving" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ended</a> by the Biden administration, which argued that it would raise prices for health care providers and &#8220;undue administrative costs.&#8221;
Health care costs have continued to skyrocket and have only worsened since former President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress passed &#8220;Obamacare.&#8221;

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Normally when a major new law is proposed, it&#8217;s given a name that makes it catchy and appealing to as many people as possible. Of course, pretty much every time, the name is an obvious lie. But it&#8217;s still an effective lie, because every time someone says the name of the law, they&#8217;re giving you a positive soundbite. Obama&#8217;s health care plan, of course, was famously called &#8220;The Affordable Care Act.&#8221; So all of the news articles and cable news segments that talked about the law — even if they were critical of it — ended up reinforcing the message that it would make health care &#8220;affordable.&#8221; The same principle applies to the so-called &#8220;Equal Pay Act,&#8221; the &#8220;Freedom of Information Act,&#8221; the &#8220;Fair Housing Act,&#8221; and so on.
With that in mind, it&#8217;s worth taking a look at the name of a new ballot initiative that was <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/25-0002%20%28Health%20Care%29.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> last week in the state of California. This ballot initiative was proposed by a retired lawyer in the state. And it would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for medication or procedures, unless those insurance companies could demonstrate — by &#8220;clear and convincing evidence&#8221; — that the medication or procedure is completely unnecessary in every way. In other words, they can&#8217;t reject a procedure because it&#8217;s too expensive. If they do, they&#8217;ll face a lawsuit that will almost certainly be successful. In practical terms, this would mean that the cost of health insurance (and medical procedures) would skyrocket. It would have the exact opposite of its intended effect. Insurance companies would probably go bankrupt very quickly, and a lot of people would lose access to health care entirely as a result. So calling this &#8220;bad policy&#8221; would be an understatement.
But that&#8217;s not the point. The point is the name of this ballot initiative. It&#8217;s not called the &#8220;Better Health Care Insurance Act.&#8221; It&#8217;s not called the &#8220;Save Lives Act&#8221; or the &#8220;Free Money Act&#8221; or anything like that. Instead, this ballot initiative is called the &#8220;Luigi Mangione Access to Healthcare Act.&#8221; Yes, a law has just been proposed in the state of California that&#8217;s named after someone who just (allegedly) shot a health care CEO in the back, on camera, after stalking him for weeks. And as much as I&#8217;d like to say that most people in this country have rejected this legislation, that&#8217;s not true. It&#8217;s actually getting a lot of support and mainstream attention at the moment. Watch:
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So evidently, it&#8217;s not enough for the ballot initiative to be named after an alleged murderer. On top of that, the text of the ballot initiative also references the words that the assassin wrote on the bullets that he used to murder Brian Thompson. This is about as sociopathic as things can possibly get. But it&#8217;s got a fighting chance to pass in California. Already many <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jnl1rm/california_ballot_measure_named_after_luigi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">people</a> are supporting the proposal on social media, as you can probably imagine. They&#8217;re particularly fond of the idea on Reddit, which has become a breeding ground for domestic terrorists of late. And the state of California is well-known for passing ballot initiatives like this one.
Reason Magazine <a href="https://reason.com/2025/03/31/the-best-thing-about-the-proposed-california-initiative-named-after-luigi-mangione-is-the-title/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that: &#8220;California has a history of gadflies getting far-reaching policies on the ballot that then end up winning. Liberal California likes to point to Proposition 13, which limited property tax increases, as the canonical example of this. Another example would be Proposition 103, an initiative pushed by consumer advocates that created California&#8217;s current regulatory regime for property and auto insurance. Prop. 103 limits insurers&#8217; ability to raise rates on policyholders and creates a laborious system to justify whatever price increases they are still permitted.&#8221;
And there&#8217;s another reason to think that this initiative will pass. This is a poll that was just conducted by the &#8220;Network Contagion Research Institute,&#8221; which just surveyed Americans across the political spectrum in order to determine their level of tolerance for political violence. <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/bombshell-study-reveals-assassination-culture-080006498.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From Fox</a>, which reported on the results: &#8220;38% of respondents said it would be at least &#8216;somewhat justified&#8217; to murder Donald Trump, and 31% said the same about Elon Musk. &#8230; When counting only left-leaning respondents, justification for killing Trump rose to 55% and Musk to 48%.&#8221;
Yes, more than half of &#8220;left-leaning respondents&#8221; — which includes anyone who identifies as a liberal in any way — believes that it would be acceptable for an assassin to execute Donald Trump. And nearly half of &#8220;left-leaning respondents&#8221; believe it would be acceptable if someone murdered Elon Musk. On top of that, nearly 60% of &#8220;left-leaning respondents&#8221; declared that it would be acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership. They&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s fine to commit acts of domestic terrorism, solely because they disagree with the political views of the CEO of the company.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1572-member-exclusive?row=2&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Carousel&amp;rowHeadline=The+Matt+Walsh+Show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
Yes, polls can be misleading. We talk about the bias that exists in polls all the time. They&#8217;re not necessarily a reliable indicator but in this case, based on everything that&#8217;s happened in this country in the last few years, everyone knows this poll is accurate. We&#8217;ve all seen the outpouring of support for Luigi Mangione — support that continued even after it became very clear that he&#8217;s a raging, wealthy narcissist who had no reason to be upset with United HealthCare whatsoever. In fact, a few months ago, many of Luigi Mangione&#8217; supporters dogpiled one of my videos on YouTube, in order to inform me that I should &#8220;read the room&#8221; and defend first-degree murder.
We&#8217;ve also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtWVnpnx4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">played</a> dozens of clips of random Tesla stores and vehicles being attacked, as mobs cheer on the carnage. People are being terrorized solely on the basis of a vehicle they&#8217;ve purchased — which as far as I can tell, has never happened before in the history of this country. At the height of the Bud Light boycott, no one was violently assaulted for drinking a Bud Light. But for Tesla owners, it&#8217;s a different story. And these attacks are continuing, by the way. Just yesterday, shortly after midnight in Washington State, an explosion <a href="https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/explosion-rips-through-tesla-supercharger-triggering-fbi-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroyed</a> a Tesla charging station.
Along the same lines, as we <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ7Lue_aa0I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> earlier this week, there&#8217;s been a groundswell of support for Karmelo Anthony, who recently stabbed a white high school student to death in Texas at a track meet. Anthony&#8217;s family has now raised more than $250,000 — a quarter of a million dollars — on GiveSendGo, on the theory that the killing was somehow an act of self-defense — even though Karmelo Anthony himself asked officers, as they arrested him, whether self-defense was a viable strategy to pursue. At this rate, he&#8217;ll raise a million dollars for killing a white 17-year-old. Yes, there&#8217;s essentially a bounty for killing white people in this country. Does it matter to these people that Austin Metcalf didn&#8217;t hurt Karmelo Anthony in any way? Does it matter to them that Karmelo Anthony instigated the fight and then threw away the murder weapon as Austin Metcalf died in his brother&#8217;s arms? Does it matter that Karmelo Anthony brought a deadly weapon to the opposing team&#8217;s tent at a track meet, and then dared someone to touch him? Of course not. None of that matters. All that matters is that Austin Metcalf was white and Karmelo Anthony was black.
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So no, it&#8217;s not surprising in the slightest that most self-described liberals in this country are explicitly supporting political violence. We see the evidence everywhere. But at the same time, the diagnosis from the political science experts is obviously lacking in several respects. They aren&#8217;t fully grasping the problem. To give you some idea, here&#8217;s what they have to say.
This is <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/new-survey-reveals-disturbing-trend-in-support-of-political-violence-president-trump-left-of-center-elon-musk-liberal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from CBS</a>: &#8220;Stanley Schwartz, a history professor at Cedarville University, tells us, violence has a long history in American democracy, but it was still striking to read through this report. &#8230; &#8216;A lot of folks on the left are probably feeling a sense of hopelessness or despair following the election loss,&#8217; said Schwartz. &#8230; [Another expert], Darryl Paulson, who specializes in political parties and elections at the University of South Florida, tells us, there used to be rules in how you conducted politics. But those rules don&#8217;t exist anymore. &#8216;Those rules of the game have been thrown out, and it&#8217;s every man for himself,&#8217; Paulson said.&#8221;
That&#8217;s the explanation that the academics have come up with. They&#8217;re saying that something has abruptly changed, and that &#8220;a lot of folks&#8221; are mad that a Republican won the presidency. But that doesn&#8217;t actually capture the magnitude of what&#8217;s happening here. So-called “assassination culture” — as these pollsters have referred to this phenomenon — is not merely the result of hyper partisanship and political division. We&#8217;ve had a lot of very intense political disagreements in this country&#8217;s history, including all-out brawls on the floor of Congress in the 19th century. What we haven&#8217;t seen, until now, are coordinated terror campaigns — endorsed by a major political party — that are conducted against American citizens on the basis of their political beliefs. That is new.
When the Weather Underground bombed The Capitol, both Democrats and Republicans had the good sense to condemn it. But when the modern Weather Underground gets to work against Elon Musk and his supporters, Democrats say nothing. Actually, it&#8217;s worse than that. They come out and publicly taunt Elon Musk and his company, and they suggest he and Tesla got what they deserved.
We&#8217;re seeing this response because, at its core, Leftism is relativistic, fundamentally amoral, and dehumanizing. Leftism has taken over the Democratic Party, and we&#8217;re now witnessing the consequences of that takeover. That is why Leftists are celebrating the murder of Brian Thompson, without any pushback from elected Democrats. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re happy Austin Metcalf is dead, and it&#8217;s why they&#8217;re now desperately hoping that they&#8217;ll get to kill Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Above all else, Leftism is concerned with advancing the interests of the party. That is their overriding goal. It&#8217;s all that interests them. Nothing else matters. They will continue their campaign of violence, at any cost. They don&#8217;t even feel the need to hide it anymore, as the &#8220;Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act&#8221; demonstrates. The same people who cheered the killing of Brian Thompson would cheer your death as well, if they felt it would advance their interests in any way.
Countries can survive economic upheaval, political disagreements and even civil war. But they cannot survive an ideology that is fundamentally anti-human — that&#8217;s completely uninterested in any form of human progress. That is what Leftism, as endorsed by the Democratic Party, now stands for. A majority of Democrats agree with this sentiment. It&#8217;s impossible to overstate this, so I&#8217;ll say it again: They will rationalize your murder if you don&#8217;t agree with them. They will rationalize your murder, as we&#8217;ve seen with Austin Metcalf, if you&#8217;re white. It is incumbent on every sane person — anyone with any survival instinct whatsoever — to stay as far away from these people as possible. And if we accomplish nothing else in the next few years, we should do everything we can to eradicate this ideology so that it doesn&#8217;t result in any more death and destruction than it already has. Leftism arrived in this country relatively quickly. If there&#8217;s one silver lining here, it&#8217;s that we can eliminate it just as quickly.

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West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore and Utah Senator Mike Lee on Tuesday introduced legislation that would ensure that new moms are not “penalized” under federal law for deciding to leave the workforce and stay home with their child. 
The Republican lawmakers introduced a new bill that would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act to ensure that parents are not required to pay back health care costs if they decide to stay home after the birth of their child. The bill, first shared with The Daily Wire, is titled the Fairness for Stay-at-Home-Parents Act.
“Being pro-life means being pro-family. That means ensuring families aren’t penalized for deciding to have a parent stay home with their new baby,” Moore told The Daily Wire. “Our bill ensures families won&#8217;t face a huge bill for insurance premiums simply for choosing what&#8217;s best for their family.”
If passed, the legislation could save families thousands of dollars if a parent decides to stay at home to take care of their child after parental leave. Currently, employers are allowed to claw back insurance premiums if a parent decides to leave the workforce. Family insurance premiums cost an average of $25,000 dollars per year. 
The legislation would “prohibit an employer from recovering any health care premium paid by the employer for an employee if the employee fails to return to work due to the birth of a child,&#8221; according to a copy of the legislation shared with The Daily Wire. 
Lee said that the intent of the bill was to help growing American families. 
“Our legislation rectifies a problem with the Family and Medical Leave Act that unfairly impacts mothers who decide to stay home with their newborns after maternity leave,” Lee told The Daily Wire. “Each additional financial burden we can remove from growing American families is a victory, and this bill will make it easier for hundreds of thousands of new parents to care for their kids.” 
The legislation has earned the endorsement of conservative groups, including the American Principles Project and the Human Coalition. 
Brad Wilcox, a fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, says he thought the proposal from the lawmakers was a good policy that would help give parents more choice. 
“Family policy should give parents the choice to care for their young children,” he said. “The Fairness for Stay-at-Home-Parents Act does this, which is why I think it is a smart idea.”

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case that will determine whether South Carolina can pull the plug on state-administered Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. 
The case centers around a woman who sued the state Department of Health after it said she couldn’t use money from the state’s Medicaid program at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Arguments focused on whether Medicaid recipients can sue the state over the policy and if South Carolina has the authority to make guidelines about where the money can be used. 
John Bursch, a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom representing South Carolina, and the Trump administration argued that the state had no legal obligation to designate funds for abortion providers. 
“Disqualifying abortion providers like [Planned Parenthood] ensures that women receive comprehensive medical care,” Bursch <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1275/341725/20250203121003568_23-1275%20Brief%20for%20the%20Petitioner.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a legal brief to the court. “It also ensures that South Carolina’s Medicaid funding goes toward improving ‘access to necessary medical care and important women’s health and family planning services’ for all women—rather than improving Planned Parenthood’s ability to free up funding to pay for abortions.”
Bursch and the Justice Department argued that the Medicaid Act does not create a right for a recipient to choose a provider. 
Nicole Saharsky, a lawyer for Planned Parenthood, argued that the state has an obligation to allocate Medicaid funding to the health care provider of the recipient&#8217;s choosing. 
“As this case comes to the court it is established that South Carolina violated the statute by denying Julie Edwards of her choice of a qualified and willing provider,” she said. “The only question is whether she can do something about it.” 
Several of the justices, including Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, appeared skeptical of several of Saharsky’s claims. 
Bursch argued that South Carolina&#8217;s two Planned Parenthood affiliates offer little of what actually constitutes health care and were rightly excluded from the program. 
“While both entities claim to offer a range of healthcare services, they mainly offer abortions, contraception, STD testing, other screenings, and experimental puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to those who identify as transgender, including minors,” he wrote in a filing to the court. 
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, who directed the state to stop sending Medicaid dollars toward Planned Parenthood, was at the Supreme Court for the hearing. 
“I&#8217;m in Washington this morning as we defend South Carolina&#8217;s right to exclude Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from our Medicaid program,” he <a href="https://x.com/henrymcmaster/status/1907417543293444520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. 
There are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-rep-biggs-calls-on-doge-to-probe-planned-parenthood-ceos-exorbitant-salaries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently efforts</a> underway to slash federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which ended the lives of around 392,715 unborn children from 2022 to 2023, according to its most recent annual reports. During that same period, Planned Parenthood received nearly $700 million in federal funding.

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A woman is suing an Illinois doctor after he allegedly botched her late-term abortion, landing her in the emergency room with baby parts left inside her, a potentially deadly complication.
Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle at Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois, performed the abortion on her 22-week unborn baby on April 2, 2023, the anonymous woman, who goes by &#8220;Jane Doe,&#8221; said in her lawsuit, filed on Friday.
The lawsuit alleges Kindle botched the &#8220;dilation and evacuation&#8221; procedure, perforating the woman&#8217;s uterus and leaving a significant part of the baby&#8217;s body inside her.
Kindle also allegedly did not administer any drugs to stop the baby&#8217;s heart, meaning he potentially dismembered the baby alive.
The woman, a mother of four living children, endured hours of pain before ending up in the emergency room, where a surgical team removed the rest of her baby and repaired her uterus, according to her lawsuit. She was left with significant physical damage and emotional distress, her suit claims.
Just three months earlier, Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, had <a href="https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.25906.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a sweeping abortion and transgender bill that signaled the state&#8217;s support for Illinois abortionists, shielding them from prosecution in other states.
Illinois also has looser restrictions on abortion clinics than other states — it <a href="https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/regulations-on-facilities-and-clinicians-providing-abortions/?currentTimeframe=0&amp;selectedRows=%7B%22states%22:%7B%22illinois%22:%7B%7D%7D%7D&amp;sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not</a> require abortionists to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and it does not require clinics to meet ambulatory surgical center standards.
Kindle recorded that the woman&#8217;s uterus had been emptied and that he had inspected the &#8220;products of conception&#8221; and determined they were &#8220;complete,&#8221; that is, all parts of the unborn baby had been removed, the lawsuit notes.
The next day, the woman experienced heavy cramping and called the abortion clinic several times over many hours, at one point telling them &#8220;her bottom has a lot of pressure and it is hard to breathe.&#8221;
The abortion clinic told her to take ibuprofen. When that did not relieve her cramping, Kindle told her to take a laxative, the suit says.
Two days after the abortion, the woman told the clinic she had taken a laxative, but her cramping had increased. The abortion clinic told her to take an enema and go to the emergency room, the suit says.
She went to the emergency room, where a surgical team found and removed &#8220;half of a deceased pre-born human being&#8221; in her pelvis, according to medical records cited in the suit. They removed pieces of the fetal skull, which had adhered to her intestine, and they repaired her perforated uterus.
Kindle &#8220;deviated from a reasonable standard of care&#8221; and &#8220;it should have been obvious&#8221; that fetal parts were left inside, said a board-certified OBGYN with 35 years of experience including performing hundreds of abortions, whose letter analyzing the medical records was included in the lawsuit.
The emergency room medical team found &#8220;evidence of severe and intentional trauma&#8221; and signs of infection in her abdomen, according to the operative notes from the emergency room surgery.
The unborn baby&#8217;s body was found mutilated, according to the operative notes.
&#8220;Stumps of both femurs extended from the soft tissue of the torso,&#8221; and the baby&#8217;s arms were missing from the elbow down, the notes state.
&#8220;The skull was crushed and no brain was present. The face was non-recognizable,&#8221; the notes say.
The general surgeon who assisted in the emergency room surgery called Kindle, but the abortionist refused to answer any questions, the lawsuit states.
The woman herself also called Kindle again and asked whether her unborn child had been a boy or a girl. Kindle allegedly told her he would &#8220;look again&#8221; even though he knew the fetal remains had already been discarded and determining the sex would be impossible, which the lawsuit says was &#8220;outrageous, exceeded all bounds of human decency, and is intolerable in a civilized society.&#8221;
The woman is demanding a trial by jury and monetary damages of $50,000 each for five counts of medical negligence and emotional distress.

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A top executive at a major healthcare provider whose duties involve placing graduate students at hospitals across the country has said that “diversity” is essential for healthcare and advocated for medical schools to accept students in racially proportional ways. 
Dr. Monique Butler, the president of Graduate Medical Education for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare, has aggressively pushed DEI and racial quotas. HCA, headquartered in Tennessee, also has a history of championing DEI, though many references to such efforts have been scrubbed from its website in recent months. 
Butler was <a href="https://investor.hcahealthcare.com/news/news-details/2024/HCA-Healthcare-Names-Dr.-Monique-Butler-as-President-of-Graduate-Medical-Education/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> president of HCA’s graduate medical education program in March 2024. One of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs, it <a href="https://hcahealthcaregme.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offers</a> over 300 residency and fellowship programs across 16 states and 79 hospitals with more than 5000 residents and 300 fellows. 
According to HCA, it is <a href="https://hcahealthcaregme.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the</a> “largest sponsor of residency and fellowship programs across the nation” and its facilities handle “five percent of all U.S. hospital services.”
Prior to her work at HCA, Butler pushed for DEI in presentations and speeches and even advocated for medical schools to adopt a sort of racial quota system to ensure their student body was directly proportional to the general population.  
“Diversity in health care cannot be a want, it is a must-have,” Butler <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/discussion-to-examine-health-care-disparities-racial-empowerment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a 2020 speech. 
In 2021, she delivered the University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences keynote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Y5s3JlP6I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">address</a>, in which she claimed: “race — as well as sex, gender, sexuality, age, social class and ability —  can adversely affect opportunities, access, care, treatment and the overall lived experiences of people of color, particularly black people.”
During that speech, Butler also called for medical schools across the United States to admit a directly proportional number of minority students into their programs. 
Butler said she was issuing a “call to action” to medical school leaders to “ensure that their student population reflects the population of the United States population,” noting that only 5% of medical school graduates were black despite making up 13% of the population. 
“We have some work to do,” she said. 
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She said that the lower number of black and minority medical school graduates was contributing to “health disparities” in the United States. 
In that same lecture, she pushed a now-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-saying-black-babies-more-likely-to-die-under-white-doctors-didnt-control-for-1-key-factor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debunked</a> study that claims that black babies are more likely to die under white doctors’ care. 
Butler also made numerous references to George Floyd, claiming that police brutality was a contributor to health &#8220;inequality.&#8221; She said that curriculum at medical schools across the country should be infused with implicit bias training. 
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In October 2020, Butler moderated a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c4zs13Esoo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> on what she called the “health equity crisis” in the United States. Butler said that governments should be held “responsible” for “neutralizing” the amount of money spent per school district. 
Later, in a 2023 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8as63qBruY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lecture</a>, she urged people to be “allies” and urged providers to “challenge” human resources departments to “ensure that there are metrics they are looking” at to ensure “at least” diverse candidates. 
Butler&#8217;s push for DEI in medicine was criticized by Do No Harm, a group devoted to getting politics out of medicine.
&#8220;Medical education, whether in the classroom or in hospital, must be focused on merit. Dr. Butler is advocating for the return of racial segregation in medicine, promoting the disproved hypothesis of racial concordance, eroding patient-physician trust and degrading the rigor of medical education,&#8221; Senior Do No Harm fellow Dr. Jared Ross told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The best physician for you is the most qualified, regardless of melanin content or sexual orientation.&#8221;
Butler has worked for a number of high-profile medical corporations throughout her career and has received numerous glowing profiles. Some of these profiles include DEI-related accomplishments.  
For example, an October 2022 University of Michigan School Of Kinesiology alumni <a href="https://www.kines.umich.edu/news-events/profiles/dr-monique-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> of Butler reveals that she created something called the Grant Foundation in order to “improve health equity.” One of the purported programs offered by the Grant Foundation is the Pathfinders Scholarship Award, which is given to first-generation and “underrepresented” University of Michigan kinesiology students to “pursue a career in health care.”
The foundation has a small online footprint and is not advertised by the University of Michigan aside from the alumni profile. It is unclear how many students have received the award or how students may apply for the opportunity. 
Another program with a scant track record that Butler is said to have created is the “Women Physicians Network,” which is mentioned in a number of Butler’s <a href="https://yourhub.denverpost.com/blog/2018/08/hcahealthones-swedish-medical-center-welcomes-new-chief-medical-officer/223519/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profiles</a> and again in the congressional <a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2020/09/29/CREC-2020-09-29-pt1-PgE893.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record</a>. This network appears to have no online presence and is not registered as a non-profit in Michigan or Florida. 
Another profile of Butler <a href="https://umichpicsannouncements.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-global-health-symposium-brochure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reveals</a> that she has “research experience” in health care “disparities” while there appears to be limited evidence of any scholarly articles widely available that Butler has contributed to on disparities. 
Her employer, HCA, has also publicly pushed adherence to DEI ideology until relatively recently. 
“Our Executive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council informs critical strategic decision making, monitors progress against goals and objectives, and serves as visible and vocal sponsors of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the organization,” HCA posted on its website as of at least October 2024, according to an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241008171042/https://hcahealthcare.com/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived</a> webpage. 
“Across HCA Healthcare, our Division Diversity, Equity and Inclusion councils support deployment of key DEI strategies and programs at a local level. These councils are comprised of division leaders and facility representatives who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve,” HCA added. 
That page now redirects to a general “mission” statement that doesn’t mention diversity or equity. 
When reached for comment about some of its deleted DEI pages, a spokeswoman gave a general comment on the mission of HCA. 
“Our focus has always been to foster a culture that exemplifies our company’s mission and values by promoting care and respect for all patients and colleagues, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age or other characteristics, and we will continue to do so,” the spokeswoman said. “Our Culture and Values team continues to lead and facilitate cross-department partnerships that seek to support the delivery of high-quality care for our patients, foster opportunities for colleagues and improve the health of our communities.”
The spokeswoman added that HCA was “continuously looking for ways to build on our longstanding commitment to promoting an environment where everyone feels valued, while also supporting a broader vision of teamwork, respect and shared purpose across all areas of our organization.”
In the past, HCA released reports highlighting its DEI initiatives. 
Its 2023 DEI “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240918105926/https:/hcahealthcare.com/util/documents/2023/2023-HCAH-DEI-Year-in-Review-a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snapshot</a>” boasted  that the group adopted “Joint Commission equity standards to reduce health disparities&#8221; and investments in “health equity partnerships.” These investments included $7.42 million to historically black colleges and Hispanic “serving institutions” between 2021 and 2023.
In February 2024, HCA released a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240816160832/https:/hcahealthcare.com/util/documents/2023/508_DEI-EEO-1-Report-2023-a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on all the ways the company has incorporated different layers of DEI councils throughout the company. 
“HCA Healthcare is focused on fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging for our colleagues through workplace programs, education, diverse talent acquisition, engagement and development,” the company reported. 
These efforts include the creation of a black leadership organization, implicit bias training, and “advancing equity for our LGBTQ+ communities.”
HCA also announced that it was working to develop more relationships with “diverse suppliers.”
“We are committed to expanding partnerships with a diverse range of businesses, including those owned and operated by people of color, women, veterans, members of the LGBTQ+ community and members of socially and economically disadvantaged groups,” the report said. 
However, many of the DEI-related materials appear to have been removed from the HCA’s website. 
Ross, of Do No Harm, said that HCA should completely abandon any DEI-related projects.
&#8220;Hospital Corporation of America should stop any DEI efforts and instead put resources into providing the best education for doctors,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire.
The apparent retreat comes amid increasing cultural pressure for companies and universities to abandon DEI principles and focus on merit. This shift comes after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in June 2023, and the executive orders from President Donald Trump cracking down on the federal government’s promotion of DEI.

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Violence against America’s executives keeps escalating. On February 21, a gunman shot up the home of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation CEO Chip Terhune in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lake Oswego</a>, near Portland. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/insurance-ceos-home-riddled-bullets-gunman-remains-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reported</a> Fox News, “The shots were fired at close range by someone possibly wearing a hoodie or ski mask and carrying a light-colored object.”
His family could have also been injured or even killed. As of now, no suspect has been identified.
The attack occurred as America continues to mourn UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhealth-group-slain-ceo-brian-thompson-good-guys/story?id=116705908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> last December 4 in New York City. “It was a life lived to the fullest,” said the company’s CEO, Andrew Witty. “And a life that helped make a profoundly positive impact on the lives of so many people.” However, some on the Left disagree.
Alleged killer Luigi Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty, made his first <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7b7xLdISk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court appearance</a> since his arraignment on February 21. Outside the courthouse, deranged supporters chanted, “We, the people, want Luigi free.”
Immediately after the killing, “Wanted” signs <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/executive-hit-lists-wanted-posters-nypd-warns-threats/story?id=116662519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> in Manhattan featuring other corporate executives. An NYPD bulletin cautioned that “some online users across social media platforms reacted positively to the killing, encouraged future targeting of similar executives, and shared conspiracy theories regarding the shooting.” Such disregard for life and free discussion is what led to the Oregon attack and potentially others.
Unfortunately, some leading public discussions on health care and corporate policies have unconditionally failed to condemn such attacks. While they profess support for nonviolence, they often equivocate.
“Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told the Huffington Post in an <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/warren-sanders-brian-thompson-health-care_n_6758bc0fe4b063b52a9a524b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a>. But what happens if they’re “pushed too far” and start killing? She further exacerbated, “The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) described Thompson’s murder as “outrageous” and “unacceptable.” Then the self-proclaimed socialist equivocated, “I think what the outpouring of anger at the health care industry tells us is that millions of people understand that health care is a human right and that you cannot have people in the insurance industry rejecting needed health care for people while they make billions of dollars in profit.” 
 
On March 4, John Stossel posted a YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IOWBjoo7Ew" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Swedish economist Sven Larson, who now lives in Kansas, discussing Bernie Sanders&#8217; cliché for decades that healthcare is a “right.” Larson commented, “You get the right to free health care, but whether you actually get the healthcare or not is a different story.” He added, “I have friends who have died in the Swedish health care system because they couldn’t get treatment in time.” 
 
Wendell Potter, a former vice president for corporate communications at Cigna Corp., took a similarly appalling stance to that of Warren and Sanders in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/opinion/health-insurance-united-ceo-shooting.html">op-ed</a> for the New York Times. While lamenting Thompson’s “tragic assassination,” Potter used that as a tree on which to hang his position.
He stated he resigned while assisting in the planning of a financial meeting “similar to the one that UnitedHealthcare canceled after Mr. Thompson’s horrific killing.” This revealed an “uncomfortable truth&#8230; that shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at for-profit health insurance companies.”
If companies lose money, they go bankrupt. If the health insurance industry can’t turn a profit, the only alternative is a rationing system like those in Sweden or Canada, which means a “right” to long wait times even for routine care. Potter is taking his disgruntled former employee attitude too far.
In a rebuttal <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/letters/health-insurance-failures.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Times, Michael Keyes, an executive with 20 years in the health care industry, branded Potter’s op-ed “a misleading cheap shot” targeting a sector that “cares for hundreds of millions of Americans while navigating an exceptionally complex system.”
If Warren, Sanders, and Potter disagree with the current U.S. health care policy, fine. This is a democracy. State your case. However, taking advantage of a terrorist act as an excuse to advance a policy agenda is beyond the pale and ought to be unequivocally condemned.
Such outrages must cease, or this country will descend into Venezuelan-style anarchy, taking our economy down with it.
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President Donald Trump marked six weeks in office on Friday as his administration continued to aggressively implement his agenda at home and seek peace abroad.
This week, Trump turned his attention to the war in Ukraine, capping the week with an explosive on-camera shouting match in the Oval Office with the Ukrainian president.
Here are this week&#8217;s highlights.
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On Friday, Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. The visit was friendly until an Oval Office meeting devolved into an heated argument between Trump, Zelensky, and Vice President JD Vance in front of media cameras.
The back and forth began when Zelensky interrupted questions from the press to challenge Vance on diplomacy with Russia.
&#8220;During the war, everybody has problems, even you, but you have nice ocean and don&#8217;t feel now, but you will feel it in the future. God bless, you will not have war,&#8221; Zelensky told Vance.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell us what we&#8217;re going to feel. We&#8217;re trying to solve a problem,&#8221; Trump interrupted, adding, &#8220;you don&#8217;t have the cards right now&#8221; and accusing Zelensky of &#8220;gambling with the lives of millions of people.&#8221;
The exchange went on for several minutes with Trump reminding Zelensky that the United States has sent Ukraine vital and expensive military equipment.
&#8220;Have you said thank you once?&#8221; Vance asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve empowered you to be a tough guy,&#8221; Trump told Zelensky. &#8220;You&#8217;re either going to make a deal, or we&#8217;re out.&#8221;
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Afterward, a joint press conference was canceled, and Trump asked Zelensky to leave the White House. The two presidents had also planned to sign a deal where Ukraine would trade rare minerals for defense help from the United States, but that signing was also canceled, leaving the deal in peril.
“I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations,” Trump wrote on Truth Social afterward. “I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
Trump also hosted French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on Monday. They displayed their friendly relationship with plenty of handshakes, but clashed on the Ukraine war.
Macron said &#8220;peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,&#8221; while Trump emphasized how much money the United States has spent on aid to Ukraine and said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to make a deal.
Trump hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday, where Starmer <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/trump-presidency-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Trump to continue supporting Ukraine, as well as not to put tariffs on the United Kingdom.
Trade and American Investment
Trump said China will be hit with an additional 10% tariff next week on top of the first 10% tariff Trump already imposed this month. The president cited China&#8217;s major role in fentanyl flowing into the United States.
Trump also said tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on March 4 &#8220;as scheduled,&#8221; saying those countries have not done enough to stop the flow of drugs into the United States either.
On Monday, Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the tech giant will invest $500 billion in the Unites States over the next four years. Apple CEO Tim Cook <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1893048920047018379" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met</a> with Trump last week. The move will create 20,000 jobs in the United States and comes amid Trump&#8217;s tariffs aimed at encouraging United States manufacturing.
Trump also <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-the-threat-to-nationalsecurity-from-imports-of-copper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order aimed at addressing national security threats from copper imports, saying copper products are &#8220;vital&#8221; for defense products and other technology. The order <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-warns-reliance-on-foreign-copper-poses-a-direct-threat-to-national-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directs</a> the Commerce Secretary to look into tariffs on copper imports to encourage domestic production. The order also references China, the global leader in copper smelting and refining, saying China&#8217;s dominance &#8220;poses a direct threat to United States national security and economic stability.&#8221;
Immigration
Illegal crossings at the southern border are <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1892771191787508153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down</a> to about 285 a day, 94% lower than in February a year ago, and migrants are <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/new-trend-of-migrants-turning-around-and-heading-back-toward-home-under-trump-border-crackdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> giving up and returning home <a href="https://apnews.com/article/panama-united-states-migration-trump-beb125ce0ecbebb2895ea9dd18c4c53b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">due</a>, in part, to the end of the Biden administration&#8217;s CBP One app.
Arrests inside the country are up 137% <a href="https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1891631396214493594" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared</a> to a year ago. The illegal migrant criminals the administration has arrested <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/sick-politicians-want-killers-rapists-roaming-our-streets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">include</a> a Salvadoran migrant convicted of sodomy with a victim under 13, a Sudanese migrant convicted of rape of a victim under 13, and a Mexican migrant who had an order of removal from 2006 and was convicted of drunk driving resulting in a death.
On Thursday, the White House said 29 Mexican cartel members were extradited to the United States for prosecution, including a cartel boss who tortured and murdered a DEA agent in the 1980s.
Health Care
Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/making-america-healthy-again-by-empowering-patients-with-clear-accurate-and-actionable-healthcare-pricing-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order aimed at making sure patients have clear and accurate information about the price of their health care. Several departments, including Health and Human Services, are directed to enforce new price transparency regulations to make sure hospitals and insurance companies disclose their actual prices, not estimates, and make prices comparable across the board, including prescription drug prices.
DOGE
Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a new executive order giving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) more power to slash government spending.
The order tells federal agency heads to work with DOGE team leads to justify government spending over the next month, starting with investigating grants and contracts to educational institutions and foreign entities for waste, fraud, and abuse. Agency heads also have to explain taxpayer-funded conference travel and identify federal properties that are no longer needed. The order also freezes all agency credit cards except those for disaster relief or other critical services.
Meanwhile, one million federal workers responded to Elon Musk&#8217;s DOGE email asking them to describe five things they got done the week before.
The administration continues to slash the federal workforce, with thousands of employees <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/tracking-federal-workforce-firings-dg/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already</a> fired and more taking buyout offers.
Epstein Files
Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to release the FBI&#8217;s files on millionaire sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, but she was stymied by the FBI allegedly withholding thousands of Epstein documents.
On Wednesday, Bondi said on Fox News that she hoped to release some Epstein files the next day. On Thursday, Bondi <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/right-wing-influencers-get-binders-labeled-the-epstein-files-but-downplay-revelations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> a group of right-wing influencers at the White House binders labeled &#8220;The Epstein Files: Phase 1.&#8221; However, the binders contained little new information, certainly not Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking client list.
Bondi then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pam-bondi-says-fbi-lied-to-her-about-turning-over-all-of-the-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the FBI of lying to her about turning over all the Epstein documents after someone at the FBI&#8217;s New York office told her there were thousands more documents.
Also this week, Bondi <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pam-bondi-dismisses-dei-lawsuits-involving-police-officers-and-firefighters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the Justice Department has dropped several Biden-era DEI lawsuits against police and fire departments over their supposedly racist hiring practices such as written exams and credit checks.
Other Moves
Trump held his first official Cabinet meeting, which Elon Musk attended.
Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1894500240863969327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1894500240863969327%7Ctwgr%5E8f59ae9134259fc75a25aea5ffa53ea38b57d4e5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-yanks-clearances-from-jack-smiths-team-scolds-reporter-worried-about-who-hes-targeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nixed</a> the security clearances of a law firm, Covington &amp; Burling LLP, that provided free legal services to Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office in the cases against Trump before the election.
“I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years, and then four years after that. So don’t talk to me about targeting,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-yanks-clearances-from-jack-smiths-team-scolds-reporter-worried-about-who-hes-targeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a reporter at the signing.
On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/agriculture-secretary-brooke-rollins-my-plan-to-lower-egg-prices-6be0f881" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laid out</a> her plan to lower egg prices, an economic sticking point for years. The strategy will involve spending up to $1 billion to curb avian flu, protecting egg farmers from regulations like California&#8217;s minimum space requirements for hens, and considering temporary egg imports.
Vance, a Catholic, addressed the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday. The vice president said ahead of his remarks that during the election cycle, he was &#8220;moved to witness the joyful devotion&#8221; of Catholics &#8220;praying for the future and success of our country,&#8221; and &#8220;thanks to their faithful prayers, hope has returned to America again.&#8221;
Meanwhile, a new poll conducted last week <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HHP_Feb2025_vFinal.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> Americans are more optimistic about the economy, more say their personal financial situation is improving, and a majority, 52% approve of the job Trump is doing as president.

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Luigi Mangione, who is currently awaiting trial for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has asked that his fans stop sending him so many photos.
The 26-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania issued the request after being inundated with unsolicited pictures sent to him at a federal jail in Brooklyn where he is currently being held. 
“Luigi is allowed to receive photos via Shutterfly and FreePrints in accordance with mail procedures while in custody,” a <a href="https://www.luigimangioneinfo.com/pages/faq/">statement</a> on the FAQ page of his legal defense information website says. 
“Due to the volume of photos, they could take longer than usual to be screened and shared. Luigi appreciates the photos that are sent and kindly asks that people send no more than five photos at a time. Please note that every photo that is received is screened and reviewed by law enforcement.”
The FAQ page previously had a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-fans-gifts-fundraiser-jail-2036072">statement</a> asking fans to stop sending Mangione books.
Last Friday, the Ivy League graduate appeared for a pretrial hearing in New York Criminal Court, which attracted dozens of his supporters to the courthouse. Despite the serious nature of his charges, Mangione has accumulated a large fan base, especially among leftists who are unhappy with the U.S. healthcare system.
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of murder. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. No trial date has been set.
He is also facing federal charges, which could result in the death penalty, but a federal grand jury has not yet indicted him. His next date in federal court is in mid-March, per <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/luigi-mangione-new-york-state-case-court-appearance-friday/story?id=119008079">ABC News</a>.
Mangione released his first public statement earlier this month and mentioned the amount of fan mail he’s received since being arrested.
“I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for – everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support,” the statement from Mangione read. “Powerfully, this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions, as mail has flooded MDC from across the country, and around the globe.”
He added, “While it is impossible for me to reply to most letters, please know that I read every one that I receive. Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write. I look forward to hearing more in the future.”
Thompson, a husband and father of two children, was killed by a masked assassin who was caught on video firing multiple shots into the UnitedHealthcare CEO before fleeing the scene. Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after the murder.

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If you weren’t paying close attention on Super Bowl Sunday, you might have missed the <a href="https://x.com/wearehims/status/1888774632955691247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commercial</a> from telehealth company Hims and Hers that has generated some online controversy. 
In the ad, the company correctly points out the “deadliest epidemic” facing Americans: obesity. Hims and Hers nailed it on the head with its description of the weight loss industry’s failure to keep Americans healthy, but despite the convincing and emotional message of the ad, it still missed the point when its solution was just more medications. 
Instead of pushing a healthy lifestyle, Hims and Hers advertised a compounded semaglutide, which is basically just a substitute for Ozempic. In 2023, the FDA received numerous <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/fdas-concerns-unapproved-glp-1-drugs-used-weight-loss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> of adverse effects after people used compounded semaglutide. Of course, the Hims and Hers ad didn’t mention this, and sadly, many health care providers lead people to believe that major health issues, such as obesity, can be cured with another medication, another injectable, or another prescription. 
That’s not what will give you true health. 
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