For months, Americans have watched President Donald Trump deliver on the promises that helped fuel his return to the White House. The border is more secure. Tax relief is moving forward. No taxes on tips became reality. Republicans have shown that when they are united, they can govern with speed and purpose.
The chance to shape history is rare. Right now, Congress has that chance — and the clock is ticking.
But one major promise remains unfinished: making America the crypto capital of the world.
The good news is that Congress can finish the job — and deliver the perfect birthday gift to America in the process.
When the Senate Banking Committee <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/majority/chairman-scott-senate-banking-committee-advance-clarity-act-in-historic-bipartisan-vote">advanced</a> the Clarity Act with bipartisan support, it sent a clear signal that lawmakers understand what is at stake. Even more encouraging, Senator Cynthia Lummis recently <a href="https://www.binance.com/en-TR/square/post/06-04-2026-senator-lummis-expects-clarity-act-passage-by-august-recess-330303642523329">suggested</a> the legislation could reach President Trump&#8217;s desk by July 4. The opportunity is real. The momentum is real. But momentum means nothing if Congress allows delay to become defeat.
The forces opposing this legislation understand they are losing the argument. That&#8217;s why they aren&#8217;t trying to defeat it outright. They&#8217;re trying to delay it.
Slow it down. Demand more studies. Hold more hearings. Push it past July 4. Kick it into election season.
Washington calls it &#8220;process.&#8221; The American people call it failure.
The digital asset revolution isn&#8217;t coming — it&#8217;s already here. The only question is whether America leads it or watches from the sidelines while competitors race ahead.
President Trump has made his position clear: America should be the crypto capital of the world.
He&#8217;s right.
The nations that lead digital assets, blockchain technology, and next-generation finance will enjoy a significant economic advantage for decades to come. America can either write the rules or live under someone else’s.
There is no third option.
China understands what&#8217;s at stake. Beijing is investing aggressively in the technologies that will define the next century because it wants to dominate the infrastructure of tomorrow&#8217;s global economy.
Congress should not hand China that opportunity.
For more than two centuries, America has led the world in the most important innovations—from the Industrial Revolution to the Internet Revolution. There&#8217;s no reason to surrender leadership now.
The stakes extend far beyond cryptocurrency. This is about whether the next generation of financial innovation is built in America or overseas, whether American workers benefit from that growth, and whether consumers gain access to faster, cheaper, and more efficient financial tools.
The current system rewards gatekeepers and middlemen. The American people deserve better.
Trump voters support it. Independent voters support it. Young voters support it. Entrepreneurs support it. Small-business owners support it.
Lawmakers should also recognize that not every bill moving through Washington has a clear path forward. The ROAD to Housing Act passed the House with several toxic Maxine Waters amendments that complicate its prospects for timely advancement in the Senate. Housing affordability remains an important priority, but with the housing package facing a rocky road and the Clarity Act gaining momentum by the day, the choice should be obvious for legislators looking for their next major bipartisan win.
The legislative calendar is shrinking. Campaign season is approaching. Every day without Congressional action makes success more difficult.
America&#8217;s 250th birthday should be more than a celebration of our past — it should be a declaration about our future.
Passing the Clarity Act before July 4 would do more than fulfill a campaign promise. It would demonstrate that America still has the courage to lead. Congress has a chance to send a message heard around the world: the United States is not retreating from innovation, surrendering to bureaucracy, or allowing Beijing to dictate the future.
America intends to win the race, lead the future, and remain the world&#8217;s economic powerhouse for generations to come.
With bipartisan support growing and momentum building, Congress has a rare opportunity to deliver a victory that is both symbolic and substantive.
The question is whether lawmakers will seize it — or let it slip away.
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Ben Ferguson is a nationally syndicated talk radio host and author. He is the host of &#8220;The Ben Ferguson Podcast&#8221; and the co-host of &#8220;Verdict with Ted Cruz,&#8221; one of the top-ranked political podcasts in the country.

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While President Donald Trump lost his sweeping tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled against his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Tuesday that tariffs are far from over.
“What we are doing now is we have investigations ongoing in my office and we are investigating specific unfair trading practices,” Greer <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/06/02/u-s-trade-rep-greer-were-investigating-specific-unfair-trade-practices-by-different-countries.html">told</a> CNBC. “You will see over the next few weeks, we will be releasing our findings. We are covering a lot of countries, over 70 countries. If we find unfair trading practices — structural excess capacity, forced labor, things like this — we will put out proposals on how we think we should fix it and that may be proposed tariffs.” 
Trump initially relied on IEEPA because it allowed him to impose broad tariffs quickly without the lengthy investigative processes required under traditional trade laws.
“When the president used his emergency authority he was able to move very quickly to get at this issue, get a lot of leverage, and impose tariffs,” Greer explained.
After the Supreme Court blocked Trump&#8217;s use of IEEPA earlier this year, the administration turned to Section 122 and implemented a temporary 10% tariff on February 24. But unlike the tariffs announced on &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; in April 2025, Section 122 tariffs are temporary by law and were later struck down by the U.S. Court of International Trade.
With those options curtailed, the administration has shifted its focus to Sections 301 and 232: the two principal trade authorities that require the involvement of Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Greer said the results of his Section 301 investigations would be released in the coming weeks, which could introduce new tariffs across the world. Under Section 301, the Office of the United States Trade Representative investigates whether foreign countries are engaging in unfair trade practices, gathers evidence, solicits public comments, and holds hearings before recommending tariffs or other trade restrictions. 
That is the same authority Trump used to impose tariffs on China during his first term. Those tariffs survived legal challenges, but investigations typically take between three and nine months to complete, making them slower and less useful as an immediate negotiating tool than emergency tariff authorities.
Lutnick, like Greer, can also launch investigations, not into unfair trade practices, but into industries that are crucial to national security. Unlike Greer’s Section 301 investigations, which focus on unfair trade practices, Lutnick’s Section 232 investigations examine whether imports threaten industries deemed critical to national security. Those investigations allowed Trump to impose tariffs if the Commerce Department determines that a strategic industry is vulnerable because of import dependence. 
The department began launching Section 232 investigations just weeks after Trump returned to office. Global Trade Alert <a href="https://globaltradealert.org/blog/s232-expanding-when-ieepa-fell">observed</a> that Section 232 “had never stopped expanding” and noted that the administration had launched, relaunched, or expanded roughly 20 actions from the section before the Supreme Court ruled against Trump&#8217;s IEEPA tariffs, suggesting the White House was already building alternative pathways for trade restrictions.
The pathway no longer available is Trump&#8217;s ability to wield tariffs during negotiations.
In January, he threatened to impose tariffs on countries that do business with Iran, citing the country’s repression of protesters, support for proxy terrorist groups, and continued pursuit of nuclear capabilities. In negotiations with China, Trump warned that tariffs would increase if China continued withholding rare earth minerals from the United States. Rare earth minerals are vital for products ranging from household appliances and automobiles to semiconductors for artificial intelligence chips.
The delay in collecting additional tariff revenue could raise budget concerns, with Trump repeatedly claiming that tariffs would help fund the extension of his 2017 tax cuts in the &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he planned to make Todd Blanche&#8217;s position as acting attorney general “permanent.” 
“Tomorrow I&#8217;m instructing Dan [Scavino] and everybody else that&#8217;s involved in that very complicated process, which is gonna go, I think, very quickly, that we are going to make him permanent Attorney General,&#8221; Trump said during an event at the White House. 
A video of Trump’s comments was posted by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, who wrote, &#8220;congratulations” to Blanche and the Justice Department. 
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Blanche became acting attorney general in April after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pam-bondi-out-as-ag-following-months-of-epstein-controversy-criticism-over-lack-of-prosecutions">decided</a> to move on from Pam Bondi. Trump was reportedly frustrated with the lack of criminal prosecutions of Democrats he believed weaponized their positions against him. Bondi also faced much criticism over her handling of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 
At one point it appeared as if Trump was considering other options, including EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, to officially take the helm of the Justice Department, but it appears he has decided to stick with Blanche. 
During an appearance this week on “Pod Force One,” Trump described Blanche as a “very talented guy” and said he was doing “a very good job” at the Justice Department. When asked by reporter Miranda Devine if he believed Blanche would become attorney general, the president said, “I ​think he will.” 
Under Blanche, the Justice Department brought renewed charges against former FBI Director James Comey, along with charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center and a scientist who once served as a top aide to Anthony Fauci. 
Blanche worked on multiple Trump defense teams after his first term as president ended, including the case involving accusations that he falsified business records in New York during the “hush money” case. He also worked to defend Trump against the charges brought by former special counsel Jack Smith related to the president’s handling of classified documents and the 2020 election. 
To become attorney general, Blanche would need to be confirmed by the Senate. He was confirmed as deputy attorney general in a 52-46 vote, but would likely face questions about the scrapped $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is backing a new congressional resolution that calls for phasing out U.S. military aid to Israel and replacing it with a joint strategic partnership between the longtime allies.
The resolution, introduced Wednesday by Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) after a meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week, <a href="https://stutzman.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stutzman-introduces-resolution-transition-us-israel-relations">calls</a> for ending the current military aid framework and replacing it with expanded cooperation on defense technology, intelligence sharing, weapons development, and strategic planning.
The proposal reflects a position Netanyahu has increasingly embraced over the past year: that Israel should reduce its dependence on American military assistance and build a more self-sufficient defense industry while maintaining a close alliance with Washington.
“As I said in our meeting in Jerusalem on May 27, 2026, Israel deeply appreciates the financial component of the military aid the United States has generously provided us over the years,” Netanyahu wrote <a href="https://stutzman.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/stutzman.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/usa-rep-marlin-stutzman-defense-cooperation-1.6.26.pdf.pdf">in a letter</a> endorsing the legislation. “The time has now arrived for us to move from aid recipient to partner.”
Israel receives roughly $3.8 billion annually in U.S. military aid under a long-standing memorandum of understanding between the two countries. Most of that funding must be spent on American-made military equipment and defense systems.
Stutzman said the resolution would mark “a new era” in the U.S.-Israel alliance.
“Above all, the United States and Israel stand together against totalitarianism and for freedom,” Stutzman said in a statement. “We are bound by the shared Western values that built both our nations.”
“This resolution affirms that the United States stands with Israel not out of obligation, but out of shared strength and shared strategic interest. Israel has come of age where our nations should contribute equally and share results equally.”
Supporters of the move argue the current aid structure no longer reflects Israel’s military and economic strength, noting that Israel is now one of the world’s top arms exporters and spends a larger share of its GDP on defense than nearly every NATO ally. Backers also say the plan aligns with President Donald Trump’s broader foreign policy approach of encouraging allied nations to take greater responsibility for their own defense while maintaining close strategic partnerships with the United States.
Even U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a decades-long supporter of Israel, suggested this week that the future of the relationship lies beyond traditional aid, arguing that the alliance already delivers significant returns for the United States.
“Israel receives $3.8 billion but spends far more than that buying U.S. military goods,” Huckabee <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/2061406904140845427?s=20">wrote on X</a>. “U.S. also receives intel, tech innovations so that ROI is many times more.”
He added that a future U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding could reflect that shift, writing: “New MOU w/ Israel ends aid &amp; will be based on trade.”
Israeli leaders have increasingly argued that dependence on foreign weapons shipments creates vulnerabilities during wartime. Those concerns intensified after the Biden administration temporarily <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-halts-weapons-shipments-to-idf-to-send-a-political-message-to-israel-report">halted a shipment</a> of heavy bombs and threatened to withhold offensive weapons if Israel launched an assault on Rafah. It wasn’t until Trump took office that all of the weapons were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-weapons-to-israel-that-biden-withheld-for-political-reasons">shipped</a>. 
Netanyahu recently <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-israeli-soldiers-lost-their-lives-in-gaza-due-to-biden-era-arms-embargo/">blamed</a> the embargo for the death of soldiers because of the lack of ammunition. 
“At a certain stage, we simply didn’t have enough ammunition and people fell, heroes fell,” he said. “Part of that shortage of ammunition was the result of an embargo.”
During Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the Obama administration <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-confirms-us-nixed-missile-sale-pm-blamed-for-soured-ties/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">suspended a shipment</a> of Hellfire missiles and increased oversight of weapons transfers.
Retired Israeli Brigadier General Amir Avivi told The Daily Wire that episodes like those convinced many Israeli defense officials that the country needed greater manufacturing independence. 
“This really shook the Israeli defense establishment and an understanding that you cannot really rely, during a moment of truth, on getting what we need,” Avivi said.
Avivi added that he reached a similar conclusion while serving as chief auditor of Israel&#8217;s defense establishment in 2014.  
“We really lacked the capabilities because we transferred many capabilities to the U.S., and this really hurt our readiness but also our sovereignty — our ability as a country to defend ourselves,” he said. 

Other Israeli officials and defense analysts argue that the current aid structure has made Israel increasingly reliant on American suppliers while weakening incentives to expand domestic production. Under the military aid agreement negotiated during the Obama administration, the percentage of U.S. aid that Israel can spend on its own defense industry has steadily declined — from 25% to just 11% this year — and is scheduled to reach zero by 2028, a change critics say undermines Israel’s long-term military independence.
When unveiling his $108 billion, decade-long plan to build an independent Israeli munitions industry, Netanyahu emphasized the goal to “reduce our dependence on all players, including friends.”
Israel is already one of the world’s leading arms exporters, generating roughly $19 billion in weapons sales in 2025, but it remains dependent on foreign suppliers for key munitions and military equipment.
Advocates of the transition also contend that ending aid would strengthen political support for the alliance in the United States because it “creates antagonism both among the hard right and the delusional left.” 
“In the United States, some — such as Tucker Carlson — use the aid to attack Israel,” Avivi said. “They ask why American taxpayers are funding Israel and its wars. Israel wants to remove this argument entirely and say: ‘We don’t want aid.’”
Lawyer and Israeli activist Ran Bar-Yoshafat told The Daily Wire that ending aid would reduce both political friction and foreign leverage over Israeli military operations. 
“The use of force is constrained according to American preferences,” Bar-Yoshafat, a reservist combat special forces officer, said. “The Americans, depending on the administration and military establishment, routinely dictate what weapons we can use and where in the field.”

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For years, the federal government handed out money for important scientific research based on racially-focused “diversity” goals and requirements. 
Since beginning his second term in office, President Donald Trump has moved to banish diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from the federal grant process through executive orders. Rep. Ralph Norman, a Republican from South Carolina, wants to ensure those racially-focused requirements, once implemented by the nation’s largest funders of scientific research, do not return.  
“Taxpayer-funded research should be awarded based on merit, innovation, and results, not DEI-driven activist handouts,” Norman told The Daily Wire. “Americans are tired of watching universities prioritize ideological checkboxes over achievement.”
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Norman, running in the South Carolina governor&#8217;s race on an anti-DEI platform, introduced a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1046071956/NORMAN-Merit-Restoration-Act?_gl=1*1jcsz0b*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTk1OTI2NzA0OC4xNzgwNDE3MjMx*_ga_Z4ZC50DED6*czE3ODA0MTcyMzAkbzEkZzEkdDE3ODA0MTcyMzQkajU2JGwwJGgw*_ga_8KZ8BV0P5W*czE3ODA0MTcyMzAkbzEkZzEkdDE3ODA0MTcyMzQkajU2JGwwJGgw">bill</a> on Tuesday that would ban the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health from using DEI requirements or diversity mandates when deciding which scientific projects to fund. 
The bill, known as the Merit Restoration Act, states that federal research agencies “may not use any prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practice in awarding, evaluating, or continuing a Federal research grant.”
In archived pages, the National Science Foundation, which has an annual budget of more than $8 billion, <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/bpe-broadening-participation-engineering/505962/nsf22-514/solicitation">said</a> one of the agency&#8217;s main priorities was increasing the participation of “underrepresented groups” and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 
This focus was reflected in the agency&#8217;s Broadening Participation in Engineering <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/bpe-broadening-participation-engineering/505632/pd19-7680">program,</a> designed to increase the involvement of racial and sexual minorities in engineering. It defined underrepresented races as people who are black, Hispanic, American Indians, and Pacific Islander. 
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Other NSF grants have also been used to fund travel to academic <a href="https://www2024.thewebconf.org/attending/nsf-student-travel-awards/">conferences</a> that <a href="https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2024/nsf-student-travel-awards/">gave</a> &#8220;priority&#8221; for scholarships to individuals from “underrepresented groups.” 
Another example listed by Norman’s office was an NIH research education program <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-21-020.html">focused</a> on “educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.”
These types of programs came as NIH had an official statement on its “interest in diversity” that said that it encouraged “institutions to diversify their student and faculty populations to enhance the participation of individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences.”
That NIH page has been <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-031.html">deleted</a> as the Trump administration has moved to eliminate DEI-focused funding. 
The Trump administration has also faced litigation over its decision to terminate more than 1,000 grants related to DEI or radical gender ideology. In December 2025, the agency agreed to a settlement to review grants on a standardized case-by-case basis. Many of the projects impacted were kept sealed from the public record, making it difficult to determine exactly which grants were involved.
“Federal research dollars should support the strongest proposals and the best science, whether in medicine, engineering, or scientific innovation, not political agendas,” Norman told The Daily Wire. “That’s what taxpayers expect and deserve.”

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A Kenyan court on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to establish a U.S.-run Ebola quarantine and treatment facility in Kenya, throwing uncertainty into Washington’s strategy for handling Americans exposed to the rapidly growing outbreak in central Africa.
The ruling came just as U.S. officials said the field hospital at Laikipia Air Base in central Kenya was set to begin operations.
The temporary restraining order, issued by Kenya’s High Court pending a June 2 hearing, halts the establishment and operation of the facility after legal activists argued the agreement endangered Kenyan citizens and lacked public transparency. “At its core, the case is about preserving constitutional accountability, protecting public health, and ensuring that no government may place expediency above the lives and safety of the people of Kenya,” the Katiba Institute, the legal advocacy group behind the lawsuit, wrote in a <a href="https://x.com/katibainstitute/status/2059984532292403470">statement</a> on X.
The proposed facility was intended to quarantine and treat American citizens exposed to Ebola during the ongoing outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S. officials said the site would initially hold up to 50 patients, with plans to potentially expand capacity to 250 beds.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-ebola-kenya.html">unveiled</a> the Kenya plan Wednesday as part of a broader effort to prevent Ebola from entering the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worries-spread-as-ebola-outbreak-hits-grim-milestone">said</a> during a White House Cabinet meeting that the administration “cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.” 
Under the plan, Americans exposed to Ebola would first be sent to Kenya for quarantine and treatment before severe cases could potentially be transferred to advanced medical facilities in Europe.
The administration has defended the strategy as medically and logistically sound, arguing that treatment closer to the outbreak zone would reduce transport times and help contain the virus overseas. The current outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no approved vaccine or targeted therapeutic treatment.
According to health officials, the outbreak has now surpassed 1,000 suspected and confirmed cases, with nearly 250 suspected deaths reported so far. The outbreak has proven especially difficult to contain because it is concentrated in eastern Congo, a region plagued by armed militias, population displacement, and instability surrounding valuable mineral mining operations.
Health experts warn that the actual number of infections may be significantly higher due to delayed detection and challenges in tracing contacts in conflict zones.
Kenya’s medical community has also voiced alarm over the American quarantine proposal. Some doctors and union officials argued the facility could effectively create an Ebola entry point inside a country that has not yet reported any confirmed cases. 
“Our concern is that this is being done with the interest of the Americans, and there’s no interest of the Kenyan citizens,” Kenya doctors union secretary general Davji Atellah told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/29/kenya-court-temporarily-blocks-us-plan-ebola-quarantine-facility/">reporters</a>.
The Kenyan government has defended its cooperation with Washington, insisting the arrangement complies with Kenyan law and public health safeguards. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has intensified travel restrictions tied to the outbreak. Last week, the U.S. banned travelers from Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan and announced that American citizens arriving from those countries may enter only through three designated airports for enhanced screening.
The Kenyan court’s ruling now leaves the administration without a clear backup plan if additional Americans are exposed to Ebola in the coming days.

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New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart recently came under fire from the Left — and one of his own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-nfl-players-post-criticizing-pro-trump-teammate-backfires">teammates</a> — for introducing President Donald Trump at a rally, prompting the president to defend him this week. 
In an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-backs-giants-qb-jaxson-dart-rally-appearance-backlash">Fox News</a>, Trump was asked about the controversy and began by complimenting Dart’s appearance and skill on the football field.
“I wished I looked just like Jaxson,” Trump said. “I said, is he a male model or what? He’s a handsome guy, like a beautiful guy, and a, you know, conservative guy… He’s potentially a good quarterback, he’s a young boy and he just really started. And when he’s in the game, he moves the team.”
Trump then said that the pushback from the Left will only increase Dart&#8217;s popularity among conservative Americans. 
“So, when Jaxson gets harassed a little bit, he’s also loved more, because we have more people than they do,” Trump said.
Dart has endured sharp backlash from the Left due to his appearance at the Suffern, New York, rally last Friday, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-nfl-players-post-criticizing-pro-trump-teammate-backfires">criticism</a> from his Muslim teammate, edge rusher Abdul Carter.
Dart addressed his fellow teammates during a Tuesday team meeting to explain his actions and fix any conflict, and Carter has said that he and Dart have made up.
&#8220;Me &amp; JD6 are good!&#8221; he <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/articles/why-jaxson-dart-addressed-donald-140151172.html">wrote on X</a>. &#8220;We spoke earlier as Men. Y&#8217;all can keep y&#8217;all narratives.&#8221;
Dart has not vocally backed Trump, but he has liked many MAGA-related posts on social media, as well as posted in an Instagram story last year that he was praying for Charlie Kirk’s family after the famed political commentator’s assassination.
Dart is not the first New York Giant to support Trump at a rally. Former Giants players Lawrence Taylor and Ottis Anderson both <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeLzZk4InE">joined</a> the president at a New Jersey rally in 2024.

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A recently resurfaced video clip shows Marxist streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker admitting to scheming with the Cuban government.
A <a href="https://x.com/bear_ing/status/2059257115223728408">viral X post</a>, which has garnered over three million views since Tuesday, shows a clip of Piker&#8217;s appearance on the &#8220;Fear&amp;&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLX6xtQbDRQ">podcast</a> and affirming correspondence with the Cuban government.
“The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that ‘if the only thing stopping Piker from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen.’” Piker stated.
When asked whether the Cuban government reached out to Piker, he clarified, “Not reached out to me. There’s a middleman there.”
Prominent political commentator and Piker&#8217;s rival Asmongold reacted to the resurfaced viral clip <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg5pRSUJK-E">saying</a>, “It is the most insane self-report that you could possibly f*cking make.” 
Later in the video posted on YouTube, Asmongold pointed out that the United States re-designated the Cuban government as a &#8220;State Sponsor of Terrorism&#8221; in late January of 2025, and that Piker confirmed he was corresponding with the Cuban government, a public enemy of the U.S. government, in March of 2025.
During his time in Cuba, Hasan filmed a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvqeXFnqXCo">documentary</a> that he posted on his YouTube channel exalting the Cuban government and villainizing the Trump administration.
Recently, Piker was subpoenaed by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for his involvement with the Nuestra America Convoy, an international activist flotilla organized by a coalition of Marxist-aligned groups, including Code Pink and the Democratic Socialists of America.
The <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/515.206">Cuban Assets Control Regulations</a> state that the trade of completed informational media is allowed, but “transactions related to information or informational materials not fully created and in existence at the date of the transaction, or to the substantive or artistic alteration or enhancement of information or informational materials,” are prohibited.
Piker&#8217;s confession brings evidence to the claim that he engaged in a transaction with the Cuban government to film the mini-doc and advocate for the regime in exchange for the government providing Wifi and other services. If this claim is proven during Piker&#8217;s subpoena, Hasan could be found guilty of violating the American sanctions.
In response to the resurfaced clip, Piker has attempted to defend himself, <a href="https://x.com/ImperiumFirst/status/2059375474732671037">saying</a>, “As an American citizen, you can literally be in correspondence with individuals in another country. The American restrictions on this stuff are f*cking idiotic. I have a journalism visa. What the f*ck are you talking about? What’s really funny about it is that every single media outlet who goes to Cuba does this as well! CNN, Al-Jazeera, ABC, f*cking Fox News!”
The United States does not directly prohibit contact between individuals and the Cuban government, but it highly regulates services and transactions done with the Cuban government.
Piker has become known for his radical, violent rhetoric, such as saying that &#8220;America <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2048814928874655931">deserved</a> 9/11,&#8221; and <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2048217117221065201">calling on</a> his followers to “let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood.”
He has also faced backlash over his expensive lifestyle that conflicts with his anti-capitalist teachings. For instance, Piker received pushback from his fans and critics for wearing a $1,000 <a href="http://dexerto.com/entertainment/hasan-responds-to-backlash-over-his-1000-coachella-outfit-1807194/">Gucci shirt</a> at the 2022 Coachella music festival. 
Piker was recently embroiled in a scandal after he allegedly used a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1o1mcvg/hasan_shock_collar_model/">powerful shock collar</a> on his dog, berated the pet on camera during one of his streams, and denied the allegations that he ever used a shock collar. This event has become known in internet circles as &#8220;CollarGate.&#8221;

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The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation rose in April to an annual rate of <a href="https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-april-2026">3.8%</a>, according to a report from the Commerce Department published on Thursday. 
For the past three months, inflation has risen from 2.8% in February to 3.5% in March, and up to 3.8% in April. 
Part of the Federal Reserve’s mandate is to keep Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation, or PCE inflation, at 2%, meaning April’s reading is nearly two points over target and will likely delay the central bank’s ability to cut rates. Bad PCE data typically leads to the Fed keeping interest rates high, which means it can become more expensive to buy a house, finance a car, or take out a personal loan. Businesses also face higher borrowing costs, causing them to raise the prices that consumers pay for goods and services.
&#8220;With headline inflation closer to 4% than 3%, the Fed continues to walk a tight rope. When adjusted for inflation, spending barely rose in this report,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/april-2026-pce-inflation?%3Fintcmp=tw_fbn&amp;taid=6a183c5a86566d0001e05e21&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">said</a> Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. &#8220;Rising prices are really taking a bite out of consumption, and the decline in the savings rate shows consumers are dipping into savings to make ends meet.&#8221;
The personal savings rate dropped to 2.6% after reaching 3.6% in March. 
Core PCE, which excludes food and energy prices, rose to 3.3%. The Fed closely watches core PCE because removing more volatile food and energy categories provides a clearer picture of underlying inflation trends. Core PCE is now at its highest level since the end of 2023.
Despite elevated inflation, PIMCO economist Tiffany Wilding believes headline inflation could fall significantly if tensions in the Middle East ease. 
“Inflation right now &#8230; looks like a temporary phenomenon. &#8230; History suggests that over time oil prices do mean revert and if you get any sort of decline, any mean reversion, or any sort of deal or moderation in tensions in the Middle East in the back half of this year, you could very well see headline inflation then declining &#8230; even possibly below 2% next year on the year over year basis,” Wilding <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/28/inflationary-pressures-outside-of-the-energy-price-surge-look-manageable-pimcos-tiffany-wilding.html">said</a>. 
Both CPI and PCE inflation reports have remained above the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target for the past five years. The inflation report will make it difficult for the central bank to cut interest rates next month, especially when coupled with Thursday’s downward revision of first-quarter GDP growth from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/q1-gross-domestic-product-revision-e1a6ff93">2%</a> to 1.6% on Thursday. 
Many economists had <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/q1-gross-domestic-product-revision-e1a6ff93">expected</a> Q1 GDP to stay at 2%. The report from the Commerce Department said the downward GDP revision was due partly to a lower estimate for inventory investment and lower consumer spending.

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President Donald Trump has cracked down on transgender procedures for kids since returning to office. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped the federal government from funding a radical doctor&#8217;s $3 million study on puberty blockers.
The National Institute of Mental Health approved $728,119 in February 2026 for a <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/06tsrMfvqUOi2mTIvah-OA/project-details/11090506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project</a> on puberty blockers based out of the Research Institute Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. One of the principal investigators of the project, Dr. John Strang, is <a href="https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WPATH-GEI-Neurodivergence-in-Adults-WS-Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closely affiliated</a> with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. WPATH has faced criticism over its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-files-from-transgender-medical-org-show-medical-malpractice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shoddy science</a> and accusations that its recommendations are driven by ideology.
Strang’s project entails 132 “transgender adolescents” at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, according to its description. Half of the kids would be on puberty blockers while the other half would not, according to researchers. Researchers leading the project hope to “clarify its potential protective and risk effects to support optimization and personalization of treatment protocols.”
The Department of Health and Human Services has determined that puberty blockers are not safe for gender-confused children, and has issued several directives going after hospitals and doctors that push transgender procedures on kids. But HHS downplayed the radical nature of the grant in a statement to The Daily Wire, saying that the project in question does not involve giving puberty blockers to kids, but recruits patients from gender clinics considering going on puberty blockers.
“HHS continues to fight to protect America&#8217;s children from irreversible harm outlined in the Department&#8217;s peer-reviewed report,” an official told The Daily Wire. “These detrimental procedures do not meet professionally recognized standards of health care, and practitioners who perform sex-rejecting procedures on minors would be deemed out of compliance with those standards.&#8221;
In total, the project has been awarded $3,741,119 in federal funding between 2021-2024 and 2026. The project did not get funding in 2025, a decision that appears to have been made in March 2025, <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01MH123746_075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to spending records.
The American Accountability Foundation, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-government-bureacrats-witholding-data-on-blockbuster-trans-study-watchdog-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has sued</a> the NIH for more information on its transgender experiments, said that the funding shows the need for increased oversight.
“DOGE did some great work, but I&#8217;ve been around Washington long enough to know that if you don&#8217;t keep your eyes on the deep state they&#8217;ll resume the same bad behavior the moment you look away,&#8221; Tom Jones, the organization&#8217;s president, told The Daily Wire.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/890/880607.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> 1,800 NIH grants determined to be related to DEI or other radical topics between February 2025 and June 2025. The NIH later agreed to review grants on a standardized case-by-case basis in a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/documents/apha-v-nih-stipulation-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> after a lawsuit from a number of organizations that lost federal funding. Many of the projects impacted were kept sealed from the public record, making it difficult to determine exactly which grants were involved.
Nothing in the agreement &#8220;diminishes or enlarges NIH’s discretion over the decision to award funding, or creates a final agency action where a final agency action would not otherwise exist,&#8221; the settlement agreement said.
The puberty blocker project’s public description notes that puberty blockers are “endorsed” by WPATH and claims that initial studies show “mental health benefits for transgender youth” put on puberty blockers. Puberty blockers can seriously impact bone density, sexual development, and fertility, and can cause vision issues and lead to brain swelling. Many medical experts have rejected the claims of advocates for transgender procedures that puberty blockers are fully reversible.
Strang <a href="https://research.childrensnational.org/people/john-strang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">runs</a> the gender and autism program at Children’s National and is on faculty with the Global Education Institute for WPATH. The gender program at Children&#8217;s National currently <a href="https://www.childrensnational.org/get-care/departments/gender-and-autism-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not</a> provide so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; medical treatments because of &#8220;escalating legal and regulatory risks,&#8221; but it does offer &#8220;mental health&#8221; services. Before Trump took office, the hospital performed multiple transgender surgeries and had 47 patients on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/hospital/childrens-national-medical-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Stop the Harm database.
Throughout 2025, Strang <a href="https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WPATH-GEI-Neurodivergence-in-Adults-WS-Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated</a> in a <a href="https://wpath.org/gei/upcoming-gei-courses/wpath-gei-online-neurodiversity-workshop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">number</a> of WPATH workshops for health care professionals “committed to advancing affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse” patients.
Additionally, Strang <a href="https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SOC8-Full-Contributor-List-FINAL-UPDATED-09232021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributed</a> to the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards of care</a> produced by WPATH that recommended that doctors tell adolescents about “chest binding and genital tucking,” put girls on “menstrual suppression agents” if they don’t want to go on testosterone, and leave the door open for doctors to recommend “puberty suppression, hormone initiation, or gender-related surgery for gender diverse and transgender adolescents.”
Other researchers on the project include Dr. Diane Chen and Dr. <a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/eric-e-nelson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Nelson</a>, who is listed as the project leader.
Nelson is a principal investigator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Center for Biobehavioral Health and is a professor at Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39196327/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-author</a> of a study on mental health concerns for gender-confused youth.
Chen is a researcher and doctor with the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she has focused on transgender issues. At Lurie, <a href="https://research.luriechildrens.org/en/researchers/diane--chen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she</a> “has worked clinically with transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people and youth and young adults with differences of sex development/intersex variations since 2013.”
Chen was <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/06tsrMfvqUOi2mTIvah-OA/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involved</a> with a seperate expansive <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/mcclain-probes-9-7-million-taxpayer-funded-study-buried-by-activist-researcher-on-puberty-blockers%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$9.7 million</a> NIH-funded study that experimented on kids by giving them puberty blockers. In February 2023, Chen published a <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> based on research funded by another NIH grant <a href="https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/02/02/gender-affirming-hormones-improve-mental-health-in-transgender-and-nonbinary-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> that giving kids cross-sex hormones improves their “mental health.”
“Our results provide robust scientific evidence that improved appearance congruence secondary to hormone treatment is strongly linked to better mental health outcomes in transgender and nonbinary youth,” she said at the time.
That assessment contrasts directly with the conclusions reached by the Trump administration in May 2025 that medical interventions for minors experiencing gender confusion are not supported by science and that the risks of the procedures are high.

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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was reportedly diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after her departure from the Department of Justice earlier this year.
Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/pam-bondi-white-house-ai">reported</a> that Bondi, 60, has already undergone treatment and is now recovering. Few details about the diagnosis or treatment have been publicly released and Bondi has not personally commented on the reports surrounding her health.
The revelation stunned many in Washington and conservative media circles, especially as the former attorney general has remained closely tied to President Donald Trump following her DOJ exit. Trump is reportedly planning to tap Bondi for a new artificial intelligence advisory role inside the administration.
After the news broke, social media quickly filled with prayers and messages of support from Trump allies, conservative commentators, and longtime supporters.
Former White House official Katie Miller wrote on X that Bondi had been “quietly kicking cancer’s ass the last few weeks,” while praising her personally.
Bondi became one of the most recognizable faces inside Trump’s Justice Department and remained a fierce public defender of the administration throughout her time in office.
Following her removal last month, she vowed to continue fighting for Trump and his agenda.
Before joining the Trump administration, Bondi served as Florida attorney general and built a national profile as a tough-on-crime prosecutor and outspoken conservative legal figure.
She later became one of Trump’s most visible defenders during several major legal and political battles tied to the White House.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, most thyroid cancers are considered highly treatable when caught early, with survival rates remaining extremely high for many patients.
Bondi is not the only major figure in Trump’s orbit currently battling cancer, as White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles continues undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

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An American journalist has been accused of working for a member of the Chinese intelligence service seeking to steal classified information from the United States government. 
The Justice Department charged Thomas Pauken II earlier this year with acting as a foreign agent for the government of China from 2019 to 2026 without notifying the attorney general. Pauken, who moved to China in 2010, is accused of aiding a member of China’s Ministry of State Security in a scheme to recruit a Trump administration employee, according to court documents. 
An affidavit from the FBI reveals that Pauken, who works for the Chinese state media outlet Xinhua News, was arrested after an apparent FBI sting operation in February. The affidavit says that Pauken met with an unidentified Trump administration employee on February 25, 2026, at a hotel in Washington, D.C. 
At this meeting, Pauken gave the employee a SIM card and offered to pay a $10,000 bonus if the person agreed to work for a Ministry of State Security agent named “Cathy,” according to the affidavit. The employee would be paid through a bogus nonprofit and would produce reports for Chinese President Xi Jinping that would shape policy. 
The FBI recorded the meeting, and Pauken allegedly said that he had been concerned he was being targeted in a “sting operation.” This fear stemmed from previous interviews in January 2025 with the FBI and Customs and Border Protection during another trip Pauken made to the United States. He was questioned about work for China during those interviews, but was told to continue his plans as scheduled. The FBI said it was concerned that Pauken would be endangered if he changed his plans. 
Pauken previously met with the unidentified official in the summer of 2023 when that person was preparing for a prospective job with a potential second Trump administration. That person “was not hired for the exact job he wanted in the administration but currently works for a U.S. government agency,” the FBI said. 
&#8220;Cathy paid Pauken for information about the meeting and was instructed to buy the person a phone and laptop,” the FBI said. Pauken told the FBI “he was 80% sure that Person 1 would provide classified information” to the Chinese if hired by the Trump administration, but advised against sharing the information, according to the affidavit. The unidentified person produced multiple reports for Pauken that he believed were for a client in China, unaffiliated with the government, according to the FBI. 
Charles Burnham, who is representing Pauken, noted in an email to The Daily Wire that he was not facing spying charges. 
“It’s critical to understand that Mr. Pauken is not charged with spying or mishandling classified information,” he told The Daily Wire. “The government’s complaint charges that Mr. Pauken did professional work for a foreign government without first completing certain required paperwork.  We look forward to responding to the government’s allegations in court.”
The case was first <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/25/american-journalist-unregistered-agent-china-00935518">reported</a> on by Politico. 
The FBI alleges that Pauken worked for the Chinese government from 2019 to February 2026 and received several tasks from Cathy, including meeting with potential human sources in the United States and producing reports, for which he was paid $100,000.
Pauken &#8220;admitted during a voluntary interview that his work with Cathy — as well as other individuals whom he admitted also worked for the PRC government — was part of a conspiracy to obtain classified information from the United States government,&#8221; the affidavit said. 
The FBI said that Pauken told them “all his Chinese associates were obsessed with obtaining information on” his father, also named Thomas Pauken. The elder Pauken worked in the Reagan administration and is a former chair of the Texas Republican Party.
Pauken used the alias Tom McGregor in China because his father “did not want to appear associated” with his “activities,” according to the FBI.

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